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Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to the world of Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, in a volume with depictions of the architectural highlights, religious symbols, maps, and works of art featured in the story.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press in association with S4C
Language
English
Description
This engrossing book, from a professor of the history of Christianity at Cambridge, encompasses the extraordinary story of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day, as empires rose and fell around it. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI, and the historic election of the first Argentinian pope.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills has been asked more than once why he remains in the Church, especially in the wake of his bestselling book Papal Sins, which examined the darker side of the religion's history. In Why I Am a Catholic, he offers some persuasive and heartfelt answers. Beginning with a reflection on his early experiences as a child, and later as a Jesuit seminarian, Wills reveals the importance of Catholicism in his own life. He discusses...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Language
English
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"Author Megan Stine charts the beginning of Christianity and its hold on members of the faith as well as the countless struggles for power (one pope was poisoned by his own men!), the building of the Vatican and creation of the Sistine Chapel, and the Secret Archives that hold papers the church has accumulated over the centuries"--
13) Conclave
Author
Language
English
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"The Pope is dead. Behind locked doors of the Sistine chapel, 118 cardinals from around the world will cast their votes in the world's most secretive election. They are holy men, but they are men of the world, and they have rivals. And over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth..."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Edition
1st edicion en books4pocket.
Language
Español
Description
En un laboratorio de maxima seguridad, aparece asesinado un cientifico con un extrao simbolo grabado a fuego en su pecho. Para el profesor Robert Langdon no hay duda: los Illuminati, los hombres enfrentados a la Iglesia desde los tiempos de Galileo, han regresado. Y esta vez disponen de la mas mortifera arma que ha creado la humanidad, un artefacto con el que pueden ganar la batalla final contra su eterno enemigo. Acompanado de una joven cientifica...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
The "explosive" (The New York Times) bestseller - now with a new introduction by the author
When Hitler's Pope, the shocking story of Pope Pius XII that "redefined the history of the twentieth century" (The Washington Post) was originally published, it sparked a firestorm of controversy both inside and outside the Catholic Church. Now, award-winning journalist John Cornwell has revisited this seminal work of history with a new introduction that both...
Publisher
Pico Blvd. Entertainment
Language
Español
Description
20 años pontificado: su vocación; el Papa y el comunismo; Juan Pablo II y Mikhail Gorbachev; el Papa y Fidel Castro: Viaje a Cuba; Juan Pablo II en la busqueda de la conciliación; Juan Pablo II y comunidad Judía; el Papa y el mundo en cambio.
Discusses John Paul's vocation; the Pope and communism; the meeting between John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev; the meeting between John Paul II and Fidel Castro; the Pope and Judism.
19) Cónclave
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
El Papa ha muerto. En la capilla Sixtina, a puerta cerrada, ciento dieciocho cardenales procedentes de todos los rincones del globo emitirán su voto en la elección más secreta del mundo. Son hombres de fe, pero tienen ambiciones y rivales. En las próximas setenta y dos horas uno de ellos se convertirá en el líder espiritual con más poder de la tierra.
The Pope is dead. Behind locked doors of the Sistine chapel, cardinals from around the world...
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