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by Marsha de la O
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Set in present-day Southern California, Antidote for Night is a heartbreak lyric, a corrido, a love song to California's city lights and far-flung outskirts—the San Diego backcountry, the Central Valley, the Inland Empire, and the Mojave Desert. Marsha de la O's voice is a kind of free jazz, musically...
THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated)
Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Essays from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, The Mountains of California, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California, Steep Trails
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "THE ALASKA ACCOUNT of John Muir: Travels in Alaska, The Cruise of the Corwin, Stickeen & Alaska Days with John Muir (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Well known naturalist and environmentalist, John...
Seattle City of Literature
Reflections from a Community of Writers
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This bookish history of Seattle includes essays, history and personal stories from such literary luminaries as Frances McCue, Tom Robbins, Garth Stein, Rebecca Brown, Jonathan Evison, Tree Swenson, Jim Lynch, and Sonora Jha among many others. Timed with Seattle’s bid to become the second US city...
by Julián del Casal
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
En los Poemas de Julián del Casal se vislumbra su espíritu precursor del modernismo. Sin embargo, Casal es también una figura conflictiva que resultaba desconcertante en medio de los movimientos independentistas de la Cuba del siglo XIX.En este sentido cabe recordar el encuentro de Casal con Antonio...
by Juana Borrero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
El poeta y ensayista cubano Cintio Vitier dijo de Juana Borrero la «niña prodigio» cubana —que falleció antes de los veinte años, dejando poesías, cartas y pinturas famosas—: «El destino de Juana hay que entenderlo desde los supuestos ultra-románticos difundidos en los medios artísticos...
Cubanos: Un viaje épico
La lucha del exilio por la verdad y la libertad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2015
En octubre de 1965, el Presidente Lyndon Johnson declaró que el espíritu de Estados Unidos celebra la tradición de asilo para los oprimidos, y prometió al pueblo de Cuba: “quienes busquen refugio aquí lo encontrarán”. Y así fue. Aún antes del discurso del presidente, miles de cubanos llegaban...
by MobileReference
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues,...
by Charles Dudley Warner
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
"Our Italy" is a fascinating treatise on half-century Italy by Charles Dudley Warner, with chapters on politics, geography, economy, history, agriculture, and much more. Contents include: "How Our Italy Is Made", "Our Climatic And Commercial Mediterranean", "Early...
by Sally Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
In Ghosthunting Southern California author Sally Richards takes readers on an eerie journey through the region on a series of paranormal investigations to historic locations marred by tragedy and unfortunate happenstance that have caused the dead to rise. This collection brings well-known paranormal...
by Katherine Dunham
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Just as surely as Haiti is "possessed" by the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham when she first went there in 1936 to study dance and ritual. In this book, Dunham reveals how her anthropological research, her work in dance, and her fascination for the people...
To Die in Cuba
Suicide and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world--a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cuba's historic ties to the Catholic church. In this richly illustrated social...
The Borders of Dominicanidad
Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In The Borders of Dominicanidad Lorgia García-Peña explores the ways official narratives and histories have been projected onto racialized Dominican bodies as a means of sustaining the nation's borders. García-Peña constructs a genealogy of dominicanidad that highlights how Afro-Dominicans, ethnic...
WRITINGS ON THE SAND
(ESCRITOS SOBRE LA ARENA)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Writings on the Sand is the authors recollection of his familys lifes story during a time of great turmoil in Cuban history. The authors father was Chief of the National Police in Santiago de Cuba. Following the resignation of President Fulgencio Batista ,his father acted as intermediary to help establish...
by Yvonne Conde
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Poco después de establecer su dictadura en 1959, y el caos social que resultó de la misma, corrieron rumores que Fidel Castro decretaría que la potestad de todos los niños cubanos sería asumida por el estado. El terror ocasionado por esta posibilidad impulsó a miles de padres desesperados a...