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From the first amateur leagues of the 1860s to the exploits of Livan and Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, here is the definitive history of baseball in Cuba. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria expertly traces the arc of the game, intertwining its heroes and their stories with the politics, music, dance, and...

Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban women...

Reflections on Life in the San Juan Islands, is a series of essays on island living in the Pacific Northwest that are wistful, introspective and laugh-out-loud funny. Admirers of The New York Times’ Verlyn Klinkenborg will find a kindred voice in Kalbert’s natural instinct for the telling detail....

Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the interplay between the state, the body, race, and sexuality. Mimi Sheller offers a new theory of "citizenship...

In Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown reveals how between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. They did so decades before the decolonization...

This rich interdisciplinary collection of essays advocates and models a hemispheric approach to the study of the Americas. Taken together, the essays examine North and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific as a broad region transcending both national boundaries and the dichotomy between North...

聖雅各之路 一個靈魂的放遊 踏上千年朝聖之旅 在路上 重新找回遺忘的自己 旅行，流浪，不需要冠冕堂皇的理由， 或為賦新詞強說愁的藉口。 有時候，離開，就是唯一的理由。 我聽見，遠方的風聲，呼喚著。 我看見，久違的自己，在路上等我。 －－謝哲青 《因為尋找，所以看見--一個人的朝聖之路》是謝哲青首度踏上千年朝聖古道「聖雅各之路」，向未知前進並且尋找，所帶出的一部人生「中場休息」之作。與過往不同，謝哲青這次的書寫，除了傳遞他所擅長的人文、歷史與藝術……學識，在這趟古道步行中也獲得更加開闊的人生省思：探索自己、回顧過去、尋求方向，召喚生命中的繁星之地，在孤獨中重拾遺忘的自己，並寫下沿途的體悟和感動，是出書以來最坦誠感人的一部療癒書寫。 哲青的人生省思 ‧感受時間 成就一切的功德，正是「時間」。 在這裡，我重新思索「時間」。 是時間，成就了大教堂的瑰麗，那時間能成就個人的宏偉嗎？ 重新感受生命、感受時間，我們也找到新的方式來回應生活。 ‧療癒之道 在滿目瘡痍的過往中，我們找尋理得心安的吉光片羽。 透過不斷的自我對話，面對身而為人必須面對的磨難與告別， 這才是自我修補，自我療癒的開始。 ‧找回自己 那個對世界與生命充滿憧憬、好奇與熱愛的人，究竟去哪了？ 我好久，?有見到「他」了。 我想念「自己」。 ‧學習獨處 正因為如此，在旅途中等待我的，總是驚喜、驚奇與驚嚇。 在近乎我行我素的飄浪中，我學會入境隨俗，隨緣自足， 更重要的是，學會與孤獨自處。 ‧修補內心 我試著鬆開糾結的背包綁， 這何嘗不是我在鬆動凝固石化的自己； 當我修補裝備上的裂縫， 其實也在修補我內心那些久經歲月而風化破損的缺口。 ‧愛情悔恨 愛讓人勇敢，卻也讓人偏執、瘋狂。 所有的一往情深，最後，也風乾成欲語還休的心照不宣。 人生如此，愛情也是如此， 站在祭壇前，我懺悔辜負過的深情， 回憶那些輕忽大意的曾經。 ‧當下與永恆 終有一日，我們的生命都將面臨結束。 永恆，或許只是引頸仰望的遙遠， 我們所擁有的，只有現在，只有今天而已。 ‧沉默與靜默 沉默，是心領神會的靈犀， 也是我所能想像得到，最純粹的自由...

In the mid-nineteenth century, some of Cuba's most influential writers settled in U.S. cities and published a variety of newspapers, pamphlets, and books. Collaborating with military movements known as filibusters, this generation of exiled writers created a body of literature demanding Cuban independence...

(approx. 223 pages) Our illustrated travel guide features the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground. Finding Internet access...

Known as the Little Britain of the Caribbean, Barbados lies to the northeast of mainland South America. The welcoming locals offer a warm, vibrant ambiance and this “pearl island” provides its visitors with more than just superb sandy beaches and the beautiful waters of the Caribbean Sea.  ...

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The continually expanding popularity of Anguilla, especially with the rich and famous, has caught everyone by surprise. After all, at first glance Anguilla looks to be nothing special. Its a long, narrow flat island, 16 miles long by three miles wide, with constant droughts and a notable absence of the...

Este libro está lleno de refranes, recetas, historia, poemas y orgullo cubano. Leerlo para las memorias, las recetas de la abuela y para capturar un poco de lo que es ser un cubano.

In Buena Vista in the Club, Geoffrey Baker traces the trajectory of the Havana hip hop scene from the late 1980s to the present and analyzes its partial eclipse by reggaetón. While Cuban officials initially rejected rap as “the music of the enemy,” leading figures in the hip hop scene soon convinced...