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[DePalma] renders a Cuba few tourists will ever see . . . You won't forget these people soon, and you are bound to emerge from DePalma's bighearted account with a deeper understanding of a storied island . . . A remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor."--The New York TimesModern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last tw...

Moving and rich...overflowing with warmth and humanity' The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families to bring the true story of the Cuban people to the world. From Castro's heyday, through the devastation of post-Soviet collapse, to the false dawn of recent years, we witness the hardships of life across six decades of socialist ...

A technical interview can be a harrowing experience. You only have a short time to convince someone that you're worth hiring, so you can't afford to go to a job interview unprepared. Unfortunately, memorizing the answers to interview questions just doesn't cut it. You need to understand the underlying concepts. This book is a comprehensive guide that will prepare you for a Java interview. I've conducted over 100 interviews at Fortune 500 compa...

Modern Cuba comes alive in a vibrant portrait of a group of families's varied journeys in one community over the last twenty years.Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous ...

A revelatory account of life in one of the most restrictive, isolated and misunderstood places in the worldFamed for its equality and good health, sunshine and beauty, many celebrate Cuba, one of the world's five remaining Communist countries, for bravely holding out against the rampant capitalism of the West. But after six decades of socialist state control, the Cubans themselves now tell a different story.Still the government decides what wo...

Anthony DePalma, escribe una fascinante y bien documentada biografía de Herbert L. Matthews, el destacado periodista del New York Times que además de haber sido el autor de una histórica entrevista a Fidel Castro en 1957, fue corresponsal de guerra en la invasión de Abisinia por la Italia fascista y durante la guerra civil española. "Una vida tras las huellas de la verdad le había enseñado a Herbert Matthews que ninguna mentira es más poderosa...

In City of Dust, Anthony DePalma offers the first full accounting of one of the gravest environmental catastrophes in United States history. The destruction on 9/11 of two of the world's largest buildings unleashed a vortex of dust and ash that blotted out the sun and has distorted science, medicine and public policy ever since. The likely dangers of 9/11's massive dust cloud were evident from the beginning, yet thousands chose not to see. Why...