Author: Miriam Butterman
Publisher: Avalon Travel
ISBN: 9781598805239
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Miriam Butterman moved from New York to Panama eight years ago and hasn’t returned since. Working as a freelance writer, editor, and English teacher, Miriam has settled into a new life in Panama, moving beyond the "international hire" category. She has also worked in the hospitality industry, which has provided her with even deeper insight into the resources available to Panama newcomers. Here, Miriam shares her firsthand advice, helping to make the move and transition process easy for all who follow in her footsteps. This relocation guide also includes practical advice on how to rent or buy a home for a variety of needs and budgets. With extensive color and black-and-white photos, illustrations, and maps, Moon Living Abroad in Panama helps those moving to find their bearings as they settle into new homes and lives abroad.
Moon Living Abroad in Panama
Author: Miriam Butterman
Publisher: Avalon Travel
ISBN: 9781598805239
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Miriam Butterman moved from New York to Panama eight years ago and hasn’t returned since. Working as a freelance writer, editor, and English teacher, Miriam has settled into a new life in Panama, moving beyond the "international hire" category. She has also worked in the hospitality industry, which has provided her with even deeper insight into the resources available to Panama newcomers. Here, Miriam shares her firsthand advice, helping to make the move and transition process easy for all who follow in her footsteps. This relocation guide also includes practical advice on how to rent or buy a home for a variety of needs and budgets. With extensive color and black-and-white photos, illustrations, and maps, Moon Living Abroad in Panama helps those moving to find their bearings as they settle into new homes and lives abroad.
Publisher: Avalon Travel
ISBN: 9781598805239
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Miriam Butterman moved from New York to Panama eight years ago and hasn’t returned since. Working as a freelance writer, editor, and English teacher, Miriam has settled into a new life in Panama, moving beyond the "international hire" category. She has also worked in the hospitality industry, which has provided her with even deeper insight into the resources available to Panama newcomers. Here, Miriam shares her firsthand advice, helping to make the move and transition process easy for all who follow in her footsteps. This relocation guide also includes practical advice on how to rent or buy a home for a variety of needs and budgets. With extensive color and black-and-white photos, illustrations, and maps, Moon Living Abroad in Panama helps those moving to find their bearings as they settle into new homes and lives abroad.
Fund Your Freedom Overseas
Author: Jackie Lange
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990807612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Learn a variety of ways to make money overseas without getting a job.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990807612
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Learn a variety of ways to make money overseas without getting a job.
Esperanza Speaks
Author: Gloria Rudolf
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487594712
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Esperanza Speaks examines a century-long process of socioeconomic change in rural Panama through the experiences of one woman, Esperanza Ruiz, and four generations of her family. The intimate narrative shows how ordinary people, through their choices and actions, are affected by and, in turn, can affect how history unfolds. Readers see Esperanza’s family as both victims and protagonists in their own histories. Born into rural poverty with limited options, they still find small openings to try to improve their lives. Sometimes successful, sometimes not, they survive by drawing on their only abundant resource: each other. Based on twenty field visits over the course of fifty years, Esperanza Speaks is the result of a dedicated anthropologist’s long-term engagement with the individuals of a single community, and a beautiful example of ethnographic storytelling.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487594712
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Esperanza Speaks examines a century-long process of socioeconomic change in rural Panama through the experiences of one woman, Esperanza Ruiz, and four generations of her family. The intimate narrative shows how ordinary people, through their choices and actions, are affected by and, in turn, can affect how history unfolds. Readers see Esperanza’s family as both victims and protagonists in their own histories. Born into rural poverty with limited options, they still find small openings to try to improve their lives. Sometimes successful, sometimes not, they survive by drawing on their only abundant resource: each other. Based on twenty field visits over the course of fifty years, Esperanza Speaks is the result of a dedicated anthropologist’s long-term engagement with the individuals of a single community, and a beautiful example of ethnographic storytelling.
How to Retire Overseas
Author: Kathleen Peddicord
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525538461
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The definitive guide for anyone dreaming of living in paradise when they retire. Whether motivated by a desire for adventure, or the need to make the most of a diminished nest egg, more and more Americans are considering an overseas retirement. Drawing on her more than three decades of experience helping people relocate happily and successfully, Kathleen Peddicord shows how living in an unconventional retirement destination can cost less than a traditional home in Florida or Arizona. Peddicord addresses all of the essential issues, including: • Finding a home to own or rent • Researching and understanding your tax liability • Obtaining health insurance and medical care • Avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls • Opening a bank account Whether readers are interested in relatively unknown havens like Nicaragua, well-traveled areas in Italy, or need some help deciding, How to Retire Overseas is the ultimate guide to making retirement dreams come true.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525538461
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The definitive guide for anyone dreaming of living in paradise when they retire. Whether motivated by a desire for adventure, or the need to make the most of a diminished nest egg, more and more Americans are considering an overseas retirement. Drawing on her more than three decades of experience helping people relocate happily and successfully, Kathleen Peddicord shows how living in an unconventional retirement destination can cost less than a traditional home in Florida or Arizona. Peddicord addresses all of the essential issues, including: • Finding a home to own or rent • Researching and understanding your tax liability • Obtaining health insurance and medical care • Avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls • Opening a bank account Whether readers are interested in relatively unknown havens like Nicaragua, well-traveled areas in Italy, or need some help deciding, How to Retire Overseas is the ultimate guide to making retirement dreams come true.
Silver People
Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544109414
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544109414
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.
