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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXCBA36)		  
Cuba  •  Pierre Hausherr  •  Francois Missen
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2010 •  PAPER  • 272 PAGES
With beautiful photography showcasing the people, culture, cityscapes and natural world of Cuba, this book by a Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist provides an inside look at the island nation. (CBA143, $24.95)		   Cuba
Our Man in Havana  •  Graham Greene
LITERATURE •  2007 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES • FAVORITE
The story of a British vacuum cleaner salesman who gets accidentally drawn into cold war espionage with disastrous (and hilarious) results. Published in 1958, months before Castro and his men swept into Havana, the story is a portrait of an immensely corrupt, pre-revolutionary society. (CBA19, $15.00)		   Our Man in Havana
Cuba, A Traveler's Literary Companion  •  Ann Louise Bardach
ANTHOLOGY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 234 PAGES
A collection of mostly contemporary short fiction in the excellent series. Organized geographically, the anthology includes contributions by Reinaldo Arenas, Alejo Carpentier, Jose Lezama Lima and many other Cuban literary giants. (CBA58, $13.95)		   Cuba, A Traveler's Literary Companion
Cuba, What Everyone Needs to Know  •  Julia Sweig
HISTORY •  2009 •  PAPER  • 279 PAGES
Director for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, Sweig traces the geography, history and identity of Cuba in this admirably succinct history of the island nation and its role in world affairs. One in a series of balanced, concise guides by Oxford, which also includes Kosovo and Burma. (CBA126, $16.95)		   Cuba, What Everyone Needs to Know
Moon Handbook Cuba  •  Christopher P. Baker
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 684 PAGES
A detailed guide to Havana and the provinces, including the natural, cultural and political life of the island. There's information on the best beaches, cigars and nightclubs as well as background on the slave trade, Ernest Hemingway and the Revolution. (CBA04, $24.95)		   Moon Handbook Cuba
Cuba Map  •  Borch Maps
2011 •  MAP
A detailed, double-sided laminated map at a scale of 1:1,000,000. Includes insets of Havana and Santiago de Cuba. Two Sides. 28x36 inches. (CBA20, $10.95)		   Cuba Map



Also Recommended

Culture Smart! Cuba  •  Mandy Macdonald   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (CBA105, $9.95)
 		  
Insight Guide Cuba  •  Insight Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This illustrated, surprisingly informative guide includes excellent color maps and thoughtful short essays on history, culture and attractions. (CBA131, $24.99)
 		  
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba  •  Tom Gjelten   • HISTORY  •  Gjelten chronicles the rich intersection of power and politics, community and exile in contemporary Cuba through the saga of the Bacardi family. A fixture in making 1920s Havana a playground for the rich and famous in the prohibition era, Bacardi -- and its proprietary yeast strain -- famously left Cuba for Puerto Rico during the revolution. (CBA117, $17.00)
 		  
Cuba, A New History  •  Richard Gott   • HISTORY  •  British journalist Gott casts a fresh eye on the history of the Caribbean island from its pre-Columbian origins to the present. (CBA165, $19.00)
 		  
Havana, A Cultural and Literary Companion  •  Claudia Lightfoot   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An illuminating guide to the city, its history and geography, as the inspiration for writers, artists, musicians and intellectuals. (CBA49, $15.00)
 		  
Inside Havana  •  Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This handsome book showcases the diverse architecture of Havana, from modernist masterpieces to splendid baroque palaces and traditional businesses such as the Partagas cigar factory, one of Havana's oldest and finest. With expert writing by Hernandez and rich color photographs by Gianni Basso. (CBA102, $29.99)
 		  
On Becoming Cuban  •  Louis A. Perez   • HISTORY  •  A masterful scholarly history of Cubanidad, and the love-hate relationship with the United States. (CBA43, $27.95)
 		  
Primary Health Care in Cuba, The Other Revolution  •  Laurence Branch  •  Linda Whiteford   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Branch and Whiteford look at Cuba's approaches to child and maternal health, control of communicable and contagious diseases, treatment of chronic diseases, and care for the elderly in this scholarly overview. (CBA147, $24.95)
 		  
