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The New Southern Girl: Female Adolescence in the Works of 12 Women Authors
Caren J. Town
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• Author(s): Caren J. Town • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Much has been written about America's troubled teens, particularly endangered teenage girls. Works like Mary ...
View full detailsFeeding & Leading
Kenneth O. Gangel
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• Author(s): Kenneth O. Gangel • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Christian Church - AdministrationA practical handbook on administration in churches and Christian organizations.
J. Patton Anderson, Confederate General: A Biography
James W. Raab
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• Author(s): James W. Raab • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) J. Patton Anderson was from Florida, the seceding state that was referred to as the...
View full detailsCity and Shore: The Function of Setting in the British Mystery
Gillian Mary Hanson
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• Author(s): Gillian Mary Hanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Certain settings have long been a common element in British mystery and detective fiction:...
View full detailsBranch Rickey in Pittsburgh: Baseball's Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955
Andrew O'Toole
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• Author(s): Andrew O'Toole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Branch Rickey was one of the most important and charismatic figures in all of baseball, the archetype for all general ma...
View full detailsVanishing Points: Three Dimensional Perspective in Art and History
Milton E. Brener
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• Author(s): Milton E. Brener • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - General This book traces the history of three dimensional perspective in art from prehistoric and ancient times, du...
View full detailsDay-by-Day in Baseball History
Carl R. Moesche
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• Author(s): Carl R. Moesche • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Did you know that there have been six no-hitters thrown on one day--September 20? Or that Ken Griffey, Jr.,...
View full detailsDemocracy and Slavery in Frontier Illinois
James Simeone
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• Author(s): James Simeone • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MODuring the 1820s, Illinois witnessed one o...
View full detailsGrowing Up with a Schizophrenic Mother
Margaret J. Brown, Doris Parker Roberts
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• Author(s): Margaret J. Brown | Doris Parker Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychopathology - Schizophrenia An estimated two to three million people in the United States today w...
View full detailsThe Svalbard Archipelago: American Military and Political Geographies of Spitsbergen and Other Norwegian Polar Territories, 1941-1950
P. J. Capelotti
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• Author(s): P. J. Capelotti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Nordic Countries - General Norway's Spitsbergen Archipelago, known as Svalbard to the Norwegians, is of increasing in...
View full detailsDescartes and the Possibility of Science
Peter A. Schouls
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• Author(s): Peter A. Schouls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis new book describes the intellectual structure of modern science as a body of knowledge p...
View full detailsRule of Law: The Jurisprudence of Liberty in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
John Phillip Reid
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• Author(s): John Phillip Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Jurisprudence"Rule of law"--the idea that the law is the nation's sovereign authority--has served as a...
View full detailsPlanning the Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons
Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, James J. Wirtz
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• Author(s): Peter R. Lavoy | Scott D. Sagan | James J. Wirtz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nucle...
View full detailsScience in Public: Communication, Culture, and Credibility
Jane Gregory, Steven Miller
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• Author(s): Jane Gregory | Steven Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsDoes the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists' responsibility to communi...
View full detailsPlanning the Unthinkable
Peter R. Lavoy, Scott D. Sagan, James J. Wirtz
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• Author(s): Peter R. Lavoy | Scott D. Sagan | James J. Wirtz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)The proliferation of chemical, biological, and nucle...
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Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain
Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience: Understanding the Mind by Simulating the Brain
Randall C. O'Reilly, Yuko Munakata, James L. McClelland
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• Author(s): Randall C. O'Reilly | Yuko Munakata | James L. McClelland • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuroscienceThis text, based on a course taught by Randall O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata over the past seve...
View full detailsGods and Men in Egypt: 3000 Bce to 395 CE
Françoise Dunand, Christiane Zivie-Coche, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Françoise Dunand | Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptIn their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient Egyp...
View full detailse-topia: Urban Life, Jim-But Not As We Know It
William J. Mitchell
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• Author(s): William J. Mitchell • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningHow an electronically connected world will shape cities and urban relationships of the future.The global digital network ...
View full detailsHeidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science, Volume 2: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus
Mark Wrathall, Jeff Malpas
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• Author(s): Mark Wrathall | Jeff Malpas • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyHubert L. Dreyfus's engagement with other thinkers has always been driven by his desire to understand certain basic questions a...
