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Striking a Balance: Dancers Talk About Dancing

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

By Barbara Newman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780395313251 | Houghton Mifflin, April 1, 1982, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Ballet dancers, such as Moira Shearer, Peter Martins, and Igor Youskevitch depict their careers and styles of dance

Paperback:

9780879101541 | Rev sub edition (Limelight Editions, July 1, 1992), cover price $17.95

Swan Lake: Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

By Barbara Newman and Leslie E. Spatt

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Hardcover:

9780903102728 | Dance Books Ltd, January 1, 1983, cover price $32.95

The Nutcracker

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

By Barbara Newman

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Hardcover:

9780812056723 | Barrons Educational Series Inc, November 1, 1985, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Explains the plot of the Nutcracker ballet, looks at its music, choreography, and set and costume designs, and compares various productions of the ballet

The Illustrated Treasury of Medical Curiosa

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

By Barbara Newman

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Hardcover:

9780070463011 | McGraw-Hill, January 1, 1988, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: A profusely illustrated storehouse of the funny, the bizarre, and the remarkable.

Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Barbara Newman

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Paperback:

9780520211629, titled "Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine" | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1997), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance.

9780520066151 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, February 1, 1989), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance.

Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum

By Hildegard and Barbara Newman (trans)

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Paperback:

9780801495144 | Cornell Univ Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $13.95

The Covenant: Love and Death in Beirut

Product Description: In this account of her relationship with Bashir Gemayel, who was elected president of Lebanon in 1982, Barbara Newman uses all her skills as an investigative reporter to unravel the background to his assassination and to the history of the civil war.

By Barbara Newman and Barbara Rogan

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Hardcover:

9780517572153 | Crown Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In this account of her relationship with Bashir Gemayel, who was elected president of Lebanon in 1982, Barbara Newman uses all her skills as an investigative reporter to unravel the background to his assassination and to the history of the civil war.

The Life of Blessed Juliana of Montcornillon

By Barbara Newman (trans)

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Paperback:

9780920669136 | Cistercian Pubns, January 1, 1990, cover price $18.00

Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias

Product Description: This work contains the 26 visions of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was the first of the great German mystics, as well as a poet and a prophet, a physician and a political moralist. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jane Bishop and Barbara Newman

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9780809131303 | Paulist Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This work contains the 26 visions of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was the first of the great German mystics, as well as a poet and a prophet, a physician and a political moralist.

From Virile Woman to Womanchrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature

Product 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...read more

By Barbara Newman

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Hardcover:

9780812232738 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children?

Paperback:

9780812215458 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children?

Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard Von Bingen

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.

By Jane Bobko (editor), Matthew Fox (editor) and Barbara Newman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780670864058 | Hardcover with CD edition (Viking Pr, November 1, 1995), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A biography of the twelfth-century abbess and visionary is accompanied by a compact disc of her music

AAA Explore America: Tours of Discovery Through Our Magnificent Country

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

By Judith Beadle, Michael Crossman, Frances Jones, Kathleen M. Kiely, Beverly Leblanc (editor), Richard Marshall, Maggi McCormick (editor), Lindsay McTeague (editor), Barbara Newman (editor) and Gwen Rigby

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Hardcover:

9781550011401 | AAA, April 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: For vacationers, this is an informative travel planner to the country's more appealing destinations.

How to Make a Good Speech: From Boardroom Meetings to Wedding Toasts : Ten Winning Ways to Making a Great Presentation

By Leroy Brown and Barbara Newman (editor)

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Paperback:

9780811908481 | 2 sub edition (Frederick Fell Pub, April 1, 1997), cover price $14.95

The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories: A Musical Introduction to the Classic Ballets

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

By Barbara Newman and Gill Tomblin (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780789420244 | Har/com edition (Dk Pub, October 1, 1997), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In story and illustrations, presents five classic ballets: Giselle, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake.

Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories

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.

By Barbara Newman and Gill Tomblin (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780756613723, titled "The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories" | Har/com edition (Dk Pub, October 17, 2005), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Text and pictures show scenes and steps from 'Sleeping Beauty,' 'Giselle,' 'Coppelia,' 'Swan Lake,' and 'The Nutcracker.

