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Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society
Sharon Farmer, Barbara H. Rosenwein
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• Author(s): Sharon Farmer | Barbara H. Rosenwein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Life - InspirationalA new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropol...
View full detailsThe 25 Greatest Baseball Teams of the 20th Century Ranked
Chris Holaday, Marshall Adesman
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• Author(s): Chris Holaday | Marshall Adesman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The best baseball team of the 20th century? How about the 1906 Cubs? Or the 1998 Yankees? ...
View full detailsCollege Football Stadiums: An Illustrated Guide to NCAA Division I-A
Alva W. Stewart
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• Author(s): Alva W. Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football This is a complete guide to the football stadiums of the 114 colleges and universities that are in the NCAA Division ...
View full detailsAnger, Aggression and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Paul R. Robbins
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• Author(s): Paul R. Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychopathology - General Violence has been a part of the human condition for a long time. Evidence from the distant past of h...
View full detailsThe Body in Psychotherapy
Edward W. L. Smith
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• Author(s): Edward W. L. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This acclaimed work, first published in 1985, presents in full detail, the most effective aspects of bioenergetics,...
View full details"A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It": The First Coast-to-Coast Auto Trips by Women, 1899-1916
Curt McConnell
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• Author(s): Curt McConnell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women The audacity of driving a horseless carriage from coast to coast in the early years of the 20th century is hard to imagin...
View full detailsLiving with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Narratives of Coping
Gail McCormick
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• Author(s): Gail McCormick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The people profiled in this book tell how you can create a positive life when you no longer can work, shop, attend chur...
View full detailsW.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman: Photographs of a Bygone Time
Ralph E. Lentz
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• Author(s): Ralph E. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General W.R. Trivett (1884-1966), a farmer born in Watauga County, North Carolina, was also a self-taught professional photogra...
View full detailsThe Dorothy West Martha's Vineyard: Stories, Essays and Reminiscences by Dorothy West Writing in the Vineyard Gazette
James Robert Saunders, Renae Nadine Shackelford
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• Author(s): James Robert Saunders | Renae Nadine Shackelford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book is a compilation of selected stories, essays, and reminiscences that Doroth...
View full detailsThe Limits of Autobiography
Leigh Gilmore
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• Author(s): Leigh Gilmore • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralMemoirs in which trauma takes a major--or the major--role challenge the limits of autobiography. Leigh Gilmo...
View full detailsDaily Life in the Middle Ages
Paul B. Newman
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• Author(s): Paul B. Newman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Although life in the Middle Ages was not as comfortable and safe as it is for most people in industrialized countries t...
View full detailsThe Boys: The Cinematic World of Laurel and Hardy
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The Boys provides new ways to view and evaluate the work of this famous comedy team. The ini...
View full detailsShoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson
David L. Fleitz
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• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford ...
View full detailsThe United States Constitution and Citizens' Rights: The Interpretation and Mis-Interpretation of the American Contract for Governance
Roland Adickes
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• Author(s): Roland Adickes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - General In a time when American politics has become a spectator sport often viewed with a cynical eye by ...
View full detailsBeyond Ballyhoo: Motion Picture Promotion and Gimmicks
Mark Thomas McGee
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• Author(s): Mark Thomas McGee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism William Castle, for instance, was a master promoter. In one scheme involving The Tingler, Vin...
View full detailsConfronting War: An Examination of Humanity's Most Pressing Problem, 4th ed.
Ronald J. Glossop
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• Author(s): Ronald J. Glossop • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History & Theory - General This immensely successful textbook is broken into four parts. Part One: Introduction to the W...
View full detailsThe Pittsburgh Crawfords
Jim Bankes
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• Author(s): Jim Bankes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Pittsburgh Crawfords were one of the Negro League's best and most exciting teams. At the heart of the line-u...
View full detailsCrime and Punishment in the England of Shakespeare and Milton, 1570-1640
John W. Weatherford
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• Author(s): John W. Weatherford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminal Law - General Crime has been present in all cultures and societies, since the beginning of time. This work focuse...
View full detailsKings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Reference to Tarzan on Screen and Television
David Fury
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• Author(s): David Fury • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Cast, production credits, release date, and running time are provided for each of the Tarzan films. ...
