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  • Aesop's Fables

    With a Life of Aesop

    by John E. Keller, L. Clark Keating ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Languages
    In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted many times in the next three centuries and carried to the New World, it brought to Spanish letters a cornucopia of Aesopic fables, oriental ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru

    by Pablo Joseph de Arriaga ...
    Translated by L. Clark Keating ...
    Long recognized as a classic account of the early Spanish efforts to convert the Indians of Peru, Father De Arriaga's book, originally published in 1621, has become comparatively rare even in its Spanish editions. This translation now makes available for the first time in English a unique record of the customs and religious practices that prevailed after the Spanish conquest.In his book, which was ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Audubon

    The Kentucky Years

    by L. Clark Keating ...
    Series series Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
    Kentucky attracted an amazing variety of would-be settlers in pioneer days, but none with brighter talent than John James Audubon. Although his years in the state came long before publication of the monumental Birds of America, he was already painting the scenes from nature that were to make him famous.Audubon: The Kentucky Years is the captivating account of Audubon's sojourn in Kentucky from his ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Critic of Civilization

    Georges Duhamel and His Writings

    by L. Clark Keating ...
    As one of the outstanding minds of France, the career of George Duhamel reflects the universal range of his interests. A physician turned poet, playwright, novelist, publicist, critic, and world traveler, Duhamel for half a century has sought as a liberal humanist to defend the moral and aesthetic values of Western civilization against the encroachment of a dehumanizing machine age.Duhamel first ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Book of Count Lucanor and Patronio

    A Translation of Don Juan Manuel's El Conde Lucanor

    by Juan Manuel ...
    Translated by John E. Keller, L. Clark Keating ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in Romance Languages
    Don Juan Manuel, nephew of King Alfonso X, The Wise, knew well the appeal of exempla (moralized tales), which he believed should entertain if they were to provide ways and means for solving life's problems. His fourteenth-century book, known as El Conde lucanor, is considered by many to be the purest Spanish prose before the immortal Don Quixote of Cervantes written two centuries later. He found ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Dogs of God

    Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors

    by James Reston Jr. ...
    From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort to consolidate its own burgeoning power by throwing off the yoke of the Vatican. By waging war on ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume One [Includes The Book of Her Life, Spiritual Testimonies and the Soliloquies]

    by St. Teresa of Avila, Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, Otilio Rodriguez, OCD ...
    Series Book 1 - The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila
    This is the second edition of Volume One of The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, first woman doctor of the church. The translators have taken full advantage of all that recent scholarship has contributed to a better understanding of Teresa and her writings. This volume includes her first major work, The Book of Her Life, and two of her shorter works, the Spiritual Testimonies and the ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, Volume Three

    by St. Teresa of Avila, Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D. ...
    Series series The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila
    In 1573, while staying in Salamanca to assist her nuns in the task of establishing one of her seventeen monasteries, Teresa began composing the story of their foundation. The Book of Her Foundations comprises the major portion of Volume Three. This book not only tells the story of the establishment of her monasteries but, characteristic of Teresa, digresses into counsels on prayer, love, ... Read more

    $15.95 USD

  • Colonial Latin America

    A Documentary History

    Edited by Kenneth Mills, William B. Taylor, Sandra Lauderdale Graham ...
    Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History is a sourcebook of primary texts and images intended for students and teachers as well as for scholars and general readers. The book centers upon people-people from different parts of the world who came together to form societies by chance and by design in the years after 1492. This text is designed to encourage a detailed exploration of the cultural ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Nagualism: Aztecs Folklore and Magic

    by Daniel G. Brinton ...
    The words, a nagual, nagualism, a nagualist, have been current in English prose for more than seventy years; they are found during that time in a variety of books published in England and the United States,4-* yet are not to be discovered in any dictionary of the English language; nor has Nagualism a place in any of the numerous encyclopædias or “Conversation Lexicons,” in English, French, German ... Read more

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  • Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries

    by Meyer Kayserling ...
    Translated by Gross Charles ...
    Meyer Kayserling (1829 - 1905) was a leading Jewish scholar in the 19th Century. His studies of Jewry in the Iberian Peninsula were largely based on original manuscripts found in archives, libraries and private collections in Europe. His scholarship caught the eye of the Spanish government, wwhich asked Kayserling to produce a work in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • This Happened in My Presence

    Moriscos, Old Christians, and the Spanish Inquisition in the Town of Deza, 1569-1611

    Edited by Patrick J. O'Banion ...
    This Happened in My Presence reveals life in the small Spanish town of Deza during a period that was complex and tumultuous.The introduction explains the medieval origins of Deza's Christian, Muslim, and Jewish populations and the changing policies toward religious minorities under the Catholic Monarchs and the Hapsburgs. The workings of the Spanish Inquisition and of Deza's local religious and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD