New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012

  • La frontera negra
    The Black Frontier
    Author:
    Silvestre Vilaplana
     A person is buried alive, a young man disappears mysteriously, a fake spiritualist session does not turn out as expected, a remote village in the Amazon is dominated by a diabolical being and attacked by two strange men…The time has come. The dreaded time is approaching and a series of unusual events all over the world are leading up to it. But what is the black frontier?
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  • La generación Google. De la educación permisiva a una escuela moderna.
    The Google Generation. From a Permissive Education to a Modern School
    Generación Google
    Author:
    Eugenia de Pagès
    Publisher: Editorial Milenio - Arts Gràfiques Bobalà, S.L.
    In schools today, the short attention span of pupils together with a lack of boundaries make for a lethal combination in any kind of learning environment. What can be done about this?
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  • La hora de los grandes "filántropos"
    The Hour of the Great ‘Philanthropists’
    Author:
    Joan Carrero
    Publisher: Editorial Milenio - Arts Gràfiques Bobalà, S.L.
    Lays out the project of financial concentration and centralised control of the global economy. In the banking ‘rescue’, the banks of the great ‘philanthropist’ financiers have received over 16 billion dollars and have left the ‘crisis’ to continue scheming and carrying out their project of world domination.
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  • La isla de Bowen
    Bowen’s island]
    Premio EDEBE de Literatura Juvenil 2012
    Author:
    César Mallorquí
    1920. It all began with the murder of the English sailor Jeremiah Perkins in Havoysund and the mysterious packet he sent to Lady Elisabeth Faraday before he died. Or perhaps the story begins before, when some strange relics were discovered that led to Professor Ulises Zarco, director of the geographic society SIGMA, to embark on an incredible adventure on board the Saint Michel.
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  • La leyenda de rey Arturo y sus caballeros
    The Legend of King Arthur and His Knights
    Author:
    Antoni Dalmases
    Pere Ginard
    The first complete re-writing in Spanish of the Arturian era based on various literary sources which make up this universal legend. The author, Antoni Dalmases, has successfully translated this epic of the Medieval world to modern, accessible language. In addition, Pere Ginard’s magnificent illustrations brilliantly recreate the characters and atmosphere of the era.
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  • La libertad última
    The Last Freedom
    La libertad última
    Author:
    Michael F. Ryan
    Roger Murphy had it all. A great apartment in the Marina District, the best dog in the world and the most widely debated column in the San Francisco press. But when the ground started to shake, he was on the point of losing it all… and all of a sudden he found himself fighting to survive. Just when he was on the edge of the abyss, Viktor Frankl entered his life and transformed it.
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  • La lógica de las ciencias morales
    The Logic of the Moral Sciences
    Author:
    Stuart Mill, John
    Álvarez (ed), José Francisco
    Agent: CSIC
    This book is considered to be one of the most outstanding essays ever written on the logical possibilities and difficulties of a science of society. Considerations on the method to follow in the different areas of the social sciences are offered. In his introduction, J.
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  • La luz difícil
    Difficult Light
    Author:
    Tomás González
    Publisher: Alfaguara
    Jacob has decided to die. A car accident has left him paraplegic and in such pain that his life is unbearable. His father David faces the hardest of tests: witnessing the event.
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  • La muchacha salvaje
    The wild girl
    Author:
    Mireia Pérez
    La muchacha salvaje tells the story of how a girl who comes from a nomadic tribe discovers that she is different from everyone else, and begins a journey which will bring her into contact with other tribes and people with new customs who will help her to better understand her own identity.
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  • La música de los clásicos. Versiones de la poesía antigua, de la Edad Media al Renacimiento tardío
    The Music of the Classics: Versions of ancient poetry from the Middle Ages to the Late Renaissance
    Author:
    Jorge Bergua Cavero
    One of the fundamental questions in this study is the one which is – at least for those who tend to perceive the world with their ears before their eyes – the most complex within the field of the humanities: the relationship between language and music, that wide and well-mined area involves the text, melody, prosody, articulation, verbal and musical rhythm, the meaning of words and
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