Julian: 1621 books

La divertida historia de Gregory a través de los cortes de pelo en tres momentos distintos de su vida, que forma parte del libro de cuentos La mesa limón.

En Great Wyrley, un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra, alguien mata caballos y ganado, y escribe anónimos en los que anuncia el sacrificio de veinte doncellas. Hay que encontrar un culpable, y George, abogado, hijo del párroco del pueblo, es el principal sospechoso. ¿Quizá porque él y su familia...

Un despliegue de gran audacia técnica y elegante virtuosismo, al servicio de una amenísima trama en la que se alterna la ficción con hechos reales muy imaginativamente ordenados. Un libro que ha tenido un extraordinario éxito, tanto de crítica como de ventas, y ha recibido numerosos galardones....

Entre los chinos, el símbolo de la muerte era el limón. Y en Helsinki, a principios del siglo XX, en un bar frecuentado por Sibelius, los que se sentaban en la mesa limón estaban obligados a hablar de la muerte. En estos cuentos de la mediana edad, los protagonistas han envejecido y ya no pueden...

Diez años atrás, Barnes revolucionó la forma de narrar un triángulo amoroso con la publicación de la novela coral Hablando del asunto. Allí, sin otro recurso que el de la recitación de fidelidades e infidelidades, dos hombres y una mujer intentaban explicarnos y explicarse a ellos mismos ciertas...

A humorous book about animals that ought to exist, but never quite made it due to circumstances beyond their control. In this book, you will find the Green Fox, the Straight Snake of Assam, and the Garlic Rat of Alabama. Read about the penguin that provides a back-scratching service to other penguins,...

This is a short travelogue about travelling in the North-East of England and all the history a visitor can see in a very time. Places vary from the large city of Newcastle with its iconic bridges across the River Tyne to smaller gems such as Durham with its magnificent Norman cathedral. Tourists can...

Armenia is full of monasteries, fortresses, and people who are passionate about their past. The traveller is always aware of the importance of religion and history in this little-visited country, whose only open borders are with Georgia and Iran. The borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan are closed due...

A series of essays about visits to the murals of West Belfast, the award-winning Titanic Centre, The World Heritage Site of the Giant’s Causeway, the seven little-visited stone circles at Beaghmore, and the dramatically situated Dunluce Castle perched high on the cliffs in Antrim in Northern Ireland....

A travelogue through nine Greek Islands - Rhodes, Symi, Patmos, Samos, Syros, Paros, Tinos, Mykonos, and Delos. The range of history is huge ranging from The Phoenicians to The Ottomans and from The Romans to The Germans in WWII.

This title was first published in 2002.Origen (AD 185 - 254) is regarded as one of the figures chiefly responsible for the contamination of biblical theology with pagan philosophy in the early church. Edwards argues that Origen set out to construct a Christian philosophy, yet he did so with the intention...

Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in both teaching and research. Now reissued with...

Newly available in paperback, this book overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. It demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of...

I. Les Missions du prince Gortchakof et les débuts de M. de Bismarck juin 1875     II. Un ministre national et un diplomate frondeur à Saint-Pétersbourg.     III. L’action commune     IV. L’éclipse de l’Europe.     V. Orient et Occident.     VI. Dix ans d’association.