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Rosemarie Skaine
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• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball - General Tall, powerful athletes surge toward the goal in the last seconds of a fiercely fought game, providing e...
View full detailsMutual Aid and Union Renewal
Samuel B. Bacharach, Peter A. Bamberger, William J. Sonnenstuhl
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• Author(s): Samuel B. Bacharach | Peter A. Bamberger | William J. Sonnenstuhl • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe ongoing decline in union membership is generally attributed to an in...
View full detailsThe Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene
Mavis Haut
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• Author(s): Mavis Haut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Despite the great diversity of settings in Tanith Lee's novels--from the pre-historic origins of Ch...
View full detailsSkyscrapers: A Social History of the Very Tall Building in America
George H. Douglas
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• Author(s): George H. Douglas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This history of skyscrapers examines how these tall buildings affected the cityscape and the people ...
View full detailsMuenscher's Keys to Woody Plants: An Expanded Guide to Native and Cultivated Species
Edward A. Cope, Walter C. Muenscher
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• Author(s): Edward A. Cope | Walter C. Muenscher • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Plants - TreesThis major expansion and revision of W. C. Muenscher's popular reference work brings a wealth of bo...
View full detailsMoral Victories
Susan D. Burgerman
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• Author(s): Susan D. Burgerman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn the 1980s, security forces and paramilitary organizations killed, abducted, or tortured ...
View full detailsSoul, Body, and Survival
Kevin Corcoran
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• Author(s): Kevin Corcoran • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyHow are soul and body related to one another? Are human beings immaterial souls, or complex physical organisms...
View full detailsVisualizing the Nation
Joan B. Landes
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• Author(s): Joan B. Landes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FrancePopular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was ...
View full detailsModernity and Technology
Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, Andrew Feenberg
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• Author(s): Thomas J. Misa | Philip Brey | Andrew Feenberg • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReferenceIf asked, most people would agree that there are deep connections between technology and the modern world, and eve...
View full detailsWhen the Hands Are Many
Jennie M. Smith
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• Author(s): Jennie M. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn an ethnography that challenges standard approaches to understanding the poor and dise...
View full detailsThe Economics of Risk and Time
Christian Gollier
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• Author(s): Christian Gollier • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralThis book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann an...
View full detailsIdols of the Spring: Baseball Interviews About Preseason Training
Dan Zachofsky
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• Author(s): Dan Zachofsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings Baseball players and fans alike feel that spring is a magical time of year. For the players, sp...
View full detailsConfederate Settlements in British Honduras
Donald C. Simmons
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• Author(s): Donald C. Simmons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - Central America During the American Civil War and the years immediately following, thousands of Confederate ...
View full detailsCrypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
Peter Ludlow
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• Author(s): Peter Ludlow • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA wide-ranging collection of writings on emerging political structures in cyberspace.In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, an...
View full detailsThe Definitive Andy Griffith Show Reference: Episode-by-Episode, with Cast and Production Biographies and a Guide to Collectibles
Dale Robinson, David Fernandes
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• Author(s): Dale Robinson | David Fernandes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews On the February 2, 1960, episode of The Danny Thomas Show, entertainer Dann...
View full detailsMaterials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy
Ken Geiser, Barry Commoner
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• Author(s): Ken Geiser | Barry Commoner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)The products we purchase and use are assembled from a wide range of naturally occurr...
View full detailsTechnologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes
Michael Thad Allen, Gabrielle Hecht
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• Author(s): Michael Thad Allen | Gabrielle Hecht • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryThis collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, an...
View full detailsAge Discrimination by Employers
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In 1907, the editor of The New York Times wrote, "Employers, naturally, look to the young. A man or woman of advanced ye...
View full detailsHegel and the Hermetic Tradition
Glenn Alexander Magee
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• Author(s): Glenn Alexander Magee • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernGlenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by...
View full detailsAnthrax: A History
Richard M. Swiderski
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• Author(s): Richard M. Swiderski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Infectious Diseases Bacillus anthracis--anthrax--had largely faded from public consciousness until it resurfaced as a ter...
