Thais Un Angel Sin Alas


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María Isabel Mathieu Avila. Nació en Santafé de Bogotá, el 23 de Mayo de 1953. Hija de Hernando Mathieu y Luzmila Avila de Mathieu. Amante de sus tres hijos, de la música clásica como también de la naturaleza en toda su expresión, a la que rinde pleitesía plasmándola en sus fotografías, haciendo alarde de ello al dedicarle, casi que con exclusividad, la que es su profesión. Poseedora de una percepción extrasensorial que maravilla a quienes le han conocido, y han tenido tiempo para escudriñar sobre los poderes de la mente, y sin temor a equívocos, le han llamado "la vidente". "Mayi" como la llaman desde muy niña, en este sencillo ejemplar, ofrece al lector cinco historias llenas de veracidad, bellos sentimientos y sinceridad, y que titula: "Amor de ojos verdes" "Shantall" "Simplemente...un Rayo de Luz" "Mi vida entre sus brazos" "Sardina" Historias dedicadas, a todas aquellas personas quienes permitan a la autora, entrar en sus corazones. Especialmente a su sufrida madre patria.




Proverbial Philosophy


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The Life of Repentance and Purity


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The Life of Repentance and Purity provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the practice of repentance and purity, essential aspects of Christian life. Pope Shenouda III draws on Scripture, the Church Fathers, his own experience of desert monasticism, and his experience as a shepherd to millions of Christians to provide a practical understanding of how to live a life of continually turning to God.




The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers


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Reproduction of the original: The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer




Love for Sale


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It closes with the rise of the sex-workers' rights movement and "sex-positive" feminism, and a realistic look at the true risks and rewards of prostitution in the present day. Love for Sale spans a wide historical swathe armed with a lively wit and no-nonsense grasp of sex that recalls Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae."--BOOK JACKET.







Poems


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Margaret Sayers Peden, who is well known and respected for her translations of Fuentes, Neruda, Quiroga, and Paz, has made an admirable selection of poems that includes romances, redondillas, epigrams, decimas, sonnets, silvas, villancicos, and two excerpts from Sor Juana's theater. The introduction and notes provide the necessary context for those unfamiliar with the poet's life and times.




Hispanic Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present


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Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and Italian volumes represent their respective countries; the Hispanic volume includes poems from the many Spanish-speaking nations; and the Hebrew volume encompasses writing in Hebrew from around the world. The poems are presented in their original languages alongside English translations. Each volume includes an introduction, placing the poetry in historical and aesthetic perspective, and full biographical and bibliographical notes on the poets.




Consilience


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A dazzling journey across the sciences and humanities in search of deep laws to unite them." —The Wall Street Journal One of our greatest scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities. Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.




This Side of Paradise


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This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality. Amory Blaine is a young Princeton University student with an attractive face and an interest in literature. His greed and desire for social status warp the theme of love weaving through the story.