Show Stopper

Show Stopper
Author: Hayley Barker
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1407180932

Set in a near-future England where the poorest people in the land must watch their children be taken by a travelling circus - to perform at the mercy of hungry lions, sabotaged high wires and a demonic ringmaster. The ruling class visit the circus as an escape from their structured, high-achieving lives - pure entertainment with a bloodthirsty edge. Ben, the teenage son of a draconian government minister, visits the circus for the first time and falls instantly in love with Hoshiko, a young performer. They come from harshly different worlds - but must join together to escape the circus and put an end to its brutal sport.

Showstoppers!

Showstoppers!
Author: Gerald Nachman
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1613731051

When Robert Preston shouted "Ya got trouble!" in River City, when Carol Channing glided down a gilded staircase while waiters serenaded her with "Hello, Dolly!," when Barbra Streisand defied us to rain on her parade in Funny Girl, audiences were instantly enchanted. Showstoppers! is all about Broadway musicals' most memorable numbers—why they were so effective, how they were created, and why they still resonate. Much of it is told through the eyes of the performers, songwriters, directors, and choreographers who first built these explosive numbers and lit the fuse. Gerald Nachman interviewed dozens of iconic musical theater figures, including Patti LuPone, John Raitt, Jerry Herman, Edie Adams, Dick Van Dyke, Joel Grey, Marvin Hamlisch, John Kander, Tommy Tune, Sheldon Harnick, and Harold Prince, uncovering priceless untold anecdotes and details.

Contemporary Doll Stars

Contemporary Doll Stars
Author: A. Glenn Mandeville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1992
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780875883854

Insight into the world of modern doll collecting

4th Fashion Doll Makeovers

4th Fashion Doll Makeovers
Author: Jim Faraone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Barbie dolls
ISBN: 9780875885995

Step-by-step instructions show how to transform both mass produced 11 and a half inch fashion dolls and the larger 15-inch and 16-inch contemporary fashion dolls into visions of fantasy, fairies and enchanted creatures and how to create hairstyles, make-up and bodies for original designs.

Barbie

Barbie
Author: Marie Greenwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2003
Genre: Barbie dolls
ISBN: 9780751368994

This guide traces the history of the world's favourite fashion doll ever since her debut at the New York Toy Fair in 1959. A photographic timeline traces the history and development of Barbie - both as a character and a doll - and her friends and family. Environment shots show Barbie in an array of fashion outfits. Close-ups show many more glamorous outfits and accessories. An exploration of Barbie's world, including her favourite houses, bedrooms and kitchens from the sixties onwards is given. It includes photographs of collectible Barbie dolls from Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn.

Fashion Doll Clothing

Fashion Doll Clothing
Author: Rosemarie Ionker
Publisher: Reverie Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781932485394

Fashion Doll Wardrobe

Fashion Doll Wardrobe
Author: Robert Archer
Publisher: Portfolio Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780942620641

This beautiful boxed set of patterns for today's most popular fashion dolls by costume designer Robert Archer celebrates the fashion-doll explosion of recent years. Snap open the self-sticking binding of this boxed collection to find twenty-seven full-size patterns on easy-to-use loose sheets, comprised of three patterns for each of nine dolls: Gene, Tyler Wentworth, Alex, Daisy, Willow, Brenda Starr, Mickie-Maggie, Clea Bellas, and the Elle doll. The accompanying full-size book presents the designer's original sketches and colour photographs of each outfit, as well as a measurement chart and doll description.

Showstopper!

Showstopper!
Author: G. Pascal Zachary
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1480494844

This “inside account captures the energy—and the madness—of the software giant’s race to develop a critical new program. . . . Gripping” (Fortune Magazine). Showstopper is the dramatic, inside story of the creation of Windows NT, told by Wall Street Journal reporter G. Pascal Zachary. Driven by the legendary David Cutler, a picked band of software engineers sacrifices almost everything in their lives to build a new, stable, operating system aimed at giving Microsoft a platform for growth through the next decade of development in the computing business. Comparable in many ways to the Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, Showstopper gets deep inside the process of software development, the lives and motivations of coders and the pressure to succeed coupled with the drive for originality and perfection that can pull a diverse team together to create a program consisting of many hundreds of thousands of lines of code.