View full detailsFamous Hollywood Locations: Descriptions and Photographs of 382 Sites Involving 289 Films and 105 Television Series
Leon Smith
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• Author(s): Leon Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Did you ever wonder where Beaver Cleaver's house was? How about the mountain where King Kong had his hideaway? Or ...
View full detailsThe Cognition of Basic Musical Structures
David Temperley
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• Author(s): David Temperley • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - ElectronicIn this book, David Temperley addresses a fundamental question about music cognition: how do we extract basic kinds of mus...
View full detailsThe Allied Artists Checklist: The Feature Films and Short Subjects of Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, 1947-1978
Len D. Martin
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• Author(s): Len D. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Allied Artists Pictures Corporation was formed in November 1946 by Monogram Pictures Corporation ...
View full detailsModern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War
Stuart J. Kaufman
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• Author(s): Stuart J. Kaufman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralEthnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an eni...
View full detailsThe Political Writings: Selected Aphorisms and Other Texts
Alfarabi, Charles E. Butterworth
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• Author(s): Alfarabi | Charles E. Butterworth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalAlfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosoph...
View full detailsChoosing Character
Jonathan Jacobs
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• Author(s): Jonathan Jacobs • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAre there key respects in which character and character defects are voluntary? Can agents with ...
View full detailsRebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics
Wendy Gunther-Canada
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• Author(s): Wendy Gunther-Canada • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: LiteraryBlending biography, gender theory, and political analysis, Gunther-Canada charts Mary Wolls...
View full detailsImperfect Histories
Ann Rigney
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• Author(s): Ann Rigney • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshImperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann...
View full detailsWomen Authors of Detective Series: Twenty-One American and British Writers, 1900-2000
Moira Davison Reynolds
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• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached i...
View full detailsThe Ethics of Destruction
Ward Thomas
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• Author(s): Ward Thomas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralMany assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Sherman famous...
View full detailsThe First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932
Edwin M. Bradley
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• Author(s): Edwin M. Bradley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty o...
View full detailsA Centre of Wonders
Janet Moore Lindman, Michele Lise Tarter
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• Author(s): Janet Moore Lindman | Michele Lise Tarter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social HistoryImages of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possessio...
View full detailsThe Ethics of Destruction
Ward Thomas
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• Author(s): Ward Thomas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralMany assume that in international politics, and especially in war, "anything goes." Sherman famous...
View full detailsNell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
Trina Robbins
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• Author(s): Trina Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The art and commentary of Nell Brinkley (1886-1944) ran in American newspapers from 1907 through the 1930s. At the heigh...
View full detailsLittle Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion
Robert E. Bartholomew
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• Author(s): Robert E. Bartholomew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Social Psychology "For a two week period in 1956, residents in the vicinity of Taipei, Taiwan, lived in fear that they w...
View full detailsDefying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History & Strategies
Dean Ritz
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• Author(s): Dean Ritz • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GeneralIn these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as "legal persons"; ...
View full detailsThe Heart of a Child: What Families Need to Know about Heart Disorders in Children
Catherine A. Neill, Edward B. Clark, Carleen Clark
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• Author(s): Catherine A. Neill | Edward B. Clark | Carleen Clark • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - HeartThe Heart of a Child helps parents underst...
View full detailsThe Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant Drugs That Alter Mind, Brain, and Behavior
Marcello Spinella
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• Author(s): Marcello Spinella • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - PsychopharmacologyA compilation of current scientific knowledge about psychoactive herbal drugs.Virtually all cultures consume drugs from p...
View full detailsGraded Exercises in Mechanics
Ann Kitchen, Geoff Wake
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• Author(s): Ann Kitchen | Geoff Wake • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - MathematicsGraded Exercises in Mechanics is a wide-ranging collection of exe...
View full detailsMovies and the Mind: Theories of the Great Psychoanalysts Applied to Film
William Indick
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• Author(s): William Indick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The latent symbolism in film imagery can be psychoanalyzed just like the imagery in dreams. This work applies to...
View full detailsThe Metaphysics of Beauty: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio
Nick Zangwill
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• Author(s): Nick Zangwill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsIn chapters ranging from "The Beautiful, the Dainty, and the Dumpy" to "Skin-deep or In the Eye of the Beholder?" Ni...
