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La Increible y Triste Historia de la Candida Erendira y de Su Abuela Desalmada (Contemporanea)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Plaza y Janes, 2006
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Stories from Latin America : Historias de Latinoamerica 13 reviews
Genevieve Barlow
McGraw-Hill, 1995
Excellent book
This is a fantastic book for Spanish review and practice. Very easy to check yourself and translate vocabulary because of the accurate English translations. The stories give you cultural insight,as well.
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change 8 reviews
David Harvey
Wiley-Blackwell, 1992
Po-Mo Schmomo?
Ask ten academics about what to call our present fin-de-siecle epoch and you'll get ten different labels, but "postmodernism" seems always the default term. Although it's twelve years old, Harvey's book is the best I've read about the pluralistic fabric we daily inhabit. It's edifyingly reader-friendly (especially compared to some of the Franco-drunk rhetoricians out there trying to get a handle ...
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Historias de hadas para adultos/ Fairy Tales for Adults2 reviews
Daina Chaviano
Minotauro, 2007
Extraordinario libro de fantasía para adultos y jóvenes
En las tres novelas cortas de este volumen hay de todo --fantasía, terror, cuentos de hadas, ciencia ficción, mitología--, mezclado en proporciones deliciosas. Las tres historias se desarrollan en ambientes diferentes: el trópico, un pasado remoto y un futuro indeterminado. Solo esbozaré los temas para no echar a perder las sorpresas.
En la primera, titulada "La granja", un periodista se ...
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Stories from Mexico : Historias de Mexico10 reviews
Genevieve Barlow, William N. Stivers
McGraw-Hill, 1995
excellent book
This is a fantastic book for Spanish review and practice. Very easy to check yourself and translate vocabulary because of the accurate English translations. The stories give you cultural insight,as well.
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Stories from Spain / Historias de España (Side by Side Bilingual Books)5 reviews
Genevieve Barlow, William N. Stivers
McGraw-Hill, 1999
Great true dual translation book
This is a true bilingual book in Spanish and English. I love the format of presenting the Spanish on one page and the English equivalent on the facing page. You can easily go from one to the other. Because the stories are short and pretty basic, if you are trying to learn Spanish it is a great tutoring tool. You should already know some basic Spanish before reading the book, but for the ...
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The Democratization of American Christianity10 reviews
Nathan O. Hatch
Yale University Press, 1991
A Christian perspective.
If you want to understand why the twenty-first century American Evengelical Church is rife with heretical teachings and outright apostasy, read this book. In The Democratization of American Christianity, Nathan Hatch demonstrates how the American Revolution spawned the so-called Second Great Awakening, a religious rebellion, which led to an abandonment of Orthodox Christianity in favor of a ...
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90 minutos en el cielo: Una historia real de Vida y Muerte 1 review
Don Piper, Cecil Murphey
Revell, 2006
New look on Heaven - Nueva vision del cielo
It is very refreshing to read Don's description of Heaven in today's language. After and accident he was 90 minutes in Heaven before he came back to life. I storngly recommend this book
Leer la descripcion que este pastor hace de los 90 minutos que paso en el cielo despues de un accidente de auto, es muy refrescante. Al usar el lenguaje de estos dias lo hace mucho mas real, mas facil de ...
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Donde viven los monstruos14 reviews
Rayo, 1996
I enjoyed this book all over again!
Where the Wild Things Are was one of my very favorite books as a child. My nieces and nephew live in Mexico, so I bought this book for them. I cannot remember how many times I read it sitting on the couch with them in my lap. They loved it and I loved it. Very well translated and as always a joy to read.
Highly recommended!
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La Tierra Es Plana / The World Is Flat: Breve Historia del Mundo Globalizado del Siglo XXI / A Brief History ...2 reviews
Thomas Friedman
Planeta, 2006
Excelente Libro que describe los cambios recientes
He adquirido este libro y mi comentario sintetizado es que el mismo nos describe cómo las empresas que han logrado acortar las distancias en el mundo han podido lograr esto así como también cómo ha existido una estrecha relación entre dicho éxito y las facilidades que ofrecen los gobiernos en dichos paises creando una infraestructura que atrae la inversión extrangera.
