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Stress, Sex, Humor and More: Unique Ways of Coping With Stress
Published in Hardcover by Carlton Press (1995)
Author: Barbara Rosen
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A How-To on Happiness`
In 240 pages, step-by-step guide to dealing with all of life's challenges using laughter, tennis, golf, massage and straight-talk....highly recommended! With all the self-help books out there, this comes from a professional psychologist with proven results.


A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers
Published in Paperback by Heritage Music Press (01 March, 2002)
Authors: Gail Berenson, Jacqueline Csurgai-Schmitt, William DeVan, Mitchell Elkiss, Seymour Fink, Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, Barbara Lister-Sink, Robert Mayerovitch, Norman Rosen, and Dylan Savage
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A little bit of everything
This book can be used by pianists and piano teachers (often isolated in small towns) to find up-to-date answers to recurring injury problems, inspiration for playing "from the mind and heart" as well as the hands, and, in general, just talking about piano (although a lot of the information works well for other instrumentalists as well--especially the exercises for flexibility and strength). It's like a "class in a book."


Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618
Published in Paperback by Univ. of Massachusetts Press (1991)
Author: Barbara Rosen
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the power of witchcraft
THE must have book for those who're fond of witchcraft !


Julius Caesar
Published in Library Binding by Bt Bound (1999)
Authors: William Shakespeare, William Shakepeare, Barbara Rosen, and William Rosen
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A great play
Julius Caesar is probably one of the better plays written by Shakespeare. This play if full of intrigue, action, betrayal, and emotion. This play is not very long (5 acts), which makes it a quick and exciting read. The characters are built nicely, and what is nice about this version of the book, is that it is easy to read, and any words that may be unfamiliar are defined on the opposite page, making it easy to look them up, and understand Shakespeare's difficult writing style. This is definately a play worth checking out. It's a fun read, and with plenty of helpful tools built in to help along the way.

Once again, morality vs. politics
This superb play by Shakespeare somehow reminded me of Antigona, the first play which directly examined the always complex interplay and usual confrontation between political reason and moral reason. This play is an excellent account of the immediately previous and subsequent days of Julius Caesar's assasination by Brutus, his best friend, and other conspirators. Brutus is persuaded by the resentful Cassius that Caesar has betrayed Rome by abandoning the Republic and turning to Dictatorship. Brutus gets to be convinced that, in order to save the Republic, Caesar must be killed. This puts him in a great dilemma, for he loves Caesar and he's his closest friend. Here we see in an acute form the way in which political power gets in conflict with morality and feelings. Friendship, power and betrayal are the basic subjects of this excellent piece of work.

Friends, Romans, Web Surfers...
A while back, a friend of mine and I decided to pick a Shakespeare play every couple months, read it, then get together and discuss it.

It worked with pretty good results for ROMEO AND JULIET, but then we ran out of gas somewhere in the middle of our next selection, JULIUS CAESAR.

Now that I've finally finished reading the play long after our allotted "couple months," I have to say that the fault (the mutual disinterest that effectively brought our little Shakespeare club to a halt) doesn't lie in the play itself, but rather in my preconceptions of what the play was about.

I can't speak for my friend, but since I took the Cliff Notes route in high school when we were supposed to be reading about Caesar and Brutus and the rest of the treacherous Roman senate (and didn't do a very thorough job at that) I always assumed the play's action revolved around the plot to kill Caesar and culminated with his death scene. I wasn't prepared to find Caesar dead halfway through the play, with two-plus acts remaining. I think I just lost interest once Caesar blurted, "Et tu, Brute?" and slouched over lifeless on the cold marble.

But thankfully I eventually kept going, and discovered what the play is really about: the manipulation of the public that goes on after Caesar's death. The speeches in JULIUS CAESAR, given by those who would take his place, are full of the damage-control, image-making spin that happens everday on our "all news" channels. It's an interesting play, maybe not Shakespeare's best, but one that has certainly has some modern relevance and is worth examining.

Now if my friend and I can just get our club back on its feet. Maybe a comedy next time...


Arriaga the Forgotten Genius: The Short Life of a Basque Composer. (Basque Studies Program Occasional Papers, No 3)
Published in Hardcover by Center for Basque Studies (1989)
Author: Barbara Rosen
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Careers in Beauty Culture (Careers)
Published in Library Binding by Rosen Publishing Group (1989)
Authors: Barbara Loreen Johnson and Ruth C. Rosen
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Children's Literature
Published in Paperback by Yale Univ Pr (1990)
Authors: Francelia Butler, Margaret R. Higonnet, and Barbara Rosen
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Children's Literature: 1986
Published in Paperback by Yale Univ Pr (1986)
Authors: Francelia Butler, Barbara Rosen, and Margaret Higonner
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Children's Literature: The Great Excluded
Published in Paperback by Yale Univ Pr (1981)
Authors: Francelia Butler, Samuel Pickering, and Barbara Rosen
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Destined Hour
Published in Hardcover by Doubleday (1982)
Authors: Barbara Rosen, Barry Rosen, and George Feifer
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