On the tenth anniversary of the return of their battalion from Mozambique, five men attempt to rekindle the fraternal bond that helped them survive the colonial war that was Portugal's Vietnam. In turn, they tell the stories of their lives before, during, and after the revolution that overthrew the long-lived Salazar dictatorship.
This study serves both as a biography of the so-called "First Englishman in Japan", and as a focus on the period itself - particularly in terms of trade and political alliances, in both Europe and Japan.
Focusing on the rehearsals of his own 1992 production Berkoff surveys the ten previous productions from around the world since 1969, comparing rehearsal techniques and acting styles. Of interest to students of the play and Berkoff fans, his own adaptation is on the A level syllabus.
In an innovative exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity and calls into question those feminist perspectives that have either demonized the modern as inherently patriarchal, or else assumed a simple opposition between men's and women's experiences of the modern world.
The Philokalia is a collection of texts on prayer and the spiritual life, written between the fourth and fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition.
All model engineers are occasionally faced with an operation outside their usual experience. This is a comprehensive reference book providing information on setting up a workshop and the use of various machines and tools.
This book presents a modern and attractive approach to computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) by stressing the crucial role of information management aspects. The 31 contributions contained constitute the final report on the EC Project TEMPUS No. 2609 aimed at establishing a new curriculum and regular education in the new field of information management in CIM at European universities.
Much attention was paid to the style of writing and cover...
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Its Applications, FPL '95, held in Oxford, UK in August/September 1995.
The volume presents 46 full revised papers carefully selected by the program committee from a large number and wide range of submissions. The papers document the progress achieved since the predecessor conference (see LNCS 849). They are organized in sections on arch...
