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  • MADRID
    MADRID
    LUKE STEGEMANN
    The miraculous story of Madrid--how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre...
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    16,25 €

  • THE LADY BANDIT
    THE LADY BANDIT
    EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain - sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining. But if you decide to visit, be...
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    7,50 €

  • BARCELONA
    BARCELONA
    MARY COSTELLO
    THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love.A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature.A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern lif...
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    12,50 €

  • WHITE KING: AN ANTONIA SCOTT NOVEL 3
    WHITE KING: AN ANTONIA SCOTT NOVEL 3
    JUAN GÓMEZ-JURADO
    "I hope you haven't forgotten me. Shall we play?"Antonia Scott knows exactly who sent her this message: the mysterious Mister White, whom she has been tracking for years. She also knows that it is almost impossible to win against him. But if she loses this game, Inspector Jon Gutiérrez will pay with his life.Antonia and Jon have one last chance: they must solve three cases that...
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    18,75 €

  • CÁDIZ
    CÁDIZ
    HELEN CRISP / JULES STEWART
    This is the tale of Western Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city, a 3,000-year history of war and seafaring, culture and commerce, liberalism and resistance. Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart offer a vibrant account of Cádiz past and present, from its ancient founding myths to its reinvention as a trendy tourist destination. They illuminate Cádiz's experiences under Roman an...
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    31,25 €

  • EL CID
    EL CID
    NORA BEREND
    "Rodrigo Diaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. An ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian princes in service of Muslim rulers, raided and killed Muslims and eventually struck out on his own, carving out an independent principality. While Rodrigo the man is long dead, El Cid lives on: a...
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    21,25 €

  • MODERN SPAIN
    MODERN SPAIN
    FRANCISCO J. ROMERO SALVADÓ
    Using a wealth of varied sources, this book is an inspiring and essential gateway to understanding the foundations of modern Spain. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó employs a chronological framework to chart the country's experience, commencing with the Restoration of the Bourbon Monarch in 1874 up to the present day.Modern Spain is a vital contribution to the study and debate of th...
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    34,00 €

  • SPAIN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
    SPAIN AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
    WAYNE H. BOWEN
    For Charles V and Philip II, both of whom expected to continue the momentum of the Reconquista into a campaign against Islam, the theology and political successes of Martin Luther and John Calvin menaced not just the possibility of a universal empire, but the survival of the Habsburg monarchy. Moreover, the Protestant Reformation stimulated changes within Spain and other Habsbu...
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    49,95 €

  • SECOND PUNIC WAR IN IBERIA 220–206 BC
    SECOND PUNIC WAR IN IBERIA 220–206 BC
    MIR BAHMANYAR
    The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian invasion of Rome.Iberia was one of three crucial theatres of the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. Hannibal of Carthage's siege of Saguntum in 219 BC triggered a conflict that led to immense human and material losses on both sides, ...
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    21,25 €

  • THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF MODERN SPAIN
    THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF MODERN SPAIN
    NIGEL TOWNSON
    A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different, ' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to attract foreign tourists. For the most part, the world has agreed. From the end of its 'glorious empire' in 1898 to the dazzling World Cup victory in 2010, the prevailing narrative of modern Spain has emphasized the cou...
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    18,75 €

  • DON QUIXOTE
    DON QUIXOTE
    MIGUEL. DE CERVANTES
    'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer 'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben Okri Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire, ...
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    13,75 €

  • ACQUITTALS IN THE SPANISH INQUISITION
    ACQUITTALS IN THE SPANISH INQUISITION
    GUNNAR W. KNUTSEN
    The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal. This study of more than 67,000 trials uncovers over 2,500 formal acquittals, more than 6,600 suspended trials, and nearly 2,100 with unknown or no recorded outcome. ...
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    46,25 €