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The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800
Sheila Blair
Jonathan Bloom
ART & ARCHITECTURE
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thrills, romance and swordplay in 1860s Madrid.
(SPN180, $14.00) |
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Food and Wines of Spain
Penelope Casas
FOOD
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An authoritative history of Imperial Spain.
(SPN138, $17.00) |
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Insight Guide Mediterranean Cruises
Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK
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
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
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
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
A guide to lodging of character and itineraries.
(SPN149, $19.95) |
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Leo Africanus
Amin Maalouf
LITERATURE
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
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
A comprehensive guide in the hallmark Lonely Planet style.
(SPN157, $19.99) |
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Madrid Map
Borch Maps
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
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
A short scholarly history of Iberia.
(SPN98, $28.99) |
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Modern Spain
Raymond Carr
HISTORY
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
A history of the celebrated vegetable and the mythology behind it.
(NAT72, $25.00) |
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Picasso
Christian-Peter Warncke
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A beautifully illustrated color Tashen monograph featuring the works of Picasso.
(SPN90, $20.00) |
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Picasso
Jean-Louis Ferrier
ART & ARCHITECTURE
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
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
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
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
A reevaluation of the legendary eleventh-century warrior El Cid.
(SPN141, $17.95) |
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The Rise of Christianity
Rodney Stark
RELIGION
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A detailed, pactical guide guide to the southern route of the Pilgrim's Road.
(SPN203, $16.95) |
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