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  • Carnie King

    The Story of Patty Conklin and Conklin Shows

    by John Thurston ...
    The story of the audacious showman who built the greatest carnival dynasty in North America.Enter the realm of the carnie king, Patty Conklin, the flamboyant founder of what would become the world’s largest carnival company. Patty started on the mean streets of New York selling peanuts before becoming a a small-time operator. Willing to try anything to promote his show, he established himself as a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Menagerie Locket

    by Joe R Meyer ...
    Fucini's family circus has been in the family for decades enthralling families with Lions, Tigers , clowns and the stars of the show Freaks. This was circus was no Barnum and Bailey's as it held a sinister secret that can not get out. Jewel, a kind of freak herself must solve the mystery along with her friends detective Cooley, her friends the freaks and other as they search for answers. Come ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cartomagia

    Shows com Baralho Indispensável para quem quer aprender Cartomagia prática, como técnica de Ilusionismo, de Prestidigitação. Fazer Mágica satisfaz muito, porque é um laser e uma terapia. E as pessoas que assistem adoram o mágico, pois este as surpreende e as diverte. O livro ajuda você a se apoderar da técnica de causar ilusões, dominar mentes. Aproveite este momento e aprenda tudo o que puder. O ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Creative Process for Variety Artists

    Creativity for Entertainers, #1

    by Bruce Johnson ...
    Series Book 1 - Creativity for Entertainers
    Everyone is creative. Creativity is a process which anyone can learn to use more effectively. This comprehensive creativity course will aid you in entertaining family audiences.It provides:A thorough discussion of the steps in the creative process.Guidance in going through the entire process from finding inspiration, to generating ideas, to selecting the best ideas, to completing your project ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of the Sideshow Geek: Snake Eaters, Human Ostriches, & Other Extreme Entertainments

    Delve into the captivating and sometimes dark history of sideshow geeks and other eccentric acts of the past! With this book, you can explore the realm of forgotten carnival entertainment. Learn all about the rise and fall of the sideshow geek, uncovering the truth behind the myths and uncovering untold stories. You'll be taken on a journey through time to discover the captivating and sometimes ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jimmy Sharman's Boxers

    Australia's legendary travelling boxing troupe

    Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor catholic family, becoming a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his unconventional business habits, his furious temper, his leadership and diplomacy. Sharman was twenty ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Diccionarios para un concepto de cuerpo

    Series series Lexicón
    Este libro propone un agrupamiento de diversas entradas de diccionario inventadas (pero posibles) en torno a un mismo término: cuerpo. Ellas nos invitan a enfrentarnos con la esquiva pregunta ¿qué es el cuerpo? y nos permiten arrojarnos hacia el trabajo de pensar cómo se forma en particularidades concretas, pagando, inevitablemente, el precio de su evanescencia. En cada una de las entradas podemos ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ways of the Circus

    Being the Memories and Adventures of George Conklin, Tamer of Lions

    "The Ways of the Circus not only justifies an early desire to run away with circus, but makes it a matter for regret that we did not." -Waco Times-Herald, Feb. 21, 1921"The Ways of the Circus is a decidedly readable book rich in anecdotes of the life of circus folk and circus animals. The narrator is an old lion tamer." -New York Tribune, April 4, 1921"A most fascinating narrative." - The Open ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • La rivoluzione in pista

    Storie di donne, circo e libertà

    Series series Workshop
    Sette storie che, muovendosi liberamente tra la pista, il territorio circense per eccellenza, e i più disparati ambiti culturali e sociali tra la fine dell’Ottocento e la nostra contemporaneità, si distaccano dalla saggistica convenzionale per esplorare percorsi laterali, finora poco battuti e spesso sorprendenti. Lo spazio in cui vivono queste storie è quello delle intersezioni, dei molteplici e ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Street Peformers

    Buskers and Busking

    by Geof Bard ...
    The comprehensive new guide to street performers of all kinds: musicians, artists, jugglers, fire dancers, puppeteers, acrobats and any theater or circus act in the public sphere.Your ticket to the enthralling world of street performance, also known as busking. Packed with insights and inspiration for buskers, their fans, and people who are just curious about the many faces of street performance ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Trajetórias Artísticas e Profissionais de Mulheres Circenses

    Um bom lugar para começar é olhar para todo o processo e me localizar hoje é criar uma linha temporal que envolva uma trajetória de produção que muitas vezes passa despercebida. É só nesse momento, nesse exato momento, que decidi reconhecer meu corpo ampliado que ocupou muitos lugares de produção. Um corpo artístico que reivindica espaço em todos os lugares que se propôs a desbravar. Este corpo, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lions 'n' tigers 'n' everything

