Describes the business advantages of using Java, and looks at examples of how companies have used it (view table of contents)

Offers tips on the care of the skin, hair, and nails, surveys a variety of hairstyles, and discusses the proper use of makeup

The sole survivor of a plane crash, down-on-his-luck Arnie Baldwin must fight to keep his sanity--and his life--when a crazed looter of the plane wreckage vows to kill Arnie to cover up his deeds. Original.

"One of the finest examples of European 'noir' literature."—John Harvey"Montalbán writes with authority and compassion—a Le Carré-like sorrow."—Publishers WeeklyPepe Carvalho, ex-cop, ex-Marxist, and constant gourmet, is working as a private detective in Barcelona when a body is pulled out of the sea, its face so badly destroyed that the only way of indentifying it is through a tattoo that says "Born to raise hell in hell."Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939. He won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers. He died in 2003.

Product Description: "The language is brilliant; pages overflow with fresh ideas and colorful descriptions ... The story is compelling, of course, but it is the language, my god the language that does the gripping. It is Mairal's descriptions--so vivid, so rich and exact--that make this book so enchanting a read...read more

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Buenos Aires, Argentina. A passenger liner runs aground on the muddy banks of the nearby Rio de la Plata. The passengers are reduced to sleeping in the corridors of hotels and fall easy prey to the city's criminal class, who are always willing to take a wealthy tourist hostage. The first to go missing are a Colombian drug baron and his girlfriend, apprehended by Federal Police who may or may not be all they claim to be. But criminal celebrities of this calibre are a valuable commodity, and their abductor soon finds that the couple has been lifted from under his nose. Into the confusion steps Walter Carroza, a weary but honest cop. With his sidekick and confidante, Veronica Berutti, a policeman's widow and crusading lawyer, he embarks on an investigation that will lead him from the shanty markets of Buenos Aires' Bolivian quarter through layer upon layer of corruption towards the 'Holy Land', a theme park based on ancient Palestine, where a killer with a grisly taste for memorabilia lurks.

Product Description: Our hero, Gonewiththewind, has once again been released by the police from a lunatic asylum in Barcelona. This time his mission is to recover a briefcase filled with money lost under very peculiar circumstances.Mysteries and mishaps follow each other at breakneck speed, as the hapless detective delves beyond humor and the absurd to the frontiers of the truly surreal...read more

Product Description: "At Last, at last, a biography of Che Guevara for grown-ups! Nick Caistor, well-known for years as a commentator on Latin America for the BBC, has produced a study of a man who is all too often treated either as a plaster saint incapable of doing wrong or as some devil from the deepest pit of Marxism-Leninism...read more

Product Description: “Eduardo Mendoza is one of contemporary Spain’s most important writers.”—The New York Times Book Review“Wonderfully inventive and hilarious.”—GuardianReleased from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school, aided only by his prostitute sister Mercedes...read more

A shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Gurb has assumed the form of Madonna and disappeared in Barcelona's backstreets. His hapless commander, desperately trying to find him, records the daily pleasures, dangers and absurdities of our fragile world, while munching his way through enormous quantities of churros.

Product Description: Rímini splits up with his girlfriend of 12 years, Sofía. The parting is initially amicable and he moves on, carefree, with a new zest for life. Hungry to make up for lost time and keen to forget the past, he finds a younger girlfriend and starts using cocaine...read more

The play, 'The Moldavian Pimp' was concerned about the young Jewish girls from the Ukraine recruited by Jewish pimps to go to Argentina on the promises of freedom and a new life, only to find themselves sold into prostitution. Set in the Argentine capital and Paris, and ranging in time from the 1920s, this novel is about Jewish immigrants.

Presents a novel based on the testimonies of a number of women who survived the Spanish Civil War, and suffered imprisonment under the France regime, as well as on accounts of others who died fighting for freedom. This book is a bestseller in Spain, where it was voted 'Book of the year'.

The story of a young woman's life as a call girl in Barcelona. When Valerie Tasso found herself destitute after an abusive boyfriend ran off with all her money, she began to earn a living in prostitution. Her sophistication and poise held an appeal that Spanish men could not resist. Valerie Tasso's memoir is a tale of sexual promiscuity.

Explores the experiences of the adolescent David, son of a Spanish Republican family. Throughout the novel, various members of the family are still recovering from defeat in Spain's harrowing Civil War, while the rest of the world is turned upside down by World War Two.