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The Pittsburgh Crawfords
Jim Bankes
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• Author(s): Jim Bankes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Pittsburgh Crawfords were one of the Negro League's best and most exciting teams. At the heart of the line-u...
View full detailsCrime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640
John W. Weatherford
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• Author(s): John W. Weatherford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminal Law - General Crime has been present in all cultures and societies, since the beginning of time. This work focuse...
View full detailsKings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Reference to Tarzan on Screen and Television
David Fury
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• Author(s): David Fury • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Cast, production credits, release date, and running time are provided for each of the Tarzan films. ...
View full detailsThe Horse Dictionary: English-Language Terms Used in Equine Care, Feeding, Training, Treatment, Racing and Show
Vivienne M. Eby
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• Author(s): Vivienne M. Eby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Did you know that a cantle is the rear part of a saddle? Or that a jibbah is the bulge on the face of an Arabian hor...
View full detailsBasic Research in Parapsychology, 2d ed.
K. Ramakrishna Rao
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• Author(s): K. Ramakrishna Rao • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepat This expanded and revised text includes thirteen experimental ...
View full detailsComedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed
Larry Langman, Paul Gold
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• Author(s): Larry Langman | Paul Gold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a stapl...
View full detailsThe Films of Joel and Ethan Coen
Carolyn R. Russell
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• Author(s): Carolyn R. Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen got their start in the independent film business i...
View full detailsThe 1919 World Series: What Really Happened?
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History One of baseball's infamous events is the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati...
View full detailsInto the Storm: A U.S. Marine in the Persian Gulf War
Phillip Thompson
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• Author(s): Phillip Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia Phillip Thompson had kept a journal for years, from the time he was in college in the 1980s at the Univ...
View full detailsBushville: Life and Time in Amateur Baseball
Jerry Kelly
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• Author(s): Jerry Kelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings From Bushville: "The game is a fine construct. Its trace through anyone's life can range from a ...
View full detailsHealers in World War II: An Oral History of the American Medical Corps
Patricia W. Sewell
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• Author(s): Patricia W. Sewell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Dr. Logan W. Hovis parachuted onto Corregidor with the 503rd Regimental Combat Team. Dr. Jeremiah H...
View full detailsRadio Comedy Diary: A Researcher's Guide to the Actual Jokes and Quotes of the Top Comedy Programs of 1947-1950
Gary Poole
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• Author(s): Gary Poole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism This book is a real find--for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of ...
View full detailsWesterns and American Culture, 1930-1955
R. Philip Loy
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• Author(s): R. Philip Loy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many people have fond memories of Friday nights and Saturday afternoons spent in theatres watchin...
View full detailsThe Holy Grail: The Legend, the History, the Evidence
Justin E. Griffin
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• Author(s): Justin E. Griffin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The existence of the Holy Grail has long been debated, and many of these debates focus on the intellectualiz...
View full detailsDiane Keaton: Artist and Icon
Deborah C. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Deborah C. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General In the past 30 years, Diane Keaton has been an actress, a director and a pho...
View full detailsSecret Allies in the Pacific: Covert Intelligence and Code Breaking Cooperation Between the United States, Great Britain, and Other Nations Prior to t
Roland H. Worth
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• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Even though the United States was still officially at peace prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harb...
View full detailsThe American Religious Debate Over Birth Control, 1907-1937
Kathleen A. Tobin
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• Author(s): Kathleen A. Tobin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Abortion & Birth Control The ongoing debates on the morality of artificial birth control sparked a heated public debate ...
View full detailsThe Colombian Civil War
Bert Ruiz
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• Author(s): Bert Ruiz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - South America In 2000, the National Police of Colombia reported that 25,660 people met violent deaths in that countr...
View full detailsGreece, Turkey and the Aegean Sea: A Case Study in International Law
Haralambos Athanasopulos
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• Author(s): Haralambos Athanasopulos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International For many years, Greece and Turkey have been involved in aggressive rivalry over large areas of the Aege...
View full detailsInvestigating Couples: A Critical Analysis of The Thin Man, The Avengers and The X-Files
Tom Soter
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• Author(s): Tom Soter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Male-female detective pairings often exhibit offbeat, dark humor and considerable chemistry as ...
