Featuring hundreds of vintage photographs, postcards, brochures, and other materials evocative of time and place, Havana Before Castro: When Cuba Was a Tropical Playground documents how the city of Havana evolved from Prohibition haven and rich man's playground to a heady blend of glittering nightcl[...]
If you've done some Arduino tinkering and wondered how you could incorporate the Kinect--or the other way around--then this book is for you. The authors of Arduino and Kinect Projects will show you how to create 10 amazing, creative projects, from simple to complex. You'll also find out how to incor[...]
For cloud users and providers alike, security is an everyday concern, yet there are very few books covering cloud security as a main subject. This book will help address this information gap from an Information Technology solution and usage-centric view of cloud infrastructure security. The book hig[...]
There are few living international figures who fascinate the world more than Fidel Castro. He is at once an infamous historical figure, a modern-day politician and one of the last of his kind. From the leader of a revolution to one who has been accused of dictatorship, exploiting the power of his po[...]
The secrets behind one of the world's most secretive dictators. Fidel Castro's life from revolutionary to being one of the wealthiest leaders in the world[...]
Prepare for your ABFM boards - find your weak spots and eliminate them now! Handy in print and as an eBook, Bratton's Family Medicine Board Review is the essential practice test for those facing the ABFM exams. Opening with the basic requirements of the ABFM Board certification process, it provides [...]
Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird's-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.After the US embassy in Havana was closed in 1961, relatio[...]
*Includes pictures.
*Includes quotes about the plan and its failure, including from declassified CIA files.
*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading.
"Openly and unabashedly they are organizing training camps; openly and unabashedly they are building air bases and air [...]
Este volumen hace parte de los 9 tomos que conforman los libros de: Cuba el legado de Fidel Castro. El autor comienza diciendo que, este libro es "sagrado," como es sagrada la verdad. El hombre, el escritor, el patriota que se vale de mentiras para conseguir un fin supuestamente bueno, deja incrusta[...]
A description of the most interesting places for watching birds in the Castro Marim nature reserve, in Vila Real de Santo Ant nio and in the surrounding areas.[...]
As America moves closer to normalizing relations with Cuba, this gripping, vivid graphic novel reveals life and times of Fidel Castro, one of the twentieth century's most intriguing, charismatic, and divisive figures. The book is narrated by a German journalist named Karl Mertens, who is plunged int[...]
Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as 'The Girl from Ipanema' (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), 'The Waters of March', and 'Desafinado' are known around the world. This book -- a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil [...]
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 eve[...]
This is the ultimate workbook for learning naughty Spanish vocabulary. What could be more hilarious than a workbook filled with explicit sex, edgy slang, and filthy swear words? "Dirty Spanish Workbook" has them all. This book doesn't just teach Spanish, it teaches the real Spanish spoken on the str[...]
Contains theoretical and philosophical discussions, pseudocodes for algorithms, and computing paradigms that illustrate how computational techniques can solve complex problems, simulate nature, explain natural phenomena, and allow the development of new computing technologies.[...]