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  • To the Ends of the Earth
    Sr. Maria Barbagallo MSC / Glenn Alan Cheney / Michael L. Bates
    Sr. Maria Barbagallo, MSC,  lived through some of the most turbulent times of the 20th century. Born in Italy during World War II and the reign of Mussolini, she became a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus shortly before the Vatican II Council changed the focus of the Church and the orientation of its religious orders. Sr. Maria spent the 1970s in Central America. I...
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    25,19 €

  • The Best Chronicles of Rubem Alves
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    A collection of short essays by Brazil's most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, writer and professor, Rubem Alves, who died in 2014. The foreword is by his daughter, Raquel Alves, and the Introduction is by Brazilian culture critic Ana Lessa-Schmidt.Alves writes of deep topics in simple, pleasant style. He sees depths in popcorn, gardening, politics, old age,...
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    24,34 €

  • Quilombo dos Palmares
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An additional chapter discusses the myths and values emanating from Palmares. Another chapter explores the history and current problems of Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, a present-day quilombo. ...
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    29,59 €

  • Wanderings 2025
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Paintings, drawings, photographs and ceramics by Norwich Arts Center artists Karen Bartone, Glynis J. Blanker, Virginia Chase, Glenn Alan Cheney, Alison Ciarlante, Karen Coombs, Rita Dawley, Mark Dixon, Carol Dunn, Joyce E. Greene, Richard Paul Hoyer, Sandra Jeknavorian, Susan Scott Kenney, Melody Knight Leary, Gabe Lipman, Susan Masse, Howard McCalebb, Michael McCarter, Susan ...
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    21,06 €

  • The Reform of Nature
    Monteiro Lobato / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Monteiro Lobato is one of Brazil’s most popular and beloved writers. He is best known for his series of imaginative children’s books about Yellow Woodpecker Farm, or, as they say in Brazil, Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. The Reform of Nature is a novella that can be appreciated by children and grownups. Their reasons would be different, but both are astonished by the crazy creativit...
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    9,89 €

  • Wanderings 2024
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, and other artwork by 31 Connecticut artists associated with Norwich Arts Center: Gabriela Aisenberg, Glynis J. Blanker, Michael David Brathwaite, Virginia Chase, Glenn Alan Cheney, Karen Coombs, Rita Dawley, Mark Dixon, Michael Dubenetsky, Carol Dunn, Richard Paul Hoyer, Susan Scott Kenney, Melody Knight Leary, Gerlinde Lehner, Ralph...
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    27,34 €

  • Carefully Everywhere Descending
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    A collection of paintings, photography, and design by Glenn Alan Cheney with a foreword that explores his development through genres in a career that has stretched over the course of half a century. ...
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    30,68 €

  • On Time and Eternity
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Rubem Alves takes a friendly but philosophical look at the stages of life--an unusual baptism, a child’s belief in the unseen, adolescent rebellion, teens with exceptional vision, male sexuality, old age, appreciation of nature and beauty, and much more. 3 ...
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    26,49 €

  • Concerto for Body and Soul
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovine wisdom, magnolias, ants, stepmothers, fiddles, death, hope, and a whole lot more. Rubem Alves is one of Brazil's msot beloved writers, a theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and professor who sounds like your favorite uncle musing at the kitchen table.  3 ...
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    25,39 €

  • Pensamentos
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Rubem Alves was a theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst, professor, writer, and just plain old nice guy. His thoughts and ideas put so much of life in new perspective. He writes on life, death, sex, love, childhood, popcorn, music, art, literature, mythology, trees...and so much more. Pensamentos is a collection of brief excerpts from his many writings. Every page leaves the r...
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    19,80 €

  • Just a Bunch of Facts
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Just a Bunch of Facts is the only book that answers such questions as:How many beehives equal the weight of one space shuttle?How many Americans can’t vote because they’ve been in jail?Why would you not want Oscar the Cat to sleep on your bed?What did Crown Prince Philip of France’s horse trip over?What is Hell Money?Who was the first cat in space and where was she from?Who sai...
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    28,50 €

  • Trio in A-Minor
    Ana Lessa-Schmidt / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brazilian writer Machado de Assis is considered one of the greatest contributors to world literature. His work not only pushes the bounds of fiction but spans a crucial period in Brazilian history. In his early years, he set his stories in the New World version of Portugal’s rigid traditional social structure. His characters worked out their frivolous romantic concerns with exc...
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    26,90 €

  • Lurking Doubt
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brief passages on the nature, causes, effects, history, and reform of incarceration. Among the topics are prison conditions, effect on prisoners and families, effectiveness of solitary confinement, famous prison breaks, education in prisons, societal benefits, quotes, and much more.  ...
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    17,52 €

  • His Hands on Earth
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Portraits of missionary sisters as they work in some of the most difficulty, dangerous, and turbulent parts of the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Central America during the revolutionary period. Northern Mexico during the migration to the United States. Swaziland during the AIDS epidemic. Italy during the aftermath of World War II. Argentina during the military regime. B...
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    25,15 €

  • Journey on the Estrada Real
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains of Minas Gerais to the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, most of it still unpaved, winding through historic Baroque cities such as Congonhas, Ouro Preto, Serro, and, at the northern end, Diamantina.As the 20th century rolled over into the 21st, life al...
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    26,19 €

  • Tender Returns
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Collected short essays by Brazilian theologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Rubem Alves. Alves is one of the most popular and beloved writers in Brazil. He dives deeply into such topics as love, death, life, nature, society, history, sanity, old age, religion, and economics. He also goes into the symbolism of such commonplace things as popcorn, trees, violins, gardens, manur...
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    24,21 €

  • Thanksgiving
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It’s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage. They bowed their heads to give thanks. The Pilgrims’ journey began as a joint venture of business and religion, but it soon became a matter of survival. With 102 men, women, and children packed into a dim, damp space below the ...
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    29,75 €

  • Ex Cathedra
    Glenn Alan Cheney / Luciana Tanure / Rachel Kopit
    Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages. Most have never before appeared in English. Translators include Laura Cade Brown, Krista Brune, David George, Linda Ledford-Miller, Ana Lessa-Schmidt, Nelson López Rojas, John Maddox, Adam Morris, Rex P. Nielson, Leila Osman, Marissel Hernández Romero, Steven K. Smith, Lisandra So...
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    31,40 €

  • Quilombo dos Palmares
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th century. With a population estimated at 20,000 or more, it had a quasi-parliamentary government, egalitarian society, and a massive mountaintop citadel fortress. It was at almost constant war with the largest empires on earth. It was finally overrun in 1694. Not a single artifact remai...
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    18,87 €