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The Early Stuart Masque

Dance, Costume, and Music

By: Barbara Ravelhofer

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The Early Stuart Masque

Dance, Costume, and Music

By: Barbara Ravelhofer

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. Drawing on a massive amount of documentary evidence relating to English productions as well as spectacle in France, Italy, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire, the book elucidates professional ballet, theatre management, and dramatic performance at the early Stuart court. Individual studies take a fresh look at works by Ben Jonson, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Carew, John Milton, William Davenant, and others, showing how court poets collaborated with tailors, designers, technicians, choreographers, and aristocratic as well as professional performers to create a dazzling event. Based on extensive archival research on the households of Queen Anne and Queen Henrietta Maria, special chapters highlight the artistic and financial control of Stuart queens over their masques and pastorals. Many plates and figures from German, Austrian, French, and English archives illustrate accessibly-written introductions to costume conventions, early dance styles, male and female performers, the dramatic symbolism of colours, and stage design in performance. With splendid costumes and choreographies, masques once appealed to the five senses. A tribute to their colourful brilliance, this book seeks to recover a lost dimension of performance culture in early modern England.

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OUP Oxford

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0191515981

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9780191515989

The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch

And Many More Mysteries of America's Past

By: Barbara Karg

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The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch

And Many More Mysteries of America's Past

By: Barbara Karg

Explore the secrets of America's past with the official companion to PBS's History Detectives Could a Civil War POW have fashioned a working camera from a tin can, a spyglass lens, and a pine plank? What can an ancient and battered banjo reveal about America's musical and segregated past? How could a man save his own life by proving that he had forged a painting? These are just a few of the intriguing and puzzling questions posed to super sleuths Wes Cowan, Elyse Luray, Gwendolyn Wright, and Tukufu Zuberi in this fascinating book. The perfect companion to the hit public television series, including an episode guide, this book is filled with intriguing case files, pictures, how-to's, and checklists that bring mysteries to life and give you the practical advice and tips you need to solve your own historical puzzles. From genealogical research to patent and property searches to DNA analysis and more, it gives you the lowdown on all of the high-tech tools that can help get to the bottom of a case. Packed with fun and useful information for the whole family, it will deepen your appreciation for the way in which seemingly ordinary objects can connect you to important people and events from the past and give you the know-how to do some history detecting of your own.

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564

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Turner Publishing Company

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1620458853

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In Balanchine’s Company

A Dancer’s Memoir

By: Barbara Fisher

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In Balanchine’s Company

A Dancer’s Memoir

By: Barbara Fisher

During her twelve years with Ballet Society and the New York City Ballet, Barbara Milberg worked under the direction of George Balanchine. She rose from corps de ballet to soloist, danced leading roles in Swan Lake and Illuminations, and performed in celebrated world premieres. In this observant and poignant memoir, she shares her recollections of Balanchine, his craft and his values, and lends insight into surprising aspects of his personality. Fisher gives readers a rare glimpse inside Balanchine’s artistry, including vivid accounts of the makings of such important ballets as Schoenberg’s Opus 34, AGON, and the world-famous Nutcracker. Told through the eyes of a young dancer in what seemed a truly magical place and time, In Balanchine’s Company is ideal for ballet fans young and old. Rich in anecdote, insight, and humor, it offers a unique perspective on one of the twentieth century’s cultural giants. Ebook Edition Note: All illustrations have been redacted.

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233

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Wesleyan University Press

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ISBN 10

0819574473

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9780819574473

Tuscany

By: Barbara Balletto

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Tuscany

By: Barbara Balletto

Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective.Inside every Insight Guide you'll find:.Evocative, full-colour photography on every page.Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout.A brief introduction including a historical timeline.Lively essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people.Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing .Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest.A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children

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384

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Langenscheidt Publishers

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ISBN 10

1585733008

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9781585733002

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

An Historical Overview

By: Barbara Pezzotti

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Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

An Historical Overview

By: Barbara Pezzotti

This book comprehensively covers the history of Italian crime fiction from its origins to the present. Using the concept of "moral rebellion," the author examines the ways in which Italian crime fiction has articulated the country's social and political changes. The book concentrates on such writers as Augusto de Angelis (1888-1944), Giorgio Scerbanenco (1911-1969), Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), Andrea Camilleri (b. 1925), Loriano Macchiavelli (b. 1934), Massimo Carlotto (b. 1956), and Marcello Fois (b. 1960). Through the analysis of writers belonging to differing crucial periods of Italy's history, this work reveals the many ways in which authors exploit the genre to reflect social transformation and dysfunction.

