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This is an ethnographically-focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural tradition continues.

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.

The first section of this volume covers chemistry and biological activity of major classes of naturally occurring pesticides, including the development of more potent insecticides based on natural lead-in structures. The second section consists of monographs on each compound by product.

What level of scientific training is necessary to understand contemporary science? Does the lack of historical perspective prevent good scholarship? This text answers these questions.

A study of Yury Lyubimov's tempestuous career and his style of theatre. This work traces the development of his ideas, from his arrival at the Taganka Theatre in 1964 through to his explusion in 1984, and his period of exile in the West until his return in 1989 to a much-changed Russia.

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

This volume conducts a detailed study of the hypotheses that the psychological difference between the left and right hemispheres of the brain has a definite neurological basis. It also discusses the representation of temporal structure in the dynamics of neural networks.

Hertz's work on sin and his ethnographic study of the cult of St Besse, in northern Italy are becoming better known. This work provides a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular.

A collection of essays, memoirs and plays that represent an early attempt to assess and reassess the German Democratic Republic's theatre following the political events and turning points of 1989 and afterwards. Contributors include Christoph Funke, Carl Weber and Jost Herand.

This text presents the history of one slave labour camp in order to shed light on aspects of the slave labour camps established in Poland under German occupation. The external history of the camp is analyzed along with the internal workings of the situation.

This text is a consideration of De Leeuw's thoughts and composition, first and foremost by the composer himself.

This text contains a collection of essays considering how fiction written by authors with experience in organizations is often superior to case studies used in courses on business administration, due to the author's combination of insight with analytic skill.

Of interest both to researchers investigating the neural mechanisms of the pharmacologic and physiologic functions of the endogenous opioid system and to clinicians who are involved in pain management and assessment.

This text considers the impact of multinational firms and global competition on labour markets. This study combines an industry level and an analysis on the wage and employment effects of multinational companies.

A lively dialogue has evolved between the dance professionals in the United States and Europe, and their counterparts in Asia and the Pacific Rim. This work documents the relationship.

This volume provides insights into Edward Bond's ideas and concepts of theatre. The letters discuss his plays, influences and motivations, describe many of the terms associated with his dramatic methods, such as TEs (Theatre Events), and cover a range of theatrical, social and political issues.

Brings together international research on the subject of programmed cell death, and covers such areas as the biochemical mechanisms, introduction of DNA fragmentation, enetic regulation, and the importance of apoptosis in the immune system, particularly during T-cell development, and in cancer.

Discusses cultural change among the Ainu, Japan's indigenous people, its specificity and the circumstances which have led to it. The book focuses on strategies in response to change, laying bare the multiple nature of agency that characterizes the interaction between the Ainu, and the State.

Re-appraises and expands the "orientalism" debate by examining the ways in which the Asian "other" acts as a creative stimulus for the European artist, composer and playwright. The text also investigates the extent to which Western concepts can be used to analyze Asian societies and cultures.

This text examines the problem of defining the "meaning of illness", an interpretation developed within a society which can itself be studied and interpreted from without, from a variety of viewpoints depending on the academic discipline to which observation has been allocated.

Through its analysis of a Melanesian society (Ponam) and the ways it has changed in the 20th century, this book addresses the relationship between the concern with the structure and logic of social organization, and process, with the fluidity of events and individual strategy.

This text provides an account of the comparative physiology and functional anatomy of the autonomic nervous system, with an emphasis on non-mammalian vertebrates. It discusses both "classical" non-adrenergic and non-cholinergic types of neurotransmission.

This much-needed volume focuses on the various ways in which the Classics have influenced Russian literature at particularly significant junctures.

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.

Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France raises fundamental and disturbing questions about the ease with which democratic legal systems can be subverted.

The complex nature of the relationship between theatre and politics is explored in this study of the Polish theatre scene. It traces the development of the alternative theatre movement from its origins, in the 1950s, through to its decline in the late 1980s.

This study uses documents from Stalin's personal files in order to study the history of the creation of the anti-Hitler coalition. The mechanisms of decision-making and its key figures of the time are incorporated in the discussion.