Panama Odyssey
Author: William J. Jorden
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292718306
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1175
Book Description
“This magnificent diplomatic memoir-history by the American ambassador to Panama at the time should be required reading for every diplomat . . . A classic.” —Foreign Affairs The Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 were the most significant foreign policy achievement of the Carter administration. Most Latin American nations had regarded the 1903 treaty and its later minor modifications as vestiges of “American colonialism” and obstacles to any long-term, stable relationship with the United States. Hence, at a time when conflicts were mushrooming in Central America, the significance of the new Panama treaties cannot be overestimated. Former Ambassador to Panama William J. Jorden has provided the definitive account of the long and often contentious negotiations that produced those treaties. It is a vividly written reconstruction of the complicated process that began in 1964 and ended with ratification of the new pacts in 1978. Based on his personal involvement behind the scenes in the White House (1972–1974) and in the United States Embassy in Panama (1974–1978), Jorden has produced a unique living history. Access to documents and the personalities of both governments and, equally important, Jorden’s personal recollections of participants on both sides make this historical study an incomparable document of U. S. foreign relations. In sum, this is a history, a handbook on diplomacy, a course in government, and a revelation of foreign policy in action, all based on a fascinating and controversial episode in the US experience. “Jordan’s closely knit account of those negotiations brings the whole question of colonialism into stark focus . . . a vivid account of diplomacy in action.” —The Christian Science Monitor
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292718306
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1175
Book Description
“This magnificent diplomatic memoir-history by the American ambassador to Panama at the time should be required reading for every diplomat . . . A classic.” —Foreign Affairs The Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 were the most significant foreign policy achievement of the Carter administration. Most Latin American nations had regarded the 1903 treaty and its later minor modifications as vestiges of “American colonialism” and obstacles to any long-term, stable relationship with the United States. Hence, at a time when conflicts were mushrooming in Central America, the significance of the new Panama treaties cannot be overestimated. Former Ambassador to Panama William J. Jorden has provided the definitive account of the long and often contentious negotiations that produced those treaties. It is a vividly written reconstruction of the complicated process that began in 1964 and ended with ratification of the new pacts in 1978. Based on his personal involvement behind the scenes in the White House (1972–1974) and in the United States Embassy in Panama (1974–1978), Jorden has produced a unique living history. Access to documents and the personalities of both governments and, equally important, Jorden’s personal recollections of participants on both sides make this historical study an incomparable document of U. S. foreign relations. In sum, this is a history, a handbook on diplomacy, a course in government, and a revelation of foreign policy in action, all based on a fascinating and controversial episode in the US experience. “Jordan’s closely knit account of those negotiations brings the whole question of colonialism into stark focus . . . a vivid account of diplomacy in action.” —The Christian Science Monitor
Modern Panama
Author: Michael L. Conniff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847666X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic developments in Panama from 1980 to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847666X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic developments in Panama from 1980 to the present day.
Erased
Author: Marixa Lasso
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674984447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Panama Canal's untold history—from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics. The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to a way of life that had characterized the region for centuries. In Erased, Marixa Lasso recovers the history of the Panamanian cities and towns that once formed the backbone of the republic. Drawing on vast and previously untapped archival sources and personal recollections, Lasso describes the canal’s displacement of peasants, homeowners, and shop owners, and chronicles the destruction of a centuries-old commercial culture and environment. On completion of the canal, the United States engineered a tropical idyll to replace the lost cities and towns—a space miraculously cleansed of poverty, unemployment, and people—which served as a convenient backdrop to the manicured suburbs built exclusively for Americans. By restoring the sounds, sights, and stories of a world wiped clean by U.S. commerce and political ambition, Lasso compellingly pushes back against a triumphalist narrative that erases the contribution of Latin America to its own history.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674984447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Panama Canal's untold history—from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics. The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to a way of life that had characterized the region for centuries. In Erased, Marixa Lasso recovers the history of the Panamanian cities and towns that once formed the backbone of the republic. Drawing on vast and previously untapped archival sources and personal recollections, Lasso describes the canal’s displacement of peasants, homeowners, and shop owners, and chronicles the destruction of a centuries-old commercial culture and environment. On completion of the canal, the United States engineered a tropical idyll to replace the lost cities and towns—a space miraculously cleansed of poverty, unemployment, and people—which served as a convenient backdrop to the manicured suburbs built exclusively for Americans. By restoring the sounds, sights, and stories of a world wiped clean by U.S. commerce and political ambition, Lasso compellingly pushes back against a triumphalist narrative that erases the contribution of Latin America to its own history.
Guide to Early Retirement
Author: Incomes Data Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early retirement
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Guide to early retirement practice in the UK, with particular reference to related pension scheme and old age benefits - notes labour costs, examines redundancy, employee's Motivation and disability reasons for retiring early, and outlines characteristics of the job release scheme, phased retirement and flexible retirement age plans for aiding the transition from work. References.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early retirement
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Guide to early retirement practice in the UK, with particular reference to related pension scheme and old age benefits - notes labour costs, examines redundancy, employee's Motivation and disability reasons for retiring early, and outlines characteristics of the job release scheme, phased retirement and flexible retirement age plans for aiding the transition from work. References.
Conejito: A Folktale from Panama
Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 168444022X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this action packed folktale from Panama, a clever little rabbit and his Tía Mónica find ways to outwit a fox, a tiger, and a lion, all of whom want to eat him for lunch.
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 168444022X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: In this action packed folktale from Panama, a clever little rabbit and his Tía Mónica find ways to outwit a fox, a tiger, and a lion, all of whom want to eat him for lunch.