Alfonso: 462 books

Marta Sanz, Alfonso Mateo Sagasta, Juan Aparicio Belmonte, Lorenzo Silva, Vanessa Monfort, Patricia Esteban Erlés, Berna González Harbour, Jesús Ferrero, Fernando Marías, Andrés Barba y Domingo Villar. Esta antología reúne a algunos de los autores más destacados de la novela negra en...

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated...

Francisco de Quevedo (Madrid, 1580-1645) was well known for his rich and dynamic style, achieved through an ingenious and complex manipulation of language. Yet he was also a consistent and systematic thinker, with moral philosophy, broadly understood, lying at the core of his numerous and varied works....

The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the...

One day, being an apprentice, I was drinking tea with my teacher. We had just finished a class on traditional medicine, and it had been some time since my last physical training. Some weeks before, I had taken lessons on ancient rites and history, and now here I was, just learning that starting the...

Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a “natural law” philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance....

This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment. It describes in great detail why and how bodies which present with different magnitudes, weights...

A concise and accessible introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral philosophy. Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas to John Finnis, Alfonso Gómez-Lobo links morality to the protection of basic human goods — life, family,...

This big board in San Juan, Puerto Rico, announces the final trial for the May 21, 2011. Do you believe that?(6.17 Jeremy) The Lord put guards and told the people: Pay attention to the alarm signal. But the people said: We will not ignore. So says the Lord: Listen, nations know what will happen to...

Bonbon always gets what she wants. She's self-centered, and she likes to be punished. She loves role play with her girlfriend Emma, and the Swiss, the serial fucker who fills in with sex experiments. But love and duress come at a price. Suddenly she becomes victim of her own insecurity. She's devastated,...

Uno dei più ricchi e vividi classici della teologia mariana, un'opera di devozione che parla al cuore. Sant’Alfonso de’ Liguori, il più celebre Dottore della Chiesa di tutti i tempi, analizza con grande accuratezza e precisione, in un linguaggio chiaro e intenso, il ruolo decisivo di Maria nella...

Le Visite al Santissimo Sacramento e a Maria Santissima è l'opera straordinaria di Sant'Alfonso Maria de Liguori. Il Santo costantemente, tramite le sue opere, ci abitua alla devozione profonda verso il Santissimo Sacramento e anche verso la Regina del Cielo. Un libro da portare sempre con se per pregare durante l'adorazione oppure davanti al tabernacolo.

Alfonso Maria de' Liguori (anche noto con la variante dei Liguori; Napoli, 27 settembre 1696 – Nocera de' Pagani, 1º agosto 1787) è stato un vescovo cattolico e compositore italiano. Fondatore della congregazione del Santissimo Redentore, è autore di opere letterarie, teologiche e di celebri...

Dice sant’Alfonso Maria de Liguori, Dottore della Chiesa, «Del gran mezzo della preghiera» (parte I, capo I, della necessità della preghiera): «[…] dice sant’Agostino, che coloro che, in questa vita avranno più soccorso quelle sante Anime [del Purgatorio, NdR], nell’altra, stando nel...