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Looking Back at Law's Century: The Security Clearance Hearing
Austin Sarat, Bryant Garth, Robert A. Kagan
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• Author(s): Austin Sarat | Bryant Garth | Robert A. Kagan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryThis book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal deve...
View full detailsIan Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007
Edward P. Comentale, Skip Willman, Stephen Watt
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• Author(s): Edward P. Comentale | Skip Willman | Stephen Watt • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh"This is a compelling and important book . . . ...
View full detailsSecuring a Place: Small-Scale Artisans in Modern Indonesia
Elizabeth Morrell
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Morrell • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book describes artisans from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, as they attempt to o...
View full detailsWho Qualifies for Rights?
Judith Lynn Failer
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• Author(s): Judith Lynn Failer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsWhen does a person become disqualified for some or all of the rights associated with full citizenship? Who do...
View full detailsThe Consolation of Otherness: The Male Love Elegy in Milton, Gray and Tennyson
Matthew Curr
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• Author(s): Matthew Curr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The social and religious constraints of their time may have prevented John Milton, Thomas Gray, a...
View full detailsPennsylvanian Voices of the Great War: Letters, Stories and Oral Histories of World War I
J. Stuart Richards
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• Author(s): J. Stuart Richards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military "I guess you all are wondering where I am May. Well many miles away and settled at last and ready for some hard wo...
View full detailsInternationalizing China
David Zweig
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• Author(s): David Zweig • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyChina began opening to the outside world in 1978. This process was designed to remain under the state's control...
View full detailsSurface and Depth
Richard Shusterman
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• Author(s): Richard Shusterman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsA paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics. How can art's surface meanings and qualities b...
View full detailsThe European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini
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 detailsSmall Libraries: A Handbook for Successful Management
Sally Gardner Reed
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• Author(s): Sally Gardner Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Management - General This fully revised and updated edition provides current information on automation and technology and o...
View full detailsCondemned to Repeat?: Everyday Economies After Socialism
Fiona Terry
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• Author(s): Fiona Terry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralHumanitarian groups have failed, Fiona Terry believes, to face up to the core paradox of their ...
View full detailsCreating a Chinese Harbin
James H. Carter
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• Author(s): James H. Carter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaJames H. Carter outlines the birth of Chinese nationalism in an unlikely setting: the international city of Harb...
View full detailsKinship and Conquest
Joanna H. Drell
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• Author(s): Joanna H. Drell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalHistorians of Medieval Europe have long employed the family as a window through which to explore broader so...
View full detailsCivil Rights in America, 1865-1980
Ron Field
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• Author(s): Ron Field • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This book examines t...
View full detailsThe New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness
Timothy J. Sinclair
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• Author(s): Timothy J. Sinclair • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Investments & Securities - BondsIn The New Masters of Capital, Timothy J. Sinclair examines a key aspect of the glob...
View full detailsA Woman's Kingdom
Michelle LaMarche Marrese
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• Author(s): Michelle LaMarche Marrese • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralIn A Woman's Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noble...
View full detailsAfter Antiquity
Margaret Alexiou
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• Author(s): Margaret Alexiou • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalWith the publication of Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, widely considered a classic in Modern Greek ...
View full detailsThe Origins of Nonliberal Capitalism: Germany and Japan in Comparison
Wolfgang Streeck, Kozo Yamamura
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• Author(s): Wolfgang Streeck | Kozo Yamamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Free EnterpriseWhy was the rise of capitalism in Germany and Japan associated not with liberal institutions...
View full detailsThe Romanian Revolution of December 1989
Peter Siani-Davies
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• Author(s): Peter Siani-Davies • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe Romanian Revolution of 1989 was the most spectacularly violent and remains today the most con...
View full detailsBlood in the Moonlight: Michael Mann and Information Age Cinema
Mark E. Wildermuth
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• Author(s): Mark E. Wildermuth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Director and screenwriter Michael Mann is the creative force behind such movies as Last o...
View full detailsIdeal und Wirklichkeit in der höfischen Epik
Erich Köhler, Henning Krauß
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• Author(s): Erich Köhler | Henning Krauß • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GeneralAls preisgünstige Studienausgabe liegt - in 3. Auflage (1. Auflage 1956, 2. ergänzte Auflage 1970 als Band 97 der Buchrei...
