It began when I was browsing through my parents' vintage photographs of a free Cuba in the 1940s and 50s at my home in Hialeah, Florida. I learned everything about Cuba from them, but I had never visited the beloved island only ninety miles from Key West, Florida. They told tales of romantic nights on the streets of Havana, an island where Cuban music escaped from small cafes and filled the streets with people dancing and laughing. I was learning the lingo recognized only by fellow Cubans....

The grandmother insists with affection, but there is no way to convince the child. His friends' remedies are the craziest And that doesn't seem to cure him one bit either. poor Felipe Atchús! that the flu does not go away Atchús! Atchús! Atchús! Atchús! Atchús! The grandmother insists with affection, but there is no way to convince the child. His friends' remedies are the craziest And that doesn't seem to cure him one bit either. poor Felipe Atchús! that the flu does not go away Atchús! At...

The wild boar Timoteo has a grooming problem, although he thinks he is clean and fine he stinks like a pig. One day her friend the goat Blasa arrives at her house and with salt shaker and affection she makes her see her untidiness. Other friends help out on this crazy adventure while our Timothy makes a tremendous ruckus. The third installment of this hilarious series is here written by Gracia Iglesias and illustrated by Sara Sánchez. You will not be able to stop laughing. Oink oink!

Tito and his friends from the neighborhood like to play soccer on the track. But what happens when one day they arrive and she's busy? A story about football, friendship and how controversial situations can have an unpredictable end. Tito and his friends from the neighborhood like to play soccer on the track. But what happens when one day they arrive and she's busy? A story about football, friendship and how controversial situations can have an unpredictable end.

Versión en inglés de ¡Buen camino, Celestino! Mike the penguin decide to do the Camino de Santiago and all his friends want the best for him, what's better than to give him "useful" ítems to help with the Way… Mike the penguin decide to do the Camino de Santiago and all his friends want the best for him, what's better than to give him "useful" ítems to help with the Way

Marcelina the giraffe, who doesn't know how to cook, he wants to make a great dinner that his niece will like. You can already imagine the mess that is going to be made! His friends advise him a thousand crazy things and dinner turns into a wild party. Oh dear Marcelina! What a kitchen disaster! How are you going to fix it? And what are we going to have for dinner ?!

My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba. Though she feels suffocated by the island and decides to leave, hers is not just a political novel--nor just a queer novel, an immigrant novel, a feminist novel--but a deeply existential one, in which mortality, corporeality, bureaucracy, e...

The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration's other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story.Iglesias has long served in the Navy as part of the JAG corps. One of his earliest cases, about an assaulted Ma...

Build smart, efficient, and fast enterprise-grade web implementation of the microservices architecture that can be easily scaled.Key FeaturesWrite easy-to-maintain lean and clean code with Kotlin for developing better microservicesScale your Microserivces in your own cloud with Docker and Docker SwarmExplore Spring 5 functional reactive web programming with Spring WebFluxBook DescriptionWith Google's inclusion of first-class ...

A bilingual—English and Spanish—collection by the 2017 winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series." Miami Century Fox is Legna Rodríguez Iglesias's English debut, but by no means is she an emerging poet. Here's a voice that's seasoned and fierce, tender and sharp as a blade. I promise, dear readers, that you will not encounter another book quite like this, nor another poet quite like Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, ever ...

Agriculture is one of the most climate-sensitive of all economic sectors. In many countries, such as in Moldova, the risks of climate change are an immediate and fundamental problem because the majority of the rural population depends either directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. The risks of climate change to agriculture in Moldova cannot be effectively dealt with—and the opportunities cannot be effectively exploited—without a clear plan for aligning agricultural pol...

Excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol products can be an effective instrument for promoting public health through the curbing of smoking and excessive drinking, while raising significant financing for development priorities. Designed and implement well, excise taxes represent a win-win for public health and finances. While the public policy rationale for excise reforms is strong in both developed and developing countries, realizing reforms in practice often faces significant opposition by th...