Leonardo: 518 books

This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how, in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and...

Delatado a la policía, expulsado de su puesto en la universidad y tras dieciocho años en el exilio, Fernando Terry decide volver por un mes a La Habana, atraído por la posibilidad de dar al fin con la autobiografía desaparecida, La novela de mi vida, del poeta José María Heredia, al que dedicó...

En 1939, el barco S.S. Saint Louis, con novecientos judíos que lograron huir de Alemania, estuvo fondeado varios días frente al puerto de La Habana a la espera del permiso para los refugiados. El niño Daniel Kaminsky y su tío esperaron en el muelle a que desembarcaran sus familiares, confiados...

The Benedictine whisked a brush of multicoloured feathers over the top of the book, puffed out his plump cheeks like the god of winds in an old nautical map, blew black dust from the leather cover, and, with a shiver of what in the circumstances seemed delicate trepidation, laid the volume open on...

In recent years, significant attention has focused upon the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and the threat they pose to the United States and the West. Far less well understood, however, has been the phenomenon of Iran’s regional advance in America’s own Hemisphere—an intrusion...

The previous three Padura novels, Havana Red, Havana Black, and Havana Blue were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 50,000. 2. An insiders view: Padura lives in Cuba, writes often scathing novels about...

The excellence of the following Treatise is so well known to all in any tolerable degree conversant with the Art of Painting, that it would be almost superfluous to say any thing respecting it, were it not that it here appears under the form of a new translation, of which some account may be expected....

The previous two Padura novels, Havana Red and Havana Black were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 15,000. Padura’s masterful prose and eye for detail evoke the Havana that millions of tourists have...

Hay incógnitas históricas que inquietan a los especialistas desde hace décadas; el tema del presente libro es una de ellas: las relaciones políticas, culturales, bélicas y comerciales que surgieron en Mesoamérica tras el colapso de Teotihuacan, sobre todo el hecho de que ciudades muy distantes, Tula y Chichén Itzá, presentaran sorprendentes similitudes.

Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are...

A question Christians have been asking themselves since He ascended into Heaven. A difficult question. A necessary one. One that has been answered variously by Christians of all type of denominations. But, in the last centuries, not so much by Catholics. Fr Castellani fills the void with solid knowledge and great style.

Quimera es el segundo de los diez tomos de la Coleccin Poesas del Presidio compuesta por el Preso Poltico Plantado, Luis L. Arroyo durante sus 27 aos de Prisin Poltica en Cuba, narrando cotidianidades e incidencias de su estancia en prisin. Quimera no es un poemario de testimonios sobre el Presidio...

Robert Mundell's pioneering theory of optimum currency areas is revisited, with experts from the IMF, the BIS, the European Investment Bank, academia, European think tanks, and the Bank of Israel looking at its current practical applications, especially in the context of the forthcoming European Economic...

Com certeza você deve estar cansado de batalhar durante o ano todo para conseguir manter o orçamento organizado e mesmo assim, quando chega o final do ano, novamente você se perde e entra no vermelho. Agora imagine sua vida financeira completamente organizada o ano todo! Imaginou? Imagine agora...