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Encounters
The three stories and one novella convey a distinct sensibility - erotic, nostalgic, visual, refined, almost French in its cerebral tenderness.
Mexico's Ruins
At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one-way street named "progress." Mexico's Ruins examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their reception by the nation's citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by the etymology of "ruins": a simultaneous falling down and rising up, a confluence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book.
Operation Garbo
He was GARBO to the Allies and ALARIC to the Germans – the most successful double agent of the Second World War. Indeed, his spy network across Britain was so highly regarded that he was decorated for his achievements ... by both sides. Throughout the war, GARBO kept the Germans supplied with reports from his ring of twenty-four agents. Hitler's spymasters never discovered or even suspected a double-cross, but all the agents in GARBO's network existed solely in his imagination. In one of the most daring espionage coups of all time, GARBO persuaded the enemy to hold back troops that might otherwise have defeated the Normandy landings on D-Day; without him, the Second World War could have taken a completely different course. For decades, GARBO's true identity was a closely guarded secret. After the war, he vanished. Years later, after faking his own death, Juan Pujol García was persuaded by the author to emerge from the shadowy world of espionage, and in this new edition of his classic account, now updated to include his agents' original MI5 files, GARBO reveals his unique story.
Entry Into Matter
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Agent Garbo
Describes the life of Juan Pujol, a poultry farmer who opposed the Nazis and concocted a series of staggering lies that lead to his becoming one of Germany's most valued spies, while actually acting as a double-agent for the Allies.
Esquivel!
Juan Garcia Esquivel was born in Mexico and grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands. He loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. Juan's space-age lounge music popular in the fifties and sixties has found a new generation of listeners.
Error to the Throne
This is a tragic tale of a young prince named Phil, who lived in his kingdom Spaine Maruca. He takes a journey of self discovery, through friends, family, adventures and mistakes he finds himself little at a time. Through finding out who he is, he uncovered and unraveled many hidden secrets that changed his life forever. There are two paths that bordered him: to become the next heir to the throne, and fulfill his duties and responsibilities as the next king. Or to follow his heart as he fell in love with the forbidden fruit. Which path do you think he will decide for....? How many mistakes will you make to achieve your happily ever after.
My Revolutionary Life
Juan Garcia Oliver, the activist who became the world's only anarchist Minister for Justice, tells of his life in the CNT (National Confederation of Labour) and FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation), and gives his account of the Spanish Revolution and Spanish Civil War.
Juchitan
Between 1979 and 1988, photographer Graciela Iturbide made a series of visits to Juchitán, Mexico, where she photographed the community and their way of life. The photographs capture the heart and soul of this rare matriarchal society, and an insight into the private and public lives of its inhabitants.
Operation Wetback
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