Spanish Portuguese category: 605 books
They Need Nothing
Hispanic-Asian Encounters of the Colonial Period
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The first comprehensive study of Spanish writings on East and Southeast Asia from the Spanish colonial period, They Need Nothing draws attention to many essential but understudied Spanish-language texts from this era. Robert Richmond Ellis provides an engaging, interdisciplinary examination of how...
Tapas
A Taste of Spain in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
A classic Spanish cookbook from José Andrés, a humanitarian, James Beard Award winner, New York Times bestselling author, and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People.
Tapas are Spain's gift to the world of great cooking: a fresh and fun way to eat with friends and family—and easy to make...
Barrafina
A Spanish Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
'Possibly the best Spanish cookbook ever' Rachel Cooke, Observer Food Monthly
'Barrafina is a tapas bar and the best of its kind . . . the food is fantastic' Giles Coren, The Times
When Sam and Eddie Hart opened Barrafina, their no-reservations tapas bar and restaurant in London's Soho,...
Rick Stein's Spain: 140 new recipes inspired by my journey off the beaten track
140 new recipes inspired by my journey off the beaten track
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
***'***I've wanted to make a series in Spain for a long time. I love Spanish food, I've been going there since I was a young boy - but until quite recently I don't think people really took the food seriously. Thanks to a handful of really dedicated Spanish chefs and a growing enthusiasm for its rugged...
Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds
A Philosophy of Painting
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive...
Beyond Spain's Borders
Women Players in Early Modern National Theaters
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The prolific theatrical activity that abounded on the stages of early modern Europe demonstrates that drama was a genre that transcended national borders. The transnational character of early modern theater reflects the rich admixture of various dramatic traditions, such as Spain’s comedia and Italy’s...
Striking Their Modern Pose
Fashion, Gender, and Modernity in Galdós, Pardo Bazán, and Picón
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
The importance of fashion in the construction and representation of gender and the formation of modern society in nineteenth-century Spanish narrative is the focus of Dorota Heneghan's Striking Their Modern Pose. The study moves beyond traditional interpretations that equate female passion for finery...
by Susan Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
As the first translator of Plato’s complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance. In Spain, his works were regularly read, quoted, and referenced,...
Modernism and the New Spain
Britain, Cosmopolitan Europe, and Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
How and why did a country seen as remote, backwards, and barely European become a pivotal site for reinventing the continent after the Great War? Modernism and the New Spain argues that the "Spanish problem"-the nation's historically troubled relationship with Europe-provided an animating impulse...
by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Contemporary Advances in Theoretical and Applied Spanish Linguistic Variation by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana, reframes the understanding of language variation and change as an intimate interplay between both linguistic features and social factors always occurring in unison in the same historical process. Its...
Spanish Reading Comprehension For Beginners
Learn Spanish with Stories, #2
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 18, 2017
Here is how you can dramatically improve your reading and comprehension skills with these easy stories written so you can test yourself and rate your progress.
Includes answer key for immediate (and gratifying) feedback to assess your knowledge.
Anatomía del desencanto
Humor, Ficción Y Melancolía En España (1976-1998)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Tras la derrota de los soixante-huitards, el colapso del comunismo europeo y la caída también en torno a 1989 de varias dictaduras y revoluciones en América Latina, el acercamiento sentimental a la historia vuelve a cosechar éxitos entre las humanidades y las ciencias sociales y políticas. En...
Colonial al-Andalus
Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain’s fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco’s side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together, Eric...
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience
Reading from the Mobile City
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural...