Product Description: Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks...read more

Drawing on the personal experiences and observations of Cubans living both in Cuba and in Miami, this informative study provides a close-up look at Cuban society and culture, examining what life is like for the Cuban people after nearly fifty years of Castro's rule, how Cubans living in the United States manage, and the relationship between the two groups of Cubans. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This English translation of De Quilmes a Hyde Park: Las fronteras culturales en la vida y la obra de W. H. Hudson, which won the 2001 Annual Prize in Literature of Uruguay, analyzes how the richness of Hudson's work is linked to the overlapping of several cultures in his life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)