Contemporary Spain
Contemporary Spain

Author: Christopher Ross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1134660243

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Studying Spanish? Spending a year-out in Spain? Or maybe going to work there? Then you'll need this handbook of contemporary Spain and the Spanish language. Revised and expanded, and packed with essential information on politics, economy and institutions, it covers the basics that are taken for granted by most Spaniards. This new edition includes recent events such as the 2004 Madrid bombings and the subsequent election of a socialist government, ETA's 2006 ceasefire and its later revocation, and the country's recent economic success. Each chapter also contains a Spanish/English glossary giving guidance on the use of specialist terms in context. This handbook is invaluable for all those with a wish to learn more about Spain, its language and its people.

PASSIONS & SCANDALS
PASSIONS & SCANDALS

Author: LEE FLACK

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 1483685926

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It is the engaging story of a savvy young photographer's stylist from Philadelphia who falls for the handsome and sophisticated Max Garrett. When the two are separated due to her fashion assignment in glorious Greece for the K-Cruise Yachting Group, Portia meets the romantic and engaging Andoni Kokalatsis - the president and heir to the Kokalatsis Shipping fortune. Interferences from jealous and treacherous past lovers bring about heart shattering consequences, as well as, a new found love affair that takes Portia off guard and sweeps her into an incredible life of untold wealth and adventure. Confrontations - the lure of power - violent sex, drugs and murder befall Portia Whittaker and her friends in the fast paced world of fashion and photography! And through the devastation emerges even greater events - greater love - and greater heart break.

Religion and Spanish Film
Religion and Spanish Film

Author: Elizabeth Scarlett

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2015-01-13

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0472120778

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Treatments of religion found in Spanish cinema range from the pious to the anticlerical and atheistic, and every position in between. In a nation with a strong Catholic tradition, resistance to and rebellion against religious norms go back almost as far as the notion of “Sacred Spain.” Religion and Spanish Film provides a sustained study of the religious film genre in Spain practiced by mainstream Francoist film makers, the evolving iconoclasm, parody, and reinvention of the Catholic by internationally renowned Surrealist Luis Buñuel, and the ongoing battle of the secular versus the religious manifested in critically and popularly acclaimed directors Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Medem, Alejandro Amenábar, and many others. The conflicted Catholicism that emerges from examining religious themes in Spanish film history shows no sign of ending, as unresolved issues from the Civil War and Franco dictatorship, as well as the unsettled relationship between Church and State, continue into the present.

One-Click Buy: October Silhouette Desire
One-Click Buy: October Silhouette Desire

Author: Brenda Jackson

Publisher: Silhouette

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 1045

ISBN-13: 1426807708

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One convenient download. One bargain price. Get all October Silhouette Desire with one click! Make your month sizzle with all six hot books from Silhouette Desire! Bundle includes Stranded with the Tempting Stranger by Brenda Jackson, Captured by the Billionaire by Maureen Child, Maverick by Joan Hohl, Millionaire's Calculated Baby Bid by Laura Wright, The Apollonides Mistress Scandal by Tessa Radley and Seduced for the Inheritance by Jennifer Lewis.

Conspiracy
Conspiracy

Author: Ian Shircore

Publisher: Kings Road Publishing

Published: 2012-03-05

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1857827406

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Ian Shircore's lifelong interest in cover-ups and conspiracies was stirred by the stream of revelations in recent years in declassified documents and answers to Freedom of Information Act requests. And he was handed an amazing bonus, midway through writing his latest book, Conspiracy! 49 Reasons to Doubt, 50 Reasons to Believe, when WikiLeaks published its treasure trove of secret cables. He is amazed at the way WikiLeaks stories - like the evidence that there was probably a fifth 9/11 hijack team on a BA jet bound for London - seemed to be lost in the wash as the press struggled with the deluge of new information. Bizarrely, Ian was once accused by Sunday Times journalists of being Belle de Jour, author of the sex blog Diary of a London Call Girl. His books include Manage Yourself, Manage Your Life, an NLP survival guide that has been reprinted 17 times, and Douglas Adams: The First and Lost Tapes, a little ebook based on an early, pre-fame interview with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy author. Ian is a trustee of an energetic musical charity, the MAE Foundation, that provides instruments and music teaching for the "kids between countries" - the young refugees from Burma living behind the wire in camps along the Thai border.

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018
Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018

Author: Harris M. Lentz III

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1476670331

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The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist Otis Rush. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated with the performing arts who died in 2018 are included. Date, place and cause of death are provided for each, along with a career recap and a photograph. Filmographies are given for film and television performers.

The Impostor
The Impostor

Author: Javier Cercas

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2019-07-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0525434232

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MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the acclaimed author of Outlaws • For decades, Enric Marco was revered as a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, a crusader for justice, and a Holocaust survivor. But in May 2005, at the height of his renown, he was exposed as a fraud. Marco was never in a Nazi concentration camp. And perhaps the rest of his past was fabricated, too, a combination of his delusions of grandeur and his compulsive lying. In this hypnotic narrative, which combines fiction and nonfiction, detective story and war story, biography and autobiography, Javier Cercas sets out to unravel Marco’s enigma. With both profound compassion and lacerating honesty, Cercas probes one man’s gigantic lie to explore the deepest, most flawed parts of our humanity.