Resultaten voor "Glenn Alan Cheney"

Notions from a Time of Peril

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Brief essays by Glenn Alan Cheney, written for The Day and The Norwich Times between January 2020 and August 2021. Cheney discusses wide variety of to... Lees meer

To the Ends of the Earth

Maria Barbagallo Msc

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sr. Maria Barbagallo, MSC, lived through some of the most turbulent times of the 20th century. Born in Italy during World War II and the reign of Muss... Lees meer

Quilombo dos Palmares

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Paperback | Engels
• The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th century. With a population estimated at 20,000 or more, ... Lees meer

Passion in an Improper Place

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• A small family ventures up the Amazon, and then up a tributary, and then another, with The Gumball King. They soon get into lots of trouble with gold ... Lees meer

Thanksgiving

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Paperback | Engels
• Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courag... Lees meer

His Hands on Earth

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Portraits of missionary sisters as they work in some of the most difficulty, dangerous, and turbulent parts of the world in the 20th and 21st centurie... Lees meer

Journey on the Estrada Real

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains of Minas Gerais to the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Pa... Lees meer

Just a Bunch of Facts

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Just a Bunch of Facts is the only book that answers such questions as: How many beehives equal the weight of one space shuttle? How many Americans can... Lees meer

Carefully Everywhere Descending

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• A collection of paintings, photography, and design by Glenn Alan Cheney with a foreword that explores his development through genres in a career that ... Lees meer

Thanksgiving

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It's about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courag... Lees meer

Lurking Doubt

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Brief passages on the nature, causes, effects, history, and reform of incarceration. Among the topics are prison conditions, effect on prisoners and f... Lees meer

Concerto for Body and Soul

Rubem Alves

• Hardcover | Engels
• Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovine wisdom, magnolias, ants, stepmothers, fiddles, deat... Lees meer

Tender Returns

Rubem Alves

• Hardcover | Engels
• Collected short essays by Brazilian theologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Rubem Alves. Alves is one of the most popular and beloved writers in Br... Lees meer

Quilombo dos Palmares

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An additional chapter discusses the myths and values emanat... Lees meer

The Size Switch

Monteiro Lobato

• Hardcover | Engels
• A translation of Monteiro Lobato's "A Chave do Tamanho." Though on one level a children's novel, the book also carries deep socio-political undertones... Lees meer

Ex Cathedra

Glenn Alan Cheney, Rachel Kopit, Luciana Tanure

• Hardcover | Engels
• Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages. Most have never before appeared in English. Transla... Lees meer

Trio in A-Minor

• Hardcover | Engels
• Brazilian writer Machado de Assis is considered one of the greatest contributors to world literature. His work not only pushes the bounds of fiction b... Lees meer

Pensamentos

Rubem Alves

• Hardcover | Engels
• Rubem Alves was a theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst, professor, writer, and just plain old nice guy. His thoughts and ideas put so much of life i... Lees meer

A Cheney Sampler

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Hardcover | Engels
• Excerpts from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations by Glenn Alan Cheney, including Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America, Love an... Lees meer

The Best Chronicles of Rubem Alves

Rubem Alves

• Hardcover | Engels
• A collection of short essays by Brazil's most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, writer and professor, Rubem Alves, who died in 2014. Th... Lees meer

Notions from a Time of Peril

Glenn Alan Cheney

• Paperback | Engels
• A collection of brief essays from Glenn Alan Cheney's newspaper columns. Topics relate to the environment, the Covid pandemic, the human condition, re... Lees meer