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Missing Reels: Lost Films of American and European Cinema
Harry Waldman
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• Author(s): Harry Waldman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism During the first half of this century, motion pictures were often considered disposable once thei...
View full detailsMuseum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser
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• Author(s): Andrea Fraser • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralEssays, criticism, and performance scripts written between 1985 and 2003 by an artist whose artistic practice investigates and r...
View full detailsPrivatization: The Provision of Public Services by the Private Sector
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Development - Economic Development The 31 articles in this book discuss the pros and cons of privatization of public services. E...
View full detailsEconomic Development in Local Government: A Handbook for Public Officials and Citizens
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Development - Economic Development Since the late 1970s, Congressional legislation has prompted officials to develop inducements...
View full detailsEnduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades
Keller Easterling
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• Author(s): Keller Easterling • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismHow outlaw "spatial products"--resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, and ports--act as cunning pawns in global...
View full detailsThe Films of Randolph Scott
Robert Nott
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• Author(s): Robert Nott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Reclusive American actor Randolph Scott, known for his subtle, dignified performances in almost 60 ...
View full detailsThe Mummy Unwrapped: Scenes Left on Universal's Cutting Room Floor
Thomas M. Feramisco
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• Author(s): Thomas M. Feramisco • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The mummy came to life in the 1940s out of Universal Pictures' need to produce quick turnar...
View full detailsYuengling: A History of America's Oldest Brewery
Mark A. Noon
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• Author(s): Mark A. Noon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - General Can you name America's oldest brewery? If visions of outsized draft horses plod to min...
View full detailsThe Aesthetics of Antichrist: From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe
John Parker
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• Author(s): John Parker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: DramaIn Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe wrote a profoundly religious drama despite the theater's newfound secularism and his ow...
View full detailsMaid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition
Nicole Constable
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• Author(s): Nicole Constable • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralMiddle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecede...
View full detailsMetropolis on the Styx
David L. Pike
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• Author(s): David L. Pike • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralIn Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organize...
View full detailsFading Corporatism
Guy Mundlak
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• Author(s): Guy Mundlak • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentSince the 1980s, industrial relations and labor law in Israel have rapidly changed from a European style of corporatism to a model of pl...
View full detailsThe Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth
Elizabeth a. Whittingham, Donald E. Palumbo, C. W. Sullivan III
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• Author(s): Elizabeth a. Whittingham | Donald E. Palumbo | C. W. Sullivan III • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The History of Middle-earth traces the evolution of J.R.R. To...
View full detailsFitzgerald and the Influence of Film: The Language of Cinema in the Novels
Gautam Kundu
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• Author(s): Gautam Kundu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This work explores the many ways in which the developing film industry of the early twentieth century influenced the writ...
View full detailsCharles Wright: A Companion to the Late Poetry, 1988-2007
Robert D. Denham
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• Author(s): Robert D. Denham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This work offers a complete reader's guide and handbook to the late poetry of author Charles Wright. It begins with a...
View full detailsDalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel: A Critical Survey and Filmography
Peter Hanson
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• Author(s): Peter Hanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference As a screenwriter, novelist, and political activist, Dalton Trumbo stands among the key American literary figures of th...
View full detailsArticulating Rights
Alison Parker
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• Author(s): Alison Parker • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this original study of six notable reformers, Alison Parker skillfully illuminates the connectio...
View full detailsLos Complementos perfectos Softcover His Brain, Her Brain = Perfect Complements = Perfect Complements
Walt Larimore MD, Barb Larimore
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• Author(s): Walt Larimore MD | Barb Larimore • Publisher: Vida Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Vida Publishers • BISAC: Christian Living - Love & MarriageElla lee a las personas, �l los manuales. �l no pregunta direcciones, ella no aprecia s...
View full detailsDoctor of the Future: Learn the Secret Strategies That Will Allow You to Reclaim Your Health and Vitality
Daniel Yachter
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• Author(s): Daniel Yachter • Publisher: Advantage Media Group • Publisher Imprint: Advantage Media Group • BISAC: Alternative TherapiesDoctor of the Future offers a new direction for people longing to return to vibrant health and a lifestyle of ...
View full detailsHenry Clay Frick: The Life of the Perfect Capitalist
Quentin R. Skrabec
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• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200...
