New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011 - E

  • El diseño a su servicio
    Design at Your Service
    Author:
    Xènia Viladàs
    Publisher: Index Book
    This book analyses the birth of Serices Design as a discipline, outlines its main tools and puts forward a model for the way in which design can be valuable in every phase of the development of a new service.
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  • El Expediente Sión
    The Zion dossier
    Author:
    Benito Cabo Guillermo
    Publisher: Sepha
    In the first few months of 1941 a group of Zionist Jews propose an alliance to the Nazis. Is this merely a novelistic conceit? Absolutely not. In this novel based on rigourously documented and little-known historical facts, the author relates a series of events that might have changed the course of the war and, without any doubt, of the history of humanity itself.
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  • El futuro del capitalismo
    the future of capitalism
    Author:
    Salvador Giner
    Publisher: Península
    Does capitalism have a future? If so, what is it? After the current economic recession, will there be others, perhaps worse? What possibility is there for a different economic order taking its place? How likely is it to collapse? If, instead of this occurring, it evolves without collapse into something different to what is has been up to now, what will the new face of the world look like?
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  • El genet nu
    The naked horseman
    Author:
    Joan Giné-Masdeu
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    During the violent Battle of the Ebro, Paul Brians, a young member of the International Brigades and son of a Catalan father and an American mother, is the first to cross the river in the Republican offensive and the last to swim back over it as his side withdraws after their defeat.
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  • El infierno prometido
    The promised hell
    Author:
    Elsa Drucaroff
    Publisher: El Aleph Editores
    Agencia Literaria Antonia Kerrigan
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  • El jinete del silencio
    The horseman of silence
    Author:
    Gonzalo Giner
    Publisher: Ediciones Temas de Hoy
    It is the 16th century. King Charles V has asked his noblemen to assist him in his campaigns throughout Europe by providing horses, and the noblemen are doing their best satisfy his needs. But in the midst of the Renaissance, it is not only war that is important, but art too, and the horse is starting to be seen as an artistic object and a distinguished, prestigious resource.
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  • El mar de la tranquil•litat
    The sea of tranquility
    Author:
    David Castillo
    Publisher: Edicions Proa
    Ángel, out of work and love, decides to go back to the neighbourhood he grew up in. His lost paradise is the abandoned plots of Vallcarca and El Carmel, where he used to play football, fight with rival gangs, and everyone used to let off home-made bombs. These were the years when Man first walked on the moon and the hippies arrived in Ibiza.
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  • El mar en llamas
    The sea in flames
    Author:
    Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa
    Publisher: Ediciones Martínez Roca
    This is a revolutionary book, and one expected to make history. Firstly because of its plot, which shows with an enthralling storyline the danger involved for future generations of extracting oil from ten thousand metres under the sea.
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  • El método de AIDA para estar en tu peso
    The SIDH Method for Maintaining your Correct Weight
    Author:
    Rosa Pérez-Bibián
    Publisher: Salsa Books ediciones
    It is no cliqué to say that beauty is not skin-deep. If you want to enjoy life, you have to like yourself ,and nothing is better for achieving this than a method which reinforces Self-esteem by means of Intelligence and Decisiveness in order to attain, above all else, Happiness.
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  • El monstruo
    The Monster
    Author:
    Daniel Martín
    Ramón Trigo
    Publisher: Lóguez
    Rosario and her brother live with a monster. He is strong and tall; he foams at the mouth, and his eyes often turn red. Can or should a story of domestic violence be offered to children in the form of a picture book?
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