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"Readers interested not only in music, but also in ethnic studies and popular culture, will appreciate the broad spectrum covered in Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century."--BOOK JACKET.
Defining the political and aesthetic tensions that have shaped Cuban culture for over forty years, Linda Howe explores the historical and political constraints imposed upon Cuban artists and intellectuals during and after the Revolution. Focusing on the work of Afro-Cuban writers Nancy Morejón and prominent novelist Miguel Barnet, Howe exposes the complex relationship between Afro-Cuban intellectuals and government authorities as well as the racial issues present in Cuban culture.
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology is a unique compilation of reviews addressing frontiers in biologicals as a rich source for innovative medicines. This book fulfills the needs of a broad community of scientists interested in biologicals from diverse perspectives—basic research, biotechnology, protein engineering, protein delivery, medicines, pharmaceuticals and vaccinology. The diverse topics range from advanced biotechnologies aimed to introduce novel, potent engineered vaccines of unprecedented efficacy and safety for a wide scope of human diseases to natural products, small peptides and polypeptides engineered for discrete prophylaxis and therapeutic purposes. Modern biologicals promise to ...
Angela Guzman, head of a Columbian drug cartel, is known as "La Llorona", "The Crying Woman". According to legend, if you hear La Llorona's spirit crying, you are doomed to imminent death. After inheriting the Guzman Cartel from her brother, Angela discovers that Rico Garcia - Muerte - was responsible for her brother's disappearance, and decides to set a trap for him in The Darien Gap. A sixty-mile strip of land between Panama and Columbia, it's a place of mountainous jungles , swamps, armed guerrillas and drug traffickers. An inevitable standoff awaits Rico and his men. But after the dust settles, who will be the last man standing?
A freighter goes down off the coast of Capetown; a Paris nightclub is engulfed in flames; a cement plant explodes on the outskirts of Caracas, all seemingly random, all deadly. Columbia Professor David Hamilton is living the American nightmare. With a career he hates, an ex-wife he still loves and a drinking problem he denies, he has no idea how lucky he is. Beginning with a late-night phone call from Brussels, Hamilton embarks on an odyssey into the darker regions of European power, money and betrayal, a journey that will force him to confront an evil he can neither comprehend nor control. As the body count escalates, one horrific murder will make it personal for Hamilton, and he will have no choice but to race the clock and forge alliances with characters as complex and lethal as the landscapes they inhabit.