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Making Words First Grade: 100 Hands-On Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and Spelling
Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy Hall
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• Author(s): Patricia Cunningham | Dorothy Hall • Publisher: Pearson • Publisher Imprint: Pearson • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Language ArtsPatricia M. Cunningham The day I entered first grade, I decided I wanted to teach first gr...
View full detailsNGO Diplomacy: The Influence of Nongovernmental Organizations in International Environmental Negotiations
Michele M. Betsill, Elisabeth Corell, Felix Dodds
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• Author(s): Michele M. Betsill | Elisabeth Corell | Felix Dodds • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ngos (Non-Governmental Organizations)Provides an analytical framework for assessing the impact of NGOs on intergovernm...
View full detailsTelevision Specials: 3,201 Entertainment Spectaculars, 1939 through 1993
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews In 1954 NBC President Pat Weaver introduced "spectaculars"--lavish entertainment shows desig...
View full detailsWandering with Sadhus: Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas
Sondra L. Hausner
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• Author(s): Sondra L. Hausner • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers--sadhus or ascetics--in north...
View full detailsFriends and Exiles: A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement
Des Alwi, Barbara S. Harvey
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• Author(s): Des Alwi | Barbara S. Harvey • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsDes Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island ...
View full detailsKeeping the Faith: Religious Belief in an Age of Science
Thomas J. Schoenbaum
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• Author(s): Thomas J. Schoenbaum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book explores the modern relationship between religion and science, highlighting the public backlash over te...
View full detailsThe Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit
Mitchell Nathanson
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• Author(s): Mitchell Nathanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History On October 7, 1977, the Philadelphia Phillies lost a playoff game to the Dodgers, a game that began so h...
View full detailsIsabel Orleans-Braganca: The Brazilian Princess Who Freed the Slaves
James McMurtry Longo
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• Author(s): James McMurtry Longo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General This is a biography of Isabel Orleans-Braganca, daughter of the last emperor of Brazil. At a time wh...
View full detailsAcid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History
Jerry Jenkins, Karen Roy, Charles T. Driscoll
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• Author(s): Jerry Jenkins | Karen Roy | Charles T. Driscoll • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Acid rain has changed the face of the Adiron...
View full detailsHis Kingdom Come: Orthodox Pastorship and Social Activism in Revolutionary Russia
Jennifer Hedda
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• Author(s): Jennifer Hedda • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - OrthodoxJennifer Hedda analyzes the ideas and activities of the parish clergy serving in S...
View full detailsThe French Foreign Legion: An Illustrated History
Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage
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• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - General This book gives the reader a straightforward and continuous survey of the history of th...
View full detailsBalkan Dance: Essays on Characteristics, Performance and Teaching
Anthony Shay
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• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations, including detailed studies on the h...
View full detailsIn a Door, into a Fight, Out a Door, into a Chase: Moviemaking Remembered by the Guy at the Door [LARGE PRINT]
William Witney
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• Author(s): William Witney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Early in 1937, a young film editor went on-location to St. George, Utah, for the filming of Republic's The Paint...
View full detailsThe Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire
Peter O. Koch
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• Author(s): Peter O. Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - South America A study of the first encounters between Spanish explorers and the indigenous tribes of the America...
View full detailsThe Last Years of the Brooklyn Dodgers: A History, 1950-1957
Rudy Marzano
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• Author(s): Rudy Marzano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This work, which picks up where the author's previous book, The Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s (McFarland, 2005...
View full detailsThe World of Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Introduction
Robert Matz
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• Author(s): Robert Matz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in ...
View full detailsKidnapped Souls
Tara Zahra
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• Author(s): Tara Zahra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThroughout the nineteenth and into the early decades of the twentieth century, it was common for rural and work...
View full detailsSky Is Falling: An Oral History of the Cia's Evacuation of the Hmong from Laos
Gayle L. Morrison
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• Author(s): Gayle L. Morrison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War Starting in 1960, Hmong guerrilla soldiers, under the command of General Vang Pao, functi...
View full detailsConfederate Guerrilla Sue Mundy: A Biography of Kentucky Soldier Jerome Clarke
Thomas Shelby Watson, Perry A. Brantley
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• Author(s): Thomas Shelby Watson | Perry A. Brantley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military In 1864, George D. Prentice, editor of the pro-Union Louisville Daily Journal, created the p...
