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The Holy Bureaucrat
Adam J. Davis
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• Author(s): Adam J. Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousIn a book that offers a fresh perspective on the complex relationship between thirteenth-century institutional power ...
View full detailsThe Complexities of Care
Sioban Nelson, Suzanne Gordon
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• Author(s): Sioban Nelson | Suzanne Gordon • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Nursing - Social, Ethical & Legal Issues"Nursing, everyone believes, is the caring profession. Texts on caring line the walls of nursin...
View full detailsWalking Tours of Boston's Made Land
Nancy S. Seasholes
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• Author(s): Nancy S. Seasholes • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: United States - Northeast - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI,Exploring Boston's past and present: 12 walks that trace the creation of the city's man-mad...
View full detailsDefending the Border
Mathijs Pelkmans
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• Author(s): Mathijs Pelkmans • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThis book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, ...
View full detailsDefending the Border
Mathijs Pelkmans
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• Author(s): Mathijs Pelkmans • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThis book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, ...
View full detailsThe Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution
John Shovlin
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• Author(s): John Shovlin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FrancePolitical economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revoluti...
View full detailsMexican Raiders in the Major Leagues: The Pasquel Brothers vs. Organized Baseball, 1946
G. Richard McKelvey
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• Author(s): G. Richard McKelvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1946 American baseball was a shadow of its former self. In the wake of depression and war, attendanc...
View full detailsChoreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity and Festival in the United States and Canada
Anthony Shay
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• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Throughout its history, the United States has become a new home for thousands of immigrants, all of whom have brough...
View full detailsA Year in Hell: Memoir of an Army Foot Soldier Turned Reporter in Vietnam, 1965-1966
Ray Pezzoli
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• Author(s): Ray Pezzoli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military This memoir relates the author's experiences during his year-long tour of duty in the early days of American involvement ...
View full detailsStraight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature
Richard Fantina
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• Author(s): Richard Fantina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The advent of gay and lesbian studies as an academic field opened the door for a new explorati...
View full detailsGovernor Edward Coles and the Vote to Forbid Slavery in Illinois, 1823-1824
David Ress
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• Author(s): David Ress • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General His greatest work began as a misinterpretation. Edward Coles, former Virginian aristocrat and future governor ...
View full detailsA War of Images
Stephen Norris
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• Author(s): Stephen Norris • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: EuropeanThe lubok--a broadside or poster--played an important role in Russia's cultural history. Evolving...
View full detailsPsychics, Sensitives and Somnambules: A Biographical Dictionary with Bibliographies
Rodger I. Anderson
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• Author(s): Rodger I. Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Claimants of paranormal abilities have always attracted controversy and fascination, and sometimes rigorous study b...
View full detailsAncient Greek Costume: An Annotated Bibliography, 1784-2005
Linda Jones Roccos
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• Author(s): Linda Jones Roccos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Costume production distinguishes early civilization from the Paleolithic era as much as a...
View full detailsJohn L. Sullivan: The Career of the First Gloved Heavyweight Champion
Adam J. Pollack
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• Author(s): Adam J. Pollack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Essentially the last of the bare-knuckle heavyweight champions, John L. Sullivan was instrumental in the acceptance of ...
View full detailsThe Survival of Human Consciousness: Essays on the Possibility of Life After Death
Lance Storm, Michael A. Thalbourne
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• Author(s): Lance Storm | Michael A. Thalbourne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General According to several recent polls, more than 80 percent of Americans believe in life after death. ...
View full detailsThe Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Turner William, Jonn Christian
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• Author(s): Turner William | Jonn Christian • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAround midnight shortly after claiming victory in the California presidential primary on June 5, 1968, Sen...
View full detailsBamso: El Arte de los Sueños
Asanaro
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• Author(s): Asanaro • Publisher: Aya Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Aya Publishing • BISAC: GeneralUn libro audaz y novedoso que abarca una autobiografía metafórica, pero a la vez real, de experiencias y enseñanzas sobre el poder de la mente y ...
View full detailsBrutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England
Erica Fudge
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• Author(s): Erica Fudge • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshEarly modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before t...
View full detailsWorld War II Naval and Maritime Claims Against the United States: Cases in the Federal Court of Claims, 1937-1948
Greg H. Williams
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• Author(s): Greg H. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Before December 1941, the United States had determinedly maintained an isolationist foreign policy an...
