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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Journal of Singing: The Official Journal of the National ...
More editionsEdited by Suzanne Rhodes Draayer. Foreword by Nico Castel. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2007. With Volume Three of Canciones de Esparia Suzanne Draayer has, in the words of Nico Castel, "completed her vision" of providing ...
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.
Concierto Barroco
Alejo CarpentierA wealthy Mexican traveler journeys to eighteenth-century Venice, where he meets Vivaldi, Handel and Scarlatti
The Italian Doctor's Wife
Sarah MorganNico Santini was a staggeringly successful children's heart surgeon—rich, handsome and brilliant.
The Stranger Game
Cylin BusbyDespite the happy ending, the dark details of that day continue to haunt Nico, and it becomes clear that more than one person knows the true story of what happened to Sarah. . . .
Save Me, Kurt Cobain
Jenny ManzerI love this book.” —Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places Nico Cavan has been adrift since her mother vanished when she was four—maternal abandonment isn’t exactly something you can just get over ...
Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society
Nico StehrThis volume illustrates the contributions anthropology, law, political science, and sociology can make to the ongoing discussions about the role of biotechnology in modern societies.
Knowledge societies
Nico StehrThis book is essential reading for all those interested in social theory, sociology of knowledge and science, and the general issue of knowledge in the late 20th century.
Mortal Temptations
Allyson JamesPatricia, proprietor of a local antique store, gets more than she had bargained for when she meets Nico, the winged son of a powerful deity, who has been cursed by the goddess Hera to spend an eternity as a slave to female desire, in the ...
Knowledge Politics: Governing the Consequences of Science ...
Nico StehrThis book argues that new technologies and society's response to them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge politics.
The Governance of Knowledge
Nico StehrProfessionals and graduate students in the fields of scoiology, political science, social science, and law, including policymakers and natural scientists, will find this book extremely informative.
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 ...
Experts: The Knowledge and Power of Expertise
Nico StehrIn this book, Stehr and Grundmann outline the theoretical significance and practical importance of the growing stratum of experts, counsellors and advisors in contemporary society.
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