The old soldier tells the tale of how he defeated Napoleon.

Product Description: The purpose of A Collection of Canadian Plays is to present to the Canadian public good plays which have received regional acclaim but not national publicity. We hope to achieve the widest possible dissemination of original Canadian plays, not only for those who may be interested in mounting their own productions, but also for those playgoers who may wish to recapture the pleasures of an evening well spent in the theatre...read more

Lists nearly five hundred black American playwrights and their works as well as presenting a guide to criticism and reviews

Product Description: Answers questions about rainbows, puppies, butterflies, babies, dinosaurs, the seasons, and other subjects.

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Product Description: It's 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life...read more

Kerrick, a young Tanu hunter captured and raised by the Yilane, a race of cold-blooded, intelligent reptiles, escapes and struggles to unite all human clans against the Yilane threat. Reprint.

Product Description: This text exposes the basic features of cohomology of sheaves and its applications. The general theory of sheaves is very limited and no essential result is obtainable without turn­ ing to particular classes of topological spaces...read more

Awaiting the hangman's noose in a Mexican jail, American convict Wolf Bixler is offered a chance to escape with his life by leading the children of embattled Mexican president Tejada to safety in San Antonio

Lieutenant Devlin Rourke investigates the murders of four unrelated people in the parking garage of a Baltimore office building

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"Raman Spectroscopy: Sixty Years On" is a two-volume work published as Volume 17A and Volume 17B in the series Vibrational Spectra and Structure: A Series of Advances. These two books contain state-of-the-art review articles covering a very wide range of topics related to laser Raman spectroscopy - from pure theory to techniques and applications in various interdisciplinary fields. The reviews are grouped into eight themes. Volume 17A contains those on solid state applications, semiconductor superlattices, time-resolved Raman studies, resonance Raman and surface enhanced Raman scattering, and biological applications. Volume 17B contains those on stimulated and coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy, Raman sources and Raman lasers, and other applications and techniques. This work will serve as a reference for the rapidly increasing applications of Raman spectroscopy, not only in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and medicine, but also in other atmospheric sciences, earth sciences, materials sciences and so on.

Product Description: The Joy of Acting is a textbook of exercises, carefully selected and progressing from the elementary to the more difficult, for the use of teachers of acting, directors (in studio work) and individual actorbeginners. This is material which the author found most effective in his years of teaching actors in New York City...read more

Skye Fargo must deal with Sam Cutter's loyal daughter, who will do anything to save her daddy's hide, as he trails the most savage killer in the Southwest into a dangerous land south of the border

Product Description: The Dionysus Group is a thoughtful, probing analysis and, at the same time, a passionate recreation of the author's experience in the Off-Off Broadway Theatre of the late 1960s. As a founding member and leading actor in The Performance Group's internationally acclaimed production of Dionysus in '69, directed by Richard Schechner, William Shephard takes the reader into the heart of the group process where imagination and inspiration becomes intermixed with paranoia and dissociation...read more

Product Description: Much has been written on the great actors, but the great actresses generally have been ignored. The Luminous ones traces the lives and contributions of important female figures in the history of acting from the time of ancient Rome to the twentieth-century.

Product Description: Traditionally, the Cherokees dance to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to legend, the dance songs bequeathed to them by the Stone Coat monster will assuage all the ills of life that the monster brought. Winter dance (including the Booger Dance, which expresses the Cherokees’ anxiety at the white invasion) are to be given only during times of frost, lest they affect the growth of vegetation by attracting cold and death...read more

Product Description: Anton Chekhov has long been regarded as the master of the Russian short story and one of the leading exponents of the genre in world literature. This volume comprises the classic selection edited by Birkett and Struve, in Russian, here furnished with a new bibliography, and complements the stories and plays by Chekhov already available in the BCP Russian Texts series...read more

Product Description: The Rivals is the first major comedy by Richard Sheridan, a radical Irish actor and politician in George III's England. Not quite as complex and astute as his later She Stoops to Conquer, the Rivals remains a warm, unforgettable, and very, very funny play...read more

Product Description: In this second edition of the acclaimed Smith and Kraus' Ultimate Monologue Index , over 800 more monologues than the first edition are at your fingertips. A monologue for any conceivable circumstance is only minutes away with The Ultimate Monologue Index, Second Edition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)