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History of My Life
Giacomo CasanovaBecause every previous edition of Casonova's Memoirs had been abridged to suppress the author's political and religious views and tame his vivid, often racy, style, the literary world considered it a major event when Willard R. Trask's ...
A Stranger in My Own Land: Sofía Casanova, a Spanish Writer ...
Kirsty HooperThis is the first in-depth analysis of the works of the Galician-Spanish expatriate writer Sof a Casanova (1861-1958), a transnational poet, novelist, journalist, playwright, campaigner, translator, historian and intellectual, and one of ...
Selected Essays
Havelock EllisIncludes - Nietzsche - Casanova - St. Francis - Monserrat - the Art of Dancing - The Origin of War - The Philosophy Of Conflict and others.
Matinee: A Novel
Robert SteinerAn imaginary encounter between Don Juan and Casanova in Paris provide couterpoint to the story of an all-night party in New England, hosted by a mysterious man who holds a guest hostage.
Carnevale
Michelle LovricYou see, we were in the phosphorescent stage of decay... Richly imagined and as irresistible as its magical setting, Carnevale evokes the three great loves of the painter Cecilia Cornaro: Casanova, Byron and La Serenissima herself.
Twentieth-Century Spain: A History
Julián Casanova... as a binding agent for the heterogeneous groups on the rebel side, and came out of the war, in the words of Alfonso Botti, 'as a unifying, prevailing ideology' for this reactionary coalition that was centred around General Franco's authority.
The Spanish Republic and Civil War
Julián CasanovaThe book also explores the decisive role of the international instability of the 1930s in the duration and outcome of the conflict. Franco's victory was in the end a victory for Hitler and Mussolini and for dictatorship over democracy.
Writing and Heritage in Contemporary Spain: The Imaginary ...
Stuart DavisAs Kirsty Hooper notes in her study of Casanova's work, the library space is here proffered as an idyllic 'frontier zone, neither public nor private, where distinctions of class, race and gender are minimal'.24 As we have noted in our discussion of ...
The Lady in the Lake
Raymond ChandlerThe Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery.
Improvising Planned Development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, ...
Maurits W. ErtsenI am sure everyone will understand that my first words of thanks are for my partners in crime, or office mates, Kieko Matteson, Giacomo Parrinello, John Sandlos, Nicole Seymour, Fei Sheng, and Cameron Muir. I could only be in that office ...
Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Giacomo ParrinelloLawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella (Oxford and New York, 2005), 216. Charles J. Schencking, “Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation: The Fractured Politics of Reconstructing Tokyo Following the Great Kantô Earthquake of 1923 ...
Guide to Departments of Anthropology
More editions... Daly FH Damon Loring M Danforth E. Valentine Daniel William Davenport Visconde De Bianchi Raymond De Mallie Jr. George A De Napoli Constance De Rouche Carol Delaney Steve D. Derne Susan M Di Giacomo Stanley Diamond Sara ...
Poems and Shorter Writings: Including Epiphanies, Giacomo ...
James JoyceThis important collection brings together in one volume all the poems published by James Joyce in his lifetime, most notably Chamber music and Pomes Penyeach.
Interfaith Marriage in America: The Transformation of ...
E. SeamonQuotation from Julie Byrne, “Roman Catholics,” http://nationalhumanitiescenter. org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo /nromcath.htm, accessed Feb. 1, 2010. See also Howe, What Hath God Wrought, 826–827. José Casanova, Public Religions in the ...
The World & I.
More editionsCloth: ISBN 0-913 729-68-X. $1895IJULY SPACE AND TIME A Poetic Autobiography IUANRAM6N JIMENEZ, translated by Antonio de Nicolas 192 pages. Cloth ISBN 0-913729-71-X. tl8.95/JULY CASANOVA A New Perspective I RIVES ...
Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the ...
Tanya Agathocleous14 See Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), and Priya Joshi, In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India (New York: Columbia University Press, ...
Ethics and Governance in Sport: The Future of Sport Imagined
PreviewPreface by Giacomo Santini, President of Panathlon International Notes on contributors List of abbreviations Introduction 1 YVES VANDEN AUWEELE, ELAINE COOK AND JIM PARRY PART I Re-thinking and implementing concepts and ...
Managing the Unknown: Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Preview... Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy Giacomo Parrinello Volume 7 Cycling and Recycling: Histories of Sustainable Practices Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler Volume 8 Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants, ...
The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the ...
Bernhard Gissibl... and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted Volume 6 Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy Giacomo Parrinello Volume 7 Re/Cycling Histories: Paths to Sustainability Edited ...
The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy: A Regional ...
Nicolas Belfrage... heads Ugo Conte Ugo, an amazingly spry octogenarian, stands withPieroAntinori, Giulio Gambelli, Giacomo Tachis, and one or two others as the authors of the Tuscan wine rinascimento and Lisa Contini Bonacossi involved in various ways ...
Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and ...
Jacques E. C. HymansThanks especially to Carol Atkinson, Erik Baekkeskov, Philipp Bleek, Deborah Boucoyannis, Laurie Brand, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Marilynn Brewer, Mario Carranza, Giacomo Chiozza, Pepper Culpepper, Mai'a Davis Cross, Jorge ...
Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920: From ...
Jennifer Jenkins Woodary scene in her later years; it was also related to the larger issue that Kirsty Hooper, among other scholars, has identified of the “absence” of Spanish women writers from the literary history of the fin de siglo. Casanova herself anticipated some ...
Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Lourdes CasanovaFor those investigating entrepreneurship and innovation in the early stages of economic development, this book demonstrates how micro and macro foundations of productivity, and hence economic growth and development, are inextricably ...
Financiing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets
Lourdes CasanovaFor those investigating entrepreneurship and innovation in the early stages of economic development, this book demonstrates how micro and macro foundations of productivity, and hence economic growth and development, are inextricably ...
Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of ...
Stefan Dorondel... and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted Volume 6 Fault Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy Giacomo Parrinello Volume 7 Re/Cycling Histories: Paths to Sustainability Edited ...
Les Vies de Pierre Naville
Centre d'histoire sociale du XXe siècle1989; - « La crise intellectuelle du communisme français », in Frédérique Matonti (dir.), La démobilisation politique, Paris, La Dispute, 2005, p. 97-1 16. 22. Laurent Casanova, Le Parti communiste, les intellectuels et la nation, Paris, Éditions ...
Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Preview... Lines: Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy Giacomo Parrinello Volume 7 Cycling and Recycling: Histories of Sustainable Practices Edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Helmuth Trischler Volume 8 Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants, ...
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