New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010 - C

  • Convencer
    Persuasion
    Author:
    Juana Erice
    Publisher: ESIC Editorial
    Human beings are motivated by emotions and feelings, so it is important to know how to manage them adequately. There are two fundamental ingredients: passion and a believable communicator. Frankness is difficult, but it is synonymous with ensured success.
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  • Cornelius y el almacén de imposibles
    Cornelius and the shop of impossible things
    Author:
    Carles Sala i Vila
    Javier Andrada
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    Two very special visitors arrive in Villatorcida and open a curious shop that will have people talking. Villatorcida is a mountain village with one specific characteristic: nothing is straight! One fine day two peculiar characters arrive: Tobías, a little boy, and Cornelius, who looks like a wizard.
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  • Cos peitos desenchufados
    With hearts unplugged
    Author:
    Elias Portela
    Publisher: Xestión Literaria Galega S.L.
    Cos peitos desenchufados is a new literary journey based on the poetic image, on its power and on the possibilities of words. Recycling, surgery and speech techniques make up a permeable and complex poetic ‘I’ that only finds its reason for being through the creation of a language of its own.
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  • Cosas Que Et Passen a Barcelona Quan Tens Trenta
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    Author:
    Llucia Ramis
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    “I feel like a muse on leave: I am no longer a promising young thing, and I don’t have a recognised role. I have no aim in sight and I haven’t achieved anything. An idea for a painting which is yet to be defined.
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  • Cosas que pasan
    These things happen
    Author:
    Luis Goytisolo
    Publisher: Ediciones Siruela, S.A.
    The first chapter of Cosas que pasan is called ‘The Whirlwind’, and the story as a whole has something of a whirlwind to it from beginning to end: a succession of not exactly everyday events, often awful or disturbing or stunning, which spin around and around the reader, revealing to them, little by little, something that at first might seem insufficiently developed. Novel?
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  • Cosmos y Gea
    The Cosmos and Gaia
    Author:
    Francesc FÍgols
    Publisher: EDITORIAL KAIRÓS, S.A.
    Starting with the study of a series of enigmas located at the boundary between life and matter, the author offers us a revolutionary vision of physics and biology.
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  • Crítica del colectivismo europeo antioccidental
    A critique of anti-Western European collectivism
    Author:
    Eugenio del Río
    Publisher: Talasa Ediciones
    This book starts from the premise that within the European Left, which has cherished such a strong desire for equality and social justice, a collectivist impulse, at times authoritarian, has become apparent, contrary to the best ideals of emancipation. This impulse spanned the entire 20th century and is still present in part of the Left at the start of the 21st.
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  • Crypta
    Crypta
    Publisher: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria
    “The truth, my dear Natalia, is that you would need to write many volumes to explain my adventures on Earth and in any case there would still be interesting things left in the inkwell. You have to realise that the world is ours, it belongs to the Dark Ones. The others never even existed. It’s all a story, a fantasy invented by mortals.
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  • Curso de Bases del Maquillaje
    A basic course in make-up
    Author:
    Marta Guillén
    Publisher: Videocinco Editorial
    Make-up is a tool with which people can make the most of their best features and achieve a nice-looking face, projecting an attractive image of themselves. This book with accompanying DVD attempts to explain the key points of make-up depending on the type of face, with practical examples to understand better the concepts described.  
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