April 23rd is celebrated as International Book Day, a workshop promoted by UNESCO with the goal to promote reading, the industry publishing house and the protection of the intellectual property of its authors. On the occasion of this day, we have compiled a selection of 10 books in which professors from the University of Navarra are authors, editors or co-authors.

America in the Hispanic world. A legal, historical and political review

Gustavo Garduño Domínguez and Manuel Andreu Gálvez (ed.)
publishing house EUNSA
610 pages

Written by some twenty Spanish-American experts, this collective work is structured in four major chapters, where diverse topics of the American reality are approached from a legal, historical and political perspective. The result of a profound research, it analyzes issues such as the transfer of peninsular culture to the New World, the beginning of Hispanic civilization, the vicissitudes caused by British interference in Spanish America or the problems of Hispanic culture, up to the present day.

John Henry Newman: the voyage to the Mediterranean in 1833.

Víctor García Ruiz
publishing house meeting
460 pages

Víctor García Ruiz is professor of Spanish literature at the department of Philology of the University of Navarra and has edited and translated several works of John Henry Newman (1801-1890) into Spanish . The English Cardinal and Blessed is expected to be canonized in a few months.

The book revolves around the illness that brought Newman to death's door in 1833, lost as he was in the depths of Sicily. The previous months he had traveled the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar to Malta, Corfu, Naples and, above all, Rome. The experience had little to do with the usual Grand Tour and much, instead, with a true inner odyssey of enormous repercussions for this traveler facing a crisis of conscience. Recovered and transformed into a radical member of the clergy , Newman deployed a vibrant and polemic activity that revolutionized England by emancipating the Anglican Church from civil power and declaring to the four winds his divine authority. Many in England took sides with this counter-revolutionary revolution: that is the Oxford Movement.

Combining approaches ranging from autobiographical to epistolary to travel literature, this book explores the origins of an unusual inner journey that, in unsuspected ways, led Newman from an "irresistible love of Sicily" to the Catholic Church.

3. Soul of a teacher. The best profession in the world

Jaime Nubiola and María Rosa Espot
Desclée De Brouwer
1,176 pages

"A teacher, in addition to transmitting knowledge, must be able to transmit emotions: the desire to learn, to work well, to be better". This is what the authors of the book Alma de profesor. La mejor profesión del mundo: Jaime Nubiola, professor at School of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Navarra, and María Rosa Espot, professor at high school La Vall (Barcelona).

"To have the soul of a teacher means to be a professor that vibrates in the classroom, who is convinced that his profession is the best in the world and that it is one of the best things that has happened in his life; that is to say, a teacher with enthusiasm, illusion and passion, with ardor professor", the authors point out.

4. Health for sure

Miguel A. Martínez- González
publishing house Planet
485 pages

This book discloses in a very accessible and entertaining way the main body of knowledge acquired by the science of preventive medicine. These are certainties based on large programs of study, such as the SUN series (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra), which have been completed in the last 2 or 3 decades, after following thousands of people for years.

The book interweaves amusing personal anecdotes of Professor Martínez-González or of other University professors, which occurred 23 years ago, when he arrived in Pamplona to start up the department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and established the research line at per diem expenses Mediterranean. At the same time, it is aimed at a very broad public, includes weekly menus and recipes, and maintains a critical tone with the current myths and unfounded beliefs about healthy habits and dietary recommendations, which are sometimes only due to the fact that they were promoted by certain industries for interests unrelated to public health.

5. The analysis of the political speech : genres and methodologies.

Carmen Llamas Saíz (ed.)
publishing house EUNSA
268 pages

This book brings together eight contributions on different political genres: from the parliamentary speech or the electoral program to the party web page or electoral campaigns on Twitter. The book begins with a characterization of the current political speech , conditioned and altered by new communicative situations, and presents in each chapter the defining features of each genre; the description is completed with a reflection on those perspectives and methodologies of analysis that are best suited to the study of the different types of political speech . At final, the volume attempts to respond to the problems of research that arise at every step in the analysis of such a changing genre as the political speech .

