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G. Thomas Couser
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• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...
View full detailsThe Minor League Milwaukee Brewers, 1859-1952
Brian A. Podoll
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• Author(s): Brian A. Podoll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Statues of Hank Aaron and Robin Yount, two of Milwaukee's baseball heroes, stand outside the city's palatia...
View full detailsRancor and Reconciliation in Medieval England: A Feminist Theory of Women's Self-Representation
Paul R. Hyams
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• Author(s): Paul R. Hyams • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryDuels and bloodfeuds have long been regarded as essentially Continental phenomena, counter to the staid and order...
View full detailsGood News and Good Works: A Theology for the Whole Gospel
Ronald J. Sider
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• Author(s): Ronald J. Sider • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Christian Life - Social IssuesConcerned to promote an authentic, biblical faith, this book suggests ways to combine evangelism with social action for ...
View full detailsThe Political Economy of Middle East Peace: The Impact of Competing Trade Agendas
J. W. Wright Jr
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• Author(s): J. W. Wright Jr • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International - EconomicsThe Political Economy of Middle East Peace looks at the political economy of the Middle Eastern peace process with a focus on the...
View full detailsForging America
John Bezis-Selfa
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• Author(s): John Bezis-Selfa • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarStacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states...
View full detailsA Living Wage: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
Lawrence B. Glickman
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• Author(s): Lawrence B. Glickman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe fight for a "living wage" has a long and revealing history as documented here by La...
View full detailsDemocracy and the Arts: A History of Central Park
Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman
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• Author(s): Arthur M. Melzer | Jerry Weinberger | M. Richard Zinman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyPolitics has taken a cultural turn in America, and t...
View full detailsCyborgs@Cyberspace?: An Ethnographer Looks to the Future
David Hakken
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• Author(s): David Hakken • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialArguing that humans have always been technological as well as cultural beings, David Hakken calls for a fundamental rethi...
View full detailsA Neighborhood Divided
Jane Balin
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• Author(s): Jane Balin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryWhen a nursing facility for AIDS patients is planned for a city neighborhood, residents might be expected to ...
View full detailsRoutledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
Sebastian Gardner
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• Author(s): Sebastian Gardner • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceThis GuideBook introduces and assesses Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. It is ide...
View full detailsMortal Friends, Best Enemies: German-Russian Cooperation After the Cold War
Celeste A. Wallander
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• Author(s): Celeste A. Wallander • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralSeveral hundred thousand members of the Red Army were stationed in East Germany when t...
View full detailsNew Perspectives on State Socialism of China
Timothy Cheek, Tony Saich
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• Author(s): Timothy Cheek | Tony Saich • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: World - GeneralPlacing Chinese Community Party history in the realm of social history and comparative politics, this text studies the roots of ...
View full detailsNew Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China
James D. Seymour, Michael R. Anderson
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• Author(s): James D. Seymour | Michael R. Anderson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PenologyMuch has been written about the laogai (sometimes likened to the Soviet gulag) in the People's Republic of China. Depending...
View full detailsAmerica's Jeffersonian Experiment
Laura Scalia
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• Author(s): Laura Scalia • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - General-- Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, friends and fellow statesman, had radi...
View full detailsTinker, Evers, and Chance: A Triple Biography
Gil Bogen
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• Author(s): Gil Bogen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Though they never led the league in double plays turned, and though at times they actively disliked one another, Joe Tinker, ...
View full detailsCapital Moves: Rca's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Jefferson Cowie
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• Author(s): Jefferson Cowie • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralFind a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs--and soon they cease to b...
View full detailsDifferenzengleichungen Und Diskrete Dynamische Systeme: Eine Einführung in Theorie Und Anwendungen
Ulrich Krause, Tim Nesemann
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• Author(s): Ulrich Krause | Tim Nesemann • Publisher: Vieweg+teubner Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Vieweg+teubner Verlag • BISAC: Differential Equations - GeneralDieses Buch befa t sich mit der mathematischen Analyse von dynamischen Prozes- sen, d...
