Leon: 1324 books
by Donna Leon
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2012
La arqueóloga norteamericana Brett Lynch, vieja conocida del comisario Guido Brunetti, sufre una agresión en su casa. Dos matones le advierten así que no se reúna con el doctor Semenzato, director del museo del Palacio Ducal, uno de los más relevantes de la ciudad. Días después, Semenzato aparece...
by Donna Leon
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2012
La existencia del comisario Guido Brunetti se ve alterada por la irrupción en su vida de ciertos elementos religiosos inquietantes. Durante un almuerzo familiar descubre que las clases de religión que recibe su hija, la adolescente Chiara, son impartidas por un sacerdote que da signos de un comportamiento...
by Donna Leon
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Tres carabinieri irrumpen en el apartamento de un pediatra, lo atacan y se llevan a su hijo de dieciocho meses. ¿Qué ha motivado un ataque tan violento por parte de las fuerzas del orden? Cuando el comisario Brunetti es convocado al hospital en que ingresa la víctima del cruel asalto, deberá enfrentarse...
by Donna Leon
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Las tres pasiones de Donna León son los libros, Venecia y la ópera, como se aprecia en cada una de las novelas de la serie del Comisario Brunetti, ya que tanto él, como su esposa, Paula, son ávidos lectores. Conocida ya como "la gran dama del crimen" Donna Leon desvela las claves para...
by Leon Borden Blair
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Since November 8, 1942, when American troops in Operation Torch first landed on the beaches of North Africa, almost a million Americans—military personnel and their dependents—have lived in Morocco. Their impact on the political and social evolution of Morocco has been significant, but historians...
by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The voice that speaks in this book is the voice of Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Minister of Foreign Affairs for Revolutionary Russia. It is expressing ideas and views which lighted him on the course of his policy toward the War, Peace and the Revolution. It throws light, therefore, on that policy; it...
by Leon Davidovich Trotzky
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The world has not known us Russian revolutionists. The world has sympathized with us; the world abroad has given aid and comfort to our refugees; the world, at times, even admired us; yet the world has not known us. Friends of freedom in Europe and America were keenly anxious to see the victory of our...
Negotiating Minefields
The Landmines Ban in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In this volume, Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries...
by Richard Leon
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Robert Mendez never felt a hangover like this one.After a wild night at a local bar in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Robert wakes up for work to remember his friend Jason and all those drinks he devoured.Today is an important day as a powerful couple from Innsmouth, Massachusetts would be coming in to buy...
Vampire Picnic
Ravenscroft, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Blurb: Vampire Picnic
Camdyn’s a registered nurse who’s seen it all, but even by fang-bang freaky trip to Spanktown standards, she’s having the strangest night shift imaginable. Pint bags of plasma disappear into thin air, and an overmedicated patient claims an Elvis-loving vampire is...
Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet
A Study of Shakespeare's Method
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues, however, it has also been treated as problematic in a raft of ways.
In Philosophy and the Puzzles...
Turning Point
A New Comprehensive Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The CSIS Commission on Countering Violent Extremism, cochaired by Tony Blair and Leon Panetta, was formed to develop a comprehensive and actionable blueprint to combat the growing appeal of violent extremism in the United States and abroad. Specifically, the Commission considered what the next U.S....
Conceptual Tension
Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Conceptual Tension: Essays on Kinship, Politics, and Individualism is a critical philosophical examination of the role of concepts and concept formation in social sciences. Written by Leon J. Goldstein, a preeminent Jewish philosopher who examined the epistemological foundations of social science...
by David Leon Higdon
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
John Fowles’ 1963 novel, The Collector, evolve from three sources, two of which are well known: his attendance at a performance of Béla Bartók’s opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and his own teenage captivity fantasies. The mystery of the third source can now be resolved, and its identity is detailed in this essay.