Hotel Operations: Theories and Applications

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Hotel Operations: Theories And Applications
Shane Blum
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Budget or target: the choice between input and output strategies.: An article from: RAND Journal of Economics
Nolan H. Miller , and Amit I. Pazgal
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Title: Budget or target: the choice between input and output strategies.
Author: Nolan H. Miller
Publication: RAND Journal of Economics (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2006
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Building capacity for innovation: a submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance 2004 Pre-Budget Consultation Presented by the Partnership ... An article from: Canadian Chemical News

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Building capacity for innovation: a submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance 2004 Pre-Budget Consultation Presented by the Partnership ... An article from: Canadian Chemical News
Roland Andersson
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Title: Building capacity for innovation: a submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance 2004 Pre-Budget Consultation Presented by the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering, September 7, 2004.
Author: Roland Andersson
Publication: Canadian Chemical News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2004
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The Capacity to Budget
Allen Schick
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Budgeting has become a conflict-ridden process in which politicians frequently resort to ad hoc procedures in order to make it through that year's required actions. Allen Schick provides evidence of the recent breakdown in both the budget process (missed deadlines, omnibus legislation, and improvised procedures) and policies (summed up in massive and seemingly chronic deficits) as testaments of political failure. He sets forth a theory that links growth in the economy to growth in federal expenditures and shows how budgeting was transformed in the post-war period into a growth-oriented process through changes in procedures as well as in the composition of federal expenditures.

The Capacity To Budget. (book reviews): An article from: Policy Studies Journal

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The Capacity To Budget. (book reviews): An article from: Policy Studies Journal
Peter Kobrak
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Title: The Capacity To Budget. (book reviews)
Author: Peter Kobrak
Publication: Policy Studies Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1993
Publisher: Policy Studies Organization
Volume: v21 Issue: n2 Page: p396(9)

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Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery: Volume 2--Budget Support Sector Wide Approaches and Capacity Development in Public Financial M (Dac Guidelines and Reference)

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Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery: Volume 2--Budget Support Sector Wide Approaches and Capacity Development in Public Financial M (Dac Guidelines and Reference)

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High Capacity Free Space Bacteriorhodopsin Base Reconfigurable Crossbar

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High Capacity Free Space Bacteriorhodopsin Base Reconfigurable Crossbar

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This is a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY SENSORSDIRECTORATE report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A091153. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: A novel bacteriorhodopsin based photonic crossbar system for broadband communications is proposed. This free-space dynamically reconfigurable NxN crossbar switch utilizes an intelligent holographic system for routing and switching by dynamically reconfigurable gratings of bacteriorhodopsin, which has high write/read photocyclicity that is greater than 10 to the 6th power. The major advantages of the system include large interconnectivity density, transparent data redistribution, and fiber optic bandwidth capacity. Furthermore, the switching device resolves optical-to-electronic and electronic- to-optical conversion bottlenecks and reduces signal-to-noise degradation which is due to the conversions. This crossbar design is completely free of internal blocking which is one of the major drawbacks of guided optical crossbars. The system takes advantage of the parallelism and multidimensionality inherent in optics and can be scaled to a large capacity of NxN, while it offers the potential for low weight and portability which are a projected requirement for future broadband communications. In addition, a three laser beam technique is developed to investigate holographic diffraction characteristics of M-type phase holograms and transient gratings in a bacteriorhodopsin film. A peak diffraction efficiency is achieved by controlling the ratio of write to pump intensity: A maximized transient peak diffraction efficiency approaches a saturated value when the ratio is approximately unity.

