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All About My Mother
• Pedro Almodovar
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A vivid and colorful slice of life about women, friendship and loss from the celebrated Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.
(SPN231, $29.95)
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art/shop/eat Madrid
• Robert Smyth
• GUIDEBOOK
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Blue Guide's compact, illustrated guidebook with excellent local maps. The book includes not only museums, shops and restaurants, but also not-to-be-missed sites and attractions by neighborhood.
(SPN307, $13.95)
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Bradt Guide Canary Islands
• Lucy Corne
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the popular Bradt series by a Las Palmas resident and journalist. With city and town plans and in-depth coverage of destinations throughout the archipelago.
(CNY06, $21.95)
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The Buried Mirror
• Carlos Fuentes
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A fascinating, illustrated survey of Latin American culture and history by the great Mexican author Carlos Fuentes. With hundreds of color illustrations.
(SPN71, $29.95)
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The Club Dumas
• Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Sonia Soto
• MYSTERY
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In this second Perez-Reverte thriller, book detective Lucas Corso helps uncover the secret behind a hanged book-lover and a fragment from the original "The Three Musketeers." Black magic, adventure, and murderers follow him as he travels between Madrid, Toledo and Paris.
(FRN577, $14.00)
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Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain
• Vivian B. Mann
• Jerilynn Dodds
• Thomas F. Glick
• HISTORY
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The "Golden Age" of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian coexistence in Spain.
(SPN73, $39.95)
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Dali
• Ignacio Gomez De Liano
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautiful oversize volume featuring more than 100 reproductions of Dali's works.
(SPN77, $29.95)
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Discovering Spain, An Uncommon Guide
• Penelope Casas
• GUIDEBOOK
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A wonderful, personable guide to Spain filled with history and culture and infused with the author's wit and love for her country. Casas dedicates a chapter to each of Spain's 12 parts. Highly recommended.
(SPN31, $25.00)
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Don Quixote
• Miguel de Cervantes
• John Rutherford
• LITERATURE
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The most famous work in Spanish literature, rendered in a lively, modern translation. It is the picaresque tale of a romantic, mad gentleman who imagines himself a knight errant.
(SPN23, $12.00)
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The End of Days, A Story of Tolerance, Tyranny, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
• Erna Paris
• HISTORY
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The story of the dramatic changes in Spain leading to the Spanish Inquisition.
(SPN56, $39.00)
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Eyewitness Guide Spain
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb, colorful guide covers all of Spain. It features bright photography, dozens of excellent maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(SPN05, $30.00)
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Eyewitness Madrid Pocket Map & Guide
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide to Madrid features color photography, easy-to-use foldout maps and top attractions. Convenient and up-to-date with an unbeatable price, this is the guide to carry.
(SPN317, $6.99)
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Farewell Espana, The World of the Sephardim Remembered
• Howard Morley Sachar
• HISTORY
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A history of Spanish Jews by a well known scholar. Sachar covers not only the rise, persecution, and expulsion of the Spanish Jews, but also their dispersion across Europe and in the Americas.
(SPN57, $20.40)
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Fellowship of Fear
• Aaron J. Elkins
• MYSTERY
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In the very first Gideon Oliver novel by Edgar-winner Aaron Elkins, Oliver agrees to teach at European military bases, only to encounter NATO and the KGB, while defending himself from physical attacks.
(EUR233, $7.99)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Ernest Hemingway
• LITERATURE
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Hemingway's great novel about the Spanish Civil War is a love story set during the four-day fight of anti-fascist units in the mountains.
(SPN19, $15.00)
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Frank O. Gehry Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
• Ralph Richter
• Kurt Forster
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A photographic tribute to Gehry's architectural masterpiece, the Guggenheim Bilbao, with an introductory essay by Kurt Forster, a selection of floor plans and full-page color photographs of the museum.
(SPN103, $39.00)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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Heart of Spain: Robert Capa
• Robert Capa
• HISTORY
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Capra's Civil War photography.
(SPN99, $29.95)
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A Hedonist's Guide to Madrid
• Beverley Fearis
• GUIDEBOOK
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(SPN339, $16.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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A History of Medieval Spain
• Joseph F. O'Callaghan
• HISTORY
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A detailed history of the Medieval kingdoms of Iberia.
(SPN10, $29.95)
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Iberia, Spanish Travels & Reflections
• James Michener
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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In this best-selling travelogue, Michener presents a compulsively readable and well-observed account of his love affair with Spain and all things Spanish. It has achieved the status of a classic, rich in detail and insightful.
