Paperback reissue of the Ancient-Greek thriller nominated for an Anthony Award and a 2004 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Eye of Cybele is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in the fifth century B.C. - during the reign of Pericles - the novel fictionally recreates the behind-the-scenes scandals and political intrigues that occupied the Athenian home front at the height of the Peloponessian War.
Alicia, a Havana prostitute, and her Canadian client, Victor King, come up with a get-rich-quick scheme after the death of Victor's boss that Alicia hopes will enable her to change her way of life.
When a history teacher decides to throw out an old, threadbare Cuban flag, he doesn’t plan for the air of suspicion that quickly descends on him… A woman’s attempt to register ownership of her family home draws her into a bureaucratic labyrinth that requires a grasp of higher mathematics to fully comprehend… On the day of their graduation, a group of students spend the night drinking around the ‘Fountain of Youth’, ironically celebrating the bright future that doesn’t await them… The stories gathered in this anthology reflect the many complex challenges Havana’s citizens have had to endure as a result of their country’s political isolation – from the hardships of the ‘Special Period’, to the pitfalls of Cuba’s schizophrenic currency system, to the indignities of becoming a cheap tourist destination for well-heeled Westerners. Moving through various moments in its recent history, as well as through different neighbourhoods – from the prefab, Soviet-era maze of Alamar, to the bars and nightclubs of the Malecón and Vedado – these stories also demonstrate the defiance of Havana: surviving decades of economic disappointment with a flair for the comic, the surreal and the fantastical that remains as fresh as the first dreams of revolution. Translated from the Spanish by Orsola Casagrande and Séamas Carraher.
That Year in Madrid...", ideal for a transatlantic flight, is inspired by a real story. Moving along at the pace of a thriller, the novel is filled with humor and literary virtuosity, rendering an almost detective-like plot with twist and an ending that will surprise even de most astute readers.
A Pike in Flanders" is a novel enriched by a catchy suspense plot with comic and even erotic touches. More relevantly, we find on each of its pages a message of denunciation and condemnation of the national and world policies the United States have engendered. Making use of three main characters, this detective story shouts at the top of its lungs that we need to attempt to fix the world we are living in.
La autobiografía de Daniel Chavarría, el prolífico escritor uruguayo de profunda impronta cubana que en este libro presenta, para nuestro extremo deleite, la narración de su propia vida. Sus memorias son el relato más entretenido, sabio y desopilante que pueda llegar a nuestras manos. Un chiquilínde rica historia familiar; un joven a quien le costó completar sus estudios secundarios, postergó los universitarios, pero se formó con lo recogido de variopintos personajes que se le cruzaron por todas partes. Que fue consolidando una gran erudic ión con sus múltiples lecturas, también en otras lenguas. Se ganó la vidavendiendo libros puerta por puerta; fue obrero en la ind ustria pesada alemana, guía de arte en el Museo del Prado, buscador de oro en los yacimientos de la región amazónica, traductor e intérprete en Europa y América, hasta su culminación profesional como docente universitarioen Cuba. El aventurero que enamoró y se dejó seducir por las mujeres más diversas hasta finalmente reposar en un sentimiento duradero, el amante de las corridas de tor os, el revolucionario en ciernes empecinado en servir a la humanidad más desprotegida,el padre de conciencia cuestionadora, es el que asimismo tiene la osadía de secuestrar un avión para huir en busca de la libertad o disfrazarse de monjepara escapar de ser atrapado por golpistas. Todo eso es Daniel Chavarría, el prolífico escritor uruguayo de profunda impronta cubana que en este libr o presenta, para nuestro extremo deleite, la narración de su propia vida. Sus memorias son el relato más entretenido, sabioy deso pilante que pueda llegar a nuestras manos. Ya es hora de que los defensores de Cuba nos expresemos sin tapujos, y que el mundo si ga andando. Y los que vienen con cámaras a fotografiar paredes descascaradasy solares y bembés en busca de la Cuba profunda andan mal rumbeados. La Cuba profunda está en las universidades, en las escuelas de arte?, en sus treinta y cinco mil médicos que prest an servicios en el Tercer Mundo?
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Paperback reissue of the Ancient-Greek thriller nominated for an Anthony Award and a 2004 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Eye of Cybele is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in the fifth century B.C. - during the reign of Pericles - the novel fictionally recreates the behind-the-scenes scandals and political intrigues that occupied the Athenian home front at the height of the Peloponessian War.
A Pike in Flanders" is a novel enriched by a catchy suspense plot with comic and even erotic touches. More relevantly, we find on each of its pages a message of denunciation and condemnation of the national and world policies the United States have engendered. Making use of three main characters, this detective story shouts at the top of its lungs that we need to attempt to fix the world we are living in.
That Year in Madrid...", ideal for a transatlantic flight, is inspired by a real story. Moving along at the pace of a thriller, the novel is filled with humor and literary virtuosity, rendering an almost detective-like plot with twist and an ending that will surprise even de most astute readers.