View full detailsReality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique
Irving Singer
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• Author(s): Irving Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA new look at film that succeeds in combining the realist and formalist sides of an ongoing debate.In Reality Transformed Irvi...
View full detailsTake Me Out to the Cubs Game: 35 Former Ballplayers Speak of Losing at Wrigley
John C. Skipper
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• Author(s): John C. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History"There's too much nature in that ballpark"--Harry Chiti And make no mistake, whether it's the wind full-til...
View full detailsRethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates: Building in Privacy
Stefan Brands
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• Author(s): Stefan Brands • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceStefan Brands proposes cryptographic building blocks for the design of digital certificates that preserve privacy without sacrificing securi...
View full detailsRebels at Rock Island
Benton McAdams
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• Author(s): Benton McAdams • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)Ashley Wilkes of Gone with the Wind helped to seal Rock Islan...
View full detailsSpectrum of Belief: Joseph Von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
Myles W. Jackson
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• Author(s): Myles W. Jackson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryIn the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of B...
View full detailsAirs of Providence
Jean McGarry
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• Author(s): Jean McGarry • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)They may be sad too, but it is a dry-eyed melancholy that is no relation-or perhaps ju...
View full detailsSerials-ly Speaking: Essays on Cliffhangers
William C. Cline
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• Author(s): William C. Cline • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This collection of essays (first published in Big Reel) lovingly recalls the glory days of the mo...
View full detailsBad at the Bijou
William R. Horner
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• Author(s): William R. Horner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This book is about a group of actors who bring drama to the big screen the way the fair haire...
View full detailsThe Films of the Seventies: A Filmography of American, British and Canadian Films 1970-1979
Marc Sigoloff
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• Author(s): Marc Sigoloff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This is a comprehensive filmography of American, British and Canadian feature films released during ...
View full detailsThe Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
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• Author(s): Baroness Orczy • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Family LifeThe Scarlet Pimpernel is a historical novel written by Baroness Orczy. The story is set during the French Revolution and f...
View full detailsWomen Writers of Meiji and Taisho Japan: Their Lives, Works and Critical Reception, 1868-1926
Yukiko Tanaka
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• Author(s): Yukiko Tanaka • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors After centuries of repression of the female voice in literature, the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) peri...
View full detailsA Chrysler Chronicle: One Man's Story of Restoring a Classic 1948 New Yorker
Dave Floyd
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• Author(s): Dave Floyd • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - Repair & Maintenance There are two kinds of classic car buffs: those who have restored an old car, and those who w...
View full detailsAnatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations during the Cold War
Deborah Welch Larson
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• Author(s): Deborah Welch Larson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyThe United States and the Soviet Union missed numerous diplomatic opportunities to resolve differe...
View full detailsBreaking the Watch
Joel S. Savishinsky
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• Author(s): Joel S. Savishinsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GerontologyThe topic of retirement becomes increasingly compelling as the U.S. population ages. It's easy to find books ...
View full detailsRevolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938
Lynn Mally
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• Author(s): Lynn Mally • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionDuring the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities acros...
View full detailsPluralism in Philosophy
John Kekes
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• Author(s): John Kekes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis original and ambitious book aims to change how we think about good lives. The perennial debates...
View full detailsResistance, Flight, Creation
Dorothea Olkowski
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• Author(s): Dorothea Olkowski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThirteen women at the forefront of philosophy locate new feminist points of view within the ...
View full detailsRussia and Soul
Dale Pesmen
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• Author(s): Dale Pesmen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis ethnography of everyday life in contemporary Russia is also an examination of discourse...
View full detailsThree Women in Dark Times
Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
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• Author(s): Sylvie Courtine-Denamy | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousThree women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a de...
View full detailsThe Virtual Community, Revised Edition: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
Howard Rheingold
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• Author(s): Howard Rheingold • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - General
Antler on the Sea: The German Tragedy
Anna M. Kerttula
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• Author(s): Anna M. Kerttula • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAnna M. Kerttula, an anthropologist, offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki, a Si...
