Mas Alla de los Pilares de la Tierra / Beyond the Pillars of the Earth

El libro que, segun su autor, resuelve el misterio de Maria Magdalena, Jesus y sus hijos, asi como el gran secreto templario y el Santo Grial.

From feudalism to the rise of cities, this book is a guide to the secrets and mysteries of the medieval world. It explores the plight of serfs, the bravery of the knights-errant, the frustrated ventures that were the Crusades, the romanticism of courtly love, and a number of other topics in an engaging style. The book also focuses on the role the Catholic Church played during the Middle Ages—often for ill—examining indulgences, the Inquisition, and the motivation for the construction of gothic cathedrals. Desde el feudalismo hasta el surgimiento de las ciudades, este libro es una guía de ...

The book, unique in its kind, includes a total of 28 writers representative of 13 different Latin American countries, from those who are part of the canon such as Isabel Allende, Gioconda Belli, Liliana Heker, Nancy Morejon, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Alfonsina Storni, Gabriela Mistral, and Julia de Burgos to emergent voices, such as Cecilia Bustamante, Rosina Valcarcel, and Gladys Ilarregui. This anthology will be the perfect text to give an overview of contemporary poetry and short story by leading Latin American women writers. The range of countries...

Un político sin pelos en la lengua y un líder incombustible con más de sesenta años de trayectoria. Fraga podía ser sorprendente: «Yo pude ser Fidel Castro.» No le importaba ser polémico: «El orgullo gay es un error social .» Y gastaba un verbo florido: «Las paridades son paridas.» ¿Quién no recuerda su célebre frase «La calle es mía.» o las palabras con que pasó a José María Aznar el testigo como líder del PP: «No hay tutelas ni tutías»? Y qué decir de su mítico eslogan para promover la industria turística, «Spain is different?» El talento de Manuel Fraga para...

Language-as signifier and signified-serves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies.

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. He is distinctive among writers in having a tremendous popular following as well as a considerable and increasing academic reputation as a writer of substance and significance. This encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to many aspects of Lovecraft's life and work, codifying the detailed research on Lovecraft conducted by many scholars over the past three decades. It includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries on Lovecraft and presents extensive bibliographical...