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Versos Sencillos: A Dual-Language Edition
José Martí, Anne Fountain
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• Author(s): José Martí | Anne Fountain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin American In 1890, the great Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti wrote his most famous poetr...
View full detailsIf the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike and American Political Development
Josiah Bartlett Lambert
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• Author(s): Josiah Bartlett Lambert • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsOnce a fundamental civic right, strikes are now constrained and contested. In an unusual and thought-provoking his...
View full detailsTales of Old Odessa
Roshanna Sylvester
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• Author(s): Roshanna Sylvester • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialOdessa - founded by Catherine the Great, who insisted that her po...
View full detailsThe Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space
Reinhold Martin
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• Author(s): Reinhold Martin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialA historical and theoretical analysis of corporate architecture in the United States after the Second World...
View full detailsSustainable Peace: Power and Democracy After Civil Wars
Philip G. Roeder, Donald Rothchild
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• Author(s): Philip G. Roeder | Donald Rothchild • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralHow can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace a...
View full detailsUnknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction
Philip Weinstein
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• Author(s): Philip Weinstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralPhilip Weinstein explores the modernist commitment to "unknowing" by addressing the work of three supreme...
View full detailsSustainable Peace: Power and Democracy After Civil Wars
Philip G. Roeder, Donald Rothchild
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• Author(s): Philip G. Roeder | Donald Rothchild • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralHow can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace a...
View full detailsDowned Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture: The Role of Local Resistance Networks in World War II
Herman Bodson
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• Author(s): Herman Bodson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operat...
View full detailsIrrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada
Amelia Jones
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• Author(s): Amelia Jones • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )A revisionist history of New York Dada, with appearances by Baroness Elsa as the embodiment of irrational modernism.In Irratio...
View full detailsThe Zorro Television Companion: A Critical Appreciation
Gerry Dooley
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• Author(s): Gerry Dooley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The legendary Zorro, the masked renegade who rode through the night defending justice in late 18th century S...
View full detailsThe Saint of Lost Things
Christopher Castellani
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• Author(s): Christopher Castellani • Publisher: Algonquin Books • Publisher Imprint: Algonquin Books • BISAC: GeneralIt is 1953 in the tight-knit Italian neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware. Maddalena Grasso has lost her country, her family, an...
View full detailsDeath Rays, Jet Packs, Stunts, and Supercars: The Fantastic Physics of Film's Most Celebrated Secret Agent
Barry Parker
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• Author(s): Barry Parker • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Physics - GeneralDemonstrates how science and technology have been as important to 007 as good looks, martinis, and...
View full detailsThe Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks on the Union
Jane Singer
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• Author(s): Jane Singer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) They echo modern headlines--a shadowy underground organization orchestrating plans to...
View full detailsRobert M. Young: Essays on the Films
Leon Lewis
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• Author(s): Leon Lewis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Robert Young began his prolific filmmaking career while a student at Harvard University, where he...
View full detailsPainting in a World Transformed: How Modern Art Reflects Our Conflicting Responses to Science and Change
William H. Libaw
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• Author(s): William H. Libaw • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - General This book shows how painting since the mid-1800s has reflected Western society's mixed feelings about the t...
View full detailsAllegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West
Longxi Zhang
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• Author(s): Longxi Zhang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryWhy is it that a text, particularly a canonical text, is often said to contain a meaning different from w...
View full detailsUrban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
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: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of bla...
View full detailsSubterranean Cities
David L. Pike
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• Author(s): David L. Pike • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A ...
View full detailsKipling and Afghanistan: A Study of the Young Author as Journalist Writing on the Afghan Border Crisis of 1884-1885
Neil K. Moran
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• Author(s): Neil K. Moran • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures Alive with adventure, rich with exotic detail, the voice of Rudyard Kipling carried readers to faraway location...
View full detailsThe Empire Triumphant: Race, Religion and Rebellion in the Star Wars Films
Kevin J. Wetmore
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism George Lucas's first Star Wars trilogy shows the influences of its era; Cold War tension is ev...
