Authors:Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker Ii, Gus Edwa
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: african, diaspora, performance, ritual, theatre, black
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2002-12
List price: $78.50
ISBN-10: 1566399432
ISBN-13: 9781566399432

Generating a new understanding of the past as well as a vision for the future this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today. Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance

Authors:Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II, Gus Edwa
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: african, diaspora, performance, ritual, theatre, black
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2002-11
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1566399440
ISBN-13: 9781566399449

Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today. Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual perfo

Authors:Chad Walker, Eric Walker, Jani Kajala,
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Keywords: game, demo, developer, library, wordware, concept, making, gold
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 1556220480
ISBN-13: 9781556220487

Making a Game Demo: From Concept to Demo Gold provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to getting started in the computer game industry. Written by professional game designers and developers, this book combines the fields of design, art, scripting, and programming in one book to help you take your first steps toward creating a game demo. Discover how the use of documentation can help you organize the game design process. Understand how to model and animate a variety of objects, including human characters. Explore the basics of scripting with Lua. Learn about texturing, vertex light

Authors:Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Victor Hansen, Anna Unkov
Publisher: HCI
Keywords: writing, comprehension, reading, skills, critical, building, character, thinking, stories, favorite, classroom, soul, soup, school, lesson, students, plans, chicken
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2007-08-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0757306969
ISBN-13: 9780757306969

’Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.’ —Martin Luther King, Jr. As a teacher, you have the unique opportunity to teach and inspire your students to be goal-oriented, compassionate, confident, and ambitious. Anna Unkovich, a former teacher of thirty-five years, made a difference in her students’ lives through the daily use of stories from the bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul. For many years, Unkovich read these stories to her students and noticed remarkable changes in them, both academically and personally. Recognizing that t

Authors:Jochen Brüning, Victor W. Guillemin, Victor W. Guill
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: integral, operators, fourier, present, past, mathematics
Number of Pages: 283
Published: 1994-02-18
List price: $137.00
ISBN-10: 3540567410
ISBN-13: 9783540567417

What is the true mark of inspiration? Ideally it may mean the originality, freshness and enthusiasm of a new breakthrough in mathematical thought. The reader will feel this inspiration in all four seminal papers by Duistermaat, Guillemin and Hörmander presented here for the first time ever in one volume. However, as time goes by, the price researchers have to pay is to sacrifice simplicity for the sake of a higher degree of abstraction. Thus the original idea will only be a foundation on which more and more abstract theories are being built. It is the unique feature of this book to combine th

Authors:Lawrence Walker, Joe Walker, Richard J. Hobbs,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, environmental, management, springer, succession, restoration, ecological, linking
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2007-02-13
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 038735302X
ISBN-13: 9780387353029

While studies of restoration and ecological succession have been published independently, there is much overlap between these approaches that has not been adequately explored. Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory. This innovative book recognizes the critical roles of disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, ecological assembly, invasion biology, ecosystem health, and historical ecology in habitat restoration and argues that restoration within a successional

Authors:Victor Montejo,  Victor Perera,
Publisher: Curbstone Pre
Keywords: village, guatemalan, death, testimony
Number of Pages: 113
Published: 1995-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0915306654
ISBN-13: 9780915306657

eyewitness account of army attack, tr V Perera