Author: Joseph Roach
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: dead, cities
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1996-04-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0231104618
ISBN-13: 9780231104616

The colorful handmade costumes of beads and feathers swirl frenetically, as the Mardi Gras Indians dance through the streets of New Orleans in remembrance of a widely disputed cultural heritage. Iroquois Indians visit London in the early part of the eighteenth century and give birth to the "feathered people" in the British popular imagination. What do these seemingly disparate strands of culture share over three hundred years and several thousand miles of ocean? Artfully interweaving theatrical, musical, and ritual performance from the eighteenth century to the present in London and New Orle

Authors:Janelle G. Reinelt, Joseph Roach,
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: performance, theory, text, theater, revised, critical, enlarged
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0472068865
ISBN-13: 9780472068869

Critical Theory and Performance presents a broad range of critical and theoretical methods and applies them to contemporary and historical performance genres—from stage plays, dance-dramas, performance art, cabaret, stand-up comedy, and jazz to circus, street theater, and shamanistic ritual. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical theory’s rich and diverse contributions to the study of drama, theater, and performance, the book has been highly influential for more than a decade in providing fertile ground for academic investigations in the lively field of performance studies. Th

Authors:Prof John Roach, John Roach,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: private, enterprise, activity, public, education, england, secondary
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1991-07-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415035724
ISBN-13: 9780415035729

In this comprehensive and extensively researched history of secondary education in England between 1870 and 1902, John Roach argues for a reassessment of the relative importance of state regulation and private provision. Although public schools enjoyed their greatest prestige during this period, their commitment to true educational reform and progress has been exaggerated. The role of the public school, Roach suggests, was social rather than academic, and as such its power and influence is to be interpreted mainly in relation to the growth of new social elites, and the needs of the empire for

Author: G. F. Roach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: functions
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 1982-06-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521282888
ISBN-13: 9780521282888

Green’s functions are an important tool used in solving boundary value problems associated with ordinary and partial differential equations. This self-contained and systematic introduction to Green’s functions has been written with applications in mind. The material is presented in an unsophisticated and rather more practical manner than usual. Consequently advanced undergraduates and beginning postgraduate students in mathematics and the applied sciences will find this account particularly attractive. Many exercises and examples have been supplied throughout to reinforce comprehen

Author: G. F. Roach
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: princeton, series, applied, mathematics, introduction, perturbations, scattering, time, dependent, wave
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2007-08-13
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0691113408
ISBN-13: 9780691113401

This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to wave scattering in nonstationary materials. G. F. Roach’s aim is to provide an accessible, self-contained resource for newcomers to this important field of research that has applications across a broad range of areas, including radar, sonar, diagnostics in engineering and manufacturing, geophysical prospecting, and ultrasonic medicine such as sonograms. New methods in recent years have been developed to assess the structure and properties of materials and surfaces. When light, sound, or some other wave energy is directed at the mat

Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Keywords: sex, science, coupling, curious, bonk
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393064646
ISBN-13: 9780393064643

The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey’s attic.Mary Roach, "the funniest science writer in the country" (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), de

Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
Keywords: sex, audiobook, science, coupling, curious, bonk
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $39.25
ISBN-10: 1423316711
ISBN-13: 9781423316718

The study of sexual physiology – what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better – has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey’s attic.Mary Roach, “The funniest science writer in the country” (Burkhard Bilger of The New Yorker), devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get