Books published by Harwood-Academic Publishers

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 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.

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.

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 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 volume considers optical parametric generation and amplification (OPG/OPA), as a means for producing a tunable optical parametric device. It reviews the OPA/OPG systems using various crystals pumped by lasers at various frequencies with ranging pulse duration.

Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. Included is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting.

An analysis of the key issues involved in Europe's defence-industrial reorganization process. The issues covered include divergencies between practice and policy in NATO US-European positions, the high cost of collaborative ventures and competition versus concentration.

In the past, prototypes for characterizing drug use were heroin and cocaine, and research focused on the possible commonalities between any substance and these drugs. This book explores the problems of the commonalities approach by looking at dissimilarities as well.

Explores the life and art of the ethnographic film maker, John Marshall. Included is an autobiographical essay in which Marshall assesses his 40-year involvement with the San peoples of South Africa, and his films, from the 1957 award-winning "The Hunters" to his work in progress, "Death by Myth".

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.

Intended for anthropologists, these collected papers present the author's concern with modern thought and the problem of ethnography. They demonstrate that the arguments formulated in Fabian's "Time and the Other" were the result of practical problems he faced working as an ethnographer.

This reference covers all aspects of soccer, including basic personal and physical requirements, training regimens, nutritional requirements, plus prevention and management of injuries. It should be of interest to parents of players, paediatricians, sports physicians, and other sports scientists.

This book covers recent developments in laser plasma physics such as absorption, instability, energy transport and radiation from the standpoint of theory and simulation for plasma corona, showing how the elements for the high density compression depend on the interaction physics and heat transport.

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 book examines those countries of Southern Europe influenced by the phases of European construction and countries of Latin America where the opening up process has changed the traditional role played by multinational corporations.