View full detailsCentral Asia: A Gathering Storm?
Boris Z. Rumer
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• Author(s): Boris Z. Rumer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Security (National & International)The societies of Central Asia are besieged from within and without. This survey of political, economic, and social d...
View full detailsInuit Art: A History
Richard C. Crandall
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• Author(s): Richard C. Crandall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folk & Outsider Art Inuit--sometimes referred to as Eskimo--art is the primary art form of Canada and has a large inte...
View full detailsBody Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of Physicians in Early Nineteenth Century America
Suzanne M. Shultz
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• Author(s): Suzanne M. Shultz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Also called "resurrectionists," body snatchers, were careful not to take anything from the grave but the body--steal...
View full detailsHormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis
Sheldon Krimsky, Lynn Goldman
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• Author(s): Sheldon Krimsky | Lynn Goldman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Endocrinology & MetabolismIn Hormonal Chaos, Sheldon Krimsky traces the emergence of an unort...
View full detailsA Reference Guide to Television's Bonanza: Episodes, Personnel and Broadcast History
Bruce R. Leiby, Linda F. Leiby
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• Author(s): Bruce R. Leiby | Linda F. Leiby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Bonanza aired on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973, playing to 480,000,0...
View full detailsCusco Amazonico: The Lives of Amphibians and Reptiles in an Amazonian Rainforest
William E. Duellman
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• Author(s): William E. Duellman • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - General"Assays of assemblages of amphibians and reptiles provide important information on community stru...
View full detailsThe Word Made Self
Thomas J. Seifrid
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• Author(s): Thomas J. Seifrid • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsWhen Osip Mandelstam wrote that the Russian word was "sentient and breathing flesh," he voiced one ...
View full detailsFasting for Financial Breakthrough
Elmer L. Towns
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• Author(s): Elmer L. Towns • Publisher: Bethany House Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Bethany House Publishers • BISAC: Christian Life - Stewardship & GivingShed a spiritual light on some of the biggest problems facing people today: the need...
View full detailsConsciousness Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
K. Ramakrishna Rao
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• Author(s): K. Ramakrishna Rao • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parapsychology - General Consciousness is perplexing: too familiar and intimate to ignore, too complex and elusive to under...
View full detailsThe Southern Association in Baseball, 1885-1961
Marshall D. Wright
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• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Ranking just below the top major and minor leagues in the first half of the twentieth century was anothe...
View full detailsBrokered Homeland: The Use of Force in the Making of Russian Capitalism
Joshua Hotaka Roth
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• Author(s): Joshua Hotaka Roth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanFaced with an aging workforce, Japanese firms are hiring foreign workers in ever-increasing numbers. In 1990 ...
View full detailsHistoric Hiking Trails: A Directory of Over 900 Routes with Awards Available to Hikers
Steve Rajtar
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• Author(s): Steve Rajtar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Approximately 900 hiking trails in the United States take hikers along routes or past sites of historical...
View full detailsSynchronized Swimming: An American History
Dawn Pawson Bean
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• Author(s): Dawn Pawson Bean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Swimming & Diving From novelty tricks in swim classes, through the Aquacades and movies, to the highly complex Olympic co...
View full detailsKidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
Mark J. Cherry, Mark J. Cherry
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• Author(s): Mark J. Cherry | Mark J. Cherry • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: EthicsIf most Americans accept the notion that the market is the most efficient means to distribute re...
View full detailsAn Essay on Divine Authority
Mark C. Murphy
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• Author(s): Mark C. Murphy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyIn the first book wholly concerned with divine authority, Mark C. Murphy explores the extent of God's rule over cre...
View full detailsThe New Woman of Color
Fannie Barrier Williams
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• Author(s): Fannie Barrier Williams • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralFannie Barrier Williams made history as a controversial African American ...
View full detailsSuicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Cases
David K. Frasier
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• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the e...
View full detailsMonomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art
Marina Van Zuylen
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• Author(s): Marina Van Zuylen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - General"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is ...
View full detailsVixens, Floozies and Molls: 28 Actresses of Late 1920s and 1930s Hollywood
Hans J. Wollstein
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• Author(s): Hans J. Wollstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference The floozy, the gangster's moll, the nasty debutante: Most Hollywood actresses played at least one of these...