View full detailsThe Horse Dictionary: English-Language Terms Used in Equine Care, Feeding, Training, Treatment, Racing and Show
Vivienne M. Eby
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• Author(s): Vivienne M. Eby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Did you know that a cantle is the rear part of a saddle? Or that a jibbah is the bulge on the face of an Arabian hor...
View full detailsBasic Research in Parapsychology, 2d ed.
K. Ramakrishna Rao
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• Author(s): K. Ramakrishna Rao • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepat This expanded and revised text includes thirteen experimental ...
View full detailsComedy Quotes from the Movies: Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed
Larry Langman, Paul Gold
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• Author(s): Larry Langman | Paul Gold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a stapl...
View full detailsThe Films of Joel and Ethan Coen
Carolyn R. Russell
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• Author(s): Carolyn R. Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Filmmaker brothers Joel and Ethan Coen got their start in the independent film business i...
View full detailsThe 1919 World Series: What Really Happened?
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History One of baseball's infamous events is the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati...
View full detailsInto the Storm: A U.S. Marine in the Persian Gulf War
Phillip Thompson
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• Author(s): Phillip Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia Phillip Thompson had kept a journal for years, from the time he was in college in the 1980s at the Univ...
View full detailsBushville: Life and Time in Amateur Baseball
Jerry Kelly
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• Author(s): Jerry Kelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings From Bushville: "The game is a fine construct. Its trace through anyone's life can range from a ...
View full detailsHealers in World War II: An Oral History of the American Medical Corps
Patricia W. Sewell
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• Author(s): Patricia W. Sewell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Dr. Logan W. Hovis parachuted onto Corregidor with the 503rd Regimental Combat Team. Dr. Jeremiah H...
View full detailsRadio Comedy Diary: A Researcher's Guide to the Actual Jokes and Quotes of the Top Comedy Programs of 1947-1950
Gary Poole
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• Author(s): Gary Poole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism This book is a real find--for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of ...
View full detailsWesterns and American Culture, 1930-1955
R. Philip Loy
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• Author(s): R. Philip Loy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many people have fond memories of Friday nights and Saturday afternoons spent in theatres watchin...
View full detailsThe Holy Grail: The Legend, the History, the Evidence
Justin E. Griffin
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• Author(s): Justin E. Griffin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The existence of the Holy Grail has long been debated, and many of these debates focus on the intellectualiz...
View full detailsDiane Keaton: Artist and Icon
Deborah C. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Deborah C. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General In the past 30 years, Diane Keaton has been an actress, a director and a pho...
View full detailsSecret Allies in the Pacific: Covert Intelligence and Code Breaking Cooperation Between the United States, Great Britain, and Other Nations Prior to t
Roland H. Worth
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• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Even though the United States was still officially at peace prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harb...
View full detailsThe American Religious Debate Over Birth Control, 1907-1937
Kathleen A. Tobin
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• Author(s): Kathleen A. Tobin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Abortion & Birth Control The ongoing debates on the morality of artificial birth control sparked a heated public debate ...
View full detailsThe Colombian Civil War
Bert Ruiz
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• Author(s): Bert Ruiz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - South America In 2000, the National Police of Colombia reported that 25,660 people met violent deaths in that countr...
View full detailsGreece, Turkey and the Aegean Sea: A Case Study in International Law
Haralambos Athanasopulos
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• Author(s): Haralambos Athanasopulos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International For many years, Greece and Turkey have been involved in aggressive rivalry over large areas of the Aege...
View full detailsInvestigating Couples: A Critical Analysis of The Thin Man, The Avengers and The X-Files
Tom Soter
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• Author(s): Tom Soter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Male-female detective pairings often exhibit offbeat, dark humor and considerable chemistry as ...
View full detailsKorean Workers
Hagen Koo
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• Author(s): Hagen Koo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesForty years of rapid industrialization have transformed millions of South Korean peasants and their sons and daugh...
View full detailsIn the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Richard Polenberg
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• Author(s): Richard Polenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Scientists - GeneralAt the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his ...
View full detailsJethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968-2001
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock Originally formed by singer-songwriter Ian Anderson in psychedelic 1968, the band Jethro Tull ha...
