Rafael: 815 books

In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent...

100 new and classic images of popular Instagram celebrity Jimmy Choo the Bull Terrier On Rafael Mantesso's thirtieth birthday, his wife left him. She took their cookware, their furniture, their photos, their decorations. She left Rafael alone in an empty all-white apartment. The only thing...

Las infalibles soluciones de Rafael Santandreu para superar los complejos y los problemas que dificultan y amargan la vida de tantas personas. Rafael Santandreu es uno de los psicólogos más prestigiosos de España. Está especializado en ayudar a las personas a desarrollar su fortaleza emocional....

CONTENTS: PHILIP K. DICK 1. Adjustment Team PHILIP K. DICK 2. The Crystal Crypt PHILIP K. DICK 3. The Golden Man PHILIP K. DICK 4. The Hanging Stranger WILKIE COLLINS 5. The Angler's Story Of The Lady Of Glenwith Grange RAFAEL SABATINI 6. The Fool's Love Story RAFAEL SABATINI 7. The Prize O.HENRY...

Rafael Sabatini's writing explores political intrigue, religion, and the place of chivalry and honor, while entertaining with clever dialogue, deftly drawn characters and action sequences as vivid and thrilling as modern movies. The Rafael Sabatini Collection features:  The Tavern Knight Bardelys...

In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic...

The Trampling of the Lilies is an historical novel, set in the French Revolution, written by Rafael Sabatini, and published in 1906. It is one of Sabatini's earlier novels. The Story revolves around Caron La Boulaye, secretary to the Marquis de Fresnoy de Bellecour, who, inspired by the ideas of Rousseau,...

The Tavern Knight is an historical novel, set in England during the English Civil War in the 17th Century, written by Rafael Sabatini, and published in 1904. It is his second novel. The story revolves around Sir Crispin Galliard, a disreputable knight, whose son was killed 18 years before and whose...

None of us came here on earth to suffer, struggle and fight with Life. Yet so many of us do. The human experience is often trying, challenging and rough but we still carry on. Why? Who is struggling?   What if it was never really about the “why” but more about the “Who”? Who...

O livro apresenta um relato emocionante e repleto de otimismo de Rafael Henzel, único jornalista sobrevivente do voo que resultou na tragédia envolvendo jogadores da Chapecoense, comissão técnica, dirigentes, jornalistas e tripulação do avião da LaMia no fim de 2016. Em Viva como se estivesse...

Ensayo sobre el último año en el poder de Porfirio Díaz. Del autor de la novela Paraíso es tu memoria, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa. El último brindis de Don Porfirio, ilustrado con más de 150 imágenes, muchas de ellas inéditas, es la crónica del último año de un gobernante que...

The Strolling Saint is a swashbuckling novel, set in Italy in the 15th Century, written by Rafael Sabatini and published in 1913 and revised in 1925. It revolves around Agostino d'Anguissola who's mother has brought him up to be a strict Catholic and who's father is a enemy of Papal authorities. It follows...

The essential works of Rafael Sabatini in one collection with an active table of contents.Works include:Bardelys the MagnificentCaptain BloodThe Fool's Love StoryThe Lion's SkinLove-at-ArmsMistress WildingSt. Martin's SummerScaramoucheThe Sea-HawkThe Tavern KnightThe Curate and the ActressThe...

Sobre edición y libros, sus hechos y algunas ideas. Texturas es un espacio de análisis, reflexión y debate abierto.  En este número: «Sobre la biblioteca municipal, es decir, sobre la gloria», Umberto Saba «Las benditas librerías del futuro», Jorge Carrión «El libro como...