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Democracy and the State: 1830-1945
Michael Willis
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• Author(s): Michael Willis • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThis book charts the progress of the United Kingdom towards a modern democracy and looks ...
View full detailsRegime Shift: A Quiet Revolution
T. J. Pempel
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• Author(s): T. J. Pempel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. Du...
View full detailsMoral Problems in American Life
Karen Halttunen, Lewis Perry
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• Author(s): Karen Halttunen | Lewis Perry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralAmerican history is filled with moments of grave moral doubt and institutional crisis, ...
View full detailsThe Downsizing of Asia
François Godement
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• Author(s): François Godement • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International - EconomicsUntil very recently it was assumed that the Asian miracle of prodigious economic growth would continue indefinitely. Europe and...
View full detailsThe Nature of School Bullying: A Cross-National Perspective
Richard Catalano, Josine Junger-Tas, Yohji Morita
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• Author(s): Richard Catalano | Josine Junger-Tas | Yohji Morita • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Child & AdolescentThis book provides a concise summary of the current position of school bullying ...
View full detailsCommunicating Science: Professional Contexts (OU Reader)
Roger Hill, Kirk Junker, Eileen Scanlon
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• Author(s): Roger Hill | Kirk Junker | Eileen Scanlon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Study & TeachingCommunicating Science will be an invaluable source-book for those eager to learn about or enter the professi...
View full detailsSpinach Days
Robert Phillips
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• Author(s): Robert Phillips • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - General"Three cheers for Robert Phillips. We need more poets like him."--Robert Richman, New York Tim...
View full detailsCommunicating Science: Contexts and Channels (OU Reader)
Eileen Scanlon
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• Author(s): Eileen Scanlon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsCommunicating Science is an ideal introduction for anyone who wants to learn about the relationship between science, the med...
View full detailsPalaeoecology: Ecosystems, Environments and Evolution
P. J. Brenchley, D. a. T. Harper
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• Author(s): P. J. Brenchley | D. a. T. Harper • Publisher: CRC Press • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: PaleontologyThe first palaeoecology book to focus on evolutionary palaeoecology, in both marine and terrestrial environments. Discusses ...
View full detailsAlone Together
Elizabeth Collins Cromley
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Collins Cromley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Buildings - ResidentialTwentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second...
View full detailsCollective Action in East Asia
Gregory W. Noble
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• Author(s): Gregory W. Noble • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAs one Asian economic crisis follows another, sending shock waves through the global marke...
View full detailsDon Isaac Abravanel: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198
B. Netanyahu
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• Author(s): B. Netanyahu • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoricalDon Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplom...
View full detailsThe Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference
Della Gray Barthelmas
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• Author(s): Della Gray Barthelmas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dictionaries None of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 could have imagined a few years earli...
View full detailsBlack Lives: Essays in African American Biography
James L. Conyers
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• Author(s): James L. Conyers • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlThe chapters in this text comprise biographical sketches of previously unknown (or le...
View full detailsChrysler, Ford, Durant and Sloan: Founding Giants of the American Automotive Industry
H. Eugene Weiss
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• Author(s): H. Eugene Weiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History The American automobile industry has been called the favorite child of capitalism. Four decades of except...
View full detailsAn Anthology of Russian Folk Epics
James Bailey, Tatyana Ivanova
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• Author(s): James Bailey | Tatyana Ivanova • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAn extensive introduction provides basic information about Russian epics, their historical background, their poetic...
View full detailsVico's Uncanny Humanism: Reading the New Science Between Modern and Postmodern
Sandra Rudnick Luft
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• Author(s): Sandra Rudnick Luft • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernSandra Luft, in her ambitious postmodernist reading of Vico's profoundly influential New S...
View full detailsWondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society
Maxwell J. Mehlman
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• Author(s): Maxwell J. Mehlman • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsWondergenes not only imagines a future world in which genetic enhancement is the n...
View full detailsReady to Fire: Memoir of an American Artilleryman in the Korean War
Richard B. Holmsten
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• Author(s): Richard B. Holmsten • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War Once North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel in 1950, the lives of many Americans half the glo...
