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The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945

By: Raymond L. Williams

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The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945

By: Raymond L. Williams

In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of modernization, revolution, and democratization on the writing of this era. Beginning in 1945, Williams introduces major trends by region, including the Caribbean and U.S. Latino novel, the Mexican and Central American novel, the Andean novel, the Southern Cone novel, and the novel of Brazil. He discusses the rise of the modernist novel in the 1940s, led by Jorge Luis Borges's reaffirmation of the right of invention, and covers the advent of the postmodern generation of the 1990s in Brazil, the Generation of the "Crack" in Mexico, and the McOndo generation in other parts of Latin America. An alphabetical guide offers biographies of authors, coverage of major topics, and brief introductions to individual novels. It also addresses such areas as women's writing, Afro-Latin American writing, and magic realism. The guide's final section includes an annotated bibliography of introductory studies on the Latin American and Caribbean novel, national literary traditions, and the work of individual authors. From early attempts to synthesize postcolonial concerns with modernist aesthetics to the current focus on urban violence and globalization, The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 presents a comprehensive, accessible portrait of a thoroughly diverse and complex branch of world literature.

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Columbia University Press

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0231126883

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9780231126885

The Battle of Adwa

African Victory in the Age of Empire

By: Raymond Jonas

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The Battle of Adwa

African Victory in the Age of Empire

By: Raymond Jonas

In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or later all Africans would fall under the rule of Europeans. This event opened a breach that would lead, in the aftermath of world war fifty years later, to the continent's painful struggle for freedom from colonial rule. Raymond Jonas offers the first comprehensive account of this singular episode in modern world history. The narrative is peopled by the ambitious and vain, the creative and the coarse, across Africa, Europe, and the Americas-personalities like Menelik, a biblically inspired provincial monarch who consolidated Ethiopia's throne; Taytu, his quick-witted and aggressive wife; and the Swiss engineer Alfred Ilg, the emperor's close advisor. The Ethiopians' brilliant gamesmanship and savvy public relations campaign helped roll back the Europeanization of Africa. Figures throughout the African diaspora immediately grasped the significance of Adwa, Menelik, and an independent Ethiopia. Writing deftly from a transnational perspective, Jonas puts Adwa in the context of manifest destiny and Jim Crow, signaling a challenge to the very concept of white dominance. By reopening seemingly settled questions of race and empire, the Battle of Adwa was thus a harbinger of the global, unsettled century about to unfold.

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Harvard University Press

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0674062795

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9780674062795

The Television Entrepreneurs

Social Change and Public Understanding of Business

By: Raymond Boyle,Lisa W. Kelly

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The Television Entrepreneurs

Social Change and Public Understanding of Business

By: Raymond Boyle,Lisa W. Kelly

With business seemingly everywhere on television, from the risks of the retail and restaurant trade to pitching for investment or competing to become the next 'apprentice', The Television Entrepreneurs draws upon popular business-oriented shows such as The Apprentice and Dragons' Den to explore the relationship between television and business. Based on extensive interviews with key industry and business figures and drawing on new empirical research into audience perceptions of business, this book examines our changing relationship with entrepreneurship and the role played by television in shaping our understanding of the world of business. The book identifies the key structural shifts in both the television industry and the wider economy that account for these changing representations, whilst examining the extent to which television's developing interest in business and entrepreneurial issues is simply a response to wider social and economic change in society. Does a more commercial and competitive television marketplace, for instance, mean that the medium itself, through a particular focus on drama, entertainment and performance, now plays a key role in re-defining how society frames its engagements with business, finance, entrepreneurship, risk and wealth creation? Mapping the narratives of entrepreneurship constructed by television and analysing the context that produces them, The Television Entrepreneurs investigates how the television audience engages with such programmes and the possible impact these may have on public understanding of the nature of business.

