Ten years ago, Juanita Castro set down to write her memoirs, and thanks to the fortunate coincidence that I was both her friend and a journalist, we began working on them together. When we finished in 1999, Juanita decided not to publish them, and for the past ten years we kept this book--the first [...]
100,000 years before the time of John Carter! Barsoom is a dying world: its once mighty oceans are receding and its atmosphere grows more tenuous by the day. The Orovars, who have dominated for a million years, are on the verge of extinction at the hands of the Green Hordes and the emerging Red Mart[...]
- In the blink of an eye, young martial artist Magnus has everything taken from him: his father, his wife, his entire life. He's suddenly thrust into a futuristic world he doesn't understand, populated by humans and robots living together in oppression! Can Magnus fight to get his life back...and on[...]
Doc Savage, the Man of Bronze - raised from the cradle to be the pinnacle of mental and physical perfection, a true Renaissance Man of the Atomic Age! Accompanied by a hand-picked team of highly-specialized men and women, Clark Savage, Jr. travels the world, using science and sinews to right wrongs,[...]
In this engaging narrative, author JD Chandler crafts a people's history of Portland, Oregon, sharing the lesser-known stories of individuals who stood against the tide and fought for liberty and representation: C.E.S. Wood, who documented the conflict between Native Americans and the United States [...]
If you want to discover the remarkable history of Cuba then keep reading... The themes of the history of Cuba are as vast as they are inspiring. Cuba has stared death in the face throughout its rocky history, and most of the time it has gazed into the eyes of death and smiled. Over and over, oppress[...]
Brazil is at the forefront of the travel boom in Latin America, with over 5 million visitors in 2006 generating an estimated US$4.4 billion in earnings (WTO).[...]
The Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro is one of the most written-about men in the world today. Most approaches to his life are either glowing hagiographies, or critical rants in which he is portrayed as a dictator who has kept the island of Cuba under his heel for the past fifty years. By contrast, N[...]
A stunning, strangely beautiful version of Alice, which inludes a mini 12-page guidebook to Wonderland attached inside the front coverYoung Alice dozes off by the riverbank on a lazy summer afternoon only to see a white rabbit with a pocket watch rushing down a rabbit hole. Enticed by this curious s[...]
A biography of Harvey Milk that presents a story of the life and death of the first openly gay man to be elected to US political office. It tells about the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power[...]
"Imperiled Life" theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe--climatological, political, social--as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster.Javier Sethness-Castro presen[...]
This atlas provides a comprehensive description of normal anatomy of the internal structures of the heart (natives valves, interatrial septum, left atrial appendage, left atrium etc..) as seen by this revolutionary ultrasound technique. Normal TEE cardiac structures are described and compared with t[...]
Artificial Immune Systems (AIS) are adaptive systems inspired by the biological immune system and applied to problem solving. This book provides an accessible introduction that will be suitable for anyone who is beginning to study or work in this area. It gives a clear definition of an AIS, sets out[...]
In October 1958, a young German journalist arrives in Havana, Cuba, and sets out to meet and interview Fidel Castro on behalf of a German newspaper. He finds himself in a country plunged into revolution. From the viewpoint of this young journalist, Kleist presents a detailed look at the life and pol[...]
This title features 65 authentic recipes from Portugal, shown in over 260 photographs. It explores the rich, varied and historic cuisine of Portugal in this sumptuous book, with appetizing recipes from a world-renowned Portuguese chef and restaurateur. It includes a fascinating introduction about th[...]
This book tells of the last doomed eleven months in the life of one of the most courageous and dedicated revolutionaries of the 20th century. First published in Cuba in 1968, this is a unique account of the guerrilla's lonely fight against armies, mountains, jungles, hunger, disease and death.[...]