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Kurzgeschichte, public domain

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Original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Sing To Me Softly Of Earth Talking To The White Goddess From The Mountain Fifty Dragons For Shen Lung Three Pines And A Buddha Six Shunga Poems Indexed By Title Poems Indexed By First Line...

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Poetry about the nature and people of Africa

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МАСАИТЕ Копията на телата, забити в саваната от самите богове. Увити са в цветни платна като с аури...

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СЪДЪРЖАНИЕ НАЗАД ВЪВ ВРЕМЕТО СЕКВОИТЕ ПУСТИНЯТА СВЕТИ ФРАНЦИСК И ЖИВОТНИТЕ МАЙМУНАТА ЗЕБРИ БИЗОНИТЕ ФЛАМИНГОТО ЖИРАФИ НОСОРОГЪТ СЛЪНЦЕТО НА СЕРЕНГЕТИ МАСАИТЕ АФРИКАНЧE ЖЕНАТА С БЕБЕТO ...

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Original poetry, in the mainstream European tradition.

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Mere Aphrodite Night Old Ballad Three Anonymous Motets From the Mountain Open Watch Never A wing, a flower Leavings Mind – Matter From the almond-tree A Little Course in Morality Getting Lost Heavens Watching the City Birch Remember Breathing the Void Reaching Down The Twenty-Eight Stations of the Heart From the First Gatha On the Island Astro-physics Somewhere Owls Recanati Storm Index Of First Lines...

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My primary goal is sharing the hunting and survival knowledge that I have from my experience growing up and living in the country, as well as my time in the military as an Emergency Management Specialist. I have always been interested in primitive skills, and in preserving them for the future. I also believe that the modern culture that we have built is based on a very fragile framework of technology(i.e. Electricity), that could collapse at any time due to a natural or man-made disaster. This book is a collection of scenario based tips that cover many aspects of both short term and long term survival. It is based on a variety of small and large scale disasters and common mistakes that lead into survival mode....

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What this Book is About There is a commonly held view that the incidence and scale of disasters is increasing in the modern world although some disagreement on whether the incidence of events, such as Tsunamis, earthquakes, fires, floods etc., that can give rise to disasters is increasing. The view is understandable, both population and their built environment are increasing so more is at risk and this trend of increased risk will continue while populations continue to rise. As the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) enumerates this: ‘Natural disasters are becoming more costly: in constant dollars, disaster costs between 1990 and 1999 were more than 15 times higher ($652 billion in material losses) than they were between 1950 and 1959 ($38 billion at 1998 values) The human cost is also high: over the 1984–2003 period, more than 4.1 billion people were affected by natural disasters. The number affected has grown, from 1.6 billion in the first half of that period (1984–93) to almost 2.6 billion in the second half (1994-2003), and has continued to increase. Although disasters caused by natural events occur throughout...

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List of figures, table & Abbreviations ix Acknowledgements x What this Book is About 1 Chapter 1 - Key Concepts 7 Disaster Risk Reduction 7 Risk 10 Fast and Slow Onset Disasters 11 Resilience 12 Systems Thinking 13 Self-organising Systems 18 A System for Disaster Risk Reduction 21 Evaluation of Natural Disasters 22 Chapter 2 –Components of Disasters and NRM 27 Economic Analysis – Five Forms of Capital 27 The Significance of Context 31 Ecosystems Functional Analysis ...