In Economic Growth and Democracy in Post-Colonial Africa: Cabo Verde, Small States, and the World Economy, edited by João Resende-Santos and Aminah Fernandes Pilgrim, the contributors provide a comprehensive academic analysis of the political economy of Cabo Verde (Cabo Verde) from its independence in 1975 to the present. Democracy and economic growth have been in short supply in post-colonial Africa. Yet the widespread misperception of this vast and diverse continent as experiencing only failure has overshadowed cases of good governance, human development, and social peace. This volume offers a comprehensive analytical narrative on how Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) forged a nation and navigated the world system since independence to achieve some progress. The volume critically examines its political and institutional evolution, foreign affairs, economy, and development policy. The chapters analyze the sources and nature of this relative success as well as underscore the many shortcomings and challenges ahead. As the first volume in English on Cabo Verde’s political economy, it serves as both a primary source and sociopolitical study, featuring some of the most accomplished scholars and policy practitioners. This collection aims to fill this gap in the literature and offers a new perspective on democracy and growth in post-colonial Africa.
The story of the "Manong generation" of Filipinos in America is little known. These Filipinos left their homeland in the 1920s and 1930s in search of the American dream, only to be faced with bigotry and prejudice, slave wages and derisory work conditions, and extreme cultural pressures unique to the Filipino people. This situation was further exacerbated by the Great Depression, race-targeted laws, race riots in the fields, and the onset of World War II. In those days, it was dangerous just to be Filipino. This is the story of one man who-through his intellect, ambition, and a quiet inner strength-persevered through these times. These memoirs chronicle the life of Manuel L. Luz, a very unique first-generation Filipino-American: from his childhood and immigration to the United States at the age of 19; through his perseverance in the canneries of Alaska and the fields of the western states; to his striving to build a life as an entrepreneur and correctional officer; to his six decades of dedicated service as a politician, civic leader, and civil rights activist; and even as a husband, father, and friend. Through it all, he quietly fought the battle against discrimination and injustice-in the fields and workplaces, in the bureaucratic and the political arenas, and in the hearts of the people. This second edition is released on the twentieth anniversary of his passing, and includes extensive commentary by his son. The commentary helps to contextualize a story that is historically important, sociologically consequential, and personally revealing. Simply put, this is a must-read for all those interested in the history of the Filipino-American. "Community leader with a stormy past, Manuel L. Luz managed to win the toughest of all fights-the fight against discrimination." James Denison, Monterey Peninsula Herald (July 12, 1981)
What would you do if you knew your soulmate when you least expected it?How far would you be willing to go?Juan Manuel is a writer who lives traveling between cities and countries to publicize his works. Amy is a young woman with an energy that attracts anyone. They are at the airport in Mexico City, where a delay in their flights leads them to live a unique and unexpected adventure.Secrets will come to light and a roller coaster of emotions will be created among the protagonists.
Christmas Dearth is a love story so strong that exceeds time and life, is a cientific explanation of supernatural love. A love story when love and hate collide, and at the end only God can save it.
What would you do if you discover a strange relationship between three classic novels, of three famous Latin American authors, with your life? Aleph is the story of a writer who tries to solve the mysterious relationship between three classics of Latin American literature: "Aura" by Carlos Fuentes; "The Aleph" by Jorge Luis Borges; and "The Truce" by Mario Benedetti.By deepening his inquiry he realizes that this relationship is not only between these three works but also has a direct relationship with his life. It is when he tries to decipher that mystery that takes him to each of the places where these three mythical stories were developed.
¿Cómo será ese último día de tu vida? ¿Habrá alguna constante que preceda ese momento? ¿Habría alguna forma de poder predecirlo? ¿Será un momento diferente a todos los días vividos anteriormente? Descúbrelo en la tesis que realiza jesus, amante de la psicología, para graduarse de la carrera. Jesús es un amante de la psicología y su mayor deseo es titularse lo más pronto posible de esa carrera para poder ejercer inmediatamente la profesión que le apasiona desde niño. Un acontecimiento trágico en su familia lo orilla a realizar su tesis acerca del comportamiento el último día de su vida de las personas que mueren de manera inesperada, buscando un factor común en cada uno de los decesos. Los hallazgos encontrados en su investigación van mas allá de sus creencias y muy probablemente de las del lector. Pero lo mas sorprendente es el final de la historia, la conclusión acerca de la hipótesis planteada por Jesús será algo más que la conclusión de un estudio de tesis, será una serie de acontecimientos imprevistos reales.