An optimal solution technique for the joint replenishment problem with storage and transport capacities and budget constraints [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]

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An optimal solution technique for the joint replenishment problem with storage and transport capacities and budget constraints [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]
M.A. Hoque
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The joint replenishment problem, which is concerned with the problem of coordinating the replenishment of a group of items that may be ordered jointly, has been studied extensively and many heuristic solution procedures have been presented in the literature. To obtain the minimum of the total cost, the main complexity lies in determining the appropriate lower bound of the basic cycle time. Also there is a lack of a global optimal solution technique of the problem. This paper presents its extended model to include some practical issues and develops a simple procedure to calculate the appropriate lower bound of the basic cycle time. By a comparative study of a numerical example, it demonstrates the inabilities of the available lower bound formulae in the literature. It also develops a generalized global optimal solution algorithm of the extended model and illustrates this with a numerical example. Then a comparative study of the results of seven numerical examples is carried out to highlight the global optimality of the solution technique.

Public goods with congestion [An article from: Journal of Economic Theory]

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Public goods with congestion [An article from: Journal of Economic Theory]
O. Birulin
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Economic Theory, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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I consider the problem of the efficient provision of a congested (limited capacity) public good in a setting with asymmetric information. I show, in particular, that when the capacity of the good is limited, in a wide class of economies it is possible to construct an incentive compatible mechanism that always produces the good at the efficient level, balances the budget and satisfies voluntary participation constraints. This result is in contrast with the corresponding impossibility result for pure public goods due to Mailath and Postlewaite (Rev. Econ. Stud. 57 (1990) 351-359) and Rob (J. Econ. Theory 47 (1989) 307-333).

RELATIVE RISK CHARACTERISTICS OF ROLLING HORIZON HEDGING HEURISTICS FOR CAPACITY EXPANSION.: An article from: Engineering Economist

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RELATIVE RISK CHARACTERISTICS OF ROLLING HORIZON HEDGING HEURISTICS FOR CAPACITY EXPANSION.: An article from: Engineering Economist
Charles D. Mcallister , and Sarah M. Ryan
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Title: RELATIVE RISK CHARACTERISTICS OF ROLLING HORIZON HEDGING HEURISTICS FOR CAPACITY EXPANSION.
Author: Charles D. Mcallister
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Airport and Airway Safety, Capacity, and Intermodal Transportation Act of 1992 : report (to accompany H.R. 4691) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office) (SuDoc Y 1.1/8:102-503)

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Airport and Airway Safety, Capacity, and Intermodal Transportation Act of 1992 : report (to accompany H.R. 4691) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office) (SuDoc Y 1.1/8:102-503)
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
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getting religion and cosmology together.......2000-08-14

Finding intersections between religion and science is tricky business, given that they haven't been on serious speaking terms for a couple of hundred years. I thought this book, in the area of cosmology, did an excellent job of making connections between quantum cosmology and orthodox christianity. While it does not propose pat answers, and refuses to sign up to anyone's dogma, it offers some fascinating ideas. Who would have thought, for example, that the no-boundaries condition that Hawking proposed for his explanation of the early universe, far from denying the existence of God (as Hawking and Sagan say) actually provide an interesting model for the operation of the timeless Trinity in a temporal world? The religion here is perfectly orthodox, though it does not kowtow to fundamentalism, and is perhaps a little too reverent to process theology ideas. There are some excellent and (as far as I can tell) accurate summaries of some very tough and interesting scientific ideas. Excellent reading if your mind isn't already made up on science/religion issues. And if you are willing to work at it some.

Disappointing.......1998-01-21

This book deals with Quantum cosmology, time (most contributors think that god is not eternal), the laws of nature, the problem of mind (they have a reductionist and evolutionary view) and the anthropic principle. The overall view of the book is neotheist. The authors are scientist or theologians.
It is incredible that there is no contribution and no consideration of the many works of the philosopher William Craig, who is the authority in the matter. Many of his articles can be found at leaderu.com, and his book is more serious than this one (the debate with Smith: "Theism, Atheism and Big Bang Cosmology"). Concerning the mind, Moreland's "Immortality" or Swinburne's "The Evolution of the Soul" are better works.

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Everything But the Truth
Peter Murphy
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This book took a long time to write not because of writers block or because the Author was lazy but because it was started fifteen years before the evil done affected the victim sufficiently that its true nature could be demonstrated and because the impediments placed in the path of one who wants to tell his story in Ireland, if it is not popular, are great. It is an indictment of the ones who done the harm and a tribute to the ones that live amongst them.