View full detailsKorean Workers
Hagen Koo
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• Author(s): Hagen Koo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesForty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daugh...
View full detailsIn the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Richard Polenberg
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• Author(s): Richard Polenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralAt the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his ...
View full detailsJethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock Originally formed by singer-songwriter Ian Anderson in psychedelic 1968, the band Jethro Tull ha...
View full detailsThe Library Book Cart Precision Drill Team Manual
Linda D. McCracken, Lynne Zeiher
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• Author(s): Linda D. McCracken | Lynne Zeiher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Public stunts and all-for-fun, utterly nonpoliticized publicity ...
View full detailsThe King Arthur Myth in Modern American Literature
Andrew E. Mathis
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• Author(s): Andrew E. Mathis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General In American fiction, two forms of the Arthurian myth are commonly found: the use of the myth for political...
View full detailsDisputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program
Jean Choate
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• Author(s): Jean Choate • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Farmers suffering the effects of drought and depression in the 1930s were looking for relief from what the...
View full detailsHorror Film Stars
Michael R. Pitts
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• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference John Carradine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Yvonne De Carlo, Faith Domergue, Boris Karloff, Otto Kruger, Bela Lugosi, ...
View full detailsFred Stone: Circus Performer and Musical Comedy Star
Armond Fields
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• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented of Broadway's colorful entertainers. Audiences ...
View full detailsThe Independent Film Experience: Interviews with Directors and Producers
Kevin J. Lindenmuth
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Lindenmuth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production You see them on the video shelves, with titles such as Shadow Tracker, Psycho Girls, an...
View full detailsAlbert J. Luxford, the Gimmick Man: Memoir of a Special Effects Maestro
Albert J. Luxford, Gareth Owen
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• Author(s): Albert J. Luxford | Gareth Owen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Albert J. Luxford has long been known as "The Gimmick Man" in th...
View full detailsSay Goodnight, Gracie: The Last Years of Network Radio
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Until the late 1940s, most Americans relied heavily upon radio, the only means of mass communication t...
View full detailsThe Western League: A Baseball History, 1885 Through 1999
W. C. Madden, Patrick J. Stewart
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• Author(s): W. C. Madden | Patrick J. Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History One of the first minor leagues in history, the Western League (previously the Northwester...
View full details"That Was Part of Baseball Then": Interviews with 24 Former Major League Baseball Players, Coaches and Managers
Victor Debs
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• Author(s): Victor Debs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports In this collection of interviews, baseball players, coaches, and managers speak candidly about their most memorable moments...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
Thomas L. Altherr
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• Author(s): Thomas L. Altherr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is an anthology of 20 papers that were presented at the Tenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and ...
View full detailsA Cunning Kind of Play: The Cubs-Giants Rivalry, 1876-1932
Warren N. Wilbert
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• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants--the National League's greatest teams in its...
View full detailsPublicity's Secret
Jodi Dean
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• Author(s): Jodi Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Advertising & PromotionIn recent decades, media outlets in the United States--most notably the Internet--have claimed to serve...
View full detailsChristian Librarianship: Essays on the Integration of Faith and Profession
Gregory A. Smith
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• Author(s): Gregory A. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Much of the current library literature assumes that professional library service is necessarily neutral-detached from...
View full detailsDemeter and Persephone: Lessons from a Myth
Tamara Agha-Jaffar
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• Author(s): Tamara Agha-Jaffar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter...
View full detailsVoices of the Oral Deaf: Fifteen Role Models Speak Out
Jim Reisler
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• Author(s): Jim Reisler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The deaf world is a complex one, divided by the allegiance of some to Deaf Culture, which emphasizes communication by sign...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
William M. Simons
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• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This is an anthology of 24 papers that were presented at the Fourteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball...
View full detailsTesting Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA
Roger E. Bilstein
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• Author(s): Roger E. Bilstein • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003The Nationa...
View full detailsBack-Of-The-Envelope Physics
Clifford Swartz
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• Author(s): Clifford Swartz • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralThe author is the winner of the 2007 Melba Newell Phillips Award given by the American Associat...
