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Voluntarism, Community Life, and the American Ethic
Robert S. Ogilvie
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• Author(s): Robert S. Ogilvie • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Poverty"This is a major contribution to the literature on social participation and voluntary action. It is the first syste...
View full detailsTelling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution
Frederick Corney
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• Author(s): Frederick Corney • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralAll revolutionary regimes seek to legitimize themselves through foundation narratives that, told and retold...
View full detailsGraded Exercises in Pure Mathematics
Barrie Hunt
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• Author(s): Barrie Hunt • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - MathematicsHere is a wide-ranging collection of exercises for homework, practice and revi...
View full detailsSpeaking of Slavery: Why Americans Need the Feds
Steven A. Epstein
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• Author(s): Steven A. Epstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: SlaveryIn this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and ...
View full detailsThousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman's Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II
Maria Savchyn Pyskir, Ania Savage
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• Author(s): Maria Savchyn Pyskir | Ania Savage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Before, during, and after World War II, Maria Savchyn Pyskir served in the Ukrainia...
View full detailsAkhenaten and the Religion of Light
Erik Hornung, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyAkhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dyna...
View full detailsDeep Listeners: Music, Emotion, and Trancing
Judith Becker
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• Author(s): Judith Becker • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Instruction & Study - Appreciation"A fascinating thesis and a timely synthesis. . . . Becker urges the reader ...
View full detailsThe War against the New Deal
Brian Waddell
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• Author(s): Brian Waddell • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIWaddell addresses a central paradox in American governance: the rise of a strong na...
View full detailsSpeaking Through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity
Norma Claire Moruzzi
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• Author(s): Norma Claire Moruzzi • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoliticalHannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist...
View full detailsSanin: National and Imperial Identities in Late Tsarist Russia
Mikhail Artsybashev, Nicholas Luker, Otto Boele
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• Author(s): Mikhail Artsybashev | Nicholas Luker | Otto Boele • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Literary"It evoked almost unprecedented discussions, like those at the time of Turgenev's ...
View full detailsSatire
Jane Ogborn, Peter Buckroyd, Pamela Bickley
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• Author(s): Jane Ogborn | Peter Buckroyd | Pamela Bickley • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of literary t...
View full detailsSilent Stars Speak: Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers
Tony Villecco
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• Author(s): Tony Villecco • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The pioneers of the motion picture industry were a group of uncommonly talented men, women, and c...
View full detailsUnjust Seizure
Warren Brown
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• Author(s): Warren Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalMost scholarship in English on the political and social order of early medieval Europe concentrates on the Wes...
View full detailsGoing Native
Shari M. Huhndorf
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• Author(s): Shari M. Huhndorf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Native American StudiesSince the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native America...
View full detailsSolitary Wasps
Kevin M. O'Neill
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• Author(s): Kevin M. O'Neill • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyWhile social wasps, like hornets and yellow jackets, garner most of the publicity (most of it neg...
View full detailsThe Gorehound's Guide to Splatter Films of the 1960s and 1970s
Scott Aaron Stine
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• Author(s): Scott Aaron Stine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews For the uninitiated the author has obligingly supplied a definition for the slasher/splatter fil...
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 detailsSensory Exotica: A World Beyond Human Experience
Howard C. Hughes
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• Author(s): Howard C. Hughes • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn entertaining guide to the exotic sensory abilities of the Earth's nonhuman creatures.Certain insects and a...
View full detailsShoplifting: A Social History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Shoplifting is a practice that has been engaged in for centuries, but it was only after the Civil War that the prevalenc...
View full detailsPicturing Tropical Nature: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930
Nancy Leys Stepan
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• Author(s): Nancy Leys Stepan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RegionalWhether as sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or a site for environmental conflicts and eco-tourism, tropica...
View full detailsThe Dreams of a More Perfect Union: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Theory
Rogan Kersh
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• Author(s): Rogan Kersh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national...
View full detailsTet!: The Turning Point in the Vietnam War
Don Oberdorfer
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• Author(s): Don Oberdorfer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam WarFinalist for the 1971 National Book Award In early 1968, Communist forces in Vi...
