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Corporate Governance and Ethics: An Aristotelian Perspective

Corporate Governance and Ethics: An Aristotelian Perspective

Alejo G. Sison

This book can be highly recommended to corporate directors, executives, managers and interested academics.
The Kingdom of This World: A Novel

The Kingdom of This World: A Novel

Alejo Carpentier

In 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

Alejo Carpentier: The Pilgrim at Home

Roberto González Echevarría

Alejo 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.
Concierto Barroco

Concierto Barroco

Alejo Carpentier

A wealthy Mexican traveler journeys to eighteenth-century Venice, where he meets Vivaldi, Handel and Scarlatti
Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: From Alejo ...

Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: From Alejo ...

Timothy J. Cox

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Program Report for ...

Program Report for ...

International Rice Research Institute

SISON, DSW, consultant Staff posted to national agricultural research systems Bangladesh SADIQULI. BHUIYAN, PhD, interim liaisonscientist Cambodia HARRYJ.NESBITT, PhD, agronomistand team leader PETER WHITE, PhD, SoilScientist ...
Caribbean Interfaces

Caribbean Interfaces

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The 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 Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition

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.

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