View full detailsEnding Empire
Hendrik Spruyt
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• Author(s): Hendrik Spruyt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyAt the dawn of the twentieth century, imperial powers controlled most of the globe. Within a few decades...
View full detailsPythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence
Christoph Riedweg, Steven Rendall
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• Author(s): Christoph Riedweg | Steven Rendall • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralOne of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, b...
View full detailsCoherence in Thought and Action
Paul Thagard
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• Author(s): Paul Thagard • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralThis book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puz...
View full detailsGravesites of Southern Musicians: A Guide to Over 300 Jazz, Blues, Country and Rock Performers' Burial Places
Edward Amos
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• Author(s): Edward Amos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This book is a cultural tour of the burial places of Southern musicians. It honors the men and women that formed modern ...
View full detailsGoverning the World's Money
David M. Andrews, C. Randall Henning, Louis W. Pauly
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• Author(s): David M. Andrews | C. Randall Henning | Louis W. Pauly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralThe effective governance of global money and finance is under enormo...
View full detailsViolent Entrepreneurs
Vadim Volkov
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• Author(s): Vadim Volkov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyEntering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses ...
View full detailsThe Madness of It All: Essays on War, Literature, and American Life
W. D. Ehrhart
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• Author(s): W. D. Ehrhart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "I cannot begin to count the number of times over the past 37 years that I have wished I had never heard of Vietnam, let...
View full detailsOf Gods and Monsters: A Critical Guide to Universal Studios' Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery Films, 1929-1939
John T. Soister
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• Author(s): John T. Soister • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes While Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein (both 1931) have received the most coverage of any of ...
View full detailsThe Doctor Who Error Finder: Plot, Continuity and Production Mistakes in the Television Series and Films
R. H. Langley
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• Author(s): R. H. Langley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In its long television run, the low-budget but beloved science fiction serial Dr. Who featured numerous bloopers ...
View full detailsPathologies of the West: An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America
Roland Littlewood
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• Author(s): Roland Littlewood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralPsychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European ...
View full detailsA Citizen-Soldier's Civil War
Alvin C. Voris
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• Author(s): Alvin C. Voris • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhen "citizen-soldier" Alvin Coe Voris wrote his first letter to his beloved wife, Lydia, in 1861,...
View full detailsCrusading Liberal
Roger Biles
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• Author(s): Roger Biles • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralA lifelong crusader for society's powerless, Senator Paul Douglas championed reform and helped to bri...
View full detailsValues at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragón
George Cheney
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• Author(s): George Cheney • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: LaborValues at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges b...
View full detailsPathologies of the West: An Anthropology of Mental Illness in Europe and America
Roland Littlewood
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• Author(s): Roland Littlewood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - GeneralPsychiatry conventionally regards spirit possession and dramatic healing rituals in non-European ...
View full detailsThe Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels
David Kalat
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• Author(s): David Kalat • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The Mabuse phenomenon is recognized as an icon of horror in Germany as Frankenstein and Dracula are...
View full detailsAsian States, Asian Bankers: Central Banking in Southeast Asia
Natasha Hamilton-Hart
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• Author(s): Natasha Hamilton-Hart • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Banks & BankingFinancial markets are given to instability, but some financial systems are more crisis-prone than o...
View full detailsThe Health of the Presidents: The 41 United States Presidents Through 1993 from a Physician's Point of View
John R. Bumgarner
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• Author(s): John R. Bumgarner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Surrounded by well-meaning aides, physicians sworn to confidentiality, and in some cases, sycophants...
View full detailsOverweight: A Handbook for Teens and Parents
Tania Heller
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• Author(s): Tania Heller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - Nutrition With respect to both physical activity and nutrition, lifestyles of most young Americans have ch...
View full detailsBilly Wilder, American Film Realist
Richard Armstrong
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• Author(s): Richard Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The films of Billy Wilder, from Double Indemnity to Some Like It Hot, are Ame...
View full detailsBlood on the Snow: The Killing of Olof Palme
Jan Bondeson
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• Author(s): Jan Bondeson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Nordic CountriesThe Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, a major figure in world politics and an ardent opponent of apar...
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