Julian: 1621 books

The Seven Years War (1756-1763) was one of the truly world-wide conflicts following the expansion of European colonies, with engagements spanning from India to Canada. As with so many of the European wars, the causes were a question of land and legitimacy. The ever-present simmering tensions between...

Based on their Financial Times Weekend column, philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers to life's questions. Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help with a distinctly...

Keeping Quiet is a love-letter to the modern sight-gag on film and television, tracing the history of physical clowning since the advent of sound. Taking up the story of visual humour where Paul Merton’s Silent Comedy leaves off, Julian Dutton charts the lives and work of all the great comedians who...

In the grand tradition of Patrick O'Brian, this new installment in Julian Stockwin's epic Napoleonic-era naval adventure series re-creates one of history's most notorious naval insurrections. With all the wind-whipped passion and salty authenticity that only a veteran naval lieutenant commander...

Internationally bestselling author Julian Stockwin's seafaring hero, young Thomas Kydd, comes of age in this epic naval adventure set in the Great Age of Sail. Writing in the sweeping tradition of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester, acclaimed author Julian Stockwin continues the saga of Seaman...

Emperor Julian was the last pagan Roman emperor, rhetorician, and philosopher. He is also sometimes referred to as Julian II. He was a supporter of the restoration of pagan traditions, based on neo-Platonism, the enemy of Christianity. This book contains platonic Cynic and speech, as well as the most...

Je voegt twee dingen samen die nog niet eerder zijn samengevoegd. En de wereld is veranderd. Mensen hebben het op dat moment misschien niet in de gaten, maar dat doet er niet toe. De wereld is hoe dan ook veranderd. Je voegt twee mensen samen die nog niet eerder zijn samengevoegd. Dan wordt, op enig...

Julian Barnes heeft kunst en literatuur zelf moeten ontdekken, en dat gebeurde pas op latere leeftijd. Op een dag bezocht hij het Musée Gustave Moreau, zonder precies te weten wie de schilder was, en werd getroffen door zijn ongewone, weelderige werk. De mystiek van de schilderijen in combinatie...

Julian Barnes, aficionado tardío a los fogones, cuenta en esta exquisita obra sus divertidas experiencias y aventuras entre sartenes y cazuelas. Quien haya cocinado alguna vez sabe que entre la receta que aparece en un libro de cocina y el plato que uno ha preparado se puede abrir un abismo: lo primero...

Julian Barnes creció en una familia de tenues experiencias religiosas. Su hermano filósofo, Jonathan Barnes, después de ir a un par de servicios religiosos recuerda haberse sentido como un «niño antropólogo entre antropófagos». Julian Barnes tampoco cree en Dios, pero dice que le echa de menos....

«Juntas dos cosas que no se habían juntado antes. Y el mundo cambia. La gente quizá no lo advierta en el momento, pero no importa. El mundo ha cambiado, no obstante.» El libro arranca con esta reflexión y en efecto reúne tres historias aparentemente inconexas que acaban mostrando secretos y...

La historia del mundo que nos cuenta Julian Barnes comienza en el arca de Noé y termina en el Paraíso, y entretanto la cruzan navíos diversos: la balsa de la Medusa, que inspira la célebre pintura de Géricault; el Saint Louis, un barco de «condenados», que tras zarpar rumbo a La Habana con...

Dr. Alister MacKenzie, considered by many to be the greatest golf architect in the history of the game, was photographed by Julian P. Graham during the final 8 years of his life in Northern California, from 1926 to 1934. This eBook chronicles, in 65 photographs, Dr. MacKenzie’s physical appearance,...

Victorian Hauntings asks its reader to consider the following questions: What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted ? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century be read so as to acknowledge the various phantom effects which...