New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011

  • La Guerra de la doble muerte
    The war of the double murder
    Author:
    Alejandro Castroguer
    Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
    In the middle of December 2009 the first murders in Hornachuelos leap from the television and newspaper headlines. Although at first the government creates a smokescreen around the violent attacks verging on cannibalism, the Crisis of the Double Murder explodes all over Andalucia with no one able to provide a swift response.
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  • La igualdad también se aprende
    Equality Can Also be Learnt
    Author:
    María Elena Simón Rodríguez
    Publisher: NARCEA S.A. de EDICIONES
    One of the main deficiencies of contemporary education is in the area of co-eduation on equality, without which girls and boys tend to continue repeating gendered stereotypes, functions and roles, thus reproducing gender inequality, discrimination and violence. Perhaps for that reason, we often ask if these girls and boys are more sexist that the generation educating them.
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  • La Innovación: Factor clave del éxito empresarial
    Innovation: The key to success in business
    Author:
    A.Gómez
    Publisher: Ra-Ma, S.A. Editorial y Publicaciones
    In the new 21st-century economic environment, characterised by globalisation and the drastic changes produced by the transition to the Information Society, companies must focus their efforts in improving competitiveness at an international level, with a clear commitment to innovation and the use of new technologies as the key factors in guaranteeing survival in ever more competitive and demandi
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  • La joven de la foto
    The young girl in the photo
    Author:
    Jordi Sevilla
    Publisher: Ellago Ediciones
    A wealthy woman decides to investigate the life of her only daughter, who ran away from home at a young age, apparently for romantic reasons. Detective Ricki Trullos is faced with a classic case of extortion and false appearances that don't make for a happy ending.
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  • La libertad vertical. Conversaciones sobre La Sagrada Familia
    Vertical freedom. Conversations about La Sagrada Familia
    Author:
    Etsuro Sotoo
    Publisher: Ediciones Encuentro
    This is a book about the Sagrada Familia temple, different to all others that can be found in bookshops. It brings together conversations with an exceptional witness to Gaudí's human and artistic experience: Etsuro Sotoo, the elderly Japanese sculptor who arrived in Barcelona as a young man over 30 years ago and became fascinated by the mystery pulsing inside and behind those stones.
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  • La luz es más antigua que el amor
    Light is older than love
    Author:
    Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
    Publisher: EDITORIAL SEIX BARRAL, S.A.
    In 1350, when Europe is recovering from the Black Death, the future pope Gregorius XI visits the Tuscan painter Adriano de Robertis to destroy his last work, the blasphemous Bearded Virgin. On February 25 1970, the American painter Mark Rothko slits his wrists in his New York Studio.
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  • La momia
    The Mummy
    Author:
    Enric Lluch
    Pablo Tambuscio
    Publisher: Edicions Bromera, empresa editorial, S.L.U.
    The news of the possible closure of the museum has caused a real commotion amongst its occupants. With the aid of the stuffed lion, the mummy has decided to return to Egypt. But can anyone show him the way?
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  • La música del viento
    The Music of the Wind
    The Music of the Wind
    Author:
    Jordi Sierra i Fabra
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    In a carpet from India a journalist finds a message from the child who wove it. It's a plea for help, a desperate cry he cannot ignore. Though there are millions of children being expoited all over theworld, this message comes with a name, Iqbal, and from a specific place, the city of Madurai.
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  • La novela gráfica
    The graphic novel
    Author:
    Santiago García
    Publisher: Astisendo Grupo Editorial SL (Astiberri)
    What is the graphic novel? In the last few years, comics have grown up. A wealth of ambitious, innovative works is giving a cultural prestige comparable to art and literature to what has traditionally been considered a children's product. It might be said that we are actually witnessing the birth of a new art form.
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  • La otra cara de la Bohemia
    The Other Face of Bohemia
    Author:
    Jordi Luengo López
    Publisher: Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I
    In the first third of the 20th century in Spain, women were condemned to a life of not subverting patriarchal dogma and their liberty was reduced to the marble model of 'exquisite femininity'.
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