Julian: 1621 books

Speaking in public can sometimes be a real challenge, if not a source of embarrassment; not only to normal people, but even to persons of high status such as professors, doctors, artists and entrepreneurs. They may have hesitations in facing an audience, often accompanied by sweaty palms, stuttering,...

Hanich looks at fear at the movies – its aesthetics, its experience and its pleasures--in this thought-provoking study. Looking at over 150 different films including Seven, Rosemary's Baby, and Silence of the Lambs, Hanich attempts to answer the paradox of why we enjoy films that thrill us, that...

Todos tenemos un fuerte sentido del yo, que se mantiene inalterable con el transcurso de los años. Sin embargo, paradójicamente, en ocasiones no es fácil identificarnos con ese “yo” pasado, el de nuestra infancia o juventud, y a ratos puede parecernos incluso que es otra persona. Hay abundantes...

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical...

This book treats William Faulkner's major fiction--from Flags in the Dust through to Absalom, Absalom!--to a searching reappraisal under the spotlight of a media-historical inquiry. It proposes that Faulkner's inveterate attraction to the paradigms of romance was disciplined and masked by the recurrent...

It is the 1960s in South Africa and the new prime minister has his head full of plans. He consults a powerful witchdoctor, but once he begins his scheme for cutting up the land he loses the sangoma’s protection. In the meantime the family butler has himself reclassified so he can marry the Coloured...

Father Nandru & The Wolves is set in Transylvania during the last years of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime. Five hundred years ago, founding fathers built a log church in a small village deep in the heart of Transylvania where, centuries later, the villagers still worship. When Eveline, the lop-faced...

This invaluable guide offers readers an accessible and imaginative approach to the literature of early modern Britain. Exploring the poetry, drama and prose of the period, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing a helpful introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings...

No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical views of critics, with close textual analysis of Hardy's novels and with reference to his poetry.

2017 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (USA) - Finalist Award for Fiction: Thriller/Adventure ONLY ONE MAN CAN SAVE THE WORLD. Thomas Chan is a highly educated British-born Chinese man who unofficially serves the British government, helping them fight terrorism in situations where they cannot...

In this powerful and absorbing sequel to Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 (ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Autobiography 2006), the author recalls his flight from the Nazis in Hungary as an 8-year-old boy with his resourceful and determined mother, Barbara.

Loves of Yulian is the poignant conclusion to the three-part memoir recounting the author’s harrowing WWII escape from occupied Poland to America. After fleeing over the Carpathian Mountains into Hungary, eight-year-old Yulian and his resourceful but self-involved mother, Barbara, are on board...

Glorhelm, the exiled elven prince; Carant, the wry druid; Rozeka, the mysterious witch; and Anagil, the dour dwarf. Unlikely travelling companions, they are nonetheless thrown together through various quirks of fate, and when they stumble upon news of a strange quest, at first it seems to be nothing...

Where Does Homosexuality Come From? Imagine a device that can record life after death and then get the answers about the LGBT community from the very beginning of time. Imagine a primitive time to the prehistoric dinosaurs when the world of LGBT was without judgment or prejudice, which then turned...