6. Leaders and Millennials. A Meeting Point of Generations

Guido Stein Martínez
publishing house EUNSA
198 pages

We are impatient; we need to understand, and we need to start explaining as soon as possible that certain things take time. We are capable of pursuing very ambitious goals if we "believe in them", but we need financial aid to be able to digest and manage the frustrations that are part of the journey. We value experience tremendously and, although it may not seem like it, we want to listen. What's more, we need a lot of communication, as we appreciate sincere and continuous feedback, which helps us financial aid to grow every day.

The first part of the book deals with the traits that characterize them, the influence of technology on their personal, social and business relationships, and the way to manage them; the second unfolds three real cases of meeting point of the generations; in the third, the author bets on a humanism that places the person at center stage, and that has guided him as Ariadne's thread helped Theseus to get out of the Labyrinth of Crete before being devoured by the fearsome Minotaur. In our days there is no other Minotaur than confusion.

7. New Age, its transforming force in the XX Century

Rosa Mª Cruz Neila and Gloria Mª Tomás y Garrido
publishing houseEUNSA
196 pages

The presence of the N.E. current -New Age, New Age- in the last decades is exerting a transforming influence of enormous interest in the scientific and popular culture of Western societies. The ideological pillars of its thought have a direct impact on issues core topic of human life, such as freedom, dignity staff, the meaning of human sexuality, the value of the family, the boundaries of good and evil, the attitude towards suffering, etc.

The work notes that the N.E. is in an open historical process. Therefore, we invite the reader to enter these pages with his intelligence and his mind open to the rigorous data and the clarifying reflections provided about the N.E., which can help him in a sincere and exciting search for the truth.

8. Making the University in the social space

Concepción Naval and Elena Arbués
publishing houseEUNSA
208 pages

Concepción Naval, dean of the School of Education and Psychology, and Elena Arbués, professor at School and director of the Master's Degree University at academic staff, edit this book, in which researchers and professors from other academic institutions also participate. The publication shows some research and experiences of various experts, architects in the implementation of the Service Learning methodology (academic staff, student body, community partners and other beneficiaries). Service Learning is based on community service, the transmission of knowledge, skills and attitudes to students. Undoubtedly these are familiar elements, but when combined they give as result a greater educational effectiveness. The main underlying idea is that citizens have a responsibility to contribute to the common good and to the development of society and that, therefore, the Education is necessarily linked to social responsibility. In this sense, the pedagogical, social and ethical foundations that characterize Service Learning make it a suitable means for students to become more involved and committed to the community and the exercise of the ethical responsibility that they will have to exercise in their future profession.

9. advertising and pain. Representation of pain in the advertising.

Esther Martínez Pastor
publishing houseEUNSA
190 pages

purposeThe purpose of this book is to approach pain as part of our reality and to know how it is represented in advertising. It addresses what pain is and the programs of study pain advertising, understanding that it is physical, emotional and social, in order to analyze how pain is represented in the advertising and to know which are the subjects involved in the elaboration of pain messages and how these messages are constructed in advertisements.

It was also necessary to obtain the opinion of experts from three different points of view in order to configure a more complete vision of the phenomenon: an advertiser, two creatives and a medical expert. This has allowed us to have a broader and more critical view of the study in question: the representation of pain on advertising.

10. Singular universe

Javier Sánchez Cañizares
publishing house Francisco de Vitoria University
233 pages

Javier Sánchez Cañizares, researcher of the group 'Mind-brain' of Institute for Culture and Society and Professor in the School Ecclesiastical Philosophy of the University, has written the book Singular Universe, which collects the work with which a few months ago won the award Open Reason in the category of research.

The book is addressed to the public interested in the dialogue between science and Humanities, who wish to know the image of nature offered by contemporary physics. "But it is by no means a work for specialists. It is intended to serve both the scientist who wishes to broaden his or her horizon of understanding and the philosopher who is sensitive to the scientific knowledge ", assures the author. Through this publication, he introduces the reader to the context of contemporary physics in order to reveal some singularities that occur in our universe knowledge . In his work he offers a basic starting point, rooted in science, from which to begin philosophical reflection on nature. Likewise, he justifies the use of an expanded reason as a necessity of the human knowledge .