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The Cuban Filmography
On January 24, 1897, an event took place that would change Cuban culture forever: the first moving pictures were shown in Havana. A couple of weeks later, on February 7, the first movie was filmed on the island. Since then, cinematography and Cuba have shared peculiar and innate connections, as their beginnings roughly coincide and Cubans are living in both the age of independence and revolution and the age of film. This work is a filmography of every Cuban film (including documentaries, shorts and cartoons) released from 1897, the first year films were shown and made in Cuba, through 2001. Each entry gives the original title of the film, the English translation of it, director, production c...
ICC Register
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On the Study of Human Cooperation via Computer Simulation
Cooperation is pervasive throughout nature, but its origin remains an open question. For decades, social scientists, business leaders, and economists have struggled with an important question: why is cooperation so ubiquitous among unrelated humans? The answers would have profound effects because anything that promotes cooperation leads to more productive work environments and benefits society at large. Game theory provides an ideal framework for studying social dilemmas, or those situations in which people decide whether to cooperate with others (benefitting the group) or defect by prioritizing their self-interest (benefitting only the individual). The social dilemma is formulated as a math...
The Mentor and the Protégé
In a large and dramatic way, the Mexican Revolution brought two men to the presidency of that nation: Plutarco Calles and Lázaro Cárdenas. Both were idealists. Both made profound, occasionally bloody, contributions to the stability of a war-weary nation. This is the story, told as a novel, that traces the long friendship between the two revolutionary giants, beginning with their respective childhoods a generation apart and rarely examined. Calles, the older of the two, grew up as the bastard child of a produce vender's daughter and a non-Catholic father. The rigid religious demands of both families shaped his hostile attitude toward the Mexican Church. Cárdenas, with an Indian heritage, g...
ISLA
Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.
Devil's Promenade
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. 'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why. . . 'A masterpiece' Evening Standard 'A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel' The Times 'Brilliant writer, brilliant book' Guardian
Index Medicus
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