View full detailsAdolescent Suicide
Peter Gutierrez, Augustine Osman
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• Author(s): Peter Gutierrez | Augustine Osman • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: SuicideSuicide and suicide attempts among adolescents are significant public health pr...
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Stephen Baxter
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• Author(s): Stephen Baxter • Publisher: Gollancz • Publisher Imprint: Gollancz • BISAC: Alternative HistoryThird in a series of counter-factual historical thrillers from Stephen Baxter, in which someone in the future is desperate to rewrite the ...
View full detailsGiving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists
Amy A. Kass
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• Author(s): Amy A. Kass • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityThis anthology explores the enterprise of philanthropy--assumptions, aspirations, and achievements. It...
View full detailsSigns of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age
Kristin Schwain
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• Author(s): Kristin Schwain • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousReligious imagery was ubiquitous in late-nineteenth-century American life: department store...
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Macv: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968-1973 (United States Army in Vietnam series)
Macv: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968-1973 (United States Army in Vietnam series)
Graham a. Cosmas, Us Army Center of Military History
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• Author(s): Graham a. Cosmas | Us Army Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - Vietnam WarWith FULL COLOR maps and illustrations. CMH 91-7-1. United States Army in Viet...
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Macv: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968-1973 (United States Army in Vietnam series)
Macv: The Joint Command in the Years of Withdrawal, 1968-1973 (United States Army in Vietnam series)
Graham a. Cosmas, Us Army Center of Military History
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• Author(s): Graham a. Cosmas | Us Army Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam WarWith FULL COLOR maps and illustrations. CMH 91-7-1. United States ...
View full detailsThe Influence of Imagination: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy as Agents of Social Change
Lee Easton, Randy Schroeder
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• Author(s): Lee Easton | Randy Schroeder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This collection of essays examines the potential connections between speculative fiction and actua...
View full detailsEros and Power in English Renaissance Drama: Five Plays by Marlowe, Davenant, Massinger, Ford and Shakespeare
Curtis Perry
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• Author(s): Curtis Perry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book features five plays from the English Renaissance that explore political questions and developments by telling s...
View full detailsDissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris
Benjamin Szumskyj
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• Author(s): Benjamin Szumskyj • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This comprehensive study of author Thomas Harris' popular works focuses particularly on Harris's internationally kno...
View full detailsPlanets on Tables
Bonnie Costello
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• Author(s): Bonnie Costello • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryPoets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds...
View full detailsLook, It's Books!: Marketing Your Library with Displays and Promotions
Gayle Skaggs
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• Author(s): Gayle Skaggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General For the elementary or middle school librarian (or the classroom teacher) looking to e...
View full detailsProphecy and the Fundamentalist Quest: An Integrative Study of Christian and Muslim Apocalyptic Religion
Farzana Hassan
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• Author(s): Farzana Hassan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Religion This work traces the origins of apocalyptic prophecy in Christianity and Islam through in-depth examinatio...
View full detailsDarwin's Fox and My Coyote
Holly Menino, Elaine P. English, Graybill & English Literary Agency LLC
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• Author(s): Holly Menino | Elaine P. English | Graybill & English Literary Agency LLC • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsA rare fox in the South American cord...
View full detailsThe USS Puffer in World War II: A History of the Submarine and Its Wartime Crew
Craig R. McDonald
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• Author(s): Craig R. McDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Submarines were responsible for about 55 percent of the tonnage of the Japanese fleets sunk during W...
View full detailsStages of Struggle: Modern Playwrights and Their Psychological Inspirations
John Louis Digaetani
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• Author(s): John Louis Digaetani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General One way or another, all playwrights use their work to explore the issues that interest them. The charac...
View full detailsAsian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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• Author(s): Andrew Hock Soon Ng • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asian - General The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with the...
View full detailsOutcasts in Their Own Land: Mexican Industrial Workers, 1906-1911
Rodney D. Anderson
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• Author(s): Rodney D. Anderson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoOrdinary working people, convinced their life could be better than it was, dema...
View full detailsSacred Order/Social Order: The Crisis of the Officer Class: The Decline of the Tragic Sensibility Volume 2
Philip Rieff, Kenneth S. Piver, Alan Woolfolk
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• Author(s): Philip Rieff | Kenneth S. Piver | Alan Woolfolk • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralPhilip Rieff earned recognition as one of the most profound socia...
