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The Dime Novel in Children's Literature
Vicki Anderson
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• Author(s): Vicki Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature With their rakish characters, sensationalist plots, improbable adventures and objection...
View full detailsPartisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans
Brian C. Rathbun
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• Author(s): Brian C. Rathbun • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralIdeological differences among political parties result in consistently different understandings of ...
View full detailsThe Athenian Sun in an African Sky: Modern African Adaptations of Classical Greek Tragedy
Kevin J. Wetmore
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: African Western literature has become more influential in Africa since the independence of many of that continent's countries...
View full detailsKnowing the Past
Suzy Anger
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• Author(s): Suzy Anger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTo what extent is it possible to know the past or to know other cultures? Can one describe the pas...
View full detailsAriadne's Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature
William Hansen
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• Author(s): William Hansen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReferenceFrom Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, a...
View full detailsCoaching Youth Soccer: The European Model
Kevin McShane
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• Author(s): Kevin McShane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coaching - Soccer The popularity of youth soccer in the United States has increased dramatically in recent years. The number of ...
View full detailsCallaloo or Tossed Salad?
Viranjini P. Munasinghe
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• Author(s): Viranjini P. Munasinghe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialCallaloo or Tossed Salad? is a historical and ethnographic case study of the pol...
View full detailsThe Emergent Self
William Hasker
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• Author(s): William Hasker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismIn The Emergent Self, William Hasker joins one of the most heated debates in analytic philosophy, that ov...
View full detailsGunmen and Gangsters: Profiles of Nine Actors Who Portrayed Memorable Screen Tough Guys
Michael Schlossheimer
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• Author(s): Michael Schlossheimer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were considered by many peop...
View full detailsCulture Meets Culture in the Movies: An Analysis East, West, North and South, with Filmographies
David H. Budd
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• Author(s): David H. Budd • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is an examination of the interactions between people of different cultures as portrayed in r...
View full detailsUnequal Partners
Lillian Nayder
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• Author(s): Lillian Nayder • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilk...
View full detailsSurviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor
Sharon Farmer
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• Author(s): Sharon Farmer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis book about poor men and women in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Paris reveals the other side o...
View full detailsSuspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina
Kirsten Fischer
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• Author(s): Kirsten Fischer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralOver the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublish...
View full detailsNo Exit: America and the German Problem, 1943-1954
James McAllister
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• Author(s): James McAllister • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American Government - GeneralJames McAllister outlines a new account of early Cold War history, one that focuses on the eme...
View full detailsConsuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine
Suzanne K. Kaufman
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• Author(s): Suzanne K. Kaufman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Living - Social IssuesPlastic Madonnas, packaged holy tours, and biblical theme parks can arouse discomfort, la...
View full detailsIntelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific Perspectives
Robert T. Pennock
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• Author(s): Robert T. Pennock • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: CosmologyThe last decade saw the arrival of a new player in the creation/evolution debate--the intelligent design creationism (IDC) movement, ...
View full detailsEconomic Nationalism in a Globalizing World
Eric Helleiner, Andreas Pickel
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• Author(s): Eric Helleiner | Andreas Pickel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & PatriotismIs economic nationalism an outdated phenomenon in light o...
View full detailsA Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders, and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000
Alice Garner
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• Author(s): Alice Garner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceHow does tourism transform fishing communities into vibrant resorts, working shores into bathing beaches? In A S...
View full detailsWelfare's End
Gwendolyn Mink
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• Author(s): Gwendolyn Mink • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareWith her analysis of the thirty-year campaign to reform and ultimately to end we...
View full detailsHealthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea
Joseph Wong
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• Author(s): Joseph Wong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyDo the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectat...
View full detailsRemapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region
T. J. Pempel
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• Author(s): T. J. Pempel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAn overarching ambiguity characterizes East Asia today. The region has at least a century-long...
View full detailsThe Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace
Charles J. Morris, Theodore J. St Antoine
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• Author(s): Charles J. Morris | Theodore J. St Antoine • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn The Blue Eagle at Work, Charles J. Morris, a renowned labor law scholar and preemi...
