The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Notes From the Last Testament
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 22.95Notes from the Last Testament, by veteran reporter Michael Deibert, is a riveting narrative account of the events leading up to and including the overthrow of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. A fearless correspondent and a meticulous researcher, Deibert traces the rupturing of the social-democratic coalition that originally brought Aristide... more...
Masters of War
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 24.95In Masters of War, Clara Nieto adeptly presents the parallel histories of the countries of Latin America, histories that are intertwined, each reflecting the United States? "coherent policy of intervention" set into motion by the Monroe Doctrine. As the value of this continued policy comes increasingly into question, Nieto argues for the need to evaluate... more...
Cuba's Aborted Reform
UPF 2005; US$ 34.95This volume analyzes Cuban socioeconomic policies and evaluates their performance since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist camp. more...
José Martí and the Future of Cuban Nationalisms
UPF 2006; US$ 44.95The first study to examine the impact of Marti's writings on both Cubans and Cuban Americans and to consider the ongoing polemic over Marti as part of the larger postcolonial problem of nation building more...
The Sugar Barons
Random House 2011; US$ 12.00For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold. Young men, beset by death and disease, an ocean away from the moral anchors of life in Britain, created immense dynastic... more...
Traveling with Che Guevara
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99Published for the first time in the U.S.?one of the two diaries on which the movie The Motorcycle Diaries is based?the moving and at times hilarious account of Che Guevara and Alberto Granado's eight-month tour of South America in 1952. In 1952 Alberto Granado, a young doctor, and his friend Ernesto Guevara, a 23-year-old medical student from... more...
The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados
Scarecrow Press 2012; US$ 74.99Curwen Best?s The Popular Music and Entertainment Culture of Barbados surveys the development of Barbadian popular music and entertainment culture by focusing on pivotal phenomena, artists, and movements in the evolution of Barbadian popular music and culture. Best concentrates, in particular, on transformations since 1980 and 2000 respectively,... more...
Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves
Liverpool University Press 2012; US$ 60.00Fathers, Daughters, and Slaves brings to life the unique contribution by French women writers during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. more...
The History of Mary Prince
Penguin Group US 2001; US$ 13.00'I have been a slave - I have felt what a slave feels, and I know what a slave knows ...' Mary Prince recalls that in the slave market in Bermuda, where she was put up for sale, the buyers' talk 'fell like cayenne pepper into the fresh wounds of our hearts'. During her life as a slave she was taken from Bermuda to Turks Island and Antigua,... more...
Child of the Revolution
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 29.95What was it really like to grow up in Castro's people's paradise? With an evocative wide-eyed innocence, Luis M. Garcia takes us back to his childhood in this evocative memoir of growing up in 1960s Cuba. more...









