War and Theatrical Innovation
War and Theatrical Innovation

Author: Victor Emeljanow

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-14

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1137602252

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This book examines the relationship between wartime conflict and theatre practices. Bringing together a diverse collection of essays in one volume, it offers both a geographically and historically wide view of the subject, taking examples from Britain, Australia and America to the Middle East, Korea and China, and spanning the fifth century BCE to the present day. It explores the ways in which theatre practices have been manipulated for use in political and military propaganda, such as the employment of scenographers to work on camouflage and the application of acting methods in espionage training. It also maps the change in relationships between performers and audiences as a result of conflict, and the emergence of new forms of patronage during wartime theatre-going, boosting morale at periods when social structures and identity were being destabilized.

CODE NAME: THE FOX
CODE NAME: THE FOX

Author: Dr. Hal Bradley, DD

Publisher: eBookIt.com

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1456640461

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In this explosive episode, Harold and Arty infiltrate a Haitian Cartel ran by a voodoo practicing "Don" who is ruthless and merciless to his victims and adversaries by using voodoo "magic" on them. Harold becomes a security advisor to the Don, known as "El Barbacoa" or The Barbecue... Their ventures take them to the Haitian-Jamaican controlled environments of both Vancouver and Montreal Canada. In the meantime, Mack Shelton becomes the SAC (Special agent in charge) of the Miami-Dade US Customs office While DEA agent John becomes the SAC of the Seattle-based office. Putting together a joint-operation between Canada and the United States becomes a primary mission in the eradication of the Haitian Don's businesses in both countries...... In the end, the Don of Haiti flees to Argentina in South America in the hopes of evading capture, but does he? Does he survive Harold and Arty's wrath and commitment to kill every Cartel leader they encounter? "A must-read episode in the ongoing war Harold Brandon has declared on the Cartels of the world" Dr. Hal Bradley DD

The Materiality of Numbers
The Materiality of Numbers

Author: Karenleigh A. Overmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-05-25

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1009361279

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This is a book about numbers – what they are as concepts and how and why they originate – as viewed through the material devices used to represent and manipulate them. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them. Overmann is the first to explore how material devices contribute to numerical thinking, initially by helping us to visualize and manipulate the perceptual experience of quantity that we share with other species. She explores how and why numbers are conceptualized and then elaborated, as well as the central role that material objects play in both processes. Overmann's volume thus offers a view of numerical cognition that is based on an alternative set of assumptions about numbers, their material component, and the nature of the human mind and thinking.

The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater
The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater

Author: Carey Kasten

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-02-16

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1611483824

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The Cultural Politics of Twentieth-Century Spanish Theater argues that twentieth-century artists used the Golden Age Eucharist plays called autos sacramentales to reassess the way politics and the arts interact in the Spanish nation’s past and present, and to posit new ideas for future relations between the state and the national culture industry. The book traces the phenomenon of the twentieth-century auto to show how theater practitioners revisited this national genre to manifest different, oftentimes opposing, ideological and aesthetic agendas. It follows the auto from the avant-garde stagings and rewritings of the form in the early twentieth century, to the Francoist productions by the Teatro Nacional de la Falange, to postmodern parodies of the form in the era following Franco’s death to demonstrate how twentieth-century Spanish dramatists use the auto in their reassessment of the nation’s political and artistic past, and as a way of envisioning its future.

The Primate Fossil Record
The Primate Fossil Record

Author: Walter Carl Hartwig

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-04-11

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780521663151

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A comprehensive treatment of primate paleontology. Profusely illustrated and up to date, it captures the complete history of the discovery and interpretation of primate fossils. The chapters range from primate origins to the advent of anatomically modern humans. Each emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the fossils, and evolution of the adaptive radiations they represent. The Primate Fossil Record summarizes objectively the many intellectual debates surrounding the fossil record and provides a foundation of reference information on the last two decades of astounding discoveries and worldwide field research for physical anthropologists, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists.

Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 2
Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 2

Author: Louis de Bonis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-05-03

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780521660754

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What is the place of Europe in the origin of humankind? While our earliest human ancestors may have come out of Africa, many of our more recent ancestors and those of other primates left their fossil remains in Europe and the Near East. Hominoid primates including Dryopithecus in Spain and Hungary, Oreopithecus in Italy, and Ouranopithecus in Greece flourished in the Miocene, approximately 10-7 million years ago. This volume examines these and other hominoid fossils found in Eurasia and discusses what we can learn using biostratigraphic and ecological frameworks. In addition, new methods of analyzing and visualizing fossil hominoids are explored, including CT-based and computer-assisted virtual reconstruction of fossils to allow three-dimensional images of external and internal morphology of even fragmentary or distorted fossils. This volume will be invaluable for practicing palaeoanthropologists and palaeontologists regardless of specialty.