New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010

  • Deseo de ser punk
    Longing to be a Punk
    Author:
    Belén Gopegui
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Martina, the 16 year-old-girl who is writing a letter to a boy in her class (which is the novel we are reading) defines the relationship with her parents and with the world in general in relation to music. Her relationships with the adults in her life (both belligerent and amiable) are always mediated through a legendary song or unforgettable album.
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  • Diario de la historia
    Diary of history
    Author:
    Joan de Deu Prats i Pijoan
    Publisher: PARRAMON PAIDOTRIBO S.L.
    Who was the first person to discover that the World was round? Who was first to navigate it? Who the first to leave it to reach the Moon? Did Persians invent Paradise? Did the Black Death help to develop the printing press? Did Indians invent the number zero? Did the Chinese come up with the idea for the first Earthquake detector?
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  • Diccionario Profesional del Vino
    Professional Wine Dictionary
    Author:
    Ernesto de Serdio
    Publisher: Gestión 2000
    Diccionario de 1.200 términos relacionados con el sector del vino en español y en inglés. Define cada término y se clasifica en las cuatro grandes áreas que comprende el sector del vino: viticultura, enología, cata y comercialización.
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  • Dinero y conciencia
    Money and conscience
    Author:
    Joan Antoni Mele
    Publisher: Plataforma Editorial S.L.
    Today, money has become the focus of all attention of humankind and, in doing so, it has become the New God. Searching for it, many people are just a shadow of themselves and behind this obsession we find the real human being.
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  • DirCom
    DirCom
    Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat de València
    In this book, the reader will find contributions by fourteen well-known authors, DirComs and university teachers, who analyse the latest trends. Those wanting to work in media management in any kind of corporation or complex organisation, (in an also increasingly complex world), must be familiar with them.
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  • El amigo del desierto
    The Friend of the Desert
    Author:
    Pablo d’Ors
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    This is the story of Pavel, a man whose life changes course dramatically pushed by a series of circumstances.
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  • El arca de Noé
    Noa’s Ark
    Author:
    Lluís Farré
    Publisher: COMBEL EDITORIAL S. A.
    A series of pop-up books which tell popular stories for boys and girls. The legendary story of Noa's Ark is told as a tale with spectacular pop-up illustrations, and a very amusing rhyming text.
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  • El arte del siglo XX en sus exposiciones: 1945-2007
    The art of the century xx in his exhibition : 1945-2007
    Author:
    Anna Maria Guasch
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    “The art of the century xx in his exhibitions: 1945-2007” focuses on the exhibitions that have generated new ways of viewing and expressing reality.
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  • El Barbero de Sevilla
    The Barber of Sevilla
    Author:
    Joan de Deu Prats i Pijoan
    Miguel Gallardo
    Publisher: Edicions Hipòtesi
    There is no better way to learn about lyric drama than by enjoying a comic opera like The Barber of Seville. The album introduces us to a libretto directly inspired by courtly love, commedia dell’arte and farce. This mixture, far from outdated is still relevant nowadays, as its frequent appearance on television and cinema show.
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  • El caballero de Alcántara
    The Knight of Alcántara
    Author:
    Jesús Sánchez Adalid
    Publisher: Ediciones B
    1568 was one of the most terrible years in the rule of King Philip II of Spain. Conflict grew in Flanders, the Turkish threatened the Mediterranean, and Moors rebel in Granada. However, the King is set to face all the problems. With the help of his skilled secretaries he puts in place his best secret weapon: a network of spies never known before.
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