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Vanishing Cuba
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Author : Michael Chinnici
language : en
Publisher: Red Octopus Publishing
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Vanishing Cuba written by Michael Chinnici and has been published by Red Octopus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Cuba categories.
The VANISHING CUBA Deluxe Edition photo book is limited to only 500 copies, each signed and numbered, and comes packaged in a beautiful protective slipcase. Vanishing Cuba is a curated visual storytelling photo book by American photographer Michael Chinnici. The collection depicts the changes Cuba faces as it emerges from more than 60 years of isolation and decay. Michael's 24 trips to Cuba have yielded tens of thousands of photographs, thought-provoking, and emotional stories, and created lifelong friendships. Vanishing Cuba is about capturing Cuba's past, present, and future, and even more so, about capturing the "Soul of Cuba." Michael's love affair with Cuba and the Cuban people comes through in this compelling and beautifully produced book. The Deluxe Edition contains over 300 photographs and stories in a beautifully printed and produced 12.30" x 13.25" hardcover book. Designed by Michael, this 348-page museum-quality photo book is offset printed in Italy using only the finest Italian papers. The book's color images are printed using a 7-color Spectra7 System to provide the most vibrant colors. The book's black & white images are printed using a 3-black TriTone System, delivering superior B&W images with breathtaking images results. Michael has curated his 24 trips to Cuba into a wonderful storytelling photo collection. Each beautifully crafted book is produced with stories in both English and Spanish, with Cuban friends helping guide the narrative with beautiful essays. Michael's style of photography captures the "Soul of Cuba" in the most authentic, endearing, beautiful, and honest light.
King Of Cuba
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Author : Cristina Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-05-21
King Of Cuba written by Cristina Garcia and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Fiction categories.
A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the island” (Kirkus Reviews). Vivid and teeming with life, King of Cuba transports readers to Cuba and Miami, and into the heads of two larger-than-life men: a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge against the dictator. García’s masterful twinning of these characters combines with a rabble of other Cuban voices to portray the passions and realities of two Cubas—on the island and off— in a pulsating story that entertains and illuminates.
Vanished And Vanishing Parrots
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Author : Joseph Forshaw
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2017-10-02
Vanished And Vanishing Parrots written by Joseph Forshaw and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-02 with Science categories.
Joseph M. Forshaw, one of the world’s leading authorities on parrots, calls attention to the threats they face: they are one of the most endangered groups of birds, with a growing number of species nearing extinction. The main threats arise from habitat loss through deforestation and agricultural development and from the taking of birds for the international live-bird trade. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots brings together information on species that have become extinct in historical times with information on species that are in danger of becoming extinct to increase public awareness of the plight of these magnificent birds. Vivid colour plates by the wildlife artist Frank Knight draw attention to the spectacular species that we have lost or that could be lost. Forshaw’s work gives us fascinating insight into these endangered and extinct parrots. Vanished and Vanishing Parrots will be a valuable reference for scientific, ornithological and avicultural organisations, as well as individual lovers of birds and of illustrated natural history books.
The Sense Of Brown
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Author : José Esteban Muñoz
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-24
The Sense Of Brown written by José Esteban Muñoz and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Muñoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho and Nilo Cruz, artists Nao Bustamante, Isaac Julien, and Tania Bruguera, and singer José Feliciano, among others, arguing for a sense of brownness that is not fixed within the racial and national contours of Latinidad. This sense of brown is not about the individualized brown subject; rather, it demonstrates that for brown peoples, being exists within what Muñoz calls the brown commons—a lifeworld, queer ecology, and form of collectivity. In analyzing minoritarian affect, ethnicity as a structure of feeling, and brown feelings as they emerge in, through, and beside art and performance, Muñoz illustrates how the sense of brown serves as the basis for other ways of knowing and being in the world.
Voice Lessons
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Author : Nancy Dean
language : en
Publisher: Maupin House Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2000
Voice Lessons written by Nancy Dean and has been published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Education categories.
Prepare your high school students for AP, IB, and other standardized tests that demand an understanding of the subtle elements that comprise an author's unique voice. Each of the 100 sharply focused, historically and culturally diverse passages from world literature targets a specific component of voice, presenting the elements in short, manageable exercises that function well as class openers. Includes teacher notes and discussion suggestions.
Cuba A Palace Of Salt
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Author : Liana Fernandez de Castro Phibbs
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-03-01
Cuba A Palace Of Salt written by Liana Fernandez de Castro Phibbs and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sharing a hot night with a giant hammerhead shark; marching to protest the Dictator Batista; leading classmates to safety through the smoke and terror of a bomb, the world Liana Fernandez de Castro grew up in was violent and often terrifying, but this daughter of a distinguished old Spanish-Cuban family still found time to recognize, value and delineate a whole gallery of characters who vary from fascinating to uproarious. Praxedes, the charming entrepreneur who stood the fable of the ant and the grasshopper on its head; Elena, the sullen Galician who returned evil for good, undone by the very revolution she had envisioned; Roberta, psychopathic and madly entertaining daughter of a dreaded official in the Police Force; Caco, guardian and pillar of her childhood, bravely denying the possibility of age or infirmity; Giny, angelic friend caught in a tragic web woven by a scoundrel who hid behind the facade of the revolution; a great skipper coaxing a beloved boat through a hurricane; Miguel, the repairman whose manual skills outweighed the mob-hysteria of the revolution, and, on a larger stage, the great Cienfuegos, peasant-soldier-hero of the revolution who was almost certainly murdered by Castro, together with Che Guevara and the real reasons he was forced to leave Havana. These and others spring to life in a virtual torrent of images that illuminate the lost world of old, pre-revolutionary Cuba together with the convulsions and uproar of change. (Among the images, Castro was almost murdered during his triumphant entry into Havana while Liana stood three feet from the man from whom the gun was wrested!) As a novel, this would strain reality - but it's all true!
