Spain Books

This book gives you a detailed guide to all the major roads of Spain and Portugal. If you are planning to drive in Spain or Portugal, it's a great help. The spiral binding makes it easy to fold -- much better than a large paper map. The only disadvantage is that it is heavier than a paper map.

I've only visited Madrid, so I'll forcus my comments on that part of the book. The explanations are short and to the point but manage to cover up all the major sight seeing. The restaurant recoomendations are especially good, and in a country where you don't speak the language, and they don't speak yours, it's nice to find a place that has authentic local food on one hand and an English menu on the other hand...

I teach Spanish, and I actually have this map laminated and posted in my room for use while I teach and for students to use while planning trips. The Michelin maps are produced by the same folks that publish the Guide Michelin, travel guides that were a mainstay for travel in Europe for years. The map quality is very good, and it is highly detailed. It has a very large national map on one side with detailed smaller maps opposite. Normally, a map this size would be unwieldy, but it is printed on thin but tough paper. I used a similar map while traveling in Germany, and I simply folded it so the area I was in was visible, while the rest of the map folded down flat and easily tucked in the novel I was reading on the train, etc.

A wonderful product; I was a 1st time driver in Spain and terrified; this set of maps made it much easier; but don't drive in Madrid

This is an excellent and highly detailed driving map. My only negative comment is that it is so detailed, a magnifying glass may be needed to read certain roadway areas.

50 years later, this book remains a treasure, a reverential fantasy about the greatest game of all. An oldtimer wandering in the sandlot fades into a dream (this is from memory 50 years later) and is asked to select the all-time, greatest Baseball team. He goes from town to town visiting the players he chooses. Mickey Cochrane, Lou Gerhig, Rogers Hornsby, Pie Traynor, Honus Wagner, Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb are selected, as are Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson and Lefty Grove, but he actually suggests that Willie Mays (who had only 3 years in the bigs) will be on the list and mentions Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige as players who, if they had the chance, would have made the team. His choices are well reasoned - Dickey, Lajoie, Williams, Musial, DiMaggio, Foxx, Sisler, Greenberg, Cy Young, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Charley Gehringer, and others are considered - and, I believe, perfect for the time.

A great book for a youngster to capture the majesty of the game.

Mrs. Motes continues her efforts to stratify by ethnic groups the population of South Carolina at the taking of the 1850 federal census. This volume, her third based upon the 1850 census, specifies about 2,600 persons of New England or Mid-Atlantic birth who were living in South Carolina in that census year. The census enumerators found approximately 2,600 of these Yankees living in South Carolina in 1850, two-thirds of them from the Mid-Atlantic region.

Mrs. Motes transcribed her information from thirteen reels of microfilm covering the 29 South Carolina counties in 1850. She has arranged those findings in alphabetical order by surname. Each individual is identified by age, sex, occupation, country of birth, county of residence, and household enumeration number. Individuals living in another family's household are further identified according to the name of the household head, even if a native Carolinian. The front matter to the book includes a helpful author's preface and a list of South Carolina county codes. The volume concludes with indexes to names, places, and occupation.

As a Spanish literature graduate student, it was a struggle to find a book that was not only concise and clear but also one that contained the latest critical theory and critique on the most important works in Spanish literary history. With "Milenio", Mujica not only created this but so much more. The construction of the text goes as follows:
1.In each important period she gives a succint historical background about what is going on in the Spanish peninsula at that time

2. biographical information about the writer, including some summaries of her/his work and critiques

3. a sample of the author's major work, like poetry, acts of a play or excerpts of a book etc

4. analytical questions to help process the literary work

5. The book also has a glossary of important terms like mester de juglaria, humanismo etc

This text is an awesome supplement if you are familiar with peninsular literature but need to brush up on some authors or historical/literary movements of the time period. I highly recommend this as a must have!

A Military History of Modern Spain: From the Napoleonic Era to the International War on Terror is an anthology of essays by a variety of learned authors that live up to the collection's title. The first chapter discusses the nineteenth century Spanish Army; subsequent chapters discuss the Spanish Military throughout the twentieth century and into the modern-day war on terror, through 2006. Individual essays include "World War I: Unarmed Neutrality", "The Spanish Military During World War II", "Rejoining Europe: From Isolation to Integration, 1945-2006" and much more. Extensively researched, with a bibliography and index, A Military History of Modern Spain is a welcome contribution to international history and college library shelves.

This book about Miro is presented in an interview format and is a wonderful representation of the artist's life, not only in the words but in the reproductions as well.