Robert Newman: 30 books

Book cover of The Case of the Threatened King
by Robert Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014

From the ancient sewers of London to the heights of a barren attic prison, Andrew and Sara race to uncover a wicked plot Though he’s usually more of a cricket fan, Andrew Tillet would never miss a chance to see American baseball played in London—especially not in the company of his best...
Book cover of The Shattered Stone
by Robert Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014

Three teenagers must seek out an ancient prophecy to learn how to stop a war from destroying two kingdoms Neva and Ivo have grown up in the safety of their forest utopia, surrounded by their animal friends and their teachers, Jartan and Mistress Silvia. But when they turn seventeen, Neva and...
Book cover of The Case of the Indian Curse
by Robert Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014

Turning up missing is better than turning up dead Inspector Peter Wyatt is out of town. This is inconvenient, because something is terribly wrong with Andrew Tillet and Sara Wiggins’s friend, antiquities dealer Baron Beasley—and he refuses to see a doctor or speak to anyone except Wyatt....
Book cover of Grettir the Strong
by Robert Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014

The legendary Grettir was the strongest man in Iceland, cursed with misfortune but determined to make his own destiny In Iceland’s history, many men stand out for their courage and talent, but one man stands taller than the rest.   When young Grettir is outlawed from Iceland after killing...
Book cover of Night Spell
by Robert Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014

Tad Harper is determined to find out the truth behind Mr. Gorham’s tragic past, no matter what it takes Tad Harper believes all orphans develop a sixth sense that tells them when something bad is going to happen. But that doesn’t mean he’s prepared to spend the summer with Martin Gorham,...
Book cover of Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice
by Ginette Wessel, Kathleen Dunn, Mark Vallianatos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes between ethnic authenticity and local sustainability. The food truck on the corner could be a brightly painted old-style lonchera offering tacos or an upscale mobile vendor serving...
Book cover of Transgressions of Reading

Transgressions of Reading

Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return

by Robert D. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

It is often claimed that we know ourselves and the world through narratives. In this book, Robert D. Newman portrays narrative engagement as a process grounded in psychoanalytic theory to explain how readers (or listeners or viewers) manage to engage with specific narratives and derive from them a...
Book cover of Screen Gods: The Playboy Interview

Screen Gods: The Playboy Interview

50 Years of the Playboy Interview

by Playboy, Richard Burton, Jack Lemmon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

It was never just an act. These leading men actually transformed into their on-screen characters—a modus operandi thats revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From method men Marlon Brando and Dustin Hoffman to multiple Oscar nominees Jack...
Book cover of Calm Birth, Revised

Calm Birth, Revised

Prenatal Meditation for Conscious Childbirth

by Robert Bruce Newman
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016

The “trauma of childbirth” is a commonly heard phrase, but one that Calm Birth authoritatively counters. A resource for pregnant women and birth workers looking for empowering mind-body practices for a healthier kind of birth, this edition, revised with updated research and new material, shows...
Book cover of Jewish Men Pray

Jewish Men Pray

Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources

by Daniel S. Alexander, Alexandri, Bezalel Aloni
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
Book cover of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
by Peter G. Beidler, Bethany Blankenship, Michael Calabrese
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying...
Book cover of Village of Montgomery
by Robert L. Williams, Marc Newman, Mayor Stephen Brescia
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010

Noted for its picturesque historic districts and venerable homes, the village of Montgomery is nestled into northern Orange County, bounded by the Wallkill River in the shadow of the Comfort Hills. Filled with rare photographs dating from the 1870s to the present, Village of Montgomery focuses on the...
Book cover of Global Romanticism

Global Romanticism

Origins, Orientations, and Engagements, 1760–1820

by Ian Duncan, Samuel Baker, Miranda Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...
Book cover of Histories of Southeastern Archaeology
by David G. Anderson, Gregory A. Waselkov, Stephen Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010

This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades. Histories of Southeastern Archaeology originated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference...
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