A historical account of the History of the Island of Cuba from the date of the encounter with the Europeans in 1492 to the day when the Republic ended in December of 1958. Un estudio de la Historia de la Isla de Cuba desde la fecha del encuentro con la civilizacion europea en 1492 hasta el dia en que termino la Republica de Cuba en Diciembre de 1958.

Una biografia ilustrada del Apostol de la Independencia Cubana que incluye mas de 300 fotos originales que muestran la vida, la obra y los sacrificios de Jose Marti para llevar a Cuba una tercera y final Guerra de Independencia en 1895. Los marxistas y comunistas que ocupan el poder en Cuba desde hace mas de medio siglo pretenden hacer ver que representan el pensamiento y la obra de Marti. Este libro desmiente esas falsedades y es fiel a las ideas democraticas de Marti, que desde los 15 anos comenzo a sonar y trabajar para una Cuba independiente y soberana con todos y para el bien de todos.

All throughout history, people have praised revolutions as one of the ways to remedy their lack of freedom and abolish the unearned privileges of others. Revolutions, however, pervert their very aims by bringing uncontrollable anarchy, atrocities, revenge, loss of human talent and destruction of material resources. Their attempts to rebuild society in more human terms always fail miserably. In practice, most revolutions can only be stopped by the emergence of a dictator, which brings about more misery, lack of freedom and inequality that what caused the upheaval in the first place. That's why...

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire were long gone and the last attempt of the Bourbons to restore the dynasty had been a fiasco. It fell on old and spent Marquis de Lafayette to promote the new French sovereign at the Hotel de Ville: This were extraordinary times. Victor Hugo, Honore Balzac, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, and the Goncourts were best sellers in Paris at the same time. Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Gounod, Wagner, were all making music and competing for the same public. The world of ideas was flourishing. In the midst of all this, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes...

Album de Cuba is a monumental and masterful presentation of more than 2,000 engravings, paintings and photographs that relate the history of the island of Cuba, from before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, over the spanish colonial times through the XVI to the XIX centuries, the republican era from 1902 to the 1958 and down to the violent closing of the republic in December of 1958. The author is a well known author of a dozen books on Cuban history. This is probably his best reference work for those interested in the engaging drama of Cuban history.

This book presents 40 reasons why Hillary Clinton should not be elected to the presidency of the United States in 2016. All historical references and arguments are taken from prestigious magazines and newspapers like the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and the Wall Street Journal. The author contends that the only path for Hillarys road to the White House is to destroy her adversary, much like Barrack Obama did against Mitt Romney in the 2012 elections. No candidate to the presidence of the US has ever had so many scandals, lies and conflicts of interest than Hillary Clinton. If she...

Un Festin de Palabras es una produccion eminentemente cubana. Cuba ha sido siempre una isla rodeada de poetas por todas partes. Al ajiaco, la conga y las bellas mujeres cubanas, hay que anadir el alborozo y el jubilo que los cubanos siempre han sentido por la poesia. Que mejores exponentes de los poetas cubanos pueden presentarse que aquellos que el publico o el Congreso de la Republica han escogido a lo largo de medio siglo como Poetas Nacionales Cubanos? Este libro, sin soslayo de muchos otros grandes versificadores, despliega con detalle la obra poetica de Jose Maria Heredia (1803-1839),...

The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire were long gone and the last attempt of the Bourbons to restore the dynasty had been a fiasco. People revolted on July 28, 29 and 30, 1830, in what became known as the three glorious days. In the midst of all this, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y Quesada and his wife Maria del Carmen moved to Paris and soon welcomed as their guests five of the finest minds in Cuba, the last remaining Spanish colony in the Americas: Domingo Del Monte and his wife Rosa, Miguel Aldama, Rosa's brother, and Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a young best seller poet living in...