David Frye: 5 books
Indians into Mexicans
History and Identity in a Mexican Town
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The people of Mexquitic, a town in the state of San Luis Potosí in rural northeastern Mexico, have redefined their sense of identity from "Indian" to "Mexican" over the last two centuries. In this ethnographic and historical study of Mexquitic, David Frye explores why and how this transformation occurred,...
Walls
A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
In Walls historian David Frye tells the epic story of history’s greatest manmade barriers, from ancient times to the present. It is a haunting and frequently eye-opening saga—one that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live.
With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey...
by Yoss, David Frye
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
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With the playfulness and ingenuity of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science-fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions with Super Extra Grande, the winner of the twentieth annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011.
In a distant future in which Latin...
by Yoss, David Frye
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
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One of the most successful, decorated, and controversial science fiction writers in Cuba, Yoss (a.k.a. José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known as much for his unrepentant rocker aesthetic as for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism.
In his bestselling A Planet...
by Yoss, David Frye
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Set a course for intercourse with this raucous space opera from Yoss, “Cuba's premiere science-fiction writer” (VICE), where humans explore the limits of the Milky Way—and their libidos.
In the 24th century, Josué Valdés’ rise from an orphan in the slums of Rubble City, Cuba to one...