« John, hijo de John posee el alcance emocional y la empatía de sus libros anteriores, pero esta novela es especial: tiene urgencia, inmediatez, un deslumbrante sentido del lugar y el dramatismo de una emoción feroz, reprimida, oculta...
A sus quince años, Mungo, un adolescente con una sensibilidad diferente al resto de los chicos del vecindario, vive en un barrio obrero del Glasgow de la era post-Thatcher, en el seno de una familia protestante: sin padre, con una madre alcoh&oacut...
A principios de los ochenta, Glasgow agoniza: la que fuera una próspera ciudad minera se ve ahora azotada por las políticas de Thatcher, que empujan a las familias al desempleo y el desaliento. Agnes Bain es una mujer bellísima y sin...
En Cal creia que podria fugir del seu pare, en John, deixar enrere l?illa de Harris i la seva comunitat tancada per perseguir els seus somnis. Però, just després de graduar-se en belles arts a Edimburg, es veu obligat a tornar a casa i repre...
En Mungo, de família protestant, i en James, de família catòlica, viuen atrapats entre dos barris de Glasgow, on els joves de classe treballadora s?enfronten en baralles territorials per defensar la seva reputació. Haurien de...
Als anys vuitanta a Glasgow, antigament una ciutat minera pròspera, les polítiques de Thatcher fan disparar la desocupació i les famílies es veuen obligades a fer filigranes per sobreviure. L?Agnes Bain és una dona sense...
Más de medio millón de personas han recurrido La lectura eficaz de la Biblia para comprender la Biblia en toda su plenitud. Esta tercera edición presenta una serie de revisiones importantes de acuerdo con los más recientes estu...
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"The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine...
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For years, Douglas Stuart's Old Testament Exegesis has been one of the most popular ways to learn how to perform exegesisâthe science and art of interpreting biblical texts properly for understanding as well as proclamation. This...
' Shuggie Bain means so much to me. It is such a powerfully written story . . I love a heartbreak book but there is so much love within this one, particularly between Shuggie and his mother Agnes.' - Dua Lipa
A heart-wrenchingly moving novel set in Glasgow during the Thatcher years, Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy's doomed attempt to save his proud, alcoholic mother from her addiction.
Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh Shuggie Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatchers policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and...
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For the last sixty years, American foreign and defense policymaking has been dominated by a network of institutions created by one piece of legislation--the 1947 National Security Act. This is the definitive study of the intense political and bureaucratic...