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  • DRAMA AND THE THEATRE WITH RADIO, FILM AND TELEVISION
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre as a subject for study and the ways of studying it. All its contributors have practical experience of staging plays for professional or student companies, or for both. Necessarily, attention is chiefly focused on the main elements of plays in performance in the...

    $840.00

  • KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
    KEVIN RUSSELL / JOHN Q. SHEN / RAJ SODHI
    Updated throughout for the third edition, Kinematics and Dynamics of Mechanical Systems: Implementation in MATLAB® and Simscape Multibody™ offers step-by-step instructions on the fundamentals of mechanism kinematics, synthesis, statics and dynamics, alongside demonstrating its real-world applications. Following updates made by MATLAB, replacing Simmechanics with new system Sims...

    $4,500.00

  • SPEAKING MY SOUL
    JOHN RUSSELL RICKFORD
    Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford’s life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. This is an inspiring story ...

    $780.00

  • MEANINGS OF MODERN ART, REVISED
    JOHN RUSSELL
    A survey of modern art from the Impressionists to the present, with a new chapter on the art of the seventies and eighties, and corrections and revisions in the text. ...

    $1,160.00

  • WORLD POPULATION AND WORLD FOOD SUPPLIES
    E. JOHN RUSSELL
    Originally published in 1954. This great work surveys the distribution of the world’s population and the food production of all countries chosen as important by reason of either their demands on the world food market or their contributions to it. The author concludes that the more advanced countries can be reasonably assured of food supplies for an indefinite period. The less a...

    $1,360.00

  • SOUTHERN CRIMINOLOGY
    KERRY CARRINGTON / RUSSELL HOGG / JOHN SCOTT / MÁXIMO SOZZO / REECE WALTERS
    Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes. Southern criminology is an innovative new approach that seeks to correct this bias. This book turns the origin stories of criminology, which simply assumed a global universality, on their head...

    $1,160.00

  • PRIVACY AND PERSONALITY
    RUSSELL L. CIOCHON / JOHN W. CHAPMAN
    Like many concepts, privacy has a commonly accepted core of meaning with an indefinite or variable periphery. Some would wish to enlarge the core. It would be pointless to attempt to establish a definition by way of introduction to a series of essays that themselves provide no single definition. But the themes of freedom, justice, rational choice, and community always seem to a...

    $1,320.00

  • GETTING STARTED WITH IMPALA
    JOHN RUSSELL
    Learn how to write, tune, and port SQL queries and other statements for a Big Data environment, using Impala—the massively parallel processing SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop. The best practices in this practical guide help you design database schemas that not only interoperate with other Hadoop components, and are convenient for administers to manage and monitor, but also a...

    $347.00

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WELL-MADE PLAY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR
    First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the ‘well-made play’ in the context of how and why it has been devalued and how far, in allowing it to be devalued, we have lost sight of certain important elements of the theatre. The focus of the book is largely on the development of British theatre and those who have been instrumental to it. This is an indispensable i...

    $1,200.00

  • ANGER AND AFTER (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR
    When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N. F. Simpson, John Arden and Arnold Wesker. Thoroughly revised in 1969, this book remains important reading for th...

    $1,200.00

  • THE SECOND WAVE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    JOHN RUSSELL TAYLOR
    In the 1970s the revolution that had swept the British theatre in the 1950s had already become accepted as the new establishment. Areas that had been previously regarded as remote ideals - including permanent repertory companies, a lively provincial theatre and an extensive spread of avant-garde and fringe theatrical activities - were now considered commonplace. In this title, ...

    $800.00

  • SHAKESPEARE AND HIS COMEDIES
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962. The originality, vitality and variety of Shakespeare's comedies do not suggest a writer at ease with a formula which works to his own satisfaction and the pleasure of his audience; against first impressions they suggest an artist seeking to express an idea which is always eluding a completely developed p...

