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The Reclaiming Liberation Theology series claims that Liberation Theology is alive and well and continues to produce new and challenging material. In "Theology, Liberation and Genocide", Mario Aguilar, one of the leading liberation theologians of the current generation, asks how it can be possible t[...]
When Ingi Friedlander travels to Yearsonend in the rugged interior of South Africa to purchase a statue, its eccentric sculptor, Jonty Jack, does not want to sell - he says it was not his creation, but simply appeared miraculously. Ingi decides to stay and try to win Jonty's trust, but soon realises[...]
"PUZO IS IN TOP FORM."*TimeThe Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest, thrilling us with his greatest Mafia novel since The Godfather*a masterful saga of the last great American crime family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas."THE MOST ENTERTAINING READ SINCE THE GODFATHER."*The New Y[...]
To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew." To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected[...]
Mario Puzo won international acclaim for The Godfather and his other Mafia novels. But before creating those masterpieces, Puzo wrote his first acclaimed novel The Dark Arena?an astounding story of a war-scarred young American in a battle against corruption and betrayal. . . .
After coming ho[...]
After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzo's classic novel, The Sicilian, stands as a cornerstone of his worka lushly romantic, unforgettable tale of bloodshed, justice, and treachery. . . .
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"A classic . . . the novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage."--"The New York Times Book Review."[...]
When tragic events--the Pope's asassination, his own daughter's abduction, a bomb threat in New York City, and a Middle East terrorist plot--threaten to destroy his administration, President Francis Kennedy must exploit his power to save it. Reprint.[...]
The most hilarious jokes, memes, pictures, & stories You are going to read the funniest jokes ever. Laugh out loud with this side splitting collection Discover one of the worlds most popular digital characters with funny & hilariously ridiculous memes about them Download your copy instantly by cl[...]
A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life
In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. "Notes on th[...]
A subtle and enlightening novel about a neglected human rights pioneer by the Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa
In 1916, the Irish nationalist Roger Casement was hanged by the British government for treason. Casement had dedicated his extraordinary life to improving the plight of oppressed peopl[...]
The latest masterpiece--perceptive, funny, insightful, affecting--from the Nobel Prize-winning author
Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel, "The Discreet Hero," follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felicito Yanaque, a small busi[...]
The stories in this books contain all the characteristics that later would trademark Mario Vargas Llosaâs masterpieces and make him a pioneer of Latin American Literature; they are shocking and surprising, and contain the unmistakable style of one of the greatest authors of the Latin American B[...]
Near a 1950s air force base in the northern deserts of Peru, a young airman is found tortured and murdered, and Lieutenant Silva and Officer Lituma soon learn how difficult it is to be an honest man in a society based on corruption of every sort. Reprint.[...]
While most of the selections fall under the heading of religious poetry, the important secular verse of Marvell and Crashaw is included. Eighty poems by Herbert have been selected from The Temple, and two early poems from Isaak Walton's Lives are also included. Crashaw is represented by sixteen poem[...]
Here is a clear and enthusiastic introduction to building methods from ancient time to the present day, illustrated throughout with line drawings. In addition, Mr. Salvadori discusses recent advances in science and technology that have had important effects on the planning and construction of buildi[...]
The stories that make up Why Buildings Fall Down are in the end very human ones, tales of the interaction of people and nature, of architects, engineers, builders, materials, and natural forces all coming together in sometimes dramatic (and always instructive) ways.[...]
A modern masterpiece, The Godfather has sold millions of copies, inspired three of the finest films in recent times, and spawned a new genre in fiction. Now this landmark work has been abridged for the first time, under special arrangement with Mario Puzo. The Godfather is the epic story of organize[...]
A collection of extraordinary, playable translations from across the Latin American continent, including a new Mario Vargas Llosa play In La Chunga by Mario Vargas Llosa a young gambler down on his luck lends his girlfriend to the lady bar-keeper for the night to pay off a debt. Four years later the[...]
Jungian analyst Mario Jacoby provides an exploration of the many aspects of shame and shows how it occupies a central place in our emotional experience.[...]
The Language of Comics : is illustrated with many real comic strips provides a history of comics from the end of the nineteenth century to the present explores the 'semiotics of comics' makes the case for comics as multi-modal texts and considers future developments in the genre provides a full glos[...]