Author: Julia E Sweig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: needs, everyone, cuba
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0195383796
ISBN-13: 9780195383799

Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America’s fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro’s larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of America’s l

Author: Julia E Sweig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: needs, everyone, cuba
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 019538380X
ISBN-13: 9780195383805

Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America’s fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro’s larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so powerful that every American president has kowtowed to it. But what do most Americans really know about Cuba itself? In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia Sweig, one of America’s l

Authors:Dennis Butts and M.O. Grenby, Julia Briggs, Julia Br
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: britain, literature, childrens, popular
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2008-06-13
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 1840142421
ISBN-13: 9781840142426

The astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary children’s authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. This timely volume takes up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have created the popularity of children’s books both today and in the past.The essays collected here ask about the meanings and values that have been ascribed to the term popular. They consider whether popularity can be imposed, or if it must always emerge from children’s preferences. And t

Authors:Julia Ayres, Julia Ayers,
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Keywords: printmaking, painterly, methods, mediums, monotype
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0823031284
ISBN-13: 9780823031283

The art of monotype has experienced a surge of popularity in recent years, and artists working in other mediums will enjoy exploring the creative potential this process offers them. A brief history of monotype is followed by a comprehensive chapter on materials. The step-by-step instructions are accompanied by some of the finest examples of monotype being done today.

Authors:Julia Polak, Julia Polak, Sakis Mantalaris, Sian E Ha
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: engineering, tissue, advances
Number of Pages: 948
Published: 2008-08-20
List price: $223.00
ISBN-10: 1848161824
ISBN-13: 9781848161825

Advances in Tissue Engineering is a unique volume and the first of its kind to bring together leading names in the field of tissue engineering and stem cell research. A relatively young science, tissue engineering can be seen in both scientific and sociological contexts and successes in the field are now leading to clinical reality. This book attempts to define the path from basic science to practical application. A contribution from the UK Stem Cell Bank and opinions of venture capitalists offer a variety of viewpoints, and exciting new areas of stem cell biology are highlighted. With over fi

Authors:Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham, Julia Barrow, Andre
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: charters, church, rulership, myth
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2008-05-23
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754651207
ISBN-13: 9780754651208

This volume brings together a number of essays written by leading scholars in the field of early medieval English history. Focusing on three specific themes, myths, charters and warfare, each contribution presents a balance of both sources and interpretations. Furthermore they also link up with each other, since warfare was the predominant theme in Anglo-Saxon myth, while charters are an important source for military organisation and can also, for example through the information they supply on place names, shed light on belief and cult. Several of the contributions take a wider perspective, lo

Authors:Virginia Woolf, Julia Briggs, Julia Briggs,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: century, classics, twentieth, penguin, day, night
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140185682
ISBN-13: 9780140185683

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women’s rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine’s mother, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her father’s life into a biography - impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf’s light, delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comed