New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2011

  • la politica del miedo
    The Politics of Fear. The Role of Repression under Franco
    la politica del miedo
    Author:
    Santiago Vega
    Publisher: Critica
    Repression is usually regarded as a consequence of the Civil War and the violence which the conflict aroused on both sides. But Santiago Vega Sombría now offers us a new and very different point of view.
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  • La princesa bola de barro
    Princess Mudball
    La princesa bola de barro
    Author:
    Anna Gasol Trullols
    Teresa Blanch Gasol
    Publisher: Almadraba Editorial
    What is that ball of mud rolling towards the palace garden? The king jumps when it appears in the sitting room, the cook screams in terror when it enters the kitchen and the court guard detains it to find out what it is.... Speed is of the essence, because tonight the king's birthday is being celebrated with a big party.
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  • LA PRINCESA NOCHE RESPLANDECIENTE
    Princess Shining Night
    LA PRINCESA NOCHE RESPLANDECIENTE
    Author:
    PHILIP GIORDANO
    Publisher: EDICIONES SM
    This book, which is based on a Japanese legend and brilliantly illustrated by Philip Giordano, tells the story of the impossible love between Princess Shining Night and the Emperor of Japan, and explains how Mount Fuji arose from this love. 
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  • La princesa ratolina
    Princess Little Mouse
    La princesa ratolina
    Author:
    Dani Miquel
    Publisher: Andana Editorial
    Once upon a time, in a town in China, lived Princess Little Mouse, who wanted to marry the most powerful person there was. So, without thinking twice, she picked up her rucksack, a sandwich and a dozen oranges and went to look for him. (An adaption of a traditional Chinese tale)
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  • La Puerta de los tres cerrojos
    La Puerta de los tres cerrojos
    Author:
    Sonia Fernández-Vidal
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    Agent: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria S.L
    Read report: La Puerta de los Tres Cerrojos
    “The Door with Three Locks” is attractive, accessible, entertaining, fascinating, surprising and by turns exciting and cute. It is a great introduction to the astonishing subject of quantum physics. (Catherine Forrest)
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  • La Sagrada Família segons Gaudí
    The Sagrada Familia as Gaudí
    Author:
    Armand Puig
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    Barcelona's most characteristic monument is not a straightforward thing to fathom. In spite of this, Gaudí designed it not as an unsolvable enigma, but as an open book, literally and metaphorically open on all sides. Gaudí wanted "his" work to been seen everywhere, and that much he certainly made happen.
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  • la sociedad ignorancia
    The Ignorance-based Society
    la sociedad ignorancia
    Author:
    Gonçal Mayos & Antoni Brey (eds.)
    Publisher: Península
    The ignorance-based society is the other side of the coin of the “knowledge-based society” and raises vitally important questions that demand answers: what dangers lurk behind the promises of the “knowledge-based society”? What costs or “collateral damage” go with it? Is the outcome knowledge and nothing but knowledge? What limits are involved and need to be taken into account?
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  • La terapia del sonido
    Sound Therapy
    Author:
    Jordi Jauset
    Publisher: Ediciones Luciérnaga
    The use of sound to promote wellbeing—be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual— has antecendents as as far back as antiquity. What is more, in the majority of religions sound is a means used to explore and further consciousness, situating as it does one's sprituality in a state of optimum receptivity.
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  • La vida y las muertes de Ethel Jurado
    La vida y las muertes de Ethel Jurado
    Author:
    Gregorio Casamayor
    Publisher: Acantilado/ QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
    'Ethel Jurado had approached the group to ask for help,' Marcos Recaj tells us in this novel, 'and we gave her our unconditional support.
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  • la visión abierta
    Open Vision
    la visión abierta
    Author:
    Victoria Cirlot
    Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.
    The myth of the grail provides the title for this book about the possibility of perception beyond the physical world. The occult and the invisible are objects for the imagination, which in the Middle Ages was seen as a visionary experience granted by God. The first chapter opens to a vision based on a confrontation between an older culture, with a mystic such as H.
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