New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2012

  • SIN ENTRAÑAS
    Gutless
    Gutless Sin entrañas
    Author:
    Maruja Torres
    Oriol Laclau i Masdéu, construction magnate and socially successful football chairman, dies of apparently natural causes while on a Nile cruise. His sister, Lady Roxana, confesses to her friend Diana Dial, former reporter and amateur detective, that she suspects Oriol was murdered. The journalist feels the case requires her services.
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  • SOBRE LA FELICIDAD
    On Happiness
    Author:
    LAMA LOBSANG TSULTRIM
    Publisher: EDICIONES DHARMA, S.L.
    Skillfully, simply and rigorously, Lama Lobsang Tsultrim leads us towards ultimate happiness via the three stages of the journey we must follow: renouncing suffering, overcoming egoism by fostering limitless altruism and developing the wisdom that will allow us to perceive reality.
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  • Sombras en el tiempo
    Shadows in Time
    Author:
    Jordi Sierra i Fabra
    Agent: IMC Agencia Literaria
    Shadows in Time is a painful story of love, courage and hope. In 1949 a family of immigrants settled in Barcelona in search of a better life and trying to fulfill their dream. Encouraged by the promise of a better life, far from the rural poverty of their native land, they confront the harshness of what is for them an unknown world.
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  • Stalin. El tirano rojo
    Stalin. The red tyrant
    Author:
    Álvaro Lozano
    Stalinism did not only consist of repression and imprisonments, it was also a very complicated system, which was economically and socially revolutionary. Stalin forged an economic system that transformed the lives of Soviet citizens and laid the foundations for the rise of the USSR as a superpower.
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  • Susana
    Susana
    Susana
    Author:
    Laura Pérez Vernetti
    Publisher: Amaníaco ediciones
    This comic, a European manga, as its author describes it, tells of the adventures of Susana, a female journalist, discreet and brave, who is given a difficult job by her boss: researching the secret and marginalized world of sex in her city.
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  • Taro el pescador (edición bilingüe)
    Taro the fisherman (bilingual edition)
    Author:
    Leticia Martinez Pérez
    A picture book based on a traditional Japanese story that tells the adventures of a fisherman, fantastically fused with the story of the Sea King. The originality of the book derives from having two different stories with the same illustrations. Furthermore, this is a bilingual book, here in a Spanish/Japanese version.
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  • Técnicas de manicura, pedicura y uñas artificiales
    Manicure, Pedicure and Artificial Nails
    Tecnicas de manicura pedicura y unas artificiales
    Author:
    Encarnación Villasevil
    The aesthetic care of nails, both fingers and toes, is an increasingly important beauty skill. More and more women are deciding to treat their nails with gel or porcelain, or simply visit a beauty salon to have their nails cleaned.
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  • TEMAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ECONOMÍA DE LA EMPRESA BANCARIA
    Research On The Economy of Banking
    Author:
    Isabel Plaza Hidalgo
    This book runs through the main questions that researchers into the banking industry attempt to answer: What do banks do? Why do they exist? Is the banking industry in decline? What is the structure of merchant banks? How does a bank behave in accordance with financial theory? Are there conflicts of interest between a bank and the company it finances?
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  • Teoría y política macroeconómica
    Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
    Author:
    Oscar Bajo Rubio
    Carmen Díaz Roldán
    Publisher: Antoni Bosch Editor, S.A.
    European economies, in contrast to that of the United States, are in general characterised by less flexibility and a greater emphasis placed on institutional aspects. As for the labour market, in Europe Keynsian-inspired models have been developed based on the interaction of two groups of agents of market power: workers who determine salaries and businesspeople who determine prices.
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  • Tina Modotti. Una mujer del siglo xx
    Tina Modotti: A 20th Century Woman
    Author:
    Ángel de la Calle
    There were many artists who lived in Mexico during the first years of the past century: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Mayakovsky, Dos Passos and Tina Modotti, photographer and revolutionary, militant creator, activist and muse, a figure who grows in stature through the vision of Ángel de la Calle.
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