"Overview of the Jesuit missions among the Guarani stresses everyday life. Beginning with Tupai-Guaranai life at the time of the conquest, author traces the missions through their 'heroic age' (1609-3
Parece una chiquilla cualquiera, vestida con una tunica liviana que adorna su cuerpo hermoso y esconde el brazo derecho mutilado; su rostro ensimismado de pronto destaca entre las ramas verdes de los
La tia abuela Irene cumplia noventa y cinco anos, y su familia le habia comprado el regalo perfecto: un jarron del Antiguo Egipto. ?Alguna vez se toparon con una pieza tan valiosa? Tenia piedras incru
Reviews the nature and causes of male and female sexual dysfunctions, and describes and portrays the various erotic techniques and exercises employed in sex therapy.
Provides advice for teens on how to deal with parents, siblings, sharing a home, parental reactions to friends and to school, family get-togethers, and vacations, and suggests right and wrong ways to
The best-selling author of The Night Manager and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy returns to the complex and dangerous world of a British spymaster, in a haunting and suspenseful tale of international esp
Examines the nature of water, the water cycle, the effects of water on nature, water conservation, and related topics through puzzles, experiments, and games.
A penetrating analysis of the Mexican psyche, as fresh and challenging today as when first written over 40 years ago by a Mexican-born intellectual and internationally acclaimed scholar, is a passiona
A young couple survives World War II and rebuilds their lives by benevolently purchasing family jewels from war survivors and beginning their own gem business. By the author of No Greater Love. 1,000,
"A Dark-Hunter on a dangerous mission finds his life and love on the line when he meets Dangereuse St. Richard, a beautiful and distracting Dark-Hunter who is out to prevent him from carrying out his
Thirteen-year-old Marta decides to write a diary about the end of the school year, life with parents who do not understand her, a brother she cannot stand, and her grandmother, and her summer search f
In exile from her native Russia, Zoya, a cousin to the czar, survives the century's disasters as she moves from fortune to fortune and from love to new love
A collection of articles, letters, remembrances of conversations, and other writings by one of Mexico's most distinguished journalists, first published in 1986, serves to remind the reader the place i
When the Supreme Court's most liberal and most conservative justices are gunned down, law student Darby Shaw builds a case against a powerful suspect, whose threats send her underground. By the author
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nat
Two strangers from very different worlds--Peter Haskell, the president of a major pharmaceutical empire, and Olivia Thatcher, the wife of a famous senator--find their lives forever altered by five day
Every day we use our mobiles and computers to communicate, but ironically we are losing touch with face-to-face talk. Catherine Blyth reveals the endless possibilities of conversation if you break the
Armed with the latest gifts of advanced technology, a California scientist, a ruthless corporation agent, and a mercenary hunter face the dangers of the Congo jungle in search of the diamonds of the l
Presents the story of a woman whose love for Jenofonte pushed her to abandon her village and accompany him with an army of a thousand during one of the most difficult war campaigns in ancient Greece.
