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Basic Writings Of Saint Augustine: V2, Part Two
Saint Augustine
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• Author(s): Saint Augustine • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Christian Living - InspirationalThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain ...
View full detailsCongregational Hymns from the Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier: A Comparative Study of the Sources and Final Works, with a Bibliographic Catalog of t
Samuel J. Rogal
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• Author(s): Samuel J. Rogal • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Institutions & Organizations Poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) proved a significant contributor to American Protest...
View full detailsSecuring Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Richard J. Samuels
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• Author(s): Richard J. Samuels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security po...
View full detailsThe Japanese Filmography: A Complete Reference to 209 Filmmakers and the Over 1250 Films Released in the United States, 1900 through 1994
Stuart Galbraith
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• Author(s): Stuart Galbraith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This encyclopedic reference work treats a near-century's worth of Japanese films released in the ...
View full detailsRunaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865
Harriet C. Frazier
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• Author(s): Harriet C. Frazier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies From the beginning of French rule of Missouri in 1720 through this state's abolit...
View full detailsA Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole, Louise And Aylmer Maude
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• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy | Nathan Haskell Dole | Louise And Aylmer Maude • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: GeneralAs a result of his controversial works criticizing the Russian government and the Russian Ortho...
View full detailsThe Mummy in Fact, Fiction and Film
Susan D. Cowie, Tom Johnson
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• Author(s): Susan D. Cowie | Tom Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1922, when Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen,...
View full detailsMets Fan
Dana Brand
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• Author(s): Dana Brand • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings This collection of well-crafted essays spans more than 40 years of franchise history but hews to a...
View full detailsTales from the Cult Film Trenches: Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema
Louis Paul
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• Author(s): Louis Paul • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production From movie villains to scream queens, here are interviews with 36 actors and actresses familiar t...
View full detailsAn Annotated Bibliography of Inuit Art
Richard C. Crandall, Susan M. Crandall
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• Author(s): Richard C. Crandall | Susan M. Crandall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Indigenous Archaeological digs have turned up sculptures in Inuit lands that are thousands of years ol...
View full detailsBalboa Films: A History and Filmography of the Silent Film Studio
Jean-Jacques Jura, II Bardin Rodney Norman
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• Author(s): Jean-Jacques Jura | II Bardin Rodney Norman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From 1913 through 1918, Long Beach, California, was home to the lar...
View full detailsThe Indianapolis ABCs: History of a Premier Team in the Negro Leagues
Paul Debono
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• Author(s): Paul Debono • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Indianapolis ABCs were formed around the turn of the century, playing company teams from around the city; t...
View full detailsAmerican Science Fiction Television Series of the 1950s: Episode Guides and Casts and Credits for Twenty Shows
Patrick Lucanio, Gary Coville
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• Author(s): Patrick Lucanio | Gary Coville • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews As Americans grappled with the real problems of the atomic age in the 1950s, ...
View full detailsThe 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam: 35 Personal Accounts
Jean Shellenbarger
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• Author(s): Jean Shellenbarger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War The combat engineers of the First Marine Division, 9th Engineer Battalion, risked their ...
View full detailsReading Brokeback Mountain: Essays on the Story and the Film
Jim Stacy
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• Author(s): Jim Stacy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This collection offers 15 critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its ...
View full detailsHard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia
Benjamin Smith
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• Author(s): Benjamin Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyThat natural resources can be a curse as well as a blessing is almost a truism in political analysis. In man...
View full detailsThe Greatest Show in the Galaxy: The Discerning Fan's Guide to Doctor Who
Marc Schuster, Tom Powers
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• Author(s): Marc Schuster | Tom Powers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews The long-running BBC science fiction program Doctor Who has garnered an intense a...
View full detailsThe Sweetness of Power: Machiavelli's Discourses and Guicciardini's Considerations
Niccolò Machiavelli
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• Author(s): Niccolò Machiavelli • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe question of order inspired two of the greatest political thinkers ...
View full detailsThe Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union
Carolyn Warner
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• Author(s): Carolyn Warner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - EuropeanAs the European Union moved in the 1990s to a unified market and stronger common institutions, most observers...
View full detailsA Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Alfred Thomas
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• Author(s): Alfred Thomas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareIn The Winter's Tale, Antigonus announces that his ship has washed up on the shores of Bohemia. How and why landloc...
