Indian category: 631 books
Authentic Regional Cuisine of India
Food of the Grand Trunk Road
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Authentic Regional Cuisine of India is a beautifully written and illustrated cook book, as well as a travelogue and history of the famous Grand Trunk Road since its emergence as India’s first route for traders. The book follows Hardeep Singh Kohli’s travels along this age-old route, starting in...
From India
Over 100 Recipes to Celebrate Food, Family & Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
"Food is the essence of existence."
"Vannakkam" is a Tamil saying meaning "welcome," and that's just what this beautiful cookbook does—it welcomes you to a finer level of Indian cuisine. Kumar Mahadevan, the talented chef behind Australia's iconic restaurants Abhi's and Aki's, weaves over...
by Tom Gjelten
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2012
En 1862, Facundo Bacardí apostó por crear en Cuba una pequeña destilería de ron, una bebida que hasta entonces solo consumían marineros y obreros. Pronto el ron Bacardí se convertiría en la bebida favorita de la isla y quedaría ligado a la identidad cubana.
Recorriendo la historia de...
The Double Life of Fidel Castro
My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba.
Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo...
by Juan Francisco Manzano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Este es un sencillo pero elocuente relato del esclavismo en las colonias españolas del Nuevo Mundo, es el primer testimonio en lengua española de un esclavo, y un documento de un inmenso valor histórico y humano. Manzano inició su redacción en 1835, alentado por Domingo del Monte, escritor empeñado...
The Americano
Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
The untold story of William Morgan, the man who left Ohio to become a high-ranking leader in Fidel Castro’s rebel army: “Reads like a great epic novel” (Carlos Eire, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana).
When William Morgan was twenty-two years old, he was working as a high school janitor...
The Domino Diaries
My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba
Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match (against the favorite), becoming romantically...
The Cuba Wars
Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
There are few international relationships as intimate, as passionate-and as dysfunctional-as that of the United States and Cuba. In The Cuba Wars, Cuba expert Daniel Erikson draws on extensive visits and conversations with both Cuban government officials and opposition leaders-plus key players in...
The Sugar King of Havana
The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
"Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man in prerevolutionary Cuba. He had a life fit for Hollywood: he barely survived both a gangland shooting and a firing squad, and...
by Jose Marti
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in exile in New York for most of his adult life, earning...
by Sylvia Wynter
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
The Hills of Hebron tells the story of a group of formerly enslaved Jamaicans as they attempt to create a new life in the utopian, anti-colonialist community of Hebron. However, a grab for power ensues when it is revealed that Rose, the wife of leader of the Church of New Believers, who has taken...
Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life...
Ay, Cuba!
A Socio-Erotic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The NPR reporter offers an “engaging and enlightening” window into late-90s Cuba, “from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba” (Kirkus Reviews).
For NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, reporting from Cuba on the eve of Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit was an opportunity...
Gangsterismo
The United States, Cuba and the Mafia, 1933 to 1966
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Gangsterismo is an extraordinary accomplishment, the most comprehensive history yet of the clash of epic forces over several decades in Cuba. It is a chronicle that touches upon deep and ongoing themes in the history of the Americas, and more specifically of the United States government, Cuba before...