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Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. "Step right up!" and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth--the Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable an...

A collection of memoirs by twenty people who knew Gertrude Stein well, that adds details to our view of Stein as a writer and woman. It covers the entire span of her career: from her time as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College to her extraordinary years as a writer in Paris from 1903 through 1946.

Fast zwei Jahrzehnte lang pflegte Christian Simon freundschaftlichen Kontakt zu Paul McCartney. Nun gibt der Moderator und Journalist erstmals Gelegenheit, die spannendsten Passagen aus den Exklusivinterviews nachzulesen, die er mit dem großen Musiker und seiner Frau Linda geführt hat. Sichtbar wird ein ganz privater Paul McCartney, sein Blick auf die Beatles, seine eigene Musik, die Popmusik überhaupt, auf Politik und Umwelt und sein Engageme...

In the glorious, boozy party after the first World War, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the so-called flapper. Young, impetuous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as this book argues, she didn't appear out of nowhere. This spirited, beautifully illustrated history presents a fresh look at the reality of young women's exper...

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Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper is a spirited revisionist history of the iconic, mythic flapper, which gives fresh insight into young women's experiences in America and Britain from the 1890s to the 1920s.

Waarom wespen rupsen hersenspoelen van Matt Simon is een prachtig boek dat laat zien hoe dieren door hun bijzondere aanpassingsvermogen als soort weten te overleven in de meest extreme omstandigheden. De meest onwaarschijnlijke dieren, van vingerdier en waterbeer tot pistoolgarnaal, snorpad en zombiemier passeren de revue. Een boek vol populaire wetenschap, humor en prachtige illustraties.

William James was one of the most remarkable intellectuals of his day--an influential philosopher and psychologist who was also a charismatic teacher, groundbreaking scholar, and widely admired public figure. "William James Remembered" brings together the reminiscences of James by family members, friends, and colleagues. The result is a many-sided portrait of a man who, besides playing a crucial role in American life during the late nineteenth...

Drawing on rich archival sources, this new biography provides a lively, clear-eyed account of the life and work of the iconic and iconoclastic fashion designer.

Miller Beach became a popular tourist destination in the early 1900s thanks to its windswept sand dunes and Lake Michigan shoreline. Early aviator and Chicagoan Octave Chanute glided his aircraft over the dunes, botanist Henry Chandler Cowles studied plant succession in Miller Woods. Miller Beach's architecture is diverse, with historic park buildings designed by George W. Maher: the Marquette Park Pavilion and the Gary Bathing Beach Bathhouse...

Comprehensive survey and analysis of the scholarship and criticism on perhaps the greatest American writer.

The Greatest Shows on Earth takes us from eighteenth-century hippodromes in Britain to intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted by aerialists and clowns.

Five-year-old Josh loves dogs. He lives in a cozy house with a pretty garden, but the one thing that's missing is a doggie! One day, Josh's Auntie Lise brings over a homeless dog for him but forgets to mention: Sadie cannot use her back legs, so she has a cart with wheels to help her get around. When Josh sees Sadie, he is confused. He has a never seen a dog with wheels before. Auntie Lise and Mommy explain Sadie's challenge to Josh. Acceptanc...

Gertrude Stein Remembered, " a collection of memoirs by twenty people who knew her well, adds invaluable details to our view of Stein as a writer and woman. The recollections, some previously unpublished, cover the entire span of her career: from her time as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College to her extraordinary years as a writer in Paris from 1903 through 1946. Among the memoirists are novelists Sherwood Anderson and Thornton Wilder, book...

From the invention of the telegraph to the discovery of X rays, Simon has created a revealing portrait of an anxious age when Americans welcomed electricity into their bodies even as they kept it from their homes.

Miller Beach, known for its eclectic charm, became a popular tourist destination in the early 1900s thanks to its windswept sand dunes and Lake Michigan shoreline. An early aviator, Chicagoan Octave Chanute, glided his aircraft over the dunes almost 10 years before the Wright brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, and botanist Henry Chandler Cowles studied plant succession in Miller Woods, now part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Like its ci...

Er zit een gat in - De wereld van Spriet van filosoof Coen Simon en Linda de Haan is het vrolijkste filosofieboek over alles en over niets. Voor kinderen die durven te vragen! Er zit een gat in de wereld en wie in dat gat valt verdwijnt voor altijd. Dat is eng, maar je kunt er ook grappen over maken. En dat doet Spriet. Hoelang duurt dat eigenlijk, voor altijd? En wat is er zo erg aan verdwijnen? Als er nooit iets verdwijnt, staat de wereld s...

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Comprehensive survey and analysis of the scholarship and criticism on perhaps the greatest American writer.