Clara: 865 books

Latinos are the fastest growing population group in the United States.Through their language and popular music Latinos are making their mark on American culture as never before. As the United States becomes Latinized, how will Latinos fit into America's divided racial landscape and how will they define...

Han pasado 20 años desde la primera edición de Las negociaciones nuestras de cada día y el mundo ha seguido hundiéndose en luchas cada vez más tortuosas en pos de poderes absolutos que casi siempre han pretendido disimularse bajo las «mejores intenciones». Las interminables negociaciones con...

The Regency period in general, and the aristocrat-poet Lord Byron in particular, were notorious for scandal, but the historical circumstances of this phenomenon have yet to be properly analysed. Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity explores Byron's celebrity persona in the literary, social, political...

Una directora de sucursal de una caja levantina que ha vendido preferentes. Un joven militar, Fermín Galán, que decide poner en práctica sus ideales republicanos y encabezar la revolución en Jaca, en 1930. Un sacerdote fanático en el campo de concentración de Jasenovac, en el Estado Independiente...

Guapa, inteligente, extravertida, Ana tiene un gran futuro por delante. Es la mejor alumna de su promoción de medicina en Belgrado y el orgullo de su padre, el general Ratko Mladic, a quien ella adora. Una noche, de regreso de un viaje de fin de curso a Moscú y con tan sólo 23 años, Ana Mladic...

In spite of our scientific and technological advances, the belief that knowledge will solve all our problems has been shattered on the cliffs of reality. “Holophany, The Loop of Creation” re-examines those fundamental conjectures and hidden assumptions that led to modern science and our present...

A moving and delightful story of self-discovery that weaves humankind's desire to understand Who am I? into a creative journey certain to expand our imagination into places heretofore unimagined. The beauty of this novel is also in the author's ability to introduce the complexities of philosophy through a wise and poignant tale about a man who loses everything...and finds himself.

Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 2007 and 2008. In this pathbreaking book, Charles L. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the...

How does one make decisions today about in vitro fertilization, abortion, egg freezing, surrogacy, and other matters of reproduction? This book provides the intellectual and emotional intelligence to help individuals make informed choices amid misinformation and competing claims. Scott Gilbert and...

Nancy lived a very difficult childhood. She experienced and saw things that marked her life forever. For several years, Nancy tried to fill a void in her life through performance, people, and even drugs until the day she discovered what the love of God can do to someone's life. This book was written...

But now that he is Dead, Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him but he will not return to me (2 Samuel 12:23) Almost 200,000 couples in America each year suffer through the tragedy of miscarriage. And that statistic only tells us about first trimester miscarriages....

Juette est née en 1158 à Huy, une petite ville de l’actuelle Belgique. C’est à travers un texte de Georges Duby (Dames du XIIè siècle, Gallimard), où Juette se trouve entre Aliénor d’Aquitaine et Iseut, que l’auteur rencontre cette figure singulière : enfant solitaire dans la demeure...

El éxito tiene una cara brillante y tentadora, pero también un lado oscuro que encierra contrastes y costes no siempre leves. Clara Coria profundiza en las problemáticas que generan las pretensiones de «éxito» en no pocas mujeres, y desvela los fantasmas que entorpecen el acceso al mismo y las...

Nuestra cultura tiende a situar la «edad de la madurez» en un lugar de invisibilidad que poco a poco se desliza hacia la marginación. Vivimos una época en la que los cambios no piden permiso para instalarse y la realidad, que se impone independientemente a nuestros deseos, ha puesto en evidencia...