Vicente: 592 books

In 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty years later, he served as Denver's mayor. This is his story of overcoming incredible odds.

In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580–1705) of Spanish rule in the Philippines. By tracing...

Vicente Fox offers his unique viewpoint as a former head of state, avid historian, and true admirer of America’s constitutional ideals. He knows where a Trump presidency can lead—and it is nowhere good. Let’s Move On is a political manifesto written in Fox’s trademark, no-nonsense style where...

In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial settings, he demonstrates translation's agency in the...

Once saved, always saved? Many Christians believe that you cant lose your salvation, while another group believes that there is a possibility that it can be lost. In the evangelic groups, this topic has cause a lot of controversy. But above all things, the most important is what the Bible says because...

Entre naranjos es una novela del escritor valenciano Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, de 1900, encuadrada dentro de su ciclo de novelas valencianas. La novela narra la historia de Rafael Brull, el único hijo de la familia con más poder de la pequeña localidad valenciana de Alcira. Tras la muerte de su...

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez publica “Los muertos mandan” en 1909. La naovela está protagonizada por Jaime Febrer, último descendiente de una de las familias más importantes y poderosas de Mallorca, quien está totalmente arruinado. Sin dinero, con todas las propiedades embargadas, todas sus pertenencias...

Con su novela El Papa del mar, Blasco Ibáñez intentó recuperar la figura de Benedicto XIII, más conocido como el Papa Luna, o el antipapa, protagonista del célebre "Cisma de Occidente", cuyo pontificado tuvo como sede la población de Peñíscola, en Castellón. Una novela histórica escrita por uno de los mejores novelistas españoles de todos los tiempos.

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Adolfo Cerceda (1923–79) was a talented Argentinian magician and an exceptionally gifted origamist. Many of his creations — such as the Arab on horseback, baseball player, bullfighter, and flamenco singer — are now origami classics. This book of remarkably original and inventive projects, presented...

According to Wikipedia: "Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 January 28, 1928) was a Spanish realist novelist writing in Spanish, a screenwriter and occasional film director. Born in Valencia, today he is best known in the English-speaking world for his World War I novel Los cuatro jinetes del...

The generation of Spanish artists known as the 98ers, who renounced politics and sought their country's true spirit within its landscape, culture, and character, are well represented here by thirteen stories by five outstanding authors. Four of the stories are by Miguel de Unamuno, the spiritual leader...

The morning of that day—it was a Tuesday of the Lenten season—could not have dawned more promisingly. The sea, off the Cabañal, was in flat calm, as smooth as a polished mirror. Not the slightest ripple broke the shimmering triangular wake that the sun sent shoreward over the lifeless surface...

This file includes (in English): The Blood of the Arena, The Dead Command, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Luna Benamor, Mare Nostrum, The Mayflower, The Shadow of the Cathedral, Sonnica, The Torrent, and Woman Triumphant. According to Wikipedia: "Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (January 29, 1867 January...