Puerto Rico Books

Este libro toca los temas de la geografia de Puerto Rico, su historia y perspectiva para el futuro. Regularmente este libro se utiliza para la escuela intermedia por lo que su formato es uno sencillo e incluye varias ilustraciones y preguntas guias. Es un libro sencillo pero con un buen contenido para aquellos que deseen aprender sobre la historia de Puerto Rico.

It is an excellent book that provides a new point of view for those interested in the wide history of Spain.

The book does not give historical data on the facts of the history of Spain but on the circumstances which encouraged the Spaniards to act in a certain way or to accomplish certain not very well understood actions, like the colonization of America, the inquisition or the civil war.

The demystification of certain believes widely spread, like the understandable Spanish People behavior.

This Philosophy books teaches us a bout the importance of Spain in building up the western civilization and participation in the creation of Europe.

Hunter does a good job covering a relatively unknown historical event. The writing style (constantly bouncing around) was tiresome after awhile.

In addition to learning the details and characters behind this assasination attempt, the reader gains some insight into revolutionary movements, the use of sleeper cells, law enforcement training in the post-WWII era, stress reaction in a gunfight, etc...

Not the usual Stephen Hunter. This reads more like a history text than an
action novel....but then, it is history, and presumably accurate history.
Earl Swagger would have had a field day with these clowns.

This has everything you want in a good book. A great story, history, drama, and pathos. I am a history teacher and was impressed by both the depth of research and the quality of the writing.
This is about 2 Puerto Rican Nationalists who, compelled by their fervent beliefs, tried to assassinate President Harry Truman in 1950. Most people do not realize how close they came to succeeding.
The story alternates between historical background and a moment to moment account of the gun fight that occurred on that day.
This book kept me enthralled the entire time I was reading it. I can't think of anyone who would not thoroughly enjoy this book.

This book is awesome. First book I read about the subject. You will find yourself reading a chapter and saying what the hell...and then he draws it all together. It is written very well.

Authors Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge provide the reader with minute details on the assassination attempt by Puerto Rican Nationalists on President Harry Truman outside Blair House on November 1, 1950. Many of the details provided are those they perceive to be in the mind of each of the assassins and those they are attacking during the gunfight. These details are interesting and perhaps correct. I feel it makes for a more interesting book. To me, the main drawback of the book is its disjointedness. Whenever a character is introduced into the story we are provided with a chapter delving into their background from years before. Due to this method of writing the book loses its continuity. The authors make a convincing case that the attempt may have been a part of a wider conspiracy. Security for presidents tightened significantly following the attempt on Truman's life. Truman did not run for reelection in 1952, and the attempt on his life may very well have been a factor in his decision. I have to admit to being one of those the authors refer to as those who weren't aware of this attempt on the life of President Truman, but confuse it with an incident in 1954 when four Puerto Rican Nationalists had a shootout in Congress. The book educated me, but I did not like getting sidetracked with chapters introducing the characters when they entered the story.

This guide is now available on Amazon in a new, completely updated, greatly improved edition. The title is Explore Puerto Rico (Manatee Press, $$$. Great photos, maps, charts, and background information. All in a very compact format! Free online updates are also available.

Not worth the cost of the paper its written on.

I have never become so angry reading a book about my home as I became while reading this one. The book is full of insults and frankly,lies! I actually wonder if Mr.Pariser has visited the island. He put down everything,(even "the poor food")and made it seem like we are a miseducated, inferior people. His comments on how women are treated was so far from the truth it was almost hilarious. I have lived on this island all my life (in Mayaguez), and have yet to see a naked little boy running around, I am a devout Catholic and as many times as I have attended Mass, I NEVER witnessed any sort of "african ritual" during it. This book is the biggest waste of money ever, it would be better spent sending Mr. Pariser to Puerto Rico, so he could go, learn, and get to know its people, its beauty and everything that makes it "La Isla Boriquen". I gave it one star because zero stars was not an option.

Pariser's Adventure Guides are among my favorites, well researched and detailed. They always include helpful facts, the chapters on history and culture make excellent reading, and the practical details on each town and area are filled with insightful tips and tidbits.

Get off the beaten path with the Adventure Guide to Puerto Rico.... In addition to the resorts and gourmet restaurants, the guide helps you find local eateries and inexpensive guesthouses.

Felita is a tween caught between her own changing emotions, her desire to be free, like her brothers, and her very protective mother. It is the second book in a series, but stands alone.

this book was written by Nichola Mohr
she was born in a poor family,then when she was
4years old she went to school on new york city.then when she was 15 she graduates from high school.her life was terrible they didn't has any money.one day she decided to writes books when she was 18 years old she get started to make some changes in the family.Nicholasa Mohr is a good author she was a famous author in new york city.she has written many books by the time she was 30years old.she still written book now.

The plot of this story is that Felita was going Puerto Rico to meet her famliy that she never meet. Also that she needed help to speak spanish.