Control is a story that has a lesson the ideal that the use of technology someday may solve security issues around the world or maybe we cannot achieve it because we are all part of the problem. And in the struggle between good and evil surge an unpredictable love story with an unexpected ending.
Would you believe that love can reincarnate through time if you receive an email from your soulmate from another part of the world showing you evidence? I did.The reader will think that it is a romantic science fiction story, a delirium in the imagination of the writer.From: Brais Cruz braiscruz@yahoo.esTo: Juan Manuel Rodríguez Caamaño jmrc@us.edu.mxSubject: Congratulations uncle for EclipseJanuary 3, 2016 at 9:16 a.m.___________________Dude, your story has seemed really beautiful, unique.That way you describe the combination of the color of that pretty flower, with the look of that beautiful girl and her enigmatic smile, is very nice.I read it in less than an hour and I was left wanting to know more about the story, I thought it was very good vibes.Even to read a second part of it, in another life or another world, although I felt so identified with the rich character of Valeria that I could almost swear that I can predict what would be the continuation of that novel.I recommended it to my friends, who form a circle of readers, and they all found the story very convincing. From those stories that you start reading and do not stop a second to do it, or to go to the bathroom.You should take some time to come and meet your Spanish fans, more specifically, your Galician fans.P.S. I thought a lot before writing this to you by email, I know that is not the most appropriate way, but I think it is the only way to do it given the immense distance that separates us.Juanma, I have known you for a long time, I could almost assure you that the excellent novel you wrote was not part of your great inventiveness, which is admirable.It was probably part of a memory of the many that you have engraved through hundreds of years in your memory, Ignacio Campuzano, Don Garcia Rodrigo de Caamaño, Juan Manuel and many other names in different times that we have been together, are part of those remembrances, of those past lives.Have you noticed that when you sleep strangely you always remember what you dream?Unlike the rest of the people who do not remember exactly every part of their dreams. Even if it's a little nap, you always remember everything in great detail.They are not dreams. They are memories, and in most of them I appear with a different name and in a different era.At the beginning of the century as Esther in a small Germanic country. In the 20s as Ximena in Santiago de Compostela. In the 50s, like Alba in the bulwark of Havana. In the 80s as Valeria in Montevideo. In 2000 starting the new millennium as Brais, I a Galician working in Madrid the most beautiful city in the world after Santiago de Compostela obviously hehe, and you from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Mexico City, a provincial of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz conquering the most populated city on the planet. A few days ago I had the good fortune of attending the photo exhibition of the photographer Ruth Anderson de la Compostela and there you were in various paintings with people from that era, were your same features, the same gestures, the same smile that has in love through the centuries, among the crowd.My name and yours change over the years but you always dream of the same woman, in the different times we have lived together through the centuries.I wish you could return this email with your appreciations. Or what would be more exciting that you could cross the Atlantic Ocean to meet and talk with great detail the story of our lives over time.I know it sounds stupid, irrational and deceitful everything I write to you, but do the test these days when you sleep, so that you realize you remember all those past experiences of us and maybe you may want to find ourselves in a new life.Always yours, Brais_________________________It is the favorite novel of the author and the most romantic according to his appreciation, for the obstacles that the protagonists fight to be together, a love trough time.
Have you ever thought that you can digitize everything in the world to love and life?Digital is the story of Goebbels, a young man who studies the computer systems engineering career just to please his parents. He does not really like that area of knowledge, even for all digital technology it's like magic because he can not understand how almost everything can be done through this system. Alba appears in his life, a beautiful girl with who he falls in love. His vision changes dramatically when he attends a visit one of the most important programming laboratories in the world. That digital technology for Goebbells manages to solve such complex problems in their lives that they can even have a greater power that anyone could think and use in unimaginable fields of science. This is how science fiction and romance unleash in this novel several unexpected but above all unthinkable emotions.
Can you imagine how distressing it was for Robert to wake up in a world that was not Earth? That is the testimony of Robert Anstead, crew member of the Pioneer 17 space expedition, who was due to arrive in Jupiter in 2027. This story tries to explain what he experienced when he woke up, after an unexpected event on the way, in an unknown place and where he was just one more species, in an environment difficult to exemplify, and where his scientific knowledge about time, space and human life, is tested in such an extraordinary way that it alters the paradigm of his beliefs. But his tragic days seem to change when someone else is held in his cell, which seems part of a huge universal zoo. In the end the doubts of the place where he was and who or who kept him captive will increase, there are several alternatives but the strongest points to something difficult for a subject with Robert's beliefs and possibly those of the reader.
