LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rubem alves

11 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rubem alves

  • 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 €

  • Sobre Demônios e Pecados
    Rubem Alves
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    42,34 €

  • O decreto da alegria
    Rubem Alves
    Em um reino, não muito distante, o rei assina um decreto determinando que todos os seus súditos têm de ser alegres. Assim, as tristezas procuram outro lugar para morar. Mas será possível viver sem tristeza alguma? Vendo o caos se instaurar, uma menina, inconformada por não poder mais ter lembranças tristes e queridas, resolve ir atrás de suas mágoas. Nessa busca, ela entende qu...
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    26,52 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Tomorrow’s Child
    Rubem A. Alves / RUBEM ALVES
    All theories of social change, says Alves, rest squarely on the economic and structural forces operative in society at any given moment in history. Thus many of the proposals offered by today’s futurologists fall considerably short of social revolution. They are, in effect, extrapolations from the functional matrix of our society. Like the dinosaurs who ''disappeared not beca...
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    27,54 €

  • Poet, the Warrior, the Prophet
    Rubem A. Alves
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Emily Dickinson, Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud and the 'Tao Te Ching' are just some of the influences on this remarkable and beautiful book, which brings poetry - the language of what it is not possible to say - to bear on theology, in such a way that it changed the author’s life. Suddenly, like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, Alves found himsel...
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    40,78 €

  • Protestantism and Repression
    Rubem A. Alves / Rubem AAlves / John Drury
    Over the last twenty years, incredible changes have taken place in the Presbyterian Church of Brazil. In 1959, on the occasion of its centennial celebrations, this church was acclaimed as the outstanding success story of Protestantism in Latin America; it was hailed for its vitality and for the role it seemed destined to play in the life of that nation. Today, after fifteen yea...
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    27,77 €

  • I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body
    Rubem Alves
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    13,20 €