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This text contains a collection of essays considering how fiction written by authors with experience in organizations is often superior to case studies used in courses on business administration, due to the author's combination of insight with analytic skill.

Inspired by a series of debates at the Conference of Women Theatre Directors and Administrators, the articles in this issue record the history of women in the theatre and honour their accomplishments. It also aims to establish role models for women and enrich creativity in this domain.

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.

A collection of Erdman's short plays which contains the transcript of a discussion on "The Suicide" at the Vakhtangov Theatre in 1930 and the surviving fragments of "The Hypnotist".

There were theatres in many Soviet concentration camps. What were they like? Can we regard them as an artistic phenomenon? Do they constitute a distinct unity? This account provides answers to these questions as well as precise dates and names of the theatre managers, directors and actors.

Examining the field of learning disabilities and the education of learning disabled (LD) children through the eyes of several experts, this volume discusses such areas as new medications for the LD child, contemporary research on dyslexia and educational strategies for improving reading.

A lively dialogue has evolved between the dance professionals in the United States and Europe, and their counterparts in Asia and the Pacific Rim. This work documents the relationship.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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 summary of methodological recommendations is given. A number of new analytical tools are also described.

Schat here explains how he devised and uses his new and controversial system of composing and analyzing serial music. This book includes analyses of musical examples and a selection of Peter Schat's polemical writings. It provides historical, political, aesthetic and environmental perspectives.

This monograph surveys the current literature on game theoretic models of strategic information transmission in politics. Within each topic the principal focus is on how the presence of asymmetric information enriches the strategic environment of the participants.

A step-by-step look at how simple and rapid bioassays can serve as the starting point for drug discovery, cutting development time which is both long and expensive.

An account of all aspects of the processes of voting. The chapters focus on: vote counting rules, voting agendas, voter preferences, sincere and sophisticated voting strategies, solution sets, voting outcomes, agendas control, and agenda formation.

A course for comparative economics as the field devoted to the study of the organization of economies, their behaviour and outcomes. It examines economic systems as mechanisms for co-ordinating decisions and allocating resources at macro-level of national companies, cartels and franchises.

This work is a collection of 21 articles by authors from eight different countries. The contributors discuss Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) against the literary and theatrical background, both of his own lifetime and in the context of the current multicultural, polycentric era.

The arrival of Aleksandr Vampilov's "Farewell in June" (1964) marked the debut of one of the most promising young playwrights to appear in Soviet Russia during the post-war years. This text is a collection of his major plays.

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.

Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements to create an Afro-Caribbean culture - a "global culture".

This volume contains papers on both medieval and modern aspects of Muslim-Jewish relations. The mutual influence of Islamic and Jewish texts is explored, as well as the perceptions Muslim and Jewish writers had about each other. Isral'iliyat literature and Arabic wine poetry are included.

This is an account of a search for ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a variety of schools and settings. The author describes the methods and games she devised with the children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement.

This volume addresses the continuing need to enter into a creative dialogue with designers and builders, who are usually programmers in the contemporary world. It demonstrates the potential for exchange between the multi-disciplinary approaches to music.

This introduction to music therapy includes chapters on the biological and medical effects of music, and provides research evidence on the value of music in therapy and music in medicine. Other topics include music therapy techniques in psychiatry, paediatrics, and with the mentally handicapped.

In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavourable prevailing conditions, there were a number of achievements in the music created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. This volume attempts a historical analysis of Soviet film music and its place in world cinema.

This work comprises an anthology of plays written for the British group - Siren Theatre Company - a lesbian theatre collective founded in 1979 by women from the punk music scene who worked with their unorthodox performance skills to challenge mainstream traditions of "straight" acting.

This issue comprises the 25 papers presented at the Second Music and the Cognitive Sciences conference held at Cambridge University in 1990.

This volume focuses on "Saved and the Pope's Wedding", a radio production of "The Fool" (1990), "The Company of Men" (1993) and the television plays "Olly's Prison" (1992) and "Tuesday" (1993) and provides background information for both the student and the general reader.

Part of a series which presents developments in the field of economics, this volume focuses on government ownership and the regulation of economic activity. In particular, it provides a framework for discussing the behaviour of public enterprises as affected by markets and ministries.

First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The period chosen for this study is that represented by the global domination of Hellenism, from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the second half of the 4th century BCE until the seizure of the land by the Arabs in the 7th century CE.