Juliet: 627 books

'Nick died in the southern hemisphere in spring. Now I am in Paris in spring. We were to have been here together. I am experiencing a double spring. Double the bitterness, double the beauty.' Juliet Darling's memoir of the daily events surrounding the murder of her late partner, art curator...

Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between...

Every day, coalition cabinets make policy decisions critical to international politics. Juliet Kaarbo examines the dynamics of these multiparty cabinets in parliamentary democracies in order to assess both the quality of coalition decision making and the degree to which coalitions tend to favor peaceful...

Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial days have been immortalised by farming pioneers like Lord Delamere and Karen Blixen, and the pioneering...

Angleterre, XVIe siècle Lorsque son père lui annonce qu’elle devra épouser sir Jon Raemon, Ginny doit ravaler sa fierté. Elle n’a jamais oublié cet homme arrogant qui, quelques années plus tôt, a dédaigné sa main au profit d’une héritière plus riche – ni le trouble puissant...

#What’s Next After High School guides parents and their high school students in partnering together to choose the right career so they’ll love the work they do and live the life they desire. Choosing the right career from the start saves time, money and frustration and helps to fast track your...

This is a novel about community, love, laughter and healing. Think Cold Feet meets David Nicholls, with a dash of the joy of Jill Mansell added for good measure. It doesn't look like much from the outside, but Cherry Blossom Mews is a miraculous place. It's somewhere that finds you, rather...

From nineteenth-century broad arrows and black and white stripes to twenty first-century orange jumpsuits, prison clothing has both mirrored and bolstered the power of penal institutions over prisoners' lives. Vividly illustrated and based on original research, including throughout the voices of the...

Ein Roman über die Liebe. Über die kleinen und großen Abenteuer des Lebens. Und über zwei, die sich lieben, aber immer wieder verpassen. Kate liebt Charlie. Charlie liebt Kate. Das war schon immer so. Sie sind füreinander geschaffen. Aber es ist kompliziert: Denn stets ist Charlie gerade vergeben,...

In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works. Each would become the most famous and enduring texts in...

Solidarity--the reciprocal relations of trust and obligation between citizens that are essential for a thriving polity--is a basic goal of all political communities. Yet it is extremely difficult to achieve, especially in multiracial societies. In an era of increasing global migration and democratization,...

Niet veel meer dan een jaar geleden leerde Neryn voor het eerst haar krachten kennen en was de rebellenbasis van Schaduwrots nog slechts een vage droom. Nu is zij het geheime wapen geworden van de rebellen, en hun enige hoop op overleven in de geplande hinderlaag van koning Keldec bij Zomerfort. Het...

The Regime of the Brother is one of the first attempts to challenge modernity on its own terms. Using the work of Lacan, Kristeva and Freud, Juliet MacCannell confronts the failure of modernity to bring about the social equality promised by the Enlightenment. On the verge of its destruction, the Patriarchy...

Juliet Barker provides an account of the first great popular uprising in England and a fascinating study of medieval life in English towns and countryside. She tells how and why an unlikely group of ordinary men and women from every corner of England united in armed rebellion against church and state to demand a radical political agenda.