New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010

  • Reestructuración del Estado de bienestar
    Restructuring the welfare state
    Author:
    Antonio Antón
    Publisher: Talasa Ediciones
    The object of this investigation by Antonio Antón, Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is the process of restructuring the welfare state and the impact of the current economic crisis: the trends of European welfare states and the problems and conflicts of, and options for, social reform; the various theories and debates, the process of socioeconomic moder
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  • Reflexología podal
    Foot reflexology
    Author:
    Various Authors
    Publisher: Videocinco Editorial
    Reflexology stands from the various different types of massage as it stimulates zones removed from the pressure points. The reason this happens is due to the human body’s reflex mechanism.
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  • Rendering para arquitectos
    Rendering for architects
    Author:
    Elisenda Bonet Saumench, Jánice Moret Chesa, Gemma Solanellas Bertran
    Publisher: PARRAMON PAIDOTRIBO S.L.
    This book explains how renderings, or virtual graphic representations of projects, are done, in this case in the field of architecture. All the concepts necessary to work in this field are presented, and the concepts one needs to be familiar with are explained. The book contains a description of the materials used by a professional in rendering, essentially in data processing.
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  • Respeto a la igualdad
    Respect for Equality
    Author:
    Rita Radl Philipp
    Publisher: NOVA GALICIA EDICIÓNS, S.L.
    Social, cultural and religious diversity is a source of wealth for any society, and recognising this is of benefit to everyone. In order to create a better world without discrimination, the key word to remember when faced with any difference is ‘equality’.
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  • Se Sabrà Tot
    All will be revealed
    Author:
    Xavier Bosch
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    “The job lasted me as long as a pair of shoes” confesses Dani Santana. What were the circumstances that drove the editor of the newspaper Crònica to leave the post so hastily? What balancing game between power and politics is shaking the newspaper to its foundations? What is hidden behind the seductive curtains of the world of journalism?
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  • Seducir sin Sufrir en el Siglo XXI
    Seduction Without Tears in the 21st Century
    Author:
    Milena Ivanova
    Publisher: Esencia
    If you sweat buckets on your first date, and enter into a semi comatose state; if you still believe that you have to go on a diet or wear lace underwear in order to pull; if when you mouth the words “I love you”, your paramour slips away muttering excuses, never to be seen again; if you slip up and don’t know how to confess it to your partner; if your other half has been unfai
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  • Seguridad pública en buques de pasaje
    Safety and Security on passenger ships
    Author:
    Alvaro Librán
    Ricardo Marí
    Publisher: Edicions UPC
    A crisis is any situation originated by a threat from which serious damages or loss of lives, goods, interests or image may be produced. Any rupture of routine activities on the ship may unleash a crisis situation, independently of the actual nature or seriousness of the initial situation.
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  • Sferificaciones y macarrones
    Spherics and Macaroni
    Author:
    Claudi Mans
    Publisher: Editorial Ariel
    Read report: Sferificaciones y Macarrones
    A novel work which, in a readable form, compares the meals of the great media chefs with everyday dishes from our own cuisine in order to show the similarities between the science and methods of both worlds. Mousses, air dishes, spherics, emulsions, gels, hot ice-cream… tortillas, croquettes, chips, pears in wine and grilled steak are some of the examples analysed in detail.
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  • Si el corazón pensara
    If the Heart Thought
    Author:
    Antonio Rodríguez Almodóvar
    Publisher: Alianza Editorial
    Villanueva de la Aguilas, Seville, carries on through the grey post-war years between the novenas of the devout and the repression of the victors. Currito lives there with his sisters, existing on the family income and a grocery shop selling black market goods. His everyday routine is disrupted when he hears that Rosa, La Culona (The Bum), who taught him how to write, is now a prostitute.
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  • Sombrero y Mississippi, impresiones sobre el oficio de la impression
    Hat and Mississippi: impressions on the trade of impression
    Author:
    Ray Loriga
    Publisher: RDC AGENCIA LITERARIA S.L
    In our children’s hands, hats and rivers regain the importance that fiction asks of them. The elements are tamed and sing their own praises and above all they adapt to the true needs of representation. History ends and fiction begins, without any confrontation. Writing does not steal nor does it demand anything, it simply employs that which it finds useful, without establishing a conflict.
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