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The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
Todd Shepard
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• Author(s): Todd Shepard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, To...
View full detailsFrantz Fanon: A Portrait
Alice Cherki, Nadia Benabid
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• Author(s): Alice Cherki | Nadia Benabid • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political"Fanon was consummately incapable of telling the story of himself. He lived in the immediacy of the mo...
View full detailsHomeland Security Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster Relief Although the phrase "homeland security" evokes images of cataclysmic terrorist attacks, and a ma...
View full detailsSchools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement
Clayton Sinyai
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• Author(s): Clayton Sinyai • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsIn this new political history of the labor movement, Clayton Sinyai examines the relationship between labor activism and th...
View full detailsPasolini, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Two Medieval Texts and Their Translation to Film
Agnès Blandeau
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• Author(s): Agnès Blandeau • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Medieval Pier Pasolini's "trilogy of life" is a series of film adaptations of major texts of the past: The Decameron, The Cante...
View full detailsFolktales Retold: A Critical Overview of Stories Updated for Children
Amie A. Doughty
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• Author(s): Amie A. Doughty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve a...
View full detailsThe Literature of Hope in the Middle Ages and Today: Connections in Medieval Romance, Modern Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Flo Keyes
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• Author(s): Flo Keyes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Medieval The influence of medieval literature is instantly apparent in modern fantasy literature, where knights and wizards populate...
View full detailsThe Foe Within
William C. Fuller
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• Author(s): William C. Fuller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IIn the early morning of March 19, 1915, Lt. Colonel S. N. Miasoedov, a former gendarme o...
View full detailsFour Paths to Jerusalem: Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Secular Pilgrimages, 1000 Bce to 2001 CE
Hunt Janin
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Religion Jerusalem has long been one of the most sought-after destinations for the followers of three world faiths and ...
View full detailsLiterature into Film: Theory and Practical Approaches
Linda Costanzo Cahir
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• Author(s): Linda Costanzo Cahir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Screenwriting For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't a...
View full detailsEnrique Alvarez Cordova: Life of a Salvadoran Revolutionary and Gentleman
John W. Lamperti
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• Author(s): John W. Lamperti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Enrique Alvarez Cordova was the son of one of El Salvador's ruling families. Intelligent, charismatic and above all...
View full detailsThe Era of the Witness
Annette Wieviorka, Jared Stark
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• Author(s): Annette Wieviorka | Jared Stark • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustWhat is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are consi...
View full detailsKeepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International
Stephen Hopgood
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• Author(s): Stephen Hopgood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Advocacy"If one organization is synonymous with keeping hope alive, even as a faint glimmer in the darkness of a p...
View full detailsThe Literary Galaxy of Star Trek: An Analysis of References and Themes in the Television Series and Films
James F. Broderick
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• Author(s): James F. Broderick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism How is the android Data like Shakespeare's character Hamlet? Is the vengeful Khan (ori...
View full detailsBach's Well-Tempered Clavier: An Exploration of the 48 Preludes and Fugues
Marjorie Wornell Engels
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• Author(s): Marjorie Wornell Engels • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Classical Through a musical language involving symbols, numbers, and tonality, J.S. Bach created...
View full detailsThe ManDak League: Haven for Former Negro League Ballplayers, 1950-1957
Barry Swanton
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• Author(s): Barry Swanton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The ManDak League may be one of baseball's best kept secrets. Operating in Manitoba and North Dakota from 195...
View full detailsThe Films of Peter Greenaway: Sex, Death and Provocation
Douglas Keesey
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• Author(s): Douglas Keesey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production British filmmaker Peter Greenaway says life offers only two subjects: "One is sex and the oth...
View full detailsClaiming the American Wilderness: International Rivalry in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1528-1803
Hunt Janin
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period In the early sixteenth century, as voyages across the Atlantic became more feasible and consequentl...
View full details"My Will Is Absolute Law": A Biography of Union General Robert H. Milroy
Jonathan A. Noyalas
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• Author(s): Jonathan A. Noyalas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military When the South fired the first shot of the Civil War in April 1861, hundreds of volunteers flocked to answer Pres...
View full detailsEphesians
James Montgomery Boice
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• Author(s): James Montgomery Boice • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Biblical Commentary - New Testament - GeneralPart of the The Boice Commentary series, this title explains the meaning of the text and relates t...