View full detailsThe Sarsen Witch
Eileen Kernaghan
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• Author(s): Eileen Kernaghan • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: Romance - Fantasy Earth-witch Naeri plots to overthrow the conquering horse-lords and restore her people to their ancestral lands. Although mar...
View full detailsContested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933
Robin Judd
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• Author(s): Robin Judd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralIn Contested Rituals, Robin Judd shows that circumcision and kosher butchering became focal points of political s...
View full detailsSunk Costs and Market Structure: Price Competition, Advertising, and the Evolution of Concentration
John Sutton
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• Author(s): John Sutton • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralSunk Costs and Market Structure bridges the gap between the new generation of game theoretic models that has dominated the industrial organ...
View full detailsThe Evolution of Morality
Richard Joyce
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• Author(s): Richard Joyce • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyMoral thinking pervades our practical lives, but where did this way of thinking come from, and what purpose does it ser...
View full detailsA Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras
Carol Symes
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• Author(s): Carol Symes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalMedieval Arras was a thriving town on the frontier between the kingdom of France and the county of Flande...
View full detailsMaking Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970
Christophe Lecuyer
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• Author(s): Christophe Lecuyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralIn Making Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer shows that the explosive growth of the personal computer industr...
View full detailsStretched Thin
Sandra L. Morgen, Joan Acker, Jill Weigt
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• Author(s): Sandra L. Morgen | Joan Acker | Jill Weigt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareWhen the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunit...
View full detailsBorderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State
Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
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• Author(s): Alexander C. Diener | Joshua Hagen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFocusing on unusual international border shapes, t...
View full detailsBorderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State
Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
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• Author(s): Alexander C. Diener | Joshua Hagen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFocusing on unusual international border shapes, t...
View full detailsThe Diary of Hannah Callender Sansom
Susan E. Klepp, Karin A. Wulf
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• Author(s): Susan E. Klepp | Karin A. Wulf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralHannah Callender Sansom (1737-1801) witnessed the effects of the tumultuous eighteenth century: politi...
View full detailsInside Fame on Television: A Behind-the-Scenes History
Michael A. Hoey
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• Author(s): Michael A. Hoey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Fame, the hugely popular 1980 musical film inspired by New York's High School of the Perf...
View full detailsThe American Northern Theater Army in 1776: The Ruin and Reconstruction of the Continental Force
Douglas R. Cubbison
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• Author(s): Douglas R. Cubbison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) The American War for Independence was under way before the signing of the...
View full detailsPortals of Power: Magical Agency and Transformation in Literary Fantasy
Lori M. Campbell, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Lori M. Campbell | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy writing, like literature in general, provides ...
View full detailsChannels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq
Alexander Thompson
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• Author(s): Alexander Thompson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhen President George W. Bush launched an invasion of Iraq in March of 2003, he did so with...
View full detailsThe Greeks
H. D. F. Kitto
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• Author(s): H. D. F. Kitto • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceMost ancient cultures disappeared with scarcely a trace, their effect upon our modern way of life of little consequence. The Greeks, howeve...
View full detailsGovernance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, David Lazer
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• Author(s): Viktor Mayer-Schonberger | David Lazer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyExperts discuss moving beyond the notion of electronic government and its focus on technology and efficiency ...
View full detailsCase Closed, Vol. 19
Gosho Aoyama
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• Author(s): Gosho Aoyama • Publisher: Viz Media • Publisher Imprint: Viz Media • BISAC: Manga - GeneralCan Detective Conan crack the case…while trapped in a kid’s body?
Heresy and the English Reformation: Bogomil-Cathar Influence on Wycliffe, Langland, Tyndale and Milton
Georgi Vasilev
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• Author(s): Georgi Vasilev • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Medieval Europe was a hotbed of revolt against religious dogma. Particularly offensive to the established church were t...
View full detailsThe President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker
Merrill D. Peterson
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• Author(s): Merrill D. Peterson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateAs his presidency drew to a close, Woodrow Wilson came to realize the claim histo...
View full detailsMadness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction
Judy Cornes
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• Author(s): Judy Cornes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General An obsession with individual identity pervaded Western thinking in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This crit...
View full detailsSecond City Television: A History and Episode Guide
Jeff Robbins
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• Author(s): Jeff Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews This work offers a complete episode guide and comprehensive history of Second City Television. ...
