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Product Description: Bali's shadow puppet theater, like others in Southeast Asia, is a complex tradition with many conventions that puzzle Western observers. Mary Zurbuchen demonstrates how the linguistic codes of this rich art form mediate between social groups, cultural influences, historical periods, and conceptual schemes...read more

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9780691636610 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $112.50 | About this edition: Bali's shadow puppet theater, like others in Southeast Asia, is a complex tradition with many conventions that puzzle Western observers.

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9780691608129 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Bali's shadow puppet theater, like others in Southeast Asia, is a complex tradition with many conventions that puzzle Western observers.

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Product Description: Using puppets as learning tool to children. To teaching God and bibles stories. Also to help children to make the right decisions in their lives.

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9781523397006 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 22, 2016, cover price $5.38 | About this edition: Using puppets as learning tool to children.

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Product Description: This book has a simple story with intermediate level sentences and vocabulary. Above the text it has photographs of the shadow animals that go along with the story. It contains a photograph of how my daughter made each shadow puppet animal with her hands so the reader can try to make them on their own...read more

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9781522863434 | Large print edition (Createspace Independent Pub, December 24, 2015), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: This book has a simple story with intermediate level sentences and vocabulary.

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Product Description: Pets are planning a Halloween party. they are agree that there is a will be little celebration. Kitty will make the images and Michelle has her prettiest dress dressed ..

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9781518626784 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 15, 2015, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Pets are planning a Halloween party.

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Product Description: If you want to learn ventriloquism this is the perfect book for you. Learn from a full-time ventriloquist. Steve Holt began learning monthly lessons through the mail at age five. While living in an orphanage in Georgia, Holt was teased and bullied for 'playing with dolls'...read more

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9781512274936 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 27, 2015, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: If you want to learn ventriloquism this is the perfect book for you.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGEFor the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson   He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were just part of his remarkable story.   This extraordinary biography—written with the generous cooperation of the Henson family—covers the full arc of Henson’s all-too-brief life: from his childhood in Leland, Mississippi, through the years of burgeoning fame in America, to the decade of international celebrity that preceded his untimely death at age fifty-three. Drawing on hundreds of hours of new interviews with Henson's family, friends, and closest collaborators, as well as unprecedented access to private family and company archives, Brian Jay Jones explores the creation of the Muppets, Henson’s contributions to Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live, and his nearly ten-year campaign to bring The Muppet Show to television. Jones provides the imaginative context for Henson’s non-Muppet projects, including the richly imagined worlds of The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth—as well as fascinating misfires like Henson’s dream of opening an inflatable psychedelic nightclub.   An uncommonly intimate portrait, Jim Henson captures all the facets of this American original: the master craftsman who revolutionized the presentation of puppets on television, the savvy businessman whose dealmaking prowess won him a reputation as “the new Walt Disney,” and the creative team leader whose collaborative ethos earned him the undying loyalty of everyone who worked for him. Here also is insight into Henson’s intensely private personal life: his Christian Science upbringing, his love of fast cars and expensive art, and his weakness for women. Though an optimist by nature, Henson was haunted by the notion that he would not have time to do all the things he wanted to do in life—a fear that his heartbreaking final hours would prove all too well founded.   An up-close look at the charmed life of a legend, Jim Henson gives the full measure to a man whose joyful genius transcended age, language, geography, and culture—and continues to beguile audiences worldwide.   Praise for Jim Henson  “Jim Henson vibrantly delves into the magnificent man and his Muppet methods: It’s an absolute must-read!”—Neil Patrick Harris   “An exhaustive work that is never exhausting, a credit both to Jones’s brisk style and to Henson’s exceptional life.”—The New York Times   “[A] sweeping portrait that is a mix of humor, mirth and poignancy.”—Washington Independent Review of Books“A meticulously researched tome chock-full of gems about the Muppets and the most thorough portrait of their creator ever crafted.”—Associated Press “Jim was one of my closest friends. And yet I found out things about him in Jim Henson that were new to me. Brian Jay Jones has captured the layers of Jim’s genius and humanity, as well as the flaws that made Jim, like all of us, so delightfully imperfect. I thank Brian for giving Jim life again. This book has captured the spirit of Jim Henson.”—Frank OzFrom the Hardcover edition.