View full detailsHow Early America Sounded
Richard C. Rath
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• Author(s): Richard C. Rath • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period"My hope is that by attending to sound I have been able to open up parts of these worlds, not...
View full detailsThe Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
Katherine Verdery
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• Author(s): Katherine Verdery • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralIn most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up t...
View full detailsSouthern Sons, Northern Soldiers
Julie Holcomb
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• Author(s): Julie Holcomb • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralWhen Abraham Lincoln called for 300,000 volunteers to fortify Union forces in July 186...
View full detailsLos Voraces 2019: A Chess Novel
Andy Soltis
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• Author(s): Andy Soltis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - General The rules of "The Greatest Tournament in Chess History," the $20 million Sheldrake Memorial Tour...
View full detailsRadio Mystery and Adventure and Its Appearances in Film, Television and Other Media
Jim Harmon
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• Author(s): Jim Harmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference From the 1920s to the 1950s, radio was the entertainment source for millions. Two of the primary themes of radio serials ...
View full detailsMel Ott: The Little Giant of Baseball
Fred Stein
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• Author(s): Fred Stein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Melvin Thomas Ott was smaller than most home run sluggers, at 5'9", 170 pounds, but he could sure hit 'em as far as the big ...
View full detailsWe Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Women and Men
Samuel Shem, Janet Surrey, Stephen Bergman
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• Author(s): Samuel Shem | Janet Surrey | Stephen Bergman • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)"We have to talk." For many men, these are the four worst word...
View full detailsThe Tudor Monarchies, 1485-1603
John McGurk
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• Author(s): John McGurk • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralCambridge Perspectives in History provides a range of textbooks and advanced history courses...
View full detailsMoments in the Sun: Baseball's Briefly Famous
Mark McGuire, Michael Sean Gormley
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• Author(s): Mark McGuire | Michael Sean Gormley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball's ranks are filled with those whose careers may not have been as spectacular a...
View full detailsNegotiating the Constitution
Joseph M. Lynch
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• Author(s): Joseph M. Lynch • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalNo concept sparks more controversy in constitutional debate than "original intent." Offering a legal historian...
View full detailsBeyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics
Cecelia M. Lynch
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• Author(s): Cecelia M. Lynch • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe interwar peace movements were, according to conventional interpretations, naive and in...
View full detailsThe Cold War
Bradley Lightbody
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• Author(s): Bradley Lightbody • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Military - Nuclear WarfareThe Cold War examines the complex arguments which divided East and West following the end of the Second World War, and analyze...
View full detailsAquinas's Moral Theory: Advocacy Networks in International Politics
Scott MacDonald, Eleonore Stump
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• Author(s): Scott MacDonald | Eleonore Stump • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralAquinas's discussions of moral issues are extensive, and range well beyond t...
View full detailsManifestoes: A Study of the National Recovery Administration
Janet Lyon
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• Author(s): Janet Lyon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - GeneralFor more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties ...
View full detailsThe 1917 White Sox: Their World Championship Season
Warren N. Wilbert, William C. Hageman
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• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert | William C. Hageman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1917 Chicago White Sox were rooted in frustration over eleventh hour pennant los...
View full detailsLie Detectors: A Social History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology The polygraph, most commonly known as the lie detector, was created and refined by academics in university settings ...
View full detailsFramed!
Christopher R. Martin
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• Author(s): Christopher R. Martin • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralChristopher R. Martin argues that the mainstream news media (and the large corporations behind them) put t...
View full detailsColonial Odysseys
David Adams
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• Author(s): David Adams • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWorks such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E....
View full detailsBy Honor Bound
Nancy Shields Kollmann
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• Author(s): Nancy Shields Kollmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by...
View full detailsTechnicolor Movies: The History of Dye Transfer Printing
Richard W. Haines
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• Author(s): Richard W. Haines • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Using extensive research and interviews with many of the surviving Technicolor technicians, the history of dy...
View full detailsReading and the Reference Librarian: The Importance to Library Service of Staff Reading Habits
Juris Dilevko, Lisa Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Juris Dilevko | Lisa Gottlieb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merel...
