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Robert Mugabe and the Betrayal of Zimbabwe
Andrew Norman
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• Author(s): Andrew Norman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Instead of leading his people to the "promised land," Mugabe, the first prime minister of the newly-named Zimbab...
View full detailsSoccer Drills: Skill-Builders for Field Control
Albert M. Luongo
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• Author(s): Albert M. Luongo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Soccer Without the proper all-around skills, no soccer player can reach his or her potential, and without skilled players, no...
View full detailsMike Schmidt: Philadelphia's Hall of Fame Third Baseman
William C. Kashatus
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• Author(s): William C. Kashatus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Michael Jack Schmidt, in the minds of many the greatest third baseman of all time, was a Philadelphia institution. ...
View full detailsThe New Structure of Labor Relations
Harry C. Katz, Wonduck Lee, Joohee Lee
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• Author(s): Harry C. Katz | Wonduck Lee | Joohee Lee • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsTripartism--the national-level interaction among representatives of labor, management, and govern...
View full detailsLieder Eines Kosmopolitischen Nachtwächters
Franz Dingelstedt, Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer
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• Author(s): Franz Dingelstedt | Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - German
Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production
Vaclav Smil
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• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryDr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamen...
View full detailsFolk Linguistics
Nancy a. Niedzielski, Dennis R. Preston
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• Author(s): Nancy a. Niedzielski | Dennis R. Preston • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics"Folk knowledge of language has not engaged linguists very often in the history of ...
View full detailsCastration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale (Revised)
Laura Engelstein
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• Author(s): Laura Engelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralOf the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth ce...
View full detailsForschungsergebnisse
Bruno Hillebrand
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• Author(s): Bruno Hillebrand • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Forschungsergebnisse" verfügbar.
Duty, Honor, Country: A History of West Point
Stephen E. Ambrose, Andrew J. Goodpaster, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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• Author(s): Stephen E. Ambrose | Andrew J. Goodpaster | Dwight D. Eisenhower • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Military - United StatesA New York Times bestselling author wri...
View full detailsRaymond Burr: A Film, Radio and Television Biography
Ona L. Hill
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• Author(s): Ona L. Hill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Best known for his television series "Perry Mason" and "Ironside," Burr had a career spanning ...
View full detailsImages of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Shape Modern Culture (1818-1918)
Martin Tropp
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• Author(s): Martin Tropp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism On the Western Front in World War I, a generation faced a horrifying reality that ushered in the m...
View full detailsGuy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents
Tom McDonough
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• Author(s): Tom McDonough • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - ModernismCritical texts, translations, documents, and photographs on the work of the Situationist International.This volume is a revised and exp...
View full detailsA Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720
Barbara J. Shapiro
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• Author(s): Barbara J. Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralBarbara J. Shapiro traces the surprising genesis of the "fact," a modern concept that, sh...
View full detailsDry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America
Kristina Bross
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• Author(s): Kristina Bross • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralNative converts to Christianity, dubbed "praying Indians" by seventeenth-century English missionaries, have...
View full detailsCivilizing the Margins: Southeast Asian Government Policies for the Development of Minorities
Christopher R. Duncan
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• Author(s): Christopher R. Duncan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralSoutheast Asian nations have devised a range of development programs that strive to incorporate mino...
View full detailsBeing Local Worldwide
Jacques Bélanger, Christian Berggren, Torsten Björkman
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• Author(s): Jacques Bélanger | Christian Berggren | Torsten Björkman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralFortune called Asea Brown Boveri, the giant multinational corporation c...
View full detailsOdilo Globocnik, Hitler's Man in the East
Joseph Poprzeczny
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• Author(s): Joseph Poprzeczny • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Odilo Globocnik, a collaborator of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, was responsible for the deaths of...
View full detailsThe Violence-Prone Workplace
Richard V. Denenberg, Mark Braverman
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• Author(s): Richard V. Denenberg | Mark Braverman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralAlmost every week reports of violence erupting in the workplace make headlines. Contrary to popular opinion, suc...
View full detailsCoalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environmental Movements
Fred Rose
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• Author(s): Fred Rose • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsToo often struggles for jobs and economic justice have been divided from social goals such as peac...
View full detailsWhy Different?: A Culture of Two Subjects
Luce Irigaray, Luce Irigaray, Sylvere Lotringer
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• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...
