Julian N Johnson

Classical Music: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? What relevance does it have today? Julian Johnson inspires readers to explore over 1000 years of music, and examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spiritual...

Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition

For nearly a quarter century Molecular Biology of the Cell has been the leading cell biology textbook. This tradition continues with the new Fifth Edition, which has been completely revised and updated to describe our current, rapidly advancing understanding of cell biology. To list but a few exampl...

Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value

Praised in The Economist as "heartfelt and finely reasoned...wise, perceptive and inspiring," Who Needs Classical Music? offers a fresh and balanced defense of the value of classical music in contemporary culture. Challenging the many cultural critics who contend that the division between "high" and...

Molecular Biology of the Cell

As the amount of information in biology expands dramatically, it becomes increasingly important for textbooks to distill the vast amount of scientific knowledge into concise principles and enduring concepts.As with previous editions, Molecular Biology of the Cell, Sixth Edition accomplishes this goa...

Essential Cell Biology, 4th Edition

Essential Cell Biology provides a readily accessible introduction to the central concepts of cell biology, and its lively, clear writing and exceptional illustrations make it the ideal textbook for a first course in both cell and molecular biology. The text and figures are easy-to-follow, accurate, ...

The Mystery of Dr. Johnson's Death: A Spiritual Scandal in the Punjab

The true story of how famed K2 mountain climber Paul Petzoldt killed his friend and mentor, Dr. Julian P. Johnson at a spiritual ashram in India. Explores the controversy surrounding what happened on that fateful night on January 25, 1939, and the spiritual scandal that ensued in the Punjab. The tra...

Out of Time: Music and the Making of Modernity

What does music have to say about modernity? How can this apparently unworldly art tell us anything about modern life? In Out of Time, author Julian Johnson begins from the idea that it can, arguing that music renders an account of modernity from the inside, a history not of events but of sensibilit...

The Path of the Masters

A comprehensive statement of the Teachings of the Great Masters or Spiritual Luminaries of the East. Also an outline of their scientific system of exercises by means of which they attain the highest degree of spiritual development.

Julian Johns

For the seventeenth century writer nicknamed "Julian" Johnson, see Samuel Johnson (pamphleteer). Julian P. Johnson ( -1939) was an American surgeon and ...

Unquenchable Flame 1935

Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value

Webern and the Transformation of Nature

Webern and the Transformation of Nature

Surgery of the Chest

Analytical Calorimetry