New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012

  • Queer-emos un mundo novo
    We Want a Gay New World
    Author:
    Teresa Moure
    Publisher: Editorial Galaxia
    This essay harnesses the subversive power of queer theory and applies it to contemporary linguistic categories. This is a theory that breaks with a binary view: reality is too complex to be reduced to being-A or not-being-A, being a man or a woman. It is a reclamation of the many spaces between the two stereotypes.
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  • Quiero ser Community Manager. 10 profesionales y 5 compañías analizan una nueva realidad
    I want to be a Community Manager. 10 professionals and 5 companies analyse a new reality
    Author:
    Chema Martínez-Priego
    There are few occasions when a new profession constitutes a turning point in the life of a company. When the figure of the Community Manager appeared, it led to a wave of opportunism and confusion in the face of the unknown.
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  • Raidho. Un viaje con los vikingos
    Raidho. A voyage with the Vikings
    Author:
    Núria Pradas
    Paco Saula
    After his adventure in Ancient Egypt, Victor travels through time again. On this occasion the green beetle transports him to the time of the Vikings. Shortly after arriving, he is captured and made a slave by Asgerd, a young warrior girl. With her and her family, Victor will undertake a sea voyage that will lead the Vikings to the discovery of Greenland.
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  • Recursos energètics i crisi. La fi de 200 anys irrepetibles
    Energy resources and crisis. The end of 200 unrepeatable years
    Recursos energètics i crisi
    Author:
    Carles Riba Romeva
    Publisher: Editorial Octaedro
    Nature’s resources are finite, especially non-renewable energies, a fact many responsible politicians and businesspeople don’t seem to realize. The author asks if it will be possible to maintain the industrial advances that began some 200 years ago with the exploitation of coal and, later on, oil, natural gas and uranium.
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  • Saturn babe
    Saturn babe
    Author:
    Josep Busquet
    R.F. Bachs
    Publisher: Amaníaco ediciones
    Saturn Babe is a graphic novel based on an adventure in space, a science fiction story that mixes action, emotion and humour. Jack is a space adventurer who travels from one end of the galaxy to the other having adventures, on board an intelligent spaceship with its own personality, plus the own one in the galaxy that can talk and has its own opinions.  
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  • Se feliz y daras felicidad
    Be Happy and you’ll Give Happiness
    Se feliz y daras felicidad
    Author:
    Josep Montalat
    Publisher: Cicerone
    In this book, the author shows us a world based on 3 characteristics: a) Happiness of Earth is possible and legitimate b) The key to happiness lies in ourselves c) If we want to make others happy, we have to be happy ourselves first.
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  • SENTIMIENTOS Y EMOCIONES:CANCIONES PARA CRECER
    Feelings and emotions: songs for growing
    "Sentimientos y Emociones: Canciones para Crecer"
    Feelings and emotions: When we take a look inside ourselves and listen in silence, we discover that our body is saying lots of things about how we are feeling and what is happening to us. These are our Feelings and Emotions, which are moving around inside us.
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  • SERENIDAD MENTAL, LA PRÁCTICA TIBETANA DE MEDITACIÓN SHINÉ
    Mental Serenity, The Tibetan Practice of Shine Meditation
    Author:
    TRITUL RIMPOCHE
    Publisher: EDICIONES DHARMA, S.L.
    In this text the author offers us a brief, accessible guide to the main features of this practice. He does not fail to warn us of the dangers of our excessively busy, distracted daily lives and the unreasonable expectations with which we set out on new ventures.
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  • SERENIDAD MENTAL, LA PRÁCTICA TIBETANA DE MEDITACIÓN SHINÉ
    Mental Serenity, The Tibetan Practice of Shine Meditation
    Author:
    TRITUL RIMPOCHE
    Publisher: EDICIONES DHARMA, S.L.
    In this text the author offers us a brief, accessible guide to the main features of this practice. He does not fail to warn us of the dangers of our excessively busy, distracted daily lives and the unreasonable expectations with which we set out on new ventures.
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  • Simpatía por el diablo
    Sympathy for the Devil
    Author:
    Agustín Díaz Yanes
    Publisher: Espasa
    While organising the papers, Isabel couldn't help noticing their content. She closed the office door and read them thoroughly. She became alarmed: what she had in her hands was the plan for a conspiracy to seize control of the State.
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