I think this was a great book, because the book was like every day life. I like this book because the people in it were spanish just like me. So I gave it four stars.

I really liked both books that I had to read. I really got into them quickly, because they were detailed very well and over all written very good.

Felita is the main character and she is a hispanic girl living in NYC. She is nine years old and she loves to hang out with her friends. Her family is moving and they move to an all white German and Irish section of town. They get discriminated all the time and even her brother gets beaten up, so they decide to go back to their original neighborhood. It explains how she works through her problems with the help of her family. In the second book (Going Home), Felita is now 11 years old and her family is going to Puerto Rico. That is where they come from. She is allowed to stay there the whole summer with ther uncle and she discovers the pains and pleasures of being there.

I would recommend these books for anyone willing to learn about the life of someone of a different culture. They are great for all reading ages and you even learn a little spanish.

This book is so great,what the authour wrote about Felita just like what had real happened to himself.And I like the author that add in the scenes about the Felita and Vinny had been loved each other, and when Felita went to P.R that the fights with the the people born in P.R. This is a really good book.

Loved this guide! We used it during our whole trip. The Old San Juan part is really detailed, with great maps and other listings. The restaurant listing is not as good--asking the locals may help there. The other sections of the guide are solid as well, but one thing to note--the guide book doesn't say much about the bioluminescent bay at Fajardo (maybe a word or two) but that was the best part of our trip. Don't miss it!

Written by undergrad students at Harvard (my alma mater), this travel guide lacks the clarity and ease-of-use of other more professionally written and edited guides. Information is laid out with a single purpose in mind: to confuse you, the reader. Maps are scattered all over the guide, making it necessary to dogear many different pages -- which then defeats the purpose of dogearing since you don't know which marks what. Also, the font is *tiny*, making the book very difficult to read for anyone over the age 30.

Plus, the lodging and dining recommendations in this guide are horrible. Too few are listed, and they don't tell you what the area code is -- they just give you the 7-digit phone number!

Fodor's PR guide seems better, plus if you are an AAA member, you should get their free Carribean tour guide.

This book has great information for visiting Puerto Rico. We had bought a map but it turned out to not always be reliable, so this book saved the day! It has great details on finding hotels and it's very informative regarding the different regions of the island.

I travel to PR frequently for my job. I like to always have a guidebook with me in case I have a new person with me or venture somewhere new. I bought the Let's Go because my most recent Lonely Planet guide was 4 years old (too old for a guidebook) and the new one wasn't coming out until mid-summer. The Let's Go book was a disappointment. The information is insufficient, poorly organized, etc. For example, in the sections about Culebra and Vieques (places I love to visit), it fails to mention how to get to the ferry dock in Fajardo from San Juan - you either need to drive there and park (and finding the dock is NOT easy in Fajardo as putting up helpful signs is not something PR does well), or you can take a publico (they do tell you where the station is in SJ) but this takes all day and maybe won't get you to the dock at all. They mention flying but with no instructions or map for finding the airport in Fajardo. Anyway, this is just an example of where just reading Let's Go could lead to a very frustrating experience for a traveller. Being an independent traveller is great and implies some tolerance for "adventure" but it is the guidebook's responsibility to help independent travellers be prepared for what they are going to have to deal with so they can have fun! Buy Lonely Planet. It's a better PR guide. I have also read Fodor's pocket guide to PR. Skip that one too. And when you get to PR if you rent a car, buy a real road map at a gas station or drugstore.

I owned the 1st edition of this book and loved it, but some things were out of date by now so I got this new one. It is updated beautifully and still helps me find the best deals around the island. I've been living here for 2 years and this book comes with me everywhere. I suggest calling places first because a lot of times random things will close or change schedules but otherwise, this book is amazing and I strongly recommend it. The other guides that other publishers put out are too expensive - this one gives the best deals!!!

Mr. Good is unique. Everybody knows that.
Just go through the inventory of his books.
Each one of them is investigated and documented.
He learns about a new event, and boom he goes after it and investigate it and opens it up for the whole world to see.
He is known for his investigative skills.
This books is an example of his serious research.

I think it says a great deal about the state of UFO research that the other reviewer of this books believes that Good is deliberately discrediting himself,deliberately including good,factual information with nonsense,for an unstated purpose.This paranoid outlook makes it difficult to reccommend any current UFO books to "outsiders"-people who aren't especially informed about UFOs and who are looking for a good starting place in the literature.Good fills this book with information culled from "intelligence sources" who may or may not be giving him the straight story.There is no way to check any of the information he receives.Furthermore,Good is a champion of some of the "contactees"-people who claim to have regular,deliberate contacts with aliens. The classic case is that of George Adamski-Good believes that he was in contact with aliens and that his claims were,for the most part,true as he stated them.(Most mainstream UFO researchers regard his stories as ridiculous.)This book includes a great deal of information from a contactee from,I believe, Costa Rica.This gentleman describes his trips in space craft and his conversations with aliens in great detail,but there is no way for the reader to evaluate the information Good presents.The reader is left to either accept or reject it.There is also a good deal of information concerning a man who has photographed what he believes is an "alien,"but which looks suspiciously like a model.And in fact the witness is a sculptor!Good is an intelligent,sincere man who demonstrates the danger of getting too deeply involved in UFO research.The UFO community is swarming with people,some sincere,some deluded,some dishonest-who are ready to "tell the truth." But there is no way to know what the truth is.This book is better used as a cautionary tale of the dangers of submerging oneself in the UFO ocean than as a factual account of real events.

