Ruiz: 862 books

Best book on Bruce Springsteen, Bar None. 'Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen' (born September 23, 1949) is an American performer and singer-songwriter. He is finest recognized for his work with the E Street Band. Nicknamed The Boss, Springsteen is extensively recognized for his brand of lyrical words,...

Winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters * A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book of 2015 * Fiction Finalist for the 2015 Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015 * One of the Texas Observer’s “Five Books...

This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla...

Cuando se cumple un año de la ausencia de Sergio González Rodríguez (03 de abril de 2018) en nuestras vidas y de la falta que nos hace el amigo, su complicidad vital y su deseo imparable de escribir la verdad del país y decirla, queremos difundir y acercar a todos los que lo siguen extrañando...

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers...

Quien mal anda mal acaba tiene un argumento recurrente en el teatro de la España del siglo XVII, el del monje tentado por el diablo, usado por Pedro Calderón de la Barca en El mágico prodigioso y por Mira de Amescua en El esclavo del demonio.

A comprehensive history that focuses on the crises of Spain in the late middle ages and the early transformations that underpinned the later successes of the Catholic Monarchs. Illuminates Spain's history from the early fourteenth century to the union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1474 Examines...

In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish...

This faith formation manual serves as a practical guide to the Order for the Blessing of the Quinceañeras -- the traditional Hispanic coming-of-age celebration for 15-year-old girls. While written to the girl, this resource also addresses others participating in the celebration-the parents, godparents, relatives and friends--and meaningfully anchors the celebration in the Church.

They say that a child is a product of his/her environment. So what are the odds of a boy--raised in a single-mom home, exposure to illegal drugs, juvenile delinquent sibling, fighter of grown men, and lack parental discipline and guidanceturning out to be a responsible, moral, law abiding citizen...