New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2009 - I

  • Imagina un carrer
    Imagine a Street
    Author:
    Guillem Sala Lorda
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    Living in l’Allau street, a place with no fixed time or location, we find a group of people who may seem familiar to us: unique characters with strange lives, who live out their existence with unusual routines. But everything changes when a new invention, and the latest in neuro-technology, the fabulous Cinemind, is installed in the street.
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  • In nomine patri y otros cuentos
    In nomine patri and other tales
    Author:
    Adrián Huici Modenés
    Publisher: Alfar Ediciones
    This book is an anthology of short stories which link, in an extremely subtle way, the oniric dimension with the threatening aspects of real life, either in the present or in the future. Migration, politics and technological development are only some of the issues which, submerged into a powerful narrative, guarantee that readers will not remain indifferent.
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  • ÍNDIKA
    INDIKA
    Author:
    Agustín Pániker Vilaplana
    Publisher: EDITORIAL KAIRÓS, S.A.
    An anthropological critique of modernity in its path in colonial India. Pániker questions many of the historical or social assumptions that have been rolled over on Southern Asia. Special attention is paid to the Aryan myth, Indo-islamic history, the colonial period and the construction of Hinduism.
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  • Ingleses, franceses y prusianos en España (Entre la Ilustración y el Romanticismo)
    English, French and Prussian People in Spain (Between Enlightenment and the Romanticism)
    Author:
    Manuel Moreno Alonso
    Publisher: Alfar Ediciones
    This book is a collection of historical essays, published by the author in several reviews and books, along almost two decades, which share the focus on the “gaze of the Other” towards Spain and Spaniards, in the period between the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
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  • Instalación de Paneles Solares Térmicos
    Installation of Solar Panels
    Author:
    Tomás Perales Benito
    Publisher: Creaciones Copyright
    A practical work, addressed at installers, which teaches how to use thermal energy for sanitary and air-conditioning purposes. The roofs of buildings are increasingly covered with solar panels that harness the sun to generate energy and installers need to know how to optimize installations to achieve maximum performance.
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  • INTERVENCIONES EN EL PAISAJE
    ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS IN THE LANDSCAPE
    Author:
    Alejandro Bahamón
    Alexandre Campillo
    Anna Vicens Soler
    Publisher: PARRAMON PAIDOTRIBO S.L.
    Architecture not only manifests itself in the form of buildings but also as interventions born of their context. Our inextricable connection to nature has always prompted architects to
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  • Isola Bella
    Isola Bella
    Author:
    Anna Crusafont
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    Isola Bella, Italy. Lake Maggiore. Stresa. Borronees islands. The rain. A meeting… After her son left home to get married and have a baby, Julia, a fifty-year-old woman, graduated in literature and housewife, realizes, for the first time in her life, that her life has been of little importance. Unexpectedly, she finds some notebooks written by her, when she was a teenager.
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