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Murphy's Law [3 1/2 Diskette, HTML]
Rebecca Sinclair
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Murphy's Law reigns supreme...

What else can explain how Murphy McKenna managed to get herself stuck in an unexpected, early-in-the-season Maine blizzard? In a very remote cabin. With dead phones. And impassable roads. Could there be a worse time for a desperate, badly wounded man to show up on her doorstep?

Instinct demands Murphy not trust Garrett Thayer. After all, the man refuses to give her a straight answer about anything. Even her precious Himalayan cat, Moonshine, is suspicious. Who wouldn't be? Not only is Garrett hurt, he's also apparently been out wandering in the storm with nothing more than a duffel bag stuffed with money, antique jewelry (a bottle of antihistamines?) -- and a gun.

Will Murphy's conscience allow her to turn her back on the handsome stranger who may be a thief, a bank robber, or worse ...?

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Outsmart Murphy's Law: More than 1,200 ingenious, inexpensive, immediate solutions for whatever can go wrong around your home
Earl Proulx
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The Presidency (Let's See Library)
Patricia J. Murphy , and Dana Meachen Rau
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The U.S. Supreme Court (Let's See Library)
Patricia J. Murphy
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Address by Commissioner Murphy before Joint Legal Education Conference, New York State and Otsego County Bar Associations, Cooperstown, New York, December 1, 1962
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Closed-loop system identification experience for flight control law and flying qualities evaluation of a high performance fighter aircraft (SuDoc NAS 1.15:207995)
Patrick C. Murphy
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Congressional Review Act statement of Robert P. Murphy, General Counsel, before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Committee on the ... Representatives (SuDoc GA 1.5/2:T-OGC-97-29)
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A control law design method facilitating control power, robustness, agility, and flying qualities tradeoffs, CRAFT (SuDoc NAS 1.60:208463)
Patrick C. Murphy
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Tasting the Wine Country: Recipes from Romantic Inns and Resorts with CD (Audio)

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Great food, wine, and music for perfect getaways at home! Chefs from 21 acclaimed inns and resorts offer more than 100 dishes for breakfast and dinner, all formatted for the home cook. Inspiring paintings, quotations, and photography will transport you to the wine country. The music CD offers brilliant performances by Grammy-Award winning musicians. Their joyful music combines classical, bluegrass, Latin, and jazz. To your health and happiness!

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A great gift.......2007-01-18

I gave this to my friend at Christmas and she loves it. It includes stories about the recipes and different wine regions in the country. My friend recently invited us over to try the bananas foster recipe by the original chef/creator. It was fabulous.

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In Disappearing Acts, Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor’s focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people in that nation’s "Dirty War." Combining feminism, cultural studies, and performance theory, Taylor analyzes the political spectacles that comprised the war—concentration camps, torture, "disappearances"—as well as the rise of theatrical productions, demonstrations, and other performative practices that attempted to resist and subvert the Argentine military.
Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written, and staged—and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argues that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men—fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military’s representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public—limiting its ability to respond. Those who challenged the dictatorship, from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo to progressive theater practitioners, found themselves in what Taylor describes as "bad scripts." Describing the images, myths, performances, and explanatory narratives that have informed Argentina’s national drama, Disappearing Acts offers a telling analysis of the aesthetics of violence and the disappearance of civil society during Argentina’s spectacle of terror.

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A subjective examination of the Dirty War..........2006-06-17

