Defence from Floods and Floodplain Management discusses all aspects of floodplain management related to defence from floods, including specific issues such as the maintenance of flood defences, and reveals many aspects of a more holistic approach to the management of flood risk, expanding the structural/non-structural debate into prevention and cure in the floodplain and its catchment. Recent experience in many countries is recounted by experts from Hungary, Austria, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, the UK and the USA.
Defence from Floods and Floodplain Management discusses all aspects of floodplain management related to defence from floods, including specif...
Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in "Eminent Victorians", the reputation of the Victorians and what they stood for has provoked vigorous debate. Subjects of abuse, satire, nostalgia and even adulation
Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in "Eminent Victorians", the reputation of the Victorians and...
Imaginatively patterned against a mosaic of failed romances, the eponymous Actor stands watching his lovers walk away, haunted by his inversion of the famous line from "As You Like It": Whoever lov'd who lov'd not at last sight? Characterized by evocative tableaux, Mosaic launches the Actor upon a further romantic adventure involving a theatrical Wedding Planner organizing his brother's wedding. The tableaux shape evolving opportunities for the Actor to discover the breadth of his true affection for the Wedding Planner. In the pantheon of Zen moments for an actor, he discovers the sublimest...
Imaginatively patterned against a mosaic of failed romances, the eponymous Actor stands watching his lovers walk away, haunted by his inversion of the...
1984 George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of comedy. Portraits lays down an imaginative mosaic of the time demonstrating through the creative imagination of the dramatis personae the human spirit remains triumphant. Pathways to romantic enlightenment for the romantic couples, their cross-play and tensions, evolve through meditations-in-form: Architecture, Music, Physics, Dance and the Photograph. Portraits is a meditation through comedy on the timeless experience of men and women falling in...
1984 George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of c...
1984 George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of comedy. Portraits lays down an imaginative mosaic of the time demonstrating through the creative imagination of the dramatis personae the human spirit remains triumphant. Pathways to romantic enlightenment for the romantic couples, their cross-play and tensions, evolve through meditations-in-form: Architecture, Music, Physics, Dance and the Photograph. Portraits is a meditation through comedy on the timeless experience of men and women falling in...
1984 George Orwell's bleak vision portrayed in his famous novel titled 1984, and the world he envisioned therein, is dissolved through the power of c...
Cast in a prose style fluid as the frames of a movie, this novel explores and projects onto the screen of the page remembered glories from the Greek Myths, embodied in dramatis personae living in the late-twentieth century. The Spirit of Antiquity has not vanished, its cadences echo on, and the dramatis personae of Myths surrender to the musicality of its genius. Thought, feeling and memory infuse the blazing landscapes in which the novel is set, rich with allusion and emotional impressionism, with resurrections of hope in the power of the human imagination to overcome the shadows of nihilism...
Cast in a prose style fluid as the frames of a movie, this novel explores and projects onto the screen of the page remembered glories from the Greek M...
Cast in a prose style fluid as the frames of a movie, this novel explores and projects onto the screen of the page remembered glories from the Greek Myths, embodied in dramatis personae living in the late-twentieth century. The Spirit of Antiquity has not vanished, its cadences echo on, and the dramatis personae of Myths surrender to the musicality of its genius. Thought, feeling and memory infuse the blazing landscapes in which the novel is set, rich with allusion and emotional impressionism, with resurrections of hope in the power of the human imagination to overcome the shadows of nihilism...
Cast in a prose style fluid as the frames of a movie, this novel explores and projects onto the screen of the page remembered glories from the Greek M...
Now I am alone Man a la Mode finds the central character self-reflecting upon and self-communing with memories of 40 years of marriage which have suddenly ended in crisis as he travels to and through Greece. Overshadowing him as he evokes the classical world through which he moves are the spirits of the two Great Romantic Poets, Shelley and Holderlin, who dreamed of journeying to Greece. While in Greece the main character encounters a woman who identifies herself as Hygeia, and together they visit the key classical sites: the Acropolis ... Ancient Agora ... Delphi ... Epidaurus ... Delos."
Now I am alone Man a la Mode finds the central character self-reflecting upon and self-communing with memories of 40 years of marriage which have sud...
