New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011

  • El Camino de Santiago del norte
    The Northern Way of St James
    Author:
    Paco Nadal
    Publisher: El País-Aguilar
    A book about the Northern Way of St James. A variant on the way of St James which runs along the Cantabrian coast. Includes a description of the route and its historic buildings, plus practical information, maps, distances, hostels and lodgings, where to eat and buy provisions.
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  • EL CASO SANKARA
    the Sankara case
    Author:
    Antonio Lozano
    Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
    On 15 October 1987, Thomas Sankara, the president of Burkina Faso, was overthrown by men working for Blaise Compaoré, his comrade-in-arms and friend, who immediately succeeded him as president. Thus ended the country's revolutionary phase, set in motion four years earlier by the two men.
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  • El catalejo
    The telescope
    Author:
    Marta Serra Muñoz
    Publisher: Almadraba Editorial
    In my room there is a hole which I like to look through with the cardboard telescope that we made at school. Through it I can see all sorts of fantastic and unique animals. My friend Juan is also unique...
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  • El club de los tipos duros
    The Tough Guys' Club
    Author:
    Fernando Montero
    Rafael Galán
    Publisher: Gestión 2000
    Have you had enough of being trampled on and undervalued in your place of work? Do your colleagues take the credit for you hard work, steal your ideas and laugh at your shirts? Does your boss bully you or set you dreary tasks? Dr House, John Locke, Dexter Morgan, Hannibal Lecter, John McLane and Marge Simpson herself appear in this book as experts coaches.
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  • EL COMPOSITOR DE TORMENTAS
    The storm composer
    Author:
    ANDRÉS PASCUAL
    Publisher: Plaza & Janes
    Matthieu is a young musical genius who, fascinated by the magic of Versailles and its wild parties, yearns to be part of the orchestra of Louis XIV, the Sun King. What he cannot foresee is that a brutal murder will open the doors to the palace for him to carry out the sovereign's most ambitious project: the transcribe the meolody of the soul.
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  • El darrer manuscrit
    The darrer manuscript
    Author:
    Bartomeu Mestre
    Publisher: Columna Edicions S.A.
    An elderly man hangs himself in his cell on the same day he is imprisoned in 1986 for an attempt to blow up Palma train station. Shortly after he is detained, he confesses and hands an autobiographical manuscript to his priest, asking him to publish it. The story contains the confession of his failed atack and of an earlier case of sabotage in which no one suspected him.
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  • 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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