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Studies over the last twenty years show that understanding the social and economic forces that govern society and create vulnerability should have the same emphasis as understanding the physical causes of vulnerability. In this monograph Dr. Bosher investigates what social networks and institutions are available (created or imposed) to people that enable them to cope with the large crises that are, alas, prevalent in South India: tropical cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes, massive flooding, environmental poisoning, wastewater spillage as well as large scale poverty, misgovernment and endemic disease. This work offeres material on disaster risk management processes and the multi-disciplinary integration of these processes within the long-term development and ameliorative initiatives. Extensive tables/graphs (43) Figures and maps (41).
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Biography

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Ethical Writings :: Political Works :: Philosophical works :: Other Works

Ethical Writings:
On Moral Duties (De Officiis) (44-BC)
On Old Age (De Senectute) (44-BC)
On Friendship (De Amicitia) (44-BC)
On The Nature Of The Gods (De Natura Deorum) (45-BC)

Political Works:
Treatise on the Commonwealth (54-BC)
Treatise on the Laws (51-BC)

Philosophical works:
Academica (45 BC)
Brutus, or The History of Eloquence (46 BC)
Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
Treatise On Rhetorical Invention

Other works:
Letters
Orations

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This research monograph argues that Scott Fitzgerald consciously used a variety of Joycean devices (derived from ULYSSES) in his classic novel THE GREAT GATSBY. These devices included (but were not limited to) burlesque, shadowing,dichotomoies, and doubling. This work breaks new ground for students of Fitzgerald and will be of great use to Joyceans as well..
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Scholarly discussion of Graham Greene's notions of faith and belief in his latter novels, especially MONSIGNOR QUIXOTE but including a number of others. Contributors are scholars and researchers from around the world..
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This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary: they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples. The investigative scope of the study is large---it includes texts from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil and includes texts in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Through detailed analysis Professor Huizar demonstrates what we can read in the visual and sound components of these poems as performance on a page, and while these may be limited on the bound text, they do produce a performativity that is predictive of current technological innovations of the canon whose performative and interactive aspects include the latest multi-media technologies resulting in forms as cyper poetry and hypertextuality, electronic music and pictorial language..
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