View full detailsStudents and Teachers of the New China: Thirteen Interviews
Madelyn Holmes
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• Author(s): Madelyn Holmes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - General In this collection of interviews with students and teachers in Hangzhou, China, the ...
View full detailsWagner & Cinema
Jeongwon Joe, Sander L. Gilman, Tony Palmer
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• Author(s): Jeongwon Joe | Sander L. Gilman | Tony Palmer • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaThe work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of ar...
View full detailsBritish Ships in the Confederate Navy
Joseph McKenna
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• Author(s): Joseph McKenna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War During the American Civil War, British-crewed warships harassed Union merchantmen, sinking a total va...
View full detailsThe Early American Table
Trudy Eden
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• Author(s): Trudy Eden • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)An exploration in the history of biopolitics, The Early American T...
View full detailsThe Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia
Annette D'Agostino Lloyd
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• Author(s): Annette D'Agostino Lloyd • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Harold Lloyd, born in 1893, became one of the greatest comic actors in America. This is a compendium o...
View full detailsEvaluating Baseball's Managers: A History and Analysis of Performance in the Major Leagues, 1876-2008
Chris Jaffe
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• Author(s): Chris Jaffe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This ambitious study of major league managers since the formation of the National League applies a sabermetric ...
View full detailsThe Grateful Dead in Concert: Essays on Live Improvisation
Jim Tuedio, Stan Spector
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• Author(s): Jim Tuedio | Stan Spector • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book offers a spirited analysis of the unique improvisational character of Grateful Dead music and its ...
View full detailsThe Tango in the United States: A History
Carlos G. Groppa
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• Author(s): Carlos G. Groppa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk In the earliest years of the 20th century, North American ballroom dancers favored the waltz or the polka. But t...
View full detailsPie Traynor: A Baseball Biography
James Forr, David Proctor
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• Author(s): James Forr | David Proctor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports A Baseball Hall of Famer as of 1948, Pie Traynor was the face of Pittsburgh baseball during the twenties and...
View full detailsThe Shanghai Stars and Stripes: Witness to the Transition to Peace, 1945-1946
Alfred Emile Cornebise
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• Author(s): Alfred Emile Cornebise • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies This work is an account of the China edition of the U.S. Army's daily newspaper, The Stars and Stripes, w...
View full detailsOrigins of the Magdalene Laundries: An Analytical History
Rebecca Lea McCarthy
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• Author(s): Rebecca Lea McCarthy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The convents, asylums, and laundries that once comprised the Magdalene institutions are the subject of th...
View full detailsMajor League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark
Kathleen Lockwood
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• Author(s): Kathleen Lockwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History "My day-to-day existence," writes Kathleen Lockwood, "rested on the ability of my husband to throw a tiny...
View full detailsEpic Television Miniseries: A Critical History
John de Vito, Frank Tropea
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• Author(s): John de Vito | Frank Tropea • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General To paraphrase silent movie queen Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's classic 1950 film Sunset Bou...
View full detailsPictures About Extremes: The Films of John Frankenheimer
Stephen B. Armstrong
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• Author(s): Stephen B. Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This traditional auteurist survey closely examines the films of director John Frankenheime...
View full detailsFour Biblical Heroines and the Case for Female Authorship: An Analysis of the Women of Ruth, Esther and Genesis 38
Hillel I. Millgram
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• Author(s): Hillel I. Millgram • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This work examines the lives of four female characters in the Bible: Naomi, Ruth, Tamar and Esther. Their stories d...
View full detailsWinners Without Losers: Why Americans Should Care More about Global Economic Policy
Edward J. Lincoln
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• Author(s): Edward J. Lincoln • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn the two decades since the United States became the world's only superpower, policymakers...
View full detailsAsheville: A History
Nan K. Chase
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• Author(s): Nan K. Chase • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, Asheville, North Carolina, grew from humble beginnings as a haml...
View full detailsThe Polish Deportees of World War II: Recollections of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout the World
Tadeusz Piotrowski
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• Author(s): Tadeusz Piotrowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was the forced deportation of its citizens by the ...
View full detailsAustrian Cinema: A History
Robert Von Dassanowsky
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• Author(s): Robert Von Dassanowsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Austria, the multicultural crossroad of the European continent, has been the genesis of ...
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