View full detailsJohn Carradine: The Films
Tom Weaver
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• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Over more than six decades and 200 films, supreme movie villain John Carradine defined the job of th...
View full detailsOccupational Hazards
David M. Edelstein
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• Author(s): David M. Edelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how ...
View full detailsThe Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present
David Brion Davis
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• Author(s): David Brion Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralFirst published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, do...
View full detailsOccupational Hazards
David M. Edelstein
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• Author(s): David M. Edelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Few would contest that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a clear example of just how ...
View full detailsTwo Faces of Oedipus: Sophocles' "oedipus Tyrannus" and Seneca's "oedipus"
Sophocles, Seneca, Frederick Ahl
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• Author(s): Sophocles | Seneca | Frederick Ahl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalSophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the most famous of ancient tragedies and a literary...
View full detailsAnthony Boucher: A Biobibliography
Jeffrey Marks
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Marks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy American author, editor, and critic William Parker White, better known to most as Anthony Boucher,...
View full detailsThe Ghosts of Thua Thien: An American Soldier's Memoir of Vietnam
John A. Nesser
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• Author(s): John A. Nesser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Drafted in October 1968, John A. Nesser left behind his wife and young son to fight in the controversial Vietnam War. ...
View full detailsPynchon Character Names: A Dictionary
Patrick Hurley
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• Author(s): Patrick Hurley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The dictionary lists each character from Pynchon's fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likel...
View full detailsSmall United States and United Nations Warships in the Korean War
Paul M. Edwards
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• Author(s): Paul M. Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War From rubber landing boats to picket boats to minesweepers, smaller support vessels did much of the work ...
View full detailsThe 26th Yankee Division on Coast Patrol Duty, 1942-1943
Dennis A. Connole
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• Author(s): Dennis A. Connole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Within hours of the strike against Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military sprang into action to implement a...
View full detailsThe Newfoundland Railway, 1898-1969: A History
Les Harding
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• Author(s): Les Harding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - History The building of a narrow-gauge trans-island railway in nineteenth century Newfoundland was a reckless and even...
View full detailsOne Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine l'Engle and Orson Scott Card
Marek Oziewicz, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Marek Oziewicz | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from ...
View full detailsOperation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands
Michael B. Barrett
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• Author(s): Michael B. Barrett • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25,000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flo...
View full detailsGangster Films: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference to People, Films and Terms
Michael L. Stephens
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• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The conventions of gangster movies have become well known: the gum-chewing moll, the kiss of d...
View full detailsSydney Pollack: A Critical Filmography
Janet L. Meyer
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• Author(s): Janet L. Meyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, Absence of Malice, Out of Africa, Tootsie, The Firm, Searchin...
View full detailsThe Nikon Camera in America, 1946-1953
Michael Wescott Loder
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• Author(s): Michael Wescott Loder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - General This work examines the roles that American businesses and photojournalists pl...
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Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages
Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages
R. M. Sheldon
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• Author(s): R. M. Sheldon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Intelligence activities have always been an integral part of statecraft. Ancient governments, like ...
View full detailsRecipes for Russia
Alison K. Smith
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• Author(s): Alison K. Smith • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralAlison K. Smith examines changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production...
View full detailsBaseball Ratings: The All-Time Best Players at Each Position, 1876 to the Present, 3d ed.
Charles F. Faber
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• Author(s): Charles F. Faber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In this third edition of Baseball Ratings, author Charles Faber combines the second edition ("great fodder...
View full detailsThe Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
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• Author(s): Alexander Hamilton | James Madison | John Jay • Publisher: A & D Publishing • Publisher Imprint: A & D Publishing • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe Federalist Papers serve as a primary source for interpretation of th...
View full detailsCivil War Museum Treasures: Outstanding Artifacts and the Stories Behind Them
Kenneth D. Alford
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• Author(s): Kenneth D. Alford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War A Bible, an officer's mess kit, a cane arm chair and a blood-stained note... at first glance, thes...
View full detailsAffinity, That Elusive Dream: A Genealogy of the Chemical Revolution
Mi Gyung Kim
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• Author(s): Mi Gyung Kim • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemistry - Physical & TheoreticalIn the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an impor...
View full detailsForgotten Firebrand
John R. McKivigan
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• Author(s): John R. McKivigan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyThe reformer James Redpath (1833-1891) was a focal figure in many of the key developments in n...
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