    $1,460.00

  • FOCUS ON MACBETH
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    First published in 1982. Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the play is very different from other Shakespearean tragedies. Many kinds of study are needed in order to understand the tragedy of Macbeth and this book provides a wide range of studies ...

    $1,320.00

  • NEW SITES FOR SHAKESPEARE
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    In the course of exploring the theatrical cultures of South and East Asia, eminent Shakespeareanist John Russell Brown developed some remarkable theories about the nature of performance, the state of Western 'Theatre' today, and the future potential of Shakespeare's plays. In New Sites for Shakespeare he outlines his passionate belief in the power of theatre to reach mass audie...

    $1,120.00

  • SOCIAL THEORY AS SCIENCE (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    RUSSELL KEAT / JOHN URRY
    This book, written by a philosopher interested in the problems of social science and scientific method, and a sociologist interested in the philosophy of science, presents a novel conception of how we should think about and carry out the scientific study of social life. This book combines an evaluation of different conceptions of the nature of science with an examination of imp...

    $1,560.00

  • TACKLING WICKED PROBLEMS
    VALERIE A. BROWN / JOHN A. HARRIS / JACQUELINE RUSSELL
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressi...

    $1,760.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO DIRECTORS' SHAKESPEARE
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre’s most talented directors have brought Shakespeare’s texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story to tell as it explores a new and revitalising approach to the most familiar works ...

    $1,600.00

  • CHECHNYA - RUSSIA'S 'WAR ON TERROR'
    JOHN RUSSELL
    The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. It continues to drag on, despite the fact that it hits the headlines only when there is some 'terrorist spectacular'. Providing a comprehensive overview of the war and the issues connected with it, the author examines the origins of the conflict historically and traces how both sides wer...

    $1,320.00

  • IMPROVING TEACHER EDUCATION PRACTICE THROUGH SELF-STUDY
    JOHN LOUGHRAN / TOM RUSSELL
    Self-study in teacher education is a growing field and a natural progression from the concept of reflective practice for pre-service teachers. This book is designed to introduce teacher educators to the theory and practice of self-study, in order to explore, understand and improve their teaching about teaching.With studies from an international range of contributors, this book ...

    $1,380.00

  • EMPTY ADMIRATION
    RUSSELL ST. JOHN
    "Do as I say, not as I do." It is not only parents who fail to model instructions for their children, but also teachers of preaching. Robert Lewis Dabney was a nineteenth-century Presbyterian theologian who taught theology and preaching at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia prior to and after the United States Civil War. He is remembered for his powers as a systematic theol...

    $479.00

  • GETTING STARTED WITH IMPALA
    JOHN RUSSELL
    Learn how to write, tune, and port SQL queries and other statements for a Big Data environment, using Impala—the massively parallel processing SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop. The best practices in this practical guide help you design database schemas that not only interoperate with other Hadoop components, and are convenient for administers to manage and monitor, but also a...

    $347.00

  • MECHANISM DESIGN
    KEVIN RUSSELL / QIONG "JOHN" SHEN / RAJ S. SODHI
    This updated edition of Mechanism Design: Visual and Programmable Approaches using MATLAB® and Simscape Multibody™ offers a comprehensive introduction to kinematic synthesis, covering motion, path, and function generation techniques for a wide range of planar and spatial single‑ and multi‑loop linkage systems. This book presents foundational concepts alongside practical methodo...

    $3,200.00

  • ETHICS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
    MARILYN MCCORD ADAMS / JOHN HARE / LINDA ZAGZEBSKI / LAURA GARCIA / BRUCE RUSSELL / STEPHEN J. WYKSTRA / S
    Provocative essays that seek "to turn the attention of analytic philosophy of religion on the problem of evil . . . towards advances in ethical theory" ( Reading Religion).   The contributors to this book—Marilyn McCord Adams, John Hare, Linda Zagzebski, Laura Garcia, Bruce Russell, Stephen Wykstra, and Stephen Maitzen—attended two University of Notre Dame conferences in which ...

    $251.00