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The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800
• Sheila Blair
• Jonathan Bloom
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A survey of the monuments and art produced by Muslims from the 13th to 19th centuries.
(ISL27, $37.00)
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The Arts in Spain, From Prehistory to Modernism
• John Moffit
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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From the cave painting at Altimira through the Golden Age, to the works of Picasso and Miro, this book documents the course of art in Spain, with 150 illustrations.
(SPN102, $18.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Killian Mullarney
• Lars Svensson
• Dan Zetterstrom
• Peter J. Grant
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent.
(FG47, $29.95)
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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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Cultural Atlas of Spain and Portugal
• Mary Vincent
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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With its 40 maps, 240 photographs and insightful essays on all aspects of Iberian geography and culture, this handsome book is an excellent introduction to the region.
(SPN34, $45.00)
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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 Madrid
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide features bright color photography, dozens of excellent maps and a synopsis of the attractions in and around Madrid.
(SPN122, $20.00)
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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 Seville Pocket Map & Guide
• Eyewitness Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This superb guide to Seville 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.
(SPN314, $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, $20.00)
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The Fencing Master
• Arturo Perez-Reverte
• MYSTERY
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Thrills, romance and swordplay in 1860s Madrid.
(SPN180, $14.00)
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Food and Wines of Spain
• Penelope Casas
• FOOD
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A classic collection of 400 recipes, interwoven with cultural commentary and culinary history. A pleasure to read, but prepare to become hungry.
(SPN100, $30.00)
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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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Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palace of Islamic Spain
• D. Fairchild Ruggles
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Spain's Moorish legacy is nowhere more evident than in its graceful Islamic architecture and sumptuous gardens.
(SPN170, $36.00)
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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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Goya
• Jose Gudiol
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• COMING IN SEPTEMBER
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An overview of Goya's work in the excellent "Masters of Art" series. The book begins with an illustrated essay on Goya's art, and continues with reproductions of important works.
(SPN79, $34.00)
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Goya, Painter of Terrible Splendor
• Jeanine Baticle
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A pocket-size encyclopedia, this slim book is an illustrated overview of the life and times of Goya. It's an illuminating portrait of 18th-century Madrid.
(SPN35, $12.95)
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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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Imperial Spain, 1469-1716
• John H. Elliott
• HISTORY
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An authoritative history of Imperial Spain.
(SPN138, $17.00)
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Insight Guide Mediterranean Cruises
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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Covering 120 ports of call throughout the Mediterranean from the Canary Islands to Egypt.
(MED94, $22.95)
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Insight Guide Southern Spain
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This handsome travel guide gives a profusely illustrated overview of the region.
(SPN124, $18.95)
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Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250
• Richard Ettinghausen
• Oleg Grabar
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An illustrated survey of the great monuments and art produced by Muslim peoples during medieval times, including the Dome of the Rock, as well as many small aritfacts.
(ISL26, $37.00)
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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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Karen Brown's Spain, Exceptional Places to Stay & Itineraries
• Lorena Aburto
• Clare Brown
• Cynthia Sauvage
• GUIDEBOOK
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A guide to lodging of character and itineraries.
(SPN149, $19.95)
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Leo Africanus
• Amin Maalouf
• LITERATURE
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A fictional memoir of the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus, a Muslim whose travels led him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
(MED55, $16.95)
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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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Lonely Planet Andalucia
• Lonely Planet
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style.
(SPN157, $19.99)
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Madrid Map
• Borch Maps
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A detailed map of Madrid at a scale of 1:10,000, laminated and folded for easy reference.
(SPN106, $7.95)
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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, $28.99)
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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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The Olive, Tree of Civilization
• John Train
• Mark E. Smith
• HISTORY
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A history of the celebrated vegetable and the mythology behind it.
(NAT72, $25.00)
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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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Picasso
• Jean-Louis Ferrier
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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This oversize paperback is a thoroughly illustrated study of Picasso's art over the decades. Each essay features gorgeous color reproductions.
(SPN84, $27.50)
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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, Master of the New Idea
• Paule du Bouchet
• Marie-Laure Bernadac
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A colorful pocket-size reference on the development of Picasso and his art. Includes hundreds of color and archival photographs, a useful chronology and long section of writing by and about Picasso.
(SPN27, $12.95)
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The Plaza Mayor and the Shaping of Baroque Madrid
• Jesús Escobar
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An engaging, scholarly account of the physical transformation of Madrid, 1560-1630.
(SPN210, $106.00)
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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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The Rise of Christianity
• Rodney Stark
• RELIGION
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The subtitle to this book says it all: "How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries."
(MED64, $14.95)
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Rough Guide Spain
• Rough Guide
• GUIDEBOOK
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For planning trips, this is an excellent, comprehensive and up-to-date guide.
(SPN159, $24.99)
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The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca
• Garcia Lorca
• LITERATURE
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A judicious selection covering the poet's (short) career, originally published in 1955. The editors have selected from many available translations.
(SPN236, $14.95)
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The Seville Communion
• Arturo Perez Reverte
• MYSTERY
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A literary thriller set in southern Spain.
(SPN213, $14.00)
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Seville, Cordoba and Granada, A Cultural History
• Elizabeth Nash
• GUIDEBOOK
• OUT OF PRINT
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This cultural guide introduces the art, architecture, traditions and history of Seville for the traveler. Neither a simple history or a guidebook, Nash offers an enlightening, digressive meditation on the city.
(SPN263, $16.95)
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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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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 Inquisition, A Historical Revision
• Henry Kamen
• HISTORY
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A vivid, revisionist history of the Spanish Inquisition.
(SPN144, $23.00)
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The Spanish Labyrinth, An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War
• Gerald Brenan
• HISTORY
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A fine introduction to the issues driving the Spanish Civil War. Brenan was there, and he offers a vivid picture that loses nothing for being skewed slightly towards the left.
(SPN74, $22.99)
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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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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 History of Spain
• Juan Lalaguna
• HISTORY
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A swift survey from prehistory through the Romans, Goths and Moors to the present.
(SPN06, $14.95)
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Valencia
• Mary-Ann Gallagher
• GUIDEBOOK
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A hip guide to Valencia that covers must-see sights, clubs, shops, dining and accommodation.
(SPN336, $12.95)
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Via De La Plata, The Way of St James: Seville to Santiago
• Alison Raju
• GUIDEBOOK
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A detailed, pactical guide guide to the southern route of the Pilgrim's Road.
(SPN203, $16.95)
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