View full detailsThe 2005 Washington Nationals: Major League Baseball Returns to the Capital
Ted Leavengood
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• Author(s): Ted Leavengood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Here is the story of the 2005 Washington Nationals. Told from a fan's perspective, the narrative begins insi...
View full detailsChaplin's "Limelight" and the Music Hall Tradition
Frank Scheide, Hooman Mehran, Dan Kamin
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• Author(s): Frank Scheide | Hooman Mehran | Dan Kamin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Charles Spencer Chaplin was a stage performer before he was a filmmak...
View full detailsInterviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup
Tom Weaver
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• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference For fans of SF and horror films, will there ever be a decade to compare with the 1950s? Actors, directors, producers, and...
View full detailsRails through the Wiregrass
H. Roger Grant
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• Author(s): H. Roger Grant • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryThe Georgia & Florida Railroad began with bright promise, but like many other ente...
View full detailsMigrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology and Conservation
Keith L. Bildstein
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• Author(s): Keith L. Bildstein • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesMany raptors, the hawks, eagles, and falcons of the world, migrate over long distances, often in impressively la...
View full detailsJohn Todd and the Underground Railroad: Biography of an Iowa Abolitionist
James Patrick Morgans
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• Author(s): James Patrick Morgans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Born November 10, 1818, John Todd grew up in the rural area surrounding Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. T...
View full detailsRussian Art and the West
Rosalind Blakesley, Susan Reid
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• Author(s): Rosalind Blakesley | Susan Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralThis book addresses the lively artistic dialogue that took place betwee...
View full detailsThe Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays
Nate Garrelts
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• Author(s): Nate Garrelts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto game series has inspired a range of reactions among players and co...
View full detailsThe Changing Vampire of Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Growth of a Genre
Tim Kane
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• Author(s): Tim Kane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Vampires have been a fixture of film since Bela Lugosi brought Bram Stoker's Dracula to life on the big screen in 1931...
View full detailsModern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century
Christine Quigley
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• Author(s): Christine Quigley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Death & Dying For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by...
View full detailsHow the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence
Rolf Pfeifer, Josh Bongard
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• Author(s): Rolf Pfeifer | Josh Bongard • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralAn exploration of embodied intelligence and its implications points toward a theory of intelligence i...
View full detailsMurder in Marrakesh: Émile Mauchamp and the French Colonial Adventure
Jonathan G. Katz
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• Author(s): Jonathan G. Katz • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Middle East - General"In Morocco, nobody dies without a reason." --Susan Gilson Miller, Harvard UniversityIn th...
View full detailsRichard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life
John F. Barber
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• Author(s): John F. Barber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Best known for his novel Trout Fishing in America, American writer Richard Gary Brautigan (1935-1984) publis...
View full detailsThe Enlargement of Life: Moral Imagination at Work
John Kekes
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• Author(s): John Kekes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Good & EvilMoral imagination, according to John Kekes, is indispensable to a fulfilling and responsible life. By correcting a...
View full detailsPicturing the City in Medieval Italian Painting
Felicity Ratté
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• Author(s): Felicity Ratté • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - European - Medieval Buildings and their surrounding spaces influence the collective identity of an urban population. ...
View full detailsRevise Philosophy for AS Level
Michael Lacewing
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• Author(s): Michael Lacewing • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralRevise Philosophy for AS Level is the definitive revision guide for students of the Advanced Subsidiary level syllabus. Fo...
View full detailsRevise Philosophy for AS Level
Michael Lacewing
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• Author(s): Michael Lacewing • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralRevise Philosophy for AS Level is the definitive revision guide for students of the Advanced Subsidiary level syllabus. Fo...
View full detailsTurizm: The Russian and East European Tourist Under Capitalism and Socialism
Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker
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• Author(s): Anne E. Gorsuch | Diane P. Koenker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionIn the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, the idea of "vacation" was ...
View full detailsAmerican Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era: A Study of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961-1973
Christopher P. Lehman
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• Author(s): Christopher P. Lehman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War In the first four years of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1961-64), Hollywood d...
View full detailsThe Red Sox in the Playoffs: A Postseason History, 1903-2005
Joshua R. Pahigian
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• Author(s): Joshua R. Pahigian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The dramatic postseason collapses and logic-defying defeats suffered by the Boston Red Sox in the 86 lon...