View full detailsThe Library Book Cart Precision Drill Team Manual
Linda D. McCracken, Lynne Zeiher
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• Author(s): Linda D. McCracken | Lynne Zeiher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Public stunts and all-for-fun, utterly nonpoliticized publicity ...
View full detailsThe King Arthur Myth in Modern American Literature
Andrew E. Mathis
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• Author(s): Andrew E. Mathis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General In American fiction, two forms of the Arthurian myth are commonly found: the use of the myth for political...
View full detailsDisputed Ground: Farm Groups That Opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program
Jean Choate
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• Author(s): Jean Choate • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Farmers suffering the effects of drought and depression in the 1930s were looking for relief from what the...
View full detailsHorror Film Stars
Michael R. Pitts
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• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference John Carradine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Yvonne De Carlo, Faith Domergue, Boris Karloff, Otto Kruger, Bela Lugosi, ...
View full detailsFred Stone: Circus Performer and Musical Comedy Star
Armond Fields
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• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented of Broadway's colorful entertainers. Audiences ...
View full detailsThe Independent Film Experience: Interviews with Directors and Producers
Kevin J. Lindenmuth
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Lindenmuth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production You see them on the video shelves, with titles such as Shadow Tracker, Psycho Girls, an...
View full detailsAlbert J. Luxford, the Gimmick Man: Memoir of a Special Effects Maestro
Albert J. Luxford, Gareth Owen
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• Author(s): Albert J. Luxford | Gareth Owen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Albert J. Luxford has long been known as "The Gimmick Man" in th...
View full detailsSay Goodnight, Gracie: The Last Years of Network Radio
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Until the late 1940s, most Americans relied heavily upon radio, the only means of mass communication t...
View full detailsThe Western League: A Baseball History, 1885 Through 1999
W. C. Madden, Patrick J. Stewart
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• Author(s): W. C. Madden | Patrick J. Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History One of the first minor leagues in history, the Western League (previously the Northwester...
View full details"That Was Part of Baseball Then": Interviews with 24 Former Major League Baseball Players, Coaches and Managers
Victor Debs
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• Author(s): Victor Debs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports In this collection of interviews, baseball players, coaches, and managers speak candidly about their most memorable moments...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
Thomas L. Altherr
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• Author(s): Thomas L. Altherr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is an anthology of 20 papers that were presented at the Tenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and ...
View full detailsA Cunning Kind of Play: The Cubs-Giants Rivalry, 1876-1932
Warren N. Wilbert
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• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants--the National League's greatest teams in its...
View full detailsPublicity's Secret
Jodi Dean
Hardcover
• Author(s): Jodi Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Advertising & PromotionIn recent decades, media outlets in the United States--most notably the Internet--have claimed to serve...
View full detailsChristian Librarianship: Essays on the Integration of Faith and Profession
Gregory A. Smith
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• Author(s): Gregory A. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Much of the current library literature assumes that professional library service is necessarily neutral-detached from...
View full detailsDemeter and Persephone: Lessons from a Myth
Tamara Agha-Jaffar
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• Author(s): Tamara Agha-Jaffar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter...
View full detailsVoices of the Oral Deaf: Fifteen Role Models Speak Out
Jim Reisler
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• Author(s): Jim Reisler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The deaf world is a complex one, divided by the allegiance of some to Deaf Culture, which emphasizes communication by sign...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
William M. Simons
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• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This is an anthology of 24 papers that were presented at the Fourteenth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball...
View full detailsTesting Aircraft, Exploring Space: An Illustrated History of NACA and NASA
Roger E. Bilstein
Hardcover
• Author(s): Roger E. Bilstein • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsSelected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003The Nationa...
View full detailsBack-Of-The-Envelope Physics
Clifford Swartz
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• Author(s): Clifford Swartz • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralThe author is the winner of the 2007 Melba Newell Phillips Award given by the American Associat...
View full detailsArt Smith: Pioneer Aviator
Rachel Sherwood Roberts
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• Author(s): Rachel Sherwood Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General By 1915, pioneer aviator Art Smith was as celebrated as any movie star might be today. He thri...
View full detailsDick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and Context
Garyn G. Roberts
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• Author(s): Garyn G. Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics In October 1931, Dick Tracy made his debut on the pages of the Detroit Mirror. Since then America's most famous crime ...
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