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  • The Spirit Of Spain
    Harold Raley
    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. ...
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    26,63 €

  • The Leprechaun Who Was Not a Mouse
    Maureen Kellar-Kirby / Maureen Kirby / Molly O’Connor / Harold Raley
    When a leprechaun is mistaken for a mouse a little boy rushes to his rescue and teaches us about loyalty, love, sharing and caring. This Childrens Story Book is designed for bedtime reading. ...
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    15,26 €

  • 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...
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    23,97 €

  • Morty El Autobús de la Calle Morton
    Molly O’Connor / Harold Raley
    ¿Una historia con la que un niño puede relacionarse porque qué niño nunca ha tenido el hipo?Sus pobres pasajeros son insocuidos sobre cuando Morty mortificado tiene el 'hipo'. ¿Cómo superará la vergüenza?Una vez resuelto, todo es perdonado.  Un libro de cuentos ilustrados seguramente complace a los lectores jóvenes.Todos los días jóvenes y viejos viajan en autobús. Entra en la ...
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    21,07 €

  • Travor Tractor
    Molly O’Connor / Harold Raley
    El granjero Stone leyó el cartel que estaba encima de Trevor. 'TRACTOR PERFECTO PARA TODO TIPO DE TRABAJO'.  Trevor le dio una vuelta al Granjero Stone, vueltas y vueltas. Su pintura roja destellaba y sus faros brillaban. El Granjero Stone compró a Trevor. Trevor parpadeó sus luces -- estuvo tan feliz. ...
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    17,92 €

  • Trevor Tracteur
    Molly O’Connor / Harold Raley
    Trevor Tracteur adorait sa maison dans une ferme laitière. Il était fier de tout le travail important qu’il pouvait faire. Puis quelque chose de terrible s’est produit qui a tout changé. Trevor travaillerait-il un jour à nouveau? ...
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    17,92 €

  • 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...
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    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 ...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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 ...
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    20,07 €

  • Points of Light
    Harold Raley
    The real challenge for me, used as I was to academic and fiction writing, was the necessary brevity of the essays. The discipline of having to compress my ideas into a finite word count troubled me at first. Later, however, I was grateful for the experience because it forced me to get to the point and stay strictly on task. Instead of grumbling, I came to relish the challenge a...
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    17,50 €

  • Adventures in Language
    Harold Raley
    These articles on the facts, fictions, and oddities of English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, and several other languages reflect several decades spent as a writer and professor of foreign languages, English, humanities, and philosophy. The articles in this volume consist of newspaper columns published over a period of several years.Although there are thematic threads that li...
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    17,54 €

  • The Prodigal
    Harold Raley
    In the seafaring tradition of Defoe and Sabatini, The Prodigal is a tale of the shipwreck and struggle for survival of a young American ship’s carpenter who escapes one captivity only to fall into more dangerous circumstances. The story unfolds as he makes his way to Boston, then to Jamaica, Mexico, Cuba, Africa, and back with adventures at each point. At critical moments a mys...
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    17,82 €

  • Barefoot On A Frosty Morn
    Harold Raley
    Barefoot on a Frosty Morn is a literary and genealogical tapestry of several families over three centuries. The genealogical threads stretch back to England and France and unfold in step with America's continental expansion. The families crisscross north, south, and west as the tapestry grows in richness and complexity. A final episode sheds light on the earliest roots of t...
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    19,52 €