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"Deliver Us from This Cruel War": The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Joseph J. Hoyle, 55th North Carolina Infantry
Joseph J. Hoyle
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• Author(s): Joseph J. Hoyle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Joseph J. Hoyle enlisted in the Confederate Army in May 1862 as a private. By the time of his death in September 1864...
View full detailsBeyond the March of Death: Memoir of a Soldier's Journey from Bataan to Nagasaki
Myrrl W. McBride
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• Author(s): Myrrl W. McBride • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man tryin...
View full detailsA Trash Hauler in Vietnam: Memoir of Four Tactical Airlift Tours, 1965-1968
Bill Barry
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• Author(s): Bill Barry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military This book recounts four tours of Air Force duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968, and reports firsthand how tactics and the war effor...
View full detailsText & Presentation, 2009
Kiki Gounaridou
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• Author(s): Kiki Gounaridou • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represent...
View full detailsThe British Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania, 1758: A Military History of the Forbes Campaign Against Fort Duquesne
Douglas R. Cubbison
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• Author(s): Douglas R. Cubbison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - General This is the first complete military study of the campaign directed by Brigadier General Joh...
View full detailsSounds of the Future: Essays on Music in Science Fiction Film
Mathew J. Bartkowiak
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• Author(s): Mathew J. Bartkowiak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Instruction & Study - Theory Covering titles ranging from Rocketship X-M (1950) to Wall-E (2008), these insightful es...
View full detailsThe Heart of Worship Files
Matt Redman
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• Author(s): Matt Redman • Publisher: Bethany House Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Bethany House Publishers • BISAC: InspirationalTogether, we journey . . . to learn more and more of what it really means to bring meaningful offerings to the hear...
View full detailsCampus Life in the Movies: A Critical Survey from the Silent Era to the Present
John E. Conklin
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• Author(s): John E. Conklin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century, shaping popular perc...
View full detailsLou Von Salome: A Biography of the Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche and Rilke
Julia Vickers
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• Author(s): Julia Vickers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to ...
View full detailsWannsee House and the Holocaust
Steven Lehrer
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• Author(s): Steven Lehrer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Holocaust Although Hitler's extermination of the Jews was well underway by the end of 1941, it was at the Wannsee Conference of ...
View full detailsMaking Headlines
Troy Bickham
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• Author(s): Troy Bickham • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarThe War for American Independence was essentially a civil war throughout t...
View full detailsNever Good Enough
Ariel Ducey
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• Author(s): Ariel Ducey • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Hospital Administration & CareFrontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care 'reform, ' but in...
View full detailsDifferential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
Paul V. Dutton
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• Author(s): Paul V. Dutton • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health PolicyAlthough the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance cover...
View full detailsSeers, Witches and Psychics on Screen: An Analysis of Women Visionary Characters in Recent Television and Film
Karin Beeler
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• Author(s): Karin Beeler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book addresses the pervasive representation of women with unique visionary abilities in postfeminist televisi...
View full detailsInstitutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers
Oran R. Young, Leslie A. King, Heike Schroeder
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• Author(s): Oran R. Young | Leslie A. King | Heike Schroeder • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Natural ResourcesThis overview of recent research on how institutions matter in tackling environmental problems reports t...
View full detailsMax Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and Classification in the History of Art
Robert Bagley
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• Author(s): Robert Bagley • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseMax Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above a...
View full detailsA Moment's Grace: Stories of Korea in Transition
John Holstein
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• Author(s): John Holstein • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: LiteraryA Moment's Grace presents short stories that depict the core of Korea's modernization, from Liberation in 1945 to the ...
View full detailsStrike Hard!: Anti-Crime Campaigns and Chinese Criminal Justice, 1979-1985
Harold M. Tanner
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• Author(s): Harold M. Tanner • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: CriminologyAs it set forth to achieve rapid modernizing economic growth under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, the People's...
View full detailsSinging Like a Cricket, Hooting Like an Owl: Selected Poems of Yi Kyu-Bo
Kyu-Bo Yi, Kevin O'Rourke
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• Author(s): Kyu-Bo Yi | Kevin O'Rourke • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKyu-bo Yi (1168-1241), the greatest of the classical Korean poets, was born into a very turbulent ...
View full detailsLandlords, Peasants and Intellectuals in Modern Korea
Kie-Chung Pang, Michael D. Shin
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• Author(s): Kie-Chung Pang | Michael D. Shin • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - KoreaThis volume introduces, for the first time in English, the work of one of the major schools of ...
View full detailsThe Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan
Gustav Heldt
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• Author(s): Gustav Heldt • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - Japanese"The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influent...