Lo recomiendo a todo ...
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500 Years of Chicana Women's History/ Anos de Historia de las Chicanans
Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez
Rutgers University Press, 2007
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas. 500 Years of Chicana Women's History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and ...
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La Verdadera Historia Del Club Bilderberg/the True History of Club Bilderberg4 reviews
Daniel Estulin
Planeta, 2005
new world order
move over Robert Fisk and Anthony Beever. One of the most chilling investigative books of the last decade. A must for anyone who wishes to larn about the all-encompassing might of the New World Order.
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Layer Cake8 reviews
J. J. Connolly
Grove Press, Black Cat, 2004
Snatch meets Dutch
This novel comes across like a Guy Ritchie movie crossed with an book by Elmore Leonard. Very enjoyable and engaging. I'll have to check out the British movie when it hits Canada.
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Cada Cabeza es un Mundo: La Historia de Hector LaVoe
Jaime Torres Torres
Mariana Editores, Inc., 2007
¡El libro que los productores de la película quisieron usar como referencia! ¡La historia completa del cantante más trascendental de la salsa! * Galería de fotos inéditas * Análisis sociológico de sus soneos * Discografía detallada * Su jerga * Anecdotario ¡Su verdadera Historia! El autor Jaime Torres Torres descubrió la obra de Héctor Lavoe durante su niñez. En su adolescencia, adquirió sus discos y pocos años después se vio ...
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Morir en el Intento: La Peor Tragedia de Immigrantes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos1 review
Jorge Ramos
Rayo, 2006
Excelente crónica de una tragedia
Magníficamente narrado y con excelente ritmo, el libro atrapa y ya no suelta: el lector permanece enganchado a esa historia terrible y no puede dejarla hasta terminar. Un libro que todo el mundo debería leer.
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Moorish Spain16 reviews
Richard Fletcher
University of California Press, 2006
Riveting, accurate and succinct
For all students of Islam, Richard Fletcher's 175 pages of text are critical reading that dispel the myths wide of a kind, gentle "golden age" of Andalusian Islam.
Many accounts exist from Islamic conquerors and subjugated Christians, but only three important contemporary reports meet scientific tests---a "single but crucial administrative document from the Islamic side," "a small amount of ...
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Espejos: una historia casi universal
Eduardo Galeano
Siglo XXI, 2008
Siglo XXI lanza simultaneamente en Espana y America Latina el nuevo libro de Eduardo Galeano, donde el autor hace un repaso caprichoso de la historia de la humanidad desde sus origenes hasta hoy revelando los acontecimientos y los personajes que suelen quedar en la sombra y el anonimato. Como un inventario general del mundo, el deporte, la musica, la ecologia, el hambre, la literatura, la violencia, el racismo, llegan desde los origenes del ...
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Un sueno americano: Mi historia
Oscar De La Hoya, Steve Springer
Rayo, 2008
Oscar De La Hoya, uno de los luchadores más celebrados en la historia del boxeo, nos brinda su historia franca y conmovedora sobre cómo logró el Sueño Americano: su ascenso al éxito, el poder de una ética de trabajo sólida, la dolorosa pérdida de su madre al cáncer, las trampas del estrellato, así como una perspectiva muy personal de lo que significa ser americano Hijo de padres mexicanos, De La Hoya "El Chico de Oro" ha tenido una carrera ...
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Lives of the Desert Fathers: The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto (Cistercian Studies No. 34)5 reviews
Benedicta Ward, Norman Russell
Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers, 1981
Ancient Mysticism
The book attributed to the recording keeping of a 394AD journeyman and his companions as they traveled through the deserts of Egypt meeting the acetic fathers. The book is as stunning as it is simple. Basic records of extraordinary lives will immediately provoke every kind of reader. Skeptics will try to dismiss it as ancient myth-making and walk away. Believers may embrace it, but only with ...
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The Story of Jesus = LA Historia De Jesus2 reviews
Patricia A. Pingry
Ideals Publications, 2002
Good
This is a good book. It is written sort of like a devotional. One side is in Spanish and the other side is in English. It does not go into much detail about Jesus so do not expect it to replace direct Bible studying. The pictures are very good and colorful.
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