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Mitsui Madhouse: Memoir of A U.S. Army Air Corps POW in World War II
Herbert Zincke, Scott A. Mills
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• Author(s): Herbert Zincke | Scott A. Mills • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Herbert Zincke was stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines when Japanese aircraft struck there on...
View full detailsThe Invention of Native American Literature: A New Approach to Dealing with Hostile, Threatening, and Uncivil Behavior
Robert Dale Parker
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• Author(s): Robert Dale Parker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Nat...
View full detailsScandal Nation
Kathryn Temple
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• Author(s): Kathryn Temple • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeKathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving prin...
View full detailsTelerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control
Thomas B. Sheridan
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• Author(s): Thomas B. Sheridan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common...
View full detailsMade-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Gary L. Drescher
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• Author(s): Gary L. Drescher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsMade-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer progr...
View full detailsAnti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America
Cyndy Hendershot
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• Author(s): Cyndy Hendershot • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America's attention turned from world w...
View full detailsNationalism and Revolution in Indonesia
George McT Kahin, Benedict R. O'g Anderson
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• Author(s): George McT Kahin | Benedict R. O'g Anderson • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaProfessor Kahin's classic 1952 study, reprinted for a...
View full detailsThe Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily
Gordon S. Brown
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• Author(s): Gordon S. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Italy The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livel...
View full detailsCulture and Subjective Well-Being
Edward Diener, Eunkook M. Suh
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• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...
View full detailsShort-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops
Wesley Hyatt
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• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews Do you remember the 1959 game show where ABC cancelled a tape featuring a female impersonator (...
View full detailsSeeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy
Paul J. Niemeyer
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• Author(s): Paul J. Niemeyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism "Great authors" are increasingly being encountered by general audiences and critics than...
View full detailsGermany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories
Omer Bartov
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• Author(s): Omer Bartov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustOmer Bartov, a leading scholar of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, provides a critical analysis of various recent ways ...
View full detailsThe Moviegoing Experience, 1968-2001
Richard W. Haines
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• Author(s): Richard W. Haines • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The experience of going to the movies, be it a single screen theater, twin, multiplex or driv...
View full detailsThe First Evidence: A Memoir of Life in Iraq Under Saddam Hussein
Juman Kubba
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• Author(s): Juman Kubba • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Few countries in contemporary times have had more political intrigue, violence and terror than the Iraq of Sa...
View full detailsRobert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives
William B. Jones
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• Author(s): William B. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Critical interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has never been greater. New editions of the autho...
View full detailsEmerson's Life in Science
Laura Dassow Walls
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• Author(s): Laura Dassow Walls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralRalph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of...
View full detailsComic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980
Moira Davison Reynolds
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• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Millions of Americans know and love Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Blondie and Dagwood, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner...
View full detailsOpera for Libraries: A Guide to Core Works, Audio and Video Recordings, Books and Serials
Clyde T. McCants
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• Author(s): Clyde T. McCants • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Opera is a unique expression of the human mind and spirit--a play that communicates plot, charac...
View full detailsSystematic Analysis of University Libraries: An Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to the MIT Libraries
Jeffrey A. Raffel, Robert Shishko, Fred C. Ikle
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• Author(s): Jeffrey A. Raffel | Robert Shishko | Fred C. Ikle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Accounting - GeneralA study in the systematic policy analysis of the MIT Libraries. The study identifies two principal m...
View full detailsSelected Readings in Macroeconomics and Capital Theory from Econometrica
David Cass, Lionel W. McKenzie
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• Author(s): David Cass | Lionel W. McKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsA great many of the most important developments in modern economics were first revealed in the pages of Economet...
View full detailsUnfinished Business: An Agenda for Labor, Management, and the Public
Abraham J. Siegel, David B. Lipsky
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• Author(s): Abraham J. Siegel | David B. Lipsky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralWriting in the New York Times, dateline Cambridge, Mass., March 23, 1977, A.H. Raskin reported as follows: Never had so...
