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Free Download A Puerto Rico Travel Guide 2023: Detailed Pocket guide To Your Dream Vacation : For Complete Family Friendly Puerto Rico Experience And All You Need To Know by Jette Florence
English | July 29, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CD68VD5K | 45 pages | EPUB | 1.81 Mb
Looking for a place with all the enabling factors to make you feel serene all through your vacation and coming home feeling refreshed, Puerto Rico is that place.

Free Download Teresita A. Levy, "Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813571324, 0813571332 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 4.9 mb
Most studies of Puerto Rico’s relations with the United States have focused on the sugar industry, recounting a tale of victimization and imperial abuse driven by the interests of U.S. sugar companies. But inPuerto Ricans in the Empire, Teresita A. Levy looks at a different agricultural sector, tobacco growing, and tells a story in which Puerto Ricans challenged U.S. officials and fought successfully for legislation that benefited the island.

Free Download Jorge Duany, "The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0807827045, 0807853720 | EPUB | pages: 368 | 3.4 mb
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places-the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952.

Free Download Hilda Llorens, "Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice "
English | ISBN: 0295749407 | 2021 | 222 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Winner of the 2022 Frank Bonilla Book Award, sponsored by the Puerto Rican Studies Association

Free Download Colleen Rua, "Performance, Trauma and Puerto Rico in Musical Theatre "
English | ISBN: 1032251956 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This study positions four musicals and their associated artists as mobilizers of defiant joy in relation to trauma and healing in Puerto Rico.

Free Download When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0306814528 | 278 Pages | EPUB | 428.0 KB
In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby’s soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.

Free Download When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0306814528 | 278 Pages | EPUB | 428.0 KB
In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby’s soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami, a force of nature, takes off to New York with her seven, soon to be eleven children, Esmeralda, the oldest, must learn new rules, a new language, and eventually a new identity. In the first of her three acclaimed memoirs, Esmeralda brilliantly recreates her tremendous journey from the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of her earliest years, to translating for her mother at the welfare office, and to high honors at Harvard.

Free Download Moon Puerto Rico: Best Beaches, Outdoor Adventures, Local Favorites (Travel Guide) by Suzanne Van Atten
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 1640497560 | 376 pages | MOBI | 28 Mb
Relax beneath palm trees, kayak through bioluminescent bays, or dance the night away to the sounds of salsa: Experience the Island of Enchantment with Moon Puerto Rico. Inside you’ll find:Flexible itinerariesto visitthe best of Puerto Rico in a week or less, including San Juan, the mountains, neighboring islands,and moreStrategic advice for beach-lovers, adventure travelers, honeymooners, and more, with the best beaches for surfing, swimming, snorkeling, and divingThe best spots for eco-friendly outdoor adventures like hiking, kayaking, and spelunking. Zipline over the lush jungle, hike through cloud forests, explore vast underground caves, learn how to surf, or spot iguanas on the wild island of MonaUnique and authentic experiences: Visit a historic coffee hacienda, shop for hand-rolled cigars along San Juan’s cobblestone streets, and savor a traditional lunch of mofongo. Visit ancient ceremonial bateyesand learn about Puerto Rico’s indigenous Taíno communities. Enjoy an al fresco dinner in the warm tropical breeze and dance to bomba as the sun sets over the oceanInsider insight from Suzanne Van Atten on how to experience the island like a local, respectfully engage with the culture, and support local businessesFull-color photos and detailed maps throughoutUp-to-date information on Puerto Rico’s landscape, history, customs, and environmental changesHandy tools including a Spanish phrasebook, driving directions, and travel tips for disability access, women travelers,traveling with children, travelers of color, and LGBTQ travelersExperience the best of Puerto Rico with Moon’s practical tips and local know-how.

Free Download Maurine H. Beasley professor emerita University of Maryland College Park Past President AEJMC, "Ruby A. Black: Eleanor Roosevelt, Puerto Rico, and Political Journalism in Washington "
English | ISBN: 1498519512 | 2020 | 274 pages | EPUB | 19 MB
This book presents the story of Ruby A. Black, a feminist who broke new ground for women in Washington journalism in the 1920s and 1930s as a correspondent for a Puerto Rican newspaper and the first biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt. It offers access to the secret correspondence that shows how Black used her friendship with Roosevelt to advance the political career of Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico’s first elected governor. The book describes Black’s effort, ultimately unsuccessful, to become both a well-regarded journalist and a political operative in the nation’s capital, a feat particularly difficult for a woman. It contends Black’s closeness to Roosevelt proved both a help and a hindrance to Black’s stature as a journalist.

Free Download Luis Gautier, "Puerto Rico: Independence, Industrial Policy, and Growth"
English | ISBN: 1498556833 | 2017 | 142 pages | EPUB | 1511 KB
Puerto Rico is experiencing its deepest economic crisis since the first half of the twentieth century. The unique political and economic relationship between the US and Puerto Rico arguably plays a fundamental role in this crisis. With these in mind and given the imposition of the Financial Oversight Management Board by the US government, this book presents policy recommendations to help Puerto Rico achieve sustainable development. A set of partial equilibrium models are employed to study important industrial policy options and trade issues. This book also discusses the potential role of market-based environmental policies as well as issues of income convergence. The method of analysis to study the Puerto Rico-US relationship presented in this book is entirely new to the literature and the analysis of market-based environmental policy. The overarching result is that it is in the best interest of Puerto Rico and the US to set economic policies consistent with an equilibrium characterized by political independence (i.e., national sovereignty) for Puerto Rico. The potential for sustainable economic growth and development is latent in Puerto Rico’s economy. But for factors of production to be used effectively and efficiently, Puerto Rico’s economy requires access to international markets at sufficiently lower transaction costs, a condition consistent primarily in an equilibrium characterized by political independence. Access to international markets at sufficiently lower costs would help, inter alia, restore market credibility, regain access to credit markets at bearable costs and achieve important efficiency gains. This book argues that international trade ought to be at the center of development and growth policy. Importantly, it argues on the grounds of efficiency that not only is it in the best interest of the US to help Puerto Rico move gradually towards an equilibrium consistent with political independence, but that a statehood-like equilibrium is inefficient, particularly if a higher degree of access to global markets is at the center of policy formulation. I hope the discussion presented in this book signifies an important contribution to the policy debate in order to address Puerto Rico’s economic challenges.