View full detailsArt Smith: Pioneer Aviator
Rachel Sherwood Roberts
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• Author(s): Rachel Sherwood Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thri...
View full detailsDick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and Context
Garyn G. Roberts
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• Author(s): Garyn G. Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics In October 1931, Dick Tracy made his debut on the pages of the Detroit Mirror. Since then America's most famous crime ...
View full detailsFred Zinneman: Films of Character and Conscience
Neil Sinyard
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• Author(s): Neil Sinyard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Director Fred Zinnemann was one of the most honored and revered directors of Hollywood's golden...
View full detailsRadio Live! Television Live!: Those Golden Days When Horses Were Coconuts
Robert L. Mott
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• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General During the "golden age" of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their pro...
View full detailsFrankenstein
Mary Shelley
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• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher • Publisher Imprint: Ivan R. Dee Publisher • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshDorothy Louise's remarkable new adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic story rescues it from ...
View full detailsForbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America
Karl F. Cohen
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• Author(s): Karl F. Cohen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Tweety Bird was colored yellow because censors felt the original pink made the bird look nude....
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The Early Exploration of Inland Washington Waters: Journals and Logs from Six Expeditions, 1786-1792
The Early Exploration of Inland Washington Waters: Journals and Logs from Six Expeditions, 1786-1792
Richard W. Blumenthal
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• Author(s): Richard W. Blumenthal • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General For those armchair historians interested in the initial nautical exploration of inland Washingto...
View full detailsCreating Characters: A Writer's Reference to the Personality Traits That Bring Fictional People to Life
Howard Lauther
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• Author(s): Howard Lauther • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Writing - General A frequent problem area for fiction writers is characterization. If writers jump headlong into a story with o...
View full detailsStorytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America
Tim DeForest
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• Author(s): Tim DeForest • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The first half of the twentieth century was a golden age of American storytelling. Mailboxes burgeone...
View full detailsVirginia Political Economy
Gordon Tullock, Charles K. Rowley
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• Author(s): Gordon Tullock | Charles K. Rowley • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - GeneralEditor Charles Rowley calls Gordon Tullock "an economist by nature rather than by training." Tullock attended ...
View full detailsErbrecht
Dirk Olzen
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• Author(s): Dirk Olzen • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Civil LawThe law of succession enjoys a growing practical meaning. The work contains a description of the main elements as well as the focal point of the law...
View full detailsKapitalgesellschaftsrecht
Jan Wilhelm
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• Author(s): Jan Wilhelm • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Corporate["Corporate Law"] Jan Wilhelm, Kapitalgesellschaftsrecht, aims both at law students and at lawyers and other practitioners concerned with the law o...
View full detailsLaw and Economics
Gordon Tullock, Charles K. Rowley
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• Author(s): Gordon Tullock | Charles K. Rowley • Publisher: Liberty Fund • Publisher Imprint: Liberty Fund • BISAC: Economics - GeneralGordon Tullock's innovative scholarship in law and economics shines in this volume. It includes, in full, his ...
View full detailsLost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death
Laura E. Tanner
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• Author(s): Laura E. Tanner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Death & Dying"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body di...
View full detailsSynopsis of the Four Gospels-FL
Eberhard Nestle, Kurt Aland
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• Author(s): Eberhard Nestle | Kurt Aland • Publisher: German Bible Society • Publisher Imprint: German Bible Society • BISAC: Other Translations - GeneralWidely used by scholars, translators, and seminarians, this authoritative Synopsis of the G...
View full detailsAmerican Speeches Vol. 2 (Loa #167): Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton
Ted Widmer
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• Author(s): Ted Widmer • Publisher: Library of America • Publisher Imprint: Library of America • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe history of American oratory exhibits, in the words of William F. Buckley, "powerful ignition points for hot f...
View full detailsDrunk in Sunlight
Daniel Anderson
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• Author(s): Daniel Anderson • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralAccessible and wry, at times comic, and often mournful, Daniel Anderson's poetry is relentless...
View full detailsPhraseologie / Phraseology. Volume 1
Harald Burger, Dimitri Dobrovol'skij, Peter Kuhn
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• Author(s): Harald Burger | Dimitri Dobrovol'skij | Peter Kuhn • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: German