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af Professor Peta Tait ...

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af Bruce Johnson ...

Serier serie Creativity for Entertainers
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Elbows in My Ears

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af David-Olivier Defarges ...

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Becoming FLO...A Mostly True Story

af Deb Carson ...

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A Second Chance

af Gayle Wilson ...

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By Royal Command: Barnum in Europe

af Steve Ward ...

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The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

af Ellen Bryson ...

In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln’s assassination, a man named P. T. Barnum opened a museum in New York City. Filled with oddities from around the world, it also hosted a number of sideshow freaks – including Bartholomew Fortuno, the Human Skeleton. When a new act arrives on the scene, Bartholomew finds himself falling in love . . . and caught up in the intrigues of the ... Læs mere

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af Edem Pereira De Oliveira ...

Imagino que arte seja uma reconstrução estética permanente, seja ressignificar para dar outras percepções à lógica humana. É portanto um ato filosófico que procura encontros onde o aparente omite: - Não... não sei o que é arte, mas sei que posso tê-la como ferramenta de distinções ou mesmo de apropriações que normalmente nossos sentidos negam. É isso que esta prosa poética trata em A ETERNIDADE ... Læs mere

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

Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe

Fighting Nature

Danske rejsende cirkus- og gøglerslægter

Natural Born! Circus, Sideshow and the Art of Being Human

The 388 Tattoos of Captain George and the 389 Tales of How He Got Them

Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others

Circus in the Long Nineteenth Century

Cirkus- og gøglerslægter. Miljø og stamtavler

En Route to the Great Eastern Circus and Other Essays on Circus History

Laughing Stock

Techniques of Illusion

La rivoluzione in pista

The Art of Iugling or Legerdemaine

Comedy Techniques for Variety Artists

The Smile of Horror: When the Laughter Dies

Il circo fatato

Elbows in My Ears

Les dialogues du bas

Becoming FLO...A Mostly True Story

Applause

By Royal Command: Barnum in Europe

The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

A Eternidade Não Tem Coração