View full detailsThe Dynamics of Confucianism and Modernization in Korean History
Tae-Jin Yi
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• Author(s): Tae-Jin Yi • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: EasternThis volume makes available for the first time in English a collection of the work of historian Yi Tae-Jin. Over the cours...
View full detailsJewish Genetic Disorders: A Layman's Guide
Ernest L. Abel
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• Author(s): Ernest L. Abel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases - Genetic This guide to genetic disorders that tend to affect the Jewish population more than the non-Jewish begins wi...
View full detailsRestless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary
Chifumi Shimazaki
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• Author(s): Chifumi Shimazaki • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThe "fourth-group Noh," so designated because they are performed...
View full detailsInventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945
Sherman Cochran
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• Author(s): Sherman Cochran • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a...
View full detailsSacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben No Naishi Nikki
Naishi Ben No, S. Yumiko Hulvey
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• Author(s): Naishi Ben No | S. Yumiko Hulvey • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralBen no Naishi (1228-1270), a descendant of a literary branch of the Fujiwara family, created...
View full detailsGlobal Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods
Barry Eichengreen
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• Author(s): Barry Eichengreen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsWhy the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center count...
View full detailsAcross the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries
Kristen Lee Hunter
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• Author(s): Kristen Lee Hunter • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: International - GeneralOriginally published as Le commerce ext�rieur du Japon des origines au XVIe si�cle in 1988, this n...
View full detailsThe Economic Transformation of South China: Reform and Development in the Post-Mao Era
Thomas P. Lyons
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• Author(s): Thomas P. Lyons • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Economic ConditionsThe emergence of the South China regional economy, comprised of the southeastern coastal provinces of Chi...
View full detailsDance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition
Judith N. Rabinovitch, Judith N. Rabinovitch, Timothy R. Bradstock
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• Author(s): Judith N. Rabinovitch | Judith N. Rabinovitch | Timothy R. Bradstock • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe composition of Chinese poetry (kanshi) in the Japane...
View full detailsAnnotated Japanese Literary Gems: Stories by Natsume Soseki, Tomioka Taeko, and Inoue Yasushi
Kyoko Selden, Jolisa Gracewood, Lili Selden
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• Author(s): Kyoko Selden | Jolisa Gracewood | Lili Selden • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, wh...
View full detailsStrange Tales from Strange Lands: Stories by Zheng Wanlong
Wanlong Zheng, Kam Louie, Kam Louie
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• Author(s): Wanlong Zheng | Kam Louie | Kam Louie • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralA powerful depiction of the tensions generated by conflicts of sexuality and ethnicity ...
View full detailsVision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Ho Nansorhon
Yang Hi Choe-Wall
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• Author(s): Yang Hi Choe-Wall • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe biography and writings of Ho Nansorhon (1563-1589), one of th...
View full detailsCanterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer • Publisher: Hesperides Press • Publisher Imprint: Hesperides Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
The Snow Falling on Chagall's Village: Selected Poems by Kim Ch'un-Su
Ch'un-Su Kim, Jong-Gil Kim
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• Author(s): Ch'un-Su Kim | Jong-Gil Kim • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKim Ch'un-Su is one of the most original poets in modern Korean poetry. He was influenced by Rilk...
View full detailsChristmas Books
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Hesperides Press • Publisher Imprint: Hesperides Press • BISAC: ClassicsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expens...
View full detailsBall Tales: A Study of Baseball, Basketball and Football Fiction of the 1930s through 1960s
Michelle Nolan
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• Author(s): Michelle Nolan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading This history of American sports fiction traces depictions of baseball, basketball and football in works for...
View full detailsArthurian Legends on Film and Television
Bert Olton
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• Author(s): Bert Olton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference The Arthurian legends are a crucial part of Western culture. With their enduring themes, archetypal characters, an...
View full detailsThe Other Malcolm--"Shorty" Jarvis: His Memoir
Malcolm Shorty Jarvis, Paul D. Nichols, Cornel R. West
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• Author(s): Malcolm Shorty Jarvis | Paul D. Nichols | Cornel R. West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Memoirs The life of Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, Malcolm X's best friend before his conve...
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Circuit Chautauqua: From Rural Education to Popular Entertainment in Early Twentieth Century America
Circuit Chautauqua: From Rural Education to Popular Entertainment in Early Twentieth Century America
John E. Tapia
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• Author(s): John E. Tapia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Adult & Continuing Education In the late 19th century the chautauqua movement became a popular form of adult education and e...
