New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010 - S

  • Sabiduría práctica
    Author:
    Carles M. Canals
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    The IESE is an international school that began as a risky venture: offering a long-term programme aimed at businessmen and top executives, something unheard of in 1958. Six years later it began the first two-year MBA cour¬se in Europe, designed in cooperation with the Harvard Business School, with which it still has close ties. Today the IESE carries out activities in four continents.
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  • Sabré cada uno de tus secretos
    I Will Discover Every One of Your Secrets
    Author:
    Valérie Tasso
    Publisher: ALIENTA EDITORIAL
    A novel focused on the business world, particularly the interpersonal relations between co-workers, where sex, lies, secrets and passion reveal the fundamental nature of the human condition.
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  • Salamina
    Salamis
    Author:
    Javier Negrete
    Publisher: Espasa
    It is the year 480 BC. Xerxes, the King of Persia, declares war to the Greek states that have not surrendered before him. General Themistocles, a convinced democrat, leads the fleet that will fight in the Straight between Salamis and Athens to stop Xerxes expansionist plans, the terrible King of Persia who wants to dominate the East.
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  • Schumann y los niños
    Schumann and the Children
    Author:
    Anna Obiols
    Joan Subirana
    Publisher: Montse Roig
    “Schumann and the Children” is part of the series “The Great Composers and the Children” (a collection of 5 books with CD) designed and produced by Montserrat Roig with the collaboration of different specialized authors.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity
    Author:
    Guzmán López
    Publisher: ALIENTA EDITORIAL
    Tippex, Post-its, Penicillin, band-aids... all were huge successes and all of them came about by accident. Serendipity is defined as a valuable discovery arising from an accidental event, but in truth it is much more than that. Work, faith, perseverance, hope... even a sense of humour is important when we begin a project with no fixed aim in mind.
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  • Si això és París
    If This is Paris
    Author:
    Roger Coma
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    The streets of Paris are the main stage for the protagonist of this novel, a young Catalan painter with an extraordinary life. While trying to make it as an artist, he encounters a wide array of surrealist characters who make him experience a number of strange situations. He also discovers love, sex, the authentic bohemian life, lack of communication and many other phenomena.
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  • Símbolos en la ciudad. Lecturas de antropología urbana
    Symbols in the city. Essays in urban anthropology
    Author:
    Francisco Cruces Villalobos
    Publisher: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA
    The limits of urban anthropology are as fuzzy as those of the very cities we live in.
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  • Sumideros naturales del CO2
    Natural CO2 drains
    Author:
    Enrique Figueroa
    Publisher: Muñoz Moya editores
    The book analyses the current situation of natural CO2 drains. The work also exposes a methodology useful to measure such drains in an urban or territorial scale. Figures related to the capacity of specific Mediterranean species of vegetation to capture carbon dioxide (and the water consumption required in such process) are profusely provided.
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