Lobo: 135 books

La vida en todas sus formas, las anécdotas de infancia y el recuerdo de amigos desaparecidos, una calle de Lisboa... La vida en todas sus formas, las anécdotas de infancia y el recuerdo de amigos desaparecidos, una calle de Lisboa, un árbol en el jardín familiar, un viaje a Italia, una...

In 1849, when Macau's governor is murdered, Vicente Mesquita, a lieutenant in Macau's small battalion is forced to avenge the murder of Macau's governor and ordered to attack a Chinese fort―an action considered to be a suicide mission. Mesquita is trapped in conflict between two fading empires, China...

According to the author Yury Lobo this book just happened. After very intense submerging into Japanese culture, history, art and poetry one early morning the whole idea of the book came to him as one piece: to introduce Shakespeare to Japan at least two centuries before it actually happened. The idea...

Nas Crónicas, António Lobo Antunes desenvolve com o leitor uma conversa íntima, solta, falando de tudo e de nada, do quotidiano, da infância e da adolescência, da vida e da morte, de encontros, de personagens reais ou imaginárias, mas reflecte também sobre a sua actividade literária e a importância essencial da escrita na sua vida.

«Este es un libro de personas y aromas, de un Kabul a pie de calle que fluye paralelo a la política y a la guerra. Un Kabul a menudo invisible para la mayoría de los diplomáticos y contratistas extranjeros que se mueven en vehículos blindados y viven en hoteles de lujo o en casas amuralladas...

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a “natural law” philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance....

Transforming a parish is challenging, demanding, and sometimes messy work. Divine Renovation Apprentice, Fr. Simon Lobo breaks open his experience as an associate pastor working on the renewal of St. Benedict Parish in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the birthplace of Divine Renovation. With honesty, humility,...

This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through insurance an instance of, and how does it contribute...

Wer kennt das nicht: Man hat sich fest vorgenommen, endlich auf den Brief zu antworten, der vor Wochen angekommen ist, doch Wochen später liegt er immer noch unter dem Stapel unbezahlter Rechnungen; der Termin für die Abgabe der Steuererklärung ist seit Monaten verstrichen, und am Computerbildschirm...

When an online news site obtains a leaked copy of the unpublished memoirs of Alejo Mosquera, killer of Super PAC donor Shelton Beaumont, the public’s expectations of what makes an assassin are both confirmed and refuted by the document.Alejo Mosquera’s memoirs, his “notes from the underground,”...

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen’s classic Costa Rican Natural History, research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin American nation has evolved from a species-level approach to the study of entire ecosystems....

Voor wie in het donker op mij wacht van António Lobo Antunes, een van de belangrijkste Portugese auteurs en alom gezien als kandidaat voor de Nobelprijs, gaat over de kracht van het geheugen en tegelijkertijd het verliezen van herinneringen. De 79-jarige Celeste is de verteller. Ze lijdt aan alzheimer...

Nas Crónicas, António Lobo Antunes desenvolve com o leitor uma conversa íntima, solta, falando de tudo e de nada, do quotidiano, da infância e da adolescência, da vida e da morte, de encontros, de personagens reais ou imaginárias, mas reflecte também sobre a sua actividade literária e a importância essencial da escrita na sua vida.

Nas Crónicas, António Lobo Antunes desenvolve com o leitor uma conversa íntima, solta, falando de tudo e de nada, do quotidiano, da infância e da adolescência, da vida e da morte, de encontros, de personagens reais ou imaginárias, mas reflecte também sobre a sua actividade literária e a importância essencial da escrita na sua vida.