View full detailsSchelling Now: Contemporary Readings
Jason M. Wirth
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• Author(s): Jason M. Wirth • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernAlthough previously considered a way-station on the road to Hegel, F. W. J. von Schelling is to...
View full detailsPOW Baseball in World War II: The National Pastime Behind Barbed Wire
Tim Wolter
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• Author(s): Tim Wolter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Nearly 130,000 American soldiers and 19,000 American civilians were captured by the enemy during the Second Worl...
View full detailsThe Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling and the MGM Publicity Machine
E. J. Fleming
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• Author(s): E. J. Fleming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little-remember...
View full detailsAdoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays
Sally Haslanger, Charlotte Witt
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• Author(s): Sally Haslanger | Charlotte Witt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Adoption & Fostering"As a social and legal institution of family formation, and as a personal experienc...
View full detailsThe Epic of New York City: A Narrative History
Edward Robb Ellis
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• Author(s): Edward Robb Ellis • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticFrom acclaimed diarist Edward Robb Ellis, the irresistible classic Pete Hamill calls "the best on...
View full detailsAll Theater Is Revolutionary Theater
Benjamin Bennett
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• Author(s): Benjamin Bennett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismAll Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider why, in the Western tra...
View full detailsCognitive Technology: Essays on the Transformation of Thought and Society
W. Richard Walker, Douglas J. Herrmann
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• Author(s): W. Richard Walker | Douglas J. Herrmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Social Aspects Rapidly growing cognitive technologies (such as word processors, web browsers, cell pho...
View full detailsDonatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
Claudia Lazzaro, Roger J. Crum
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• Author(s): Claudia Lazzaro | Roger J. Crum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - ModernismThis ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists' appropriation of the past for ...
View full detailsMickey Rooney: His Films, Television Appearances, Radio Work, Stage Shows, and Recordings
Alvin H. Marill
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• Author(s): Alvin H. Marill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Diminutive Mickey Rooney has been in show business for more than 80 years as actor, producer, writer, composer,...
View full detailsAdoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays
Sally Haslanger, Charlotte Witt
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• Author(s): Sally Haslanger | Charlotte Witt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Adoption & Fostering"As a social and legal institution of family formation, and as a personal experienc...
View full detailsSir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema: A Critical Study of the Film Adaptations
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In February 1903, a 30-second film titled Sherlock Holmes Baffled was released by American Mutoscope and Bio...
View full detailsBeyond Justification: Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation
William P. Alston
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• Author(s): William P. Alston • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EpistemologyMuch of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beli...
View full detailsSkilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of Building Trades History
Grace Palladino
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• Author(s): Grace Palladino • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsSkilled Hands, Strong Spirits follows the history of the Building and Construction Trades Department from the emergence of...
View full detailsAmerican Men of Olympic Track and Field: Interviews with Athletes and Coaches
Don Holst, Marcia S. Popp
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• Author(s): Don Holst | Marcia S. Popp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics This book of interviews with Olympic track and field athletes highlights those whose liv...
View full detailsMexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy
John Stolle-McAllister
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• Author(s): John Stolle-McAllister • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - Mexico Between 1995 and 1996 in Tepoztlan, Morelos, a movement was made against the construction of a l...
View full detailsFilmed Television Drama, 1952-1958
William Hawes
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• Author(s): William Hawes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism This work examines the change from live to filmed television dramas during the period 1952-...
View full detailsGhostwriting Modernism: A Guide to International Stories in Classical Literature
Helen Sword
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• Author(s): Helen Sword • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSpiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians as merely a Victorian fad. Hel...
View full detailsDrowned Moon
Glenn Blake
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• Author(s): Glenn Blake • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)The stories in Drowned Moon are set in Southeast Texas, where the Old and the Lost Rive...
View full detailsImmigration Policy and the Challenge of Globalization: Unions and Employers in Unlikely Alliance
Julie R. Watts
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• Author(s): Julie R. Watts • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsAfter years of internal debate, labor union leaders have come to regard immigration as an inevitable consequence of globali...
