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Author : Peter van Lindonk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (663 download)
Download or read book May all my days be circus days! written by Peter van Lindonk and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Carlyon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113754743X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Education of a Circus Clown written by David Carlyon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.
Author : Cathy Day
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547864566
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book The Circus in Winter written by Cathy Day and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a half century, a small Indiana town hosts a circus troupe during the off-seasons in linked stories “as graceful as any acrobat’s high-wire act” (San Francisco Chronicle). A Story Prize Finalist From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus made the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima, an elephant can change the course of a man's life—or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of the show’s manager has each room of her house painted like a sideshow banner, indulging her desperate passion for a young painter. And a former clown seeks consolation from his loveless marriage in his post-circus job at Clown Alley Cleaners. In this collection of linked stories spanning decades, Cathy Day follows the circus people into their everyday lives and brings the greatest show on earth to the page. “[An] exquisite story collection.” —The Washington Post “Often funny, always graceful, and rich with a mix of historical and imaginative detail.” —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Sublimely imaginative and affecting.” —The Boston Globe
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Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Normal Instructor and Teachers World written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lyne Delmonte
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1639852123
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Super Blue Blood Moon written by Lyne Delmonte and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think about the last time you went to a circus and all the amazing tricks that you saw. Did you ever say to yourself, "How did they do that?" or "How is that humanly possible?" There is a little secret. The performers of Dunning Family Circus, like many others, are not human. They are supernatural. They are also members of NACOS or the North American Council of Supernaturals. This is an organization put in place to govern, maintain, and uphold the laws designed for all magical beings. There are three branches of NACOS--the warriors, the council, and the Grand Council. Kailie Dunning is in charge of the DFC chapter of warriors consisting of vampires, werewolves, fae, Nephilim, and a witch. Shortly after the show is set up and ready, Kailie, who performs in the circus with Tivo, her magical unicorn, is told of missing girls in Ybor City, Florida. Her new team of warriors decide to go out together one night, only to find one of their own has gone missing. Can this group of powerful individuals put clues together to find the missing girls and solve the case before opening day of the circus?
Author : Douglas McPherson
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720613868
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Circus Mania! written by Douglas McPherson and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the circus from its origins in the Roman times, through its establishment in Western Europe, and to the modern day circus—absolutely diverse and captivating Circuses have existed since Roman times, but centuries later, the circus world has never been more diverse and captivating, the global success of Cirque du Soleil testament to its enduring and universal appeal. Traditional family circuses for kids, arty cirque-style shows for adults, circuses in tents or in theaters, circuses with animals or without, cabaret-style hybrids on the burlesque circuit—this is an expert guide to their extraordinary history and culture. The circus requires a unique type of performer, people who blend the discipline of sports stars with the razzmatazz of showbiz; itinerant but clannish entertainers who have often had circus blood in their families for generations; world class gymnasts who risk death twice daily and help take down the big top afterwards. This history offers a journey into this unique world, each chapter an access-all-areas pass to a different circus, talking to the trapeze flyers, clowns, animal trainers, and showmen about their lives, work, families, customs, and traditions.
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Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Normal Instructor and Primary Plans written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Anthony Jones
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472116224
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Jedburgh Justice and Kentish Fire written by Paul Anthony Jones and published by Constable. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Jedburgh Justice is ‘executing someone first, then giving them a trial’? Or that Kentish Fire is ‘applauding sarcastically to silence your opponents’? From the author of Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons, this is a fascinating collection of curious phrases and expressions from the English language, together with the stories of their etymology and anecdotes about their use in history. Where Haggard Hawks focused on lists of ten words of a particular kind, this collection instead focuses on lists phrases and expressions, also arranged by their quirky and specific origins. The contents will include: 10 PHRASES DERIVED FROM PLACES IN BRITAIN (Jedburgh justice, Kentish fire, Scarborough warning...) 10 PHRASES DERIVED FROM PLACES IN LONDON (A draught on the pump at Aldgate, Kent Street ejectment...) 10 PHRASES DERIVED FROM PLACES IN AMERICA (Hollywood yes, Michigan bankroll, Chicago Overcoat...) 10 LATIN PHRASES USED IN ENGLISH (Quid pro quo, nunc est bibendum...) 10 FRENCH PHRASES USED IN ENGLISH (La vie en rose, C’est la guerre, Revenons à nos moutons...) 10 SHAKESPEAREAN EXPRESSIONS (Gild the lily, Salad days, All that glitters is not gold...) 10 LITERARY EXPRESSIONS (A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Abandon hope all ye who enter here...) 10 PHRASES FROM COMICS & CARTOONS (Keep up with the Joneses, Mutt and Jeff...) 10 PHRASES FROM SONGS (Miss Otis regrets, The birds and the bees, Potato po-tah-to...) 10 WAYS OF SAYING ‘WOW’ (Great Scott, My stars, Mamma mia...)
