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Michael P. Levine, Tamas Pataki
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• Author(s): Michael P. Levine | Tamas Pataki • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)This philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of racism brings toget...
View full detailsThe Scorsese Psyche on Screen: Roots of Themes and Characters in the Films
Maria T. Miliora
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• Author(s): Maria T. Miliora • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production This study examines the life and work of acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese, showing t...
View full detailsImmigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900-1927
Robert F. Zeidel
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• Author(s): Robert F. Zeidel • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe "Great American Problem" at the turn of the twentieth century was immig...
View full detailsThe Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966
Betty J. Reed
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• Author(s): Betty J. Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies A century ago, the Brevard Rosenwald School in Transylvania Cou...
View full detailsMr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium: Baseball Films in the Capra Tradition
Wes D. Gehring
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• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the "feel good" movie genre now ...
View full detailsWhat's Class Got to Do with It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Zweig
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• Author(s): Michael Zweig • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union"Whether in regard to the economy or issues of war and peace, class is central to our everyday lives. Yet class has not ...
View full detailsThe Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
Russell Frank Weigley
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• Author(s): Russell Frank Weigley • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Military - General"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perh...
View full detailsThe Sporting Muse: A Critical Study of Poetry about Athletes and Athletics
Don Johnson
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• Author(s): Don Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This study analyzes contemporary American sports poetry, demonstrating that poems about sports express common a...
View full detailsRussia Gets the Blues
Michael Urban, Andrei Evdokimov
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• Author(s): Michael Urban | Andrei Evdokimov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyMichael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance o...
View full detailsItalian Horror Films of the 1960s: A Critical Catalog of 62 Chillers
Lawrence McCallum
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• Author(s): Lawrence McCallum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Until I vampiri (The Vampires) in 1956, Italian filmmakers generally eschewed horror in favor o...
View full detailsHmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land
Sue Murphy Mote
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• Author(s): Sue Murphy Mote • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbe...
View full detailsJules Verne on Film: A Filmography of the Cinematic Adaptations of His Works, 1902 Through 1997
Thomas C. Renzi
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• Author(s): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Jules Verne--Voila!--a name that resonates with visions of fantastic adventures and images of exot...
View full detailsDistracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture
Carol Thomas Neely
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• Author(s): Carol Thomas Neely • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareIn the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobil...
View full detailsMoving Pictures and Classic Images: Memories of Forty Years in the Vintage Film Hobby
Samuel K. Rubin
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• Author(s): Samuel K. Rubin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In 1962, Samuel K. Rubin founded 8mm Collector, the predecessor to Classic Images, a widely respected publica...
View full detailsChaucer as Children's Literature: Retellings from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
Velma Bourgeois Richmond
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• Author(s): Velma Bourgeois Richmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he ...
View full detailsHoly Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970
Richard D. E. Burton
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• Author(s): Richard D. E. Burton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Holy Tears, Holy Blood, Richard D. E. Burton continues his investigation of Cath...
View full detailsWeaving Sacred Stories: French Choir Tapestries and the Performance of Clerical Identity
Laura Weigert
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• Author(s): Laura Weigert • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RugsSpanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' li...
View full detailsThe CCC Chronicles: Camp Newspapers of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
Alfred Emile Cornebise
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• Author(s): Alfred Emile Cornebise • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers rela...
View full detailsBallet Dancers in Career Transition: Sixteen Success Stories
Nancy Upper
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• Author(s): Nancy Upper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A professional dancer's career, like a professional athlete's, lasts an average of 10 to 15 years. Once the prime years of...
View full detailsAssault of the Killer B's: Interviews with 20 Cult Film Actresses
Jason Paul Collum
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• Author(s): Jason Paul Collum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The women who starred in low-budget cult movies created many memorable experiences for those fans of late nig...
View full detailsAmerican Women Conservationists: Twelve Profiles
Madelyn Holmes
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• Author(s): Madelyn Holmes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies This collection of biographies describes twelve women conservationists who helped change the ways Americans int...
View full detailsOn Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of the Concordia
Luis de Molina, Alfred J. Freddoso
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• Author(s): Luis de Molina | Alfred J. Freddoso • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousLuis de Molina was a leading figure in the remarkable sixteenth-century revival of Scholasticis...
View full detailsThe Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at the Court of Peter the Great
Ernest A. Zitser
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• Author(s): Ernest A. Zitser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionIn this richly comparative analysis of late Muscovite and early Imperial court culture,...
View full detailsNightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film
Joseph Maddrey
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• Author(s): Joseph Maddrey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer--they're one of the best measures of...
View full detailsExplanation and Understanding
Georg Henrik Von Wright
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• Author(s): Georg Henrik Von Wright • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General"Explanation and Understanding, perhaps von Wright's best-known book, sh...
View full detailsGood Toys, Bad Toys: How Safety, Society, Politics and Fashion Have Reshaped Children's Playthings
Andrew McClary
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• Author(s): Andrew McClary • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parenting - General In early America, most children had only a few toys and parents received advice from family and friends on ...
View full detailsIt Comes with the Territory: Handling Problem Situations in Libraries, rev. ed.
Anne M. Turner
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• Author(s): Anne M. Turner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General The mission of libraries is to meet the information needs of the people they serve-...
View full detailsFantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust
Gary Weissman
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• Author(s): Gary Weissman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustFantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial c...
View full detailsParadise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy
Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler
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• Author(s): Patricia A. Adler | Peter Adler • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralResorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the touris...
