New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012 - L

  • La leyenda de rey Arturo y sus caballeros
    The Legend of King Arthur and His Knights
    Author:
    Antoni Dalmases
    Pere Ginard
    The first complete re-writing in Spanish of the Arturian era based on various literary sources which make up this universal legend. The author, Antoni Dalmases, has successfully translated this epic of the Medieval world to modern, accessible language. In addition, Pere Ginard’s magnificent illustrations brilliantly recreate the characters and atmosphere of the era.
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  • La libertad última
    The Last Freedom
    La libertad última
    Author:
    Michael F. Ryan
    Roger Murphy had it all. A great apartment in the Marina District, the best dog in the world and the most widely debated column in the San Francisco press. But when the ground started to shake, he was on the point of losing it all… and all of a sudden he found himself fighting to survive. Just when he was on the edge of the abyss, Viktor Frankl entered his life and transformed it.
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  • La lógica de las ciencias morales
    The Logic of the Moral Sciences
    Author:
    Stuart Mill, John
    Álvarez (ed), José Francisco
    Agent: CSIC
    This book is considered to be one of the most outstanding essays ever written on the logical possibilities and difficulties of a science of society. Considerations on the method to follow in the different areas of the social sciences are offered. In his introduction, J.
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  • La luz difícil
    Difficult Light
    Author:
    Tomás González
    Publisher: Alfaguara
    Jacob has decided to die. A car accident has left him paraplegic and in such pain that his life is unbearable. His father David faces the hardest of tests: witnessing the event.
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  • La muchacha salvaje
    The wild girl
    Author:
    Mireia Pérez
    La muchacha salvaje tells the story of how a girl who comes from a nomadic tribe discovers that she is different from everyone else, and begins a journey which will bring her into contact with other tribes and people with new customs who will help her to better understand her own identity.
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  • La música de los clásicos. Versiones de la poesía antigua, de la Edad Media al Renacimiento tardío
    The Music of the Classics: Versions of ancient poetry from the Middle Ages to the Late Renaissance
    Author:
    Jorge Bergua Cavero
    One of the fundamental questions in this study is the one which is – at least for those who tend to perceive the world with their ears before their eyes – the most complex within the field of the humanities: the relationship between language and music, that wide and well-mined area involves the text, melody, prosody, articulation, verbal and musical rhythm, the meaning of words and
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  • La mutación sentimental
    The Sentimental Mutation
    Author:
    Carme Torras
    Celia is a thirteen-year-old girl who was cryogenically frozen because she was suffering from a terminal disease, and is now returned to the 22nd century to be adopted. In a future society where everyone has a robotic assistant Celia clashes with her adoptive mother’s way of thinking, acting and relating, and with her environment, so different to that of her biological family.
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  • La pell negra
    black skin
    Author:
    Zeneida Sardà
    Born into a family of intellectuals and nurtured by reading certain books at a young age, Leila feels how her calling as a writer grows inside her. Her plans will be propelled hopelessly forward by an uncontrollable passion. Leila loses control of her own life, which becomes stamped by the indelible mark of lived experience.
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  • La primera decisión de Guillermo
    Guilermo's first decision
    La primera decisión de Guillermo
    Author:
    Carlos del PIno Velasco
    Guillermo has to stay at home alone for a while and a multitude of negative thoughts invades his head; he feels in danger, his heart thumps, he loses control and finally he faints. He suddenly finds himself in a mysterious world full of different paths, which Guillermo has to decide between: something that scares him a lot because until now he has always had someone there to do it for him.
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  • La puerta del infierno
    Hell’s Door
    La puerta del infierno
    Two forty-something Colombians meet in a street in Paris and launch themselves immediately into a frenetic conversation, which, against the backdrop of the revolutionary movements of the 60s, particularly the Colombian Freudo-Sartro-Marxist variant which has never before brought into narrative, provides the reader with a vision of the fleeting nature of things, the doubling of life and death, t
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