Adventure Guide to Puerto Rico, Fourth Edition
Adventure Guide to Puerto Rico, Fourth Edition
This is a strong guide for active, nature-loving travellers but also includes information on Internet cafes, bicycle rentals, and the bus system in San Juan. We especially appreciated the list of unusual accommodations. Our favorite was Casa Cubuy on the south side of El Yunque. We had a lovely [...]
Puerto Rican Dishes Reviews
Puerto Rican Dishes
Since its original publication in 1956, this hugely popular cookbook has been an essential tool in the dissemination of the traditional recipes of Puerto Rican food. Intended by its authors to introduce comida criolla to newcomers throughout the island, the book soon became a favorite of English speakers everywhere who come to it [...]
Puerto Rico: Culture, Politics, and Identity
Puerto Rico: Culture, Politics, and Identity
This book uses historical and interview data to trace the development of Puerto Rican identity in the 20th century. It analyzes how and why Puerto Ricans have maintained a clear sense of distinctiveness in the face of direct and indirect pressures on their identity. After gaining sovereignty over Puerto Rico [...]
Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean
Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean
Since its first publication in 1963, Gordon Lewis’s Puerto Rico has established itself and even today remains the definitive book on the subject. This is an in-depth attempt to show the political, social, cultural and even the psychological dimensions of American imperialism, rather than a mere case study [...]
The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth From Puerto Rico
The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth From Puerto Rico
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A myth from one of the indigenous cultures of the West Indies explains how a golden flower first brought water to the [...]
Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Studies)
Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Studies)
“Now everybody loves Puerto Rican culture,” says a Puerto Rican schoolteacher and festival organizer, “but that’s exactly the problem.” Thus begins this major examination of cultural nationalism as a political construct involving party ideologies, corporate economic goals, and grassroots cultural groups. Author Arlene Davila focuses on [...]
Puerto Rico True Flavors
Puerto Rico True Flavors
Authentic Puerto Rican food recipes, updated for the 21st century home cook by San Juan’s award-winning chef, restaurateur, television personality and author Wilo Benet. Chef Benet provides trditional recipes for everything from Alcapurrias (Stuffed Yautia Fritters) and Arañitas (Plantain Spiders) to Piñon (Ripe Plantain and Beef Lasagna) and Pernil (Roast Port [...]
Legends Series: Leyendas de Puerto Rico (Spanish Edition)
Legends Series: Leyendas de Puerto Rico (Spanish Edition)
A reader for your intermediate through early advanced Spanish students.
Leyendas de Puerto Rico (Robert L Muckley and Adela Martinez-Santiago) offers your students fascinating insights into the culture of Puerto Rico as they read these legends. Bilingual side glosses define difficult terms and the readings end with questions and [...]
Conquista y colonizacion de Puerto Rico segun el Cronista de Indias: Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (Serie V Centenario de la Colonizacion de Puerto Rico) (Spanish Edition)
Conquista y colonizacion de Puerto Rico segun el Cronista de Indias: Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes (Serie V Centenario de la Colonizacion de Puerto Rico) (Spanish Edition)
El área antillana fue la primera región del Nuevo Mundo que sufrió el choque cultural que produjo el descubrimiento y colonización de América. Ante los umbrales de un [...]
Puerto Rico’s Birds in Photographs
Puerto Rico’s Birds in Photographs
This book is the first to illustrate with color photographs all Puerto Rico’s breeding birds and common migrants. Over 300 color photos of 181 species of Puerto Rican birds appear in this publication. The English-language text is designed for tourists, students, teachers, and anyone who wants [...]