Inicio > Humanidades > Historia > Historia general y mundial > The Spirit Of Spain
The Spirit Of Spain

The Spirit Of Spain

Harold Raley

26,63 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
TotalRecall Publications
Año de edición:
2023
Materia
Historia general y mundial
ISBN:
9781648833137
26,63 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Añadir a favoritos
Sobre IBD

IntroductionFor centuries Spain has been a country foreigners love to hate and Spaniards hate to love. Yet visitors swarm to it by the millions, seduced by the very things they publicly decry. It may be the most visited and most reviled country in modern times. Few nations have been more studied and probably none more persistently misunderstood.

Artículos relacionados

  • The life of Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1608 - 1666
    H C Fanshawe
    Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), was a diplomat, poet and linguist. As Ambassador to Spain and Portugal he negotiated the marriage of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. He was also acclaimed for his poetry and his translations of Latin and European works such as the Lusiads by Luis de Camoes and Il Pastor Fido (the Faithful Shepherd) by Giovanni Battista Guarini. Sir Richar...
    Disponible

    17,51 €

  • The Essays of Montaigne
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” The Essays of Montaigne are a collection of writings from the late 16th century. Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness and honesty. The essays are surprisingly modern and have served as foundational texts for much of Western philosophy and cu...
  • Uniforms of Russian Army during the years 1825-1855. Vol. 3
    Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov / Mark Conrad
    This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Nicolas Ist era, and are about the uniforms cavalry in use from 1825 to 1855. Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniform...
    Disponible

    52,04 €

  • Archaeology and Entomology in the Eastern Mediterranean
    Eva Panagiotakopulu
    ...
    Disponible

    74,97 €

  • Luoghi e Architetture della Transizione
    Maria Antonietta Breda
    I sistemi difensivi di confine e la protezione antiaerea nelle città. Storia conservazione riuso / Border defense system and air raid protection in the cities. History conservation reuseThis book collects the papers presented at the Second International Congress on Conoscenza e valorizzazione delle opere militari moderne - Knowledge and development of modern military structures...
    Disponible

    139,91 €

  • Patrons of Paleontology
    Jane P Davidson
    In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exp...

Otros libros del autor

  • Wit and Wisdom
    Harold Raley
    Many entries in this book are my creations; others are gleanings and adaptations from several languages and cultures. All resonate to my experience.Aphorisms, witticisms, moral tales, and similar insights are akin to philosophy but with two main differences: first, whereas philosophy reaches a point after lengthy preliminaries, aphorisms and their relatives begin with the point...
    Disponible

    23,97 €

  • Tides Of Fortune
    Harold Raley
    These are tales of fortune and forfeiture, happiness and hazard, love and deceit. Some stories are set in specific times and places but not confined to them. Others arise in the mere vastness of the world and belong anywhere applicable or nowhere definitive. For wherever there is human life, there are the yearnings, dreams, possibilities and impossibilities we call tales and st...
    Disponible

    22,57 €

  • TATTLETALEs
    Harold Raley
    A celebrated philosopher once said that in order to understand anything human we must tell a story. He spoke a profound truth, and it is important to understand some of its implications. Art, including musical and literary art, tells us very little about what we are. That kind of information is the business of science, which teaches that we are mammalian animals, first cousins ...
    Disponible

    22,34 €

  • Radical and Empirical Reality
    Harold Raley
    The essays and lectures that comprise this book reflect decades of work in the United States, Spain, and Spanish America. In no particular chronological sequence, these writings cluster in thematic unity around the innovative concepts of the shared vision of philosophers Ortega y Gasset and Julián Marías. These include, among others, human life as the radical reality, the indis...
    Disponible

    35,81 €

  • Memories of Appalachia
    Harold Raley
    No one can write our narrative for us, and no one should. For we are the novelists of ourselves, the composers of our personal melody of life. Daily we add pages to our story or notes to our song. Animals, our only flesh and blood companions in this world, are what they are by Nature’s decree, but we humans are who we become primarily by our personal choices. This means that of...
    Disponible

    19,74 €

  • Immortal Destiny
    Harold Raley
    Immortal Destiny is the third of a trilogy of books on immortality. In The Light of Eden (2008) Raley invites the reader to a spiritual and intellectual feast featuring the mystery and reality of personhood and culminating in a new theory of human life. A radically new theory of life calls for a radically new theology, the main concepts and implications of which Raley explores ...
    Disponible

    20,07 €