That Infernal Little Cuban Republic, The United States and the Cuban Revolution  •  Lars Schoultz   • HISTORY  •  Drawing on a rich array of firsthand documents and interviews, Schoultz explores the efforts of ten U.S. administrations to end the Cuban Revolution. (CBA128, $29.95)
 		  
The Cuba Reader: History, Culture, Politics  •  Aviva Chomsky  •  Barry Carr  •  Pamela Maria Smorkaloff   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Organized chronologically, this multi-faceted portrait of a nation, with most of the selections by Cuban writers, includes not only history, journalism and literature but also songs, paintings, poems and cartoons and speeches. (CBA93, $29.95)
 		  
Violet Isle  •  Alex Webb   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A little-known nickname, Violet Isle seems apt for this collaboration between Alex Webb, who captures Cuba's street life with his trademark attention to detail and color, and Rebecca Norris Webb, whose focus is on animals. Pico Iyer provides the accompanying essay. (CBA151, $50.00)
 		  
Walker Evans, Cuba  •  Andrei Codrescu  •  Walker Evans   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The original 1933 photographs of Cuba by the great social realist Walker Evans. (CBA56, $24.95)
 		  
Without Fidel  •  Ann Louise Bardach   • HISTORY  •  A PEN award-winning journalist who has covered Cuba for 15 years, Bardach (Cuba Confidential) brings knowledge, tenacity and verve to this report on the future of the country. (CBA112, $28.00)
 		  
Cuba and Its Music, From the First Drums to the Mambo  •  Ned Sublette   • MUSIC  •  A thorough and entertaining history of Cuba and its music by the popular radio producer, music historian and cofounder of Cuban record label QbaDisc. (CBA129, $21.95)
 		  
Cuba Classics, A Celebration of Vintage American Automobiles  •  Christopher P. Baker   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Himself a fan of the open road, Baker celebrates the extraordinary cars, the remarkable people who love them and the Cuban love affair with the U.S. automobile in dozens of dazzling color photographs. (CBA158, $29.95)
 		  
Cuba, Art and History from 1868 to Today  •  Nathalie Bondil   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  With ravishing color reproductions of murals, posters, paintings and photographs, this magnificent book documents the history of art in Cuba from independence. (CBA127, $49.95)
 		  
Cuban Landscapes: Heritage, Memory and Place  •  Armando H. Portela  •  Joseph Scarpaci   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An interdisciplinary examination of the meaning of Cubanness (cubanidad) as manifested through landscape representations. Draws on landscape architecture, art and art history, popular culture, and cultural geography in exploring how insiders and outsiders express aspects of the island's identity and representation (CBA150, $30.00)
 		  
Havana, History and Architecture of a Romantic City  •  Maria Luisa Lobo Montalvo  •  Hugh Thomas   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This magnificent history of Havana, featuring 480 color illustrations, shows the city and its growth from Spanish colony to independence. (CBA46, $85.00)
 		  
Havana, Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis  •  Joseph Scarpaci  •  Roberto Segre  •  Mario Coyula   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Two leading Cuban architects/planners and a U.S. geographer present an urban historical overview of Havana's urban-social geography from 1519 until today. An American Library Association Choice Outstanding Book Award winner. (CBA91, $26.95)
 		  
New Art of Cuba  •  Luis Camnitzer   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  A survey of Cuban art since 1981, all by young artists who have come-of-age since the revolution, and revised to reflect more recent developments Twenty-four new color plates augment the 200 black and white illustrations. (CBA79, $29.95)
 		  
Before Night Falls  •  Reinaldo Arenas  •  Delores Koch   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A deeply moving autobiography, highly critical of the Castro regime. Arenas tells the story of his youth in poor, rural Cuba, his time with Castro's rebels, and his emergence as a writer. Seen as a political dissident both for his political views and his homosexuality, Arenas fled to New York, where he died of AIDS in 1991 (shortly after this book was completed). (CBA37, $16.00)
 		  
Cuba Diaries  •  Isadora Tattlin   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this rousing memoir, subtitled An American Housewife in Havana, Tattlin writes with verve of her family's "rowdy, ambiguous, ironic and sometimes exhilarating time" living in 1990s Cuba. (CBA74, $13.95)
 		  
