Luis: 2080 books

Fray Luis de León es uno de los más importantes poetas del Renacimiento español. Su obra lírica, marcada por el humanismo y su profundo conocimiento de los clásicos y la Biblia, fue publicada en 1631 por Francisco de Quevedo. En 1572 fue apresado por soldados de la Santa Inquisición porque manifestó...

Góngora no publicó su obra en vida, aunque lo intentó en 1623. Sus versos se conocieron dispersos en Manuscritos o impresos en hojas sueltas. Solo aparecieron en un libro el año en que murió, en una edición que preparó Juan López de Vicuña con el título de Obras en verso del Homero español...

Obra maestra de Luis Vélez de Guevara en la que adapta con gran acierto poético los trágicos amores de Inés de Castro que tanto sugestionaron a los autores dramáticos europeos y peninsulares de la época.

From New York's Staten Island Ferry to a double-decker bus in Washington, DC, a delightful service dog, named Tuesday, narrates this fun and exciting journey ― with his disabled veteran partner ― to a very special place. Tuesday and Luis, an Iraq War veteran, must travel by boat, bus, train,...

Kids will enjoy this book and have lots of fun laughing at some animal jokes!

Von Bestsellerautor Luis Sepúlveda: Eine Liebeserklärung an die LangsamkeitLuis Sepúlveda hat ein kleines Wunder vollbracht. Seine hinreißende Liebeserklärung an die Langsamkeit und an die Poesie der Natur macht glücklich: Er erzählt die Geschichte einer kleinen wissbegierigen Schnecke, die...

Ever wonder why there’s a little pink eraser on every pencil? Find out in this funny, clever picture book that tells the true story of how Pencil and Eraser became the best of friends. When Pencil draws on the pages of this book, Eraser erases parts of Pencil’s work, and the book itself...

Okyanusu aşmaya çalışırken, dökülen petrolden zehirlenen genç martı Kengah, son kalan gücüyle karaya ulaşmayı ve orada yumurtlamayı başarır. Kengah, ölmeden önce, içinde yavrusunun bulunduğu yumurtayı kedi Zorba'ya emanet eder ve ondan üç konuda söz ister. Zorba, yumurtayı...

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil...

Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to confront fundamental questions about making art in...

Since the 1980s, a prolific "second wave" of Chicano/a writers and artists has tremendously expanded the range of genres and subject matter in Chicano/a literature and art. Building on the pioneering work of their predecessors, whose artistic creations were often tied to political activism and the civil...

The light and sound of the motion picture, once perceived, are a gateway to a multisensory experience of the spectator. Moving beyond the oft-discussed perceptual elements of vision and hearing, The Multisensory Film Experience analyses temperature, pain, and balance in order to argue that it is...

Robert Rodriguez stands alone as the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today, whose work has single-handedly brought U.S. Latino filmmaking into the mainstream of twenty-first-century global cinema. Rodriguez is a prolific (eighteen films in twenty-one years) and all-encompassing filmmaker who has...

Javier Lira, el Tarzán; Luis Torres, el Gallo, el Piri, el Burro Prieto, el Gran Silverio; y una mujer, la Monina, la Cotorra… son delincuentes, han cometido delitos una y otra vez, conocen la cárcel tanto como conocen las cantinas, burdeles, billares, hoteluchos de la Ciudad de México y, sobre...