View full detailsThe Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling
John Rowan
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• Author(s): John Rowan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - CounselingFirst published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ethnic Politics After Communism
Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser
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• Author(s): Zoltan Barany | Robert G. Moser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities, and in t...
View full detailsEthics Along the Color Line
Anna Stubblefield
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• Author(s): Anna Stubblefield • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyWhat is "race"? What role, if any, should race play in our moral obligations to others and to...
View full detailsThe Corpse: A History
Christine Quigley
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• Author(s): Christine Quigley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Death & Dying Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and dis...
View full detailsHitler Sites: A City-by-City Guidebook (Austria, Germany, France, United States)
Steven Lehrer
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• Author(s): Steven Lehrer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This work provides a unique service to historians by identifying over 150 places in Austria, Germany, Fr...
View full detailsThe Experience of Retirement
Robert S. Weiss, David J. Ekerdt
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• Author(s): Robert S. Weiss | David J. Ekerdt • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Personal Finance - Retirement PlanningRetirement brings with it the promises of leisure and freedom as well as the risks of boredom and ...
View full detailsAmerican Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture
Ilana Nash
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• Author(s): Ilana Nash • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Popular CultureTeenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until ...
View full detailsOrientalism and the Hebrew Imagination
Yaron Peleg
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• Author(s): Yaron Peleg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: JewishCalling into question prevailing notions about Orientalism, Yaron Peleg shows how the paradoxical mixture of exoticism and...
View full detailsHistory and Social Theory
Peter Burke
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• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyWhat is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, ...
View full detailsFrank Home Run Baker: Hall of Famer and World Series Hero
Barry Sparks
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• Author(s): Barry Sparks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the decades before baseball fans became enamored of sluggers like Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx, very few playe...
View full detailsNurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy
Mireille Kingma
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• Author(s): Mireille Kingma • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Nursing - Social, Ethical & Legal IssuesSouth African nurses care for patients in London, hospitals recruit Filipino nurses to Los Angeles, and Chines...
View full detailsGrains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa
Lisa Cliggett
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• Author(s): Lisa Cliggett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn her ethnography of the Gwembe Tonga people of rural Zambia, Lisa Cliggett explores what...
View full detailsChildhoods of the American Presidents
William O. Foss
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• Author(s): William O. Foss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference How much does the average American actually know about the men who have served as president of our country, especial...
View full detailsFilm Cartoons: A Guide to 20th Century American Animated Features and Shorts
Douglas L. McCall
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• Author(s): Douglas L. McCall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This work covers ninety years of animation from James Stuart Blackton's 1906 short Humorous Phases of Funny Faces,...
View full detailsWilliam Blake and Gender
Magnus Ankarsjö
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• Author(s): Magnus Ankarsjö • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry The closing years of the eighteenth century were the particular domain of literary radicals whose work challenged ideas...
View full detailsCelebrity Death Certificates 2
M. F. Steen
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• Author(s): M. F. Steen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Literally the last word for Hollywood trivia buffs, a celebrity death certificate is also stra...
View full detailsRiverbank and Seashore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature
Gillian Mary Hanson
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• Author(s): Gillian Mary Hanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The waters of river and sea represent a kind of freedom, a liberty which, as Iris Murdoch ...
View full detailsThe Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making
Eran Ben-Joseph
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• Author(s): Eran Ben-Joseph • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentStandards and codes dictate virtually all aspects of urban development. The same standards for subdiv...
View full detailsTelevision Variety Shows: Histories and Episode Guides to 57 Programs
David M. Inman
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• Author(s): David M. Inman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism For the few hundred television viewers in 1946, a special treat on the broadcast schedule ...
View full detailsCreole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery
Carolyn Vellenga Berman
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• Author(s): Carolyn Vellenga Berman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe character of the Creole woman--the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on...
View full detailsSurfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968
Lynette Jackson
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• Author(s): Lynette Jackson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - South - GeneralFocusing on the history of the Ingutsheni Lunatic Asylum (renamed a mental hospital after 1933), sit...
View full detailsRuby Keeler: A Photographic Biography
Nancy Marlow-Trump
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• Author(s): Nancy Marlow-Trump • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women "You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star," Warner Baxter told Ruby Keeler in the 1933 film 4...
