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  Cuba beyond the Beach - Stories...

  Karen Dubinksy

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  Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their sceptical offspring, musicians, underground vendors, entrepreneurial landlords, and poverty-stricken professors—go about their daily lives.As Cuba undergoes dramatic change, there is much to appreciate, and learn from, in the unlikely world Cubans have collectively built for themselves.A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Queen’s University Student Overseas Travel Fund - The Sonia Enjamio Fund, which funds Cuban/Canadian student exchange.

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  National Geographic Magazine Vol...

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  The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. 
   It includes the following articles: 
  The So-Called Jeannette Relics, by Professor William H. DallNansen's Polar Expedition, by General A. W. GreelyThe Submarine Cables of the World, by Gustave HerrlePeter Cooper and Submarine TelegraphyThe Russo-American Telegraph Project of 1864-67, by Professor William H. DallSurvey and Subdivision of Indian Territory, by Henry GannettFree Burghs in the United States, by James H. Blodgettalong with a few miscellanea notes.

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  Great Northern Railway Gallery -...

  Michael A. Vanns

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  “A simply fascinating and impressively informative illustrated history” of the British steam railway by the author of The Leicester Gap (Midwest Book Review).   The Great Northern Railway was one of 120 companies that ran trains in Britain during the Victorian and Edwardian period. Formed in 1846, it traded independently for seventy-six years until absorbed into the London & North Eastern Railway on 1 January 1923. Operating a network of nearly 700 route miles it ran trains between King’s Cross, London and York, into the Eastern Counties and the East Midlands, the West Riding of Yorkshire, into Lancashire and even south of the Thames. It developed distinctive characteristics, both in the way it managed its affairs and in the appearance of its trains, stations, signals and signalboxes. Numerous photographs were taken, particularly from the 1890s onwards, by dedicated amateurs attracted to the lineside by the sight of speeding steam locomotives in apple green livery, hauling polished teak carriages. Goods trains and the endless procession of coal trains were not such popular photographic subjects, but by searching out these and images of staff, stations and signalboxes, this book aims to capture something of the spirit of a once-great organization in the heyday of Britain’s steam railways.   “With the welcome increase in the pre-Grouping scene engendered by projects such as the Hatton’s ‘Genesis’ coaches, books such as this will find a new audience, which is no bad thing.” —Railway Modeller   “Vanns certainly presents a splendid collection of period images displaying numerous aspects of the railway’s operations.” —Best of British

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  Sex Toys: Good Or Evil?

  Gabriel Agbo

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  Dealers of sex toys rake in billions of dollars every year. Their products are so diversified and today are available in every part of the world. Now, it looks like this business of artificially or technologically satisfying sexual desires is in vogue. The single, married, old, young today patronise sex toy shops and the manufacturers, wisely too, are steadily churning out more alluring and sophisticated ones. It seems like there will be no end to their innovative ingenuity to inventing these new instruments of sexual pleasure. Today some of these toys act and behave exactly like opposite sex partners in the act. True. But here, we want to look at the origin, intentions, and effects of these toys on the users, especially the spiritual and psychological implications. Sex toys are not new. They have a long history that started with the use of carved objects that represented the penis.

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  D. L. Hughley

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  Politically insightful legendary comedian, D.L. Hughley, takes the stage at the Regency Theatre in San Francisco. Hughley riffs on current affairs and reviews everything from legalizing marijuana to the value of having nosey white neighbors.

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  101 Amazing Facts about Horses

  Jack Goldstein

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  Did you know that the fastest speed of a horse ever recorded was more than 50 miles per hour? Or that horses use their tales to tell each other what they’re feeling? In this fascinating audiobook, narrator Jason Zenobia talks us through over 100 amazing facts about horses.  
  Subjects covered include record breakers, famous horses, breeds and much more, so whether you want to know the difference between a horse and a pony or who the most successful racehorse of all time was, this is the perfect book for you!

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