Dancing with Cuba, A Memoir of the Revolution  •  Alma Guillermoprieto   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Guillermoprieto writes with her usual insight, wit and lucid prose. about teaching at the National School of Dance in Havana in the 1970s (CBA97, $15.95)
 		  
Enduring Cuba  •  Zoe Bran   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Bran probes beneath the surface in this absorbing account of meeting locals, a Santeria ceremony and many questions about politics. (CBA84, $14.99)
 		  
Mi Moto Fidel, Motorcycling through Castro's Cuba  •  Christopher P. Baker   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Baker's lively account of a three-month tour through Cuba on a big, red BMW. No shrinking violet, the popular guidebook author includes his many bar and bedroom scenes in this down-to-earth, personal portrait of contemporary Cuba. (CBA41, $24.95)
 		  
The Sugar King of Havana  •  John Paul Rathbone   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  John Paul Rathbone recounts the dramatic life of Julio Lobo, richest man in Cuba until Castro's revolution did away with such men. Surviving assassin's bullets and making and losing two fortunes, Cuba's last tycoon went from glittering man about town in pre-Revolutionary Havana -- and one of the world's richest men -- to solitary exile in Spain. With a mother that traveled in those same circles in Havana, Rathbone writes that all his life he has been fascinated all by those "elegant, decadent and whirligig years" and it shows this fantastically good story. (CBA170, $16.00)
 		  
Trading with the Enemy  •  Tom Miller   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • FAVORITE  •  Miller captures the openness, sensuality and pride of Cuba and the Cubans in this eloquent account of entertaining travels in Fidel's Cuba. (CBA11, $18.00)
 		  
Waiting for Snow in Havana  •  Carlos Eire   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A lyrical memoir of a privileged, eccentric boyhood in 1950s Havana. Eire, a historian at Yale, fled with his brother to the United States in the wake of the revolution. (CBA78, $16.00)
 		  
Chango's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes  •  William Kennedy   • LITERATURE  •  His life radically changed by an encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, journalist Daniel Quinn embarks on a turbulant journey marked by such historical events as the Albany race riots, the rise of Fidel Castro and the assassination of Robert Kennedy. (CBA160, $26.95)
 		  
Dirty Havana Trilogy  •  Natasha Wimmer  •  Pedro Juan Gutierrez   • LITERATURE  •  A novel of contemporary Havana's steamy underbelly, originally published in Spain -- and banned in the author's native Cuba. (CBA44, $14.99)
 		  
Dreaming in Cuban  •  Cristina Garcia   • LITERATURE  •  A short, poetic novel of three generations of Cuban women, their reaction to the revolution and the complex relation between those who remained in Cuba and those who settled in the United States. Excellent reading. (CBA18, $13.95)
 		  
Telex from Cuba  •  Rachel Kushner   • LITERATURE  •  Kushner re-imagines the world of her mother in this astonishingly wise first novel set in the American enclave in 1950s Cuba. Riveting. (CBA111, $16.00)
 		  
The Old Man and the Sea  •  Ernest Hemingway   • LITERATURE  •  Hemingway's brief story of a fisherman who after 84 days with no luck finally makes a big catch is also an affectionate portrait of life in Cuba. It won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (CBA02, $12.00)
 		  
Travelers' Tales of Old Cuba, From Treasure Island to Mafia Den  •  John Jenkins   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This collection of first-hand accounts documents the evolution of Havana from a port popular with Caribbean pirates to the tourist-centered urban paradise of today and everything in between. (CBA137, $15.95)
 		  
Natural Cuba  •  Alfonso Silva Lee   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A natural history of the Caribbean's largest tropical island. (CBA25, $24.95)
 		  
A Photographic Guide to Birds of the West Indies  •  Allan Sander  •  G. Michael Flieg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact shirt-pocket guide. With a map of the islands and 300 color photographs. (CRB127, $15.95)
 		  
Birds of Cuba  •  Orlando Garrido  •  Arturo Kirkconnell  •  Lester Short   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact field guide to the birds of Cuba, featuring 51 color plates, detailed species accounts, and 144 local maps. The authors are curators at the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba. (CBA28, $29.95)
 		  
 
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