View full detailsOctober Baseball: Ballplayers Discuss Postseason Play
Dan Zachofsky
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• Author(s): Dan Zachofsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General For baseball players, the dream of a championship season begins in spring training. Newcomers and veterans, j...
View full detailsClark Gable: Biography, Filmography, Bibliography
Chrystopher J. Spicer
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• Author(s): Chrystopher J. Spicer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General "Clark Gable is a man de-classed. You can't guess in any way where he came...
View full detailsPacific American Fisheries, Inc.: History of a Washington State Salmon Packing Company, 1890-1966
August C. Radke, Barbara S. Radke
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• Author(s): August C. Radke | Barbara S. Radke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This work documents the rise and fall of Pacific American Fisheries, a salmon packi...
View full detailsThe Dance: A Handbook for the Appreciation of the Choreographic Experience
Joan Cass
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• Author(s): Joan Cass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet In dance, the choreographer creates, the dancer performs and the viewer observes. This work is a hand...
View full detailsBathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer, and History (Revised)
James S. Olson
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• Author(s): James S. Olson • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralThe stories of women throughout the ages who have confronted breast cancer, from ancient...
View full detailsTerence Fisher: Horror, Myth, and Religion
Paul Leggett
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• Author(s): Paul Leggett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher, whos...
View full detailsParapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on the Future of Psychical Research
Michael A. Thalbourne, Lance Storm
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• Author(s): Michael A. Thalbourne | Lance Storm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parapsychology - General By now, parapsychology should have become an accepted scientific field of researc...
View full detailsThe Older Woman in Recent Fiction
Zoe Brennan
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• Author(s): Zoe Brennan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors This critical study explores late twentieth century novels by women writers--including Doris Lessing, May Sarton and...
View full detailsSilent Spill: The Organization of an Industrial Crisis
Thomas D. Beamish
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• Author(s): Thomas D. Beamish • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, a...
View full detailsThe Bob Hope Films
James L. Neibaur
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• Author(s): James L. Neibaur • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Bob Hope got his start in show business when he was in his twenties, remained active past the ...
View full detailsThe Analytic Imaginary: The United States and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence, 1945-49
Marguerite La Caze
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• Author(s): Marguerite La Caze • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThe notion of the philosophical imaginary developed by Michéle Le Doeuff refers to the cap...
View full detailsUnions and Legitimacy
Gary N. Chaison, Barbara Bigelow
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• Author(s): Gary N. Chaison | Barbara Bigelow • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsLegitimacy is vital to unions. Without it, they lose political and ideolog...
View full detailsOvercoming the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Young Women
III Hrabowski Freeman A., Kenneth I. Maton, Monica L. Greene
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• Author(s): III Hrabowski Freeman A. | Kenneth I. Maton | Monica L. Greene • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Education
Metaphysical Poetry
Richard Willmott, John Smart, Pamela Bickley
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• Author(s): Richard Willmott | John Smart | Pamela Bickley • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of literary ...
View full detailsFleeter Than Birds: The 1985 St. Louis Cardinals and Small Ball's Last Hurrah
Doug Feldmann
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• Author(s): Doug Feldmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For the St. Louis Cardinals and their fans, there was a great deal of uncertainty going into the 1985 season....
View full detailsPilipino Through Self-Instruction, Part One
John U. Wolff, Maria Theresa C. Centeno, Der-Hwa V. Rau
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• Author(s): John U. Wolff | Maria Theresa C. Centeno | Der-Hwa V. Rau • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)This is the t...
View full detailsWhistleblowers: Linking the Old and Young in a Tokyo Neighborhood
C. Fred Alford
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• Author(s): C. Fred Alford • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsIn a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chil...
View full detailsToxic Waste and Environmental Policy in the 21st Century United States
Dianne Rahm
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• Author(s): Dianne Rahm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Life Sciences - Ecology A major problem confronting the United States in the 21st century is the 20th century's legacy of toxic wa...
View full detailsTheory of Incomplete Markets, Volume 1
Michael Magill, Martine Quinzii
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• Author(s): Michael Magill | Martine Quinzii • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralAuthoritative and comprehensive, yet comprehensible. A remarkable blend of rigorous elegance and ec...
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