Chris Rice Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean's life is changed forever when he discovers love. He spends the rest of his life helping people, like himself, who have been victims of poverty and social injustice - 'les misérables'. // Attention: If no attachments (CDs, booklets etc.) are shown in the photo, they are not included.

Clay Carter lavora da tempo come avvocato della pubblica difesa. Un giorno gli viene affidato il caso di un giovane accusato di omicidio senza movente. Scavando nel passato del suo cliente, Clay scopre una cospirazione tanto incredibile da non sembrare vera e si ritrova senza volerlo al centro di un complesso caso contro una delle case farmaceutiche più importanti del mondo. Da un giorno all'altro Clay potrebbe diventare il più famoso "re dei torti".

Testo inglese a fronte Fate e folletti popolano il mondo fantastico di questa commedia di Shakespeare, lieve e raffinata, in cui amori e tradimenti si susseguono con comicità e grazia incantevole. Dalla bellissima Titania, regina delle fate, innamorata perdutamente di un uomo dalla testa d'asino, al comico e irresistibile Bottom fino al capriccioso folletto Puck, i cui errori nel somministrare i filtri d'amore muovono le sottili trame della vicenda. Una commedia lieve e briosa, ricca di improvvisazioni e colpi di scena, che inaugura un nuovo tipo di rappresentazione nel panorama shakespeariano.

Christianity Today Book Award winner Our world is broken and cries out for reconciliation. But mere conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible? How is it that some people are able to forgive the most horrendous of evils? And what role does God play in these stories? Does reconciliation make any sense apart from the biblical story of redemption? Secular models of peacemaking are insufficient. And the church has not always fulfilled its call to be agents of reconciliation in the world. In Reconciling All Things Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, codirectors of the Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, cast a comprehensive vision for reconciliation that is biblical, transformative, holistic and global. They draw on the resources of the Christian story, including their own individual experiences in Uganda and Mississippi, to bring solid, theological reflection to bear on the work of reconciling individuals, groups and societies. They recover distinctively Christian practices that will help the church be both a sign and an agent of God's reconciling love in the fragmented world of the twenty-first century. This powerful, concise book lays the philosophical foundations for reconciliation and explores what it means to pursue hope in areas of brokenness in theory and practice.

Per poter corteggiare degnamente Porzia il nobile Bassanio deve chiedere un prestito al mercante di Venezia Antonio. Antonio deve a sua volta farsi prestare il denaro dall'usuraio ebreo Shylock che, come pegno per la restituzione pone la possibilità di prelevare una libbra di carne sul corpo di Antonio, se il denaro non gli sarà reso il giorno fissato. Bassanio sposa Porzia, ma le navi di Antonio hanno fatto naufragio e Shylock pretende la libbra di carne. Porzia, travestita da avvocato, perora la causa di Antonio davanti al doge che grazia Shylock, ne confisca i beni e li divide tra Antonio e lo stato veneziano. Antonio rinuncia alla sua parte purché Shylock si faccia cristiano. Intanto alcune navi di Antonio compaiono salve in porto.

Original / American English Audrey Hepburn was a beautiful and great actress. When there were unhappy times for her, Audrey always showed a warm, friendly face to the world. The world loved her, and people love her now

Amleto, universalmente noto come uno dei più grandi capolavori dello straordinario talento di Shakespeare, è sicuramente il dramma che vanta il maggior numero di rappresentazioni teatrali e di trasposizioni cinematografiche. Il principe danese, tormentato da sentimenti contrastanti e paralizzato da mille esitazioni, non riesce ad agire per vendicare il padre ucciso. Condensa, nella sua inazione, tutta la crisi spirituale di un’epoca che volge al termine; allo stesso tempo è simbolo dell’uomo eternamente in lotta con i dubbi della morale e con la necessità di scegliere ogni giorno il proprio agire.

Over a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of 66, he burst onto the literary scene with "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came "'Tis," his glorious account of his early years in New York. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. "Teacher Man" shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as he works to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally-charged or indifferent adolescents. McCourt's rocky marriage, his failed attempt to get a Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, and his repeated firings due to his propensity to talk back to his superiors ironically lead him to New York's most prestigious school, Stuyvesant High School, where he finally finds a place and a voice.

From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’s Lord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction.