A complete autobiography of Evalina Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), a woman of immense spiritual strength who fought for the arts against the... Læs mere
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... Læs mere
The main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "political" is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and social, economic and religious circumstances.
This text describes the local experience of recent population changes and addresses the "problem" of repopulation in rural Scotland. It analyzes the paradoxes, ironies and ambiguities which form a complex structure of feelings.
An anthropological exploration of Icelandic history, society and culture as the importance of language and texts ranging from the medieval Commonwealth to the modern nation-state is investigated.
This study is an attempt to locate the practice of consumption within more general strategies of social self-definition. The essays in this volume are addressed to the... Læs mere
This volume contains the text of both "The Suicide" and Erdman's first major albeit less known work, "The Warrant". The historical context of the plays and Erdman's use of language are discussed.
First Published in 1995. A Meeting About Laughter is a collection of sketches, interludes and theatrical parodies by Nikolai Erdman, Vladimir Mass and others. Translated from the Russian Theatre Archive by John Freedman, Harvard University.
This issue comprises the 25 papers presented at the Second Music and the Cognitive Sciences conference held at Cambridge University in 1990.
This monograph surveys the issues that need to be considered in answering questions relating to poverty comparisons. The strengths and weaknesses of past methods are discussed, and a... Læs mere
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.