This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline. Performance Art first became popular in the fifties when artists began creating 'happenings'. Since then the artist as a performer has challenged many of the accepted rules of the theatre and radically altered our notion of what constitutes visual art. This is the first publication to outline the essential characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for teaching the subject as a disci...

Underland Arcana continues its deep exploration of our mercurial psyches.This issue contains stories by A. P. Howell, Scott Edelman, W. T. Paterson, Ben Curl, Mike Robinson, Eric Witchey, D. Thea Baldrick, and Mattia Ravasi. Stories about what lurks in wells, yards, and the future. Stories about how we piece together our histories. Stories about wishes and witches, and the scientific intersection of both. Stories about how we hide our fears in plain sight, and oh, indeed, stories a...

The Undertaker: Rise of the DeadmanStep into the shadows and experience the chilling journey of wrestling’s most iconic legend. From his eerie debut at Survivor Series 1990 to his unforgettable WrestleMania streak, The Undertaker redefined fear, storytelling, and dominance inside the squared circle.This gripping, unofficial biography uncovers:The early life of Mark Calaway and his evolution into:* The PhenomLegendary rivalries with Kane, Shawn Michaels, Mankind, and...

"[Gangs in America′s Communities] is one of the most comprehensive treatments of gangs in the marketplace. . . . I highly recommend its adoption as you will not be disappointed and, most importantly, neither will your students."—Elvira White-Lewis, Texas A&M University-CommerceGangs in America′s Communities, Third Edition blends theory with current research to help readers identify essential features associated with youth violence and gangs, as well...

Originally published in 1983, this book discusses an important ideological development: the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the ruler’s authority over his subjects. It maintains that such a concept emerged in French political thought of the sixteenth century and was promptly assimilated into existing systems of ideas. The book re-interprets numerous aspects of the French kingdom’s social composition, means of government, economic condition ...

Underland Arcana reveals the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. This issue contains stories by A. P. Howell, Louis Evans, Christopher Hawkins, Jon Lasser, Josh Rountree, Nikoline Kaiser, Breanna Bright, and J. A. W. McCarthy. Stories about family, stories about theft, stories about ghosts, stories about the weight of history, stories about weight we bring to history, stories about being lost and being found, and stories about the gravity of grief. These are the storie...

The problems of the U.S. steel industry have been a source of public controversy for over twenty years. The industry has grown substantially smaller since the 1960s and hundreds of thousands of steelworkers have lost their jobs. Some steel firms and many steel mills have shut down entirely,profoundly affecting regional economies based on steel and its related industries. An industrial transformation of this magnitude has inevitably given rise to efforts to identify its underlying causes. T...

Calipered kinematic alignment was proposed by Dr. Stephen M. Howell to enable the accurate and individualized placement of total knee components coincident within ± 0.5 mm of the patient's pre-arthritic alignment. The aim was to restore the patient's native joint kinematics and thereby address the well documented 20% dissatisfaction when total knee replacement is performed using traditional, or mechanical alignment techniques.With Dr. Stefano A. Bini and Dr. G. Daxton Steele as co-editors,...

There are many places to run and hide in the deep dark between the starsXan is the owner/operator of the Kitrino Alogo, a small, scrappy freighter and courier vessel. There’s a viable living to be eeked out making last-mile cargo runs and subcontracting from bigger corporations…especially when you supplement your income with the occasional bit of smuggling or other illegality.Raj is the proprietor of a bar on a station where people don’t ask too ma...

This book is dedicated to those individuals in the U.S. Government who have begun to recognize the full implications of the challenge which this country confronts in microelectronics race, and who are beginning to take steps to deal with that challenge.

Jean Bodin was a figure of great importance in European intellectual history, known as a jurist, associate of kings and courtiers in sixteenth-century France, and author of influential works in the fields of constitutional and social thought, historical writing, witchcraft, and a great deal else besides. Best known for his contribution to formulating the modern doctrine of sovereignty, Bodin was a scholar of exceptional range, whose works provoked controversy in his own time and have conti...

From the bestselling author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of One Hundred Clocks, A.M. Howell, comes a gripping new adventure filled with buried secrets and dark lies, set against the evocative backdrop of the Edwardian era.MAY, 1910As the blazing Halley's comet draws close to the earth, Nancy is uprooted to start a new life in Suffolk with a grandfather she has never met. Wit...