Author:
Publisher: Council of Europe
Keywords: agreements, conventions, european
Number of Pages: 582
Published: 1990-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9287116997
ISBN-13: 9789287116994

Author:
Publisher: Council of Europe
Keywords: agreements, conventions, european
Number of Pages: 582
Published: 1994
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9287125872
ISBN-13: 9789287125873

Author: Steven Mailloux
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Keywords: conventions, interpretive
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1982-07
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0801414768
ISBN-13: 9780801414763

Author: Anne K. Kaler
Publisher: Popular Press 1
Keywords: conventions, romantic
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0879727780
ISBN-13: 9780879727789

Traditionally, romance novels have a reputation as being no more than trashy, sex-filled fantasy escapes for frustrated housewives. But books in this genre account for nearly half of the paperbacks published. Contributors examine the patterns used by the romance authors to tell their stories.

Author: Fred L Borch
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Keywords: conventions, geneva
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1607145545
ISBN-13: 9781607145547

In 1859, Henry Dunant, a Swiss citizen, witnessed the horrific aftermath of the Battle of Solferino, in which thousands of wounded soldiers lay abandoned, dying in excruciating pain. Four years later, in 1863, he convened an international conference in Geneva, Switzerland, to form a medical relief organization for assisting the wounded during wartime and protecting medical relief personnel. This was the first Geneva Convention and the birth of the International Red Cross.  Since then, after major global conflicts in which the nature and conduct of wars have evolved, there have been three addi

Author: Bradbrook
Publisher: Foundation Books
Keywords: tragedy, elizabethan, conventions, themes
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8175963271
ISBN-13: 9788175963276

The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintesev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot and characters, and actors’ traditions of presentation are related to the special expectations which a rhetorical training produced in the listeners. The general discussion of tragic conventions is followed by individual studies of how thes

Authors:Barbara Seagram, Marc Smith,
Publisher: Master Point Press
Keywords: conventions, bridge
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 189415407X
ISBN-13: 9781894154079

It doesn’t take long before beginning bridge players want to know more about bidding systems, and especially about conventions. The authors have selected 25 basic conventions and treatments that novice players can easily assimilate into their own methods. They explain clearly and concisely how to use each one, and how it fits into a standard bidding system. Each section ends with a summary chart as well as a self-quiz to ensure that the reader has understood the concepts.