World of Books - Find your book here

The Revolutionaries Try Again

The Revolutionaries Try Again

Mauro Javier Cardenas

Excerpts from his first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, have appeared in Conjunctions, the Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, and BOMB.
Atlas of Transesophageal Echocardiography

Atlas of Transesophageal Echocardiography

Preview

435 Jesus Vargas-Barron, Clara Andrea Vazquez-Antona, Angel Romero- Cardenas, Francisco-Javier Roldan, Julio Erdmenger Orellana, Navin C. Nanda PART 3 Transesophageal Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease .
Disenso e incertidumbre: un homenaje a Javier Muguerza

Disenso e incertidumbre: un homenaje a Javier Muguerza

Javier Muguerza

Durante las cuatro últimas décadas, Javier Muguerza ha contribuido como nadie a la modernización del pensamiento español, dando a conocer y comentando lo mejor que se publicaba en otras lenguas, particularmente en lo tocante a la ...
The Decade of the Multilatinas

The Decade of the Multilatinas

Javier Santiso

In their work on the importance of networks and the spread of venture capital, Isin Guler and Mauro Guillén propose that professional contact networks are important in explaining the spread of venture capital outside the United States.
Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and ...

Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and ...

Tore C. Olsson

... 1972), 391–32; Amelia Kiddle and Joseph U. Lenti, “Co-opting Cardenismo: Luis Echeverría and the Funeral of Lázaro Cárdenas,” in Populism in Twentieth- Century Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, ed.
?Coraz¢n tan blanco? von Javier Mar¡as zwischen Trivial- und ...

?Coraz¢n tan blanco? von Javier Mar¡as zwischen Trivial- und ...

Christian Amtsberg

7.3. Bibliographie der wichtigsten spanischen und internationalen Rezeption von CTB87 7.3.1. Interviews Alameda, S01; Javier Marías. El éxito europeo de un indeciso; in: El País Semanal, 10.11.1996; S. 58-66. Arco, Miguel Ángel del; Javier ...
Global Turning Points: Understanding the Challenges for ...

Global Turning Points: Understanding the Challenges for ...

Mauro F. Guillén

... is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Guillén, Mauro E Global turning points: understanding the challenges for business in the 2Ist century / Mauro Guillen and Emilio Ontiveros. p, cm.
Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: Actors and Issues ...

Negotiating Sovereignty and Human Rights: Actors and Issues ...

Michaelene Cox

Sonia Cardenas If the Cold War saw the internationalization of human rights norms, the postCold War period gave way to their internalization (Cardenas 2001 ). Nothing illustrates this more aptly than the global proliferation of national human ...
Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation

Sons of the Mexican Revolution: Miguel Alemán and His Generation

Ryan M. Alexander

Kiddle, Amelia M., and María L. O. Muñoz. “Men of the People: Lázaro Cárdenas, Luis Echeverría, and Revolutionary Populism.” In Populism in TwentiethCentury Mexico: The Presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, edited by ...
Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International ...

Conflict and Compliance: State Responses to International ...

Sonia Cardenas

In Conflict and Compliance, Sonia Cardenas examines responses to such pressure and challenges conventional views of the reasons states do—or do not—comply with international law.
While the Women are Sleeping

While the Women are Sleeping

Javier Marías

Celebrated as one of the greatest writers of his generation, Javier Mar as is best known for his spy trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow, which has been compared to Proust and hailed as one of the great modern European novels.
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity

The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity

Preview

Bonazzi, Mauro, and Celluprica, Vincenza (eds.). (2005) L'eredità platonica. Studisul platonismo da Arcesilao a Proclo. Naples. Bonazzi, Mauro, and Helmig, Christoph (eds.) (2007). Platonic Stoicism – StoicPlatonism. Leuven. BoysStones  ...
Globalization: The Crucial Phase

Globalization: The Crucial Phase

Preview

... rates between 2001 and 2006. The Federal Reserve could have curbed asset- price inflation. After all, central banks enjoy independence from the political power 116 Mauro Guillén and Sandra L. Suárez Mauro Guillén and Sandra L Suárez.
Coming Into One's Own: The Novelistic Development of Javier ...