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Sheep in Wolves' Clothing: How Unseen Need Destroys Friendship and Community and What to Do about It
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing: How Unseen Need Destroys Friendship and Community and What to Do about It
Valerie J. McIntyre, Leanne Payne
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• Author(s): Valerie J. McIntyre | Leanne Payne • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Christian Life - FamilyLooks at the harmful effect of the phenomenon of transference on churches and lives, and explains how to ide...
View full detailsThebes in Egypt: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe
Nigel Strudwick, Helen Strudwick
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• Author(s): Nigel Strudwick | Helen Strudwick • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - EgyptThe remains of ancient Thebes constitute one of the largest and most remarkable archaeo...
View full detailsRavenswood
Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner
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• Author(s): Tom Juravich | Kate Bronfenbrenner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentOver the past two decades, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, their jobs out-sourced...
View full detailsRegional Government Innovations: A Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Affairs & Administration There are many types and forms of regional government agencies. These include regional plann...
View full detailsThe Renaissance
Jocelyn Hunt
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• Author(s): Jocelyn Hunt • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceThe Renaissance presents the panorama of Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exploring such themes as: the origins and caus...
View full detailsTudor Government
T. a. Morris
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• Author(s): T. a. Morris • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralTudor Government looks at government across all the tudor reigns. Combining narrative, questions and analysis, this book prov...
View full detailsPete Rose: Baseball's All-Time Hit King
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports On September 11, 1985, with a sell-out crowd of 52,000 fans on hand at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium and millions of ...
View full detailsThe Book of Skin
Steven Connor
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• Author(s): Steven Connor • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Popular CultureSkin, Steven Connor argues, has never been more visible. The Book of Skin explores the multiple functions of th...
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 detailsFascism
Richard Thurlow
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• Author(s): Richard Thurlow • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This book presents new persp...
View full detailsSumatran Sultanate and Colonial State
Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, Beverley Jackson
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• Author(s): Elsbeth Locher-Scholten | Beverley Jackson • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe first English translation of Professor Locher-Scho...
View full detailsHesitant Heroes
Theodore Ziolkowski
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• Author(s): Theodore Ziolkowski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralWhy, Theodore Ziolkowski wonders, does Western literature abound with figures who experience a crucial...
View full detailsYour Sons & Daughters Shall Prophesy: Prophetic Gifts in Ministry Today
Ernest B. Gentile, C. Peter Wagner
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• Author(s): Ernest B. Gentile | C. Peter Wagner • Publisher: Chosen Books • Publisher Imprint: Chosen Books • BISAC: Christianity - Pentecostal & CharismaticShows how the biblical gift of prophecy can build up churches and individual Christi...
View full detailsThe Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom
David Brin
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• Author(s): David Brin • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Future StudiesIn New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell th...
View full detailsThe Developmental State
Meredith Woo-Cumings
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• Author(s): Meredith Woo-Cumings • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDevelopmental state, n.: the government, motivated by desire for economic advancement,...
View full detailsThe Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects
Charles Altieri
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• Author(s): Charles Altieri • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThis brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex ...
View full detailsThe Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
Erik Hornung, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptAncient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in b...
View full detailsFolkbiology
Douglas L. Medin, Scott Atran
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• Author(s): Douglas L. Medin | Scott Atran • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThe term "folkbiology" refers to people's everyday understanding of the biological world--how they...
View full detailsLockerbie and Libya: A Study in International Relations
Khalil I. Matar, Robert W. Thabit
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• Author(s): Khalil I. Matar | Robert W. Thabit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Terrorism The bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the politics that surround...
View full detailsCountess Cathleen
W. B. Yeats, Michael J. Sidnell, Wayne K. Chapman
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• Author(s): W. B. Yeats | Michael J. Sidnell | Wayne K. Chapman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshOriginally published in 1892, The Countess Cat...
View full detailsThe Telegraph: A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States
Lewis Coe
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• Author(s): Lewis Coe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Samuel F.B. Morse's invention of the telegraph marked a new era in communication. For the first time, peop...
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