    OF course, you’ve been to the circus. You got there just in time to hear the sideshow spieler tell you that there was fortay-y-y-y-y-five minutes for fun an’ amusement beforah th’ beeg show, th’ beeg show, would begin! Fortay-y-y-y-five minutes in which to view those stra-a-a-nge people, to see The Cannibal Twins, the Skeleton Dude, the Fat Lady who has taken everay-y-y-y known method of reducing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Opulence & Ostentation: Building the Circus

    by Steve Ward ...
    Since the foundation of the 'modern' circus in the eighteenth century, the circus has been presented in defined spaces. Initially, performances were given in the open air and, over a period of time, these spaces first became enclosed and then later roofed. Temporary wooden structures often became semi-permanent until, in the nineteenth century, many permanent stone-built buildings were erected ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 360° Circus

    Meaning. Practice. Culture

    Edited by Franziska Trapp ...
    This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus.The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus’ role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • De reus van Amsterdam

    De reus van Amsterdam van Tanya Commandeur is een historische roman over showbizz, liefdes en geheimen rond de langste Nederlander ooit. Voor de lezers van Susan Smit en Simone van der Vlugt.Levendige roman over de langste Nederlander ooit.Amsterdam, 1918. Albert is op zijn eenentwintigste zo uitzonderlijk lang dat hij overal wordt nagestaard en geen werk kan vinden. Zijn leven lijkt tot mislukken ... Read more

    $14.41 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Big Top

    The Life of Ringling's Unlikely Circus Savior

    A thrilling behind-the-scenes biography of the Ringling brothers’ chief henchman.Art Concello wasn’t born into the circus. But he was in the right place at the right time, becoming one of the world’s best trapeze artists before transforming himself into a shrewd circus businessman.In the Shadow of the Big Top: The Life of Ringling's Unlikely Circus Savior details Concello’s fateful path from flyer ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Techniques of Illusion

    A Cultural and Media History of Stage Magic in the Late Nineteenth Century

    This book explores stage conjuring during its “golden age,” from about 1860 to 1910.This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmatic illusions of the time that stand in for different kinds of illusions typical of stage magic in the “golden age” and analyses them within their cultural and media-historical context: “Pepper’s Ghost,” the archetypical mirror illusion; “The Vanishing ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A arte do circo na América do Sul

    Trajetórias, tradições e inovações na arena contemporânea

    Desde o circo itinerante, montado sob lonas e que passava de geração em geração, muitas mudanças ocorreram, com uma tensão positiva entre a tradição e a inovação. Este livro busca, por meio de ensaios e reflexões, contribuir para a valorização do gênero, bem como de suas formas de expressão contemporâneas. Assim, participam da obra acadêmicos, pesquisadores, pensadores, gestores, críticos e ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Den stille pige

    by Peter Høeg ...
    Romanens hovedperson er den 42-årige Kasper Krone. Kasper er verdensberømt cirkusartist med en svaghed for poker og Johann Sebastian Bachs musik. Han har en fænomenal hørelse og en lige så fænomenal skattegæld. Mens han er i vinterkvarter i Glostrup, får han at vide, at en af hans tidligere elever, KlaraMaria, en pige på 10 år, er blevet bortført.”Elegant konstrueret og frygtelig underholdende.”- ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Broadway Bodies

    A Critical History of Conformity

    by Ryan Donovan ...
    Broadway has body issues. What is a Broadway Body? Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit, exceptionally able, triple-threat performer who represents how Broadway musicals favor certain kinds of bodies. Casting is always a political act, situated within a power structure that gives preference to the Broadway Body. In Broadway Bodies, author Ryan Donovan ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Le, klovn - le!

    by Martin Elmer ...
    "Da elefanterne var på vej ud, sprang de første flammer frem som blodige tænder. Røg og ild spærrede for hovedindgangen.Der gik et sus af rædsel gennem publikum. Nogle var allerede på vej mod sideudgangen. Der ville ikke gå mange sekunder, før hundreder af mennesker ville mase rundt mellem hinanden for at slippe væk.’Kom, vi må ind,’ råbte Charlie.Jeg stirrede uforstående på ham. Jeg forstod ikke, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Arte-sanos

    Arte-sanos vous présente un nouveau monde : celui des artisans latino-américains. Souvent méprisés, ces artistes de rue vivent pourtant de leurs créations. Par opposition au système, ils tentent d’inventer une nouvelle forme de vie remplie d’art et de liberté. Observez-les, découvrez leurs méthodes de travail ainsi que les matériaux utilisés ; vous comprendrez alors mieux la dynamique dans ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digging Deep Into Auspicious Coincidences

    by Karl Baumann ...
    Karl Baumann defied all odds when he became an artist with Cirque du Soleil.With no background in the circus arts his chances were slim to land such a high-flying job.In Part I of his book, we follow Baumann's impossible journey starting with his modest beginnings in Salzburg, Austria, uncovering a path to the big stage.In Part II Baumann takes us behind the scenes, discussing his favorite subject ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pallenberg Wonder Bears – From the Beginning

    "Pallenberg Wonder Bears – From the Beginning is a captivating narrative you couldn't have dreamed up, but won't want to put down. I've been in publishing for a long time and at this point it takes something really unique to raise my eyebrows -- and this story certainly did, from the very first page."-- Justin Race, DirectorPurdue University Press"The rich history of Pallenberg's Wonder Bears has ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus