Death wouldave been mercifula] I fell asleep. When I woke up, I was among a battlefielda]noa]a field of the dead. I looked around, the sun rose in a blood red sky, and there was a fog covering the landa]all the same, I saw the state that death had left this place in. I dropped to my knees as an overwhelming and almost deafening feeling of guilt, anguish and haunted feelings of complete and utter shock at this catastrophe hit me. There was no mercy here, there was no battlea]thisa]this was a slaughter! As I looked down and began to cry, I saw blood on my hands and the thought that will haunt me for years hit mea]did I do this? No one living terror anyone could come up with was so evil as Raven. Shead done this before, but only to one galaxy; itas worse this timea]far worse. Unimaginable numbers have been destroyed, tortured and murdered for no more reason then Ravenas own amusement. What is to come from this slaughter? What is to happen to me because of all the damage and pain she has caused? A better question is, will she win, or will there be some kind of saving grace for existence?

The French mathematician Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) is remembered for his formula which relates complex numbers and trigonometry. Reissued here is the revised and expanded 1738 second edition of the influential textbook on probability theory that he first published in English in 1718.

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Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even ‘dead’, but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during the late 1960s and 1970s, developing it into a vehicle for studying interpersonal communication that simultaneously deployed and questioned contemporary sociology and psychology. Focussing on the artists Allan Kaprow, Marta Minujín, Carolee Schneemann and Lea Lublin, it charts how they revised and retooled the premises of the Happening within a wider network of dynamic international activity. The resulting performances directly intervened in the wider discourse of communication studies, as it manifested in the politics of countercultural dropout, soft power and cultural diplomacy, alternative pedagogies, sociological art and feminist consciousness-raising.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.