New issue received from: Book Magazine (nº167. October 2010)
Summary of this new issue:
HISTORY
*Stanley G. Payne, Why did the Republic lose the war? (Spawn). Michael Seidman
*Manuel Álvarez Tardío and Roberto Villa García, The price of exclusion. Politics during the Second Republic (Meeting). Michael Seidman
*Fernando del Rey Reguillo, Countrymen in struggle. Political exclusion and violence in the Second Spanish Republic (New Library). Manuel Alvarez Late
* Alfonso Rojas Quintana, Jose Maria Gil-Robles. Story of an unfair failure (Synthesis). Manuel Alvarez Late
* Zira Box, Spain, year zero. The symbolic construction of Francoism (Alliance). Francisco Sevillano
*Javier Moreno Luzon and Ramon Villares, Restoration and Dictatorship (Criticism/Marcial Pons). Gregory Alonso
*Santiago Martinez Hernandez, Rodriguez Calderon. The shadow of the valid: privanza, favor and corruption in the court of Felipe III (Center for Hispanic Europe Studies/Marcial Pons). Antonio Feros
CHINA
*Zachary Karabell, Superfusion. How China and America Became one Economy and Why the World's Depends on It (Simon & Schuster). Julio Aramberri
Ben Simpfendorfer The New Silk Road. How a Rising Arab World is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China (Palgrave Macmillan). Julio Aramberri
*Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World. The end of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order (The penguin press). Julio Aramberri
*Richard McGregor, TheParty. The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers (Harper-Collins e-books). Julio Aramberri
ENERGY
*Radioactive waste or energy for the future? Juan Jose Gomez Cadenas
SCIENCE
*Margaret Cheney Nicholas Tesla. The genius whose light was stolen (Turner). Victor Guijarro Mora
*Javier Ordonez, Ideas and inventions of a millennium (Lunwerg/CSIC). Jose Luis Gonzalez
LINGUISTICS
*Christine Kennelly, The first word. The search for the origins of language (Alliance). Angel Alonso-Cortes
*Peter F. MacNeilage, The Origin of Speech (Oxford University Press). Angel Alonso-Cortes
*James R. Hurgord, The Origins of Meaning Language in the Light of Evolution (Oxford University Press). Angel Alonso-Cortes
CULTURAL STUDIES
*Francisco de Luis Martin and Luis Arias Gonzalez, Houses of the People and Socialist Workers Centers in Spain. Historical, social and architectural study (Pablo Iglesias Publisher). Jose-Carlos Mainer
*Jonathan Littel, The dry and the wet. A brief foray into fascist territory (RBA). Pink Rose Room
PHILOSOPHY
* Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the future. The desire called utopia and other science fiction approaches (Akal). David Sanchez Usanos
*David Mikecs, Who Was Jacques Down? An Intellectual Biography (Yale University Press).
MUSIC
*Glenda Down Goss, Sibelius. A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland (The University of Chicago Press). Gabriel Jackson
GASTRONOMY
*Elena Kostyukovitch, Why Italians like to talk about food. An itinerary through history, culture and customs (Tusquets). Good Pillar
CULTURE STORIES
*Francisco Rico, Jordi Gracia and Antonio Bonet (eds.), Spain XXI century. Literature and Fine Arts (vol. 5) (New Library). Rafael Nunez Florencio
*Jordi Grace, Out in the open. Exile and culture in Spain (Anagram). Andres Soria Olmedo
BIOGRAPHIES/MEMOIRS
*Carmen Laforet, seven novellas (A quarter to). Nick Caistor
*Anna Caballé and Israel Rolón, Carmen Laforet. A woman on the run (RBA). nick castor
* Cristina Cerezales Laforte, you will love your brother (Destiny), white music (Destiny). Nick Caistor
*Juan Cruz Ruiz scrambled egos. A personal memoir of literary life (Tusquets). Alive Angels
POETRY
* Blas de Otero, Leaves of Madrid with La galerna (Gutenberg Galaxy/Circle of Readers). Eduardo Moga
*Ledo Ivo, the salt village (Calambur). Anthony Maura
* Jaime Gil de Biedma, The argument of the work. Correspondence (1951-1989) (light), poetry and prose (Gutenberg Galaxy). Michael Dalmau
THE NARRATOR'S LOOK
Christopher Nolan, From (Warner Bros). John Peter Aparicio
LITERATURES
* Thomas Pynchon, Against light (Tusquets). Javier Aparicio
*Stanislaw Lem, imaginary magnitude (Impairment), perfect vacuum (Impairment). Joaquin Toran
SPANISH LITERATURE
*Luis Goytisolo, Things that happen (Siruela). Peter Donoso
*Jose Maria Guelbenzu, True love (Siruela). Ana Rodriguez Fischer
*Luis Magrinya, Double room (Anagram). Juan Carlos Hairstyle
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