New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010

  • 101 Tapas imprescindible de la cocina española
    101 Essential Spanish Tapas Recipes
    Author:
    Juan Calduch, Xabier Gutiérrez and Igor Zalakain
    Publisher: Bainet Editorial
    This book is not about new techniques, complex recipes or even strange, exotic ingredients. It is simply a comprehensive collection of recipes for the most popular item of Spanish cuisine: the tapas. The authors have collected and up-dated the 101 most popular and traditional forms of tapas: from the familiar potato omelette, the refreshing gazpacho to the famous paella.
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  • A la caza de los verdugos del Reich
    In Search of the Executioners of the Reich
    Author:
    Ernest Frers
    Publisher: EDICIONES ROBINBOOK, S.L.
    Auschwitz, Treblinka, Mauthausen… these are names that have become impressed in our collective memory. Men, women and children, dragged from their homes and crammed into stinking trains bound for those and other extermination camps at the whim of those who thought them ‘different’.
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  • Agua del Limonero
    Lemon Water
    Author:
    Mamen Sánchez
    Publisher: Espasa
    When journalist Clara Cobián is commissioned to travel to New York to write the memoirs of grand society dame Greta Bouvier, she is unaware that in realising her dream of becoming a writer, she will have to confront her fascination for professor Gabriel Hinestrosa, as well as the underlying motives for the sudden reappearance of this erstwhile lover in her life.
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  • Alba Cromm
    Author:
    Vicente Luis Mora
    Publisher: EDITORIAL SEIX BARRAL, S.A.
    Alba Cromm is an exciting novel full of suspense, which examines the social processes that turn us into suspects or persecutors in a world unable to protect those who are most weak. Those who follow Vicente Luis Mora know he can leave his readers breathless, while those discovering him for the first time will enjoy his originality and almost cinematographic talent for telling a story.
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  • Aprendiendo con Videojuegos: Jugar es Pensar dos Veces
    Learning With Videogames: To Play is to Think Twice
    Author:
    Montero, Eloísa (Coord.); Ruiz, María and Díaz, Beatriz
    Publisher: NARCEA S.A. de EDICIONES
    Videogames are very useful tools which can establish a connection with young people’s interests, and which can help to cater to student diversity, to encourage the use of multiple intelligences, and to support interdisciplinary work, etc. This book presents 30 videogames, many of which will be familiar, and all are easily accessible to both teaching staff and students.
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  • Arzak. Secretos
    Author:
    Juan Mari Arzak
    Publisher: Bainet Editorial
    The secrets in this book are simply those revealed by opening wide the doors of Arzak’s kitchen, with its unique products, new techniques and ideas for original, fun combinations. Visual explosions which offer a greater understanding of the recipes of a kitchen which, though complex, opts for simple solutions and in which the really important thing is the spark of individual ideas.
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  • As médulas
    Las médulas
    Author:
    Silvia Bardelás
    Publisher: Xestión Literaria Galega S.L.
    Juan and Sara have grown apart recently and decide to separate for a while. Juan wants to feel that there is something outside him in life, something that moves him, forcing him to take part in the world, to make his own decisions and to not simply be swept along.
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  • As Rulas de Bakunin
    The Children of Bakunin
    Author:
    Antón Riveiro Coello
    Publisher: Editorial Galaxia
    Read report: As Rulas de Bakunin
    This magnificently narrated historical novel which tells of the Civil War and anarchism is now in its fifth edition. According to the author, the novel “allowed me to live other lives.” The Children of Bakunin (As Rulas de Bakunin) is born of empathy for the defeated and the vanquished.
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  • Augusto Bournonville, Historia y Estilo
    Author:
    Elna Matamoros
    Publisher: EDICIONES AKAL SA
    The Bournonville Style, as we know it nowadays, is a compendium of aesthetics, technique and methodology which allow the Danish creative artist’s choreographies to be performed today with the same purity and rigour as in the 19th century.
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  • Besos
    Kisses
    Author:
    Julio Blasco
    Txabi Arnal
    Publisher: Pintar-Pintar Publishing Co.
    Txabi Arnal: writer and university professor of Children’s and Young People’s Literature in the department of Language Teaching and Literature at the University of the Basque Country, and professor for many years of Children’s Education in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Julio Blasco: illustrator and graphic designer.
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