At the beginning of the 20th century, two brothers, Wilbur and Orville, while running a bicycle store in Ohio, U.S.A., built a device capable of powered flight, with crew members. At the beginning of the century they made hundreds of attempts; then they corrected and came up with a new version. By 1903 they were already seeing results; they...
Set in a small Nebraska town in the late 19th century, the book relates a story of immigration and survival. The central figure is Alexandra, a courageous young woman who is in charge of the family. With her determination, intelligence and hard work, she succeeds in managing the land, defying social conventions about the role of women. The...
"King Lear" is one of the greatest and important tragedies by the Bard of Avon. King Lear, tormented by old age and greed, decides to divide his kingdom into three amongst his daughters. He does this through a test that makes them see how much he loves each one. Blinded by pride, Lear will immerse himself in a story full of treachery and...
Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships. His heroes...
Byung-Chul Han (Seoul, 1959) studied philosophy at the University of Freiburg, German literature and theology at the University of Munich. In 1994 he received his doctorate in Freiburg with a thesis on Martin Heidegger. He is the author of more than twenty books.
After his famous essays of negative criticism of the neo-liberal regime,...
The aim of this small and magnificent book is to make accessible to everyone the essential truths about Purgatory according to the doctrine of the Catholic Church. In addition to the good explanation, it gathers an interview that the author, a French nun, Sister Emmanuel, made directly to Maria Simma (1915-2004), the well-known Austrian mystic...
Book that approaches with great fidelity to the spirituality of Therese of the Child Jesus. It summarizes the life of trust, abandonment and love of the saint.
Well written and very suggestive. Highly recommended to people who seek the Lord in their ordinary occupations. At the end it encourages to consecrate oneself to Merciful Love as...
The title does justice to the content of the book: it is a dispassionate and detailed historical account of the conflict between Athens and Sparta, which took place in the years 431-404 BC, and which extended from all over Greece, to Sicily, all the towns of the Ionian Sea, reaching as far as the Hellespont (Bosphorus Strait and the Dardanelles...
The story of Ivan Denisovich, a fictional prisoner falsely accused of spying for the enemy, when he was captured by the Germans in World War II. The story is very similar to the one the author himself suffered.
The book describes the life of political prisoners (zeks) in the camps, forced to work in inhumane conditions as slaves in the...
The book is densely packed with explanations about Catholic teaching on contraception, marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and infertility treatment. Chapter 1 (pages 23-26) contains a section on Natural Family Planning, pointing out that NFP is not "Catholic birth control" but a school of self mastery.
The chapters are authored by...
