Eduardo: 1120 books

From the best-selling author of The Secret in Their Eyes, an adventure about friendship, soccer, and good humor   When Alejandro “Mono” dies of cancer, his brother and two closest friends, a tight-knit group since childhood, are left to figure out how to take care of his young daughter, Guadalupe....

“Nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere.” —The New Yorker From Guatemala to Rio de Janeiro, La Paz to New York City, Managua to Havana, Century of the Wind ties together the events and people—both large and small—that define the Americas. In hundreds of lyrical...

Written with buoyant humor and a sharp sense of human desire, this is the story of love pursued at any cost, of how friendship and history unite people for better or worse, and of the hope for that redemptive kiss capable of reconciling estranged lovers and countries.

1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine. The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists,...

Un Dickens méconnu et quasi inédit en français. Dans ce roman biographique, qui relate les étranges aventures du plus grand clown anglais du XIXe siècle, le jeune Boz laisse déjà percevoir son étonnant talent de conteur. Voici un ouvrage de Dickens à peu près ignoré en France, qui...

Em julho de 1845, desgostoso com o crescente comercialismo e industrialismo da sociedade americana, Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) deixou Conrad, Massachusetts, sua cidade natal, para instalar-se à beira do Lago Walden. Publicado primeiramente em 1854 com o título "Walden ou A vida nos bosques",...

Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary fiction. Partly as a consequence of Borges' international identity, and partly because of a long-standing...

Perhaps, at this moment, you are asking: is it really that there are women, with specific qualities, the men seek to marry, even if unconsciously, in contrast to those that they seek to only - in modern language - to be able to "start", "stay" "bid" and/or "exit"?  And...

(A5, 112 P.) - Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, according to more recent UN data, over one billion people (in their great majorities in poor and/or underdeveloped countries of Africa, Asia and South America) are affected by states of poverty extreme. That is, approx. from 15% to 20%...

An investigation into experiences of other realms of existence and contact with otherworldly beings • Examines how contact with alien life-forms can be obtained through the “inner space” dimensions of our minds • Presents evidence that other worlds experienced through consciousness-altering...

Pokémon Go is one of those rare worldwide cultural phenomena that comes around once in a generation. Almost overnight, it seemed that half the world was playing the game, while the other half was scoffing at it. Depending on who you ask, the game is either a great way to get people outside,...

(A5, 179 P.) - Je ne suis pas ici pour réclamer à élucider et ni d'expliquer Nietzsche, un temps, je crois que, même dans un tel complexe et lourd qu'il est ne peut pas être traduite. Je pense que tous ceux qui ont le désir de traduire Nietzsche est également en danger de trahir. Mon...

UMA SAGA EM 101 VIDAS. Você vai conhecer os grandes construtores do Brasil. Desde o primeiro homem a desembarcar de um navio, em 1500, e conviver com os habitantes da floresta tropical, até figuras notáveis dos dias de hoje que empreenderam o desafio de viver na primeira sociedade multi­étnica do planeta. Fizeram uma grande história. Uma leitura surpreendente e imperdível.