Javier: 1131 books
by Francisco Javier San Martín
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Durante su corta existencia, Piero Manzoni (Soncino, Cremona, 1933 – Milán, 1963) dedicó su trabajo a socavar las ideas y las prácticas dominantes en el arte de su tiempo. Obras como los Achromes, cuadros realizados sin pintura; las Líneas encerradas en cilindros de cartón; las Bases mágicas...
by Javier Sierra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 5, 2019
**GANADOR DEL PREMIO PLANETA 2017
El secreto más importante de la humanidad está a punto de ser revelado.**
David Salas, un prometedor lingüista del Trinity College de Dublín, se encuentra, después de aterrizar en Madrid para pasar sus vacaciones, con Victoria Goodman, una vieja...
Sixteen and Counting
The National Championships of Alabama Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Dramatic accounts of every University of Alabama National Championship football season recounted by noted sports writers, players, and Alabamians.
Dating back to 1925, when Wallace Wade coached the Crimson Tide to an undefeated season and earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, the driving goal of...
Trump, el triunfo del showman
Golpe a los medios y jaque al sistema
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Estamos ante una mirada periodística de la irrepetible campaña que vivió Estados Unidos, protagonizada por un populista genuinamente americano, Donald Trump. La aparición del magnate, que trivializó la verdad con técnicas de reality show y su dominio del Twitter, fue la provocación perfecta...
Que no te la cuenten
Que no te la cuenten, #1
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Por varias generaciones hemos sido educados en falsedades históricas, ya que siempre fue verdad aquella frase de Orwell que decía: “quien controla el pasado, controla el futuro”.
Dichas falsificaciones, como la gota que horada la piedra, han ido poco a poco planteando interrogantes más allá...
by Francisco Javier Morales Natera
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories...
Generating Traces in the History of the World
New Traces of the Christian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's reflection on the Christian experience. His exploration of Christianity as an unforeseen and unforeseeable event in which the mystery became a man reveals how, by acknowledging this fact, an individual is simultaneously...
El mundo por sombrero
Crónica caleidoscópica de un periplo circumplanetario
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Imágenes caleidoscópicas, sí, puesto que, tal y como descubrirá con facilidad el lector, varias son las opciones desde las que cabe abordar la lectura de este periplo circumplanetario: —En primer lugar, todos los comentarios Facebook mediante los que mantuve entretenidos —espero— a mis incondicionales...
by Francisco Javier Aspas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Una estremecedora novela que revela la posibilidad del amor en el campo de concentración en el que se exterminaron cientos de miles de vidas y de sueños. Helena y su amiga Rivka, dos chicas judías de Eslovaquia, viajan hacinadas en un tren a una fábrica en Alemania junto a cientos de mujeres....
Collecting from the Margins
Material Culture in a Latin American Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
From the cabinets of wonderof the Renaissance to the souvenir collections of today, selecting, accumulating, and organizing objects are practices that are central to our notions of who we are and what we value. Collecting, both private and institutional, has been instrumental in the consolidation...
Dragon in the Tropics
Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chavez
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics-the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (19992013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy-examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope...
Spain
From Dictatorship to Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
A thorough introduction to post-Civil War Spain, from its development under Franco and subsequent...
by Marianne David, Yolanda Pérez Sinusía, Javier Muñoz-Basols
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Developing Writing Skills in Spanish provides intermediate and advanced level students with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language.
With a focus on writing as a craft, Developing Writing Skills in Spanish offers a rich selection of original materials...
Spanish Idioms in Practice
Understanding Language and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Idiomatic expressions are the ‘salt and pepper’ of any language. They give Spanish its colour and imagery, its richness and variety.
From set phrases and idioms to metaphorical expressions and proverbs, these essential components allow users to add humour and spice to their language, vividly...