Author : Nat Hentoff
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Speaking Freely written by Nat Hentoff and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in Speaking Freely are, as Nat Hentoff writes: "My lives as a radical (according to the FBI); an 'enslaver of women' (according to pro-choicers); a suspiciously unpredictable civil-libertarian (according to the ACLU); a dangerous defender of alleged pornography (according to my friend Catherine MacKinnon); an irrelevant, anachronistic integrationist (according to assorted black nationalists); and, as an editor at the Washington Post once said, not unkindly--'a general pain in the ass.' " Continuing the story that began in his widely praised Boston Boy, Nat Hentoff in Speaking Freely guides us through more than forty years of his life in journalism, a career as various as his passions, and follows our social history from the civil rights and antiwar movements to the most incendiary battles (such as abortion) of the present day. Hentoff first evokes New York in the fifties, when he wrote for the jazz magazine Down Beat and came to know some of the most talented jazzmen of all time--Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Dizzy Gillespie, to name only a few. He looks back to his apprenticeship under George Seldes and I. F. Stone, two unyieldingly independent journalists whom he credits with charting his direction in the field. And he recounts his associations with a wide array of Americans, from Malcolm X, who was a friend, to Louis Farrakhan, who has labeled Hentoff "the Antichrist"; from Adlai Stevenson to John Cardinal O'Connor; and from the "utterly singular" editor of The New Yorker, William Shawn, to uncelebrated heroes far afield from Manhattan and Washington. As a staff writer for the Village Voice and a syndicated columnist for theWashington Post, Hentoff has gained a reputation as one of the nation's most respected, uncompromising, and controversial writers on civil liberties and on the difficult issues and wide-ranging forms of injustice manifest in our age. Written with deep honesty and affection, and rooted in music, politics, and the press, Speaking Freely is a memoir as candid, opinionated, and provocative as any American journalist has ever offered.
Author : Lewis Wallace
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Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Ben-Hur; or, The days of the Messiah written by Lewis Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jones Loflin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781591841715
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Juggling Elephants written by Jones Loflin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when your life feels as busy as a three-ring circus? Juggling Elephants tells a simple but profound story about one man with a universal problem. Mark has too much to do, too many priorities, too much stress, and too little time. As he struggles to balance his many responsibilities without cracking under the pressure, Mark takes a break to attend the circus with his family. There he has a surprising conversation with a wise ringmaster. He leaves with a simple but powerful lesson: Trying to get everything done is like juggling elephants -- impossible. So Mark begins to think about his work, family, and personal life the way a ringmaster thinks about the many acts in a three-ring circus. He discovers that managing his various acts can be fun and easy once he changes his attitude and follows his new friend's ongoing guidance. Mark soon realizes: • If you keep trying to juggle elephants, no one, including you, will be thrilled with your performance. • A ringmaster cannot be in all three rings at once. • The key to the success of a circus is having quality acts in all three rings. • Intermission is an essential part of any good circus. Juggling Elephants is a wonderfully lighthearted guide for everyone who feels like they're about to be squashed. It will help you better focus your time and energy, so you'll be able to enjoy more of the things that are important to you. Above all, it will teach you how to run your circus, instead of letting the circus run you.
Author : EDWIN P. NORWOOD
Publisher : Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book THE ADVENTURES OF DIGGLEDY DAN - A children's story of the circus written by EDWIN P. NORWOOD and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever been to a circus where the seal plays the bass drum, the monkey plays the violin, the elephant plays the cello and the kangaroo plays the bassoon! Well, at least the camel doesn’t play the didgeridoo – or does he?. This is a circus where the ring master is a tiger and the lion-tamer is, well, a lion! Well you’ll get all this and more at the Spangleland Circus in “The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan.” Too-Bo-Tan sends a speaking messenger bird to Diggeldy Dan the clown. The bird tells him that after the circus is over and everyone has gone home and the circus folk are in their tents and caravans, that after dinner they will all fall asleep – except for Diggeldy Dan, who must hide in the round white tent that stands in the center of all the bigger tents, and wait for the messenger who will come out of the west.’ Dan does this and when the messenger arrives, his adventures begin. What are the adventures you ask? Well you’ll have to download and read this book for yourself to find out. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book, and all the books Abela Publishing publishes, will be donated to charities
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Christian Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Outlook and Independent written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 724 pages
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Download or read book New Outlook written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
