New Spanish Titles US - Spring 2012

What is the difference between a woman in the twenty first century and in previous epochs? Does gender equality mean she has to renounce her different point of view and her values? Postmodernity offers a new integrating paradigm which overcomes the dualist vision of opposition and suggests kinder, less aggressive ways of living. Nowadays feminine energy is becoming more prominent.

Kim is an entrepreneur who decides to set up her own business. As her project advances, she must confront all the doubts and challenges that any entrepreneur comes across. At the end of each chapter, the reader will have to make important decisions: depending on what she or he chooses, Kim's project will take one path or other.

A documentary selection from the three crucial decades of the Franco era (1955-1975) which refines and contextualises the documentary corpus with three studies on Spain during that epoch. One attempts to see it from the inside, the second examines it's external projection and the third analyses Spain through the gaze of its international environment.

Eva works as a striptease dancer in a sordid industrial city. Taking refuge in an impenetrable and grey solitude, she hides from herself and from a cruel past marked by the fatal gift of her beauty. Every day she unclothes her body in the peep-show cabin, but only when she meets Adán, a shy, sensitive teenager half her age, does she feel able to reveal her soul to anyone.