View full detailsMultinationals from Small Countries
Tamir Agmon, Charles P. Kindleberger
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• Author(s): Tamir Agmon | Charles P. Kindleberger • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - GeneralIt is generally known that the United States, a large country, has spawned business corporations that transcend...
View full detailsGood Night, Chet: A Biography of Chet Huntley
Lyle Johnston
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• Author(s): Lyle Johnston • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Media Studies""If a judgment were ever rendered on all the multi-million words I have spoken into microphones, I hope so...
View full detailsUrban Migration and Economic Development in Chile
Bruce H. Herrick
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• Author(s): Bruce H. Herrick • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThe years between 1940 and 1960 in Chile were marked by economicstagnation. Urban migration, reflecting this economic decay, as well a...
View full detailsThesaurus of Textile Terms, second edition: Covering Fibrous Materials and Processes
Stanley Backer, Emery I. Valko
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• Author(s): Stanley Backer | Emery I. Valko • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalThis thesaurus provides an indispensable tool in the area of textile information storage and retrieval. At prese...
View full detailsThe World and the Great-Power Triangles
William E. Griffith
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• Author(s): William E. Griffith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe coming of Sino-U.S. and Soviet-U.S. détente in the early 1970's and the resulting shift in international relation...
View full detailsSunday Baseball: The Major Leagues' Struggle to Play Baseball on the Lord's Day, 1876-1934
Charlie Bevis
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• Author(s): Charlie Bevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Playing baseball on Sunday was a divisive issue in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On one ...
View full detailsThe Rules of Play
David Leheny
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• Author(s): David Leheny • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Japanese government seeks to influence the use of leisure time to a degree that America...
View full detailsFalse Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management And Why Their Ideas Are Bad For Business Today
James Hoopes
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• Author(s): James Hoopes • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralAccording to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based-authority, power, control-are increasingly at odds wit...
View full detailsAtomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945-1955
Michael Scheibach
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• Author(s): Michael Scheibach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, numerous "atomic narratives"--books, newspapers,...
View full detailsA History of Modern Computing
Paul E. Ceruzzi
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• Author(s): Paul E. Ceruzzi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History
The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives
Jan P. Hogendijk, Abdelhamid I. Sabra
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• Author(s): Jan P. Hogendijk | Abdelhamid I. Sabra • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryRecent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most impo...
View full detailsEast Timor: A Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence
Jamsheed Marker
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• Author(s): Jamsheed Marker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia Following the end of the Salazar dictatorship and the establishment of democracy in Portugal in 1975, Ea...
View full detailsEating Disorders: A Handbook for Teens, Families, and Teachers
Tania Heller
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• Author(s): Tania Heller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Eating Disorders & Body Image "If I gain any weight, I'll lose all control." These words, spoken by a 14-year-old anorexia ne...
View full detailsHow to Become a Professional Baseball Player
Bo Durkac
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• Author(s): Bo Durkac • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The way to becoming a professional ballplayer is not an easy one. So many factors are out of a player's control. ...
View full detailsChicago Aviation: An Illustrated History
David M. Young
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• Author(s): David M. Young • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryFrom the dawn of flight, Chicago has played a vital role in the development of aviation...
View full detailsJean-Jacques Rousseau
Joseph Reisert
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• Author(s): Joseph Reisert • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyScholars have long debated the contribution Rousseau has made to political thought. Is he a theo...
View full detailsAffirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France
Jean-Loup Amselle, Jane Marie Todd
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• Author(s): Jean-Loup Amselle | Jane Marie Todd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialJean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving ...
View full detailsThe Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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• Author(s): Arlie Russell Hochschild • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyGathers some of the author's widely read articles. This book reflects ...
View full detailsSovereign Nations, Carnal States
Kam Shapiro
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• Author(s): Kam Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralSovereign Nations, Carnal States is an extraordinarily synthetic intellectual tour de force. Kam S...