View full detailsIntelligent Design and Fundamentalist Opposition to Evolution
Angus M. Gunn
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• Author(s): Angus M. Gunn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Philosophy & Social Aspects The rise of political Christian fundamentalism has brought with it an increasingly well-organize...
View full detailsMrs. Leslie Carter: A Biography of the Early Twentieth Century American Stage Star
Craig Clinton
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• Author(s): Craig Clinton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Born Caroline Louise Dudley, Mrs. Leslie Carter was destined to become one of America's principal turn-of-t...
View full detailsThe Spaghetti Western: A Thematic Analysis
Bert Fridlund
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• Author(s): Bert Fridlund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The 1960s and 1970s were the heyday of spaghetti westerns--low-budget films about the early Ameri...
View full detailsThe Mong Oral Tradition: Cultural Memory in the Absence of Written Language
Yer J. Thao
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• Author(s): Yer J. Thao • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies In 1975, after years of struggle, Communists seized control of the government o...
View full detailsElie Wiesel and the Art of Storytelling
Rosemary Horowitz
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• Author(s): Rosemary Horowitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Elie Wiesel is a master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism. From his landmark mem...
View full detailsThe Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World
Amanda Claybaugh
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• Author(s): Amanda Claybaugh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary mark...
View full detailsThe Lessons of Nonviolence: Theory and Practice in a World of Conflict
Tom H. Hastings
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• Author(s): Tom H. Hastings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Peace Beginning back in the waning days of the Civil Rights movement, through the objection to the war in Vietnam, and on to t...
View full detailsHow Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business
Alena V. Ledeneva
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• Author(s): Alena V. Ledeneva • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralDuring the Soviet era, blat--the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply...
View full detailsWar and Society in the American Revolution
John Resch, Walter Sargent
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• Author(s): John Resch | Walter Sargent • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)The War for Independence touched virtually e...
View full detailsA Multicultural Dictionary of Literary Terms
Gary Carey, Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Gary Carey | Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dictionaries What is a corrido? What is the difference between a tanka, a choka and a renga? What does it m...
View full detailsIngmar Bergman: His Life and Films
Jerry Vermilye
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• Author(s): Jerry Vermilye • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts "He always is very, very close to the camera, and he is terribly inspiring. I don't know wh...
View full detailsBefore the Curse: The Glory Days of New England Baseball, 1858-1918, rev. ed.
Troy Soos
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• Author(s): Troy Soos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In this revised and updated version of his highly regarded book, author Troy Soos covers the history of baseball ...
View full detailsMotion Picture Photography: A History, 1891-1960
H. Mario Raimondo-Souto
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• Author(s): H. Mario Raimondo-Souto • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1891, William Dickson, a researcher at Thomas Edison's firm, developed the Kinetogra...
View full detailsBlacks in Colonial America
Oscar Reiss
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• Author(s): Oscar Reiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies By the time of the American Revolution, blacks made up 20 percent of the colonial popula...
View full detailsThe Enthroned Corpse of Charlemagne: The Lord-in-Majesty Theme in Early Medieval Art and Life
John F. Moffitt
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• Author(s): John F. Moffitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval The corpse of Charlemagne was found in the year 1000 by the emperor Otto III, nearly two centuries after it ...
View full detailsMilton's Peculiar Grace: Self-Representation and Authority
Stephen M. Fallon
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• Author(s): Stephen M. Fallon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshDespite writing about himself extensively and repeatedly, John Milton, the archetypal Purit...
View full detailsThe Seat of Consciousness in Ancient Literature
Richard E. Lind
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• Author(s): Richard E. Lind • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient and Classical For early civilizations, consciousness and the sense of self were experienced as located in the center o...
View full detailsFilm Studies: The Essential Resource
Peter Bennett, Andrew Hickman, Peter Wall
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• Author(s): Peter Bennett | Andrew Hickman | Peter Wall • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsBringing together a wide array of accessible and contemporary source material, Film Studies is the ...
View full detailsFilm Studies: The Essential Resource
Peter Bennett, Andrew Hickman, Peter Wall
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• Author(s): Peter Bennett | Andrew Hickman | Peter Wall • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsBringing together a wide array of accessible and contemporary source material, Film Studies is the ...
View full detailsViews of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin
Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror
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• Author(s): Samuel Baron | Christoforo Borri | Olga Dror • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThis volume introduces two of the earliest writings ...
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