Winner of the Scribes World Reviewer's Choice Award! A dedicated dancer. A divorce lawyer. Are they destined for everlasting happiness or a disastrous finale to their marriage dance? [Contemporary Romance]

This book teaches the basics of the Pilates method of fitness, a whole body workout that strengthens the abs and back and straightens the posture. Practiced worldwide by dance companies, physical therapists, and health clubs, the method is especially good for pregnant women, for people who have special fitness needs because of chronic back pain, joint stress, or obesity, and for anyone wishing to prevent osteoporosis.

An international team of renowned folklorists contributed to this fascinating, comprehensive general reference work. Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Music, Tales, and Art introduces the major types of folklore - ballad, dance, riddle, legend, and myth, for example - and the approaches used to study them, from the anthropological through the linguistic, literary, and psychological. The topics range from such traditional subjects as 'festival' and 'folktale' to cutting-edge entries such as 'computer-mediated folklore' and 'postmodernism.' In most cases, a longer, more comprehensive essay format for entries has been favored over shorter entries. Entries are cross-referenced, and each includes a select bibliography to serve as a guide to in-depth research.

The Digital Dream dramatizes the world made new by electronic intelligences that not only manipulate, but also create people and places beyond the physical realm. Andrew Ross unwittingly pulls Kathleen Hennessey into a most dangerous dance with a ruthless phantom network called BAMBI made up of minds both human and electronic. Andrew and Kathleen chase BAMBI until the chase turns on them.

Examines the representation of masculinity in 20th century. Builds upon ideas of the gendered gaze from film and feminist theory to provide a provacative theory of spectatorship in dance. Broad coverage from Nijinsky to DV8.

Examining Disco, HipHop, House, Techno, Drum 'n' Bass and Garage, Discographies traces the history of ideas about music and dance in Western culture.

In this engaging history of dance, readers are introduced to the major performers, choreographers, and composers who influenced the development of ballet. Beginning with the birth of the art in the sixteenth-century French court of Catherine de' Medici, this informative text traces ballet as it evolved in Europe and Russia and subsequently in England and then America. Included are details about the creation of such classics as Giselle, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and Serenade, as well as the contributions of such prominent figures as Pavlova, Nijinsky, Balanchine, and Ashton.

Over 200 photos of Bali, the beautiful and exotic island in Indonesia, by photographer Hemmo Vattulainen - Hindu temples, batik, wood carvings, the Royal Palace, Denpasar (the capital of Bali), Kuta (the holiday town), Sanur Beach, Balinese dance...

Examines the symbolic structure of such important contemporary manifestations of culture as religious discourse, scientific texts, popular music, symbols, art, dance, law and public policy

A collection of stories by Leo Tolstoy which include the following: The Forged Coupon, After the Dance, Alyosha the Pot, My Dream, There are no Guilty People, and The Young Tsar.

Father Andre has been sent to convert Fuyughean tribes in New Guinea to Christianity. Yet in some ways, it seems that he becomes the convert. This book is a detailed portrait of the Gabe, the 'great dance' that is the most spectacular event of the Fuyugheans and described by the Father as 'the antique fusion of Beauty: word, song, dance...' Although he often bumbles his way through their society, this is nonetheless a tribute to, as well as a valuable record of, a way of life that has vanished.