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The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England
Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
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• Author(s): Rebecca J. Tannenbaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryThis book, the first to describe women medical practitioners other than midwives in the colonial period, emphas...
View full detailsFather and Son
Edmund Gosse
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• Author(s): Edmund Gosse • Publisher: SMK Books • Publisher Imprint: SMK Books • BISAC: Personal MemoirsFather and Son is a memoir by poet Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book describes Edmund's early years in...
View full detailsThe Second Amendment: The Intent and Its Interpretation by the States and the Supreme Court
Patrick J. Charles
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• Author(s): Patrick J. Charles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bea...
View full detailsHysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930
Paul Lerner
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• Author(s): Paul Lerner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryPaul Lerner traces the intertwined histories of trauma and male hysteria in German society and psychiatry and shows how t...
View full detailsThe Assoluta Voice in Opera, 1797-1847
Geoffrey S. Riggs
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• Author(s): Geoffrey S. Riggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera It is unusual for styles in opera to carry over from one era into another--and even more unusual...
View full detailsThe Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination
Frank McConnell, Donald E. Palumbo
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• Author(s): Frank McConnell | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy A member of the Pulitzer Prize jury, the late Frank McConnell helped science...
View full detailsUnity Through Community Service Activities: Strategies to Bridge Ethnic and Cultural Divides
August John Hoffman, Norma Espinosa Parker, Eduardo Sanchez
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• Author(s): August John Hoffman | Norma Espinosa Parker | Eduardo Sanchez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare Community service work is an ideal...
View full detailsText & Presentation, 2008
Stratos E. Constantinidis
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• Author(s): Stratos E. Constantinidis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It...
View full detailsBuffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom
Mary Kirby-Diaz
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• Author(s): Mary Kirby-Diaz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Buffy the Vampire Slayer transcended its cult-comic roots to achieve television success, spawning the spinoff series A...
View full detailsThe Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe
Samuel Y. Edgerton
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• Author(s): Samuel Y. Edgerton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History - European - RenaissanceIn The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope, Samuel Y. Edgerton brings fresh insight to ...
View full detailsComics as a Nexus of Cultures: Essays on the Interplay of Media, Disciplines and International Perspectives
Mark Berninger, Jochen Ecke, Gideon Haberkorn
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• Author(s): Mark Berninger | Jochen Ecke | Gideon Haberkorn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic b...
View full detailsScreening the Mafia: Masculinity, Ethnicity and Mobsters from The Godfather to The Sopranos
George S. Larke-Walsh
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• Author(s): George S. Larke-Walsh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The "post-classic" era of American gangster films began in 1967 with the release of Bonni...
View full detailsThe Greenback: Paper Money and American Culture
Heinz Tschachler
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• Author(s): Heinz Tschachler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coins, Currency & Medals What can we learn about America by examining its paper bills? This illuminating text answers tha...
View full detailsSpace and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television
David C. Wright, Allan W. Austin
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• Author(s): David C. Wright | Allan W. Austin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Essays in this work examine treatments of history in science fiction an...
View full detailsThe Mind of Italo Calvino: A Critical Exploration of His Thought and Writings
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was internationally regarded as one of Italy's greatest t...
View full detailsKentuckian in Blue: A Biography of Major General Lovell Harrison Rousseau
Dan Lee
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• Author(s): Dan Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Lovell Harrison Rousseau was a distinguished Union general in the Civil War, but he was more than a soldier. A defense attorn...
View full detailsNo Girls in the Clubhouse: The Exclusion of Women from Baseball
Marilyn Cohen
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• Author(s): Marilyn Cohen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Even though teenaged girl Jackie Mitchell once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, women are still striking ...
View full detailsGene Autry: His Life and Career
Don Cusic
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• Author(s): Don Cusic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Gene Autry was the first of the wildly popular "singing cowboys" of the thirties and forties and the man who carried the fla...
View full detailsWomen in the Language and Society of Japan: The Linguistic Roots of Bias
Naoko Takemaru
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• Author(s): Naoko Takemaru • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a soc...