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243

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McFarland

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1476613567

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9781476613567

Say Can You Deny Me

A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th Through the 18th Centuries

By: Barbara Garvey Jackson

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Say Can You Deny Me

A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th Through the 18th Centuries

By: Barbara Garvey Jackson

Jackson has culminated her lifelong research in producing this bibliographically arranged guide. "Say Can You Deny Me" lists the locations of the printed and manuscript sources of Renaissance, baroque, classic, and some early romantic women composers. With listings from over 400 libraries worldwide, the guide is the definitive work documenting a substantial contribution to the world of music by women.

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520

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557283036

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9781557283030

The Ballet Lover

By: Barbara L. Baer

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The Ballet Lover

By: Barbara L. Baer

The Ballet Lover exposes the beauty and cruelty of ballet, the performances, the back stage moments, and the personal dramas of the famous ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalia Makarova as seen through the eyes of an American female journalist. Paris, 1970s: the orchestra plays the first ominous note of Swan Lake. In the audience sits Geneva, an American journalist and ballet lover, waiting for the heart-stopping beauty and seduction of the romantic duet to start, but instead she witnesses Rudolf Nureyev failing to catch his Russian partner Natalia Makarova, allowing her to fall with a crash upon the stage. Geneva interprets the fall as an act of cruelty, a man with all the fame and power in the world brutally letting fall his delicate, wraith-like artistic partner. When other critics defend Nureyev and accuse Makarova of causing her own tumble, Geneva vows revenge on the page, creating havoc in her own career and discovering surprising parallels between herself and the fallen ballerina. The Ballet Lover is a refined, mesmerizing, fictional account of two of the most celebrated dancers in the dance world, how one compromised the other, and how the drama on the stage often mirrors those played out in real life.

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Open Books Publishing (UK)

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0615722865

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9780615722863

Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise, Fourth Edition

By: Barbara J. Hoogenboom,Michael L. Voight,William E. Prentice

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Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise, Fourth Edition

By: Barbara J. Hoogenboom,Michael L. Voight,William E. Prentice

The definitive resource for designing and implementing evidence-based rehabilitation programs using therapeutic exercise Written and edited by top experts in their fields, Musculoskeletal Interventions provides the rehabilitation techniques, strategies, and considerations you need to effectively treat patients of all ages, abilities, and functional levels. With expanded coverage of movement systems, along with clinical pearls and hundreds of illustrations, this edition has been fully revised to reflect a contemporary movement system approach patient care. It focuses on the practical application of theory in a clinical setting, making it ideal for students and experienced physical therapists alike. Designed to make finding what you need quickly and easily, Musculoskeletal Interventions is organized into five sections: Foundations of the Rehabilitation Process Introduces the human movement system, the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, and the clinical reasoning process Provides grounding on tissue healing, the Neuromuscular Scan Examination, pain, posture, and function Treating Physiologic Impairments During Rehabilitation Details general impairments that require attention throughout the rehabilitation process Covers muscle performance, endurance and aerobic capacity, mobility, range of motion, and neuromuscular control Tools of Rehabilitation Explains how to achieve optimal outcomes using various tools, including plyometric exercise, open- and closed-kinetic chain interventions, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation techniques, joint mobilization, postural stability and balance interventions, core stabilization training, aquatic therapy, functional movement screening, and more Interventions Strategies for Specific Regions Describes applications of techniques and interventions related to common movement-based, overuse, traumatic, and postoperative musculoskeletal dysfunction Provides guidance on conditions common to the shoulder complex, elbow, wrist, hand, digits, groin, hip, thigh, knee, lower leg, ankle, foot, and spine Discusses pathomechanics and injury mechanisms while focusing on rehabilitation strategies and concerns for specific injuries and providing example protocols Special Considerations for Specific Patient Populations Provides application of all previous intervention strategies and how these may need to be selected, adapted, and utilized for geriatric patients, pediatric patient, and physically active females Musculoskeletal Interventions is filled with features that help you understand and retain critical information. Learning aids include objectives, tales, clinical pearls, figures, video links, summary points, chapter-ending treatment guidelines, and references.

