Jorge: 1196 books
Hostage Nation
Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
A blistering journalistic exposé: an account of government negligence, corporate malfeasance, familial struggle, drugs, politics, murder, and a daring rescue operation in the Colombian jungle.
On July 2, 2008, when three American private contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid...
Historia general de México.
Versión 2000
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 9, 2018
La presente Versión 2000 es una nueva edición de la Historia general de México, preparada por el Centro de Estudios Históricos de El Colegio de México. En esta ocasión se incorporan, por primera vez desde la aparición original de la obra en 1976, varios cambios importantes, entre los que destacan...
by Andrew Lefebvre, Daniel M. Masterson, Graeme Mount
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime. Each country responded to World War II according to its own national interests, which often conflicted with those of the Allies, including the...
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas
Family, Sexuality, and The Cuban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persecution;...
Guadalupe
symbol of evangelization
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The translator of this work is a fervent lover of the Guadalupe Event and had the privilege of knowing and living closely with the author of this masterpiece (in the original language: Spanish and Nahuatl), Reverend Mario Rojas Sánchez, national and international lecturer, Ambassador of the Guadalupe...
by James Joyce, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Este é mais um volume da bestseller Coleção Melhores Contos, uma seleção de obras primas de autores de diversas nacionalidades e com temáticas das mais variadas, mas que tem em comum uma enorme e talvez a mais importante qualidade literária: a de dar prazer ao leitor. Neste ebook você terá...
Canción de sangre y oro
Premio de novela Fernando Lara 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Con solo trece años, Constanza debe abandonar a su familia, su país y todo cuanto ama para casarse con un desconocido mucho mayor que ella. Su padre, el rey de Sicilia, se encuentra en grave peligro y precisa de esa alianza. Aunque de nada sirve porque al poco, Carlos de Anjou, hermano del rey de...
No Borders
A Journalist's Search for Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From his childhood days in Mexico, to his experience of censorship in government–owned Mexican media companies, his student years in LA, and his early beginnings as a journalist in the USA, Ramos gives us a personal and touching account of his life.
With a series of intimate portraits of...
by Espíritos Diversos, José Jorge
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Estamos apresentando um trabalho em torno de assuntos e de vultos que tiveram papel preponderante no Espiritismo. Apresentamos a figura de Léon Denis sob um aspecto novo para a maioria dos leitores: o de consolidador do movimento espírita. Na sequência dos discursos apresentados por ocasião das...
Laudato si'
Enciclica sulla cura della casa comune. Guida alla lettura di Carlo Petrini.
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 18, 2015
“In larga parte è l’uomo che prende a schiaffi la natura, continuamente. Noi ci siamo un po’ impadroniti della natura, della sorella terra, della madre terra”. “Un vecchio contadino una volta mi ha detto: ‘Dio perdona sempre, noi – gli uomini – perdoniamo alcune volte, la natura non...
這世界難捉摸: 霍金也想懂的95%未知宇宙
We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe
Language: Chinese
Release Date: November 30, 2017
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Arquímedes, el del teorema
Una historia de la ciencia para reír, llorar y pasar miedo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Detrás de cada gran descubrimiento científico, cada teoría, cada hallazgo, hay un hombre o una mujer de carne y hueso. Seres humanos que amaron y odiaron, que vivieron terribles dramas personales o divertidas historias de felicidad. Se arruinaron, ganaron premios, perdieron hijos y crearon familias...
Sick in the 6ix
A Winding Journey through the Soul of a Cancer Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The ride began with three simple words… YOU HAVE CANCER. Sick In the 6ix is a candid account of a winding journey through the ups and downs of diagnosis, treatment, recovery and the life after through the eyes of a cancer survivor. A trip that at every turn is mixed with self-reflection, gratitude,...
by Eduardo Bueno, Jorge Caldeira
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 1, 2016
UMA SAGA EM 101 VIDAS. Você vai conhecer os grandes construtores do Brasil. Desde o primeiro homem a desembarcar de um navio, em 1500, e conviver com os habitantes da floresta tropical, até figuras notáveis dos dias de hoje que empreenderam o desafio de viver na primeira sociedade multiétnica do planeta. Fizeram uma grande história. Uma leitura surpreendente e imperdível.