View full detailsWes Craven: The Art of Horror
John Kenneth Muir
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• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Filmmaker Wes Craven has consistently and imaginatively scared movie audiences since the e...
View full detailsSidney Howard and Clare Eames: American Theater's Perfect Couple of the 1920s
Arthur Gewirtz
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• Author(s): Arthur Gewirtz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts In the 1920s, the playwright Sidney Howard and his wife, actress Clare Eames, were at the h...
View full detailsEmpire of Conspiracy: A Theory of the Tragic
Timothy Melley
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• Author(s): Timothy Melley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWhy, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar Ame...
View full detailsHorror and Mystery Photoplay Editions and Magazine Fictionizations: The Catalog of a Collection
Thomas Mann
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• Author(s): Thomas Mann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Photoplay editions were usually hardcover reprints of novels that had been made into movies, illustra...
View full detailsDoctor Danger Forward: A World War II Memoir of a Combat Medical Aidman, First Infantry Division
Allen N. Towne
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• Author(s): Allen N. Towne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military As a combat medical aidman of Company B, 1st Medical Battalion, First Infantry Division, Allen N. Towne experienced so...
View full detailsEmpire of Conspiracy: A Theory of the Tragic
Timothy Melley
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• Author(s): Timothy Melley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhy, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent featu...
View full detailsTerrorism and the UN: Before and After September 11
Jane Boulden, Thomas G. Weiss
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• Author(s): Jane Boulden | Thomas G. Weiss • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyHow has the United Nations dealt with the question of terrorism before and...
View full detailsJavanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Manuscripts of the Mangkunagaran Palace
Nancy K. Florida
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• Author(s): Nancy K. Florida • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe second volume of the annotated bibliography of Javanese manuscripts housed in the ...
View full detailsThe Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 B.C.
James R. Ashley
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• Author(s): James R. Ashley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - Greece The Macedonian Empire lasted only 36 years, beginning with Philip II's assumption of the throne in 359 B.C. a...
View full detailsAmerican Auto Racing: The Milestones and Personalities of a Century of Speed
J. a. Martin, Thomas F. Saal
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• Author(s): J. a. Martin | Thomas F. Saal • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports As soon as there were automobiles, there was racing. The first recorded race, an over road event fr...
View full detailsEarthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance
Sheila Jasanoff, Marybeth Martello
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• Author(s): Sheila Jasanoff | Marybeth Martello • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Globalization today is as much a problem for international harmony as it is ...
View full detailsPostmodern Times
Thomas Carmichael, Alison Lee
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• Author(s): Thomas Carmichael | Alison Lee • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Popular CultureThese 15 essays engage topics from architecture to politics and from fast ...
View full detailsStudies in Southeast Asian Art
Nora A. Taylor
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• Author(s): Nora A. Taylor • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis wide-ranging collection of essays examines the arts of Southeast Asia in context. C...
View full detailsPervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch
Jeff Johnson
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• Author(s): Jeff Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Filmmaker David Lynch's work is viewed here as patriotic and Puritanical. This Lynch is an idea...
View full detailsThe Horror Spoofs of Abbott and Costello: A Critical Assessment of the Comedy Team's Monster Films
Jeffrey S. Miller
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• Author(s): Jeffrey S. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General While Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are more famously known for their straight comedy routines, they did make a...
View full detailsCharlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism
Ken Hanke
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• Author(s): Ken Hanke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From his primitive nonseries beginnings through the well known Fox series of 44 films (1931-1949), here is the complete hist...
View full detailsThe Fix Is in: A History of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals
Daniel E. Ginsburg
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• Author(s): Daniel E. Ginsburg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General On September 27, 1865, gambler Kane McLoughlin paid William Wansley $100 to ensure that the Brooklyn Eckfords would...
View full detailsDragons in the Dust: The Paleobiology of the Giant Monitor Lizard Megalania
Ralph E. Molnar
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• Author(s): Ralph E. Molnar • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: PaleontologyJust 50,000 years ago the world was filled with fabulous creatures that are now forever gone. Australia's giant ...
View full detailsUnwelcome and Unlawful: Sexual Harassment in the American Workplace
Raymond F. Gregory
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• Author(s): Raymond F. Gregory • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentNearly every American woman will, at some point during her working life, be sexually harassed, according to Raymond F. Gregory, a...
