Books published by Harwood-Academic Publishers

Studies the history of natural historical investigations of insects in the light of the growing institutional organization of the agricultural sciences in the United States and Canada, exploring how this context has shaped the emergence of economic entomology and ecology.

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.

This Handbook fulfils a pressing need within the area of psychological measurement in diabetes research and practice by providing access to material which has either been widely dispersed through the psychological and medical literature or has not

An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.

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.

This work examines the evolution of Japanese direct investment in Europe and explores its determinants. It then illustrates how, as multinationals, Japanese firms adapt to local conditions and try to take advantage of a global organization.

This volume examines the early modern methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The author weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times.

An historical anthropological study of Congolese society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses on the transition from a pre-colonial to a colonial order. The approach is "global" and seeks to understand social and cultural transformations as historical products of global relations.

A study of contemporary music based on the premise that it is suffering from a distinct lack of attention. It inspects and evaluates what is happening to musical experimentation, where things might have gone wrong and what can be done to resolve the problem.

A collection of much previously unpublished archive material, including documents from Luigi Pirandello's theoretical essays and reviews. Emphasizing Pirandello as a multi-faceted man of the theatre, this text follows the rise and fall of his theatre company, and his work in the years of Fascism.

This transcultural collection of articles attempts to open the way for musicians to rediscover a tradition of wisdom and imagination which has always existed as an element of the psyche.

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.

This handbook explains the various applications to music of analytical methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. Semiotics are related to the tradition of music aesthetics and to works such as Deryck Cooke's "The Language of Music", and the methods of linguistics are explained.

Playwrights, actors, visual artists, poets, directors, theatre administrators, critics and academics address the difficulties the theatre is facing in South Africa as the country undergoes political transition.

This book, a part of the series Studies in Medicinal Chemistry, details the biological inhibitors that reflect drug discovery in treating human diseases, including cardiovascular, nervous, inflammatory, hormonal and metabolic processes. Compounds for fungal diseases and HIV/AIDS are also covered.

A biography of Evalina Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), a woman who fought for the arts against the background of war. She contributed throughout her life to the revival of interest in classical Greece, the theatre and choral dance, and advocated an adherence to mythical authenticity.

Discusses the shell model and the interacting Boson model and their applications to the structure of atomic nuclei. The author systematically develops these models from an elementary level, through an introduction to tensor algebra, to the use of group theory in spectroscopy.

This text dramatizes the anxieties and nightmares of the writer Franz Kafka as he himself experiences them in relation to his father, his friend and his fiancee. Despite his attempts to escape the many threats of confinement, the traps prove too cunning for Franz.

This text gathers together examples of the current thinking on methodology and the theoretical perspectives that are increasingly of concern to historians of technology, whilst at the same time presenting other papers which reflect the key areas of historical debate.

This work discusses Antonio Triana - one of the foremost Spanish Flamenco dancers and teachers of his time. It also traces the evolution and history of the Spanish Dance technique.

This text outlines and analyzes the growth of offsets, or work-sharing arrangements. The conditions of agreeing to work under an offset, and the subsequent results, are demonstrated here.

This text presents a documented history of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, the Holocaust and the immediate post-war years, up to the end of 1948. It centres upon the fate of Soviet Jewry under both Hitler and Stalin.

This major study is the first written record of the oral tradition of the African dancer and the Masques de Sagesse. It explains the movements, codes and meanings of the traditional African dance.

Aims to widen the understanding of stochastic dynamic choice and equilibrium models. The book offers a simplified exposition of the theory of Brownian motion and its regulation, rendering such methods accessible to economists who do not require a detailed mathematical treatment of the 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.