Author: Isadora Tattlin
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565123492
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What do you serve when Castro comes to dinner? Tattlin's firsthand account ofher immersion into Cuban life is uninhibited and revelatory. Nationalads.
Cuba Diaries
Author: Isadora Tattlin
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565123492
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What do you serve when Castro comes to dinner? Tattlin's firsthand account ofher immersion into Cuban life is uninhibited and revelatory. Nationalads.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1565123492
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
What do you serve when Castro comes to dinner? Tattlin's firsthand account ofher immersion into Cuban life is uninhibited and revelatory. Nationalads.
Cuban Studies 35
Author: Lisandro Prez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822970910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822970910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
1 Way 2 C The World
Author: Marilyn Waring
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442691085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist, and for her early political career after election to New Zealand's parliament at age twenty-three. Assembling some of her most thought-provoking writings, 1 Way 2 C the World is a compelling collection of essays and reflections on many important issues of our time. Written in lively, crisp, and often humourous prose, Waring provides illuminating commentary on topics such as gay marriage, human rights, globalization, the environment, and international relations and development. Including accounts of being in India at the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and in Ethiopia's during the 1984 famine, Waring's vivid writing remains contemporarily relevant, while this collection includes recent writings on the post-9/11 world. Brimming with pieces that are essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the world, 1 Way 2 C the World is bound to fascinate and inspire.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442691085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Marilyn Waring is a truly absorbing figure known as a distinguished public intellectual, a leading feminist thinker, environmentalist, social justice activist, and for her early political career after election to New Zealand's parliament at age twenty-three. Assembling some of her most thought-provoking writings, 1 Way 2 C the World is a compelling collection of essays and reflections on many important issues of our time. Written in lively, crisp, and often humourous prose, Waring provides illuminating commentary on topics such as gay marriage, human rights, globalization, the environment, and international relations and development. Including accounts of being in India at the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and in Ethiopia's during the 1984 famine, Waring's vivid writing remains contemporarily relevant, while this collection includes recent writings on the post-9/11 world. Brimming with pieces that are essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the world, 1 Way 2 C the World is bound to fascinate and inspire.
Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban
Author: Lisa Wixon
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061865796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Based on the wildly popular, semi-autobiographical "Havana Honey" series published by Salon.com, Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban is a gritty portrait of one woman's determination to infiltrate modern Cuba and find the father she has never known. While on her search, privileged American Alysia Briggs ends up broke and alone in Havana. She's then forced to adopt the life of the jineteras -- educated Cuban women who supplement a desperate income by accommodating sex tourists. With an eye for detail and a razor wit, Lisa Wixon relates Alysia's journey and creates a love song to Cuba, a heartfelt tribute to a resilient people facing soul-numbing poverty in a land where M.D.s and Ph.D.s earn $18 a month, and a pair of jeans costs twice as much.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061865796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Based on the wildly popular, semi-autobiographical "Havana Honey" series published by Salon.com, Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban is a gritty portrait of one woman's determination to infiltrate modern Cuba and find the father she has never known. While on her search, privileged American Alysia Briggs ends up broke and alone in Havana. She's then forced to adopt the life of the jineteras -- educated Cuban women who supplement a desperate income by accommodating sex tourists. With an eye for detail and a razor wit, Lisa Wixon relates Alysia's journey and creates a love song to Cuba, a heartfelt tribute to a resilient people facing soul-numbing poverty in a land where M.D.s and Ph.D.s earn $18 a month, and a pair of jeans costs twice as much.
The American Meteorological Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Cuba in Mind
Author: Maria Finn Dominguez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"From Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Graham Greene to Robert Stone, Pico Iyer, and Cristina Garcia -- a century and a half of literary travelers who have been dazzled by Cuba"--Cover.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"From Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, and Graham Greene to Robert Stone, Pico Iyer, and Cristina Garcia -- a century and a half of literary travelers who have been dazzled by Cuba"--Cover.
Library Journal
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
The Library Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Diary of the Cuban Revolution
Author: Carlos Franqui
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The Book Review Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1640
Book Description