The author goes off the beaten track to give an entertaining, first-hand tour of Cuba, drinking with bartenders who knew Hemingway, taking oboe lessons, traveling with a baseball team, touring Guantanamo Bay, and visiting with Cubans of all kinds.

Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba

History

Tom Miller

Americas

Atheneum

A vivid, incisive portrait of the American Southwest captures the unique quality and characteristics of the region as it covers such themes as "tierra," "art," "violence," and "food, religion, and politics" and discusses topics ranging from the origins of "La Bamba" to the regions continuing problem of illegal immigration. Reprint.

Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest (Adventure Press)

Travel

Specialty Travel

National Geographic

This exploration of the countries and cultures of South America examines how different cultures view one another, assesses the mythic appeal of the United States, and looks at the economics of world trade. Reprint.

The Panama Hat Trail

Travel Writing

The Assassination Please Almanac

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Henry Regnery Company

Twenty miles wide and two thousand long, the U.S.-Mexico borderland is a country unto itself that has been celebrated in the works of many writers—and not just those who call it home. Here artists as disparate as Carlos Fuentes, Maya Angelou, and Allen Ginsberg have found literary inspiration, presenting the region through varied viewpoints that give border writing its unusual scope and texture. This wide-ranging anthology—gathering short stories and essays, song lyrics and poems—offers readers a new appreciation of the border and its literature. Residents of the region may be startled to learn how many passers-by have been struck by this unruly slice of North America, while those living in other parts of the country may be surprised to find it more than a dateline for reports of smuggling and illegal immigration. 
Collected here are both celebrated and underappreciated gems of American and Mexican literature depicting a region that for some writers represents an exotic land, for others home. Writing on the Edge juxtaposes passages by New Jersey poet William Carlos Williams and native songwriter Flaco Jiménez, British novelist Graham Greene and American poet Demetria Martínez, to show us the border from both sides and from a distance. In all of the selections, La Frontera looms larger than life—an energizing force that frames the lives of the characters living within its boundaries. Included in the book is a literary map of the border highlighting the sites with which each author is identified. 
As editor Tom Miller observes, the very notion of literature in a region considered an "irrelevant nuisance" allows for more free-ranging creative output." Writing on the Edge sparkles with such creativity and invites readers to enjoy the best of two worlds—and of the world they share. Print a literary map of the borderlands here!

Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader

Literature & Fiction

United States

University of Arizona Press

The Unfair Advantage

Lenka Tulenka

Live From New York: An Uncensored History Of Saturday Night Live

James, Andrew

Shales

2017. The year in which America takes a U-Turn on health care policy. The new Congress and president promise to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. How will they do it? And after reversing course, what direction will health care take? In articulating answers, U-Turn does not avoid the hard questions. What are workable solutions that over the needed flexibility and respect our federalist government structure? What solutions meet key challenges: the runaway cost of care, questions about quality of care, access to medical services for all residents, and the consensus that has emerged today to ensure coverage for those with pre-existing conditions? How can the United States grapple with exploding Medicaid and Medicare costs?

U-Turn: America’s Return To State Healthcare Solutions

James Capretta

Jim Stergios

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pioneer Institute

Self-discipline and Emotional Control, How to Stay Calm and Productive Under Pressure by Tom Miller (1992-05-04)

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

CareerTrack Publications

The United States-Mexico border -- a ribbon of land some two thousand miles long and ten miles wide that is home to twelve million people -- is a narrow strip where cultural differences between the two lands are blurred, where an atmosphere of transience and crossings dominates. Noted photographer Alex Webb has spent more than twenty-five years covering the region, and his work captures the humor and pathos, paradox and tragedy, of life in the borderland. Webb's photographs illuminate the precarious world of illegal border crossers: tedious waits along the fence, late-night bridge traversals, clandestine travels north, detainments and arrests. Yet his images also suggest crossings that are cultural, economic, and spiritual in nature, such as nightclubs and religious celebrations, tourists and day laborers, fiestas and swap meets. Equally striking is his vision of Tijuana, El Paso, and other legendary border towns. Complementing the photographs is an essay by Tom Miller, who has been writing about the American Southwest and Latin America for more than three decades and first covered the border with Alex Webb in the 1970s. Miller focuses on the constant interweaving of fusion and division, unexpected felicity and devastating misery. Together, writer and photographer offer an indelible portrait of the complex, culturally rich land of the border.

Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

The Monacelli Press

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