View full detailsLegal Executions in the Western Territories, 1847-1911: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahom
R. Michael Wilson
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• Author(s): R. Michael Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century This reference work contains details of all the crimes resulting in executions in the fifteen w...
View full detailsThe Simpsons in the Classroom: Embiggening the Learning Experience with the Wisdom of Springfield
Karma Waltonen, Denise Du Vernay
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• Author(s): Karma Waltonen | Denise Du Vernay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - General The object of much debate, attention, and scholarship since it fi...
View full detailsAirplane Racing: A History, 1909-2008
Don Berliner
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• Author(s): Don Berliner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History This is the history of air racing from its beginnings in 1909 at Reims, France, to the end of the 2008 racing ...
View full detailsLost Laughs of '50s and '60s Television: Thirty Sitcoms That Faded Off Screen
David C. Tucker
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• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work...
View full detailsAmerican Indian Wars: A Chronology of Confrontations Between Native Peoples and Settlers and the United States Military, 1500s-1901
Michael L. Nunnally
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• Author(s): Michael L. Nunnally • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General On June 3, 1513, ships commanded by Juan Ponce de Leon were attacked by a group of Calusa Indians in on...
View full detailsKing Baggot: A Biography and Filmography of the First King of the Movies
Sally A. Dumaux
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• Author(s): Sally A. Dumaux • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General King Baggot began in films in 1909, was a major star from 1910 to 1916, and gain...
View full detailsThe Red River Campaign of 1864 and the Loss by the Confederacy of the Civil War
Michael J. Forsyth
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• Author(s): Michael J. Forsyth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Union Army's Red River Campaign began on March 12, 1864, with a two-pronge...
View full detailsWorld War One: A Short History
Norman Stone
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• Author(s): Norman Stone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IAfter the unprecedented destruction of the Great War, the world longed for a lasting peace. The victors, however, value...
View full detailsThe Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
James Lovelock
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• Author(s): James Lovelock • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Beyond Sitcom: New Directions in American Television Comedy
Antonio Savorelli
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• Author(s): Antonio Savorelli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book explores the mechanisms that have driven the evolution of televisual comedy from the classic ...
View full detailsPhysics of the Human Body
Richard P. McCall
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• Author(s): Richard P. McCall • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: PhysiologyRichard P. McCall's fascinating book explains how basic concepts of physics apply to the fundamental...
View full detailsThe Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Bruce Shaw, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Bruce Shaw | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Though animal stories and fables stretch back into the antiq...
View full detailsThe American Cane Mill: A History of the Machines, the Manufacturers, Sugar Cane and Sorghum
Don Howard Dean
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• Author(s): Don Howard Dean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The southern agricultural landscape is enriched by the occasional old cane mill, once the center of fa...
View full detailsLanguage into Language: Cultural, Legal and Linguistic Issues for Interpreters and Translators
Saúl Sibirsky, Martin C. Taylor
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• Author(s): Saúl Sibirsky | Martin C. Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Translating & Interpreting Language into Language, conceived as both a theoretical and a practical source...
View full detailsThe Pacific Northwest: Growth of a Regional Identity
Raymond D. Gastil, Barnett Singer
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• Author(s): Raymond D. Gastil | Barnett Singer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (OR, WA) The Pacific Northwest--for the purposes of t...
View full detailsThe FBI and the KKK: A Critical History
Michael Newton
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• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Ku Klux Klan share a long and complicated history. Beg...
View full detailsThe Elements of Style
William Strunk
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• Author(s): William Strunk • Publisher: Frederick Singer & Sons • Publisher Imprint: Frederick Singer & Sons • BISAC: Writing - Academic & Scholarly"No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this pers...
View full detailsThe Dopefiend: Part 2 of Dopeman's Trilogy
Jaquavis Coleman
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• Author(s): Jaquavis Coleman • Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation • Publisher Imprint: Kensington Publishing Corporation • BISAC: African American & Black - Urban & Street LitIn the second installment in the Dopeman's Trilogy, ...
View full detailsThe Great Movie Musicals: A Viewer's Guide to 168 Films That Really Sing
Don Tyler
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• Author(s): Don Tyler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Beginning with The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending with