Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307764648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.
Cuba and the Night
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307764648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307764648
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. "On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight."--Los Angeles Times.
Cuba and the Night
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704302518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight.--Los Angeles Times. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780704302518
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Having captivated readers with such gems of travel writing as Video Night in Kathmandu, Pico Iyer now presents a novel whose central character is another place: the melancholy, ebullient, and dazzlingly inconsistent island that is Castro's Cuba. On almost every page you can smell the dust, the cheap perfume and the rum of Havana today, or better still, tonight.--Los Angeles Times. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Long Night of Dark Intent
Author: Irving Horowitz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351479946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come. Rather than herald a new era of Cuba joining the world community of nations as a paragon of democracy as many fervently hoped and believed it would, it became instead a new stage in authoritarian rule in the Western hemisphere.For more than a half century since then Cuba has been defined by the capacity of a single family to command and determine the fate of a nation?and to do so with a minimum of opposition. Incredibly, even those professing adhesion to democratic norms have been ready to forgive the dictator his excesses. This volume explains the theory and practice of this absence of internal opposition and the persistence of external support for the Castro family and its entourage.The Long Night of Dark Intent is chronological in order, with the author indicating major points in each of the five decades covered. The volume covers five centers of system analysis: economics, politics, society, military, and ideology. Who or what "determines" events and decisions is the stuff of real history. It is precisely due to variability in causal chains in society that we have huge variance in levels of predictability. The course of the Cuban Revolution gives strong support for such an approach to the Castro Era. This is a unique, unflinching account with a strong emphasis on the importance of U.S. policy decisions over time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351479946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come. Rather than herald a new era of Cuba joining the world community of nations as a paragon of democracy as many fervently hoped and believed it would, it became instead a new stage in authoritarian rule in the Western hemisphere.For more than a half century since then Cuba has been defined by the capacity of a single family to command and determine the fate of a nation?and to do so with a minimum of opposition. Incredibly, even those professing adhesion to democratic norms have been ready to forgive the dictator his excesses. This volume explains the theory and practice of this absence of internal opposition and the persistence of external support for the Castro family and its entourage.The Long Night of Dark Intent is chronological in order, with the author indicating major points in each of the five decades covered. The volume covers five centers of system analysis: economics, politics, society, military, and ideology. Who or what "determines" events and decisions is the stuff of real history. It is precisely due to variability in causal chains in society that we have huge variance in levels of predictability. The course of the Cuban Revolution gives strong support for such an approach to the Castro Era. This is a unique, unflinching account with a strong emphasis on the importance of U.S. policy decisions over time.
The Harvard Lampoon
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Supreme Court
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
Book Description
Challenges for U.S. Policy Toward Cuba
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Cuba's Great Struggle for Freedom
Author: Gonzalo de Quesada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Item is a salesman's sample, a condensed version of the book for door-to-door salesmen. It includes a sample of the alternative leather binding and blank pages at the back for potential buyer registrations. Additionally, it contains two ephemeral items: "Agent's Key or How to Sell Cuba's Great Struggle for Freedom: A Word of Advice" and "Confidential Terms to Agents," which provide guidance and terms for selling the real book.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Item is a salesman's sample, a condensed version of the book for door-to-door salesmen. It includes a sample of the alternative leather binding and blank pages at the back for potential buyer registrations. Additionally, it contains two ephemeral items: "Agent's Key or How to Sell Cuba's Great Struggle for Freedom: A Word of Advice" and "Confidential Terms to Agents," which provide guidance and terms for selling the real book.
America's Battle for Cuba's Freedom
Author: Gonzalo de Quesada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Author: United States. Warren Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Warren Commission hearings.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Warren Commission hearings.
International Night
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620400553
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical. Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe, and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International Night--the recipes, stories, and insights he's collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world writing about food, culture, and history, and his charming pen-and-ink drawings, which appear throughout the book. International Night is brimming with recipes for fifty-two special meals--appetizers, a main course, side dishes, and dessert for each--one for every week of the year. Some are old favorites from Mark's repertoire, and others have been gleaned from research. Always, they are his own version, drawn from techniques he learned as a professional chef and from many years of talking to chefs, producers, and household cooks around the world. Despite these insights, every recipe is designed to be carried out--easily--by any amateur chef, and to be completed with the assistance of children. Mark and Talia invite you and your family into their kitchen, outfitted with overflowing packets of exotic spices and aromas of delicacies from Tanzania and Kazakhstan to Cuba and Norway. From there, recipes and toothsome morsels of cultural and historical information will fill your bellies and your minds, and transport you to countries all around the world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620400553
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
From celebrated food writer Mark Kurlansky, a savory trip across the globe for parents and kids, with delicious and accessible recipes and tidbits both cultural and historical. Once a week in the Kurlansky home, Mark spins a globe, and wherever his daughter's finger lands becomes the theme of that Friday night's dinner. Their tradition of International Night has afforded Mark an opportunity to share with his daughter, Talia--and now the readers of International Night--the recipes, stories, and insights he's collected over more than thirty years of traveling the world writing about food, culture, and history, and his charming pen-and-ink drawings, which appear throughout the book. International Night is brimming with recipes for fifty-two special meals--appetizers, a main course, side dishes, and dessert for each--one for every week of the year. Some are old favorites from Mark's repertoire, and others have been gleaned from research. Always, they are his own version, drawn from techniques he learned as a professional chef and from many years of talking to chefs, producers, and household cooks around the world. Despite these insights, every recipe is designed to be carried out--easily--by any amateur chef, and to be completed with the assistance of children. Mark and Talia invite you and your family into their kitchen, outfitted with overflowing packets of exotic spices and aromas of delicacies from Tanzania and Kazakhstan to Cuba and Norway. From there, recipes and toothsome morsels of cultural and historical information will fill your bellies and your minds, and transport you to countries all around the world.