Alfonso: 462 books

On September 20th, 1994 an Italian journalist and her camera operator were ambushed and assassinated during daylight in the streets of Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. Just hours before she was shot with a bullet in the head, the young journalist made a phone call to her boss in Rome asking permission...

An enigmatic bon vivant makes a surprise visit to an old teacher who is now rich and powerful, but feels terribly lonely inside his own family. The mood is chaotic and everyone has an identity problem. "You came, you seduced every single one of us, and you destroyed everything." Who is this woman and what is she up to?

Short Stories of Madness. In Terror, moms were no longer carrying babies in their expensive strollers, they were hauling monsters. And the rest of the citizens were probably too sick and deteriorated to figure out the tragedy ahead. A state of emergency would have been ideal under such circumstances,...

When real life puts fiction to shame. Unedited, quirky, desperate, at times humorous. It all began with a page like. All names have been changed to respect privacy.Please Note: This book is written in a colloquial non-conventional English in order to preserve the authenticity of the conversation.

Este volumen concentra los quince primeros cuentos de Rubén Darío, escritos entre 1881 y 1889 y nunca incluidos en libros sino sólo publicadas en periódicos. La edición y el estudio estuvieron a cargo de Alberto Paredes, mientras que el prólogo lo escribió Alfonso García Morales. Retrato del...

Los frutos ácidos fue publicado por primera vez en Madrid en 1919. Alfonso Hernández Catá fue considerado en vida uno de los mejores escritores cubanos de todos los tiempos. Redactor del Diario de la Marina, uno de los periódicos más influyentes del país, y con una carrera diplomática desde...

Tras la publicación de sus Cuentos en varios libros Alfonso Hernández Catá fue considerado en vida uno de los mejores escritores cubanos de todos los tiempos. Redactor del Diario de la Marina, uno de los periódicos más influyentes del país, y con una carrera diplomática desde muy joven, su...

"El ángel de Sodoma" es una impresionante novela —una noveleta si se prefiere, y sin que la dimensión física restrinja su alcance— que ha conquistado para Alfonso Hernández Catá la cualidad de fundador. Lo hace, como las grandes obras, de una manera múltiple, pues, si bien su tema —la...

It is not difficult to understand why the London System is such a popular chess opening with club players all over the world. Against virtually every Black defence after 1.d4 it offers White an easy-to-learn and reliable set of lines with interesting choices between strategic or more aggressive approaches,...

Translated by Cameron Watson and William A. Douglass. Foreword by William A. Douglass. The Basque people have preserved their ethnic identity and sense of themselves as a separate community despite centuries of repression, diaspora, and economic and social upheaval—one of the most remarkable achievements...

The original, 2006 edition of Timothy Edward Fulbright and J. Alfonso Ortega-S.’s White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands was hailed as “a splendid reference for the classroom and those who make their living from wildlife and the land” and as “filling a niche that is...

Demoni. Quali sembianze assumono? Dove si nascondono? Con quale atavico impulso riescono a scatenare la furia omicida dell’uomo? Ce lo dicono i fuoriclasse della narrativa fantastica italiana, capaci di inquadrare le orde del Diavolo sotto ogni punto di vista per restituirle al lettore in tutte...

Varcando le mura dei monasteri medievali in cui è sorta, la Salve Regina è divenuta l'invocazione mariana più conosciuta, dopo l'Ave Maria. Oltre che al termine dell'Ufficio, è comunemente recitata a coronamento del rosario. Quest'operetta composta da Sant'Alfonso nel 1750,costituisce la parte...

Il volume raccoglie gli atti della Giornata di Studi svolta a conclusione del primo anno della ricerca biennale condotta dai giovani ricercatori nell'ambito del "Programma Operativo FSE SARDEGNA 2007-2013, Legge Regionale 7 agosto 2007, n. 7, Promozione della ricerca scientifica e dell'innovazione...