I Live In Havana
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I Live In Havana
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Author : Jordan Lancaster Ortega
language : es
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2018-09-30
I Live In Havana written by Jordan Lancaster Ortega and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
“Children are born to be happy” is a phrase by Cuba’s national hero, José Martí. This is a beautiful book, with exquisite illustrations, that tells a cheerful and simple story of the daily life of a Cuban child. The book demonstrates the traditions and customs of children and families in Cuba as well as iconic places in Havana where Yadira lives. The priority given to child development in Cuba is an example for Latin America and the world. Cuban children enjoy health, education, sports and art for free and according to UNICEF Cuba is the only country in the region to have eliminated child malnutrition. - Dr. Helen Yaffe, University of Glasgow “Los niños nacen para ser felices” es una frase del héroe nacional de Cuba, José Martí. Este es un hermoso libro, con exquisitas ilustraciones, que narra la historia alegre y sencilla de la vida diaria de una niña cubana. El libro muestra algunas de las tradiciones y costumbres de los niños y familias cubanas así como lugares icónicos de la Habana donde vive Yadira. La prioridad dada al desarrollo infantil en Cuba es un ejemplo para América Latina y el Mundo. Los niños cubanos gozan de salud, educación, deporte y arte de manera gratuita, según UNICEF, Cuba es el único país de la región que ha logrado eliminar la desnutrición infantil. - Dr. Helen Yaffe, Universidad de Glasgow
Havana Living Today
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Author : Hermes Mallea
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Havana Living Today written by Hermes Mallea and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with House & Home categories.
Havana Living Today presents both stylish homes that survived the Cuban Revolution as well as innovative Havana interiors created in recent years amid the beginning of a new era and lifestyle. Far from the cliché images of dilapidated palazzos and 1950s-era cars, Havana Living Today presents a vibrant, creative, and forward-looking city through the lens of an eclectic collection of domestic interiors. Recent changes in Cuba—such as the easing of restrictions on travel and commercial real estate enterprises—have led to a flurry of world-class renovations, giving rise to a palpable hopefulness in the Cuban capital and innovative interiors for a tropical lifestyle. Havana Living Today is an insider’s view of the styles present in this revitalizing city, taking the reader into the elegant, eccentric, sophisticated, and classical melange of the city’s finest and most fascinating interiors. This is the first book of its kind to counter long-held preconceptions about how people live in Havana, presenting a vision of the city that international visitors have rarely seen until now, offering fresh inspiration to design aficionados and homeowners in warm climes.
Cuba Beyond The Beach
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Author : Karen Dubinsky
language : en
Publisher: Between the Lines
Release Date : 2016
Cuba Beyond The Beach written by Karen Dubinsky and has been published by Between the Lines this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Havana (Cuba) categories.
Havana Blues
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Author : Pamela Ruiz
language : en
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Release Date : 2021-07-01
Havana Blues written by Pamela Ruiz and has been published by Assouline Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-01 with Travel categories.
Crumbling pastel-colored facades line its streets, parked vintage cars evoke times past, live music permeates the air. Welcome to Havana, home to an overwhelming energy. Situated along the Straits of Florida, the capital of Cuba has been through several identities: Spanish colonial settlement, mobster rule in the 1930s, glamour of the 1950s, Cuban revolution and, most recently, a cultural renaissance. Havana’s bold, provocative approach to art, cuisine and entertainment—as well as the eclectic blend of African, French, Spanish and North American influences—including its range of architecture styles from the sixteenth century to the modern day, confer this epic city with a legendary status on par with the world’s greatest cities. While some of the building are in disrepair, the beauty of the baroque, neoclassical and art deco features triumphs. The iconic Copa Room cabaret that hosted Ginger Rogers and Abbott and Costello still stands. The Gran Teatro de la Habana, built in the early twentieth century, is now home to the Cuban National Ballet. Habana Vieja is undergoing a massive restoration to its former glory. Havana could be seen as a work-in-progress, but it is more a testament to its never-ending determination to improve and progress, which might be the allure that attracts so many visitors. So take a seat at an authentic paladar (family-run restaurant) and enjoy the vibrant evolution of Havana.
The Right To Live In Health
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Author : Daniel A. Rodríguez
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2020-07-21
The Right To Live In Health written by Daniel A. Rodríguez and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-21 with Social Science categories.