View full detailsMalcolm X, African American Revolutionary
Dennis D. Wainstock
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• Author(s): Dennis D. Wainstock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political This biography, though it covers his early life and adulthood, focusses most prominently on Malcolm X's final ye...
View full detailsThe Art of Studio Gainax: Experimentation, Style and Innovation at the Leading Edge of Anime
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Animated Formed by a small group of university students in the early 1980s, Studio Gainax is now one of the mos...
View full detailsBlack Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of Civil War
Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa
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• Author(s): Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General The end of the Civil War left a fearful and resentful South struggling to understand the changes th...
View full detailsNew Deal Art in North Carolina: The Murals, Sculptures, Reliefs, Paintings, Oils and Frescoes and Their Creators
Anita Price Davis
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• Author(s): Anita Price Davis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General As the people and economy of the United States struggled to recover during the Great Depression, 42 towns...
View full detailsEuropean Cases of the Reincarnation Type
Ian Stevenson
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• Author(s): Ian Stevenson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Afterlife & Reincarnation Many cultures accept that a person may die and then come back to life in another form, but Western...
View full detailsNorms and Practices
James D. Wallace
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• Author(s): James D. Wallace • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyWe spend a great deal of time learning our vocations and avocations as we work at jobs, partic...
View full detailsThe Lotus and the Lion
J. Jeffrey Franklin
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• Author(s): J. Jeffrey Franklin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshBuddhism is indisputably gaining prominence in the West, as is evidenced by the growth of...
View full detailsCuster and the Front Royal Executions of 1864
Jay W. Simson
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• Author(s): Jay W. Simson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General For nearly a century and a half most historians of the Civil War have accepted the claim by Confederate Colon...
View full detailsElectric and Hybrid Cars: A History, 2d ed.
Curtis D. Anderson, Judy Anderson
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• Author(s): Curtis D. Anderson | Judy Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History This illustrated history chronicles electric and hybrid cars from the late 19th centur...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Cuban-United States Relations
Thomas M. Leonard
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• Author(s): Thomas M. Leonard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International Relations - General Ninety miles from Florida, the island of Cuba has since long before the Castro revolution ...
View full detailsThe Sungod's Journey Through the Netherworld: Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat
Andreas Schweizer, Erik Hornung, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Andreas Schweizer | Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our...
View full detailsThe Battle for Western Europe, Fall 1944: An Operational Assessment
John A. Adams
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• Author(s): John A. Adams • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIThis engrossing and meticulously researched volume reexamines the decisions made by Dwight D. Eisenhowe...
View full detailsBricks, Sand and Marble: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Construction in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1947-1991
Robert P. Grathwol, Donita M. Moorhus, Center of Military History
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• Author(s): Robert P. Grathwol | Donita M. Moorhus | Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralIncludes full color maps and illustrations throughout. C...
View full details"I Will Never Forget": Interviews with 39 Former Negro League Players
Brent Kelley
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• Author(s): Brent Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This book continues the riches of two highly praised previous volumes, Voices from the Negro Leagues "interest...
View full detailsLiterary Research and the British Renaissance and Early Modern Period: Strategies and Sources
Jennifer Bowers, Peggy Keeran
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• Author(s): Jennifer Bowers | Peggy Keeran • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThis guide provides the best practices and reference resources, both print and elect...
View full detailsDemystifying the European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration
Roy H. Ginsberg
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• Author(s): Roy H. Ginsberg • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Intergovernmental OrganizationsWritten by one of the premier scholars on the European Union and hailed...
View full detailsPoets on Paintings: A Bibliography
Robert D. Denham
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• Author(s): Robert D. Denham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Ekphrasis, the description of pictorial art in words, is the subject of this bibliography. More specifically, some 25...
View full detailsGraphic Novels and Comics in Libraries and Archives: Essays on Readers, Research, History and Cataloging
Robert G. Weiner
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• Author(s): Robert G. Weiner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels To say that graphic novels, comics, and other forms of sequential art have become a major part of...
View full detailsViolence, Veils and Bloodlines: Reporting from War Zones
Louis J. Salome
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• Author(s): Louis J. Salome • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Editors, Journalists, Publishers This memoir by an American journalist explores how entrenched notions of self, family, and tr...
View full detailsRick Ferrell, Knuckleball Catcher: A Hall of Famer's Life Behind the Plate and in the Front Office
Kerrie Ferrell, William M. Anderson
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• Author(s): Kerrie Ferrell | William M. Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports In 1947, after 18 major league seasons with the Browns, Senators, and Red Sox, Rick Ferrell retire...
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