9780789422255 | Dk Pub, October 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In story and illustrations, presents five classic ballets: Giselle, Coppelia, Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake.

Paperback:

9780789454669, titled "The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories" | Pap/cas edition (Dk Pub, June 1, 2000), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Text and pictures show scenes and steps from 'Sleeping Beauty,' 'Giselle,' 'Coppelia,' 'Swan Lake,' and 'The Nutcracker.

9780789460974, titled "The Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories" | Pap/com edition (Dk Pub, June 1, 2000), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Text and pictures show scenes and steps from 'Sleeping Beauty,' 'Giselle,' 'Coppelia,' 'Swan Lake,' and 'The Nutcracker.

Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum

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)

By Hildegard of Bingen and Barbara Newman (trans)

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Paperback:

9780801485473 | 2 sub edition (Cornell Univ Pr, March 1, 1998), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World

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)

By Barbara Newman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780520208261 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age.

Paperback:

9780520217584 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age.

City for Sale: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine

By Barbara Newman

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Miscellaneous:

9780520920187 | Ebrary, October 1, 1998, cover price $26.95

God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages

"A wonderful book that makes a very big, new interdisciplinary argument. It will have as marked an effect on the field of medieval religious studies as anything published in the last few decades."--Nicholas Watson, Harvard University "Barbara Newman has always insisted upon the necessity of reading medieval culture as a text whose demands are matched by its rewards. . . . With

By Barbara Newman

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Hardcover:

9780812236910 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: "A wonderful book that makes a very big, new interdisciplinary argument.

Paperback:

9780812219111 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, March 8, 2005, cover price $26.50

The Just-Right House: Houghton Mifflin Reading Leveled Readers 1.5.3

By Barbara Newman (illustrator) and Sophie K. North

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Paperback:

9780618359400 | Ppk edition (Houghton Mifflin School, January 7, 2003), cover price $34.50

Grace Under Pressure: Passing Dance Through Time

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

By Barbara Newman

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Paperback:

9780879109950 | 1 edition (Limelight Editions, November 1, 2003), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: (Limelight).

Lightning Out Of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists On American Soil

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.

By Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman

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Hardcover:

9780345475688 | Ballantine Books, March 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780891418702 | Reprint edition (Presidio Pr, February 28, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780739318362 | Abridged edition (Random House, March 1, 2005), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Before September 11, 2001, one terrorist group had killed more Americans than any other: Hezbollah, the “Party of God.

Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet And His Masterpiece

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

By Benjamin Bagby (other contributor), Ensemble Sequentia (composer), Barbara Newman, Karl Stackmann and Barbara Thornton (other contributor)

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Hardcover:

9780120724406, titled "Neuroendocrinology of Vasopressin, Courticoliberin and Opiomelanocortins" | Academic Pr, November 1, 1982, cover price $54.50 | also contains Neuroendocrinology of Vasopressin, Courticoliberin and Opiomelanocortins

Paperback:

9780271029252 | Pap/com edition (Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 30, 2007), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: “Frauenlob” was the stage name of Heinrich von Meissen (c.

Thomas Cantimpre, The Collected Saints' Lives: Abbot John of Cantimpre, Christina the Astonishing, Margaret of Ypres, and Lutgard of Aywieres

Product Description: The Dominican Thomas of Cantimpre (c. 1200-c. 1270) was a key figure in the 'evangelical awakening' of the thirteenth century. A prolific hagiographer, he lauded such diverse subjects as the abbot and apostolic preacher John of Cantimpre; the teenage saint Margaret of Ypres, an urban recluse who died at 21; Lutgard of Aywieres, a Cistercian nun and mystic; and the theatrical, mentally troubled Christina 'the Astonishing' of St-Trond...read more

By Margot H. King (trans) and Barbara Newman (editor)

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Hardcover:

9782503520780 | Brepols Pub, December 15, 2008, cover price $92.00 | About this edition: The Dominican Thomas of Cantimpre (c.

Bones and the Dinosaur Mystery

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Detective Jeffrey Bones solves crimes. But this time it's personal. He's at a science museum when his blue Tyrannosaurus rex goes missing. Could someone have stolen it? Bones must find his T-rex!

By Barbara Newman (illustrator)

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Prebinding:

9781439593370 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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