View full detailsThe Job Training Charade
Gordon Lafer
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• Author(s): Gordon Lafer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesJob training has long been promoted as a central policy response to poverty and unemployme...
View full detailsRebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement
Ruth Milkman, Kim Voss
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• Author(s): Ruth Milkman | Kim Voss • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - General"In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power,...
View full detailsCorruption and Market in Contemporary China
Yan Sun
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• Author(s): Yan Sun • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIs corruption an inevitable part of the transition to a free-market economy? Yan Sun here examines the ways in which market r...
View full detailsWesterns Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to the 1960s
Boyd Magers, Michael G. Fitzgerald
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• Author(s): Boyd Magers | Michael G. Fitzgerald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This collection features a diverse mixture of leading ladies of Westerns, along with ...
View full detailsCongress Declares War: December 8-11, 1941
Roland H. Worth
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• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The dramatic events of the Pearl Harbor attack have been covered in detail from ...
View full detailsAugust Wilson
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through s...
View full detailsWesterns in a Changing America, 1955-2000
R. Philip Loy
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• Author(s): R. Philip Loy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General For many, the Westerns of 1930 to 1955 were a defining part of American culture. Those Westerns were one of the v...
View full detailsThe Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination
Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard
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• Author(s): Ruth Bienstock Anolik | Douglas L. Howard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Gothic & Romance Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, wi...
View full detailsKeeping the Republic
Robert W. Smith
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• Author(s): Robert W. Smith • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyHow did the ideology that inspired the American Revolution and the U....
View full detailsSouthern Vietnam under the Reign of Minh Mang (1820Ð1841)
Choi Byung Wook
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• Author(s): Choi Byung Wook • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThis study of nineteenth-century Vietnam focuses on interactions between the Viet...
View full details722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
Clifton Hood
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• Author(s): Clifton Hood • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticWhen it first opened on October 27, 1904, the New York City subw...
View full detailsBenjamin Franklin, Genius of Kites, Flights and Voting Rights
Seymour Stanton Block
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• Author(s): Seymour Stanton Block • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General This unconventional biography of Benjamin Franklin, the great American Renaissance man, explores ex...
View full detailsNew Historical Anthology of Music by Women
James R. Briscoe, Susan McClary
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• Author(s): James R. Briscoe | Susan McClary • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: History & Criticism - General"In this new edition of Historical Anthology of Music by Women...
View full detailsÉdith Thomas: A Passion for Resistance
Dorothy Kaufmann
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• Author(s): Dorothy Kaufmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Literary Figures�dith Thomas (1909-1970), a remarkable French woman of letters, was deeply involved in the traumatic upheav...
View full detailsThomas Abthorpe Cooper: Father of the American Stage, 1775-1849
F. Arant Maginnes
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• Author(s): F. Arant Maginnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This is the biography of Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, the first star of the American stage. C...
View full detailsString Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont
Bob Carlin
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• Author(s): Bob Carlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional String band music is most commonly associated with the mountains of North Carolina and...
View full detailsHabits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America
James M. O'Toole
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• Author(s): James M. O'Toole • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - General"For generations, American Catholics... lived out their faith through countless unremarkabl...
View full detailsBooze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel
Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
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• Author(s): Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old a...
View full detailsEisenhower and the Art of Warfare: A Critical Appraisal
D. J. Haycock
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• Author(s): D. J. Haycock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On August 14, 1942, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall appointed General Dwight D. ...
View full detailsCarry A. Nation: Retelling the Life
Fran Grace
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• Author(s): Fran Grace • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Women"A needed and welcome account of Carry Nation's story . . . deserves the highest praise." --Journal of American History"Admi...
View full detailsFair Division and Collective Welfare
Herve Moulin
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• Author(s): Herve Moulin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryThe concept of fair division is as old as civil society itself. Aristotle's "equal treatment of equals" was the first step toward a formal ...
View full detailsPapal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes
George L. Williams
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• Author(s): George L. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution. Roman...
View full detailsFighting for a Living Wage
Stephanie Luce
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• Author(s): Stephanie Luce • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe living wage movement is considered by many to be the most interesting grassroots enterprise to emerge since the civil rights movemen...
View full detailsMixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America
Kathryn A. Sikkink
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• Author(s): Kathryn A. Sikkink • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Human Rights"Nowhere did two understandings of U.S. identity--human rights and anticommunism--come more in conflict with ...
View full detailsThe Civil Rights Revolution: Events and Leaders, 1955-1968
Frederic O. Sargent
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• Author(s): Frederic O. Sargent • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies From the Supreme Court's decision of Brown v. Board of Ed...
View full detailsAmy Tan
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference In the mid-1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she wa...
View full detailsBarbara Kingsolver
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors Barbara Kingsolver--a writer of fiction, documentary, verse and essay--supports entertaining stories with p...
View full detailsImagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation
Joan Copjec
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• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine se...
View full detailsInvention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière
Georges Didi-Huberman, Alisa Hartz
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• Author(s): Georges Didi-Huberman | Alisa Hartz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralThe first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development o...
View full detailsAbortion and Divorce Law in Ireland
Jennifer E. Spreng
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• Author(s): Jennifer E. Spreng • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies In 1991, the people of Ireland elected Mary Robinson, a women's rights crusader who supported legalized bir...
View full detailsAll Bat, No Glove: A History of the Designated Hitter
G. Richard McKelvey
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• Author(s): G. Richard McKelvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The basic elements of baseball remain essentially the same as they were when the first professional game was pla...
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