La Biblioteca Tematica del Deporte es un instrumento de informacion, complemento y soporte para el conocimiento y desarrollo de la actividad fisica y el deporte. Esta orientada a resolver de forma didactica y con mucha ilustracion -ademas con paginas en color- los principales temas que se abordan en la educacion fisica y el deporte. Gracias a su presentacion didactica, a la sencillez del lenguaje y a la rigurosidad de su contenido, dispone de una versatilidad que permite su utilizacion tanto como un instrumento de caracter divulgativo como tecnico. Sus graficos, dibujos y fotografias le anaden un mayor grado de vistosidad. Como biblioteca basica, debe estar presente en las bibliotecas de todos los centros escolares y de formacion de profesores y tecnicos. Como libros independientes constituyen obras con entidad propia validas para el publico en general, asi como para expertos en diferentes ambitos de la actividad fisica y el deporte.

With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity, nationality, and sense of modernity from the early 1850s until the revolution of 1959. Using an enormous range of Cuban and U.S. sources--from archival records and oral interviews to popular magazines, novels, and motion pictures--Perez reveals a powerful web of everyday, bilateral connections between the United States and Cuba and shows how U.S. cultural forms had a critical influence on the development of Cubans' sense of themselves as a people and as a nation. He also articulates the cultural context for the revolution that erupted in Cuba in 1959. In the middle of the twentieth century, Perez argues, when economic hard times and political crises combined to make Cubans painfully aware that their American-influenced expectations of prosperity and modernity would not be realized, the stage was set for revolution.

With this masterful work, Louis A. Pĩrez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of t