In God Does Not Care About Numbers, Juan Manuel Benjamin takes readers on a journey about living life as it comes: full of ups and downs and the realization that life is not about counting numbers or relationships but about achieving self-acceptance and fulfillment through a single act of Gods love and mercy. God Does Not Care About Numbers is a tale of everyday people who try to manage their shame and anger and seek love through self-sufficiency and countless unsuccessful human ways. They realize they missed the mark when life slaps their faces with unforgettable pain. They feel lost and abandoned like small islands in a raging ocean. Ultimately, a simple act of goodness and the help of a special friend help them overcome their self-imposed limitations to achieve freedom and redemption. Written in a language that entertains and inspires, this novel will challenge you to stop counting useless numbers in your life and to seek the only number you really need.
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 inspiration for his tales in classical and eastern literatures, Spanish history, and folklore. His stories are not translations, but are his retelling of some of the best stories in existence. The translation succeeds in making the author speak as clearly to the modern reader as to readers of his own time.
The luxurious lifestyle of a Los Angeles lawyer and his family is about to be turned upside down by one of the most powerful mafia families in New York City. Warrent, a corrupt, philandering New York senator, is playing dirty games with Hollywood lawyer, Breska. At stake is millions of dollars for a movie licensing deal. During negotiations, the lawyer is paid an unexpected visit from the mob. Breska is intimidated into swearing an oath of omertà — the mafia code of silence — and he unwillingly becomes the New York family’s consigliere. Fearing for his life, Warrent escapes to a Spanish island where a volcano is about to explode. The FBI and DEA are fast on the track of the criminal conspiracy and have well-founded suspicions about the connections with Mexican and Colombian narcos, which causes the mob to lose trust in their new consigliere. Returning from a trip to one of the tax havens where the mafia hides its money, Breska decides to go against the tide and breach the code of silence, trapped between the two government agencies, who hope to gather enough evidence to gain a conviction against the mob by a popular jury. It is the first time in Mafia culture that their consigliere wishes to breach the omertà.
This is the comprehensive account of the long and difficult road traveled to end the fifty-year armed conflict with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla army in the world; a long war that left more than eight million victims. The obstacles to peace were both large and dangerous. All previous attempts to negotiate with the FARC had failed, creating an environment where differences were irreconcilable and political will was scarce. The Battle for Peace is the story not only of the six years of negotiation and the peace process that transformed a country, its secret contacts, its international implications, and difficulties and achievements but also of the two previous decades in which Colombia oscillated between warlike confrontation and negotiated solution. In The Battle for Peace Juan Manuel Santos shares the lessons he learned about war and peace and how to build a successful negotiation process in the context of a nation that had all but resigned itself to war and the complexities of twenty-first-century international law and diplomacy. While Santos is clear that there is no handbook for making peace, he offers conflict-tested guidance on the critical parameters, conditions, and principles as well as rich detail on the innovations that made it possible for his nation to find common ground and a just solution.
Juan Manuel Echevarria (Colombia 1947) is a writer becoming an artist based in Medellin, Colombia. His work has been shown at El Museo del Barrio in NYC as well as at the Cartier Foundation and the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris. His first solo exhibition in the US "Mouths of Ash", was organized by the North Dakota Museum of Art in 2005. Echevarria deal in his work with the violence and civil conflicts that have plagued Colombia in the 20th century till today. His images are taken in a typological way and in series about violence, drug trade and the Rise of Paramilitary Groups to mention a few. AUTHOR: Juan Manuel Echavarria was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1947. He resides in Bogota. A writer before becoming an artist, he published two novels, La gran catarata (Bogota: Editorial Arco, 1981) and Moros en la costa (Bogota: Ancora Editores, 1991). As of 2015 Echavarria has presented over thirty solo exhibitions and participated in well over a hundred group exhibitions, screenings and film festivals. His first solo gallery exhibition was in New York in 1998.