Coming Into One's Own: The Novelistic Development of Javier ...

Alexis Grohmann

This book is the first full-length study of Javier Marías's work to be published so far and serves both as an introduction to, and a close examination of, the work of a major European writer.
Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing ...

Human Rights, State Compliance, and Social Change: Assessing ...

Preview

Government Human Rights Commissions in Africa (New York: HRW, 2001); Sonia Cardenas and Andrew Flibbert, “National Human Rights Institutions in the Middle East,” Middle East Journal 59 (2005), 411–36; Sonia Cardenas, “National  ...
All Souls

All Souls

Javier Marías

All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear

Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear

Javier Marías

A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)
The Infatuations

The Infatuations

Javier Marías

With The Infatuations, Javier Marías brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality.
Electric Literature

Electric Literature

Javier Marias

Our fourth anthology is a celebration of the transportive joy and wonder of diving into a fully imagined world. Spanish author Javier Marías spins a tale of a mild-mannered teacher turned ghost-hunter.
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide

Daniel Hunter

The young immigrants provided advice, like telling them not to sign voluntary deportation papers. But most importantly, they made public people's stories, like that of Javier de los Santos. Javier was being ripped from his infant son because he ...
Thus Bad Begins

Thus Bad Begins

Javier Marías

Award-winning author Javier Marías examines a household living in unhappy the shadow of history, and explores the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love As a young man, Juan de Vere takes a job that will haunt him for the rest ...
Cody's Army: Philippine Hardpunch

Cody's Army: Philippine Hardpunch

Jim Case

Jim Case. which Locsin could feel boring holes into him as if Javier could see through him. He sensed Escaler easing slightly back, away from him. He felt isolated and suddenly very afraid. “What has happened here?” Javier's demand ...
A Heart so White

A Heart so White

Javier Marías

A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013.
Creencia e increencia: un debate en la frontera

Creencia e increencia: un debate en la frontera

Javier Muguerza

El presente cuaderno recoge los textos de las dos ponencias que iniciaron el debate.JAVIER MUGUERZA, catedrático de Ética de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, discípulo muy cercano a José Luis López Aranguren, es el ...
Real and Complex Singularities:

Real and Complex Singularities:

Preview

Wet., Series A, 76:113–118, 1973. [2] Javier Fernández de Bobadilla, Answers to some equisingularity questions, Invent. Math. 161 (2005), no. 3, 657–675, DOI 10.1007/s00222-005-0441-4. MR2181471 [3] Javier Fernández de Bobadilla, ...
Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope

Human Rights in Latin America: A Politics of Terror and Hope

Sonia Cardenas

Human rights in Latin America: a politics of terror and hope / Sonia Cardenas. p. cm. — (Pennsylvania studies in human rights) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8122-4197-6 (alk. paper) 1. Human rights— Latin ...
Mathematics Without Boundaries: Surveys in Pure Mathematics

Mathematics Without Boundaries: Surveys in Pure Mathematics

Preview

The Hilali Conjecture for Hyperelliptic Spaces Javier Fernández de Bobadilla, Javier Fresán, Vicente Muñoz and Aniceto Murillo Abstract The Hilali conjecture predicts that for a simply connected elliptic space, the total dimension of the rational ...
Goffman's Legacy

Goffman's Legacy

Preview

Javier A. Treviño. J-a-Ii" J,- _\ _ j L'ECLAL'IIES OF EUCIAL THOUGHT 4Goffman's Editfid by A. JAVIER TREVINO Foreword by CHARLES LEMERT Goffman's Legacy Legacies of Social Thought Series Editor: Charles Lernert. Cover.
Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems

Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems

A. Javier Treviño

A. Javier Treviño, Karen M. McCormack. First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint ...
The Fictional World of Javier Marías: Language and Uncertainty

The Fictional World of Javier Marías: Language and Uncertainty

Marta Pérez-Carbonell

The Fictional World of Javier Marías examines the origin and meaning of uncertainty in the key works of Spain’s leading contemporary novelist by engaging with the many language-related issues common to his narrative.

who called from an unknown number?