New issue received from: Book Magazine (nº1748-176. July-August 2011)

Summary of this new issue:

CLASSICS

* Alfonso X the Wise, general history (10 volumes) (José Antonio de Castro Foundation) Francisco Bautista

* Harald E. Braun, Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought (Ashgate) Stephanus Junius Brutus, Vindiciae against tyrannos. Of the legitimate power of the Prince over the people and of the people over the Prince (Technos) Xavier Gil

HISTORY

*Stanley G. Payne, Revolutionary Europe. The civil wars that marked the XNUMXth century (Today's Topics) Michael Seidman

*Robert Muchembled, A history of violence. From the end of the Middle Ages to the present (Paidós) Rafael Núñez Florencio

* Isabel Burdiel, Isabel II. A biography (1830-1904) (Taurus)

TWENTIETH CENTURY

*Fernando Hernandez Sanchez, War or revolution. The Communist Party of Spain in the Civil War (Criticism) Ángel Viñas

*Pedro Calvo-Sotelo Ibáñez-Martín (ed.), Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. an intellectual portrait (Ortega-Marañon Foundation/Marcial Pons) Juan Francisco Fuentes

MEMORIAS

*Tony Judt, The shelter of memory (Taurus) Enric Ucelay-Da Cal

* Manuel Arce, The papers of a recovered life (Valnera) Damaso Lopez Garcia

PHILOSOPHY

*Javier Goma Lanzon, learned naivety (Circle of Readers/Gutenberg Galaxy) Ramón Rodríguez

ECONOMY

*Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, superfreakonomics (Discussion) Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner, UncommonSense. Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism (University of Chicago Press) Francisco Cabrillo

SCIENCE

*The dessert of the scientist in the Barataria island. Enrique Cerda Olmedo

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Berys Gaut, A Philosophy of Cinematic Art (Cambridge University Press) Felix Ovejero

THE NARRATOR'S LOOK

*David Vann, Sukkwan Island (Alfabia) Jose Maria Guelbenzu

POETRY

* Pere Gimferrer, Rhapsody (Seix Barral) Eduardo Moga

*Francisco Rico and Rosa Lentini, A thousand years of European poetry (Planet) Antonio Colinas, Our poetry in time (An anthology) (Siruela) Andres Soria Olmedo, 20 years of poetry. New sacred texts (1989-2009) (Tusquets) Antonio Dominguez Rey, The other half century. Incomplete Anthology of Ibero-American Poetry (Espiral Maior) Angel L. Prieto de Paula (ed.), The abodes of the verb. Spanish poets of democracy. Anthology (Calambur) Pablo Luque Pinilla, Advance. Spanish poets of the XNUMXth and XNUMXst centuries (Oliphant) Pedro Serrano

LITERATURES/ART

*Elena Poniatowski, Leonora (Seix Barral) Barbara Kingsolver, The lagoon (Lumen) Amparo Serrano de Haro

*Melania G. Mazzucco, The angel's long wait (Anagram) Vicente Molina Foix

SPANISH LITERATURE

*Javier Marias, Crushes (Alfaguara) Nick Caistor

*Daniel Gascon, the passive smoker (Xordica) Everyday life (Alfabia) Sergi Doria

 

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