Two things combine to single out this book of tales as worthy of special attention. The tales were written six centuries ago, yet they are both interesting and instructive; and the life of the author reads like a fable.This man of royal blood was statesman, politician, and above all, warrior. He is, in fact, known as one of the most vigorous, turbulent, and dangerous barons of his time. Only during lulls between his great activities did he become author. He made writing his diversion, according to his own words, because he felt this to be more worthy of a gentleman than wasting his time at games.Yet, in these fifty pleasant stories, Don Juan Manuel has produced one of the highlights in Spanish literature, both as to content and as to style. This edition is intended to bring Don Juan into the libraries of those who enjoy the unusual when it is also good.
This collection of five essays and a useful chronology focuses on the canvases of Juan Manuel Blanes, the first internationally renowned painter from Uruguay. Born in 1830, Blanes was self-taught until he refined his skills in Italy in the 1860s. Blanes's art illustrates Uruguayan society in all its splendor: portraits of gentlemen, ladies, and leaders; paintings of historical events; and his famous depictions of the gauchos. Blanes did more than simply portray his homeland, he helped create a national identity with his paintings, after the bloody Uruguayan civil war of 1839-1852.
Would it be true that having a better view is always an advantage? Together, lets reveal the fun! Tag along with the wonderful friendship and adventures of a boy in his cool glassesJuan!
This is one of the major works of prose fiction produced in mediaeval Castile, and the greatest literary achievement of Juan Manuel. He was an important figure, in both literature and history being both the grandson of Castilian monarchs, and a distinguished soldier and politician.
In Corrientes, einer Stadt an der argentinisch-paraguayischen Grenze, wird die siebzehnjährige Poetin Soledad in der Zeit des Falklandkrieges unschuldig eingesperrt und gefoltert. Widerwillig begibt sich ihr Onkel Gunter, ein deutschstämmiger Paraguayer und kaltherziger Manager der Weltbank, in Begleitung seiner Ehefrau Eliza auf die Reise ins Zentrum des südamerikanischen Staatsterrorismus, um Soledad zu retten. Gunters Winter wurde als Buch des Jahres 1987 ausgezeichnet und ist nach einer umfangreichen Expertenbefragung der wichtigste paraguayische Roman der letzten vier Jahrzehnte. Das Bildungsministerium des Landes erklärte es als von nationalem Bildungsinteresse. Seine Handlung lebt von den dramatischen Erlebnissen des Autors Juan Manuel Marcos zwischen 1973 und 1987, in den schwierigen Jahren der Militärdiktatur in Paraguay, sowie von den schweren Schicksalsschlägen infolge seines politischen Exils in Spanien und den Vereinigten Staaten. Eine schaurige Hommage an den Idealismus der lateinamerikanischen Jugend, verflochten mit den feinsten Techniken der avantgardistischen Erzählkunst. Erschüttert durch eine profunde Lyrik, bejubelt von der Leserschaft und den internationalen Kritikern, übersetzt in vierzig Sprachen.
The Essence of a Young Poet is about a teenager (Juan Manuel) that started facing a lot of problems and heartaches as soon as he entered high school and encountered reality face to face. Throughout the book he goes through a lot of shifts of emotions as he encounters those problems. On his freshmen year he fell in love with a junior that played with his feelings and then broke his heart; as a result of that, he fell into a deep depression and started heading toward a dark path. Without the presence of his father, he had nobody to turn to that he could trust and express himself to, to help him with his struggles, so he turned his attention toward suicide. Unable to commit suicide, he decided to go to church after he received an invitation from a friend. From that point, his life started to change in a positive way; he was no longer depressed or struggling with his life because he learned to trust God. Shortly after that, he met a gorgeous and nice girl (Keyshla) in which he felt in love with after she helped him pick up the broken pieces of his heart. They were the perfect couple without a doubt but for some reason the perfect relationship came to an end. He was sad once again because he really thought that she was the one and he didnt want that relationship to end. Unable to fix the problem, he moved on and started dating someone else who turned out to be a bigger problem than what he expected. Unable to fill what was missing in his heart, the relationship eventually came to an end. He remained single after that and just focused on his future and God, leaving the past behind.
A reader for intermediate Spanish students El Conde Lucanor (Don Juan Manuel) is an adaptation of the work often described as Spain’s Canterbury Tales. It contains 15 of the 50 original stories with side glosses, master vocabulary, footnotes, and commentary. This reader is softcover, 6” × 9”, and 72 pages in length. An audiocassette is also available.
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