View full detailsWatchmen as Literature: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel
Sara J. Van Ness
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• Author(s): Sara J. Van Ness • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary c...
View full detailsWorld War II on the Big Screen: 450+ Films, 1938-2008
Doris Milberg
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• Author(s): Doris Milberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General World War II has been an endlessly fertile film subject since the late 1930s-even before the United States entere...
View full detailsOwsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty
John R. Burch
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• Author(s): John R. Burch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Owsley County, Kentucky, is well known by journalists, academics, and local historians as a quintessenti...
View full detailsWells, Fargo & Co. Stagecoach and Train Robberies, 1870-1884: The Corporate Report of 1885 with Additional Facts About the Crimes and Their Perpetrato
James B. Hume, John N. Thacker, R. Michael Wilson
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• Author(s): James B. Hume | John N. Thacker | R. Michael Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In January 1, 1885, Wells, Fargo & Company's chief detective James B. Hume and...
View full detailsAmerican Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture
Kyle William Bishop
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• Author(s): Kyle William Bishop • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as ...
View full detailsAmerica Brushes Up: The Use and Marketing of Toothpaste and Toothbrushes in the Twentieth Century
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture This excursion into American cultural history looks at the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 200...
View full detailsJames Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature
Ted Olson, Kathy H. Olson
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• Author(s): Ted Olson | Kathy H. Olson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Best known as the author of the acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), Alabama native James Still is one of...
View full detailsActors Organize: A History of Union Formation Efforts in America, 1880-1919
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This work offers a detailed history of American actors' attempts to unionize in the late nineteenth and early twe...
View full detailsPath of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush
Aims McGuinness
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• Author(s): Aims McGuinness • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyMost people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated...
View full detailsSuperheroes and Gods: A Comparative Study from Babylonia to Batman
Don Locicero
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• Author(s): Don Locicero • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The work provides a unique study of superheroes and gods in literature, popular culture, and ancient myt...
View full detailsThe Yankees in the Early 1960s
William J. Ryczek
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• Author(s): William J. Ryczek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is a history of the New York Yankees over a decade which saw them at the top of the American League ...
View full detailsA Violent Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke
Leonard Engel
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• Author(s): Leonard Engel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Mysteries and detective stories are among the most popular of books but the writers of such genre fiction suffer from a p...
View full detailsRecreation Handbook for Camp, Conference and Community, 2d ed.
Roger E. Barrows
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• Author(s): Roger E. Barrows • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Designed to provide youth leaders with fun and wholesome recreation activities for children between the ages of 8 and...
View full detailsProtection for Exporters
Andreas Dür
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• Author(s): Andreas Dür • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International - GeneralThe liberalization of transatlantic trade relations since the Great Depression is one of the key developm...
View full detailsSocialist Insecurity
Mark W. Frazier
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• Author(s): Mark W. Frazier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Personal Finance - Retirement PlanningOver the past two decades, China has rapidly increased its spending on its public pens...
View full detailsPolitical Folk Music in America from Its Origins to Bob Dylan
Lawrence J. Epstein
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• Author(s): Lawrence J. Epstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional Many American folk singers have tried to leave their world a better place by ...
View full details"God Alone Knows Which Was Right": The Blue and Gray Terrill Family of Virginia in the Civil War
Richard L. Armstrong
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• Author(s): Richard L. Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) According to legend, William H. Terrill had the phrase "God Alone Knows Whic...
View full detailsBaseball/Literature/Culture: Essays, 2008-2009
Ronald E. Kates, Warren Tormey
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• Author(s): Ronald E. Kates | Warren Tormey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistentl...
View full detailsConsidering David Chase: Essays on The Rockford Files, Northern Exposure and The Sopranos
Thomas Fahy
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• Author(s): Thomas Fahy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism A compelling and innovative television writer, David Chase has created distinctive programs s...
View full detailsThe Japanese Period Film: A Critical Analysis
S. a. Thornton
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• Author(s): S. a. Thornton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This study examines the history of the Japanese period film and proposes that a powerful relationship exists bet...
View full detailsOur Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
Charles E. Rosenberg
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• Author(s): Charles E. Rosenberg • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: EthicsCharles E. Rosenberg, one of the world's most influential historians of medicine, presents a fascinat...
