New Spanish Titles - Spring 2010 - C

  • Conquista y destrucción de las Indias
    Conquest and destruction of the Indies
    Author:
    Esteban Mira Caballos
    Publisher: Muñoz Moya editores
    Conquest and destruction of the Indies thoroughly analyses the huge genocide caused by the conquest and colonization, the past and current theories that either deny or justify it, the legislation protective towards the natives, the use of terror as an strategy, the assassination, systematic rapes, plundering, acts of paedophilia and other humiliations committed by conquerors, murderer priests a
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  • Contes Russos
    Russian Tales
    Author:
    Francesc Serés
    Publisher: Acantilado/ QUADERNS CREMA S.A.
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    Writers Ola Yevguènieva, Véra-Margarita Abansèrev, Vitali Kroptkin, Aleksandr Vòlkov and Iosif Bergxenko were unbeknownst to me before Anastàssia Maxímovna sent me their short stories. To me, they are part in the fictionalization of fiction.
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  • Contra el viento
    Against the Wind
    Author:
    Ángeles Caso
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
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    São, a girl who, like everyone in her village, was born to work, decides one day to try and build a better life for herself in Europe. After learning, again and again, how to overcome adversity, she will find a new friend in a Spanish woman who is drowning in her own insecurities.
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  • Cuentos y teatrillos “en verde”. Medioambiente, Ecología y otros valores
    Stories and skits “in green” - Environment, Ecology and other values
    Author:
    Isabel Agüera
    Publisher: NARCEA S.A. de EDICIONES
    This book which contains 14 stories and 14 theatrical scripts. It’s an eco-environmental project that has as objective the spread and awareness of values related with environment, ecology and the protection of all the resources that surround us, in order to challenge everyone, to take care of the present and, thus, to achieve a better future.
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