Fighting the Flames: The Spectacular Performance of Fire at Coney Island 1138878413, 9781138878419

A Coney Island of the Mindless [Kindle Edition]

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A Coney Island Reader 9780231538190

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The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island 9780812207323

The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholar

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A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion 9780231538190

Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Wa

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The Brooklyn Cyclones: Hardball Dreams and the New Coney Island 9780814762608

The story of the first year of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team - as told from two very different points of view: fro

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The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia 9780822386018

This study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed

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Coney Island: 150 Years of Rides, Fires, Floods, the Rich, the Poor and Finally Robert Moses 9781476623733

Before the Civil War, Coney Island boasted a beach, a dozen small hotels with ramshackle bathhouses, some chowder stands

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Miracle at Coney Island: How a Sideshow Doctor Saved Thousands of Babies and Transformed American Medicine (Kindle Single)

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Braving the Flames 9781497622777

The author of Heat "captured words from the heart" in this collection of stories and firsthand accounts of lif

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Dark Days at Noon: The Future of Fire 9780228013488

Why we should learn to live with fire, rather than trying to solve or eradicate it. Dark Days at Noon provides a broad

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