Ortega: 244 books

Dr. Ramona Ortega is the daughter of Mexican migrants that immigrated to the United States in the 1930’s seeking the American dream. After enduring years of physical and emotional hardship throughout the 1950’s, Ramona and members of her large family found the dreams they sought. This is the inspiring...

Too often literary criticism is academic exercise rather than creative act. For the multifaceted Julio Ortega—respected poet, dramatist, and novelist in his own right—the act of criticism becomes profoundly creative, his incisive readings of the text far transcending the pedantry that may falsely...

Is your heart broken with grief? Do you feel alone, lonely, and fearful of the future? If you lost a loved one, your life has taken a different path than what you expected, and you may wonder where God is. How do you cope? How do you live the new normal when you don’t want it? You want your loved...

José Ortega y Gasset (Madrid, 9 de mayo de 1883-ibíd., 18 de octubre de 1955) fue un filósofo y ensayista español, exponente principal de la teoría del perspectivismo y de la razón vital —raciovitalismo— e histórica, situado en el movimiento del novecentismo. Desde 1935 Ortega anunció...

Author Pamela Ortega lives in paranormal worlds every day of her life. She has met and spoken to a wide variety of supernatural and unearthly beings, as have many members of her family. She has been given a gift, and now, in this collection of personal anecdotes, she shares that gift with the world,...

Breast cancer affects everyone it touches, whether firsthand or through the life of a loved one. Counselor and teacher Yvonne Ortega discovered this when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and began her journey. In Finding Hope for Your Journey through Breast Cancer, she shares with readers her...

Período Bakumatsu. Himawari, una niña de cuatro años y su hermano mayor Shunya, de ocho, observa aterrorizado cómo asesinan a sus padres ante sus ojos. Despavoridos, huyen a las montañas para salvar su vida, observando impotentes la gran nube de humo que levantan las llamas que destruyen su casa. El...

El verbo Kaifman es una novela en la línea de Dan Brown, Ken Follet, Stephen King o Tom Clancy. Un cóctel que incluye al Vaticano, la orden de los Templarios, atentados terroristas en Santiago de Chile, nazis perdidos en la antártica y ciudades ocultas. Los grandes misterios de la historia en el...

Casas embrujadas, manchas de sangre que no desaparecen, niños deformes, un hombre que cubre su rostro con una bolsa de papel, leyendas del pueblo de Victoria, ecos monstruosos de José Donoso y del miedo en los suburbios de Stephen King. Todo eso y bastante más inspira El horror de Berkoff. Pero...

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...

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to...

This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices. The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation and reinvention. The body is...

“Stand down, Indiana Jones: these two historians say the holy grail has been discovered . . . A ride rich in historical detail” (Publishers Weekly). Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify where the Holy Grail has been...

Are you looking for love, attention, and security in all the wrong people and places? Is there a hunger and thirst inside you that has not been quenched? Are you beginning to think the emptiness you feel within will never be filled, and you will be alone forever? But what if you have great...