Terrel is always in charge, whether she's making lists for grocery shopping (her favorite hobby, AFTER ballet), keeping her brothers in line, or organizing father-daughter time in with her dad. Lately, though, her dad's been acting a little strange--wearing new clothes and way too much aftershave. T[...]
Jessica is worse than worried when she learns that the Nutcracker School of Ballet might lose its lease Life just wouldn't be the same without the ballet classes she shares with her Sugar Plum sisters. Her problems mount when she rescues an adorable stray kitty on her way home from class. The anima[...]
Epatha knows she's the perfect pick for the lead in the new Sugar Plum ballet. But her dream role isn't as fabulosa" as she imagined. When she tries to spice up the choreography with her free-spirited style it's up to the rest of the Sugar Plum Ballerinas to keep Epatha's toes in line. Will Epatha l[...]
Brief plays and sketches deal with the relationship between men and women, the past, communication, country life, and mortality[...]
The story of the Ink Spots is a rags-to-riches story beloved in American mythology. The success of the Ink Spots inspired many others to attempt (some merely mimicking) their popular and musical success. They were, without question, the most influential black vocal group of the 1940s, and one of the[...]
This book embarks on an interdisciplinary study of dance theater, one that provides a deeper insight into contemporary performing arts. Ciane Fernandes combines Laban movement analysis and the writings of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault to investigate repetition in the works and creative process o[...]
Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages - and never his its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. Whether discussing George Eliot's lesbian readers, Anthony Trollope's whorish heroines, or Charles Dickens's masturbating characters, William A. Co[...]
"Queering the Color Line" transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was invented as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. So[...]
This volume draws together modern critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. It discusses theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.[...]
Addresses widely-held but erroneous beliefs in modern society, on such topics as stereotypes, language, patriarchy, normalcy, and racial superiority.[...]
Postmodern Self Psychology, the last volume of the Progress in Self Psychology series under the editorship of Arnold Goldberg, charts the path of self psychology into the postmodern era of psychoanalysis. It begins with Goldberg's thoughtful consideration of the several tributaries of self-psycholo[...]
This now-classic text (over 400,000 copies sold) presents the most relevant points in clinical neuroanatomy with mnemonics, humor and case presentations. For neuroanatomy courses and Board review. Now includes attached CD-ROM on Neurologic Localization with: 3D animated rotations of the brain; neuro[...]
A conceptual approach to clinical biochemistry, with humor. Includes a color map of Biochemistryland (an amusement park in which clinical biochemistry is seen as a whole, along with its key pathways, diseases, drugs, and laboratory tests). For biochemistry courses and medical Board review.[...]
Straight from mothers' and grandmothers' kitchens, the recipes in this collection have not been made trendy, new age or "lite." Recipes for holiday fare are included, as well as a chapter on kosher food, sample menus, and a table of equivalent weights and measures. Illustrations.[...]
In this authoritative and practical book, a dermatologist explains how to care for one's skin at any age.[...]
"Spork-Fed" is a savvy, upbeat introduction to vegan cuisine. The operative word is fun. The aim of the book is not to turn the world into vegans, but to show how simply delicious this kind of eating can be. In these 78 easy-to-prepare recipes, sense appeal comes first, and then the health and weigh[...]