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Escaping the Khmer Rouge: A Cambodian Memoir
Chileng Pa, Carol a. Mortland
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• Author(s): Chileng Pa | Carol a. Mortland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States The Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia for three years, eight months and twenty days. After ov...
View full detailsCompetition and Growth: Reconciling Theory and Evidence
Philippe Aghion, Rachel Griffith
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• Author(s): Philippe Aghion | Rachel Griffith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryThough competition occupies a prominent place in the history of economic thought, among economists today there is stil...
View full detailsV for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film
James R. Keller
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• Author(s): James R. Keller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The 2005 James McTeigue and Wachowski Brothers film V for Vendetta represents a postmodern past...
View full detailsHorror at the Drive-In: Essays in Popular Americana
Gary D. Rhodes
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• Author(s): Gary D. Rhodes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Drive-in movie theaters and the horror films shown at them during the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s may be somewhat...
View full detailsFirm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade
Cornelia Woll
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• Author(s): Cornelia Woll • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - Trade & TariffsFirms are central to trade policy-making. Some analysts even suggest that they di...
View full detailsAtomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan
Sean L. Malloy
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• Author(s): Sean L. Malloy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIAtomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth centur...
View full detailsIt Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction
Alexander N. Howe
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• Author(s): Alexander N. Howe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of th...
View full detailsAmerican Cultural Rebels: Avant-Garde and Bohemian Artists, Writers and Musicians from the 1850s through the 1960s
Roy Kotynek, John Cohassey
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• Author(s): Roy Kotynek | John Cohassey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - General Artistic vanguards plot new aesthetic movements, print controversial magazines, hold provocative...
View full detailsA Moon for the Misbegotten on the American Stage: A History of the Major Productions
Laura Shea
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• Author(s): Laura Shea • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism A Moon for the Misbegotten is one of Eugene O'Neill's most frequently revived works, and major Am...
View full detailsThe Kreutzer Sonata & Other Stories - Tales by Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Tark Classic Fiction • Publisher Imprint: Tark Classic Fiction • BISAC: PsychologicalPlease visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors.
Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind
Harold H. Hellwig
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• Author(s): Harold H. Hellwig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his oeuv...
View full detailsWatching Baseball, Seeing Philosophy: The Great Thinkers at Play on the Diamond
Raymond Angelo Belliotti
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• Author(s): Raymond Angelo Belliotti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings There are uncanny connections between nine baseball greats and the great thinkers of...
View full detailsCougars of Any Color: The Integration of University of Houston Athletics, 1964-1968
Katherine Lopez
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• Author(s): Katherine Lopez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History After years of playing sub-par teams in weak athletic conferences, the University of Houston athletic program sought t...
View full detailsShirley Booth: A Biography and Career Record
David C. Tucker
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• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts An Oscar-winning Best Actress for her tour-de-force role in Come Back, Little Sheba, Shirl...
View full detailsThe Library as Place in California
Stacy Shotsberger Russo
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• Author(s): Stacy Shotsberger Russo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From the educational space of UC Berkeley to a one-room library in Silverado Canyon, this tour of thirty-two C...
View full detailsBartolomé de Las Casas in History: Toward an Understanding of the Man and His Work
Juan Friede
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• Author(s): Juan Friede • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralA controversial figure in his own day (1474-1566), Las Casas might well be the New World's first poli...
View full detailsDeep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means
Siegfried Zielinski, Gloria Custance
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• Author(s): Siegfried Zielinski | Gloria Custance • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesA quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development--not by simply looking at new media'...
View full detailsStrategic Planning for Local Government: A Handbook for Officials and Citizens
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - Local You'd think "strategic planning" would be obvious. It has long been a common practice in the corpora...
View full detailsNotes on the Underground, New Edition: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
Rosalind Williams
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• Author(s): Rosalind Williams • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryReal and imagined undergrounds in the late nineteenth century viewed as offering a prophetic look at life in today's technology-dominated world.T...
View full detailsPsychoanalytic Responses to Children's Literature
Lucy Rollin, Mark I. West
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• Author(s): Lucy Rollin | Mark I. West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh With the growing emphasis on theory in literary studies, psychoanalytic criticism i...
View full detailsThe Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics
Diarmuid Costello, Dominic Willsdon
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• Author(s): Diarmuid Costello | Dominic Willsdon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralDuring the 1970s and 1980s the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely ...
View full detailsWarring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics
Jeremy Pressman
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• Author(s): Jeremy Pressman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alli...
View full detailsThe Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics
Diarmuid Costello, Dominic Willsdon
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• Author(s): Diarmuid Costello | Dominic Willsdon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryDuring the 1970s and 1980s the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappear...
View full detailsDesign on the Edge: The Making of a High-Performance Building
David W. Orr
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• Author(s): David W. Orr • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialThe story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological desi...
View full detailsMemory Practices in the Sciences
Geoffrey C. Bowker
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• Author(s): Geoffrey C. Bowker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsHow the way we hold knowledge about the past--in books, in file folders, in databases--affects the kind of stories we te...
View full detailsCancer in the Twentieth Century
David Cantor
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• Author(s): David Cantor • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryThis collection of essays explores efforts to control and prevent cancer in North America and Europe. On bot...
View full detailsSecond Battle of the Marne
Michael S. Neiberg
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• Author(s): Michael S. Neiberg • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IThe First Battle of the Marne produced the so-called Miracle of the Marne, when French ...
View full detailsWarring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics
Jeremy Pressman
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• Author(s): Jeremy Pressman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Allied nations often stop each other from going to war. Some countries even form alli...
View full detailsArt Directors in Cinema: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary
Michael L. Stephens
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• Author(s): Michael L. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Often forgotten among the actors, directors, producers and others associated with filmmaking, art directo...
View full detailsAbandoned Baobab: The Autobiography of a Senegalese Woman
Ken Bugul, Marjolijn de Jager, Jeanne Garane
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• Author(s): Ken Bugul | Marjolijn de Jager | Jeanne Garane • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Personal Memoirs"This is a beautiful, tragic book.... We should be grateful that Ken ...
View full detailsThe Shifting Definitions of Genre: Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows and Media
Lincoln Geraghty, Mark Jancovich
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• Author(s): Lincoln Geraghty | Mark Jancovich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Histories of science fiction often dicuss Fritz Lang's Metropolis as a classic work within th...
View full detailsThe Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines
Victor L. Mapes, Scott A. Mills
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• Author(s): Victor L. Mapes | Scott A. Mills • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Twelve hours after Pearl Harbor, Clark Field in the Philippines was attacked by Japanese aircraft. A...
View full detailsHeroin
Alex Mold
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• Author(s): Alex Mold • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - AddictionHeroin, often viewed as the "hardest drug," looms large in the popular consciousnes...
View full detailsThe Humanitarianism in Question: Kingship, Sanctity, and Crusade in the Later Middle Ages
Michael Barnett, Thomas G. Weiss
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• Author(s): Michael Barnett | Thomas G. Weiss • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareYears of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies...
View full detailsThe End of the West?
Jeffrey J. Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Risse
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• Author(s): Jeffrey J. Anderson | G. John Ikenberry | Thomas Risse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe past several years have seen strong disagreement...
View full detailsIntroduction to Satire
Leonard Feinberg, Don L. F. Nilsen
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• Author(s): Leonard Feinberg | Don L. F. Nilsen • Publisher: Pilgrims' Process • Publisher Imprint: Pilgrims' Process • BISAC: GeneralFor more than two thousand years we have known satirists as those wits who expose hypocrisy and deftly stick sh...
View full detailsBuilt to Move Millions: Streetcar Building in Ohio
Craig R. Semsel
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• Author(s): Craig R. Semsel • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryAt the beginning of the 20th century, the street railway industry was one of the largest in the nation. O...
View full detailsMagnetic Appeal
Kelly Joyce
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• Author(s): Kelly Joyce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Diagnostic Imaging - GeneralMagnetic Resonance Imaging, not so long ago a diagnostic tool of last resort, has become pervasive i...
View full detailsTo Live upon Hope
Rachel Wheeler
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• Author(s): Rachel Wheeler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native AmericanTwo Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian m...
View full detailsDisobedience and Conspiracy in the German Army, 1918-1945
Robert B. Kane
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• Author(s): Robert B. Kane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Germany This work examines, among other topics, the personal oath of loyalty that the officers of the German army swor...
