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?A notable addition to the literature on the American musical and especially its history, this collection of essays and edited panel discussions is diverse and rich in its scope.... Based on the combined efforts of theater and dance specialists, musicologists, librarians and archivists, and professional musical theater practitioners, this volume attempts to cover aspects of the American musical from its 18th-century beginnings to the synthesiz...

This work chronicles Mohandas Gandhi's work as a free-lance journalist, editor, and sponsor. The purpose of this book, in the author's own words, is to bring his contributions in this sphere to the limelight so that those working in the line could be benefitted.

?Best's thorough, readable, and well-organized guide is a real contribution to scholarship because popular illustration sadly exists in a gray area.... Librarians should find it useful for both collection evaluation and selection since the bibliographies include works ranging from key nineteenth-century books to recent journal articles. Appendixes annotate relevant magazines and periodicals, describe major collections of original artwork and i...

An account of the relations between England and France during the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, particularly as they influenced the career of Henry V of England, whose life story is interwoven into this account.

Ronald J. Kudla and Thomas H. McInish explore the implications and advantages of the spin-off, a type of business divestiture which results in a new, separate, publicly held operating company. Using information from in-depth interviews with executives experienced in such divestitures, the authors explain the anticipated benefits to the corporation, as well as to the stockholders of the parent firm. They also explore involuntary spin-offs such ...

A political autobiography by the man who led Egypt's recent revolution lends insight to the position of his country in the Middle East and the tactics that were employed to put it on the road towards self government. First, a backward glance at Egypt's recent history justifies the revolutionary measures. They had to be taken to end Farouk's corruption and British dictatorship, to further a chance of unity with the Sudan, and to lessen the kind...

?[Business] research has found nothing more interesting, more picturesque, more impressive in the vast power wielded, more valuable historically than the story of the famous Fugger family and the mighty business house it built and developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Several books have been written about it, and this new one, concerned with the most famous, most capable and most interesting of all its members, will be as interes...

This classic battle of wits, dramatically and charmingly illustrated by the award-winning Paul Galdone, is the perfect edition to any folk tale storybook collection. Three little pigs set out to seek their fortune. Each pig builds himself a house: one of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks. When a hungry wolf huffs, and puffs, and blows in the houses of two little pigs, the third pig realizes that he might need more than a sturdy house o...

Stratified fluids whose densities, sound speeds and other parameters are functions of a single depth coordinate occur widely in nature. Indeed, the earth's gravitational field imposes a stratification on its atmosphere, oceans and lakes. It is well known that their stratification has a profound effect on the propagation of sound in these fluids. The most striking effect is probably the occurrence of acoustic ducts, due to minima of the sound s...

When his mother goes to the cellar and doesn't return right away, Harry shoves aside his fears to search for her and confronts the terrible two-headed whatzit.