View full detailsJapan's Postwar History
Gary D. Allinson
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• Author(s): Gary D. Allinson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanReviews of the first edition-- "Allinson promises a comprehensive synthesis... that integrates analysis of poli...
View full detailsWhat's Class Got to Do with It?
Michael Zweig
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• Author(s): Michael Zweig • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Russia - General"Whether in regard to the economy or issues of war and peace, class is central to our everyday lives. Yet class has not been as visible as r...
View full detailsFiction's Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy
Edith W. Clowes
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• Author(s): Edith W. Clowes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIf Dostoevsky claimed that all Russian writers of his day "came out from Gogol's 'Overcoat, '"...
View full detailsThe Labor of Development
Patrick Heller
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• Author(s): Patrick Heller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LaborThe state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention h...
View full detailsCharacteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times
III Cooper Anthony Ashley, Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury, Lawrence E. Klein
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• Author(s): III Cooper Anthony Ashley | Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury | Lawrence E. Klein • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernShaftesbury's Characteri...
View full detailsSouth of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov and Hayden
Glenn Sheldon
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• Author(s): Glenn Sheldon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry This study examines the work of six American poets who visited Mexico in the 1950s, discussing the complex relationships ...
View full detailsMachiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence
Niccolò Machiavelli
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• Author(s): Niccolò Machiavelli • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe intimate world of Niccolò Machiavelli comes to life in this first complete collect...
View full detailsCommand Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership
Robert A. Pois, Philip Langer
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• Author(s): Robert A. Pois | Philip Langer • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Military - StrategyWhy do military commanders, most of them usually quite capable, fail at crucia...
View full detailsHistory in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory
Dominick LaCapra
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• Author(s): Dominick LaCapra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernHistory in Transit comprises Dominick LaCapra's explorations of relationships he believes hav...
View full detailsBaseball/Literature/Culture: Essays, 2002-2003
Peter Carino
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• Author(s): Peter Carino • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Since 1995, the Indiana State University Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has provide...
View full detailsAbsinthe: The Cocaine of the Nineteenth Century: A History of the Hallucinogenic Drug and Its Effect on Artists and Writers in Europe and the United S
Doris Lanier
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• Author(s): Doris Lanier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Customs & Traditions With an alcohol content sometimes as high as 80 percent, absinthe was made by mixing the leaves of wormw...
View full detailsLethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting
Harold Weinrich, Steven Rendall
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• Author(s): Harold Weinrich | Steven Rendall • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Mind & Body"Our daily encounters with forgetting have not taught us enough about how much power it exer...
View full detailsSyntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory
Howard Lasnik
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• Author(s): Howard Lasnik • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Generalwith Marcela Depiante and Arthur StepanovThis book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational gene...
View full detailsVisual Agnosia
Martha J. Farah
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• Author(s): Martha J. Farah • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: NeuroscienceThe cognitive neuroscience of human vision draws on two kinds of evidence: functional imaging of normal subjects and the study of ne...
View full detailsThe Makeover in Movies: Before and After in Hollywood Films, 1941-2002
Elizabeth A. Ford, Deborah C. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Elizabeth A. Ford | Deborah C. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The plots of many films pivot on the moment when a dowdy girl with bad hair, ill-fittin...
View full detailsThe Ethics of Life Writing
Paul John Eakin
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• Author(s): Paul John Eakin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA pervasive culture of confession, combined with the revolution in Internet-based communication, has c...
View full detailsMonstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups
Laura Lunger Knoppers, Joan B. Landes
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• Author(s): Laura Lunger Knoppers | Joan B. Landes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralMulti-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated b...
View full detailsTalking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks
James A. Anderson, Edward Rosenfeld
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• Author(s): James A. Anderson | Edward Rosenfeld • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Data Science - Neural NetworksSurprising tales from the scientists who first learned how to use computers to understand the w...
View full detailsEverybody's Grandmother and Nobody's Fool
Kathryn L. Nasstrom
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• Author(s): Kathryn L. Nasstrom • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoliticalFrances Freeborn Pauley, a white woman who grew up in the segregated South, has devoted most of her ninety-four...
View full detailsToxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons
Jonathan B. Tucker
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• Author(s): Jonathan B. Tucker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)In-depth case studies of twelve terrorist groups and individuals who, from 1946 to 1998, allegedly acquired or e...
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