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In this photographic collection, seven photographers who have built their artistic reputation documenting Cuban jazz over the years, bring together images celebrating the musicians who have performed at Jazz Plaza - Havana's annual international jazz festival. These photographers present very personal, subjective views on the jazz performances that they document. The images themselves becoming silent participants in the events they show, demonstrating that without photography, jazz would not be the same.

When police pay a visit to an elderly peeping tom, they unexpectedly stumble upon a loose thread that leads detective John Custer into a murky world of sex crimes and serial killings, of hidden graves and socially impeccable paedophiles. Ignoring the scepticism of his colleagues and superiors, Custer doggedly follows his intuition that there really is something very wrong that needs to be discovered, however cold the trail seems to have become. Inspired by some of the many paedophile conspiracies that have been uncovered in recent years, and the cases of abused children, The Hobby is a psychological crime thriller, ranging from the fan club of a 1940s child star, through Istanbul and war-torn Burma and Cairo, to 1980s Britain. Custer and his assistant, Sergeant Jolly Campbell, seek to bring justice to the forgotten victims, while themselves going through their own quest for personal redemption.

A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning first book.When the Beltrán brothers came to this Andean valley, they found behind barred windows beautiful twin sisters - last in the line of an illustrious conquistador. Through them the Beltrán dynasty was born - a dynasty that ruled the valley for 200 years and was now returning to the dust.Two centuries later, Lydia Sinclair was scarcely out of school when she fell in love with Don Diego Beltrán and left England behind for her husband's Andean estate. Benito, the family's oldest retainer, said that through her the valley would not be forgotten: 'Fate has brought you here to us, to chronicle our decline.'In the night's stillness he told her of romance and battle, drought and pestilence, splendour and suffering.The characters in the valley's tumultuous history rose up before Lydia as if they still roamed the dusty slopes: Admiral Silence who enjoyed no one's company so decided never to speak again; General Mario who prophesied the ruin of their valley as he decayed from leprosy behind a mask; María Candelaria whose beauty and wildness caused the massacre of nearly half of the Beltráns; La Comadre Matilide, the peasant woman of striking ugliness whom people bribed to stay in their houses because her departure left a sense of ill omen; the aged sisters who sat amidst hoards of china and gambled at cards for their every move. Finally there was Cristóbal Beltrán, who sifted the sand in the hourglass, ageless and all-knowing and indestructable.Out of the upheaval and decay come a narrative and language astonishing in their fertility. This new edition accompanies the publication of Lisa's new memoir, Better Broken Than New.

Esta es la historia del tabaco cubano, cuyo desarollo agrícola e industrial se torció tan habilmente como un Habano en torno a los intereses comerciales extranjeros. Traza el crecimiento decimonónico de una fuerte oligarquía tabacalera, clase campesina, y fuerza obrera urbana asalariada, al lado de una mano de obra esclava y bajo contrata, y examina cómo un prestigioso país manufacturero se transformó en exportador de la hoja. Detrás del cultivo de pobres vegueros se escondía el capital extranjero y nacional que, a la par de crear grandes plantaciones, empleó y hasta promovió al extremo la aparcería. Bien entrado el Siglo XX, una industria cada vez más asediada abastecía los restringidos mercados de lujo y un mercado nacional inestable y fluctuante, con unas pocas empresas de cierta envergadura, mayormente familiares, y una proliferación de chinchales y trabajo casero.Jean Stubbs penetra los más finos aspectos socio-políticos de cambios radicales en el campesinado y proletariado del tabaco, incluyendo como se entrelazan raza, género y oficio, para indagar más sobre la acción y la conciencia de clase y nacional, sea a través del reformismo, anarcosindicalismo, nacionalismo revolucionario, socialismo o comunisimo.Esta es una nueva edición española del libro que se publicó por primera vez en 1989, con un nuevo Prefacio y un Prólogo por Oscar Zanetti Lecuona.