Mas Alla Del Codigo Da Vinci / Beyond the Da Vinci Code

From feudalism to the rise of cities, this book is a guide to the secrets and mysteries of the medieval world. It explores the plight of serfs, the bravery of the knights-errant, the frustrated ventures that were the Crusades, the romanticism of courtly love, and a number of other topics in an engaging style. The book also focuses on the role the Catholic Church played during the Middle Ages—often for ill—examining indulgences, the Inquisition, and the motivation for the construction of gothic cathedrals. Desde el feudalismo hasta el surgimiento de las ciudades, este libro es una guía de ...

In eve of the presidential change-over, the banking is nationalized, and by means of a President's decree, the currency is devaluated in more than a hundred percent, the inflation goes up to three digits and the Mexicans' savings in "mexdollars" become pesos with little value. By the end of that six years governmental period, in which the good administration of the oil abundance was proclaimed, the country was in fact plundered and left with empty arks. This was the scenario of Mexico in 1982 and the one that serves as a background for the fictitious characters of "State Crime," a novel where ...

La presente seleccion se centra en la Estoria de Espana y la General Estoria, constituye un recorrido por pasajes representativos del quehacer historico grafico alfonsino: desde la refundicion de antiguas cronicas a relatos biblicos y de mitologia clasica.

In this bold novel that shatters the barriers between fiction and reality, the dark object of narrator Chris's desire is Dick, a well-known theorist who refuses to answer her letters. Chris tenaciously continues to pursue him nonetheless, eventually traveling across the country. The passion-fueled journey pushes the protagonist to a state of madness that moves her away from a life in the shadow of her successful husband and brings her to question the very foundation of her femininity. Chris's compulsive love letters act as essays, and a moment arrives when the letters are in and of themselves ...

Tres personas, tres cumpleaños, tres puntos de inflexión... Valerie Wyatt es la reina de la elegancia y el buen gusto. Desde que se divorció, hace ya algún tiempo, ha trabajado duro para convertirse en una célebre decoradora. Ahora tiene su propio programa de televisión y parece que las cosas no podrían irle mejor. No obstante, ni la fama ni el dinero ni su magnífico físico son suficientes para eludir una verdad aterradora: pronto tendrá sesenta años. El destino quiso que ella y su hija compartieran fecha de cumpleaños. A punto de cumplir los treinta, April ha llegado a la cima...