An American Journalist's Inside Look at Cuba, 1959 - 1969. ... Between 1959 and 1969, photojournalist Lee Lockwood documented Cuba and its victorious revolutionary Fidel Castro with unprecedented freedom and access, including a marathon seven-day interview with Castro himself. This volume includes Lockwood's evocative photographs of Cuba and Castro, his many insightful observations, and extensive excerpts from the unprecedented Lockwood - Castro conversations. A unique and telling portrait of Cuba and its enigmatic leader. On December 31, 1958, Lee Lockwood, then a young photojournalist, went to Cuba to cover ... |
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75th Anniversary Edition. Market developments over the past seven decades have borne out the wisdom of Graham's basic policies, and in today's volatile market, The Intelligent Investor remains essential. It is the most important book you will ever read on making the right decisions to protect your investments and make them grow. Featuring updated commentaries which accompany every chapter of Graham's book-leaving his original text untouched-from noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, this newly revised edition offers readers an even clearer understanding of Graham's wisdom and how it should be applied ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
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At the age of six, Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then", he later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dali, I have no greater wish". Throughout his life, Dali was out to become Dali: that is, one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century. This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dali's painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret located painted works by the master that had been ... |
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The results of discrete optimization structures developed for decision-making with consideration of emerging risks in various decisions are presented in this work. For each of the models discussed in this book, a numerical example is presented to illustrate some of the model's capabilities. The computational procedures used to solve the optimization problems are of polynomial computational complexity. The numbering of the formulae, figures, and tables is for convenience, compiled separately for each of the seven chapters, and consists of two elements - the chapter number and the sequential number of the relevant ... |
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Based on the story of Katherine Mansfield. Retold by Rosalie Kerr. ... "Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe... or if you are a child from the wrong social class... or a singer without work and the rent to be paid." By the book Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair. Classics, modern ... |
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Based on the story of Jerome K. Jerome. Retold by Diane Mowat. ... "I like work. I find it interesting... I can sit and look at it for hours." By the book With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up too early on a cold, wet morning. This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years... and they are still laughing. Classics, modern fiction, non- ... |
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"This book was begun in the quiet, news - free, cold winter days of January 2015 and completed amid the heat of summer, when again news took a holiday, in August and September 2015. Given that it is a slim volume, it is not that I am a slow writer, on the contrary; there was a hiatus of seven months between the ending of chapter three and the start of work on chapter four. The news business makes its demands makes it's demands on the editor of a news website..." Foreword and Acknowledgements Clive Leviev - Sawyer was a senior political journalist in South Africa before moving to Bulgaria at the end of 2001 ... |
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This book is an adaptation of seven of Edgar Allan Poes's famous short stories. It has about 3 000 headwords and is appropriate for upper intermediate to advanced learners. The text has been adapted and simplified, but it keeps the ideas and flavor found in the original stories. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, literary critic and a major figure in world literature."It would also be just to say that Edgar Allan Poe sacrificed his life to work, his human destiny to immortality." Jeorge Luis Borges "It's because I liked Edgar Allan Poe's strories so much ... |
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The epic finale to the № 1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. The continuation of Tower of Dawn. Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people - but at a tremendous cost. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve unravels with each passing day. With Aelin captured, her friends and allies have scattered. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever. But as destinies weave together at last, all ... |
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Official sponsor - London Fashion Week. ... "Artelier" takes its name from the French word for "artist's studio". "Artelier" is an eclectic mix of inspirations from the "Toni & Guy" International Artistic Team, who created ten definitive cut and eight colour techniques for 2012/2013. Transforming ready-to-wear shapes into a couture cut – classic ideals are transformed with internal disconnection that loosens and releases hair to create interesting texture and ultimate versatility – for multiple ways-to-wear style. Shattered perimeters, cross-reference strength and femininity, ... |
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Official sponsor - London Fashion Week. ... Echoing the "Toni & Guy" philosophy of functionality and individuality, cut and colour work in alignment to enhance texture, shape and personal expression. A collection of ten cut and colour techniques for man and woman. A raw, yet highly editorial collection with inspirations derived from fashion, music, street culture, art and architecture. Influences are gathered from decades gone by and futuristic ideas to give an "old meets new" approach and an ecclectic high-fashion feel in multiple lengths and textures. From strong statement cuts to uncomplicated ... |
