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This text provides an account of the comparative physiology and functional anatomy of the autonomic nervous system, with an emphasis on non-mammalian vertebrates. It discusses both "classical" non-adrenergic and non-cholinergic types of neurotransmission.

This much-needed volume focuses on the various ways in which the Classics have influenced Russian literature at particularly significant junctures.

Focusing primarily on a particular algebraic model, the Interacting Boson Approximation Model (IBM), this book presents an approach to understanding the atomic nucleus that exploits simple algebraic techniques. It outlines the algebraic structure of the IBM and other algebraic models.

Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France raises fundamental and disturbing questions about the ease with which democratic legal systems can be subverted.

The complex nature of the relationship between theatre and politics is explored in this study of the Polish theatre scene. It traces the development of the alternative theatre movement from its origins, in the 1950s, through to its decline in the late 1980s.

This study uses documents from Stalin's personal files in order to study the history of the creation of the anti-Hitler coalition. The mechanisms of decision-making and its key figures of the time are incorporated in the discussion.

This text encompasses "Blad/Brunet" by Daniil Gink and "Nijinsky" by Alexei Burykin, two of the dramatic works to appear in Russia in the 1990s.

This volume considers optical parametric generation and amplification (OPG/OPA), as a means for producing a tunable optical parametric device. It reviews the OPA/OPG systems using various crystals pumped by lasers at various frequencies with ranging pulse duration.

Focusing on Commedia Dell'Arte, this work provides a historical and critical commentary of the Commedia. It highlights common factors between this genre and that of the Japanese Noh theatre. Included is the play "Please Be Gentle" which explores tricks and devices of Commedia Dell'Arte acting.

This work explores the religious changes taking place in the important segment of Jewry which now constitutes the majority of Jews in the Jewish state. The relationship between the factions of Ashkenazi Jewry, the irreconcilable religious camps and the body of secularized Jews is examined.

An analysis of the key issues involved in Europe's defence-industrial reorganization process. The issues covered include divergencies between practice and policy in NATO US-European positions, the high cost of collaborative ventures and competition versus concentration.

In the past, prototypes for characterizing drug use were heroin and cocaine, and research focused on the possible commonalities between any substance and these drugs. This book explores the problems of the commonalities approach by looking at dissimilarities as well.

With increased emphasis on the molecular and genetic underpinnings of cellular phenomena, this volume covers the physiology of the immune system, disease entities related to immune system dysfunction and the underlying pathophysiologic mechanisms of dysfunction.

Part One illustrates the various approaches - philosophical, historical, linguistic, comparative and dogmatic - being applied to Jewish law by contemporary scholars. Part Two chronicles developments affecting both Jews and Jewish law in the United States, Israel and Europe.

Explores the life and art of the ethnographic film maker, John Marshall. Included is an autobiographical essay in which Marshall assesses his 40-year involvement with the San peoples of South Africa, and his films, from the 1957 award-winning "The Hunters" to his work in progress, "Death by Myth".

A monograph on inflationary cosmology and cosmological phase transitions, investigating modern cosmology's relationship to elementary particle physics. This work also includes a non-technical discussion of inflationary cosmology for those unfamiliar with the theory.

This work examines the problems encountered by Denisov during composition, and give precise details of all his musical and literary works, his scientific studies, his notography and discography, numerous examples, and copies of documents and photographs.

Intended for anthropologists, these collected papers present the author's concern with modern thought and the problem of ethnography. They demonstrate that the arguments formulated in Fabian's "Time and the Other" were the result of practical problems he faced working as an ethnographer.

This reference covers all aspects of soccer, including basic personal and physical requirements, training regimens, nutritional requirements, plus prevention and management of injuries. It should be of interest to parents of players, paediatricians, sports physicians, and other sports scientists.

This book covers recent developments in laser plasma physics such as absorption, instability, energy transport and radiation from the standpoint of theory and simulation for plasma corona, showing how the elements for the high density compression depend on the interaction physics and heat transport.

This volume contains letters answering questions from students and theatre professionals engaged in acting, directing or writing critical studies of Bond's work. It features productions of "The Worlds", "Summer", "Human Cannon", "War Plays", "Restoration", "Jackets" and "Olly's Prison".

This book examines those countries of Southern Europe influenced by the phases of European construction and countries of Latin America where the opening up process has changed the traditional role played by multinational corporations.

Studies the history of natural historical investigations of insects in the light of the growing institutional organization of the agricultural sciences in the United States and Canada, exploring how this context has shaped the emergence of economic entomology and ecology.

This work examines the Japanese Noh theatre historically, philosophically (with an evaluation of Zeami's treatises) and in respect of the Noh training. It includes a short play, "The Dove", which reflects the influence of the Noh theatre and provides references to its cultural source.

This Handbook fulfils a pressing need within the area of psychological measurement in diabetes research and practice by providing access to material which has either been widely dispersed through the psychological and medical literature or has not

An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.

Discusses both parallels and distinctions between the history of modern dance in the United States and Germany. This work examines the phenomena of the modern dance movement between 1920 and 1968 in an international context, focusing on its beginnings in Europe and its philosophy.

This work examines the evolution of Japanese direct investment in Europe and explores its determinants. It then illustrates how, as multinationals, Japanese firms adapt to local conditions and try to take advantage of a global organization.

This volume examines the early modern methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The author weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times.