View full detailsThe Rise of Radio, from Marconi through the Golden Age
Alfred Balk
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• Author(s): Alfred Balk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism As the dominant form of electronic mass communication in the United States from the 1930s into the...
View full detailsFinal Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century
Benjamin A. Valentino
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• Author(s): Benjamin A. Valentino • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyBenjamin A. Valentino finds that ethnic hatreds or discrimination, undemocratic systems of govern...
View full detailsOur Faith in Evil: Melodrama and the Effects of Entertainment Violence
Gregory Desilet
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• Author(s): Gregory Desilet • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Is violence in American cinema a reflection of life? Or does life imitate the violence people s...
View full detailsPius XII, the Holocaust and the Revisionists: Essays
Patrick J. Gallo
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• Author(s): Patrick J. Gallo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays When Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli became Pope Pius XII in 1939, the Nazis had invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia and were ...
View full detailsAn Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and Community
Lianna Farber
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• Author(s): Lianna Farber • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryEconomics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of e...
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 detailsPOW #3959: Memoir of a World War II Airman Shot Down Over Germany
Ralph E. Sirianni, Patricia I. Brown
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• Author(s): Ralph E. Sirianni | Patricia I. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military In January 1943, not long after his nineteenth birthday, Ralph Sirianni was drafted for active ...
View full detailsThe Fourth Revolution: Transformations in American Society from the Sixties to the Present
Robert V. Daniels
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• Author(s): Robert V. Daniels • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe USA has been going through a new kind of revolution, which though it did not literally overthrow the government, transfo...
View full detailsRogue: A Biography of Civil War General Justus McKinstry
John K. Driscoll
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• Author(s): John K. Driscoll • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military From his first court martial as a cadet at West Point through his dismissal from the United States Army at the age o...
View full detailsMilt Schornack and the Royal Bobcat Gtos
Keith J. MacDonald, Milt Schornack
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• Author(s): Keith J. MacDonald | Milt Schornack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - Antique & Classic The original muscle car, the Royal Bobcat GTO was the baby of a burgeon...
View full detailsSeven Cherokee Myths: Creation, Fire, the Primordial Parents, the Nature of Evil, the Family, Universal Suffering, and Communal Obligation
G. Keith Parker
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• Author(s): G. Keith Parker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Like ancient peoples the world over, the Cherokees of the southern Appalachian Mountains passed along...
View full detailsExhibits in Libraries: A Practical Guide
Mary E. Brown, Rebecca Power
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• Author(s): Mary E. Brown | Rebecca Power • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Library exhibits are more than entertainment for patrons. They can i...
View full detailsChristian Radio: The Growth of a Mainstream Broadcasting Force
Bob Lochte
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• Author(s): Bob Lochte • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christian Life - General Religious programming has been on the airwaves since broadcasting began, but today it is one of the fastes...
View full detailsThe Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena
F. Thomas Luongo
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• Author(s): F. Thomas Luongo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalSaint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) has become a defining figure in the history of medieval religion and ...
View full detailsWorkers' Rights as Human Rights
James A. Gross
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• Author(s): James A. Gross • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentUntil recently, the international human rights movement and nongovernmental organizations, human rights scholars, and even labor orga...
View full detailsBackstop: A History of the Catcher and a Sabermetric Ranking of 50 All-Time Greats
William F. McNeil
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• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History It's often said that catcher is the most important, most demanding defensive position in baseball. This v...
View full detailsCritical Issues in the History of Spaceflight (NASA Publication SP-2006-4702)
Steven J. Dick, Roger D. Launius, Nasa History Division
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• Author(s): Steven J. Dick | Roger D. Launius | Nasa History Division • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: GeneralAt a May 1981 "Proseminar in Space History'' held at the Smithsonian In...
View full detailsCritical Issues in the History of Spaceflight (NASA Publication SP-2006-4702)
Steven J. Dick, Roger D. Launius, Nasa History Division
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• Author(s): Steven J. Dick | Roger D. Launius | Nasa History Division • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: GeneralAt a May 1981 "Proseminar in Space History'' held at the Smithsonian In...
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