Ch: 448 books
by Antón Chéjov
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2016
Chéjov se apartó decididamente del moralismo y la intencionalidad pedagógica propios de los literatos de su época en una Rusia convulsa y preocupada por su destino, para apostar por un tipo de escritor carente de compromiso y pasión, plasmando una idea de la literatura que rechazaba el principio del autor como narrador omnisciente.
La cristalina superficie del silencio
Muestra de los Juegos Florales de Zapotlán el Grande
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Este volumen es una muestra de la vitalidad cultural y poética de Zapotlán el Grande a través de la organización y premiación del certamen de los juegos florales, la jovial justa provenzal que los zapotlenses —entre ellos Juan José Arreola, de quien celebramos el centenario— comenzaron a...
Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better
Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chödrön promised that she’d speak at the commencement ceremony. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day. “What do we do when life doesn’t go the way we hoped?” begins Pema “We...
by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton, Pak Wan-So
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
These nine stories span half a century of contemporary writing in Korea (1970s–2010s), bringing together some of the most famous twentieth-century women writers with a new generation of young, bold voices. Their work explores a world not often seen in the West, taking us into the homes, families,...
Persona humana y derecho
Un diálogo con la filosofía jurídica de Javier Hervada
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Este libro del profesor de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Católica San Pablo de Arequipa-Perú, José Chávez-Fernández Postigo, se trata de un trabajo temáticamente profundo, porque su materia es el fundamento último del Derecho, de ese modo no se queda el profesor peruano en la fenomenología...
by Pema Chödrön
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In `Liefdevolle vriendelijkheid nodigt Pema Chödrön haar lezers uit om ja te zeggen tegen het leven in al zijn facetten. Ons bestaan is immers een krachtige mengeling van blijdschap, pijn, voldoening en verwarring. Je kunt genieten van al het moois, maar je hoeft tegelijkertijd de minder mooie dingen...
by CH Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
For George, the UK city of Newcastle Upon Tyne is a foreign country...
George has made his way to the Big City, hoping to find a life more fulfilling than the one he left behind. But this town is very different place to the island 'paradise' he once called home, and manhood, as he will discover,...
In honor of truth
Self-Deception and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Martha Alicia Chávez give us the best method to recognize truth as a fundamental part in our maturation process and personal growth.
In Honor of Truth is a book about authenticity, congruency and the healing power of truth.
In this pages the author shows us different ways to deceiving...
by Alphonse de Châteaubriant
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Monsieur des Lourdines est un roman d'Alphonse de Châteaubriant publié en 1911 aux éditions Grasset. Il est récompensé la même année par le prix Goncourt.
Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past
The Memoir Of His Second Wife, Ch'en Chieh-ju
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2019
This engrossing memoir tells the fascinating story of one of China's great leaders during the Nationalist revolution of the 1920s and of the woman who paid a staggering price so that he could attain his ambition. The tale begins in 1919 when the thirty-two-year-old Chiang Kai-shek met the naïve thirteen-year-old whom he would call Ch'en Chieh-ju.
Poets and Prophets of the Resistance
Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salvador to the eve of civil war in 1980. Challenging the dominant narrative that university students and political dissidents primarily formed the Salvadoran...
Latino Professionals in America
Testimonios of Policy, Perseverance, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
In Latino Professionals in America, Maria Chávez combines rich qualitative interviews, auto-ethnographic accounts, and policy analysis to explore the converging oppressions that make it difficult for Latinos to become professionals and to envision themselves as successful in those professions. Recounting...
by Antón Chéjov
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 21, 2016
El jardín de los cerezos es la última de las piezas principales de Chéjov (las otras son La gaviota, Tío Vania y Las tres hermanas). Se trata de una comedia escrita en cuatro actos, ambientada en el declive económico de la aristocracia rusa a finales del siglo XIX. Durante este periodo, los hijos...
The Travels of an Alchemist
The Journey of the Taoist Ch'ang-Ch'un from China to the Hundukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
First published in 1931.
Mainly focussing on cultural and geographical aspects, Travels of an Alchemist are unique in their importance as a source for early Mongol history, enabling us as they do to fix with certainty the otherwise obscure and much disputed dates of Chingiz Khan's movements during...