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Caribbean Landscapes
An Interpretive Atlas
Timothy S. Brothers, Jeffrey S. Wilson and Owen P. Dwyer |
| A major new reference, this full-color work is a selective introduction to the diversity of Caribbean landscapes, showing underlying patterns without overlooking the uniqueness of individual places. Combining scholarship and expertise in remote-sensing technologies, cartography, photography, and fieldwork, this team of geographers from the University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis presents a taxonomy of Caribbean environments. Not an atlas in... More |
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From the Journal of Latin American Geography---
"It is the rare book that combines artistic images with informative text, but 'Caribbean Landscapes" accomplishes just that. The... Read review |
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From the Preface: The Geographical Perspective on the Caribbean
Our purpose is not merely to describe the landscapes shown here but to interpret them: set them... Read excerpt |
August, 2008, Caribbean Studies Press. Catalog Number: CSP4591, 249pp, full color throughout, twin loop lay-flat
ISBN 978-1-58432-459-1 |
$59.00 |
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Haiti’s Development Through Expatriate Reconnection
Conditions and Challenges
Tatiana Wah, Ph.D. New School University, NY |
| This valuable contribution to development studies examine the strategic processes of involving expatriates in Haiti’s development. This research-based study provides an operational paradigm or framework for how to construct and implement effective expatriate engagement . |
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From the Introduction:
The continuing loss of a significant amount of less developed countries’ (LDCs’) manpower resources to more developed countries (MDCs) through international migration is... Read excerpt |
2003, Educa Vision, Inc., 188pp, softcover
ISBN 1-58432-180-6 |
$35.00 |
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Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar
Cuba Enters the Twenty-first Century
Lydia Chavez, Ph.D. |
| When the Soviet Union dissolved, so did the easy credit, cheap oil, and subsidies provided to Cuba. The bottom fell out of the Cuban economy, but the revolution lives on, albeit in modified form. Castro legalized the dollar, opened the island to tourism, and allowed foreign investment, private enterprise, and remittances from exiles. This work describes the impact of these... More |
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“Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar addresses in an original and insightful way the question so many have asked themselves for so long: how is... Read review |
2005, Duke University Press, 264pp, 75 black and white photos, Softcover
ISBN 0-8223-3494-1 |
$21.95 |
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The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Jorge Dominguez, Ph.D., Harvard University; Omar Everleny Perez Villaneuva, Ph.D., University of Havana; and Lorena Barberia, Ph.D., Harvard University |
| How can Cuba address the challenges of economic development and transformation that have bedeviled so many Latin American and Eastern European countries? For the Cuban and American experts writing in this timely volume, the answer lies in examining issues including the political economy of reform, export development, foreign investment, U.S.-Cuba trade, economic reform, societal dynamics, remittances, and Cuba's future. |
2005, Harvard University Press, 456pp, Softcover
ISBN 0-674-01798-6 |
$24.99 |
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