Product Description: Prevention and Management of Post-Operative Complications is reviewed extensively in this important Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: Cardiovascular complications following thoracic surgery; Pain management following thoracic surgery; Persistent air leak and pleural space management following pulmonary resection; Bronchopleural fistula and empyema after anatomic lung resection; Postoperative respiratory failure; Complications following carinal surgery and bronchial sleeve resection; Anastomotic leak following esophagectomy; Management of conduit necrosis following esophagectomy; Functional conduit disorders complicating esophagectomy; Complications following surgery for achalasia and anti-reflux disease; Complications following tracheal and laryngotracheal resection; Management of thoracic nerve injury; Chest wall resection and reconstruction: management of complications; Management of chylothorax; and more...read more

Product Description: Celebrating the debt artists owe to their predecessors, these two plays - an original by Mitchell, and a translation from Eugene Labiche's Money's a Meddler, seek to illustrate the obvious and not so apparent chain of influence from writer to writer, that stretches across the ages...read more

Product Description: Book by Scott A. Mori, Georges Cremers, Carol Gracie, Jean-Jacques de Granville, Michael Hoff, John D. Mitchell

Product Description: The appeal of Asian Theater in America today confirms that the theatre of the Far East is a remarkable and catalytic experience for a Western audience. Staging Japanese Theatre presents two complete plays in the theatrical forms of Noh and Kabuki...read more

Product Description: A free-verse translation of Bhasa's Sanskrit play dating back to 400 B. C. Accompanied by directorial notes of Mrinalini Sarabhai, along with line drawings of the mudras or hand gestures essential to the authenticity of expression in Sanskrit plays, with the original and the translation on facing pages...read more

Product Description: This timeless Spanish Morality play is an exciting and humorous 17th Century look at the follies and vices of human beings. Written by José de Valdivieso in 1602, the play is included with director's notes from the 1972 IASTA production and exceptional illustrations of the expressionistic costumes used in the production...read more

Product Description: John Gielgud is quoted in the introduction as having said; 'Style is knowing the play you are in." I think he may be as close to the truth as we will ever get-and the important word is knowing. Knowing, feeling and sensing the characteristics and behavior of a given period...read more

Product Description: A taxonomic treatment of this Latin American genus of trees and shrubs is provided. Mitchell and Mori recognize 10 species, one of which is new. Includes a discussion of the ecology and ethnobotany of this economically important group.

Product Description: This translation of Racine's dramatic masterpiece by the American poet William Packard, matches line for line the Alexandrine and rhyming couplets of the original French text. Rehearsal notes of Paul mile Deiber, director at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Comdie Francaise, are interwoven throughout the text...read more

Product Description: This is an in-depth analysis of Shakespeare's tragedy not as literature, but as a viable theatre piece. The directorial approach, staging and interpretation are derived from an "unjinxed" American production directed by John Blatchley of England's Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Royal Court Theatre...read more

Product Description: Carlo Gozzi's delightful commédia dell'arte classic has been translated into English for the first time from its original Venetian dialect. Complete with stage directions.

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Product Description: First published in 1933. The first of the author's treasure hunting duo (see above).At the height of the Great Depression in 1933, a lot of people read this book and wished they could afford to take a chance on finding some of the treasure the author describes so well...read more

Product Description: That the stories in this book have an authentic background is proven in history. The fact that the old mines and treasures referred to have not been re-located has not prevented the author from giving important details as to their value and general location...read more