The escape artists [electronic resource] : true stories of people who turned their obsessions into professions / Joshua Piven.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007.Description: xvii, 253 p. : ill. ; 21 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 331.702 22
LOC classification:
  • HF5384 .P575 2007eb
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Contents:
From fandom to the final frontier -- Wall Street meets special ops -- Freaks, flamethrowers, and phenoms: life in the minors -- Extreme entrepreneurship -- Slop gags and frozen pipes: the circus comes to town -- How to keep a drug kingpin from getting too rich -- Rebels, headhunters, piglets, and other adventures downriver -- You're funny, but can you tell a joke? -- Riding your obsession -- A Harvard physician goes off the grid -- Conclusion: how to make your escape.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-243) and index.

From fandom to the final frontier -- Wall Street meets special ops -- Freaks, flamethrowers, and phenoms: life in the minors -- Extreme entrepreneurship -- Slop gags and frozen pipes: the circus comes to town -- How to keep a drug kingpin from getting too rich -- Rebels, headhunters, piglets, and other adventures downriver -- You're funny, but can you tell a joke? -- Riding your obsession -- A Harvard physician goes off the grid -- Conclusion: how to make your escape.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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