Search results for “[Subject: circus]”

• Author(s): S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General To both young and old, the circus remains an icon of American entertainment, a wholesome pastime untouched...

• Author(s): David Lewis Hammarstrom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - General Once an eagerly awaited spectacle, the traveling circus--that miracle of red wagons, trumpeting...

• Author(s): Teresa Cutler-Broyles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration ...

• Author(s): Angela Carter • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: LiteraryWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her...

• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented of Broadway's colorful entertainers. Audiences ...

• Author(s): John Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Arthur Barnes--"The 100 Somersault Man"--was the world's greatest acrobat, a legend...

• Author(s): Laurell K. Hamilton • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Horror - GeneralFirst time in trade paperback: the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. In Circus o...

• Author(s): Les Harding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The newspapers called him "Overshadowing Monarch Mastodon," "Behemoth of Holy Writ" and "Prodigious Mountain." He was the ...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Ann Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment ...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Ron McLarty • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"McLarty's storytelling skills shine in this ribald, riotously funny, but also poignant novel." --David Baldacci With hi...

• Author(s): George Mariscal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseThis ambitious book attempts to rehistoricize the Golden Age of Spain (ca. 1550-1680) by ...

• Author(s): Tamara Loos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaUnlike its Southeast Asian neighbors, Thailand was never colonized by an imperial power. However, Siam (as ...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Julie Ellison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Arlene Keizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWriters as diverse as Carolivia Herron, Charles Johnson, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and D...

• Author(s): Tracie Matysik • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyReforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe be...

• Author(s): Frederique De Vignemont • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyAn interdisciplinary and comprehensive treatment of bodily self-consciousness, considering representation of the body, the ...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...

• Author(s): Mary V. Thompson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: African American & BlackGeorge Washington's life has been scrutinized by historians over the past three centuri...

• Author(s): Adam Smith • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - TheoryReflecting Adam Smith's wide learning and varied interests, these essays shed considerable light on his place in the Scottish Enlighten...

• Author(s): Thomas Metzinger • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: MetaphysicsAccording to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenom...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...