Product Description: In his usual style, David Halberstam explores the American economy by choosing two companies--this time, Ford and Nissan--and telling their stories from the founders and owners to the assembly workers. 13 cassettes.

Product Description: When Auntie Roomeen's gold chain goes missing, thirteen-year-old Horace tries to find out the truth. Yet to a boy on the verge of adulthood, nothing seems as simple as it once did. Can he even trust his own family?Set in a small fishing village, All that Glitters is a delightful evocation of 1940s Trinidad...read more

'Author claims to have included well-known individuals like Eric Williams and C.L.R. James, as well as less well-known figures like Sookoo. In addition to citing individuals such as Princess Margaret, who merely visited Trinidad and Tobago, he has included names of horses, ships, games, etc., while omitting major figures such as Francis De Ridder. Of some use nonetheless'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/ (view table of contents)

Product Description: Twelve-year-old Francis gets a chance to go for a year to San Fernando to work as a servant-companion to old Mrs. Chandler, but he has never seen a town before or been away from the warmth of his family. With an introduction by Paul Edwards and Kenneth Ramchand.

Living under brutal conditions in turn-of-the-century Trinidad, Eva has desperate plans that set aflame a story of smoldering rage at the oppression under colonial rule

Product Description: In a series of ten essays spanning five centuries of history, Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California.

Product Description: A collection of stories set in the time between the arrival of Columbus and contemporary coup politics. The stories are based on actual historical events: the title story features three personalities from Carnival 1930, another features a fictitious event on Columbus' voyage to the Caribbean...read more

Product Description: Leon is in training for the great bicycle race in the Southern Games in Trinidad. He is so obsessed by the race that he has dismissed everybody in his life, even his girlfriend Sylvia. But she makes sure it doesn't stop there.

Product Description: These stories are told with the freshness and directness one has come to expect of Michael Anthony.