(SPN16, $8.99)
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Insight City Guide Madrid
• Brian Bell
• GUIDEBOOK
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This eyecatching guide features hundreds of color photographs, illuminating area maps, a separate pullout map, street atlas and practical information.
(SPN373, $15.95)
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The Jews of Spain
• Jane S. Gerber
• HISTORY
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A straightforward, readable history of Jewish life in Spain. The book covers life in Spain up to the expulsion of the Jews in 1492, and continues with chapters on the Sephardic diaspora.
(SPN72, $21.50)
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Knopf Mapguide, Madrid
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(SPN321, $8.95)
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
• J.M. Cohen
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Utterly transformed by her religious experiences and converted at age forty, Saint Teresa feared false mysticism and maintained an analytical and critical view of ecstasy. This book is widely read in Spain.
(SPN18, $13.00)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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The Medieval Spains
• Bernard F. Reilly
• HISTORY
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A short scholarly history of Iberia.
(SPN98, $29.99)
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Modern Spain
• Raymond Carr
• HISTORY
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A survey of Spanish history from 1875 to the advent of King Juan Carlos in 1980.
(SPN152, $24.95)
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National Geographic Traveler Madrid
• Annie Bennett
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography.
(SPN372, $22.95)
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Picasso
• Patrick O'Brian
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Patrick O'Brian, who knew the artist, covers the life and work of Picasso.
(SPN86, $18.95)
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Picasso
• Hans L. Jaffe
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A classic overview of Picasso's art with reproductions of important works.
(SPN85, $19.98)
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Picasso
• Timothy Hilton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An extended illustrated essay on Picasso's achievement and place in 20th-century art.
(SPN82, $16.95)
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Picasso
• Christian-Peter Warncke
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A beautifully illustrated color Tashen monograph featuring the works of Picasso.
(SPN90, $20.00)
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The Quest for El Cid
• Richard Fletcher
• HISTORY
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A reevaluation of the legendary eleventh-century warrior El Cid.
(SPN141, $17.95)
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Spain & Portugal Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful, shaded relief map of the entire Iberian Peninsula at a scale of 1:700,000.
(SPN22, $12.95)
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Spain 1469-1714, A Society of Conflict
• Henry Kamen
• HISTORY
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A vivid history of the Golden Age of imperial Spain.
(SPN69, $68.40)
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Spain and Its World, 1500-1700
• John H. Elliott
• HISTORY
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A wide-ranging overview by the pre-eminent historian of the Imperial Age of Spain.
(SPN48, $24.00)
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Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
• Pablo E. Perez-Mallaina
• HISTORY
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(SPN93, $40.00)
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The Spanish Inquisition
• Cecil Roth
• HISTORY
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This documents the events leading up to the Inquisition, the torment that spread from Spain to Portugal and the New World -- a fascinating exploration of the roots of the Inquisition and its effects on the country.
(SPN91, $15.95)
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The Spanish Seaborne Empire
• J.H. Parry
• HISTORY
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A classic study of colonial Spain's impact on the Americas.
(SPN70, $26.95)
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Spanish, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(SPN259, $7.95)
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The Story of the Moors in Spain
• Stanley Lane-Poole
• HISTORY
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A wonderfully readable, sweeping tale of splendor and tragedy, first published in 1866.
(SPN12, $18.95)
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Surrealism
• Fiona Bradley
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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The history of the Surrealist movement including Magritte, Ernst, Dali, and others.
(SPN83, $20.99)
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To the Heart of Spain: Food and Wine Adventures beyond the Pyrenees
• Ann Walker
• Larry Walker
• FOOD
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A celebration of Spain and its food.
(SPN95, $14.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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A Traveller's Companion To Madrid
• Hugh Thomas
• ANTHOLOGY
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(SPN291, $16.95)
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Wallpaper City Guide Madrid
• Wallpaper Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
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A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations.
(SPN300, $8.95)
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Where Madrid Cityguide
• Where Magazine
• GUIDEBOOK
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A sturdy pocket guide to top city sights, helpfully keyed to overview maps and featuring a detailed downtown PopOut map.
(SPN341, $9.95)
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Wild Spain, A Traveller's Guide
• Frederic Grunfeld
• GUIDEBOOK
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A brief, illustrated survey of the national parks and wilderness areas of Spain, organized geographically.
(SPN96, $19.95)
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Winter in Madrid
• C. J. Sansom
• LITERATURE
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(SPN352, $25.95)
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