View full detailsStars, Stripes and Diamonds: American Culture and the Baseball Film
Marshall G. Most, Robert Rudd
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• Author(s): Marshall G. Most | Robert Rudd • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Since the Progressive Era, baseball has been promoted as an institution encapsul...
View full detailsThe Republic Pictures Checklist: Features, Serials, Cartoons, Short Subjects and Training Films of Republic Pictures Corporation, 1935-1959
Len D. Martin
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• Author(s): Len D. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Republic Pictures Corporation, began as a motion picture laboratory in 1915. By 1935, Republic had become a stu...
View full detailsPolice on Screen: Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers
M. Ray Lott
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• Author(s): M. Ray Lott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From the Roman Praetorian Guard to the English shire-reeve to the U.S. marshals, lawmen have a long...
View full detailsElections by Design
Bryon Moraski
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• Author(s): Bryon Moraski • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsLegislative elections are the defining institution of a repre...
View full detailsThe Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War
Karen Umemoto
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• Author(s): Karen Umemoto • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice ...
View full detailsTreasures of Tartary: And Other Heroic Tales
Robert E. Howard
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• Author(s): Robert E. Howard • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: Action & Adventure A collection of Robert E. Howard's best historical fiction, including "Treasures of Tartary," "Son of the White Wolf," "...
View full detailsOutlaw Ballplayers: Interviews and Profiles from the Independent Carolina Baseball League
Utley, Tim Peeler, Aaron Peeler
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• Author(s): Utley | Tim Peeler | Aaron Peeler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The players of the independent Carolina League were outlaws. A diverse lot that included ...
View full detailsPost-War Laos: The Politics of Culture, History, and Identity
Vatthana Pholsena
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• Author(s): Vatthana Pholsena • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThree decades after the conclusion of the civil war that brought the communist Pathet Lao to...
View full detailsA Researcher's Guide to Sources on Soviet Social History in the 1930s
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Lynne Viola
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• Author(s): Sheila Fitzpatrick | Lynne Viola • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralThe Stalin era has been less accessible to researchers than either the preceding decade or the pos...
View full detailsPsychotropic Drugs and Popular Culture: Essays on Medicine, Mental Health and the Media
Lawrence C. Rubin
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• Author(s): Lawrence C. Rubin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Psychotropic drugs--those intended to change moods, numb anxiety, calm children--are pervasive in American c...
View full detailsDisability Rights and the American Social Safety Net
Jennifer L. Erkulwater
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• Author(s): Jennifer L. Erkulwater • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThe recent history of the American welfare state has been viewed with di...
View full detailsThe Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy
Richard Polt
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• Author(s): Richard Polt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Criticism"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical ju...
View full detailsHow Roosevelt Failed America in World War II
Stewart Halsey Ross
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• Author(s): Stewart Halsey Ross • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Reeling from the devastation of World War I, many Americans vowed never again to become invol...
View full detailsTrailing Clouds: Immigrant Fiction in Contemporary America
David G. Cowart
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• Author(s): David G. Cowart • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - General"We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such a...
View full detailsOscar Wilde in Quotation: 3,100 Insults, Anecdotes and Aphorisms, Topically Arranged with Attributions
Tweed Conrad
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• Author(s): Tweed Conrad • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Quotations "He had that rarest of all things, common sense." And in the case of Oscar Wilde he also had a gift for delivering thi...
View full detailsThe Willits Brothers and Their Canoes: Wooden Boat Craftsmen in Washington State, 1908-1967
Patrick F. Chapman
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• Author(s): Patrick F. Chapman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - General For half a century Earl and Floyd Willits built some of the world's finest canoe...
View full detailsChina's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949-2005
Tyrene White
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• Author(s): Tyrene White • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms, it also launched a one-ch...
View full detailsCivil War Suits in the U.S. Court of Claims: Cases Involving Compensation to Northerners and Southerners for Wartime Losses
Greg H. Williams
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• Author(s): Greg H. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Not long after the eruption of civil war, the United States found itself mired i...
View full detailsDeconstructing Major League Baseball, 1991-2004: How Statistics Illuminate Individual and Team Performances
William Darby
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• Author(s): William Darby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics Baseball is a readily quantifiable sport, and baseball historians, journalists and front office personnel ...
View full detailsTwo Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China
Binyan Liu, Perry Link
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• Author(s): Binyan Liu | Perry Link • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe most distinguished Chinese journalist of the past fifty years, Liu Binyan has earned the...
