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Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
More Info	Description: "This book has been huge in the UK - top ten for the past six months - and no wonder. It is such a great tale: Chris Stewart, one time drummer of Genesis (he left at age 17) sinks his all (the grand sum of $35,000) into a peasant farm in Andalucia. It has no runing water, no electricity, and gets cut off altogether when the river is in flood. Oh, and it turns out that the man who sells him the farm has no plans to move out himself. But as the subtitle says, Chris is an optimist, big time, and that carries him through, along with a little realism from his wife Ana, and local wiles from Domingo, the best neighbor you could hope to find. The book gains its strength from the fact that Stewart has no money and needs to work (as a sheep shearer),... " Read more More Info - Order HERE! 1 persons ordered this item.
Spanish Lessons by Derek Lambert
More Info	Description: "In the tradition of A Year in Provence (1990) and Under the Tuscan Sun (1996), the author provides vivid descriptions of an entirely unique cultural landscape. Determined to try his hand at writing a novel, Lambert, a veteran foreign correspondent, decides to settle in a remote, picturesque village in the Costa Blanca region of Spain with his wife and young son. During the course of this delightfully wry narrative, they purchase an enchanting--if decrepit--house, undertake the arduous task of renovating and landscaping their property, and otherwise attempt to acclimate themselves to a thoroughly alien and exotic lifestyle. Charmed, frustrated, and continually astonished by their new surroundings, they bumble their way through their first year as extranjeros, eventually earning the friendship and loyalty of their initially suspicious neighbors... " Read more THIS item is part of MadridMan's collection! More Info - Order HERE!
Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar by Paul Julian Smith
More Info	Description: "Dialogue is action for me. I've often said it and it seems like a joke but it's not: in Europe we make films about people because it's cheaper to put two people in a living room talking than to make a film full of special effects."--Pedro Almodovar "The international success of his latest feature, All About my Mother, has finally granted Pedro Almodovar the recognition he deserves, as the most artistically ambitious and commercially consistent film-maker in Europe. Frequently comic, always visually glorious, his films range from the screwball comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown to the classically austere Live Flesh. And, while questions of gender, nationality and sexuality are always Almodovar's concern, new subjects have been addressed in his more recent work: the corrosive effects of a deregulated media, the transition from dictatorship and, in All About my Mother, an uncompromising exploration of mourning.... " Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Living and Working in Spain by David Hampshire
More Info	Description: "I needed up to date information on retiring in Spain. This book "hit the spot". It is very informative with specific detail on the most important subjects a person researching & preparing for living in Spain will need. The book is a very useful tool, extremely well written & researched. Very entertaining in parts when the humour kicks in!... " Read more THIS item is part of MadridMan's collection! More Info - Order HERE! 2 persons ordered this item.
Travelers' Tales: Spain by Lucy McCauley
More Info	Description: "Twenty years have passed since the death of General Francisco Franco, and Spain's emergence from that decades-long dictatorship has been nothing less than dramatic. The year 1992 marked a kind of debut for Spain, with the Olympics in Barcelona, the World Expo in Seville, the dubbing of Madrid as the "European City of Culture," and countless celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's journey. The New Spain is a country that has learned to live a little, displaying a sophistication that is truly European while retaining the exotic sensibility of a heritage rooted in almost 800 years of Moorish rule. Indeed, Spain is an enigma. It is not one but many lands,..." Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Spain: The Root & the Flower: An interpretation of Spain & the Spanish people by John A. Crow
More Info	Description: "The distinctive features of the book are indeed the authors deep insight into the mores of the country . . . and his enthusiasm for the brilliance of Spains culture. . . The essential political facts are all there, but far more important and meaningful . . . is the environmental lore that Dr. Crow has gleaned from his many journeys since he first went to Spain in 1928..." Read more More Info - Order HERE!
The New Spaniards (Penguin Politics and Current Affairs) by John Spaniards Hooper
More Info	Description: "As a spaniard I find incredible merit in this book. It is accurate like no other study (spanish or otherwise) and very entertaining. It has made me understand my country like never before through its very well documented and almost totally impartial overview of the Spain of recent years..." Read more More Info - Order HERE! 4 persons ordered this item.
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson
More Info	Description: "At 16, Salvador Dali had already developed the remarkable ego and uncanny perception that would distinguish him as one of the most notorious artists of the 20th century. A self-proclaimed surrealist, an avant-garde exhibitionist, and a criticized commercialist with questionable political affiliations, Dali was anything but benign. Biographer Ian Gibson (Federico Garcia Lorca) argues that the modern master was motivated primarily by the very last thing anyone would suspect him of: a very deep sense of shame. Via the artist's correspondence, diary, and autobiography (The Secret Life of Salvador Dali), Gibson meticulously stitches together the wild characters and deep-dish details of Dali's life: a guilt-ridden childhood, feelings of sexual inadequacy..." Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Houses and Palaces of Andalusia by Patricia Espinosa De Los Monteros, Francesco Venturi (et.al.)
