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Geography. Biography. HistoryUniversityPublicationsCatalogue34Geography. Biography. HistoryL’Albufera. Guia de Descoberta del Parc Natural:Itineraris culturals i ambientalsThe Albufera. Guide to Discovering the NaturePreserve: Cultural and Environmental ItinerariesPaco Tortosa; Pepa PrósperValencia: Universitat de València, 2007232 pages; 16.5 x 27.5 cm; softbackISBN 9788437066998CDU: 9Price: 30 ¤In CatalanGuía de recorridos históricos de ValenciaA Guide to Walks around Historical ValenciaFernando Sanz RuizValencia: Universitat Politècnicade València, 2006306 pages; 14 x 26 cm; softbackISBN 9788477211594CDU: 914.603.1Price: 20.50 ¤In English and SpanishThis is a step-by-step guidebook for discovering the Albufera NaturalReserve with serenity and enjoyment. Readers will enjoy the designsof itineraries proposed and the careful attention to travel withoutmotorized vehicles. The book strongly suggests that hikers wear goodwalking shoes to explore the Park’s unforgettable and awe-inspiringlandscape.This guide offers the readers and visitors the possibility of experiencingthe city of Valencia by using multiple routes that have been created for theexpress reason of getting to know each neighborhood in the historiccenter of the Ciutat Vella (the old walled city). By following the urbanwalks, visitors will discover not only unique buildings with high historicartisticimportance but also picturesque corners of the city described bysurprising historical anecdotes.Las ciudades del absolutismoThe Cities of AbsolutismVíctor Manuel Mínguez; Inmaculada RodríguezCastelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I, 2006América, 7415 pages; 17 x 24 cm; softbackISBN 9788480215770CDU: 9Price: 30 ¤In SpanishIn the opinion of eminent historian, Professor Richard Kagan, thisbook "offers a very professional synthesis of the topic, but it does soin a very accessible way for a more extensive public. This is a combinationthat is not frequently found. As such, it has the advantage ofproviding a wide selection of interesting primary and fixed sourcesthat portray the urban history of various cities in Europe, Spain andLatin America”.Història i memòria. El franquisme i els seus efectesals Països Catalans.History and Memory.Francoism and its Effects on the Catalonian NationsJordi Font Agulló (director)Valencia: Universitat de València;Centre d’Estudis Comarcals de Banyoles, 2007Història i Memòria del Franquisme404 pages; 16 x 23 cm; softbackISBN 9788437067346CDU: 9Price: 24 ¤In CatalanThis book covers the defeat of the Republic, the installation of thefascist dictatorship, the punitive Francoist regime, the culturaldestruction, the thread of the democratic opposition, and other historiographicquestions. Together these topics are all part of the controversialrelationship between history and memory.Brasil y las independencias de HispanoaméricaBrazil and the Latin American IndependencesJoao Paulo G. PimentaCastelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I, 2007América, 6150 pages; 17 x 24 cm; softbackISBN 9788480215855CDU: 9Price: 15 ¤In SpanishHow did Spanish America influence the creation of an independentBrazil? In the six studies collected in this book, Joao Paulo Pimentacovers diverse points of contact between Spanish and Portuguese-American revolutionary processes, attempting to demonstrate thereciprocal parallelisms that imply a flawed separation of the twomovements that, in reality, are one and the same.Colette universalUniversal ColetteLydia Vázquez; Gérard Laniez (eds.)Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I, 2007Sendes, 10226 pages; 17 x 21 cm; softbackISBN 9788480216074CDU: 929Price: 18 ¤In SpanishThe ensemble of the enormous Colettian body of work has the extraordinaryability to create a very real, quotidian and yet magical ambiance,which has turned Colette into one of the greatest French writers, givingher colossal status and universal reach. The authors of the articlescontained in the book are all Colette enthusiasts, capable of crossingborders to come together in celebration of an author who ought to bemore known, translated and read than she is. The volume includesreproduction of the portraits by Nicole Bonnet-Malige.www.neu-e.com