View full detailsAn Introduction to World Cinema, 2d ed.
Aristides Gazetas
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• Author(s): Aristides Gazetas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Motion pictures are more than just entertainment. In film studies courses in colleges and universities worl...
View full detailsTaking Southeast Asia to Market
Joseph Nevins, Nancy Lee Peluso
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• Author(s): Joseph Nevins | Nancy Lee Peluso • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyRecent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies h...
View full detailsA Critical History of Soul Train on Television
Christopher P. Lehman
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• Author(s): Christopher P. Lehman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism As a wildly popular local dance show, Soul Train provided a venue for Chicago's sou...
View full detailsSchools of the Air: A History of Instructional Programs on Radio in the United States
William Bianchi
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• Author(s): William Bianchi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Administration - General Born in the 1920s during the emergence of radio, schools of the air broadcast an impressive array of ...
View full detailsMastering the Management Buckets
John Pearson
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• Author(s): John Pearson • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: LeadershipIn the most practical, humorous, and fast-moving chapters you've ever read on business and nonprofit leadership and management, this in-the-tre...
View full detailsRobin Hood: A Cinematic History of the English Outlaw and His Scottish Counterparts
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner to Daffy Duck, the bandit of Sherwood Forest has gone thro...
View full detailsReligion and Politics in the Contemporary United States
R. Marie Griffith, Melani McAlister
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• Author(s): R. Marie Griffith | Melani McAlister • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThis collection of essays from a special issue of American Quarterly ex...
View full detailsAfrican American Men and Opportunity in the Navy: Personal Histories of Eight Chiefs
Arthur L. Dunklin
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• Author(s): Arthur L. Dunklin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl The United States military is often presented as a mode...
View full detailsGeorgia During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a Decade
Anita Price Davis
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• Author(s): Anita Price Davis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, During the Great Depression, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Ag...
View full detailsDreams and Nightmares: Science and Technology in Myth and Fiction
Mordecai Roshwald, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Mordecai Roshwald | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book studies the treatment of science and technology from ancie...
View full detailsFeminist Narrative and the Supernatural: The Function of Fantastic Devices in Seven Recent Novels
Katherine J. Weese, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Katherine J. Weese | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Women authors have explored fantasy fiction in ways that connect wi...
View full detailsKing of the Bootleggers: A Biography of George Remus
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminals & Outlaws As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is now remembered...
View full detailsRussian-English Dictionary of Proverbs and Sayings
Alexander Margulis, Asya Kholodnaya
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• Author(s): Alexander Margulis | Asya Kholodnaya • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology This dictionary contains 2,375 Russian sayings and proverbs and their English co...
View full detailsDancing Across Borders: The American Fascination with Exotic Dance Forms
Anthony Shay
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• Author(s): Anthony Shay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General This study describes and analyzes the phenomenal popularity of exotic dance forms in America. Throughout the twen...
View full detailsThe Speed of Heat: An Airlift Wing at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Thomas W. Young
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• Author(s): Thomas W. Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General With its fleet of large transport aircraft, the United States military can put personnel and equipment anywhere on the...
View full detailsTaming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg After Apartheid
Martin J. Murray
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• Author(s): Martin J. Murray • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "r...
View full detailsTwo Hamlets in Nam Bo: Memoirs of Life in Vietnam Through Japanese Occupation, the French and American Wars, and Communist Rule, 1940-1986
David Lan Pham
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• Author(s): David Lan Pham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Personal Memoirs The author was born in 1940 and spent his childhood in two small villages, the paternal and the maternal, in s...
View full detailsAt the Edge of the Forest: Essays on Cambodia, History, and Narrative in Honor of David Chandler
Anne Ruth Hansen, Judy Ledgerwood
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• Author(s): Anne Ruth Hansen | Judy Ledgerwood • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Editors, Journalists, PublishersInspired by David Chandler's groundbreaking work on...
View full detailsOpera Companies and Houses of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
Karyl Lynn Zietz
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• Author(s): Karyl Lynn Zietz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera Although books have been written about various opera houses throughout the world, no one work has...
View full detailsEvolution and Empathy: The Genetic Factor in the Rise of Humanism
Milton E. Brener
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• Author(s): Milton E. Brener • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book applies new scientific research in the fields of biology and genetics to an empirical study of the Greco-Ro...
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