View full detailsP.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations
Brian Taves
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• Author(s): Brian Taves • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Beloved British humorist P.G. Wodehouse produced a wealth of literature in his lengt...
View full detailsGarage Rock and Its Roots: Musical Rebels and the Drive for Individuality
Eric James Abbey
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• Author(s): Eric James Abbey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock When British rockers invaded the United States in the 1960s, youths responded by growing long hair...
View full detailsWhen Johnny Came Sliding Home: The Post-Civil War Baseball Boom, 1865-1870
William J. Ryczek
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• Author(s): William J. Ryczek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History As the Civil War ended, the thoughts of many Northern soldiers turned to a game that some had learned abo...
View full detailsThe Sporting Goods Industry: History, Practices and Products
Richard A. Lipsey
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• Author(s): Richard A. Lipsey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Equipment & Supplies The last 20 years have brought remarkable growth and change to the sporting goods industry. The ter...
View full detailsRussia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives
Donald J. Raleigh
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• Author(s): Donald J. Raleigh • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralRussia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russ...
View full detailsOne World of Welfare: Japan in Comparative Perspective
Gregory J. Kasza
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• Author(s): Gregory J. Kasza • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareOne World of Welfare offers a systematic, comparative examination of Japan's w...
View full detailsEn Correcci��n Creativa: Ideas Extraordinarias Para La Disciplina Diaria
Lisa Whelchel
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• Author(s): Lisa Whelchel • Publisher: Vida Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Vida Publishers • BISAC: Christian Life - FamilyHemos intentado el uso de penitencias, la suspensi�n de salidas y la correcci�n f�sica. Pero aun as� los jovencitos no ca...
View full detailsThe Sonnets
William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, Stephen Orgel
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare | G. Blakemore Evans | Stephen Orgel • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: DramaThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-...
View full detailsDiscerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Nancy Mandeville Caciola
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• Author(s): Nancy Mandeville Caciola • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - Angelology & DemonologyTrance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physica...
View full detailsThe USS Cairo: History and Artifacts of a Civil War Gunboat
Elizabeth Hoxie Joyner
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Hoxie Joyner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) On December 12, 1862, while patrolling Mississippi's Yazoo River, the iron...
View full detailsThe Iron Men of Baseball: Major League Leaders in Consecutive Games Played, 1876-2005
Marty Friedrich
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• Author(s): Marty Friedrich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History When Cal Ripken, Jr., voluntarily ended his streak of consecutive games played in September 1998, it marked...
View full detailsCensored Screams: The British Ban on Hollywood Horror in the Thirties
Tom Johnson
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• Author(s): Tom Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General As Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931) ushered in the golden age of horror films in the United States, studios a...
View full detailsWilson's Cavalry Corps: Union Campaigns in the Western Theatre, October 1864 through Spring 1865
Jerry Keenan
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• Author(s): Jerry Keenan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States The famed fighting force of Union General William T. Sherman was plagued by a lack of first-rate cavalry...
View full detailsGulliver as Slave Trader: Racism Reviled by Jonathan Swift
Elaine L. Robinson
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• Author(s): Elaine L. Robinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The pointed social commentaries of master satirist Jonathan Swift are heavy with irony, but...
View full detailsMatt W. Ransom, Confederate General from North Carolina
Clayton Charles Marlow
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• Author(s): Clayton Charles Marlow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military On May 8, 1861, Matt Ransom resigned from the North Carolina House of Commons and accepted a commission as a C...
View full detailsThe Pure Food, Drink, and Drug Crusaders, 1879-1914
Lorine Swainston Goodwin
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• Author(s): Lorine Swainston Goodwin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Safety & Security - General (See Also House & Home - Safety Under a likeness of President Theodore Roosevelt ...
View full detailsBreaking the Mold
Lotte Bailyn
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• Author(s): Lotte Bailyn • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Breaking the Mold, Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for e...
View full detailsWorking Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis
Beth Crandall, Gary A. Klein, Robert R. Hoffman
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• Author(s): Beth Crandall | Gary A. Klein | Robert R. Hoffman • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Assessment, Testing & MeasurementHow to collect data about cognitive processes and events, how to analyze CT...
View full detailsBreaking the Mold
Lotte Bailyn
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• Author(s): Lotte Bailyn • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Breaking the Mold, Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for e...
View full detailsFan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays
Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse
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• Author(s): Karen Hellekson | Kristina Busse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. M...
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