This Edgar Award–winning crime novel offers “pulp fiction in Castro’s Cuba” (Martin Cruz Smith, author The Girl from Venice). Alicia is a smart, confident, and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a streetwalker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking resemblance to movie star Alain Delon. This is no ordinary john, and as Alicia’s feelings for him grow, she sees in their relationship the possibility of escape from her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity. So when King’s wealthy and sexually deviant boss is suddenly killed, Alicia and John hatch a get-rich-quick scheme. A web of deception is woven—but it will be quickly and disastrously unraveled, and only one person will be able to say adiós to the dilapidated island of Cuba . . . “Fun, fast, and intelligent . . . A madcap caper full of twisted sex, devious schemes and high-rolling hijinks . . . Will leave readers clamoring for more.” —Publishers Weekly “The book’s cynical take on ambition and greed is tempered by humor and humanity.” —The New York Times “Impossible to put down. This is a great read.” —Library Journal
Un libro para quienes creen en el amor, les han roto el corazón o usan apps de citas. Para quienes saben que el cariño es el regalo al que uno se aferra cuando aparecen obstáculos. Para quienes buscan amar a otras personas o a sí mismos, y tienen fe en que este siempre se presenta de maneras únicas e inesperadas en la vida. Una abogada bipolar experimenta altas y bajas en sus citas. Una madre trata de reconstruir la relación con el hijo que dio en adopción cuando ella era adolescente. Una cita casual que comienza con unas copas y termina por un accidente en la sala de urgencias de un hospital. Una mujer a punto de fallecer redacta el perfil de su marido en una plataforma de citas. Personas vulnerables y llenas de valor protagonizan estas historias reales que te emocionarán y te harán vislumbrar nuevas posibilidades de la felicidad. Para esta edición revisada y actualizada su editor, Daniel Jones, seleccionó las mejores historias que han sido publicadas durante los más de quince años que tiene «Modern Love» en The New York Times, siendo la columna sobre el amor más famosa del mundo.
Every bright monarch butterfly or striking luna moth started out in a far subtler form of nature's mosaic, a humble caterpillar. It is this early stage of life--crafted by natural selection into machines for converting a vast array of plant matter, mostly leaves, into the beautiful adults that have captivated humans for millennia--that this book brings to dazzling light. Unobtrusive as they go about their business, these caterpillars are rarely seen by humans--and are virtually never seen from the perspective presented in this sumptuous volume: photographed in extreme close-ups at a resolution that captures in sharp detail the exquisite colors and features eluding the casual observer. Gathered by biologists Daniel Janzen, Winifred Hallwachs, and Jeffrey Miller in the tropical dry forests, cloud forests, and rain forests of northwestern Costa Rica, over 100 large-format photographs of caterpillars document the dizzying variety of shapes, vivid colors, and cryptic markings among these species. The pictures are accompanied by capsule species accounts--revealing life histories as diverse as their forms--and magnificent images of the adult butterfly or moth. Throughout, the authors convey an intimate sense of these creatures--studied over twenty-five years--by focusing on how their features figure in their behavior and ecology, and on the beauty of nature in this life stage, as well as the nature of that beauty. The story of the caterpillars is also the success story of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste--where the long-term work of Janzen and Hallwachs, and a team of gusaneros (caterpillar collectors and rearers), along with the participation of neighboring farming communities, has deepened understanding of Costa Rica's Lepidoptera and has brought about advances in restoration ecology of tropical habitats, biodiversity prospecting, biological control of pests, biotechnology, residents' bioliteracy, and ecotourism development.
This book introduces the concept of sensing, smart and sustainable systems (S3 systems) to support the design and redesign of products, services, business and manufacturing processes, manufacturing systems, and enterprises. The concept of S3 systems theory is introduced and explained in detail to support designers and engineers in their development task. This approach is embraced in the implementation of emergent Information and communication technologies and artificial intelligence techniques. The text helps the reader to understand the relationship between intelligent manufacturing, S3 systems and Industry 4.0. It presents a review of current approaches to design and development of technology-based products. Finally, it enlarges on the sensing, smart and sustainable systems theory to give examples of S3 systems as case studies.
This book explores the pernicious nature of US engagement with Nicaragua from the mid-19th century to the present in pursuit of control and domination rather than in defense of democracy as it has incessantly claimed. In turn, Nicaraguans have valiantly defended their homeland, preventing the US from ever maintaining its control for long. While there were intermittent US forays into Nicaragua in the 1850s, sustained intervention in Nicaragua only began in 1911 when the US invaded Nicaragua to put a halt to a canal project connecting its Atlantic and Pacific coasts to be partnered with Japan - a project the US wanted to control for itself. The US Marines subsequently invaded Nicaragua a number of times between 1911 and 1934 to try to maintain control over it, only to be repelled by peasant guerillas led by Augusto Cesar Sandino. The Marines left for good only after the US had set up the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza, who then lured Sandino to Managua on the promise of a peace deal and murdered him in cold blood. Successive generations of Somozas would rule Nicaragua with an iron hand and critical US support until finally, in 1979, the latest iteration was ousted by the Sandinistas - a movement inspired by Sandino and motivated by a unique philosophy merging Christianity and Marxism. Led by Daniel Ortega, the Sandinistas established democracy in Nicaragua with the country's first free and fair elections in 1984. Once again, the US attempted to subvert democracy by organizing Somoza's former National Guardsmen into a terrorist group known as the Contras. Directed and funded by the CIA, the Contras would terrorize Nicaragua for nearly 10 years. In 1990, the Sandinistas stood for early election and the war-weary voters selected Violeta Chamorro. The Sandinistas relinquished office peacefully stepped, ceding the government to Chamorro. For 17 long years, from 1990 to 2007, neo-liberal governments, beginning with Violetta Chamorro, governed Nicaragua. Backed by the US, these governments neglected the people, leaving almost half of the country un-electrified, without decent education or health care, and in poverty. When Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas returned to power in 2007 through elections, they immediately established free health care and education, built infrastructure throughout the country, and began to eradicate poverty. Now, almost 100% of the country is electrified; poverty and extreme poverty have been greatly diminished.t
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