Daniel A. Rodriguez's history of a newly independent Cuba shaking off the U.S. occupation focuses on the intersection of public health and politics in Havana. While medical policies were often used to further American colonial power, in Cuba, Rodriguez argues, they evolved into important expressions of anticolonial nationalism as Cuba struggled to establish itself as a modern state. A younger generation of Cuban medical reformers, including physicians, patients, and officials, imagined disease as a kind of remnant of colonial rule. These new medical nationalists, as Rodriguez calls them, looked to medical science to guide Cuba toward what they envisioned as a healthy and independent future. Rodriguez describes how medicine and new public health projects infused republican Cuba's statecraft, powerfully shaping the lives of Havana's residents. He underscores how various stakeholders, including women and people of color, demanded robust government investment in quality medical care for all Cubans, a central national value that continues today. On a broader level, Rodriguez proposes that Latin America, at least as much as the United States and Europe, was an engine for the articulation of citizens' rights, including the right to health care, in the twentieth century.
Kinship Love And Life Cycle In Contemporary Havana Cuba
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Author : Heidi Härkönen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-21
Kinship Love And Life Cycle In Contemporary Havana Cuba written by Heidi Härkönen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-21 with Social Science categories.
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life cycle from birth to death.
Passing Through Havana
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Author : Felicia Rosshandler
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 1983-12-15
Passing Through Havana written by Felicia Rosshandler and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-12-15 with Fiction categories.
For some Europeans fleeing the gathering Holocaust on the Continent, the bright wash of Cuba's azure skies and sparkling sands offered a last refuge. For Suze, a strong, seductive woman who saved her family from Hitler's Jewish witch-hunt with her Magda Lupescu-an appeal and wile, Havana meant life and freedom after their determined, often desperate, flight across Europe and the Atlantic. But for Claudia, Suze's blond, blue-eyed adolescent daughter, the Latin tempo and allure of upper-class Catholic society are too tempting and draw her away from her parents and their expatriate community and into the friendships and parties of Cuba's pre-Castro gilded set. Her Aryan features and skill at "passing" allow her to recast her identity for the circumstance, and each time deny her own feeling of rootlessness. One evening, at a party at the Havana Yacht Club, she falls in love with a young German, who does not know she is Jewish, and Claudia is caught up in a taboo relationship both frightening and erotic. Claudia's story explores another side of the Holocaust: about Jews who escaped to exotic places only to rediscover their heritage of homelessness; and about both the psychology of self-hate and the inner strength of individuals who survive. Novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes sums it up this way: "Is love or is history the answer? If you read Passing Through Havana you will discover the price of both."
La Belle Cr Ole
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Author : Alina García-Lapuerta
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
La Belle Cr Ole written by Alina García-Lapuerta and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
La Belle Créole re-creates the dramatic story of Cuba's earliest female author, the adventurous 19th-century countess nicknamed La Belle Créole: María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, or Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin. Alina García-Lapuerta draws from Mercedes' memoirs and letters and contemporary accounts to bring to life this Havana-born aristocrat who was years ahead of her time as a writer, socialite, salon host, and participant in the Cuban slavery debate. Eventually celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, at age 13 headstrong young Mercedes was shipped off to live with her glamorous mother in Spain. Though political chaos blanketed Europe, Mercedes triumphed, charming aristocrats from all sides with her beauty and singing voice. She married General Merlin in Napoleon's army, watched her mother have an intimate affair with Joseph Bonaparte, and discussed painting with Goya. Arriving in Paris after the French defeat, Mercedes, one of the greatest amateur sopranos of her day, hosted the city's premier musical salon where Liszt, Rossini, and great divas performed for Rothschilds, Balzac, and royalty. Increasingly, she turned to her memoirs and travel writings, which have recently been rediscovered and, scholars agree, deserve a place in the canon of Latin American literature. Alina García-Lapuerta was born in Cuba and travels frequently to Miami and Cuba, retaining strong ties with her Cuban-based family and the Cuban American community. She holds a bachelor's degree in international economics from Georgetown University and a master's degree in international relations from Tufts University. She lives in London.
Next Year In Havana
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Author : Chanel Cleeton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Next Year In Havana written by Chanel Cleeton and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with Fiction categories.
A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK “A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice.”—Reese Witherspoon After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity—and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest—until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary... Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.
Havana Real
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Author : Yoani Sanchez
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2011-04-26
Havana Real written by Yoani Sanchez and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with History categories.
She's been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online—in disguise—at tourist hotspots. She's a blogger, she's a Cuban, and she's a worldwide sensation. Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about what it means to live under the Castro regime: the chronic hunger and the difficulty of shopping; the art of repairing ancient appliances; and the struggles of living under a propaganda machine that pushes deep into public and private life. For these simple acts of truth-telling her life is one of constant threat. But she continues on, refusing to be silenced—a living response to all who have ceased to believe in a future for Cuba.