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Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, political, and fiscal aspects of risk management, land-use planning and building code enforcement regulations, insurance issues, emergency management systems, and managing natural and manmade disasters.

This is an English-language anthology of Kurahashi Yumiko's short stories, whose subversive fiction defies established definitions of "literature, " "Japan, " "modernity" and "femininity, " and represents an important intellectual aspect of modern Japanese women's literature.

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From the former president of the Czech Republic comes this first-hand account of his years in office and the transition to democracy following the fall of Communism. A renowned playwright, Václav Havel became one of Czechoslovakia's most prominent dissidents under Communist rule - and the president after the Velvet Revolution, making him a key player in European politics. Here we see first-hand the challenges of creating a new government, temp...

Václav Havel (1936) wordt met zijn toneelstuk Het tuinfeest (1963) als de grondlegger beschouwd van het absurdistisch theater in het toenmalige Tsjechoslowakije. In dit satirisch getinte stuk steekt hij de draak met communistische instellingen, denkpatronen en taalgebruik. Hij laat zien hoe de politiek-maatschappelijke carrière van het hoofdpersonage Hugo ten koste gaat van dies indetiteit als individu. In de Slavische Cahiers verschijnen min...

For use in schools and libraries only. A selection of children's poems and drawings reflecting their surroundings in Terez in Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia from 1942 to 1944.

Er zählt zu den großen Persönlichkeiten der europäischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts: Václav Havel. Neben Michail Gorbatschow, Lech Walesa und Karol Wojtyla, also Johannes Paul II, hat Havel das Antlitz Osteuropas nachhaltig verändert. Der weltbekannte Dramatiker und Essayist war einer der Wortführer der Kritiker des kommunistischen Regimes in der CSSR. Schon 1967, also vor dem später von Panzern des Warschauer Paktes niedergewalzten Prage...

In his most challenging work to date, Czech playwright Vaclav Havel has given the Faust legend a provocative twist. His setting is 'the Institute, ' whose mission is to combat the 'irrational tendencies' in society through its scientific work. Personal and professional relationships at this 'lighthouse of truthful knowledge' are a tissue of lies and sycophancy in which all concerned willingly collude.

In a book written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel combines the same powerful eloquence, moral passion, and abiding wisdom that informed his writing as a dissident and playwright, with a candor unprecedented from one with the broad perspective and infinite responsibility of governing a country.Havel, now president of the Czech Republic, addresses the legacy of Communism as the euphoria of the Velvet Revolution gives way t...

Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly elected president whose first address to his fellow citizens begins, "I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you." Some of the pieces in Open Letters, such as "Dear Dr. Husak" and the essay "The Power...

Professor Leopold Nettles, the "hero” of Largo Desolato, is the author of a book that contains a troublesome paragraph laying him open to arrest on charges of "disturbing the intellectual peace.” Pressed by the government to recant, Nettles is tor­tured—by internal demons as well as external ones. Vaclav Havel has created a vivid and terrifying portrait of the writer in the totalitarian state that is as real and immediate as today's headlines.

Gathered together here for the first time are seven plays that span Havel's career from his early days at the Theater of the Balustrade through the Prague Spring, Charter 77, and the repeated imprisonments that made Havel's name into a rallying cry and propelled him to the leadership of his country. They include The Garden Party, The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Mistake, the Vanek trilogy of Audience, Unveiling, and Protest, and the ...

An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism, a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.