New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010

  • Geometría para turistas
    Geometry for Tourists
    Author:
    Claudi Alsina
    Publisher: Editorial Ariel
    Where is Columbus' finger really pointing at in Barcelona? What is the secret number of the Sagrada Familia? Can a telecommunications tower be used as a sundial? What enigmatic purpose did El Escorial have? What mysteries surround Las Meninas in the Prado? What is the secret to the Alhambra's decorations? How was the façade of the Guggenheim designed? Is Finisterre the end of the world?
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  • Goodbye España
    Goodbye España
    Author:
    Mercedes Salisachs
    Publisher: MR Ediciones
     “Now I don’t mind if I die, I’ve returned to Spain.”
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  • Historia de la filosofía sin temor ni temblor
    A History of Philosophy. No Reason for Fear or Trembling
    Author:
    Fernando Savater
    Publisher: Espasa
    When the conversation turns to philosophy, many of us start to shiver: Philosophy! What's that? It's definitely not for me! There is no reason for this reaction. We've all asked the basic philosophical questions at some point in our lives: they deal with death, truth, justice, nature, time... To philosophize is just to think about our humanity. But...who were the great philosophers?
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  • Imagen artística. Imagen de consumo
    Author:
    Emilio Rosales Mateos
    Mª Jesús Godoy Domínguez
    Publisher: ediciones del serbal
    The purpose of this book is the aesthetic phenomena that transcend art and the one developed by the media. It is based on the idea that to understand them one needs to abandon the limits that throughout modern times reduced aesthetics until they became an Art Theory.
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  • Innovaciones en cáncer
    Current advances against Cancer
    Author:
    Consuelo Boticario
    María Cascales
    Publisher: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA
    The past few years have seen many remarkable advances against cancer. The accomplishments of the last decade, such as: the development of targeted therapies, the identification of cancer genes, the introduction of computer techniques, and the decline in cancer deaths, have all depended on the knowledge gained in the past.
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  • J.S Bach y los niños
    J.S Bach and the Children
    Author:
    Anna Obiols
    Joan Subirana
    Publisher: Montse Roig
    “J.S. Bach 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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  • Judaismo e islam profundos : ambigüedad y espera, fe y entrega
    Author:
    Rodolfo Gil Grimau
    Publisher: Ibersaf
    This book is the posthumous work of the diplomat, writer and arabist, Rodolfo Gil Benumeya. The work is about the common ground shared by the polemic religions of Judaism and Islamism, which during centuries have lived together along the shores of the Mediterranean.
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  • KALASHNIKOV
    KALASHNIKOV
    Author:
    Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
    Publisher: Ediciones B
    Kalashnikov begins with an appeal from de European Parliament to capture Joseph Kony, the greatest war criminal ever, who on top of murdering, raping and turning thousands of children into slaves, he uses them as soldiers for his army. As the institutions are powerless, a small group of European members of Parliament decide to break the laws they have sworn to defend.
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  • Kama Sutra en la empresa
    Kama Sutra Within Business
    Author:
    Fernando Montero
    Publisher: Gestión 2000
    Vatsyayana claimed that there are eight basic ways of making love and eight main positions. We claim the same thing, only this time in the field of business: there are eight basic ways for a company to face the world. This is a humorous work that adapts life in a company and the world of business to sexual positions and games of seduction.  
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  • La Caza del Nigromante
    The Hunt for the Necromancer
    Author:
    Antonio Martín Morales
    Publisher: EDITORIAL EVEREST, S.A.
    This is the first in a new series of five novels entitled The Devil’s Horde. In this volume Remo, who has fallen into disgrace after suffering the treachery of his greatest enemy, will find himself embroiled in his king Vestigia’s power struggles. As an outlawed mercenary, he will sign up for an extraordinary quest to bring down Moga, a powerful necromancer who opposes the king.
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