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  • Rosaries, Reading, Secrets
    Anita Mathias
    Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India is a lyrical account of Anita Mathias’s turbulent Roman Catholic childhood in India.Mathias grew up in Jamshedpur, 'The Steel City,' a company town benevolently run by the Zoroastrians of Tata Steel. The Catholic church, run by American Jesuits, provided an all-encompassing world. In a pre-TV world, visiting friends was ...
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    17,90 €

  • The Story of Dirk Willems
    Anita Mathias
    The religious wars of the Reformation had heroes and villains. There were giants like Luther and Calvin, and quieter unsung heroes. Five hundred years later, one of these stands out: the Dutch Anabaptist, Dirk Willems, who sacrificed his life to save his enemy.A lavishly illustrated edition. ...
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    7,51 €

  • Francesco, Artist of Florence
    Anita Mathias
    In this lavishly illustrated book by Anita Mathias, Francesco, artist of Florence, creates magic in pietre dure, inlaying precious stones in marble in life-like 'paintings.' While he works, placing lapis lazuli birds on clocks, and jade dragonflies on vases, he is purely happy.However, he must sell his art to support his family.Francesco, who is incorrigibly soft-hearted, canno...
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    11,29 €

  • Wandering Between Two Worlds
    Anita Mathias
    In wide-ranging lyrical, prize-winning essays, Anita Mathias writes of her naughty Catholic childhood in Jamshedpur, India; her large, eccentric family in Mangalore, a seacoast town converted by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century; her rebellion and atheism as a teenager at St. Mary’s Convent, Nainital, her Himalayan boarding school, run by German missionary nuns; and her a...
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    11,07 €