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All About My Mother
Pedro Almodovar
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 Madrid Pocket Map & Guide
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
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
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
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
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
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
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
Capra's Civil War photography.
(SPN99, $29.95) |
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A Hedonist's Guide to Madrid
Beverley Fearis
GUIDEBOOK
(SPN339, $16.95) |
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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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A History of Medieval Spain
Joseph F. O'Callaghan
HISTORY
A detailed history of the Medieval kingdoms of Iberia.
(SPN10, $29.95) |
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Iberia, Spanish Travels & Reflections
James Michener
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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
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
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
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
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
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, $29.99) |
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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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National Geographic Traveler Madrid
Annie Bennett
GUIDEBOOK
A compact guide featuring National Geographic's usual attention to maps and color photography.
(SPN372, $22.95) |
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Picasso
Hans L. Jaffe
ART & ARCHITECTURE
A classic overview of Picasso's art with reproductions of important works.
(SPN85, $19.98) |
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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
Patrick O'Brian
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Patrick O'Brian, who knew the artist, covers the life and work of Picasso.
(SPN86, $18.95) |
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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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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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Spain & Portugal Map
Freytag & Berndt
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
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, $35.00) |
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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
(SPN93, $40.00) |
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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 Seaborne Empire
J.H. Parry
HISTORY
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
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
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
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
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
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
(SPN291, $16.95) |
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Wallpaper City Guide Madrid
Wallpaper Magazine
GUIDEBOOK
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
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
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
(SPN352, $25.95) |
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