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170 years have passed since English Bible seller George Borrow crossed Spain on horseback. The scenery, characters and adventures from his first trip were fixed in his book The Bible in Spain, a classic that became a best seller when it was published in 1843.
After Madres e hijas, this new anthology of stories, edited by Laura Freixas, explores another crucial realm of experience for women: their friendships.
Set in a fantasy world parallel to ours, the novel allows young readers to identify themselves with the protagonist, who plunges faster than he would have liked in a magical universe that will require him to meet and work with many different characters he will end up feeling fond of. An ideal story for teenagers to learn the values of comradeship and unity in diversity.
“Dance, drink and gamble” was the motto used by some governors of colonial Spain to placate their Caribbean subordinates’ desires for freedom and independence. Of course, this was a strategy that only worked to an extent; many of the slave revolts from the colonial period began, precisely, during dancing celebrations.
In care of their worlds - A biographer of stones, a skull builder, a man with two hundred springs and other living memories of the Basque Country and Navarre
Josetxo Mayor climbs Mount Ulía, overlooking San Sebastian, every day, to clear tracks. Javier Etxepare has reconstructed two hundred watersprings. Xabier Cabezón knows the Leitzarán Valley inch by inch. These people have chosen a piece of the world and devote their efforts, their time and money to look after it.
Carmen de Moering, the girl who lived in Paris at the turn of the century, and who, at the age of nine, escaped from a boarding school, was not really called Carmen, as they thought at her school. She was in fact called Sol. Sol was the daughter of Francisco Ferrer Guardia, autodidactic idealogue and man of action.
Essential theoretical knowledge, comprehension exercises, self-assessment exercises and exam models accompanied by the corresponding key. The book, profusely illustrated, is a key tool for the entrance exams to University (LOGSE and older than 25 years).
Using the words of Mr. Carlos López Navaza: “The first guarantee for the reader, is that this is not another management theory book; quite on the contrary, it is a practical and real application to a company of the latest management methodologies and theories”.
-General, non-specialist audiences
-Spanish/foreign language (from B2-C1 upper intermediate/advanced level. The cultural information part can be used from intermediate level B1-B2)
-Spanish/Mother tongue in Secondary and Higher Education (as an introduction to Don Quixote and the time of Cervantes)
-School children (aged approximately 12 and above) and adults
This book is not intended to replace reason with feelings, but to show how to harmonize mind and heart. In short: to put together what I want and what I have to do.