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This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism. The book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines.

This collection of essays challenges conceptions of "high" modernism. The book focusses specifically on women's cultural production, covering a wide range of arts and genres including chapters on painting, theatre, and magazines.

For more than three centuries after Columbus's voyages to America, Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New World affected European sensibilities and intellectual horizons. In this book Anthony Pagden examines some of the varied ways in which Europeans interpreted these encounters with America.

Offers a new approach to the measurement of academic library effectiveness. This text questions established practices - such as the tendency to focus evaluation on the success of isolated activities - and explores the inadequacy of library-based bibliographic instruction.

During the 1980s, United States cities came of age as forces to be reckoned with in US foreign policy. This scholarly, yet readable, analysis carefully explores the roots and influence of municipal activism, surveying particular organizing issues and developing an `active city' profile by examining particular cases.

This is a study of women in library education. The authors examine the dynamic social processes and significant relationships - such as mentoring - that have shaped the aspirations and career goals of women faculty in library and information science. An intergenerational sample is used.

This reference details Margaret Webster's accomplishments in 20th-century American theatre. It starts with a biographical essay on her life and career, and a chronology of the most significant events. Lists of her stage and opera productions follow, ending with a discography and bibliography.

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Laubscher explores how students use their out-of-class time to enhance their learning about cultural differences while enrolled in a formal academic program abroad. Taxonomic analysis of the interview data using the means/end semantic relationship postulated by James Spradley supports the hypothesis that, when left to their own devices, students abroad naturally employ ethnographic methods to learn about the host culture. This suggests that st...

In contrast to most books on Richard Wagner, this biography focuses primarily on Wagner as an important figure in the development of the theatre. While his contribution to music history has been exhaustively documented and analyzed, his theatrical ventures, in particular the founding of the Bayreuth Festival, have not been the object of much research by English-speaking theatre historians. Nevertheless, the Festival was a crucial event in the ...

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Originally published in the USSR, Handbook of Reliability Engineering set the standard for the reliability testing of technical systems for nearly three generations of applied scientists and engineers. Authored by a group of prominent Soviet specialists in reliability, it provided professionals and students with the first comprehensive reference covering mathematical formulas and techniques for incorporating reliability into engineering design...

Focuses on the basic operating principles and the techniques used to incorporate the devices into circuit applications. Part one reviews fundamental principles in transmission lines and circuits as well as semiconductor physics. Two-terminal solid-state devices, circuits and applications are covered in the second section.

This text examines Nordic relations with the superpowers from 1947-61, within the context of regional integration and cooperation theory. It aims both to describe Nordic regional security cooperation and to provide a useful model of peaceful security.

An emerging technology, high-definition television (HDTV) is expected to have dramatic effects on the communication and entertainment industries as well as on education and training methods, advertising, medicine, and other fields. With over 1, 400 entries, this annotated bibliography allows the researcher to trace the development of the technology and to identify the economic, sociopolitical, and psychosocial issues raised by the advent of HD...

The economy of Iraq has fluctuated wildly since the 1950s. It has been affected by changes in governments, by wars, and by general instability. This book analyzes a complex subject and is especially timely at this critical juncture in the history of Iraq, the Middle East, and international relations. Abbas Alnasrawi traces the growth of the Iraqi economy since 1950, assesses its present state of crisis and underdevelopment, and explores its pr...

Here are two major works by the famed Polish novelist and dramatist Witold Gombrowicz. The first, Cosmos, a metaphysical thriller, revolves around an absurd investigation. It is set in provincial Poland and narrated by a seedy, pathetic, and witty student, who is charming and appalling by turns, and whose voice is dense with the richly palpable description that characterizes Gombrowicz's writing. The second, Pornografia, explores the sinister ...

This text offers insights into the sociocultural context in which attitudes towards people with HIV or AIDS and people's perceptions of risk from HIV infection are developed and the responses of governments to the AIDS epidemic are formulated.

The contributions in this volume deal with the essence of strategic management. Three research trends are discussed: strategic change, characterised by in-depth longitudinal studies of changing organisations, research into leadership and top teams, and strategic thinking, the cognitive processes through which organisations and environments are understood and strategies developed. The focus of the contributions is on understanding complex relat...