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The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
Alejo CarpentierIn this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down French rule ...
Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home
Roberto González EchevarríaAlejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home, first published in 1977 and updated for this edition, covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.
The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition
James J. Pancrazio"Through a logic of fetishism, Carpentier's characters and narrators are always at the crossroads: they are self and other, Latin American and European, African and American, contrite and unrepentant, masculine and feminine.
Concierto Barroco
Alejo CarpentierA wealthy Mexican traveler journeys to eighteenth-century Venice, where he meets Vivaldi, Handel and Scarlatti
Caribbean Interfaces
PreviewThe Museum and the Opera-House: Modernity and Identity in Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos Maarten van Delden Rice University The relationship between Latin America and Europe is a constant theme in the Latin American ( and ...
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven ...
Thomas MorrisAlain Carpentier, David H. Adams and Farzan Filsoufi, Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery (Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier, 2010), v 110 . A. Carpentier et al., 'A new reconstructive operation for correction of mitral and tricuspid ...
Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery E-Book
Alain CarpentierJean-Noël Fabiani, Sylvain Chauvaud, John Relland, Patrick Perier, Didier Loulmet, and Gilles Dreyfus for providing support in periodsof doubt;Jean-Pierre Marino, Serban Mihaileanu, and AlainBerrebi forsharing with me the secrets of ...
Chirurgia Ricostruttiva Della Valvola: Dall'analisi della ...
Alain CarpentierQuesto libro di Alain Carpentier rappresenta una guida autorevole sulle tecniche ricostruttive della valvola mitrale.
Three Authors of Alienation: Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier
M. Ian AdamsBombal, Onetti, Carpentier M. Ian Adams. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following sources for permission to use quotations and selectionsinthis volume: Juan CarlosOnetti,for quotations from El pozo,Tan triste como ella,La vida ...
Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: From Alejo ...
Timothy J. CoxFirst Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Corporate Governance and Ethics: An Aristotelian Perspective
Alejo G. SisonThis book can be highly recommended to corporate directors, executives, managers and interested academics.
My Fighting Life
Georges CarpentierThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Quality of Life after Open Heart Surgery
PreviewIt is with these complications in the use of prosthetic valves in mind that Alain Carpentier in 1968 pioneered the use of the first bioprosthesis fashioned from glutaraldehyde tanned porcine valves in order to render them non-antigenic as well ...
Americas (English Ed.)
More editionsIMAGES OF ALIENATION THREE AUTHORS OF ALIENATION: BOMBAL, ONETTI, CARPENTIER, by M. Ian Adams. Austin and London, University of Texas Press, 1975. 128 p. $8.50. The theme of alienation in the work of three contemporary ...
Ecological Models for Regulatory Risk Assessments of ...
PreviewIn addition, we thank all who commented on the report, and especially Lorraine Maltby, Anne Alix, Bin-le Lin, Patrice Carpentier, Dieter Schaefer, Peter Dohmen, and anonymous reviewers for constructive criticism. The workshop was made ...
Joycean Legacies
Martha C. CarpentierClaire FabreClark, 'The Poetics of the Banal in Elephant and Other Stories', in Sandra Lee Kleppe and Robert Miltner (eds.), New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on his Life, Fiction, and Poetry (Charleston: University of South ...
L'Ancêtre
More editions... Nord de la France et de la Belgique, 1824-1856 (Bailly, Mahieux). - Ascendance Raymonde Sauvage (Boucher, Carpentier, Sauvage). - Compléments apportés à l'étude sur la famille Chombart du Ferrain de Marc Leleux et Gérard Ranson.
Toutes fenêtres ouvertes
Georgette ElgeyLe 5 juin 2008, lorsque le professeur Carpentier décore François, le professeur Alain Deloche, le fondateur de la Chaîne de l'Espoir, pour laquelle le récipiendaire a participé à de nombreuses missions humanitaires, s'interroge visiblement ...
Recent Progress in Mitral Valve Disease
Carlos Duran... N. Paul Silverton, Syed S. Hasan and Pierre L. Coulon 18 Current status and the future of tissue valves 234 Alain Carpentier 19 The performance of the Hancock bioprosthetic valve over an 11% year followup period: a preliminary report 244 ...
Media and Participation: A Site of Ideological-democratic ...
Nico CarpentierAlegre, Alan and O'Siochru, Seán (2005), 'Communication Rights', in Alain Ambrosi, Valerie Peugeot and Daniel Pimienta (eds.), Word Matters. Multicultural Perspectives on Information Societies, Caen: C&F Publishers. Alfasi, Nurit (2003) , 'Is ...
Cardiac valve disease in children
More editionsCHAPTER 20 Repair of the Mitral Valve in Atrioventricular Defects Alain Carpentier, MD, PhD, and Sylvain Chauvaud, MD Current techniques for the repair of atrioventricular defects must deal with two major problems: (a) leaflet dehiscence ...
Fifty Years of Good Reading: University of Texas Press, ...
University of Texas PressThe Hero in Scandinavian Literature: From Peer Gynt to the Present, edited by John M. Weinstock and Robert T. Rovinsky ... by Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren Three Authors of Alienation: Bombal, Onetti, Carpentier, by M. Ian Adams Three ...
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