Author: Andre Lepecki
Publisher: Wesleya
Keywords: theory, performance, dance, essays, presence
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-03-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0819566128
ISBN-13: 9780819566126

Of the Presence of the Body gathers nine original essays by eminent scholars in the fields of dance and performance studies. Its focus is the historical, cultural and political contexts that inform choreographic and dance practices and critical readings of dance--in other words, how dance operates as critical discourse. The question that runs throughout the essays is the theoretical and political problem of "how dances come to be seen," how the presence of the body leaves its mark on critical theories and performances. Focusing exclusively on 20th century dance, the interdisciplinary perspecti

Author: Andre Lepecki
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: movement, politics, performance, dance, exhausting
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-01-20
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415362547
ISBN-13: 9780415362542

The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, this new generation of choreographers challenge our understanding of dance by exhausting the concept of movement. Their work demands to be read as performed extensions of the radical politics implied

Authors:Sally Banes, Andre Lepecki,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: performance, worlds, senses
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-07
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415281865
ISBN-13: 9780415281867

An edited collection of essays on the role of the senses in performance. Sight is the only sense to have been investigated in any great depth in relation to performance so far. This volume is spearheading a growing movement to start examining the other senses and their role in performance. The book covers a lot of ground: all the sense are discussed in relation to Western and non-Western performance, including performance art, opera, dance and drama.

Authors:Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: solid, mechanics, applications, plasticity, elasticity, behaviour, materials, volume, mechanical
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 1998-11-30
List price: $285.00
ISBN-10: 079234894X
ISBN-13: 9780792348948

Advances in technology are demanding ever-increasing mastery over the materials being used: the challenge is to gain a better understanding of their behaviour, and more particularly of the relations between their microstructure and their macroscopic properties. This two-volume work, of which this is the first volume, aims to provide the means by which this challenge may be met. Starting from the mechanics of deformation, it develops the laws governing macroscopic behaviour -- expressed as the constitutive equations -- always taking account of the physical phenomena which underlie rheological b

Authors:Dominique François, André Pineau, André Zaoui,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mechanics, contact, solid, applications, fracture, damage, behaviour, materials, volume, viscoplasticity, mechanical
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1998-11-30
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 0792348958
ISBN-13: 9780792348955

Designing new structural materials, extending lifetimes and guarding against fracture in service are among the preoccupations of engineers, and to deal with these they need to have command of the mechanics of material behaviour. The first volume of this two-volume work deals with elastic and elastoplastic behaviour; this second volume continues with viscoelasticity, damage, fracture (resistance to cracking) and contact mechanics. As in Volume I, the treatment starts from the active mechanisms on the microscopic scale and develops the laws of macroscopic behaviour. Chapter I deals with

Authors:Andre Bationo, Andre Bationo, Boaz Waswa, Job Kihara,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: saharan, africa, challenges, opportunities, sub, management, integrated, soil, fertility, advances
Number of Pages: 1094
Published: 2007-11-14
List price: $279.00
ISBN-10: 1402057598
ISBN-13: 9781402057595

Food insecurity is a central concern and a fundamental challenge for human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production, results in low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risks and lack of empowerment. Land degradation and soil fertility depletion are considered the major threats to food security and natural resource conservation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Investments in technology, policy and institutional reforms are needed to increase agricultural productivity to ensure food security and sustained national economies. Past research has generated numerous soil f

Authors:Andre Kamkin, Andre Kamkin, Irina Kiseleva,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: cells, tissues, mechanosensitivity, channels, ion, mechanosensitive
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2007-12-04
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 140206425X
ISBN-13: 9781402064258

This book presents the latest findings in mechanosensitive ion channel research compiled by a number of internationally recognized experts in the field of mechanosensitivity, specializing in mechanosensitive or mechanically gated ion channels and the underlying mechanosensitive signaling cascades. "Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues: Mechanosensitive Ion Channels" defines and discusses key problems of cellular mechanobiology, describing the methods for studying mechanosensitive ion channels, the role of lipid bilayer mechanics in mechanosensation, and the molecular organization, physiolog