Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola.

Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

History

Peters, C.

Africa

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

In 1892, John Elliott Tappan, a twenty-four year old Minneapolis lawyer, was worried how people saved their money. Out of these concerns, Investors Syndicate was born, one of the first of a new type of financial institution designed to meet the savings needs of the average person. Here is the story of this financial pioneer, whose innovation has today grown into one of the nation's largest financial services companies, American Express Financial Advisors. The book draws on Tappan's diaries, business correspondence, and various family oral histories. Tappan's life, work and ideas chronicle the changes in spending and savings, work and leisure, the culture of politics and money, that have given rise to our modern notions of consumer finance.

Investing for Middle America: John Elliott Tappan and the Origins of American Express Financial Advisors

Biographies & Memoirs

Lipartito, K.

Historical

Hodge theory originated as an application of harmonic theory to the study of the geometry of compact complex manifolds. The ideas have proved to be quite powerful, leading to fundamentally important results throughout algebraic geometry. This book consists of expositions of various aspects of modern Hodge theory. Its purpose is to provide the nonexpert reader with a precise idea of the current status of the subject. The three chapters develop distinct but closely related subjects: $L^2$ Hodge theory and vanishing theorems; Frobenius and Hodge degeneration; variations of Hodge structures and mirror symmetry. The techniques employed cover a wide range of methods borrowed from the heart of mathematics: elliptic PDE theory, complex differential geometry, algebraic geometry in characteristic $p$, cohomological and sheaf-theoretic methods, deformation theory of complex varieties, Calabi-Yau manifolds, singularity theory, etc. A special effort has been made to approach the various themes from their most natural starting points. Each of the three chapters is supplemented with a detailed introduction and numerous references. The reader will find precise statements of quite a number of open problems that have been the subject of active research in recent years. 
The reader should have some familiarity with differential and algebraic geometry, with other prerequisites varying by chapter. The book is suitable as an accompaniment to a second course in algebraic geometry.

Introduction to Hodge Theory

Science & Math

Demailly, J. P.

Illusie, L.

Mathematics

Amer Mathematical Society

Exploring the cultural politics of Cuba's epic military engagement in the Angolan civil war, this book narrates the transformation of Cuban national identity from Latin African to Caribbean through the experience of internationalism in Angola.

The heroes in this book were not bitten by a spider; they do not have a mythological hammer, nor are they billionaires with iron suits. They are real people, like you and me. You will travel with them to Moscow as the plane is about to crash, fly over enemy lines to play golf, celebrate life as you dance with Algerian hairdressers, survive the tsunami in Thailand and come back to adopt, swim rapids in Africa, lunch in Zanzibar, learn life lessons from Cuban fruit farmers and Philippine flower girls, and even fall in love.. Travel enables you to discover parts of yourself you never knew. To become your own hero. Here are 28 real life, travel stories, from all around the world. It is a homage of discovery: how amazing this world is and how awesome you are. PS. Wanting you to travel with the book, every chapter has a local recipe for you to try, suggests a drink to sip on while you read, and a soundtrack of local music to listen to..or dance with. Bon Voyage.(Graphic novel in print version only.)

Stopping Planes, Ditching Trains, & Hijacking Automobiles: True Stories from the Road Less Travelled

Travel

Independently published

Pre-Opening Marketing

Business & Money

Economics

Cornell Campus Store

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