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  • The New Chemist Publications- Poincare Dissertation in English

    The New Chemist Company

    by H. Poincare, D.J. Ferguson, A. Turnquest, I. Bowser ...
    Series Book 1 - Dissertation Series
    The New Chemist Company is a service-oriented, customer-centered, consortium of organizations that focus around the vision of:“Aiming to use scientific principles and concepts to empower and impact students and communities” ... Read more

    $20.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Manner of Man Is This?

    The Duke of Windsor's Years in The Bahamas

    by Orville A Turnquest ...
    What Manner of Man Is This? is a unique and incisive look at an important but largely ignored period of the life of the Prince of Wales who was heir to the British throne and became King of England, Edward VIII, in 1936. A mere ten months later he abdicated the throne to marry a twice-divorced American, Mrs. Wallis Simpson in what was at once the scandal of the century and the love story of the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • La Americana

    A Memoir

    by Melanie Bowden Simón ...
    La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simón, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Brown’s Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend. Little did she know that she would meet and fall in love with a Cuban man named Luis and dive headlong into a culture defined by beauty, humor, and grace within the unnerving ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Domino Diaries

    My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba

    by Brin-Jonathan Butler ...
    A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's The Domino Diaries tells the 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, becoming romantically entangled with one of Fidel Castro's granddaughters, or simply manufacturing press credentials to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Power in Cuba

    Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971

    by Lillian Guerra ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged radical change and mutual self-sacrifice.Mass rallies and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Warrior

    Frank Sturgis—The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro but Was Ambushed by Watergate

    by Jim Hunt, Bob Risch ...
    The incredible true story of the WWII hero turned CIA assassin and Watergate burglar "reads like a top shelf action-adventure novel" ( New York Times– bestselling author David Hagberg).The press called him a "real-life James Bond." Fidel Castro called him "the most dangerous CIA agent." History remembers him as a Watergate burglar, yet the Watergate break-in was his least perilous mission.Frank ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • After Love

    Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba

    by Noelle M. Stout ...
    Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

    by Fidel Castro ...
    Early in Ann Louise Bardach's Cuban voyage she came across Cartas de Presidio or The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro. Edited by Luis Conte Aguero, who was the recipient of most of these letters, they are cited in every important work from Hugh Thomas' opus Cuba to Tad Szulc's Fidel biography, and everything in between and since. These twenty-one letters (nine to Conte Aguero, six to his late sister ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Cooking of History

    How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion

    by Stephan Palmié ...
    Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santería and other religions related to Orisha worship—a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa—Stephan Palmié has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban religion. In The Cooking of History he provides a comprehensive analysis of these assumptions, in the process offering an incisive critique both of the ... Read more

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  • Kid Gavilan World Welterweight Boxing Champion

    by Robert Grey Reynolds ...
    Kid Gavilan was a fixture in the boxing world of the early 1950s. He fought on television more than thirty times, in bouts for championships and non-title fights. From Camaguey, Cuba, the Kid was named by his first manager, who had a restaurant called El Gavilan or The Little Hawk. Kid Gavilan fought the majority of his fights in the United States after arriving here in the 1940s. Kid fought Sugar ... Read more

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  • Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840-1920

    by Tiffany A. Sippial ...
    Series series Envisioning Cuba
    Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. Tiffany A. Sippial argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba’s struggle to define itself as a modern nation found focus in the social and sexual anxieties surrounding prostitution and its regulation.Sippial shows how prostitution ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Negro Soy Yo

    Hip Hop and Raced Citizenship in Neoliberal Cuba

    by Marc D. Perry ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba’s hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island’s ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry examines the ways these young artists craft notions of black Cuban identity and racial citizenship, along with calls for ... Read more

    $25.19 USD