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184

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Routledge

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1317014405

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9781317014409

The Writings of Carlos Fuentes

By: Raymond L. Williams

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The Writings of Carlos Fuentes

By: Raymond L. Williams

In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes' work, particularly in his complex, major novel Terra Nostra. He opens with a biography of Fuentes that links his works to his intellectual life, a life that has been centrally concerned with finding and defining the source and character of Latin American culture. The heart of the study is Williams' extensive reading of the novel Terra Nostra, in which Fuentes explores the presence of Spanish culture and history in Latin America. Williams concludes with a look at how Fuentes' other fiction relates to Terra Nostra, including Fuentes' own division of his work into fourteen cycles that he calls "La Edad del Tiempo," and with an interview in which Fuentes discusses his concept of this cyclical division.

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212

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University of Texas Press

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029279097X

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9780292790971

A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez

By: Raymond L. Williams

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A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez

By: Raymond L. Williams

This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some of the strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that García Márquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on García Márquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into García Márquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations. RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Riverside.

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202

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Boydell & Brewer

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1855661918

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9781855661912

The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams

Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Raymond Williams

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The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams

Who Speaks for Wales? Nation, Culture, Identity

By: Raymond Williams

A collection of seminal essays in the of Welsh literary, historical and political studies. The book is itself a key chapter in Welsh intellectual history, and an analysis of that history. It offers a revisionist Welsh view of Raymond Williams, a critic often viewed as a ‘British Marxist’ or the ‘the English Sartre’.

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450

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University of Wales Press

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1786837080

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Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process E-Book

By: Janice L Raymond,Kelly Morrow

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Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process E-Book

By: Janice L Raymond,Kelly Morrow

- NEW! Food-Nutrient Delivery: Planning the Diet with Cultural Competency chapter provides international nutrition guidelines and resources to assist you with multicultural meal planning. - NEW! Clinical: Nutritional Genomics chapter features an author from the NIH's Human Genome Project and introduces you to the latest research about CRISPR and epigenetics. - NEW! MNT for Neurologic Disorders chapter features two new authors, including a speech therapist, and displays IDDSI guidelines and an appendix for dysphagia diets to help you carefully and consistently address the nutritional needs of these patients. - NEW! Clinical: Water, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance and Clinical: Biochemical, Physical, and Functional Assessment chapters are updated with the most relevant and evidence-based complementary and integrative approaches to expand your expertise in these clinical nutritional areas. - NEW! MNT for Adverse Reactions to Food: Food Allergies and Intolerance chapter features completely revised guidelines and a new pathophysiology algorithm to ensure you are confident in your knowledge of how to prevent emergencies and what to do when emergencies do happen. - NEW! Coverage of intermittent fasting, health at every size, and health disparities focuses on the latest nutrition trends to ensure you are well-versed in these topics. - NEW! The Mediterranean Diet, Choline, and Biotin appendices display at-a-glance information to help you find quickly supplemental information. - NEW! Directions boxes and Focus On boxes, as well as useful websites, resources, and key terms at the end of each chapter, help you find information quickly and easily.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032363656X

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9780323636568

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

By: Raymond E. Kirk

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Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

By: Raymond E. Kirk

This 27 volume print set represents the most comprehensive reference available on the subject of chemistry with nearly 1200 entries on 30,000 pages covering the entire scope of chemical technology. Includes basic chemical information as well as applications health and safety implications.This world renowned reference is now available in a convenient and updated online edition via Wiley InterScience. Updated monthly, this online edition keeps Kirk-Othmer up to date with all advances in chemical technology. For more information on the online edition and how to order, please visit:www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/kirk

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Wiley-Interscience

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0471526959

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9780471526957

The Joy of Raising Our Kids in the 21st Century!

By: Gilbert H. Goethals,L. Raymond Hayes

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The Joy of Raising Our Kids in the 21st Century!

By: Gilbert H. Goethals,L. Raymond Hayes

How to raise and teach our children while they are growing up in these difficult times.

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1884420044

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9781884420047

Book's by Raymond L. Williams

The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945

The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945

The Battle of Adwa

The Battle of Adwa

The Television Entrepreneurs

The Television Entrepreneurs

The Writings of Carlos Fuentes

The Writings of Carlos Fuentes

A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez

A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez

The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams

The Centenary Edition Raymond Williams

Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process E-Book

Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process E-Book

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Index

The Joy of Raising Our Kids in the 21st Century!

The Joy of Raising Our Kids in the 21st Century!

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