Luis: 2080 books

Covering from 1915 to the present, this book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites,...

A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the “Argentine dilemma” and the challenges that the...

In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico’s arrival in the developed...

El Colegio de México publicó en 1973 una primera versión de la \"Historia mínima de México\" con el fin de proporcionar la dosis mínima de conocimiento histórico requerido por cualquier mexicano de entonces. En esa pequeña obra participaron cinco autores que plasmaron lo que en el...

In Dandelion Land, a young snail can't stop asking his friends awkward questions, such as: why are we so slow - and why can't we all have our own names? When he is finally banished from the snail community because of this, he is forced to travel the world alone. As he explores in his oh-so-slow way,...

A detailed but concise essay on the Emerald Tablet of Hermes from a spiritual, gnostic perspective.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle offers one of the most inspiring and influential voices in the global Catholic Church today. In Telling the Story of Jesus, he encourages readers to be in communion with Jesus, who is the story of God. The cardinal tells us that this communion is found in the Eucharist...

This best selling book has been completely revised and expanded with new author insights and stories on each of the Promise Keeper's seven promises. Men will find practical ways to deepen their Christian walk with encouraging chapters from Bill Bright, James Dobson, Gary Smalley and Luis Palau and many others.

Luis Martins family was separated when he was a child during the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. He grew up hearing the stories of their separation and reconciliation recounted over and over. Combining his own childhood memories of those events with the remembered stories from his family members,...

On July 21, 1578, the Mexican town of Tecamachalco awoke to news of a scandal. A doll-like effigy hung from the door of the town's church. Its two-faced head had black chicken feathers instead of hair. Each mouth had a tongue sewn onto it, one with a forked end, the other with a gag tied around it....

Este es un estudio que trata de descubrir en la enmarañada historia del cristianismo, el orígen de las diferentes doctrinas, rituales, promesas y enseñanzas de los multiples cristianismos que han surgido a lo largo de la historia. Este segundo volumen toca a fondo los cristianismos surgidos en la wdad media, siglos IV al XIV.

La tragedia "También tiene el sol menguante" (Luis Vélez de Guevara y Agustín de Rojas Zorrilla) responde a un quehacer literario colectivo muy de moda en la dramaturgia del Siglo de Oro, sobre todo, a partir de 1630. Las dos manos hacedoras están tan bien avenidas que es imperceptible el paso...

Often called “the next Billy Graham,” Luis Palau is among the best-known American evangelists in the world today. His sermons on spirituality and the Christian life, as well as his calls for international and racial harmony, have been heard by hundreds of millions of people at public gatherings...

Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border—a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives us a compassionate and candid account of his...