Journey to the Heart of Cuba

Author	: Carlos Alberto Montaner
Publisher	: Algora Publishing
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN	: 1892941619
Pages	: 270 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Journey to the Heart of Cuba written by Carlos Alberto Montaner and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former university professor delves into the mind and psyche of Fidel Castroand the forces that have kept him in power in Cuba.

Our Place in the Sun

Author	: Robert Wright
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Release Date	: 2009-07-25
ISBN	: 1442697326
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Our Place in the Sun written by Robert Wright and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-07-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon the past but also explore the internal issues and external forces that will continue to influence the Canada-Cuba association in the years to come. Many of this volume's contributors draw upon newly declassified sources and original interviews, providing unique insight into the historical, economic, and political realities affecting the Canada-Cuba connection. Featuring twelve original essays by a variety of scholars as well as a short memoir by former Canadian Ambassador to Cuba, Mark Entwistle, this important interdisciplinary collection calls into question past understandings of the Canadian-Cuban relationship. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Canadian and Cuban history of the last half-century, and the dynamics of North American politics more broadly.

Cuban Studies 32

Author	: Lisandro Perez
Publisher	: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date	: 2002-02-01
ISBN	: 0822970635
Pages	: 240 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Studies 32 written by Lisandro Perez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

The Last American Rebel in Cuba

Author	: Terry K. Sanderlin
Publisher	: AuthorHouse
Release Date	: 2012-04-26
ISBN	: 1468594303
Pages	: 186 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book The Last American Rebel in Cuba written by Terry K. Sanderlin and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his four-year hitch in the marines was up in 1957, Richard Sanderlin met another Norfolk, Virginia native, Frank Sturgis, Marine Corps veteran, Army Intelligence Officer, and future Watergate burglar. Richard, and Frank relocated to Miami, Florida where they ran an arms and munition smuggling operation into Cuba, bound for the rebels of Fidel Castro. During the summer of 1958, Richard Sanderlin traveled to the Sierra Maestra Mountains in Oriente Province Cuba, where he trained the rebels of Fidel, and Raul Castro, in military strategy, tactics, weapon handling, and hand to hand fighting. After completing the training of Raul Castros Second Front, Richard led a guerrilla band into ten combat operations against the Batista army. This is the story an idealistic young warrior who fought against the tyranny of dictatorship only to be betrayed by a communist conspiracy led by Fidel Castro.

Escape from Castro's Cuba

Author	: Tim Wendel
Publisher	: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date	: 2021-03
ISBN	: 1496225422
Pages	: 272 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Castro's Cuba written by Tim Wendel and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this visionary sequel to Castro's Curveball, former Minor League catcher Billy Bryan finds himself back in Havana in 2016 with a small film role. He soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before.

The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2017-2018

Author	: William M. Simons
Publisher	: McFarland
Release Date	: 2019-03-11
ISBN	: 1476636311
Pages	: 229 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2017-2018 written by William M. Simons and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research. This collection of 15 new essays selected from the 2017 and the 2018 symposia examines topics whose importance extend beyond the ballpark. Presented in six parts, the essays explore baseball's cultural and social history and analyze the tools that encourage a more sophisticated understanding of baseball as a game and enterprise.

Sport in Latin America

Author	: Gonzalo Bravo
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2016-01-29
ISBN	: 1317754166
Pages	: 296 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Sport in Latin America written by Gonzalo Bravo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forthcoming Olympics in Rio in 2016, and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014, highlight the profound importance of sport in Latin America. This book is the first to offer a broad survey of the way that sport is managed, governed and organized across the Latin American region, drawing on cutting-edge contemporary scholarship in management, policy, sociology and history. The book explores key themes in Latin American sport, including the role of public institutions; the relationship between sport policy and political regimes; the structure and significance of national governing bodies and professional leagues; the impact of sporting mega-events (including the Olympics and World Cup), and the management and governance of football, the dominant sport in the region. Including contributions from Latin American scholars and practitioners, the book draws on important Spanish and Portuguese sources that are unknown to most English-speaking researchers, and therefore provides an unprecedented and authoritative insight into sport policy and management in the region. Including cases from sport in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Peru and examples from Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, this book is essential reading for all scholars, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in Latin American sport, comparative sport policy, sport management, or Latin American history, culture and society.

A Cuban Refugee's Journey to the American Dream

Author	: Gerardo M. Gonzalez
Publisher	: Indiana University Press
Release Date	: 2018-08
ISBN	: 0253035562
Pages	: 146 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book A Cuban Refugee's Journey to the American Dream written by Gerardo M. Gonzalez and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this deeply moving memoir, González recounts his remarkable journey from Cuba and his upward track through education in United States. At a time when the fates of millions of refugees and Hispanics in the United States has never been more uncertain, González's story is more important than ever.