View full detailsThe 1903 World Series: The Boston Americans, the Pittsburg Pirates, and the First Championship of the United States
Andy Dabilis, Nick Tsiotos
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• Author(s): Andy Dabilis | Nick Tsiotos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The first World Series was a best-of-nine series between the Boston Americans and the Pittsburg...
View full detailsRoyalty Who Wait: The 21 Heads of Formerly Regnant Houses of Europe
Olga S. Opfell
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• Author(s): Olga S. Opfell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Royalty Only seven European monarchies remain intact today; all are constitutional monarchies. Four empires and 16 kingdoms hav...
View full detailsThe Pastime in Turbulence: Interviews with Baseball Players of the 1940s
Brent Kelley
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• Author(s): Brent Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1940s were years of change in the world of baseball. Minor league free agents were introduced to the game ...
View full detailsThe Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France
Maurice Samuels
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• Author(s): Maurice Samuels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchStruggling to make sense of the Revolution of 1789, the French in the nineteenth century increasingly turne...
View full detailsDemocracies and Dictatorships: Europe and the World 1919-1989
Allan Todd
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• Author(s): Allan Todd • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The ...
View full detailsRevolution and Reaction: Europe 1789-1849
Andrew Matthews
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• Author(s): Andrew Matthews • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history....
View full detailsThe Boxing Filmography: American Features, 1920-2003
Frederick V. Romano
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• Author(s): Frederick V. Romano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The love affair between boxing and Hollywood began with the dawn of film. As early as the days...
View full detailsSphinx: History of a Monument
Christiane Zivie-Coche, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a st...
View full detailsExperimental Sound and Radio
Allen S. Weiss
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• Author(s): Allen S. Weiss • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Acoustics & SoundThis book, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, explores the myriad aesthetic, cultural, and experime...
View full detailsDomestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to Emu
Mark Hallerberg
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• Author(s): Mark Hallerberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public FinanceUnder European Monetary Union, member states lose the ability to steer their economies by manipulating monetar...
View full detailsInvestment, Volume 3: Lifting the Burden: Tax Reform, the Cost of Capital, and U.S. Economic Growth
Dale W. Jorgenson, Kun-Young Yun
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• Author(s): Dale W. Jorgenson | Kun-Young Yun • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryA presentation of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax policy.This book presents a co...
View full detailsQuick Hits for New Faculty: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers
Rosanne M. Cordell, Elisabeth M. Lucal, Robin K. Morgan
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• Author(s): Rosanne M. Cordell | Elisabeth M. Lucal | Robin K. Morgan • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: ReferenceThis is the third and latest book in the "Quick Hits" tradition of provid...
View full detailsAmerica as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings
David E. Nye
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• Author(s): David E. Nye • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoriographyAn exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land...
View full detailsThe Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933
Emily Thompson
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• Author(s): Emily Thompson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralA vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America.In this history of aural culture in early-...
View full detailsEducation of Cyrus
Xenophon, Wayne Ambler
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• Author(s): Xenophon | Wayne Ambler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ClassicsXenophon's masterpiece, The Education of Cyrus, is a work that was admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on...
View full detailsMemorabilia
Xenophon, Amy L. Bonnette, Christopher J. Bruell
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• Author(s): Xenophon | Amy L. Bonnette | Christopher J. Bruell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PhilosophersAn essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the c...
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Xenophon, Wayne Ambler
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• Author(s): Xenophon | Wayne Ambler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ClassicsXenophon's masterpiece, The Education of Cyrus, is a work that was admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on...
View full detailsChippewa Chief in World War II: The Survival Story of Oliver Rasmussen in Japan
Donald J. Norton
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• Author(s): Donald J. Norton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This is the true story of Oliver Bullard Rasmussen, a U.S. Navy aircrewman who avoided capture after ...
View full detailsPete Reiser: The Rough-And-Tumble Career of the Perfect Ballplayer
Sidney Jacobson
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• Author(s): Sidney Jacobson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1941, his first full season, Pete Reiser became the youngest batting champion in history, winning the NL...
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