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Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values
Educating the New Socialist Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the government's attempts to transform a future generation of citizens. While Cuba's high literacy rate is often lauded, the little-known dropout rates among teenagers...
by Students' Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Diwali and Christmas are the festivals of lights, sweets, and smiles. Enjoy cooking these delicious sweet dishes in your kitchen.Each recipe includes the required ingredients and instructions in detail. Even a first timer can easily prepare these sweet delicacies without much ado.Diwali...
Puerto Rico
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Acquired by the United States from Spain in 1898, Puerto Rico has a peculiar status among Latin American and Caribbean countries. As a Commonwealth, the island enjoys limited autonomy over local matters, but the U.S. has dominated it militarily, politically, and economically for much of its recent...
by Douglas Bullis, Wendy Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
This book features over 60 sumptuous recipes originating from the four corners of the island, including classics such as appa and iddiappan (eff and string hoppers), pittu (steamed rice flour rolls), kiri bath (milk rice), ambulthiyal (claypot fish), konda kaum (topknot cakes) and an array of sambol...
Perceptions of Cuba
Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's...
Revolutionary Medicine
Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those changes for ordinary Cubans. Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health...
What Manner of Man Is This?
The Duke of Windsor's Years in The Bahamas
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
*What Manner of Man Is This? *is a unique and incisive look at an important but largely ignored period of the life of the Prince of Wales who was heir to the British throne and became King of England, Edward VIII, in 1936. A mere ten months later he abdicated the throne to marry a twice-divorced...
Visions of Freedom
Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers were stationed,...
The Live Well Diet
The Easy Guide to Health and Weight Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
If staying healthy, staying trim, getting your body to work at its optimum has never been optional, then this is the book for you. The Live Well Diet book will change your concept of weight loss and dieting. The Live Well diet is a lifestyle and a remedy for better living.
La Belle Créole
The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born...
Cuba
Religion, Social Capital, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritage...
by Michael Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
When 13-year-old Horace's favourite aunt, Roomeen, arrives from her long sojourn in Panama, everyone is excited to see her; but everyone is even more interested in what is in her trunk. In the days following Auntie Roomeen's arrival, her gold chain goes missing, and the theft ignites the long-standing...
Curries
Over 200 Great Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Whether you prefer the creamy, mild aromas of a korma or the spicy sensations of a madras, this book provides hundreds of tasty recipes for every curry-lover. From well-known classics to more modern ideas, you'll find something here to suit any taste and occasion. Including handy recipes for curry...
by Mauro García Triana, Pedro Eng Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This book deals with Chinese immigrants' role in the struggle for Cuban liberation and in Cuba's twentieth-century revolutionary social movement; the history of the Chinese economy in Cuba; and the Chinese contribution to Cuban music, painting, food, sport, and language. The centerpiece of the book...