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The Story of Don John of Austria
This historical work presents the biography of Don John of Austria, the winner of the battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Empire and many more combats. John was an illegitimate son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. He became a military chief in the service of, King Philip II of Spain, and is famous worldwide for his part as the admiral of the Holy Alliance fleet at the Battle of Lepanto. The author of this work, Spanish writer and journalist Luis Coloma, built interest in the readers by introducing a new kind of book that was a mixture of novel and history. He displayed the story of Don John of Austria from his tempting childhood to his death. This work is neatly documented and described to verify the facts further. Since one cannot separate the life and legacy of Don John of Austria from the turbulent period in which he lived, this work represents the history of Spain during his era. This incredible history remains exciting to the very end.
El nudo trenzado
El 14 de octubre de 2013 Rodrigo Velasco sale de su casa con una pistola en el bolsillo, hiriendo y matando a varias personas hasta que es abatido por la policía. Durante la investigación que sigue a estos acontecimientos, se descubre en su domicilio un manuscrito inédito: El nudo trenzado. En este se cuenta la historia de un escritor que sale un día de su casa con un arma y asesina a varias personas, en un juego de casualidades y actos paralelos que nos hará cuestionarnos nuestra propia realidad. Cinco relatos más completan este libro, ahondando en el suspense, el terror, las paradojas y el juego con los niveles de narración que apasionan al autor.
Books and Bidders: The Adventures of a Bibliophile
“Genius?” The tall old man with the fan-shaped beard looked eagerly at his companion, then settled back more heavily against the rows and rows of old books lining the walls to the ceiling on all sides of the room. “Of course Edgar was a genius, but in spite of being a gambler and a drunkard—in spite of it, I tell you!” The other, a thin man of lesser years, his long, inquiring face meditative in the twilight, nodded. “You are right,” he agreed. “But what difference did it make? The only question is, would ‘The Raven’ have been any greater without his gambling and drinking? I doubt it.” The argument was on, and my uncle, Moses Polock, would lean forward now and again, wa...
Bring the Noise
An anthology of writings spanning Simon Reynolds's extraordinary career as a music writer, Bring the Noise weaves together interviews, reviews, essays, and features to create a critical history of the last twenty years of pop culture. Bring the Noise juxtaposes the voices of many of rock and rap's most provocative artists - Morrissey, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, The Stone Roses, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, The Streets - with Reynolds's own passionate analysis. With all the energy and insight you would expect from the author of Rip It Up And Start Again, Bring the Noise tracks the alternately fraught and fertile relationship between white bohemia and black street music. The selections transmit the ...
Finding an Ending
Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's achievements, focusing on its far-reaching and subtle exploration of problems of meanings and endings in this life and world. Kitcher and Schacht plunge the reader into the heart of Wagner's Ring, drawing out the philosophical and human significance of the text and the music. They show how different forms of love, freedom, heroism, authority, and judgment are explored and tested as it unfolds. As they journey across its sweeping musical-dramatic landsca...
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A History of the Inquisition of Spain; Volume 3
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