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This book presents new aspects of the U.S. Cuba policy during Gerald R. Ford’s presidency (August 9, 1974‒January 20, 1977). Based in governmental and other sources from the U.S. and Cuba, the book examines how the Ford administration broke with Nixon’s hostile policy when the diplomatic and economic isolation of Cuba was ended in the OAS, even when the U.S. economic blockade prevailed. In line with the detente policy towards the USSR, the Ford administration strived to normalize the relations with Cuba through secret discussions. However, the Cuban involvement in the Angolan civil war ended this process of normalization, and the U.S. returned to a confrontational policy. Within this f...
Covers Board decisions and orders issued from August 31, 2006 through December 29, 2006.
This comprehensive directory comprises information on more than 800 European analytical scientists and includes complete addresses, telephone and fax numbers, fields of expertise, research topics as well as consulting activities. Private, governmental and official laboratories are also included. Exhaustive indexes allow easy access to all entries. The increasing demand for internationally approved professionals in all fields of analytical chemistry makes this volume an invaluable source of information for the analytical industry, R + D institutions, consultants, private laboratories and university departments seeking for cooperation and service partners or consultancy.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garc^D'ia M^D'arquez had already earned tremendous respect and popularity in the years leading up to that honor, and remains, to date, an active and prolific writer. Readers are introduced to Garc^D'ia M^D'arquez with a vivid account of his fascinating life; from his friendships with poets and presidents, to his distinguished career as a journalist, novelist, and chronicler of the quintessential Latin American experience. This companion also helps students situate Garc^D'ia M^D'arquez within the canon of Western literature, exploring his contributions to the modern novel in general, an...
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En la Historia de la literatura puertorriqueña a través de sus revistas literarias (2010), Jiménez Benítez aborda desde una perspectiva diferente el devenir histórico de nuestra literatura nacional. El lector encontrará apuntes sobre el periodismo literario en Puerto Rico durante los siglos XIX, XX y XXI. Pero el eje medular será el estudio de las revistas que nos va llevando por todo el proceso histórico de la literatura puertorriqueña: sus movimientos, tendencias, generaciones de autores y sus obras. El libro está dirigido a resaltar la importancia de las revistas literarias, como hilo de Ariadna, para descubrir así el hacer literario y crítico del país.