As a graduate student of Latin-American literature, and a history buff, I can recommend this book to any uninformed individual on the Dirty War and its origins. But at the same time I would recommend that you take some of Dr. Taylor's comments with a grain of salt. Her neo-feminist attitude and strict anti-Christian stance on U.S. politics would lead some readers astray in understaning the Junta and their torture, abuse, rape, and subsequent murder of over 30,000 desaparecidos (disappeared persons).
She begins the book with her analysis of a play entitled "Paso de Dos" in which a woman, who represents the "Patria" is brutally abused in a sexual encounter with a uniformed man in a mud pit - not exactly an appropriate way to begin educating the ignorant reader about Argentine history or theatre. She could have begun differently. But after having read many of the plays of Argentina, and analyzing them in a University setting, I CAN say that Argentine theatre was written in order to be a metaphorical representation of Argentine history and "Paso de Dos" does indeed serve as an accurate metaphor.
Dr. Taylor's basic argument - which is well-documented with pictures, plays, and other historical sources - is that the Dirty War's inevitability lies in the struggle of violence (particularly against women), and that the "feminization" of opponents of past regimes in Argentina coupled with the loss of basic rights to the more subaltern groups of the country when the military are in power, both worked together after the regime of Juan Manuel Rosas to produce the Dirty War.
She gives a brilliant analysis of the Peron regime and the power wielded by both Evita and Isbelita (which had opposite results) and she also includes vivid "testmonios" when analyzing the claims of torture on the average citizens of the country from 1976-1983. I applaud her objectivity when describing the Junta and their homophobic and sexually charged desire to create an artifical definition of what it means to be "Argentine".
Now to why I give it only three stars: she does an horrific job at comparing the torture of the fascist government and their murder of the innocents of Argentina to the actions of the religious right in the U.S.A. today. As a member of what many would refer to as "the religious right", I am aghast that she would even begin to think that right-wing Christians would be in favor of creating a government even remotely similar to the Junta. Her comments in the opening chapters and the last chapter expose her misunderstanding of what it means to be Christian - because none of her comments contain the use of any Scripture, they are made from the standpoint of being a spectator, and, like most ignorant academics, she probably confuses Biblical Christianity with Roman Catholicism and sees little to no difference between them because she does not know theology.
Dr. Taylor should be ashamed at even thinking of bringing American politics into a book about Fascist Argentina thirty years ago. There is NO, I repeat, NO comparison to be made between the Junta and the religious right in the U.S.A. As a Christian, my goal is to show non-believers that they are sinners, that they diserve hell, that Christ died to pay for the penalty of their sin so that they do not have to go to hell, and that by a repentant faith in Him alone one can be saved from eternal damnation. I believe that homosexuality (because she brings it up in the book) is indeed sinful - but I would never torture a homosexual. Even if I considered homosexuals my enemies (which I do not), Christ commands me to love my enemies. I also would not slit the stomach of a pregnant woman who I planned to throw out of a plane to make her body sink faster, nor use electric shocks to torture "subversives", nor even think about mixing the Catholic church - or even my own Church - with the state of a country. The consequences of mixing church with state are evident in 16th century Europe - when under Bloody Mary thousands of Protestants were murdered at the stake. The last thing a Christian would want is to give the power of the state authority over the Church and vice versa - but try telling that to Taylor - she is more concerned with praising Hilary Clinton and other liberal women in a book that is supposed to be about Argentina. Go figure.
So, in conclusion: read this while only paying attention to what she has to say about Argentina and its history. That is valuable. Her commentary is not.

Not a First Resource Seeking Information on The Dirty War .......2005-03-10

Diana Taylor is a brilliant writer and an obviously informed expert on the Dirty War of Argentina (1963 - 1976), a writer who has composed a Doctoral Thesis approach to her well-informed information about this misunderstood atrocity that nearly destroyed Argentina. Yet sound as her thoughts are and intensely well documented though her theories prove to be, this book is not recommended as the first line of information about this subject.

Taylor's premise involves theories as to how the Dirty War, or the atmosphere under the military juntas that replaced Peronism, are based on her observations as to how the public remained fearfully silent during this time of concentration camps, torture, atrocities, and most importantly the 'desaparecidos' (or disappearing ones) whose only voices were in the quiet marches of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo. She informs us that the use of plays and spectacles attended by the Argentinians were in their own way a show of defiance to the manipulative military juntas. Performance, theatre, and poetry were the elected means of tacitly protesting the totalitarian military rule that choked this country until the fall of the juntas in the war over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands with Great Britain.