View full detailsFlorida Crime Writers: 24 Interviews
Steve Glassman
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• Author(s): Steve Glassman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This book examines 24 crime novelists who set their work in the Sunshine State. From James W. H...
View full detailsBritish Government and Politics: Balancing Europeanization and Independence
Michael L. Mannin
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• Author(s): Michael L. Mannin • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThis deeply informed text sets the government and politics of Britai...
View full detailsCitizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante
Michael Peter Smith, Matt Bakker
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• Author(s): Michael Peter Smith | Matt Bakker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationMichael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker spent five years carrying out ethnographic...
View full detailsHigh and Inside: My Life in the Front Offices of Baseball
Lou Gorman
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• Author(s): Lou Gorman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Lou Gorman is best known for having assembled the great but star-crossed Red Sox team of 1986. Few, perhaps, kno...
View full detailsThe Thomas Paine Reader
Thomas Paine
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• Author(s): Thomas Paine • Publisher: A & D Publishing • Publisher Imprint: A & D Publishing • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralCollected here in this omnibus edition are Thomas Paine's most important books, along with his short essa...
View full detailsThe Thomas Paine Reader
Thomas Paine
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• Author(s): Thomas Paine • Publisher: A & D Publishing • Publisher Imprint: A & D Publishing • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralCollected here in this omnibus edition are Thomas Paine's most important books, along with his short essa...
View full detailsAmerican Pragmatism and Democratic Faith
Robert Lacey
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• Author(s): Robert Lacey • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PoliticalIn June 1962, a group calling themselves the Students for a Democratic Society gathered at a retre...
View full detailsRemaking U.S. Trade Policy
Nitsan Chorev
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• Author(s): Nitsan Chorev • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - Trade & TariffsThe emergence of globalization was neither accidental nor inevitable. To make the...
View full detailsKnowing Dickens
Rosemarie Bodenheimer
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• Author(s): Rosemarie Bodenheimer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld...
View full detailsJoachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi: An Autobiography--the German and Early American Years
Michael A. Meyer
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• Author(s): Michael A. Meyer • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: ReligiousJoachim Prinz (1902-1988) was one of the most extraordinary and innovative figures in modern Jewish history. Never...
View full detailsCities and Growth: A Policy Handbook
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban This reference work covers the rapidly evolving field of "cities and growth"; provides the framework and backg...
View full detailsEarly Southeast Asia: Selected Essays
O. W. Wolters, Craig J. Reynolds
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• Author(s): O. W. Wolters | Craig J. Reynolds • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA collection of the classic essays of O. W. Wolters, reflecting...
View full detailsChurch and Stage: The Theatre as Target of Religious Condemnation in Nineteenth Century America
Claudia Durst Johnson
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• Author(s): Claudia Durst Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Throughout nineteenth century America, religious officials often condemned the theatre...
View full detailsThe Old French Fabliaux: Essays on Comedy and Context
Kristin L. Burr, John F. Moran, Norris J. Lacy
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• Author(s): Kristin L. Burr | John F. Moran | Norris J. Lacy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval This collection of 14 critical essays examines short comedic tales from the...
View full detailsModernizing Joan of Arc: Conceptions, Costumes, and Canonization
Ellen Ecker Dolgin
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• Author(s): Ellen Ecker Dolgin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Historical opinions regarding Joan of Arc are fraught with contradiction. As one of the most widely studied...
View full detailsDefining Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Bonnye L. Matthews
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• Author(s): Bonnye L. Matthews • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases - General The number of people suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is greater than the number suffe...
View full detailsScrappy: Memoir of a U.S. Fighter Pilot in Korea and Vietnam
Howard C. Scrappy Johnson, Ian a. O'Connor
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• Author(s): Howard C. Scrappy Johnson | Ian a. O'Connor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of figh...
View full detailsThe Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Katie Salen Tekinbas
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• Author(s): Katie Salen Tekinbas • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicAn exploration of games as systems in which young people participate as gamers, producers, and learners.In the many studies of ...
View full detailsAfter-School Theatre Programs for At-Risk Teenagers
Philip Zwerling
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• Author(s): Philip Zwerling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Social Work Where intervention programs such as D.A.R.E. and "Scared Straight" have failed to adequately address the problems ...
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