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Pedro Juan was a reporter in Havana, but as existence in Cuba and his own life begin to collapse around him, he gives up the farce of a daily job, and begins to train himself to take nothing seriously. His training involves lots of sex, drugs, rum, jazz, beat literature and street philosophy.

Bolesny, lecz przepełniony miłością hołd dla Hawany i buntowniczego życia, które rozkwita pośród powszechnego rozkładu.
Cyniczne i pozbawione złudzeń świadectwo człowieka, który w latach dziewięćdziesiątych jest mieszkańcem Hawany. Niegdyś dziennikarz i człowiek mający swe miejsce w społeczeństwie, obecnie stał się pariasem systemu. Pedro Juan – zbieżność imion bohatera i autora znacząca – żyje nad brzegiem przepaści. Mimo że mieszka w samym centrum Hawany (w obskurnej ruderze na dachu wieżowca), jest całkowicie zepchnięty na margines. Z chirurgiczną...

Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, this picaresque novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor of contemporary Havana, half disgusted and half fascinated by the depths to which he has sunk. Like the lives of so many of his neighbors in the crumbling, once-elegant apartment houses that line Havana's waterfront, Pedro Juan's days and nights have been reduced by the so-called special times -- the harsh recession that followed the Soviet Union's collapse -- to the struggle of...

The book will provide an exhaustive and clear explanation of how Statistics, Mathematics and Informatics have been used in cancer research, and seeks to help cancer researchers in achieving their objectives. To do so, state-of-the-art Biostatistics, Biomathematics and Bioinformatics methods will be described and discussed in detail through illustrative and capital examples taken from cancer research work already published. The book will provide a guide for cancer researchers in using Statistics, Mathematics and Informatics, clarifying the contribution of these logical sciences to the study of...