View full detailsA Book of Emblems: The Emblematum Liber in Latin and English
Andrea Alciati
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• Author(s): Andrea Alciati • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient and Classical Andrea Alciati's Emblematum Liber was an essential work for every writer, artist and scholar in post-medi...
View full detailsSt. Nicholas and Mary Mapes Dodge: The Legacy of a Children's Magazine Editor, 1873-1905
Susan R. Gannon, Suzanne Rahn, Ruth Anne Thompson
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• Author(s): Susan R. Gannon | Suzanne Rahn | Ruth Anne Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature St. Nicholas has been called the best children's m...
View full detailsThe Dachau Defendants: Life Stories from Testimony and Documents of the War Crimes Prosecutions
Fern Overbey Hilton
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• Author(s): Fern Overbey Hilton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II In the 489 Dachau trials, 1700 criminals of Nazi Germany faced American justice. Held in the old a...
View full detailsBeating the Breaks: Major League Ballplayers Who Overcame Disabilities
Rick Swaine
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• Author(s): Rick Swaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. Much o...
View full detailsResisting the Third Reich: The Catholic Clergy in Hitler's Berlin
Kevin Spicer
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• Author(s): Kevin Spicer • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralWhen Nazism swept Germany, how did religious leaders respond to attacks not...
View full detailsThe Analogical Mind: Perspectives from Cognitive Science
Dedre Gentner, Keith J. Holyoak, Boicho N. Kokinov
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• Author(s): Dedre Gentner | Keith J. Holyoak | Boicho N. Kokinov • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAnalogy has been the focus of extensive research in cognitive science over the pa...
View full detailsThe Texas League in Baseball, 1888-1958
Marshall D. Wright
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• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For over 100 years, the Texas League has been one of the top minor leagues in the Southwest. This work i...
View full detailsImmigration and American Unionism: Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution
Vernon M. Briggs
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• Author(s): Vernon M. Briggs • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsIn the year 2000 the AFL-CIO announced a historic change in its position on immigration. Reversing a decades-old stance b...
View full detailsLearning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations
Saul A. Rubinstein, Thomas A. Kochan
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• Author(s): Saul A. Rubinstein | Thomas A. Kochan • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralThe last two decades of the twentieth century were a tumultuous time of innovation for bus...
View full detailsCrossing the 49th Parallel
Bruno Ramirez
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• Author(s): Bruno Ramirez • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn the hundred years ending in 1930, an estimated 2.8 million Canadians moved south of the 49th Pa...
View full detailsThe Great Radio Heroes, rev. ed.
Jim Harmon
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• Author(s): Jim Harmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism In 1967, Jim Harmon published the first edition of The Great Radio Heroes to great acclaim. Thirty-...
View full detailsThe Vampire as Numinous Experience: Spiritual Journeys with the Undead in British and American Literature
Beth E. McDonald
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• Author(s): Beth E. McDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The critical work examines the vampire as a spiritual figure--whether literal or metaphorical...
View full detailsThe Screwball Comedy Films: A History and Filmography, 1934-1942
Duane Byrge, Robert Milton Miller
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• Author(s): Duane Byrge | Robert Milton Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism My Man Godfrey, Four's a Crowd, My Favorite Wife, The Devil and Miss Jones--...
View full detailsDecommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines and International Cooperation
Charles Krupnick
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• Author(s): Charles Krupnick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General With the end of the Cold War, Russia's submarines were no longer needed to deter or fight Western navies and were ver...
View full detailsHumor in the White House: The Wit of Five American Presidents
Arthur A. Sloane
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• Author(s): Arthur A. Sloane • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: United States - General"I heard one [presidential] candidate say that what this country needed was a president for th...
View full detailsThe Colonial Moment
Jeffrey Westover
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Westover • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PoetryExplorers, colonists, native peoples--all played a role in early American settlement, and the leg...
View full detailsThe Modern Weird Tale
S. T. Joshi
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• Author(s): S. T. Joshi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary...
View full detailsLand and Liberty
Thomas Humphrey
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• Author(s): Thomas Humphrey • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticBeginning in the 1750s, a series of riots rippled thr...
