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  • This Land Is Our Landby Alex Stepick

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95

    Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at events such as the Elian Gonzalez case, this text examines interactions between immigrants and established Americans in Miami to address fundamental questions of American identity and multiculturalism. more...

  • La Lucha for Cubaby Miguel A. De La Torre

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 26.95

    For many in Miami?s Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one?s children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Lucha for Cuba, De La Torre shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and privilege?distinguishing themselves from other Hispanic communities in the United States?and how religion has figured in their ascension. Through the lens of religion and culture, his work also unmasks and explores intra-Hispanic structures of oppression operating among Cubans in Miami. Miami Cubans use a religious expression, la lucha, or "the struggle," to justify the power and privilege they have achieved. Within the context of la lucha,... more...

  • Frommer's® South Floridaby Lesley Abravanel

    John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006; US$ 16.99

    Miami and the Keys are perennially popular destinations, especially for winter travel. Florida tourism officials predict a 3.2 percent increase in visitors for 2006. more...

  • The Swampby Michael Grunwald

    Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 12.99

    The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post , takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land. The Everglades was America's last frontier,... more...

  • Cultural Residuesby Nelly Richard; Theodore Quester; Alan West-Durán

    University of Minnesota Press 2004; US$ 70.50

    A portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that country?s most incisive cultural critics, Cultural Residues uses memoirs, photographs, art, and novels?the ?residues? of a culture?to analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto Pinochet?s seventeen-year military rule. According to Nelly Richard, such residual areas reveal the flaws in Chile?s transition from violent dictatorship to electoral democracy. more...

  • Stolen Waterby W. Hodding Carter

    Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 12.99

    When the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan went into effect during the Clinton administration, Florida's great grassy wilderness garnered a host of national attention -- and has since become a breeding ground for environmental dispute. What does it take to "save" a forest? How can it be preserved? Enter W. Hodding Carter. For an Outside magazine feature he's agreed to paddle the ninety-nine-mile waterway in Everglades National Park to examine the landscape from all angles -- physical, political, cultural, and very personal -- and get to the rock-bottom heart of the story. Stolen Water is the outgrowth of Carter's journey. Through investigative research, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with key players in the conservation... more...

  • Dream Stateby Diane Roberts

    Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 16.99

    Part family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream State is all Floridian, telling the grand and sometimes crazy story of the twenty-seventh state through the eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets and she's ready to tell them. Like the time her cousin state Senator Luther Tucker wrapped his Caddy around a tree, allegedly with a jug of moonshine on the seat next to him. Or how cousin Susan Branford was given an African girl for her eighth birthday. Or the time when cousin Enid Broward was made the May Queen of 1907, even though her daddy the governor shocked the state by trying to drain the entire Everglades. Roberts' ancestors helped settle Florida,... more...

  • Travel Orlando, Floridaby MobileReference

    MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 4.99

    An illustrated travel guide and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. FREE General Information and a map in the trial version. Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. City Attractions. Landmark and Street maps, Metro map, and more. Museums address, telephone, hours and admission information. The guide is loaded into the device memory. No network access needed. Easy and fast viewing. Access the guide anytime, anywhere. Use the guide as postcards to show places you visited. Table of Contents. General: Intro | History | Economy | Demographics | Climate | Contact | Stay Safe | Sleep | A-Z Index. Maps: Florida | Orlando | Disney Monorail | Railroads | Apopka-Vineland Road. Transportation: Infrastructure... more...

  • Fool's Paradiseby Steven Gaines

    Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.99

    From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade’s best works of social portraiture. Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up barrier reef, Miami Beach has always been one part drifter-mecca and one part fantasyland, simultaneously a catch basin for con men, fast-talk artists, and shameless self-promoters, and a Shangri-La for sun worshippers and hardcore hedonists. In Miami Beach it’s often said that "if you’re not indicted you’re not invited." But the city’s mad, fascinating complexity resists... more...

  • Tampa Bay & Florida's West Coast Adventure Guideby Chelle Koster Walton

    Hunter Publishing 2008; US$ 19.99

    A fully updated and expanded edition of this ever-popular guidebook. Visit vibrant cities, charming hometowns, nature preserves, wilderness areas and the famous white-sand beaches of Florida's Gulf shore. The book covers all of Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg and north to Withlacoochee State Forest, and south to Sanibel Island, Naples and Everglades National Park. Canoeing the Everglades, fishing on Marco Island, biking in Boca Grande, diving with manatees in Crystal River, sailing along St. Pete Beach, theater-going in Sarasota, shopping the sponge markets of Greek-flavored Tarpon Springs, exploring the history of Tampa's Latin Ybor City - it's all here! Town and regional maps. Fully indexed. Color photos. more...