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A collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers. This work presents people in dance, what they do, their movement, their sound and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of performers, choreographers, audiences and teachers.

Provides an update on recent progress with liposomal delivery systems and discusses such subjects as the development of long-lived liposomes; their use as immunological adjuvants in vaccines; their use in cancer and antiviral therapy; liposomes as a blood surrogate; and topical applications.

The author follows the life of Louis Horst, a key figure in American modern dance. The narrative is interspersed with photographs and illustrations.

Recognition of the importance of complex oligosaccharides in a variety of biological processes has stimulated a massive effort to synthesize them. This work presents a review of oligosaccharide synthesis leading from classical methods through to the state-of-the-art technology.

A detailed study in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. Particular productions directed by Karl-Heinz Martin, Jurgen Fehling and Edwin Piscator are analyzed because of their obscuring or distortion of Toller's intentions, according to the author.

Focusing primarily on a particular algebraic model, the Interacting Boson Approximation Model (IBM), this book presents an approach to understanding the atomic nucleus that exploits simple algebraic techniques. It outlines the algebraic structure of the IBM and other algebraic models.

This text encompasses "Blad/Brunet" by Daniil Gink and "Nijinsky" by Alexei Burykin, two of the dramatic works to appear in Russia in the 1990s.

This work examines the problems encountered by Denisov during composition, and give precise details of all his musical and literary works, his scientific studies, his notography and discography, numerous examples, and copies of documents and photographs.

This volume contains letters answering questions from students and theatre professionals engaged in acting, directing or writing critical studies of Bond's work. It features productions of "The Worlds", "Summer", "Human Cannon", "War Plays", "Restoration", "Jackets" and "Olly's Prison".

This work examines the Japanese Noh theatre historically, philosophically (with an evaluation of Zeami's treatises) and in respect of the Noh training. It includes a short play, "The Dove", which reflects the influence of the Noh theatre and provides references to its cultural source.

Discusses both parallels and distinctions between the history of modern dance in the United States and Germany. This work examines the phenomena of the modern dance movement between 1920 and 1968 in an international context, focusing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy.

Marcia Siegel, Deborah Jowitt, Arlene Croce and Nancy Golder are writers who became dance critics partly by design. By showing examples from their writing about dance, the author presents a detailed analysis of their styles and ideas from 1965 to 1985, the Golden Age of Dance in New York.

In this guide, Vladimir Barsky traces the progress of the concept of chromaticism throughout Western musical history, and attempts to recreate an integrated logical and historical perspective in order to make a specific study of this subject.

Translated from Anton Chekhov's short plays and adapted by Vera Gottlieb, this collection consists of four one-act plays. Each contains a wide spectrum of dramatic possibilities, and presented together the plays serve to form a coherent programme.

There were theatres in many Soviet concentration camps. What were they like? Can we regard them as an artistic phenomenon? Do they constitute a distinct unity? This account provides answers to these questions as well as precise dates and names of the theatre managers, directors and actors.

Schat here explains how he devised and uses his new and controversial system of composing and analyzing serial music. This book includes analyses of musical examples and a selection of Peter Schat's polemical writings. It provides historical, political, aesthetic and environmental perspectives.

The arrival of Aleksandr Vampilov's "Farewell in June" (1964) marked the debut of one of the most promising young playwrights to appear in Soviet Russia during the post-war years. This text is a collection of his major plays.

This is an account of a search for ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a variety of schools and settings. The author describes the methods and games she devised with the children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement.

In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavourable prevailing conditions, there were a number of achievements in the music created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. This volume attempts a historical analysis of Soviet film music and its place in world cinema.

The period chosen for this study is that represented by the global domination of Hellenism, from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the second half of the 4th century BCE until the seizure of the land by the Arabs in the 7th century CE.

This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the understanding of consumption in terms of a larger matrix of social identity and the cultural strategies connected with it.

A volume in the economic development studies section of this series, discussing the relationship between agrarian institutions and economic development and efficiency. Dr Basu is an associate editor of the "Journal of Public Economics" and the "Journal of Development Economics".