Ballet dancers, such as Moira Shearer, Peter Martins, and Igor Youskevitch depict their careers and styles of dance

Explains the plot of the Nutcracker ballet, looks at its music, choreography, and set and costume designs, and compares various productions of the ballet

Product Description: A profusely illustrated storehouse of the funny, the bizarre, and the remarkable. It examines the various historical viewpoints of physicians-the doctor as image-maker and healer, the afflictions that defeated him, the quackeries that deluded him, and the social conditions that shaped his patients...read more

Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things.With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, Sister of Wisdom is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history. (view table of contents)

Product Description: For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography and discography, and made other minor changes. Also included is an essay by Marianne Richert Pfau which delineates the connection between music and text in the Symphonia...read more

Product Description: Hildegard of Bingen, twelfth-century German nun, mystic, prophet and political moralist, was widely consulted as an oracle and wrote prolifically on doctrinal matters, as well as on secular matters like medicine, She publicly preached monastic reform, founded two nunneries, and was embroiled in the politics surrounding popes and anti-popes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certain heretics around 1300 venerate a woman as the Holy Spirit incarnate and another as the Angelic Pope?In From Virile Woman to WomanChrist, Barbara Newman asks these and other questions to trace a gradual and ambiguous transition in the gender strategies of medieval religious women. An egalitarian strain in early Christianity affirmed that once she asserted her commitment to Christ through a vow of chastity, monastic profession, or renunciation of family ties, a woman could become "virile," or equal to a man. While the ideal of the "virile woman" never disappeared, another ideal slowly evolved in medieval Christianity. By virtue of some gender-related trait—spotless virginity, erotic passion, the capacity for intense suffering, the ability to imagine a feminine aspect of the Godhead—a devout woman could be not only equal, but superior to men; without becoming male, she could become a "womanChrist," imitating and representing Christ in uniquely feminine ways.Rooted in women's concrete aspirations and sufferings, Newman's "womanChrist" model straddles the bounds of orthodoxy and heresy to illuminate the farther reaches of female religious behavior in the Middle Ages. From Virile Woman to WomanChrist will generate compelling discussion in the fields of medieval literature and history, history of religion, theology, and women's studies.

A gift set includes an illustrated biography of the twelfth-century abbess and visionary, accompanied by a guide to understanding medieval music and a compact disc of her music, the sequel to the double platinum album, Chant.

Product Description: For vacationers, this is an informative travel planner to the country's more appealing destinations.

Text and pictures show scenes and steps from the ballets 'Sleeping Beauty,' 'Giselle,' 'Coppelia,' 'Swan Lake,' and 'The Nutcracker,' while the enclosed CD includes the stories told scene-by-scene.

Presents the stories of Giselle, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake, includes choreographic and historical information, and features an audio CD with musical highlights

Product Description: For this revised edition of Hildegard's liturgical song cycle, Barbara Newman has redone her prose translations of the songs, updated the bibliography and discography, and made other minor changes. Also included is an essay by Marianne Richert Pfau which delineates the connection between music and text in the Symphonia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age. But for a woman of the twelfth century her achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Barbara Newman, a premier Hildegard authority, brings major scholars together to present an accurate portrait of the Benedictine nun and her many contributions to twelfth-century religious, cultural, and intellectual life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom was the Father of only one Son but many daughters—including Lady Philosophy, Lady Love, Dame Nature, and Eternal Wisdom...read more

Product Description: (Limelight). A critic and writer on dance for well over twenty years, Barbara Newman has gone in search of teachers and coaches, directors, choreographers and stagers former dancers who had turned the focus of their own experience on others to explain the state of ballet today...read more

Provides a close-up look at the terrorist group Hezbollah, the so-called 'party of God,' discussing its training, organization, goals, and capabilities to conduct terrorist operations throughout the United States through the use of sleeper cells, and examines efforts to combat Hezbollah on the homefront. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: “Frauenlob” was the stage name of Heinrich von Meissen (c. 1260–1318), a medieval German poet-minstrel. A famous and controversial figure in his day, Frauenlob (meaning “praise of ladies”) exercised a strong influence on German literature into the eighteenth century...read more

Product Description: Detective Jeffrey Bones solves crimes—but this time the crime is personal. He’s at a science museum and his blue Tyrannosaurus rex is missing. Could someone have stolen it? Perhaps there’s something in Bones’s detective bag that can help solve this mystery. . . .

Product Description: Jeffrey Bones?s teacher, Mr. Gale, loses things a lot. One day, Mr. Gale says he can?t find Bones?s math test, but Bones knows he turned it in. It?s time for him to use his detective skills. Can Bones find his test and get an ?excellent? grade?