HEART OF A CUBAN

Author	: NJ. Perez
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2020
ISBN	: 9781640961265
Pages	: 317 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (612 download)

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Heretic's Heart

Author	: Margot Adler
Publisher	: Beacon Press
Release Date	: 2013-05-28
ISBN	: 0807070246
Pages	: 328 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Heretic's Heart written by Margot Adler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting in 1964, writes Margot Adler in this dazzling memoir, “I found myself mysteriously at the center of extraordinary events.” Now a correspondent for National Public Radio, Adler was a young woman determined to be taken seriously and to be an agent of change—on her own terms, free from dogma and authoritarian constraints. From campus activism at the University of California at Berkeley to civil rights work in Mississippi, from antiwar protests to observing the socialist revolution in Cuba, she found those chances in the 1960s. Heretic’s Heart illuminates the events, ideas, passions, and ecstatic commitments of the decade like no other memoir. At the book’s center is the powerful—and unique—correspondence between Adler, then an antiwar activist at Berkeley, and a young American soldier fighting in Vietnam. The correspondence begins when Adler reads a letter the infantryman has written to a Berkeley newspaper. “I’ve heard rumors that there are people back in the world who don’t believe this war should be. I’m not positive of this though, ’cause it seems to me that if enough of them told the right people in the right way, then something might be done about it. . . . You see, while you’re discussing it amongst each other, being beat, getting in bed with dark-haired artists . . . some people here are dying for lighting a cigarette at night.” Heretic’s Heart also explores Adler’s attempt to come to terms with her singular legacy as the only grandchild of Alfred Adler, collaborator of Freud and founder of Individual Psychology, and as the daughter of a forceful beauty who bequeaths her spunk and adventurousness to her daughter, but whose overpowering personality forces Adler to strike out on her own. Adler’s memoir marks an initiatory journey from spirit through politics and revolution back to spirit again. Revealing, funny, joyful, and often wise, Heretic’s Heart will restore the spirit of the 1960s: the passion, the confusion, the sense of social transformation and limitless possibility, and the ecstatic feeling that the world is on the cusp of change.

The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba

Author	: Terisa E. Gigiel
Publisher	: FriesenPress
Release Date	: 2022-05-13
ISBN	: 1039126146
Pages	: 189 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba written by Terisa E. Gigiel and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tombstone Tourist In Cuba immerses you in a world that is rich in history, culture, and religion. In this book of photography, you will take a detour from the beaten path of beach resorts and discover this storied Caribbean nation via its cemeteries and monuments. Here you will learn about how the country’s population celebrates, pays tribute to, and mourns its people. This book explores the symbolism and historical significance of different tombs, crypts, and monuments. Amid the marble pathways, pink bougainvillea, and intricately carved monuments are powerful reminders of lives lived. Some tombs tell the story of a person who has risen to mythical levels, while others demonstrate the honour afforded people who died under tragic circumstances. A gravesite can tell you so much about people: who they were, what they represented, how they were loved . . . But this book is not just a guided tour of Cuba’s many and varied cemeteries. It is a photographic journey into the heart of a nation. Through these stories and images, you will uncover a side to the people and the country that you may never have otherwise come to learn. And who knows? Perhaps you’ll take a detour of your own, the next time you travel, and explore a cemetery for yourself. Why not start with Cuba?

The Publishers Weekly

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Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN	:
Pages	: 1334 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Pitching Around Fidel

Author	: Scott L. Price
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2014
ISBN	: 9780813049687
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Pitching Around Fidel written by Scott L. Price and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book which provides rare insight into the intimate relationship Cubans have with sports.

Cuba the Trip Back

Author	: Rafael Lima
Publisher	: iUniverse
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN	: 0595185134
Pages	: 194 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Cuba the Trip Back written by Rafael Lima and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafael Lima begins this journey to the center of himself in Los Angeles, California. A burned out screenwriter in search of inner truth he embarks upon a quest for authenticity which ultimately leads him back to his birthplace - Havana Cuba - after almost forty two years. Cuba the trip back is part travel book, part memoir and part autobiography. It is a journey through modern day Cuba which interlaces Cuban and the author's own personal history. In this heart-felt book Rafael Lima explores the island, slays the demons of regret, makes real the legends of childhood and discovers what it means to be Cuban, what it means to be American and what it feels like to exist in between.

The Best Books for Academic Libraries: History of the Americas

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Publisher	: Best Books Incorporated
Release Date	: 2002
ISBN	:
Pages	: 886 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 ( download)

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Cubans, an Epic Journey

Author	: Sam Verdeja
Publisher	: Reedy Press LLC
Release Date	: 2011
ISBN	: 1935806203
Pages	: 712 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Cubans, an Epic Journey written by Sam Verdeja and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2011 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of more than thirty essays by renowned scholars, historians, journalists, and media professionals that portray the experience of Cubans exiled in the United States and other countries in the last sixty years.

Cuba Trips Calendar

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Publisher	: CubaTrips.org
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ISBN	:
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4./5 ( download)

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