View full detailsRevolution, Radicalism and Reform: England 1780-1846
Richard Brown
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• Author(s): Richard Brown • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The years be...
View full detailsThe Victorian Novel
Barbara Dennis
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• Author(s): Barbara Dennis • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book invites readers...
View full detailsGraded Exercises in Statistics
Richard Norris
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• Author(s): Richard Norris • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - MathematicsA wide-ranging collection of exercises for homework, practice and revision....
View full detailsA Fistful of Rubles
Juliet Johnson
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• Author(s): Juliet Johnson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryAfter the breakup of the USSR, it briefly appeared as though Russia's emerging commercial banks might act as ...
View full detailsPerforming Live: Aesthetic Alternatives for the Ends of Art
Richard Shusterman
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• Author(s): Richard Shusterman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsCurrent philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining ...
View full detailsReenchantment without Supernaturalism
David Ray Griffin
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• Author(s): David Ray Griffin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyThe process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has made many distinctive contributions ...
View full detailsTelevision Horror Movie Hosts: 68 Vampires, Mad Scientists and Other Denizens of the Late-Night Airwaves Examined and Interviewed
Elena M. Watson
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• Author(s): Elena M. Watson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabr...
View full detailsClash of Empires: Europe 1498-1560
Martin D. W. Jones
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• Author(s): Martin D. W. Jones • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceClash of Empires presents an introduction to European history in the first half of the sixteenth ...
View full detailsSpirits and Clocks
Dennis Des Chene
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• Author(s): Dennis Des Chene • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernAlthough the basis of modern biology is Cartesian, Descartes's theories of biology have been ...
View full detailsRaymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries
Mark Ford, John Ashbery
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• Author(s): Mark Ford | John Ashbery • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresRaymond Roussel, one of the most outlandishly compelling literary figures of modern times, died in ...
View full detailsCuster and the Battle of the Little Bighorn: An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, Events, Indian Culture and Customs, Information Sources, Art and F
Thom Hatch
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• Author(s): Thom Hatch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asian - Indian & South Asian Every aspect of the career of General George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn...
View full detailsThe Practice of Persuasion: Paradox and Power in Art History
Keith Moxey
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• Author(s): Keith Moxey • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThis sequel to The Practice of Theory stresses the continued need for self-reflective awareness in art his...
View full detailsTransnational Cooperation among Labor Unions
Michael E. Gordon, Lowell Turner
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• Author(s): Michael E. Gordon | Lowell Turner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsOrganized labor faces enormous challenges in the increasingly global economy. The effect of multinationa...
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Women Performing Music: The Emergence of American Women as Classical Instrumentalists and Conductors
Women Performing Music: The Emergence of American Women as Classical Instrumentalists and Conductors
Beth Abelson MacLeod
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• Author(s): Beth Abelson MacLeod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Musical Instruments - General This book explores the experiences of women from the late nineteenth and early twentieth ce...
View full detailsFlying Tigers Over Cambodia: An American Pilot's Memoir of the 1975 Phnom Penh Airlift
Larry Partridge
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• Author(s): Larry Partridge • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia At the end of World War II, a number of former American military pilots formed the "Flying Tiger Line," ...
View full detailsThe Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell Controversy and Its Many Players
A. Edward Evenson
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• Author(s): A. Edward Evenson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The invention of the telephone is a subject of great controversy, central is which is the patent iss...
View full detailsLiterature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century
Timothy Hampton
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• Author(s): Timothy Hampton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RenaissanceAssessing the relationship between the emergence of modern French literary culture and the ideological debates th...
View full detailsIntellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship, 1967-1974
Toni Samek
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• Author(s): Toni Samek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Between 1967 and 1974, a number of librarians came together to push for change in the A...
View full detailsConstructing Class & Nationality
David Allen Harvey
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• Author(s): David Allen Harvey • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Minority Studies - GeneralFor more than a century, Alsace was the most contested region in western Eu...
View full detailsThe Turing Test: Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence
Stuart M. Shieber
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• Author(s): Stuart M. Shieber • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralHistorical and contemporary papers on the philosophical issues raised by the Turing Test as a criterion for intel...
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