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9780345526113 | Ballantine Books, September 24, 2013, cover price $35.00

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9780345526120 | Ballantine Books, May 10, 2016, cover price $20.00

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9780804128643 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 24, 2013), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGEFor the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson   He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird.

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Product Description: The three book in a series, that are skits using puppets. The skits are showing children how to love God and using messages and teaching tools.

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9781503288553 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 9, 2015, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The three book in a series, that are skits using puppets.
9781500177485 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 13, 2014, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Using puppets skits as a teaching tool to teach children about God.

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Product Description: Tracing the development in Sicily of a chivalric tradition based on the medieval stories of Charlemagne and his knights, this is an analysis of Sicilian storytelling, puppetry, festivals, cart painting and other folk art. Interviews with puppeteers are documented, and hand painted cart panels and playbill posters are described and illustrated...read more

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9780786494156 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 20, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Tracing the development in Sicily of a chivalric tradition based on the medieval stories of Charlemagne and his knights, this is an analysis of Sicilian storytelling, puppetry, festivals, cart painting and other folk art.

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Product Description: The entire north-west came to a standstill in July, 2014 as Liverpool was again left captivated by the return of the Giants in the thrilling 'Memories of August 1914' street-theatre spectacular. 800,000 visitors stood in awe when Royal de Luxe, the famous French theatre company, first brought their act to the city in 2012...read more

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9781910335024 | Gardners Books, November 7, 2014, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: The entire north-west came to a standstill in July, 2014 as Liverpool was again left captivated by the return of the Giants in the thrilling 'Memories of August 1914' street-theatre spectacular.

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Product Description: When Steve Holt was six years old , he and his five siblings were separated and placed into various foster homes. His parents, who were financially and mentally disabled, were unable to care for their children. Steve and his older sister Joann grew up in the Open Door Children's Home orphanage on Leon Street in Rome, Georgia...read more

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9781502576200 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 1, 2014, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: When Steve Holt was six years old , he and his five siblings were separated and placed into various foster homes.

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Product Description: Czechoslovakia’s unique culture of puppet theater reached a glorious apex between about 1900 and 1950, and its visual style was integral to the development of modernist and contemporary theater and animation. The Puppet and the Modern looks at this incredibly fertile phase in puppetry in Bohemia and Moravia and traces the development of stage design and stage technologies, also focusing on the connection of artists from disciplines and styles--designers, carvers, painters and scenographers--to the development of avant-garde and modernist currents in twentieth-century art...read more

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9788074670565 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, October 31, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Czechoslovakia’s unique culture of puppet theater reached a glorious apex between about 1900 and 1950, and its visual style was integral to the development of modernist and contemporary theater and animation.

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By John Bell (editor)

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9780318153124, titled "Dangerous Pleasure: Alcohol from the Woman's Perspective" | Natl Council on Alcoholism Inc, June 1, 1978, cover price $9.95 | also contains Dangerous Pleasure: Alcohol from the Woman''s Perspective

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9781138913837 | Reprint edition (Routledge, May 21, 2015), cover price $44.95

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Product Description: The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently reevaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects...read more
By Claudia Orenstein (editor)

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9780415705400 | Routledge, July 16, 2014, cover price $215.00 | About this edition: The Routledge Companion to Puppetry and Material Performance offers a wide ranging perspective on how scholars and artists are currently reevaluating the theoretical, historical, and theatrical significance of performance that embraces the agency of inanimate objects.

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Product Description: Using puppets as a teaching tool for children. Ages 3 years to 6th graders. The children learn about God and how to react in a their lives.

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9781500178307 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 21, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Using puppets as a teaching tool for children.

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Product Description: This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily. Here, epic, farce, saints' lives, bandits' lives, fairytales, Christian myth, and city legend offer the vehicles by which puppeteers comment upon, critique--perhaps even negotiate--the relationships among the major classes of Sicilian society: the aristocracy, the people, the clergy and the Mafia...read more

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9780786477678 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 3, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This study analyzes the folkloric genres that comprise the repertoire of the marionette theater in Sicily.