View full detailsWhen Baseball Returned to Brooklyn: The Inaugural Season of the New York-Penn League Cyclones
Ed Shakespeare
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• Author(s): Ed Shakespeare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Major league baseball has a long, rich history in Brooklyn. From the time Brooklyn started play in 1884 unti...
View full detailsGendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Mary C. Erler, Maryanne Kowaleski
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• Author(s): Mary C. Erler | Maryanne Kowaleski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesGendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed...
View full detailsFlattop Fighting in World War II: The Battles Between American and Japanese Aircraft Carriers
Patrick Degan
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• Author(s): Patrick Degan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the sub...
View full detailsArtificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture
Paul Shepheard
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• Author(s): Paul Shepheard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism
What Makes an Elite Pitcher?: Young, Mathewson, Johnson, Alexander, Grove, Spahn, Seaver, Clemens, and Maddux
Warren N. Wilbert
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• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Elite baseball pitchers are elite for a reason. They seem to have it all: a variety of pitches that no on...
View full detailsThe Poe Cinema: A Critical Filmography of Theatrical Releases Based on the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Don G. Smith
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• Author(s): Don G. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Who can forget haunting tales like "The Oblong Box," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "Tortur...
View full detailsManagement: Inventing and Delivering Its Future
Thomas A. Kochan, Richard Schmalensee
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• Author(s): Thomas A. Kochan | Richard Schmalensee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Manageme...
View full detailsRevolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out
Katia Roberto, Jessamyn West
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• Author(s): Katia Roberto | Jessamyn West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General "Revolting librarians aren't defined by what they are, they are defi...
View full detailsWorking Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff
Tom Zaniello
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• Author(s): Tom Zaniello • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsThe revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edi...
View full detailsStand and Deliver: A History of Pinch-Hitting
Paul Votano
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• Author(s): Paul Votano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History From "Princeton Charlie" Reilly, the first pinch-hitter ever, to today's pinnacle in pinch-hitting, Lenny Harri...
View full detailsWatching M*A*S*H, Watching America: A Social History of the 1972-1983 Television Series
James H. Wittebols
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• Author(s): James H. Wittebols • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism It has been said that M*A*S*H was a show set in the 1950s which reflected the shifting...
View full detailsAlternative Lives of Jesus: Noncanonical Accounts Through the Early Middle Ages
Roland H. Worth
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• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - History - General There is a body of religious literature, most of which was written centuries after the New Te...
View full detailsSurgeons and the Scope
James R. Zetka
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• Author(s): James R. Zetka • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: HistoryIn Surgeons and the Scope, James R. Zetka Jr. describes the impact of the video laparoscope on the work lives of contemporary surgeons. The video la...
View full detailsIn War's Dark Shadow
W. Bruce Lincoln
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• Author(s): W. Bruce Lincoln • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyIn the quarter century before World War I, change came to Russia at a dizzying pac...
View full detailsEbbets to Veeck to Busch: Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball
Burton A. Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman
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• Author(s): Burton A. Boxerman | Benita W. Boxerman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few abou...
View full detailsKim Il Sung and Korea's Struggle: An Unconventional Firsthand History
Won Tai Sohn
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• Author(s): Won Tai Sohn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General In 1910, Japan took control over Korea by military and political force. Then, in 1945, Korea was arbitrarily...
View full detailsUnwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries
Jonathan Crystal
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• Author(s): Jonathan Crystal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn the last quarter century, the U.S. economy has been transformed by a large inflow of dire...
View full detailsBali and the Tourist Industry: A History, 1906-1942
David Shavit
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• Author(s): David Shavit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Industries - General The island of Bali's sensational image was created by the tourists, artists, and scholars who visited the ti...
View full detailsAn Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr.
Margaret Edds
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• Author(s): Margaret Edds • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Criminals & OutlawsHow is it possible for an innocent man to come within nine days of execution? This title answers that...
View full detailsShakespeare and Jungian Typology: A Reading of the Plays
Kenneth Tucker
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• Author(s): Kenneth Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare The reader of Shakespeare has always been curious about the Bard's actual religion, opinions, sexual orientation, a...
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