3873 results for '"Cervantes, Miguel de'

La edición de lujo, maravillosamente ilustrada, del bestseller más estoico. Una invitación a desprendernosde lo incontrolable y tomar las riendas de lo que sí depende de nosotros para convertirnos...

Análise, Interpretação, Resumos E Guiões De Leitura, Maria Alzira Seixo. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 649-651) And Index.

How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) present a libertine...

Herodotus, the 'Father of History', is infamously known for having employed elements more akin to mythological tales than to unvarnished 'truth' in translating his historical research into narrative...

When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and...

"L'histoire de la Rome des premiers siècles avant et après Jésus-Christ est communément pensée comme un temps de rupture politique, marqué par le remplacement d'une République mise à mal par...

Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance against Britain. Led by Bernardo de Gálvez, supreme...

The description for this book, A Guide to the Birds of Venezuela, will be forthcoming.

D'où l'art moderne peut-il tirer cette impunité qui le met à l'écart du jugement, le délivre de l'obligation d'être utile, le soustrait au devoir de rendre des comptes à la communauté ? L'artiste...

Herausgegeben Von Norbert Frei ; [jena Center Geschichte Des 20. Jahrhunderts].

This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir's autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood as formulated in The Second Sex and other...

Im Februar 1987, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod, hielt Jacob Taubes vor einer kleinen Schar von Zuhörern 4 Paulus- Vorlesungen, die er als sein geistiges Vermächtnis auffaßte. Darin betritt er das Feld...

This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the...

Joan Orpí (Piera, 1593 - New Barcelona, 1645) is one of the most unknown characters in Spanish history. In this torrential book we are told the odyssey that brought him first to Barcelona, later to...