This compact guide to the national language of Madagascar

Includes:: a two-way bilingual dictionary with over

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Vladimir Malakhov
- this widely acclaimed winner of numerous prizes & "dancer of the century" delights his public through the rare
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Bollywood drama about the struggles & survival of people in a small town who are plagued by poverty, bad harvests & a monster of a moneylender called Karamkali (Sudha Chandran). Leelaram (Paresh Rawal), earns a meager source of income through his business selling Malamaal Weekly Lottery Tickets. One day, while watching TV at a local tea stall, he learns that one of the tickets he's sold has in fact won the One Crore Rupees Bumper Prize. As most of the other villagers don't own a TV & are illiterate, Leelaram knows that he is likely to be the only one to know this information. The problem is how to find that one ticket from the 105 he's sold. Leelaram decides to throw a party which is only for his 105 customers on the condition that they bring along their tickets as an invite to the celebrations. As luck would have it, all turn up except one-Anthony the drunkard. When Leelaram pays him a visit he finds Anthony dead in front of the TV. Shocked on hearing about his victory, Anthony died with the lottery ticket still in his h&. What follows from hereon is a roller coaster ride of unusual events with surprising twists & turns at every stage. ...

Malanggan are "death" figures found in the Pacific which continue to confound anthropologists, they are intended to decompose as symbolic representations of the dead. This work interprets these mysterious agents of resemblance & connection as having a cognitive rather than linguistic basis. ...

Malaria kills millions of people each year & hundreds of millions more suffer chronic illness. Economic development is inhibited & poverty is perpetuated. This work argues that action against malaria is over-centralised & narrowly focused, ignoring local conditions & concerns. ...

Every thirty seconds a child dies from malaria somewhere in the world. As new cases, the disease affects more than one hundred million people each year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. But with global warming the distribution of mosquito vectors is changing & whole populations are at increasing risk. ...

Focuses on "malaria", covering the overview of malarial research in Southeast Asia, the area with a high prevalence of this disease. This book also focuses on the clinical aspects, scientific laboratory aspects, public health aspects, as well as the social sciences relating to this important tropical disease observed & studied in Southeast Asia. ...

Malaria is an infectious disease that is widespread in tropical & subtropical regions. It infects between 300 & 500 million people every year & causes between one & three million deaths annually, mostly among young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book presents research in this field. ...