More Info	Description: "With riches from New World conquests pouring into Seville in the 16th to 18th centuries, the Spanish nobility of Andalucia built exquisite houses and palaces. This book chronicles the finest of these treasures, traces the development of a distinctive regional style of architecture and decoration- the beautiful tiles, dramatic staircases and doorways, columns, and arches, and the cool exterior patios that are so integral to Spanish building. Many of these homes are miraculously preserved with their authentic interiors intact, and a fascinating text tells the stories of the families that built and lived in them..." Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Historical Paradors : A Journey Through Spanish Hotels by Juan Eslara Galan
More Info	Description: "About 80% beautiful photos and 20% useful information, Historical Paradors : A Journey Through Spanish Hotels shows a side of beautiful Spain that most tourists never see. The photos of these stunning architectural wonders stir the imagination of the Old World and makes me twitch towards planning my next trip to Spain. This book is DEFINITELY coffee-table caliber!!! And if MadridMan of MadridMan.com likes it, it's GOT to be gooooood!... " Read more THIS item is part of MadridMan's collection! More Info - Order HERE! 3 persons ordered this item.
Culture Shock!: Spain by Marie Louise Graff, Maria L. Graff
More Info	Description: "As a college student preparing to study abroad in Spain, I found this book...perfect. This guide in its unique series tells of all the customs and proper etiquette you never learned in school. If more American tourists read these culture shock books before traveling abroad, the American stereotype would be lessened..." Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Passport Spain : Your Pocket Guide to Spanish Business, Customs & Etiquette
More Info	Description: "Success in international business is not just about your product and service, or about terms and delivery schedules. Success is about people, traditions and relationships. Passport to the World books are comprehensive guides to understanding a country's people, culture, etiquette and communication styles. Passport Spain will help you...." Read more More Info - Order HERE! 1 persons ordered this item.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture by David T. Gies
More Info	Description: "This book offers a comprehensive account of modern Spanish culture, tracing its dramatic and often unexpected developments from its beginnings after the Revolution of 1868 to the present day. Specially commissioned essays by leading experts provide analyses of the historical and political background of modern Spain, the culture of the major autonomous regions (notably Castile, Catalonia, and the Basque Country), and the country's literature: narrative, poetry, theater, and the essay. Spain's..." Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Death and Money in the Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight by Adrian Shubert
More Info	Description: "Bullfighting has long been perceived as an antiquated, barbarous legacy from Spain's medieval past. In fact, many of that country's best poets, philosophers, and intellectuals have accepted the corrida as the embodiment of Spain's rejection of the modern world. In his new interpretation of bullfighting, Adrian Shubert maintains that this view is both the product of myth and a complete misunderstanding of the real roots of the contemporary bullfight. Shubert analyzes the business of the sport,... " Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Bulls, Bullfight, & Spanish Identities by Carrie B. Doublass
More Info	Description: "In talking about bulls and bullfighting, observes Douglass, one ends up talking not only about differences in region, class, and politics in Spain but also about that country's ongoing struggle between modernity and tradition. She relates how Spaniards and outsiders see bullfighting as representative of a traditional, irrational Spain contrasted with a more civilized Europe, and she shows how Spaniards' ambivalence about bullfighting is actually a way of expressing ambivalence about the loss of traditional culture in a modern world... " Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson, Altie Karper (Editor)
More Info	Description: "Back in print to coincide with the release of the upcoming motion picture Death in Granada on the life of Lorca, this "monumental biography" (New York Times) goes to the heart of his explosive genius. When, at the age of 38, Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by anti-republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War, he was already one of the world's most celebrated poets and playwrights..." Read more More Info - Order HERE!
Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain
More Info	No Description: Paperback - 443 pages (January 1999). Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours. Written by Victoria Loree Enders (Editor), Pamela Beth Radcliff (Editor), Karen Offen. Read more More Info - Order HERE!
501 Spanish Verbs : Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged
More Info	Description: "Verbs are conjugated and set up one-per-page in alphabetical order in this easy-to-use series. Commonly used idioms that use a verb are presented at the bottom of the page that presents the appropriate verb. Approximately 1,000 additional verbs are listed in the infinite form with their English meanings..." Read more THIS item is part of MadridMan's collection! More Info - Order HERE!