These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an unflinching hand, Mu&ñ oz depicts the Mexican and Mexican American farmworkers who put food on our tables but were regularly and ruthlessly rounded up by the migra, as well as the everyday struggles and immense challenges faced by their families.The messy and sometimes violent realities navigated by his characters— straight and gay, immigrant and American-born, young and old— are tempered by moments of surprising, tender care: Two young women meet on a bus to Los Angeles to retrieve the men they love who must find their way back from the border after being deported; a gay couple plans a housewarming party that reveals buried class tensions; a teenage mother slips out to a carnival where she encounters the father of her child; the foreman of a crew of fruit pickers finds a dead body and is subsequently— perhaps literally— haunted.In The Consequences, obligation can shape, support, and sometimes derail us. It' s a magnificent new book from a gifted writer at the height of his powers.
PA L A B R A S Q U E R E S C ATA R aporta 30 temas que pretenden hacer reflexionar al lector/a sobre otras tantas palabras que necesitan ser repensadas, porque la fe, como la vida misma, es continuo proceso de profundización. Lo más auténtico de nuestro ser no está en la superficie, ni siquiera en la inteligencia, sino en el descubrimiento de eso que llamamos "sabiduría divina", que se nos transmite en el contacto con la palabra, escuchada con el corazón y reflexionada también con un corazón sencillo, como de hijo que confía en su padre/madre. No todos los 30 capítulos tienen la misma longitud. Unos son más para ser leídos y otros, para ser trabajados. He buscado, en todos, palabras necesitadas de rescate, de actualización, palabras esenciales, como: voluntad, libertad, eucaristía, fe, perdón, Nueva Evangelización, familia, luz, oración, prueba, sufrimiento, servicio, vida cristiana, vida consagrada, acción de gracias, cuaresma, sanación, conversión, corrección fraterna, María, política y cristianismo... He tenido una doble intención: que pueda ser leído por adultos y jóvenes; y que los padres o educadores puedan usarlo con sus hijos o alumnos.
In June 1825 the Cuban countryside witnessed a large African-led slave rebellion -- a revolt that began a cycle of slave uprisings lasting until the mid-1840s. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 examines this movement and its participants for the first time, highlighting the significance of African warriors in New World plantation society. Unlike previous slave revolts -- led by alliances between free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations -- only African-born men organized the uprising of 1825. From this year onwards, Barcia argues, slave uprisings in Cuba underwent a phase of Africanization that concluded only in the mid-1840s with the conspiracy of La Escalera, a large movement organized by free colored men with ample participation of the slave population. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825 offers a detailed examination of the sociopolitical and economic background of the Matanzas rebellion, both locally and colonially. Based on extensive primary sources, particularly court records, the study provides a microhistorical analysis of the days that preceded this event, the uprising itself, and the days and months that followed. Barcia gives the Great African Revolt of 1825 its rightful place in the history of slavery in Cuba, the Caribbean, and the Americas.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The eagerly awaited follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new book gives readers an extraordinary inside look at In the Heights, his breakout Broadway debut, written with Quiara Alegría Hudes, now a Hollywood blockbuster. “[An] exuberant, unique, and invaluable record of dynamic, brilliant, and soulful creativity.”—Booklist (starred review) In 2008, In the Heights, a new musical from up-and-coming young artists, electrified Broadway. The show’s vibrant mix of Latin music and hip-hop captured life in Washington Heights, the Latino neighborhood in upper Manhattan. It won four Tony Awards and became an international hit, delighting audiences around the world. For the film version, director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) brought the story home, filming its spectacular dance numbers on location in Washington Heights. That’s where Usnavi, Nina, and their neighbors chase their dreams and ask a universal question: Where do I belong? In the Heights: Finding Home reunites Miranda with Jeremy McCarter, co-author of Hamilton: The Revolution, and Quiara Alegría Hudes, the Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist of the Broadway musical and screenwriter of the film. They do more than trace the making of an unlikely Broadway smash and a major motion picture: They give readers an intimate look at the decades-long creative life of In the Heights. Like Hamilton: The Revolution, the book offers untold stories, perceptive essays, and the lyrics to Miranda’s songs—complete with his funny, heartfelt annotations. It also features newly commissioned portraits and never-before-seen photos from backstage, the movie set, and productions around the world. This is the story of characters who search for a home—and the artists who created one.
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