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From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Blood and Circuses, the next historical mystery featuring an unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. Can Miss Fisher uncover the truth without losing her life?
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The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Running Man, Rollerball, and Ready Player One are wildly different sci-fi films which derive their premise from a line of poetry by the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal. How has a simple motif about "bread and circuses" powered some of the most memorable sci-fi plots in cinema?
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"Well, here they are again. The ant, the fly, and the flea. Stuck doing tricks for the circus-goers every night and twice on Sundays. Stuck like a . . . well, you know. But with the help of Moth, a fellow performer with a pretty spectacular trick, the trio plan their escape. But will it work?" --Jacket flap
9) Circus
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Leaping lizards, marching snakes, a bear on the high wire, and others perform in a somewhat unusual circus.
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The Hunger Games, The Matrix, The Running Man, Rollerball, and Ready Player One are wildly different sci-fi films which derive their premise from a line of poetry by the ancient Roman satirist Juvenal. How has a simple motif about "bread and circuses" powered some of the most memorable sci-fi plots in cinema?
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"Explores the world of social circus--a movement that brings kids from different worlds together to perform remarkable acts on a professional level. Levinson follows the participants of two specific circuses that also work together periodically: Circus Harmony in St. Louis, whose participants are inner-city and suburban kids, and [Galilee Circus] in Israel, whose participants [are] Jews and Arabs. As the kids' relationships evolve over time, the members...
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"A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves."--Publisher's description.
19) 40
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"In a future America ravaged by natural disaster, pandemic, and political unrest, a fundamentalist faction emerges. As the Novae Terrae gain power, enticing civilians with bread and circuses, a civil war breaks out between its members and the US government. Mazzy Goodwin, a young soldier, only wants to find her little sister, Ava Lynn. One day, she wakes in a bomb crater to find wings emerged from her back. Has she died? Been gifted wings by God?...
20) Circus: an album
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Traces the history of circuses from the time of ancient Egypt and Greece through their evolution in eighteenth-century Europe to the spectacles created by P.T. Barnum and other modern-day showmen.
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