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Product Description: Revised and edited from the 2014 version: Growing research has shown that children with autism can learn and improve play and social skills through the use of puppetry. This is a resource guide in helping parents, teachers, and therapists integrate puppets into their child (ren)'s life through many how tos and guided puppet scripts...read more

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9781499346558 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 3, 2014, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Revised and edited from the 2014 version: Growing research has shown that children with autism can learn and improve play and social skills through the use of puppetry.

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Product Description: This coloring book is about Ribbons the Birthday Clown and what fun things she will do if she come to your Birthday Party.

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9781495441325 | Csm edition (Createspace Independent Pub, February 27, 2014), cover price $6.00 | About this edition: This coloring book is about Ribbons the Birthday Clown and what fun things she will do if she come to your Birthday Party.

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Product Description: THE ART OF VENTRILOQUISM, a reprint of the 1875 book by Frederic Maccabe: Maccabe's Art of Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions, with full directions to learners how to acquire a pleasing vocalization; showing how to begin and practice marvellous illustrations of ventriloquism; with amusing dialogues for beginners, including the "repertoire" of the English Railway Porter, as performed by Frederic Maccabe, in his celebrated mimical, musical, and ventriloquial entertainment, "Begone Dull Care...read more

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9781494811877 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 29, 2013, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: THE ART OF VENTRILOQUISM, a reprint of the 1875 book by Frederic Maccabe: Maccabe's Art of Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions, with full directions to learners how to acquire a pleasing vocalization; showing how to begin and practice marvellous illustrations of ventriloquism; with amusing dialogues for beginners, including the "repertoire" of the English Railway Porter, as performed by Frederic Maccabe, in his celebrated mimical, musical, and ventriloquial entertainment, "Begone Dull Care.

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Product Description: Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art. This new edition of a classic brings the original text back to life, including four additional essays and a new introduction, edited and translated by leading puppetry scholar Penny Francis...read more
By Penny Francis (editor)

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9781137338440 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 21, 2014), cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art.

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9781137338433 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, January 21, 2014), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Henryk Jurkowski's seminal 1988 text, Aspects of Puppet Theatre, was groundbreaking in its analysis of puppetry as a performing art.

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Product Description: Puppetry is an old and respected art form but it is also just plain fun. This book presents dozens of original patterns for a particular kind of puppet--those made from paper sacks. Those brown (or white) paper bags generations of students have used to tote lunch to school prove to be an inexpensive base on which to create puppets that can be used to teach as well as entertain...read more

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9780786445677 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 18, 2015, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Puppetry is an old and respected art form but it is also just plain fun.

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Product Description: Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen...read more

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9780773542013 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars.

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Product Description: Adaptación para títeres o teatro, de tan genial obra literaria de don Miguel de Cervantes, Escrita e interpretada, por Juan Catalina, titiritero, hasta la medula, hacedor de sus propias obras, tanto en la construcción de los títeres, como escenografía,...read more

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9781463347710 | Author Solutions, July 1, 2013, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Adaptación para títeres o teatro, de tan genial obra literaria de don Miguel de Cervantes, Escrita e interpretada, por Juan Catalina, titiritero, hasta la medula, hacedor de sus propias obras, tanto en la construcción de los títeres, como escenografía,.

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Product Description: Es un conocido titiritero, quien va por los pueblos y ciudades, con su viejo carromato contando las hazañas del mayor héroe de todos los tiempos, don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar. El Cid Campeador ayudado por sus títeres, extraños instrumentos musicales y algún que otro voluntario...read more

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9781463347703 | Author Solutions, July 1, 2013, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Es un conocido titiritero, quien va por los pueblos y ciudades, con su viejo carromato contando las hazañas del mayor héroe de todos los tiempos, don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar.

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Product Description: Qu'advient-il lorsque fraichement debarque au Japon, on s'aventure dans un theatre de marionnettes? Reste-t-on a la porte, ou peut-on esperer que l'espace de la representation se devoile et s'explique? Quelle place pour le spectateur devant un dispositif ou la scene se dedouble, ou les corps sont separes de leur voix, ou la notion de personnage meme semble subir un eclatement continu? Au theatre comme partout au Japon, les portes sont des panneaux coulissants...read more

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9782251722177 | Isd, April 24, 2013, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Qu'advient-il lorsque fraichement debarque au Japon, on s'aventure dans un theatre de marionnettes?

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