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• Author(s): Mary P. Callahan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persi...

• Author(s): John Koethe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Epistemology"The problem of philosophical scepticism is not so much what to say about the view itself (there being a consensus t...

• Author(s): Ronald W. Cox | Daniel Skidmore-Hess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness ...

• Author(s): Clayne R. Jensen | Steven P. Guthrie • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Human Kinetics Publishers • BISAC: Outdoor SkillsOutdoor Recreation in America is back--fully revised and updated, with significant new ...

• Author(s): Rick Swaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For major league baseball, the decade following Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut was one of slow yet persistent cha...

• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 19th Century Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion...

• Author(s): Thomas L. Dublin | Walter Licht • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThe anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered...

• Author(s): Robert P. Broadwater • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The best way to bring an event from the past into vivid life is to see it through the eyes of s...

• Author(s): Carole Chandler Waldrup • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General John Nance Garner once colorfully described the office of vice president of the United States as ...

• Author(s): Jonas Pontusson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyWhat are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing ...

• Author(s): Carole Gerster | Laura W. Zlogar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the beginning of the 20th century, Hollywood filmmakers have shaped public beliefs about ...

• Author(s): Richard K. Lyons • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralHistorically, the fields of exchange-rate economics and microstructure finance have progressed independently of each other. Recent inter...

• Author(s): Eric B. Baum • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What...

• Author(s): George C. Papavizas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece) For nearly 130 years, the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Yugoslavs have fough...

• Author(s): Gil Bogen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports In the view of contemporary players and sportswriters, Chicago Cub Johnny Kling was one of the greatest catchers of all time....

• Author(s): Kathleen Canning • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyThe eight essays collected in this volume examine the practice of gender history and its impact on our unders...

• Author(s): Thomas T. Fetters • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Infrastructure Advertised as "a new standard for living," the Lustron Home was introduced in 1948 in response to the urgent ...

• Author(s): Tabish Khair | Justin D. Edwards | Martin Leer • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Essays & Travelogues". . . brings new insights into the colonial relationship while chall...

• Author(s): Matthew Pateman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism On the TV screen as elsewhere, there is often more than meets the eye. For decades, telev...

• Author(s): Andrew Soltis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess How does one determine the "best" chess games? What one may see as brilliant, another may see as simply necessary. Like so...

• Author(s): Dan Ginsburg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Beverages - Alcoholic- General When people raise their glasses in celebratory toasts, few are aware of all the work behind the fi...

• Author(s): Robert P. Gelzheiser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the late 19th century, baseball players broke from the established leagues and organized their own ...

• Author(s): E. L. Risden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The 14th century English alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is admired ...

• Author(s): Jamie Horwitz | Paulette Singley • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismA highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture--the preparation of meals and...

• Author(s): David J. Buller • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralWas human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds...

• Author(s): Martha Rosler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThe first comprehensive collection of writings by Martha Rosler considers the intersection of art and politics, the operation of art s...

• Author(s): Lewis Coe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio In 1873 Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell first advanced the idea that there might be electromagnetic waves that were sim...

• Author(s): Bryan Senn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the grindhouse oddities to major studio releases, this work details 46 horror films released during the genre's...

• Author(s): Robert Cull • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Is it bedtime for America's pastime? In recent years, action on and off the diamond has left some fans predicti...

• Author(s): Gary Don Rhodes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts He was born Bela Ferenc Dezso Blasko on October 20, 1882, in Hungary. He joined Budapest's...

• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Since the early days of television, well before most households had a set, the Academy of Te...

• Author(s): Melissa Crawley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Before the unprecedented televised presidential debates of 1960, most Americans were able to relate to their lea...

• Author(s): Philip Rieff | James Davison Hunter | Kenneth S. Piver • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralInaugurates a trilogy that signals the summation of cultur...

• Author(s): P. David Sentance • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cricket Cricket was played in Virginia in 1710 and was enjoyed on Georgia plantations in 1737. Teams representing New York a...

• Author(s): Kevin J. Harty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Those tales of old--King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Crusades, Marco Polo, Joan of Arc--have been to...

• Author(s): Janusz Cisek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social The end of World War II found a devastated Poland under Soviet occupation. Many Poles--those...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Blake's 7, Terry Nation's science fiction tale of cosmic freedom fighters, became a hit...

• Author(s): Randy Rasmussen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism There are six of them: heroines, heroes, wise elders, mad scientists, servants and monsters. On...

• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Are today's major league baseball pitchers better than ever? Or do they pale in comparison to the great h...

• Author(s): Nannie Greene | Catherine Stokes Sheppard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Oral history and memoirs preserve much more than a single event. They record information abo...

• Author(s): Bryan Goodman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History Germany is most often credited with the birth of the internal combustion engine. France gave rise to the fi...

• Author(s): Kyp Harness • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From the early days of film came Laurel and Hardy, a comedy team that created slapstick hilarity fr...

• Author(s): Brian R. Farmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Ideologies - General For many people, the world of politics is defined by ideologies. The average voter rarely takes...

• Author(s): Jean I. Marsden • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: DramaInformed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women i...

• Author(s): Thomas Fahy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film American Beauty and creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under, Alan B...

• Author(s): Jack Seabrook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General The writings of twentieth-century author Jack Finney are classic contributions to the genres of science ficti...

• Author(s): Annette Wieviorka | Jared Stark • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustWhat is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are consi...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism A primarily American institution (though it appeared in other countries such as Japan and Italy),...

• Author(s): Gunnar Trumbull • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Free Enterprise & Capitalism"The unfettered marketplace, in which uncertainty rules and the admonition caveat emptor ('l...

• Author(s): Dan Zuberi • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book shines a spotlight on the causes and consequences of working poverty, revealing how the lives of low-wage workers are affected by ...

• Author(s): René de la Pedraja • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General The years 1899 through 1941 are remarkable even by Latin America's uniquely turbulent standards. During ...

• Author(s): Karen Fjelstad | Nguyen Thi Hien • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: EasternThe essays in this volume examine the resurgence of the Mother Goddess religio...

• Author(s): Robert H. Allen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Gay Studies From government to literature to architecture, few fields in western culture are untouched by the i...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Ryan Metz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Teenagers were critical to the American victory in the Revolutionary War. Over half of the colonial p...

• Author(s): Helena Goscilo | Andrea Lanoux • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesCombining concepts and methodologies from anthropology, history, linguisti...

• Author(s): Celeste Lipow MacLeod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Australia & New Zealand - General After once trying to keep its population white and predominantly British, Australi...

• Author(s): Vatthana Pholsena • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThree decades after the conclusion of the civil war that brought the communist Pathet Lao to...

• Author(s): Kris Paap • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralKris Paap worked for nearly three years as a carpenter's apprentice on a variety of jobsites, closely observing her co...

• Author(s): Kiril Tomoff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralWhy did the Stalin era, a period characterized by bureaucratic control and the reign of Socialist Realism in th...

• Author(s): Michelangelo Capua • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Known as the bald cowboy in The Magnificent Seven and the sexy, charismatic m...