Biografía: general

CENTENARI JOAN OLIVER «PERE QUART» (1899-1999)

Opuscle commemoratiu del centenari del naixement de Joan Oliver, que combina les aportacions de diversos estudiosos sobre la vida i l'obra de l'autor amb una se lecció dels seus textos, poètics i en prosa, una nota biogràfica, bibliografia, i les traduccions i treballs discogràfics que s'han fet sobre l'obra de Joan Oli ver.

CRONOLOGÍA DE JOSE MARÍA ESCRIVÁ Y ALBÁS . (MADRID, 1927-1936) (MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ, SANTIAGO / ALVA, INMACULADA / COMA, M.ª JESÚS / GONZÁLEZ GULLÓN, JOSÉ LUIS / ZAFRA MOLINA, RAFAEL)

José María Escrivá llega a Madrid en 1927. Al año siguiente funda el Opus Dei, y en menos de diez años es ya un sacerdote conocido en buena parte de los ambientes eclesiásticos y universitarios de la capital española. Su actividad se describe en este libro día a día, evento a evento: sucesos que hilvanaron su vida, personas con quienes mantuvo un trato frecuente o esporádico, lugares que frecuentó y ocupaciones desarrolladas al servicio de los demás para extender el mensaje cristiano de la Obra. Los editores ofrecen este estudio con la intención de facilitar a los lectores una mayor aproximación a una destacada figura de la Iglesia católica en el siglo XX.

FIGURA CON PAISAJE. HOMENAJE A FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ BERNÁLDEZ (MONTES DEL OLMO, CARLOS / LEVASSOR RICHE, CATHERINE / CASADO DE OTAOLA, SANTOS / CUENCA FERNÁNDEZ, ANA)

Este libro ofrece un completo panorama sobre la vida y la obra de Fernando González Bernáldez a través del recuerdo de sus amigos y discípulos, del comentario de ecólogos actuales sobre sus principales líneas de trabajo y de una selección de su propia obra. Todo ello acompañado de abundante material gráfico, en su mayoría original del propio González Bernáldez, quien fue también un extraordinario dibujante. Figura con paisajes es un homenaje a un científico que ha sido unánimemente reconocido como una figura fundamental en el estudio y la conservación de la naturaleza en España.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR HARRY SMITH, BARONET OF ALIWAL ON TH (SMITH, GEORGE CHARLES MOORE/SMITH, HARRY GEORGE WAKELYN)

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PAST MY CELL-BY DATE (GRAHAM, TOM)

Thomas Graham was born on the wrong side of the tracks in Gateshead in 1939. He never knew his real father but his mother did her best and life wasn?t too bad until George, his violent ?new father? arrived on the scene.?Tom describes himself at the time as "an impotent pygmy pitted against a powerful evil giant". Things went from bad to worse and it wasn?t long before he was sent to St Gilberts approved school, run by Christian Brothers, who tortured and brutalised him and many others, for no other reason than to slake their sadistic thirst. ?Beat the child to save his soul? was the school?s motto. It was during this time that he found he excelled at sport and, in particular, boxing. All his opponents were ?George?, against whom one day he would get his revenge. At the same time Tom discovered literature and found he had a natural aptitude for writing. Fuelled by excesses of alcohol, however, crime increasingly became a way of life and he spent approximately 35 years in a variety of criminal institutions, rubbing shoulders with some of the most dangerous criminals of our times: Frank Mitchell, the mad axe

A NARRATIVE OF SOME OF THE LORD’S DEALINGS WITH GEORGE MLLER (MLLER, GEORGE)

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HISTORY OF THE MISSION HOUSE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED ST (DURBOROW, SAMUEL)

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THE LIFE OF OLIVER ELLSWORTH (BROWN, WILLIAM GARROTT)

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DAMPIER’S VOYAGES (MASEFIELD, JOHN/DAMPIER, WILLIAM)

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LIFE OF DAVID S. TERRY (WAGSTAFF, ALEXANDER E.)

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WATERLOO LECTURES (CHESNEY, CHARLES CORNWALLIS)

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DAHCOTAH (KIRKLAND, CAROLINE MATILDA/EASTMAN, SETH/EASTMAN, MARY HENDERSON)

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THE BUSHRANGERS (BONWICK,JAMES)

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SPEECHES OF THE RT. HON. W.E. GLADSTONE, M.P (GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART/LUCY, HENRY WILLIAM)

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