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Set in south London, Making It Rain is a satirical dissection of office life and politics.

We’ve all been there – workplaces made dysfunctional by inflated egos and competing ambitions – not to mention petty jealousies, imprudent liaisons, bullying and harassment. We may have variously enjoyed, ridiculed, challenged, lamented or simply endured the resulting disruption. Now, Making It Rain lifts the lid on some of our more squalid transgressions and spills the all-too-familiar beans with frankness and wit.

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Winner of the New American Fiction Prize, David Armstrong's Reiterations is sure to impress. "It is Armstrong's gift to weave the fantastic into the mundane," says The Literary Review, "to show us how ordinary lives are streaked with both terror and tenderness." New American Fiction Prize final judge Noley Reid says, "There's magic on every page of Reiterations--with sharp language and unexpected revelations, David Armstrong writes his characters and their stories deep into our imaginations."

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.

Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only - or even the most important - determinants of those political, economic and social developments and dynamics that shape the modern world. Many issues, including the environment, health, crime, drugs, migration...

The Epicurean teacher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (c. 110-c. 40/35 BC) exercised significant literary and philosophical influence on Roman writers of the Augustan Age, most notably the poets Vergil and Horace. Yet a modern appreciation for Philodemus' place in Roman intellectual history has had to wait on the decipherment of the charred remains of Philodemus' library, which was buried in Herculaneum by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. As improved texts and translations of Philodemus' writings have become available since the 1970s, scholars have taken a keen interest in his relations...