View full detailsThe Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954-1967
John E. Peterson
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• Author(s): John E. Peterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Athletics spent thirteen seasons in Kansas City before moving to Oakland--a colorful history despite o...
View full detailsKarl Marx - Geschichte, Gesellschaft, Politik: Eine Ein- Und Weiterführung
Marco Iorio
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• Author(s): Marco Iorio • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"Nicht nur der Historische Materialismus ist uns insgeheim in Fleisch und Blut �bergegangen, wie ich bereits behauptet habe. W...
View full detailsThe Play of Reason
Linda Nicholson
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• Author(s): Linda Nicholson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis volume brings together for the first time the highly influential essays, many of them classics, of o...
View full detailsEurope, 1890-1945
Stephen J. Lee
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• Author(s): Stephen J. Lee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - GeneralEurope, 1890-1945 is a new approach to teaching and learning early twentieth century European history at A level. It meets the needs of tea...
View full detailsPerformance Research: On Ritual
Ric Allsopp
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• Author(s): Ric Allsopp • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DramaPerformance Research: On Ritual will examine a range of ritual practices bordering on or intended to be seen as theatre. It will explore both historical ...
View full detailsDispersing the Ghetto
Jack Glazier
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• Author(s): Jack Glazier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralIn the early twentieth century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with the arrival of v...
View full detailsA Companion to Justinian's Institutes
Ernest Metzger
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• Author(s): Ernest Metzger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReferenceThe Corpus Iuris Civilis, a distillation of the entire body of Roman law, was directed by the Emperor Justinian and ...
View full detailsTales from Djakarta
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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• Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA translation of short stories by the well-known Indonesian author, Pramoed...
View full detailsLifeboat
John R. Stilgoe
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• Author(s): John R. Stilgoe • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - HistoryThe fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, ...
View full detailsThe Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Two
Alenka Zupancic
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• Author(s): Alenka Zupancic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernRestoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context--examining the definitive element that animates his work.What is it that makes ...
View full detailsA Tale of Four Cities: Nineteenth Century Baseball's Most Exciting Season, 1889, in Contemporary Accounts
Jean-Pierre Caillault
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• Author(s): Jean-Pierre Caillault • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1889 baseball season is unique in the history of baseball. Both leagues--the veteran National Lea...
View full detailsFlesh to Metal
Rolf Hellebust
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• Author(s): Rolf Hellebust • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet Union"That science-fiction future in which technology would make everything very good--or very ba...
View full detailsAn Introduction to Natural Computation
Dana H. Ballard
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• Author(s): Dana H. Ballard • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to the computational material that forms the underpinnings of ...
View full detailsSicily Before History: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age
Robert Leighton
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• Author(s): Robert Leighton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyStudents and travelers to Sicily will welcome this inviting introduction to the archaeology of the Mediterranean'...
View full detailsVagueness: A Reader
Rosanna Keefe, Peter Smith
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• Author(s): Rosanna Keefe | Peter Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralVagueness is currently the subject of vigorous debate in the philosophy of logic and language. Vague terms--such as 'tall...
View full detailsExplaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem
Jonathan Shear
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• Author(s): Jonathan Shear • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWhy doesn't all this cognitive processing go on "in the dark," without any consciousness at all? In this book p...
View full detailsSicily Before History: An Archeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age
Robert Leighton
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• Author(s): Robert Leighton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyStudents and travelers to Sicily will welcome this inviting introduction to the archaeology of the Mediterranean'...
View full detailsThe Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Huddlestone, Sheila Innes
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare | Elizabeth Huddlestone | Sheila Innes • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesLike every other play in the Cambr...
View full detailsBlack Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-69
Michael Krenn
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• Author(s): Michael Krenn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American Government - GeneralThis text covers integration of the State Department after 1945 and the subsequent appointments of Black ambassadors to Third W...
View full detailsBlack Union Soldiers in the Civil War
Hondon B. Hargrove
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• Author(s): Hondon B. Hargrove • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This book refutes the historical slander that blacks did not fight for their emancipation from sl...
