Most Scandalous Woman: Magda Portal and the Dream of Revolution in Peru, Hardcover - Myrna Ivonne Wallace Fuentes

In 1926 a young Peruvian woman picked up a gun, wrested her infant daughter from her husband, and liberated herself from the constraints of a patri...

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Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Yohei IgarashiNumber of pages: 256Collection: Stanford Text TechnologiesPublication date: 2019Dimens...

Reducere. Award-winning journalist Jim Krane charts the history of Dubai from its earliest days, considers the influence of the family who has ruled it since...

Hedy Lamarr's life was punctuated by salacious rumors and public scandal, but it was her stunning looks and classic Hollywood glamour that continuo...

Reducere. Prince Lucas and Clara have to save their dragon friend, Ruskin, from a dangerous spell in this sixteenth fantastical adventure of The Kingdom of W...

In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom:...

Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was thought by many to be outlandishly modern at the time of its completion in 1900. Telling the story of the journey of...

DescriptionOn a summer night in 1969, two men climbed down a ladder onto a sea of dust at the edge of an ancient dream. When Neil Armstrong and Buz...

Reducere. DescriptionTAR FOR MORTAR offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Librar...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times - The New York Times Book Review - NPR - Publishers Weekly "This abs...

Reducere. "How do you know Pope Francis?" Quintin Moore gets asked this question quite frequently, and he wonders the same thing sometimes. Long before he be...

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*Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading"My first scene with Bill, a night shot on the back lot, happened before we'd even me...

The legendary adventures of Norse heroes, dragons, princesses and destiny.

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Reducere. DescriptionIn the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. ...

Publisher: Random HouseAuthor(s): Geert MakTranslator: Liz WatersPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 233 x 49Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. The book "" The Dream of Gerontius, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have ma...

Reducere. The story opens with the narrator wandering the streets of St. Petersburg. He contemplates how he has always been a ridiculous person, and also, ho...

Sister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story o...

Reducere. Laura Loomer is the most banned woman in America. An investigative journalist, activist, and truth-teller who has earned many powerful enemies in S...

The Experience of Revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland - Michael J. Braddick, David L. Smith

Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the...

Reducere. One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, "The Dream of the Red Chamber" is perhaps the greatest novel written in the Chinese vernacular. Its aut...

Reducere. Throughout history women have caused wars, defied the rules, and brought men to their knees. The famous and the infamous, queens, divorcees, actres...

Reducere. More than forty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential volume for those fascinated with China'...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. One of the Sexual Revolution pioneers, Barbara Williamson, shares her story for the first time ever as cofounder of the highly successful and contr...

Reducere. For 3, 000 years, the woman known as Helen of Troy has been both the ideal symbol of beauty and a reminder of the terrible power beauty can wield.I...

'Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): MacrobiusTranslator: William Harris StahlNumber of pages: 278Publication date: 1990Dimensions: 227 ...