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by Roger Osborne  Publisher Comments From the author of The Deprat Affair, history with a difference, presenting the dreams of a woman who lived at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Spell-binding, poetic and apocalyptic, the dreams of Lucrecia de Léon lay in the archives of the... (read more)  Your price $2.49 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by A L Kennedy 
Publisher Comments An Anchor Books Original <BR>One day, on the brink of despair and contemplating her own mortality, novelist A. L. Kennedy is offered an assignment she can't refuse-an opportunity to travel to Spain and cover a sport that represents the ultimate... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Kamen Publisher Comments Published 400 years after Philip's death, this first full-scale biography places him within the social, cultural, religious, and regional context of his times, presenting a startling new picture of this Spanish monarch. 32 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Luiz Ramon Publisher Comments In theory, bullfighting is simple; you stand there, and either you move the bull or the bull moves you. The difficulty, however, lies in the execution; the objective is after all, to avoid a brutal confrontation. The matador, standing tall, exhibiting... (read more) List Price $100.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pedro Conceicao Publisher Comments The essays in this book examine the role of education and the university in economic development. It is the contention of the contributors that "knowledge"--ideas and skilled and educated people--are increasingly important for economic development. How... (read more) List Price $105.00 Your price $19.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Whitechapel Publisher Comments A full-blooded and graphic account of the 'Grand Inquisitor' Tomas Torquemada, and the hideous tortures he invented during the Spanish Inquisition. National press coverage.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Russell Martin
Publisher Comments On April 26, 1937, the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain was bombed by Hitler's Luftwaffe in the midst of a bloody civil war on behalf of Francisco Franco's rebel forces. Twenty-four hours later, the village lay in ruins, its population decimated.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Lewine Publisher Comments Peril and tradition mingle in this account of a thrilling season on the bullfighting circuit in the company of Spain's most dashing and tormented matador, Francisco Rivera Ordoez. Lewine explores one of the world's most venerable subcultures, steeped in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymond Carr Review "This short, analytical work draws from [Carr's] writings and synthesizes results from the greatly increased number of publications on modern Spain that have appeared recently....The result is an admirable, judicious, and gracefully written text... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Ric Esenwein Publisher Comments More than sixty-five years since it ended, the Spanish Civil War continues to arouse fervent passions. This exciting new collection of primary sources uses military and political documents, media accounts and contemporary propaganda to create a... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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