I had not read much Timothy Good since _Above_Top_Secret_, and fans of that highly footnoted and tightly focused volume may be quite shocked by this work, as was I. With little if any structure, this work is basically a seemingly random collection of anecdotal information. In other words, it reads like the typical, bad UFO books we're all used to. But this is Tim Good?!? What's going on? Early in the volume(?), Good says that he will relay some information from highly reliable sources AND some which is "almost impossible to believe," and herein lies the substance of this book. He gives credence to wackos like Adamski, and lets every theory and idea through the gate ALMOST AS IF he is deliberately discrediting himself. Call me paranoid, but I think he IS. I think there are tidbits of truth scatterred about, and burying it in a massive pile of garbage was part of the deal for receiving the info. Clearly, a vast part of this book should be discounted and dismissed, but I suspect there are core truths revealed within through the conscious executive decisions of Mr. Good's established contacts.

Mr. Good is a respectable author. He is one of the few investigative reporters that has the nerve to actually investigate his subject...
Anyone that has spent time and effort in the field of Ufology should remember that it wasn't that long ago when organizations such as NICAP, APRO and MUFON through out any case involving actual reports of aliens associated with their prized U.F.O. reports..... They were simply too outlandish! They were all convinced that U.F.O's were from outer space, but they couldn't believe that anyone in there right mind could have actually seen the pilots, or passengers....
So it is that Mr. Good has taken a step to further advance the field of Ufology...Mr. Good, Bud Hopkins, Dr. David Jacobs and others need to be heard.
This volume will open many eyes......

this book has most likely been put together by Timothy Good to fulfill
a contract to the publisher, who required a book in a certain timeframe,
however, its only value is to maintain the UFO problem in the publics mind,
unlike the other two reviewers, one who did not provide a name, so therefore should not have been accepted by Amazon, if you have an opinion
then have the fortitude or backbone to put your name to it, both of these
reviewers damn Adamski without any proof or evidence to back their assertions that he was a fraud, typical of the armchair critic, as for
Timothy Good, I think its time he gave the UFO field a rest, and choose
another subject,

I bought this book prior to a two week 7 national park trip we just took with our two kids. (amazing trip) After reading the book, I quickly realized that there was no information further than just the basic facts that i had collected from the various national park websites. In fact, i opened it once on our trip only to read the facts sheet about each state (not worth the price of the book). I highly recommend the Moon books which is filled with EVERYTHING you need - from campgrounds to great restaurants to kid friendly hikes.

This book was exactly what i was looking for as a planned a summer vacation with my kids to a couple of National Parks. It helped emensly and my kids were surpised at how much cool stuff we found to do on the trip because of this book, they were expecting a borking trip where all they did was ride around in the back of the van, but got much more. Thanks alot for writting this book, hopefully soon ill have a use for your Carribean with kids book!!

I bought this book for the family vacation that we are planning for the summer. We found it very helpful for the kids! This book has a great variety of things to do for the whole family. I'd recommend it to any family! I've found that any book by Paris Permenter and John Bigley is very helpful for planning vacations. (We used their Caribbean With Kids book for last summer's vacation!)

Titles can be misleading. In this instance, I was looking for a book that had kid-tested items to see, hike, and do on a park-by-park basis. What is included in this book are an introductory section on what is available for kids in most national parks on a nation wide basis, and individual chapters on each park with lots of non-kid generic information with, at best, a paragraph vaguely related to kid stuff.

Very disappointed to wait for this book after the class finish discussing it!! So I had to return it and got deducted about $3 for shipping fee..

i don't know if this is the book i'm looking for, but how can i be sure

Fortunately my Spanish is competent enough to have read this in the original. I might otherwise not have as much enjoyed the full yet controlled prose had I read the work in doubtless sincere translation. The fascinating theme of the Haitian revolution,Henri-Christophe and the Fortress Sans Souci, is complemented by evocative characterizations and colourful, well-balanced sentences without the purplish tendencies I had noticed in the other book of Carpentier's ("El Siglo de las Luces")that I had read.For anyone wishing to sample Spanish excellently written, I would recommend this work.

Book provides a brief listing of stated flora but arranged in an order of families with which I am not familiar, certainly not that of Mabberley, requiring me to make a crib for easy location. However for a concise listing of plants with geographical location it is quite useful.

Information was great. Very helpful in conjuction with reports.