The author records his findings on the arrest and murder of the Granadine poet at the onset of the Spanish Civil War

Product Description: Sub-titled Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After, this is a serious study of flogging and flagellation in English society by the author of The Assassination of Garcia Lorca and biographer of Dali.

Product Description: Federico Garcia Lorca was born near Granada, Spain in 1899. Known foremost as a poet and dramatist, he wrote "Romancero Gitano" (1928), "Blood Wedding" (1933), "Yerma" (1935) and "The House of Bernalda Alba" (1936) before he was murdered by Franco's supporters in the first months of the Spanish Civil War, aged 37...read more

Product 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 (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the village of Fuente Vaqueros to the site of his assassination, at the beginning of the Civil War, in the foothills outside the city. The author investigates the associations Granada held for Lorca, who was one of Spain's most celebrated poets. Areas such as the Alhambra and the old Moorish quarter of the Albaicin, the Royal Chapel in the cathedral where Ferdinand and Isabella lie buried, and the high mountains south of Granada with their view across the Mediterranean to Africa. This book should prove of interest to any visitor of this region of Andalusia, or anyone interested in Spanish literature. Ian Gibson is the author of "The Assassination of Lorca".

Product Description: This volume explores Salvador Dali's work. It focusses on his art up to about 1930, aiming to throw light on Dali, and how greatly his later images, obsessions and attitudes were rooted in his youthful experiences in Catalonia and Spain...read more

Product Description: Years before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio journeyed to the Kalarba system where they encountered the notorious Olag Greck for the first time. After Artoo and Threepio were acquired by the Pitareeze family, the droids found themselves in a series of misadventures with pirates, bounty-hunters, and rock monsters! These stories brim with the wonder and whimsy that made the characters so popular in the films, as Artoo and Threepio do their best to stick together in an often dangerous galaxy...read more

Product Description: Antisense and ribozymes have a relatively short yet successful history as research tools in gene expression studies, and thus are considered as having high potential reagents in treating viral infections and cancer. This laboratory companion provides detailed information on the potential, advantages and limitations of this methodology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Drawing on extensive research and recently discovered sources, this ambitious biography of Salvador Dali traces the infamous artist's life from childhood to death, revealing his outlandish personality, paranoia, and sexual torment. (view table of contents)

Product Description: La investigacion del macabro asesinato de un antiguo companero de clase obliga al detective Fin Macleod a regresar al lugar donde nacio y al que esperaba no tener que volver nunca: la isla de Lewis, al oeste de Escocia. Los agrestes paisajes de la isla y el opresivo ambiente de la comunidad dibujan el escenario de un caso marcado por la envidia, los amores frustrados, las tradiciones mas cruentas y los recuerdos olvidados...read more

A contract for Boba Fett to recover a mysterious and powerful artefact leads to an awesome confrontation with the Sith Lord Supreme, Darth Vader. This promises to be a thoroughly wholesome tale of greed, treachery and backstabbing.

Product Description: Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900) was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, a family man who counted among his many friends the celebrated adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. But he was a gentleman with a secret—one so delicious that he rented a separate apartment to contain it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In 1916, famous poet Rubén Darío passed a victim of alcohol. His verses swept away the old lyrical norms that were still being used in both sides of the Atlantic. Through long and rigorous investigations, renowned biographer Ian Gibson tells us the truth about Darío’s tormented and fascinating life...read more

Product Description: From British creators Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon (Preacher, Punisher) comes an explosive Dredd tale that reaches out from Mega City One and across the toxic Black Atlantic to the Emerald Isle. When a suspected Mega-City Blitzer (assassin) allies himself with a radical terrorist splinter group, Dredd must ally himself with the local militia to track him down and see justice be done...read more

This text discusses software solutions for rapid prototyping, including such topics as advanced pre-processor functionality for layered manufacturing; a web-based system for RP machines; and rapid prototyping and manufacturing (RP&M) benchmarking.

Product Description: Camilo José Cela, had a motto that guided him throughout decades: one who resists, wins. His cutting remarks, and boastfulness charmed some, and scandalized others. But how was he really, this man who, came out at the end with the greatest literary award in the world? Ian Gibson, whose monumental biographical works have been internationally acclaimed, investigates behind the public mask of this Nobel Laureate in search of his inner self, and discovers many private and surprising aspects of this man who reached literary glory...read more

Product Description: Lorca-Dali. El amor que no pudo ser, nos brinda una inedita y sorprendente vision de la entranable amistad que unio a dos colosos de la Espana del siglo XX. Amistad que el propio Dali califico, poco antes de morir, de «tragica» (si bien erotica), al no poder, por heterosexual -opinion discutible segun el autor de esta obra-, corresponder fisicamente a la pasion que suscitaba en el poeta...read more

Halo Jones becomes bored with her life in The Hoop and journeys out to see the galaxy.