View full detailsThe Fathers of American Presidents: From Augustine Washington to William Blythe and Roger Clinton
Jeff C. Young
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• Author(s): Jeff C. Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Farmers, shopkeepers, businessmen, politicians--the fathers of the presidents of the United States have ...
View full detailsWestern Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000 1300
John France
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• Author(s): John France • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis authoritative and concise work surveys the range of warfare in the high Middle Ages while reflecting on th...
View full detailsColonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History
Jeremy Adelman
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• Author(s): Jeremy Adelman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaMore than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding hi...
View full detailsThe Limits of Thought: Discussions between J. Krishnamurti and David Bohm
David Bohm, Ray McCoy, J. Krishnamurti
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• Author(s): David Bohm | Ray McCoy | J. Krishnamurti • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThe Limits of Thought is a series of penetrating dialogues between the great spiritual leader, J. ...
View full detailsWestern Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000 1300
John France
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• Author(s): John France • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis authoritative and concise work surveys the range of warfare in the high Middle Ages while reflecting on th...
View full detailsSpiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
Katherine Clay Bassard
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• Author(s): Katherine Clay Bassard • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanThe late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading po...
View full detailsWomen, Art, and Technology
Judy Malloy
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• Author(s): Judy Malloy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mixed MediaA sourcebook of documentation on women artists at the forefront of work at the intersection of art and technology.Although women have been at the f...
View full detailsPoetry's Touch
William Waters
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• Author(s): William Waters • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryTo whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like...
View full detailsDigital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation
Ann Peterson-Kemp, Nancy A. Van House, Barbara P. Buttenfield
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• Author(s): Ann Peterson-Kemp | Nancy A. Van House | Barbara P. Buttenfield • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralViewing digital libraries as sociotechnical systems, networks o...
View full detailsKorean Politics
John Kie-Chiang Oh
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• Author(s): John Kie-Chiang Oh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyExtraordinary political and economic changes have rocked the Republic of Korea over the past fifty years...
View full detailsHomeland Calling
Paul Hockenos
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• Author(s): Paul Hockenos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralOver the last ten years, many commentators have tried to explain the bloody conflicts that tore Yugosl...
View full detailsNabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction
Barbara Wyllie
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• Author(s): Barbara Wyllie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Vladimir Nabokov claimed, speaking of Laughter in the Dark: "I wanted to write the entire book as if it were a ...
View full detailsMain Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002
Richard Saunders
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• Author(s): Richard Saunders • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryRising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest rail...
View full detailsColonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History
Jeremy Adelman
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• Author(s): Jeremy Adelman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaMore than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding hi...
View full detailsClaiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul
Mary Lethert Wingerd
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• Author(s): Mary Lethert Wingerd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOAre Minneapolis and St. Paul "Twin Cities" in proximity...
View full detailsDisclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity
Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores, Hubert L. Dreyfus
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• Author(s): Charles Spinosa | Fernando Flores | Hubert L. Dreyfus • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EntrepreneurshipArgues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but whe...
View full detailsWomen at the Center: Life in a Modern Matriarchy
Peggy Reeves Sanday
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• Author(s): Peggy Reeves Sanday • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceContrary to the declarations of some anthropologists, matriarchies do exist. Peggy Reeves Sanday first we...
View full detailsDrugs and the Limits of Liberalism
Pablo de Greiff
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• Author(s): Pablo de Greiff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralSociety's drug problem will persist, and debates over how to solve it will continue, getting n...
View full detailsRethinking Pastoral Care
Una M. Collins, Jean McNiff
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• Author(s): Una M. Collins | Jean McNiff • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Counseling - Academic DevelopmentThis book looks at how teachers can attempt to give good quality pastoral care, whether as a form tutor in t...
View full detailsCruising Modernism
Michael Trask
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• Author(s): Michael Trask • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralModern society, Michael Trask argues in this incisive and original book, chose to couch class difference in ...
View full detailsHybrid Fictions: American Literature and Generation X
Daniel Grassian
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• Author(s): Daniel Grassian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Since the 1960s, academics have theorized that literature is on its way to becoming obsolete or, at the ver...
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