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1227

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1260459969

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9781260459968

Grace Under Pressure

Passing Dance Through Time

By: Barbara Newman

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Grace Under Pressure

Passing Dance Through Time

By: Barbara Newman

(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. Among leaders of the dance world the author interviewed were Suki Schorer, Helgi Tomasson, Mark Morris, Violette Verdy and 14 other artists whose work she knew and respected, most of them active outside of New York and London. Newman is not interested in dance as an aesthetic abstraction, and the people who answered her questions were not speaking theoretically. On the contrary, her speculation and their responses bring an elusive subject down to earth, illuminating a process that reaches back in history and forward to today, though its dreams are of a world no one can imagine.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879109955

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9780879109950

Remembering When - Stories of a British Ballerina in the Bitterroot

By: Barbara Elvy Strate

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Remembering When - Stories of a British Ballerina in the Bitterroot

By: Barbara Elvy Strate

In her youth she danced with a professional British ballet troupe and modeled for Vogue until war tore through England. Later she rode horseback to hunting camp deep in the Montana wilderness, learned to cook and preserve on a wood stove, and raised four children, all in a state larger than her entire homeland--back cover.

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Lulu.com

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1300520310

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9781300520313

Insight Guide: Puerto Rico

By: Insight Guides,Barbara Balletto,Discovery Channel

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Insight Guide: Puerto Rico

By: Insight Guides,Barbara Balletto,Discovery Channel

A travel series unlike any other, Insight Guides go beyond the sights and into reality. Their incomparable photojournalistic approach captures the uniqueness of each culture they cover: their traditions, their arts, their history, their lives. The stunning photography is married to compelling text, written by local writers; the people most qualified to convey their culture's "secrets". Yes, Insight Guides will tell you which attractions to visit, but they'll also tell you a whole lot more. From the most popular resort cities to the world's most remote and exotic villages, Insight Guides will give you the insider's perspective you need to truly experience any destination you visit. Insight Guides serve many purposes. They are ideal for planning a trip. And, they're wonderful souvenirs to treasure for years after. Even the armchair traveler can be swept away by their magnificent content and experience the world from the comfort of home. Many international and domestic and domestic destinations also offer companion FlexiMaps, an innovative laminated folding map specially designed for the discriminating traveler.

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300

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Langenscheidt Publishers

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0887291783

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9780887291784

Dance of the Swan

A Story about Anna Pavlova

By: Barbara Allman

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Dance of the Swan

A Story about Anna Pavlova

By: Barbara Allman

This is the story of how Anna Pavlova became a prima ballerina known for her grace, joyfulness, and delicate charm. She brought the beauty of ballet to people all over the world, and everywhere she went, she inspired children to dance.

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LernerClassroom

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0822569914

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9780822569916

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The Early Stuart Masque

The Early Stuart Masque

The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch

The History Detectives Explore Lincoln's Letter, Parker's Sax, and Mark Twain's Watch

In Balanchine’s Company

In Balanchine’s Company

Tuscany

Tuscany

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction

Say Can You Deny Me

Say Can You Deny Me

The Ballet Lover

The Ballet Lover

Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise, Fourth Edition

Musculoskeletal Interventions: Techniques for Therapeutic Exercise, Fourth Edition

Grace Under Pressure

Grace Under Pressure

Remembering When - Stories of a British Ballerina in the Bitterroot

Remembering When - Stories of a British Ballerina in the Bitterroot

Insight Guide: Puerto Rico

Insight Guide: Puerto Rico

Dance of the Swan

Dance of the Swan

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