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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Spanish cinema 1973–2010

        Auteurism, politics, landscape and memory

        by Maria M. Delgado, Robin Fiddian

        This collection offers a new lens through which to examine Spain's cinema production following the isolation imposed by the Franco regime. The seventeen key films analysed in the volume span a period of 35 years that have been crucial in the development of Spain, Spanish democracy and Spanish cinema. They encompass different genres (horror, thriller, melodrama, social realism, documentary), both popular (Los abrazos rotos/Broken Embraces, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and more select art house fare (En la ciudad de Sylvia/In the City of Sylvia, El espíritu de la colmena/Spirit of the Beehive) and are made in English (as both first and second language), Basque, Castilian, Catalan and French. Offering an expanded understanding of 'national' cinemas, the volume explores key works by Guillermo del Toro and Lucrecia Martel alongside an examination of the ways in which established auteurs (Almodóvar, José Garci, Carlos Saura) and younger generations of filmmakers (Cesc Gay, Amenábar, Bollaín) have harnessed cinematic language towards a commentary on the nation-state. The result is a bold new study of the ways in which film has created new prisms that have determined how Spain is positioned in the global marketplace.

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        Early learning / early learning concepts
        October 2017

        Una cabeza distinta (A different head)

        by Luis Panini, Chiara Carrer

        This child tells us that he is not happy with the head that he has. He thinks it is a wrong head. The parents, after listening to him, take him to a specialist, who agrees with the little one. A mysterious man dressed in black supplies him with heads in exchange for his own. The child tries several, until he finds the one he was looking for. A reindeer head, a crocodile head, a whisk head: the narrator child and protagonist of this story tells us about his disagreement with the head he has and the vicissitudes that he has to go through to find the head with which he will finally agree: the head of a grown man, of a mathematician. This is a story of search for identity and growth, developed with fine fantasy and humor, with the wisdom of someone he has sought and perhaps already found.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2020

        Following Franco

        by Duncan Wheeler

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        Biography & True Stories
        September 2024

        Bedsit land

        The strange worlds of Soft Cell

        by Patrick Clarke

        A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell. Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In Bedsit land, Patrick Clarke plunges into the archives and interviews more than sixty contributors, including the band members themselves, to follow Soft Cell through the many strange and sprawling worlds that shaped their extraordinary career. They lead him from the faded camp glamour of the British seaside to the dizzying thrills of the New York club scene. From transgressive student performance art to the sleaze and squalor of pre-gentrified Soho. From the glitz of British showbiz to the drug-addled chaos of post-Franco Spain. He emerges on the other side with the most in-depth, innovative and entertaining account of the duo ever written.

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        Multiple Sclerosis

        by Pearl B. Werfel, Ron E. Franco-Durán, Linda J. Trettin

        This innovative book will help both mental health and medical professionals empower patients or clients to live well with multiple sclerosis (MS). It is a practical, evidence-based, culturally relevant guide to the most effective current medical, psychological, and neuropsychological diagnostic methods and interventions. The book describes a biopsychosocial, multidisciplinary, and integrative approach to treatment and provides information on psychological, mind-body, and complementary interventions for symptom management and to increase quality of life. Both seasoned practitioners and students will find this volume useful in helping clients cope with this complex, unpredictable, and chronic neurological disorder. Target Group: clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counselors, students.

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        May 1978

        Die negierte Institution oder die Gemeinschaft der Ausgeschlossenen

        Ein Experiment der psychiatrischen Klinik in Görz. Herausgegeben von Franco Basaglia. Aus dem Italienischen übersetzt von Anneheide Ascheri-Osterlow

        by Franco Basaglia, Anneheide Ascheri-Osterlow, Anneheide Ascheri-Osterlow, Franco Basaglia

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        June 1995

        Die Kunst, Recht zu behalten

        In achtunddreißig Kunstgriffen dargestellt

        by Arthur Schopenhauer, Franco Volpi

        Organ der natürlichen Boshaftigkeit des Menschen, unverzichtbares Instrument, um Diskussionen erfolgreich zu führen und auf diese Weise dem Hang zur Rechthaberei nachzukommen, mithin der Wille, Recht zu behalten, gleichviel ob man im Recht ist oder nicht - dies und nichts anderes ist für Schopenhauer Dialektik.

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        Fiction
        August 2022

        Altopía

        1. La traición (Betrayal)

        by Alejandro Barrientos, Joaquín Cuevas

        El Alto celebrates its tenth anniversary as the capital of the New Kollasuyo. Metropolis of the Andes, continental scrap market, second-hand industrial engine, supplier of robotic waste, host to Chinese colonies, home of technosophic cyberreligions, global center of cholet architecture, and the highest popular fair on the planet, the city of the future reflects our dreams. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: the future is now!

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Contemporary Spanish cinema

        by Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas

        Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.

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        1992

        Italiano Uno

        Italienisch reden und verstehen. Ein Grundkurs. (rororo sprachen)

        by Eckes, Jutta J; Belgiorno, Franco A

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