Julia: 3709 books

An intensely personal narrative of loss, hope, and longing for a child. In this brave and lucid account, Julia Leigh broaches a challenging life event often left undiscussed: how the struggle to have a child can take an agonizing toll. Leigh’s experience at the vanguard of medical science...

Embellished with orange glaze, cinnamon stick "stems," and green sugar "vines," these pumpkins appear to be freshly plucked from the patch! With expert advice and step-by-step instructtions from celebrated cookie queen Julia M. Usher, you'll be able to add these gourmet ghouls to your next Halloween party or use them in a pumpkin-themed garden scene for a centerpiece.

Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon—and there are some 700,000 a year who do so—might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by Shakespeare's...

As art therapy rapidly makes its mark across Asia, this book documents how the field of art therapy is taking shape as both a profession and a discipline in this region. It looks at how art therapists in Asia are assimilating Western models and adapting them to create unique home-grown practices. Building...

Making Macarons isn’t hard, as it is made with very simple ingredients, such as egg whites and sugar. Macarons have a soft and smooth texture, making it very easy to add other ingredients to create an even more unique appearance.This book will inspire you in making Macarons for your friends and...

In the Palace of Versailles there is a fabulous golden clock, made for Louis XV by the king’s engineer, Claude-Siméon Passemant. The astronomical clock shows the phases of the moon and the movements of the planets, and it will tell time—hours, minutes, seconds, and even sixtieths of seconds—until...

Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva’s that demonstrate the scope...

I want to go on record to my readers< that this book is not to bring pity, even though it may sound as such in spots. If you are expecting that, then you may not want to read this book. I am sharing my experiences, and hoping to convey to you how Angels helped me make changes in my life. We...

An original and innovative recasting of constitutionalism, written by acknowledged experts in the field, this empirically grounded and theoretically informed volume addresses the strategies and philosophies that judges and lawyers bring to bear when creating European constitutional jurisprudence;...

The dashing Marquess of Chadwick was an object of desire, known for his looks, his wealth, and his stunning French mistress Amalie. Ginevra had been betrothed to his son, but Tom tragically died. Ginevra was shocked to find the wedding going forward--with the marquess as groom. While Ginevra struggled...

Course objectives: Recognize relationship as an emotional healer; identify triggers, move through them, and come back into ease and aliveness Discover how intimacy in relationship requires curiosity, wonder, and the ability to find the truth of one's experience deep in one's body Discuss how...

Julia Annas presents a study of Plato's account of the relation of virtue to law: how it developed from the Republic to the Laws, and how his ideas were taken up by Cicero and by Philo of Alexandria. Annas shows that, rather than rejecting the approach to an ideal society in the Republic (as generally...

2011 schien in der arabischen Welt eine neue, demokratische Zeit anzubrechen. Der ägyptische Aufstand gegen Mubarak auf dem Kairoer Tahrir-Platz war dafür ein besonders starkes Signal. Heute sitzen viele der damaligen Aktivisten im Gefängnis, alte und neue Diktatoren sind an der Macht, Millionen...

Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant,...