Examines the history, modern life, industries, arts, sports, and geography of Cuba.
The epic history of Cuba from before Columbus arrived to modern times and its complex relationship with the United States
In Jaime Suchlicki's engaging style, Cuba: From Columbus to Castro and Beyond provides a detailed and sophisticated understanding of the Cuba of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
"A legendary sea serpent is missing. Can the Unicorn Rescue Society fint it and end Cuba's terrible drought?"--Back cover.
Sailing mares and guns into Havana harbor in 1898—right past the submerged wreckage of the U.S. battleship Maine—isn't the smartest thing recently prison-sprung horse wrangler Ben Tyler ever did.
Inside Cuba Today
Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag. Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Valladares was not...
This is a comprehensive analysis of corruption in Cuba, and prescriptions for minimizing it in the post-Castro era.
Focusing equally on Cuba's role in world affairs and its own social and political transformations, Sweig divides the book chronologically into the pre-Fidel era, the period between the 1959 revolution and the fall of the Soviet Union, the ...
A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet, from Newbury Honor author Margarita Engle.
When asked earlier as to whether President Obama should place Cuba back on the terrorist list, Bush responded: “I don't know, I'd have to see, I don't even know what the status will be at that time.”15 Bush also was quite critical of ...