Susan B. Anthony: A life for the love of woman

Kathleen Barry

NYU Press

After the 1917 revolution, Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary society. This reconsideration of the Russian avant-garde theatre investigates the burgeoning new drama/theatre forms of the period. Kleberg considers assumptions made about the audience and by the audience, and seeks to determine whether discrepancies existed between the two. Offering fresh insights into the modernist period of Russian theatre, Theatre as Action provides a new typology of the stage/audience relationship in modernist Russian theatre. Constructivism of the 1920's is discussed on light of the plays of Meyerhold, Eisenstein, and Treytykov. The relation of the Soviet Russian avant-garde to the aesthetics of Bertold Brecht is also examined. This original, comprehensive work is a major contribution to our understanding of the confrontation of the ideal and the reality of Soviet 1920's, revealing the Wagnerian and Symbolist utopia beneath, and its crisis. It will be of particular interest to students of literature and drama.

Theatre As Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics (Studies in Economic and Social History)

Arts & Photography

Kleberg, Lars

History & Criticism

After the 1917 revolution, Russian and Soviet avant-garde theatre attempted to create a new art for post-revolutionary society. This reconsideration of the Russian avant-garde theatre investigates the burgeoning new drama/theatre forms of the period. Kleberg considers assumptions made about the audience and by the audience, and seeks to determine whether discrepancies existed between the two. Offering fresh insights into the modernist period of Russian theatre, Theatre as Action provides a new typology of the stage/audience relationship in modernist Russian theatre. Constructivism of the 1920's is discussed on light of the plays of Meyerhold, Eisenstein, and Treytykov. The relation of the Soviet Russian avant-garde to the aesthetics of Bertold Brecht is also examined.   This original, comprehensive work is a major contribution to our understanding of the confrontation of the ideal and the reality of Soviet 1920's, revealing the Wagnerian and Symbolist utopia beneath, and its crisis. It will be of particular interest to students of literature and drama.

Theatre As Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

This is a new edition of Sandra Dawson's successful introductory textbook for students, in engineering, business studies, marketing, accounting, administration, and management who would like to improve their understanding of organizations. Fully revised and updated and assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, the book presents illustrated examples drawn from the author's research and industrial consultancy to identify and discuss organizations in terms of five key characteristics—people, interest groups, structure and culture, technology, and the environment—and the processes of power and conflict, communication, decision-making and implementation that define an organization.

Analyzing Organizations: Second Edition

Business & Money

Dawson, Sandra

Management & Leadership

By the time Margeret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister in 1990, she has tranformed the fortunes of her Conservative Party. Under her leadership the Conservatives won three general election victories in a row over a divided opposition and enjoyed a degree of political and ideological dominance that led many to speak of the end of the socialist era and the emergence of a new consensus. What Reagan had done in the United States, Margaret Thatcher had done in Britain. A new word—Thatcherism—had entered the political lexicon. Thatcherism came to signify a wide-ranging and distinctive political project aimed at promoting economic recovery and restoring the authority of the state. This second, revised and updated edition of The Free Economy and the Strong State explores the political and ideological roots of Thatcherism and its relationship to the Conservative tradition and to the economic liberal ideology of the New Right, as well as to the new political agenda which emerged from the advent of recession and the crisis of the world order in the 1970's. Andrew Gamble provides a clear and thorough account of the genesis of Thatcherism in opposition, its record in government and of the way it has been analyzed by the left and right. His book makes a major contribution to separating rhetoric from reality and understanding both the impact and the limits of Thatcherism in its bid to establish a new political hegemony and tackle Britain's economic decline.

The Free Economy and the Strong State: The Politics of Thatcherism

Gamble, Andrew

Economics

This book provides a broad and balanced introduction to the principle Western financial makets and institutions. Unlike other books which tend to focus on an individual market, An Introduction to Western Financial Markets is international in scope. Valdez acknowledges the current movement towards a single global market and recognizes that a parochial knowledge of just one local market is no longer sufficient. Various financial sectors are described in clear and easy to understand terms. Topics covered include banking (commercial and investment), money and bond markets, foreign exchange, stock markets, finance for trade, insurance options, futures, and other derivative products. A final chapter surveys the key trends and issues in the markets today. A useful glossary of terms is included. Pages of mathematical formulae, common in introductory books on finance, are avoided. Valdez clearly shows the importance of these formulae, but is constantly aware of his non-numeric readers. This book will appeal to students of banking, finance, economics, business studies and the securities markets.

An Introduction to Western Financial Markets

Valdez, Stephen

Abiotic stresses caused by drought, salinity, toxic metals, temperature extremes, and nutrient poor soils are among the major constraints to plant growth and crop production worldwide. While crop breeding strategies to improve yields have progressed, a better understanding of the genetic and biological mechanisms underpinning stress adaptation is needed. Genes For Plant Abiotic Stress presents the latest research on recently examined genes and alleles and guides discussion of the genetic and physiological determinants that will be important for crop improvement in the future.

Nations, Identity, Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Schopflin, George

Politics & Government

All the King's Men, Catcher in the Rye and The Pawnbroker are among the novels discussed as true works of the imagination

The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel

Baumbach, Jonathan

Literary

Octavo. xiv + 364 pp, acknowledgments, list of b&w illustrations, introduction, 14 chapters in Three Parts, Conclusion, a note on the Sources, bibliography, index. Part I-America Awakens to Poverty, c. 1830-1897, Part II-The Search for Truth, c. 1897-1917; Part III-Social Striving, c. 1897-1925. 6.4" x 9.5" gray cloth boards in b&w illustrated DJ.

From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States

BREMNER, ROBERT H.

Women's Studies

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Susan B. Anthony: A life for the love of woman

Theatre As Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics (Studies in Economic and Social History)

Theatre As Action: Soviet Russian Avant-Garde Aesthetics

Analyzing Organizations: Second Edition

The Free Economy and the Strong State: The Politics of Thatcherism

An Introduction to Western Financial Markets

Nations, Identity, Power

The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel

The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel

From the Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States