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This volume considers optical parametric generation and amplification (OPG/OPA), as a means for producing a tunable optical parametric device. It reviews the OPA/OPG systems using various crystals pumped by lasers at various frequencies with ranging pulse duration.

Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. Included is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting.

This work explores the religious changes taking place in the important segment of Jewry which now constitutes the majority of Jews in the Jewish state. The relationship between the factions of Ashkenazi Jewry, the irreconcilable religious camps and the body of secularized Jews is examined.

An analysis of the key issues involved in Europe's defence-industrial reorganization process. The issues covered include divergencies between practice and policy in NATO US-European positions, the high cost of collaborative ventures and competition versus concentration.

In the past, prototypes for characterizing drug use were heroin and cocaine, and research focused on the possible commonalities between any substance and these drugs. This book explores the problems of the commonalities approach by looking at dissimilarities as well.

With increased emphasis on the molecular and genetic underpinnings of cellular phenomena, this volume covers the physiology of the immune system, disease entities related to immune system dysfunction and the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms of dysfunction.

Part One illustrates the various approaches - philosophical, historical, linguistic, comparative and dogmatic - being applied to Jewish law by contemporary scholars. Part Two chronicles developments affecting both Jews and Jewish law in the United States, Israel and Europe.

Explores the life and art of the ethnographic film maker, John Marshall. Included is an autobiographical essay in which Marshall assesses his 40-year involvement with the San peoples of South Africa, and his films, from the 1957 award-winning "The Hunters" to his work in progress, "Death by Myth".

A monograph on inflationary cosmology and cosmological phase transitions, investigating modern cosmology's relationship to elementary particle physics. This work also includes a non-technical discussion of inflationary cosmology for those unfamiliar with the theory.

This work examines the problems encountered by Denisov during composition, and give precise details of all his musical and literary works, his scientific studies, his notography and discography, numerous examples, and copies of documents and photographs.

Intended for anthropologists, these collected papers present the author's concern with modern thought and the problem of ethnography. They demonstrate that the arguments formulated in Fabian's "Time and the Other" were the result of practical problems he faced working as an ethnographer.

This reference covers all aspects of soccer, including basic personal and physical requirements, training regimens, nutritional requirements, plus prevention and management of injuries. It should be of interest to parents of players, paediatricians, sports physicians, and other sports scientists.

This book covers recent developments in laser plasma physics such as absorption, instability, energy transport and radiation from the standpoint of theory and simulation for plasma corona, showing how the elements for the high density compression depend on the interaction physics and heat transport.

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 productions of "The Worlds", "Summer", "Human Cannon", "War Plays", "Restoration", "Jackets" and "Olly's Prison".

This book examines those countries of Southern Europe influenced by the phases of European construction and countries of Latin America where the opening up process has changed the traditional role played by multinational corporations.

Studies the history of natural historical investigations of insects in the light of the growing institutional organization of the agricultural sciences in the United States and Canada, exploring how this context has shaped the emergence of economic entomology and ecology.

This work examines the Japanese Noh theatre historically, philosophically (with an evaluation of Zeami's treatises) and in respect of the Noh training. It includes a short play, "The Dove", which reflects the influence of the Noh theatre and provides references to its cultural source.

This Handbook fulfils a pressing need within the area of psychological measurement in diabetes research and practice by providing access to material which has either been widely dispersed through the psychological and medical literature or has not

An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.

Discusses both parallels and distinctions between the history of modern dance in the United States and Germany. This work examines the phenomena of the modern dance movement between 1920 and 1968 in an international context, focusing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy.

This work examines the evolution of Japanese direct investment in Europe and explores its determinants. It then illustrates how, as multinationals, Japanese firms adapt to local conditions and try to take advantage of a global organization.

This volume examines the early modern methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The author weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times.

An historical anthropological study of Congolese society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses on the transition from a pre-colonial to a colonial order. The approach is "global" and seeks to understand social and cultural transformations as historical products of global relations.

In presenting their definition of improvisation, the authors consider developments in improvisation in the arts since 1945 by emphasizing process and techniques and by featurings artists from Grotowski and Laurie Anderson to Goldsworthy.

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.

A collection of much previously unpublished archive material, including documents from Luigi Pirandello's theoretical essays and reviews. Emphasizing Pirandello as a multi-faceted man of the theatre, this text follows the rise and fall of his theatre company, and his work in the years of Fascism.

This transcultural collection of articles attempts to open the way for musicians to rediscover a tradition of wisdom and imagination which has always existed as an element of the psyche.

Marcia Siegel, Deborah Jowitt, Arlene Croce and Nancy Golder are writers who became dance critics partly by design. By showing examples from their writing about dance, the author presents a detailed analysis of their styles and ideas from 1965 to 1985, the Golden Age of Dance in New York.

In this guide, Vladimir Barsky traces the progress of the concept of chromaticism throughout Western musical history, and attempts to recreate an integrated logical and historical perspective in order to make a specific study of this subject.

This handbook explains the various applications to music of analytical methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. Semiotics are related to the tradition of music aesthetics and to works such as Deryck Cooke's "The Language of Music", and the methods of linguistics are explained.