A popular South American writer chronicles his journey along the ancient road to Santiago, offering the exercises in self-control and self-discovery that he learned along the way. Original.

An illustrated edition of the Brazilian author's international best-seller, in which a Spanish shepherd boy leaves home in search of treasure and the meaning of life, features thirty-five color illustrations by a famed science-fiction illustrator.

Product Description: This revised and updated edition of a much-acclaimed classic presents a collection of readily reproducible techniques for the generation and analysis of transgenic animals, with emphasis on the manipulation of the mammalian genome...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar into a strong and independent woman, while her devoted childhood friend has grown into a handsome and charismatic spiritual leader...read more

Product Description: Now with a new afterword from the author, his following will only increase. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids...read more

'The story of a young Spanish woman, Pilar, and her encounter with her lost love, an unnamed spiritual seeker who comes to worship the feminine face of God. Clarke's translation is, as usual, somewhat hurried and condensed as if he's impatient with Coelho's admittedly belabored and self-consciously poetical style'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/A parable set against the backdrop of the French Pyrenees follows an independent but restless young woman whose life is changed forever by an encounter with a childhood friend, now a mesmerizing seminarian and rumored miracle worker

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