While all of what Taylor has to say is interesting and novel and important, what is needed to gain the most from this heady book is more time spent educating the reader about the political and social history of Argentina. Though the "Dirty War' is at times referenced in conversations about South American politics, sadly most of what we as the general public know of what lead up to the military takeover of the government is what we glean from such feeble resources as the musical EVITA! Though Taylor attempts to reference the state of Peronism in contrasting the fall of Juan and Evita (and subsequently Isabelita) Peron as a period of hallowing the feminine influence of the 'weak' but loved leaders, she jumps too quickly into the theory of the military overthrow as a reaction to the feminine, the desecration of the female standard so toppled by the military in its abusive treatment of women and children.

Where Taylor particularly shines (and there is MUCH to appreciate in this turgid, difficult to read book) is in her extended discussion of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo. Here her theories all seem to gel. What is copiously discussed in the plays, poetry, and public spectacles (and Taylor is an experienced performance artist herself) is very important information, but draws excessive focus to the sedentary response to the Dirty War.

This book is doubtless an important document about a too little understood period of Argentinean history and Taylor is careful to point out similarities of public response in the US and in other countries whose governments seem less and less For and Of and By the people. I would recommend starting with more basic book about this period in time to reap the rewards that Diana Taylor has to offer in DISAPPEARING ACTS: SPECTACLES OF GENDER AND NATIONALISM IN ARGENTINA'S 'DIRTY WAR'. Grady Harp, March 05

Wonderful, fresh look at Argentina's Dirty War.......1998-07-31

Taylor has created beautiful book out of a horrendous period in Argentina. She is a wonderful writer, and the book left me with a prfound sense of sadness and a desire to save the world. I am currently studying the Dirty War and I found this book has been the meat of my studies. She looks at the Dirty War at many different angles and ties them together masterfully. From its theatricality, its war against women, and what we, as Americans, must do as spectators to this Dirty War, Taylor urges that the spectators have the greatest role of all. Even twenty years after the war has ended, Taylor has created a book that forces Americans to evaluate our situation as spectators and contributors to the darkest period of Argentina's recent history. A must read...the book is easy to understand even if you know next to nothing about Argentina.

Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

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Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
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Performing America provides fresh perspectives on the development of visions of both America and "America"--that is, the actual community and the constructed concept--on a variety of theatrical stages. It explores the role of theater in the construction of American identity, highlighting the tension between the desire to categorize American identity and the realization that such categorical uniformity may neither be desirable nor possible.

The topics covered include the links between politics and the stage during the Federalist period, the appropriation of "Indian" artifacts, an exploration of early gender roles, and the metaphorical connections between the theater and western expansion. Other essays treat vaudeville's artistically colonized cultures; Chautauqua's attempt to homogenize culture and commercialize American ideals; W. E. B. Du Bois's pageant, The Star of Ethiopia, as a strategy for constructing "African-American" as "Other" in an attempt to promote a vision of black nationalism; and how theater was used to help immigrants form a new sense of community while joining the resident culture.

The collection then turns to questions of how various ethnic minorities through their recent theatrical work have struggled to argue their identities, especially in relation to the dominant white culture. Two final essays offer critiques of contrasting aspects of the American male.

Throughout, the collection addresses questions of marginality and community, exclusion and inclusion, colonialism and imperialism, heterogeneity and homogeneity, conflict and negotiation, repression and opportunity, failure and success, and, above all, the relationship of American stages at large. It will appeal to readers of a wide range of disciplines including history, American culture, gender studies, and theater studies.

Jeffrey D. Mason is Professor of Theatre, California State University, Bakersfield. J. Ellen Gainor is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Women's Studies, Cornell University.

Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, eds. Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater.(Book Review): An article from: Comparative Drama

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Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, eds. Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater.(Book Review): An article from: Comparative Drama
Thomas P. Adler
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Title: Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor, eds. Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater.(Book Review)
Author: Thomas P. Adler
Publication: Comparative Drama (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2001
Publisher: Comparative Drama
Volume: 35 Issue: 3 Page: 476(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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