View full detailsEleven Bravo: A Skytroopers Memoir of War in Vietnam
E. Tayloe Wise
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• Author(s): E. Tayloe Wise • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military E. Tayloe Wise served in Vietnam from May 1969 through April 1970. During those 11 months, he wrote an estimated 750-8...
View full detailsBy Motor to the Golden Gate
Emily Post
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• Author(s): Emily Post • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - West - Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA) In 1915, journalist Emily Post set out from New York to investigate whether it ...
View full detailsLive Television Drama, 1946-1951
William Hawes
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• Author(s): William Hawes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The "live era" or "golden age"of television drama originating from New York, 1946 through 1...
View full detailsDuke Ellington's Music for the Theatre
John Franceschina
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• Author(s): John Franceschina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Musicals Duke Ellington's son Mercer has said that his father was frustrated in only one area of music...
View full detailsAesthetics of Failure: Dynamic Structure in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill
Zander Brietzke
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• Author(s): Zander Brietzke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Drama Critic Clive Barnes once called Eugene O'Neill the "world's worst great playwright" and Brooks Atkinson called him "a tr...
View full detailsProduct Placement in Hollywood Films: A History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Advertising & Promotion This is the history of advertising in motion pictures from the slide ads of the 1890s to the common ...
View full detailsDams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power
Sanjeev Khagram
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• Author(s): Sanjeev Khagram • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentBig dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most...
View full detailsThe Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon Volume 1
Lana A. Whited
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• Author(s): Lana A. Whited • Publisher: University of Missouri Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Missouri Press • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureNow available in paper, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter is the first book-len...
View full detailsMedieval Saints in Late Nineteenth Century French Culture: Eight Essays
Elizabeth Emery, Laurie Postlewate
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Emery | Laurie Postlewate • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - French Legends, tales, and mysteries featuring saints captivated the French at the end of the n...
View full detailsLaw's Interior
Kevin Crotty
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• Author(s): Kevin Crotty • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryIn Law's Interior, Kevin M. Crotty draws on several important literary works to offer a new model of the relations...
View full detailsThe Jew and the Other
Esther Benbassa, Jean-Christophe Attias, Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
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• Author(s): Esther Benbassa | Jean-Christophe Attias | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryIn the current situation of polarization in the Middle Ea...
View full detailsThe Beggar's Opera
Vaclav Havel, Paul Wilson, Peter Steiner
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• Author(s): Vaclav Havel | Paul Wilson | Peter Steiner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaThe Czech President Vaclav Havel, a force on behalf of international h...
View full detailsWheeler & Woolsey: The Vaudeville Comic Duo and Their Films, 1929-1937
Edward Watz
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• Author(s): Edward Watz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism During the Depression years, the comedy team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey were second only to...
View full detailsThe 92nd Infantry Division and the Italian Campaign in World War II
Daniel K. Gibran
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• Author(s): Daniel K. Gibran • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This work focuses on the all black 92nd Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign in World War II and...
View full detailsAmerican Opera Singers and Their Recordings: Critical Commentaries and Discographies
Clyde T. McCants
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• Author(s): Clyde T. McCants • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes This book focuses on American opera singers and what their recordings say about their artistry. ...
View full detailsFrom Reliable Sources
Martha Howell, Walter Prevenier
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• Author(s): Martha Howell | Walter Prevenier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyFrom Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the ...
View full detailsEarly Baseball and the Rise of the National League
Tom Melville
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• Author(s): Tom Melville • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Did modern baseball spontaneously arise from the genius of the American people? Did professionalism arise simp...
View full detailsThe Federal Reserve System: A History
Donald R. Wells
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• Author(s): Donald R. Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - General The Federal Reserve banking system was created in 1913 in an effort to bring coherence to nation...
View full detailsHollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genre's Golden Age
Gregory William Mank
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• Author(s): Gregory William Mank • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Thirteen of Hollywood's horror classics in detail: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Old...
View full detailsCulture of Misfortune
Cletus E. Daniel
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• Author(s): Cletus E. Daniel • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe failure of the Textile Workers Union of America to organize its jurisdiction has often been considered the CIO's most...
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