Download or read book Mis quince minutos de fama Autobiograf ia de un coleccionista y escritor written by Luis Antonio Rodríguez Vázquez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libro acerca de la vida y obra del numismático de Puerto Rico Luis Antonio Rodríguez Vázquez. Se incluye sus experiencias en diferentes facetas como la numismática, arqueología, bibliofilia y otras. El autor narra sus experiencias de los viajes realizados a algunas islas del Caribe y datos sobre la historia y cultura de estas. También incluye información sobre la historia monetaria de Puerto Rico y su bibliografía completa de 541 artículos publicados en diez periódicos de Puerto Rico. Esta es la primera autobiografía publicada por un numismático en Puerto Rico. Debido al interés del autor sobre el sincretismo religioso y la antropología hace un recuento de sus experiencias obtenidas del estudio del espiritismo y la santería en Puerto Rico. La información de este libro es muy interesante y variada lo cual hace que su lectura sea amena y divertida.

Download or read book The Caribbean written by Nicky Agate and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guides series contain full color photos, three maps in one, and arewaterproof and tearproof. They contain thousands of keyed listings and brightnew graphics.

Download or read book Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.

Download or read book Locked In Locked Out written by Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce—the second largest public housing authority in the U.S. federal system—became a gated community. Once the exclusive privilege of the city's affluent residents, gates now not only locked "undesirables" out but also shut them in. Ubiquitous and inescapable, gates continue to dominate present-day Ponce, delineating space within government and commercial buildings, schools, prisons, housing developments, parks, and churches. In Locked In, Locked Out, Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores shows how such gates operate as physical and symbolic ways to distribute power, reroute movement, sustain social inequalities, and cement boundary lines of class and race across the city. In its exploration of four communities in Ponce—two private subdivisions and two public housing projects—Locked In, Locked Out offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of gated communities devised by and for the poor. Dinzey-Flores traces the proliferation of gates on the island from Spanish colonial fortresses to the New Deal reform movement of the 1940s and 1950s, demonstrating how urban planning practices have historically contributed to the current trend of community divisions, shrinking public city spaces, and privatizing gardens. Through interviews and participant observation, she argues that gates have transformed the twenty-first-century city by fostering isolation and promoting segregation, ultimately shaping the life chances of people from all economic backgrounds. Relevant and engaging, Locked In, Locked Out reveals how built environments can create a cartography of disadvantage—affecting those on both sides of the wall.

Download or read book Treasury Decisions Under Tariff and Navigation Laws written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1890-1926 include also Decisions of the Board of U.S. General Appraisers no. 1-9135.

Download or read book Insight Guides Puerto Rico written by Insight Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides: Inspiring your next adventure Insight Guide Puerto Rico is an inspiring visual guide to this vivid and vibrant island, brought to life with hundreds of evocative photographs and lively features on history and culture. Our inspirational Best of Puerto Rico section highlights the country's unmissable sights and experiences - such as exploring the dramatic Rio Camuy Caves and taking a boat to the glowing waters of Phosphorescent Bay. The comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the practical information you need to plan your trip, and our selective listings bring you the author's recommendations for the best and most authentic hotels, bars, and restaurants. Lavish magazine-style features offer a unique insight into life in Puerto Rico, from folk art and festivals to wildlife and its national drink, rum. A detailed Places section, with full-color maps cross-referenced to the lively narrative, guides you around the entire island, with detailed descriptions of what to see, from El Morro, Old San Juan's historic fortress, to remote villages and rainforest-cloaked mountains. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-color print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travelers’ needs. Insight Guides’ unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. ‘Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.’ - Wanderlust Magazine

Download or read book MEMORIAS PERIOD STICAS 1980 2002 written by LUIS ANTONIO RODRÍGUEZ VÁZQUEZ and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enn este libro, Luis Antonio Rodríguez Vázuquez, expone sus experiencias en el periodismo desde el año 1980 hasta el 2002. Durante este tiempo publicó artículos en diez periódicos diferentes sobre diversos temas. Tuvo la oportunidad de compartir con personalidades de Puerto Rico y del exterior tales como escritores, artistas, políticos y otras personas reconocidas y que han aportado a diferentes disciplinas de la sociedad tanto en Puerto Rico como en otos países. Se incluye casi un centenar de fotografías del autor junto a personalidades muchas de las cuales pudo entrevistar y compartir con ellas. También se incluyen interesantes anécdotas sobre algunos de los personajes. Luis Antonio ha publicado entre folletos y libros 36 publicaciones y 542 artículos en la prensa.