La Lucha For Cuba
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Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-10-10
La Lucha For Cuba written by Miguel A. De La Torre and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-10 with Religion categories.
For many in Miami’s Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one’s children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Lucha for Cuba, De La Torre shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and privilege—distinguishing themselves from other Hispanic communities in the United States—and how religion has figured in their ascension. Through the lens of religion and culture, his work also unmasks and explores intra-Hispanic structures of oppression operating among Cubans in Miami. Miami Cubans use a religious expression, la lucha, or "the struggle," to justify the power and privilege they have achieved. Within the context of la lucha, De La Torre explores the religious dichotomy created between the "children of light" (Exilic Cubans) and the "children of darkness" (Resident Cubans). Examining the recent saga of the Elián González custody battle, he shows how the cultural construction of la lucha has become a distinctly Miami-style spirituality that makes el exilio (exile) the basis for religious reflection, understanding, and practice—and that conflates political mobilization with spiritual meaning in an ongoing confrontation with evil.
Surprise Kill Vanish
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Author : Annie Jacobsen
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-05-14
Surprise Kill Vanish written by Annie Jacobsen and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with History categories.
From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIA's secret paramilitary units. Surprise . . . your target. Kill . . . your enemy. Vanish . . . without a trace. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly-classified branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage, subversion and, yes, assassination. With unprecedented access to forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day, along with declassified documents and deep historical research, Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils -- like never before -- a complex world of individuals working in treacherous environments populated with killers, connivers, and saboteurs. Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal foreign policy machine. Written with the pacing of a thriller, Surprise, Kill, Vanish brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews -- with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service (equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing operations around the world -- reveal, for the first time, the enormity of this shocking, controversial, and morally complex terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world? Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is legal.
Health Politics And Revolution In Cuba Since 1898
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Author : Katherine Hirschfeld
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 2011-12-31
Health Politics And Revolution In Cuba Since 1898 written by Katherine Hirschfeld and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-31 with Political Science categories.
Challenging many of the assumptions scholars have made about the Cuban Revolution's impact on healthcare, this volume recounts one anthropologist's quest to discover the truth behind the complicated relationship between Cuba's revolution, politics, and healthcare system. Katherine Hirschfeld became interested in Cuba in the mid-1990s, after reading numerous laudatory books and articles describing the Castro regime's achievements in health and medicine. Cuba's population health indicators seemed to be far superior to those of neighboring countries, the national health costs low, and medical care free at point-of-service to the entire people. Historical records indicated that most of these positive health trends resulted from the changes instituted by Castro in 1959. Few of these authors, however, had actually spent time on the island. Thus, Hirschfeld found that academic writing on Cuba was often long on praise, but short on empirical research about what exactly had changed in Cuban medicine since 1959. After much bureaucratic wrangling, Hirschfeld managed to secure permission to conduct long-term ethnographic research in Cuba, where she lived with families from Havana and Santiago, conducted clinic observations, interviewed doctors and patients, and was treated in a Cuban hospital during an epidemic of dengue fever. The reality of the Cuban healthcare system turned out to be different than the scholarly ideal: it was bureaucratized, authoritarian, and repressive, and most people preferred to seek healthcare in the informal economy rather than endure the material shortages, red tape, and political surveillance of the public sector. Written in the form of a first-person narrative, Health, Politics, and Revolution in Cuba Since 1898 not only critically reevaluates Cuban healthcare after the 1959 revolution; it includes chapters detailing Cuban health trends from the Spanish-American War (1898) through the fall of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and into the present.
Calypso Magnolia
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Author : John Wharton Lowe
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-02-08
Calypso Magnolia written by John Wharton Lowe 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 2016-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders. Focusing on writers and literatures from the Deep South and Gulf states in relation to places including Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a dynamic framework within which to reconsider literary history, genre, and aesthetics. Considering thematic concerns such as race, migration, forced exile, and colonial and postcolonial identity, Lowe contends that southern literature and culture have always transcended the physical and political boundaries of the American South. Lowe uses cross-cultural readings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including William Faulkner, Martin Delany, Zora Neale Hurston, George Lamming, Cristina Garcia, Edouard Glissant, and Madison Smartt Bell, among many others, to make his argument. These literary figures, Lowe argues, help us uncover new ways of thinking about the shared culture of the South and Caribbean while demonstrating that southern literature has roots even farther south than we realize.