Julius
Julius

Author: Daphne du Maurier

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 031625357X

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A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. Julius Lévy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape France for Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs, and the value of secrecy. Cruel and insensitive, Julius claws his way to the top, caring nothing for others -- until his daughter, Gabriel, is born. Julius' attachment to her will become his strongest bond -- and his greatest weakness. "A literary artist in her own right."-New York Times

Julius Rosenwald
Julius Rosenwald

Author: Hasia R. Diner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 0300231326

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The portrait of a humble retail magnate whose visionary ideas about charitable giving transformed the practice of philanthropy in America and beyond Julius Rosenwald (1862–1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practice of philanthropy. While few now recall Rosenwald’s name—he refused to have it attached to the buildings, projects, or endowments he supported—his passionate support of Jewish and African American causes continues to influence lives to this day. This biography of Julius Rosenwald explores his attitudes toward his own wealth and his distinct ideas about philanthropy, positing an intimate connection between his Jewish consciousness and his involvement with African Americans. The book shines light on his belief in the importance of giving in the present to make an impact on the future, and on his encouragement of beneficiaries to become partners in community institutions and projects. Rosenwald emerges from the pages as a compassionate man whose generosity and wisdom transformed the practice of philanthropy itself.

The Last Assassin
The Last Assassin

Author: Peter Stothard

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0197523374

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Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustus, exacted vengeance on the assassins of the Ides of March, not only on Brutus and Cassius, immortalized by Shakespeare, but all the others too, each with his own individual story. The last assassin left alive was one of the lesser-known: Cassius Parmensis was a poet and sailor who chose every side in the dying Republic's civil wars except the winning one, a playwright whose work was said to have been stolen and published by the man sent to kill him. Parmensis was in the back row of the plotters, many of them Caesar's friends, who killed for reasons of the highest political principles and lowest personal piques. For fourteen years he was the most successful at evading his hunters but has been barely a historical foot note--until now. The Last Assassin dazzlingly charts an epic turn of history through the eyes of an unheralded man. It is a history of a hunt that an emperor wanted to hide, of torture and terror, politics and poetry, of ideas and their consequences, a gripping story of fear, revenge, and survival.

Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Author: Nina Auerbach

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2002-10

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780812218367

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Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.

Black Patience
Black Patience

Author: Julius B. Fleming Jr.

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 147980682X

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"This book argues that, since transatlantic slavery, patience has been used as a tool of anti-black violence and political exclusion, but shows how during the Civil Rights Movement black artists and activists used theatre to demand "freedom now," staging a radical challenge to this deferral of black freedom and citizenship"--

Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Akasha Classics

Published: 2010-02-12

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781603033794

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What actions are justified when the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and who can see the best path ahead? Julius Caesar has led Rome successfully in the war against Pompey and returns celebrated and beloved by the people. Yet in the senate fears intensify that his power may become supreme and threaten the welfare of the republic. A plot for his murder is hatched by Caius Cassius who persuades Marcus Brutus to support him. Though Brutus has doubts, he joins Cassius and helps organize a group of conspirators that assassinate Caesar on the Ides of March. But, what is the cost to a nation now erupting into civil war? A fascinating study of political power, the consequences of actions, the meaning of loyalty and the false motives that guide the actions of men, Julius Caesar is action packed theater at its finest.

The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs!
The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs!

Author: Gary Northfield

Publisher: Strange Chemistry

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781406333268

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Charming, hilarious and super-inventive comic strip adventures from Gary Northfield, creator of Derek the Sheep.Is it possible to fly to the moon in a bubble of snot? Can you really have an argument with a cloud? Are there bogey monsters at the bottom of the garden? All these questions and more are explored in an hysterical and charming collection of comic strip adventures, following a teeny tiny gang of dinosaurs as they wind each other up and muddle their way through the myths and mysteries of prehistoric life.

Hans Poelzig
Hans Poelzig

Author: Julius Posener

Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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This first detailed study of Poelzig in English, with 350 illustrations, brings to light one of the most interesting architects working in Germany during a period when the course of architecture was profoundly changed.