A Very Brief History of Eternity (Inbunden)
avCarlos Eire
ISBN: 9780691133577 - UTGIVEN: 200910What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In "A Very Brief History of Eternity", Car[...]
Very Brief History of Eternity, A (Övrig)
avCarlos Eire
ISBN: 9780691152509 - UTGIVEN: 2011-09-06What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In "A Very Brief History of Eternity", Car[...]
Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy (Häftad)
avCarlos Eire
ISBN: 9780743246415 - UTGIVEN: 2004-01A memoir of the Cuban Revolution from the perspective of a Batista-era child describes his carefree early days, the harrowing legal changes that occurred with the ascension of Fidel Castro, his witness to the disappearance of numerous peers, and his eventual relocation to the United States during Op[...]
Nieve en la Habana: Confesiones de un Cubanito = Waiting for Snow in Havana (Häftad)
avCarlos Eire
ISBN: 9781400079704 - UTGIVEN: 2007-09"Ten piedad de mi, Senor, cubano soy." En 1962, Carlos Eire fue uno de los 14.841 ninos que fueron transportados fuera de Cuba en el puente a?reo conocido como la Operacion Pedro Pan--exiliado de su familia, de su patria y de su propia ninez por la Revolucion. Los recuerdos de su vida en La Habana c[...]
Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy (Häftad)
avCarlos Eire
ISBN: 9781439181911 - UTGIVEN: 2011-06In his 2003 National Book Award-winning memoir "Waiting for Snow in Havana, "Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane--along with thousan[...]
War Against the Idols (Pocket)
avCarlos M. N. Eire
ISBN: 9780521379847 - UTGIVEN: 1989-01In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as ?idolatry?, or false religion. Wherever these ideas became accepted, churches were sacked, images smashed and burned, relics destroyed, and the Catholic Mass abolished. This study calls atten[...]
Waiting for Snow in Havana (Häftad)
avCarlos M. N. Eire
ISBN: 9780743207379 - UTGIVEN: 200305The moving, wry, wildly beautiful story of a boy exiled from his childhood by the Cuban revolution.
