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• Author(s): Carolyn O. Wilson Mbajekwe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Higher Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were originally founded to provide the educational oppo...

• Author(s): Cécile Menétrey-Monchau • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century When the Vietnam War ended with the North Vietnamese capture of Saigon on April 30, 1975-...

• Author(s): James A. Ward • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General In July 1965, an Artesian Turquoise Chevrolet Biscayne rolled off a General Motors assembly line. Little di...

• Author(s): Clifford D. Rosenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe surveillance of immigrants and potential terrorists preoccupies leaders throughout the industrializ...

• Author(s): Carla J. McDonough • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West ...

• Author(s): Robert K. Headley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From inauspicious beginnings in the kinetoscope parlors and nickelodeons to the movie palaces...

• Author(s): David Garrett Izzo | Daniel T. O'Hara • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Writer Henry James (1843-1916) was born in America but preferred to live in Europe; h...

• Author(s): Sheldon Garon | Patricia L. MacLachlan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsIn The Ambivalent Consumer, Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan bring ...

• Author(s): Sheldon Garon | Patricia L. MacLachlan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsIn The Ambivalent Consumer, Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan bring ...

• Author(s): Arnold Schoenberg | Patricia Carpenter | Severine Neff • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: GeneralThe Gedanke manuscripts, from which The Musical Idea is compiled, ...

• Author(s): George Santayana • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion is a philosophical work writte...

• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & Elections Traditional local election methods--district, at-large, and hybrid approaches--are...

• Author(s): Michael Ward • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Ellison "Tarzan" Brown was one of America's premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s. This volume tells the sto...

• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before R...

• Author(s): Lloyd P. Gerson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tal...

• Author(s): David S. Escoffery • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable fre...

• Author(s): James Worthen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference In 1911, when businessman James Rolph first ran for mayor of San Francisco, he promised, "I will be mayor of the whole...

• Author(s): Ryan Howard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Paul McPharlin is one of the 20th century's most important contributors to the art of puppetry. ...

• Author(s): Joe Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General This is a comprehensive record of the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African America...

• Author(s): Ann W. Astell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Rituals & Practice - General"The enigmatic link between the natural and artistic beauty that is to be contemplat...

• Author(s): Ruth Garrett Millikan • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: EpistemologyMany different things are said to have meaning: people mean to do various things; tools and other artifacts are meant for variou...

• Author(s): Diane McGuinness • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Reading & PhonicsResearch on reading has tried, and failed, to account for wide disparities in reading skill even among childre...

• Author(s): Thomas A. DeLong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - Reference From the time Westinghouse started commercial broadcasting in 1920 through the end of the radio soap operas...

• Author(s): William Darby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production John Ford's early Westerns reflect an optimistic view of society and individual capacity; as h...

• Author(s): Leslie A. Heaphy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Founded in 1920, the Negro National League originally comprised teams throughout the Midwest, but the leag...

• Author(s): Robert C. Cottrell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century This is the story of Civilian Public Service smokejumpers, who battled against dangerous winds...

• Author(s): David Covin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - South America Brazil in the late 1970s was a country of racial tension and inequality. During this time, a number ...

• Author(s): Douglas Biow • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyConcerned about sanitation during a severe bout of plague in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal, clean ci...

• Author(s): Patrick J. McGrath • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts One of the most gifted actors of the 1930s and 1940s, John Garfield is too little remem...

• Author(s): Yvonne D. Sims • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism With the Civil Rights movement of the sixties fresh in their perspective, movie producers of the...

• Author(s): Roger Bryant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Actor William Powell is perhaps best known for his roles as charming Nick in The Thin Man films and blustery Clare...

• Author(s): Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - Gastrointestinal Hepatitis is a disease of the liver which affects millions of Americans each year...

• Author(s): Leroy Lad Panek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgu...

• Author(s): Edward F. Logan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Soon after the United States entered World War II, American ground and air forces were on their way to the European t...

• Author(s): Mirit Eliraz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock From The Joshua Tree to Blood Sugar Sex Magik, from Automatic for the People to OK Computer, they pro...

• Author(s): Jason Hiner • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Baseball - HistoryThis is the story of the 1953 Hoosiers, NCAA champions, coached by Branch McCracken and boldly led...

• Author(s): Sarah Kenyon Lischer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacySince the early 1990s, refugee crises in the Balkans, Central Africa, the Middle East, and West Afric...

• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Twenty-eight terrific interviews with some of the sharpest and most talkative stars and movie makers of the classic (and ...

• Author(s): Regina Jennings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - African American Illustrating the power of oratory in the 1960s and its successful merging with the art of that era...

• Author(s): Judy Cornes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - General A 1906 film called The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend shows a man drinking and eating voraciously at a restaurant...

• Author(s): Eric Herring | Glen Rangwala • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it ex...

• Author(s): Teresa Kaczorowska • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General World War II was--and remains--one of the bloodiest wars in history. Not only did millions of soldiers die in comba...

• Author(s): Julie L. Lautenschlager • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - General Whether served in a lunch pail, on a cafeteria plate, from a fast food restaurant, or with two ...

• Author(s): W. Emerson Reck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical Mystery and speculation have been associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln for more than a century. Her...

• Author(s): John Shiffert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This work starts with the formation of the first baseball club in America, the Olympic Town Ball Club, and co...

• Author(s): Hunt Janin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Islam scares the West. Militant conservatism and the horrific acts of violent fundamentalists evoke outrage, but th...

• Author(s): John T. Sidel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: TerrorismIn October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australi...

• Author(s): J. P. Lepre • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This generously illustrated work is the most complete reference book ever published on these fascinating and compelling st...

• Author(s): Sean Campbell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Archie Bunker, George Jefferson, Maude--the television sitcom world of the 1970s was people...

• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie. Beginning as early as the mid-1800s, scalper...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock made many great films, but he also made many that critics and audiences l...

• Author(s): Jessica Sternfeld • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralA megamusical is an epic, dramatic show featuring recurring melodies in a sung-through sc...

• Author(s): J. C. Sharman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MilitarySmall states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Eva Leach • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralIs birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was res...

• Author(s): Howard Brick • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyTranscending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to ...

• 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...

• Author(s): Lisa M. Dresner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Feminist In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examin...

• Author(s): Julia B. Rosenbaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New EnglandIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depictions of New Eng...

• Author(s): Jason Hackworth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban are...

• Author(s): Judith Lissauer Cromwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Dorothea de Benckendorff was born December 28, 1785. Bright, vivacious and personable, she was destin...