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This is the first book in more than three decades to offer a complete and chronological history of revolutionary Cuba, including the years of rebellion that led to the revolution. Beginning with Batista's coup in 1952, which catalyzed the rebels, and bringing the reader to the present-day transformations initiated by Raúl Castro, Luis Martínez-Fernández provides a balanced interpretive synthesis of the major topics of contemporary Cuban history.

Art Desks sparks curiosity of an artist's work space.

#Sandy is a book of iPhone photos of Hurricane Sandy captured by a number of photographers.

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The book explores how time is materialized and performed in organizations, examines how organizations and organizational members are constituted by and constitutive of material artefacts, and reflects on what a historical perspective on these materializations can bring to the study of organizations.

Point-set topology, important in itself as a research discipline, underpins a wide range of mathematical areas and is consequently taught as a component of many university mathematics degree programmes. This textbook offers an accessible, modern introduction, with a particular focus on helping students to build theory for themselves.

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As social scientists, we are called to investigate society. A powerful component of understanding society can be found when researching the lives of children and youth. "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children" stated Nelson Mandela. This volume provides a glimpse into the lives of children and youth, thus, The Soul of Society: A Focus on the Lives of Children & Youth.

Mother Bombie is unique among Lyly's comedies in its urban setting and focus upon middle and lower class concerns. The play turns on the tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs, and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters' misguided aspirations for their own advantage. A theatrical success in its own day, the play is of particular inte...

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict contexts across the world, including an analysis of the struggles over 'proper burials', the repatriation of dead migrants, abandoned cemeterie...

This is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser's epic, The Faerie Queene. It gives the reader unparalleled access to the formal nuts and bolts of this massive poem - the rhymes which the author used to structure its intricate stanzas - and as such, the volume offers a unique insight into Spenser's creative processes and the tools of his trade. It enables readers to review the variety of Spenser's rhyming in a detail which has not ...

This book investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa.

John Dundas Cochrane (1780-1825) was destined for the sea from an early age, but is best remembered as 'the Pedestrian Traveller'. This 1824 account of his travels across Europe, Russia and Siberia is full of interesting anecdotes and observations about a then unknown and mysterious area of the world.

This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity.

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This monograph offers a diachronic analysis of the development of street protests in Egypt that led to the downfall of Mubarak in 2011