Download or read book Puerto Rico written by JoAnn Milivojevic and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the geography, people, language, customs, religion, lifestyle, and culture of Puerto Rico.

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Download or read book Puerto Rico written by Richard Sebra and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Carnival celebration in Ponce to El Yunque National Forest, there's a lot to see and do in Puerto Rico. This island territory lies in the Caribbean. Puerto Rico introduces the state's history, geography, climate, economy, people, and places. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Download or read book Contraband Cultures written by Jennifer Cearns and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contraband Cultures presents narratives, representations, practices and imaginaries of smuggling and extra-legal or informal circulation practices, across and between the Latin American region (including the Caribbean) and its diasporas. Countering a fetishizing and hegemonic imaginary (typically stemming from the Global North) of smuggling activity in Latin America as chaotic, lawless, violent and somehow ‘exotic’, this book reframes such activities through the lenses of kinship, political movements, economic exchange and resistance to capitalist state hegemony. The volume comprises a broad range of chapters from scholars across the social sciences and humanities, using various methodological techniques, theoretical traditions and analytic approaches to explore the efficacy and valence of ‘smuggling’ or ‘contraband’ as a lens onto modes of personhood, materiality, statehood and political (dis)connection across Latin America. This material is presented through a combination of historic documentation and contemporary ethnographic research across the region to highlight the genesis and development of these cultural practices whilst grounding them in the capitalist and colonial refashioning of the entire region from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Download or read book Transfiguraci n de virgen a perra y otros cuentos y relatos de Puerto Rico written by Luis Antonio Rodriguez Vázquez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro contiene varios cuentos y relatos escritos por Luis Antonio Rodriguez. Dos de ellos fueron premiados con menciones honoríficas del Instituto Comercial Junior Collegue. Estos relatos muestran la realidad de la vida en Puerto Rico. Algunos de los relatos tratan sobre temas relacionados con la prevención de drogas, alcohol y violencia. Otros tratan sobre temas históricos y situaciones sociales, culturales y políticas.

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Download or read book American Gunfight written by Stephen Hunter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event -- the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter, the widely admired and bestselling novelist and author of such books as Havana, Hot Springs, and Dirty White Boys, and John Bainbridge, Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, American Gunfight is at once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and the vivid and dramatically told story of an act of terrorism that almost succeeded. They have pieced together, at last, the story of the conspiracy that nearly doomed the president and how a few good men -- ordinary guys who were willing to risk their lives in the line of duty -- stopped it. It is a book about courage -- on both sides -- and about what politics and devotion to a cause can lead men to do, and about what actually happens, second by second, when a gunfight explodes. It begins on November 1, 1950, an unseasonably hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 P.M. in his temporary residence at Blair House, the president of the United States takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two men approach Blair House from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory. At point-blank range, Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the president of the United States. Hunter and Bainbridge tell the story of that November day with narrative power and careful attention to detail. They are the first to report on the inner workings of this conspiracy; they examine the forces that led the perpetrators to conceive the plot. The authors also tell the story of the men themselves, from their youth and the worlds in which they grew up to the women they loved and who loved them to the moment the gunfire erupted. Their telling commemorates heroism -- the quiet commitment to duty that in some moments of crisis sees some people through an ordeal, even at the expense of their lives.

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Download or read book Sugarlandia Revisited written by Ulbe Bosma and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the Americas were transformed by a fusion of new and old forces of production, as the international sugar economy incorporated production areas in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa. Sugar’s global economic importance and its intimate relationship with colonialism offer an important context for probing the nature of colonial societies. This book questions some major assumptions about the nexus between sugar production and colonial societies in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, especially in the second (post-1800) colonial era.

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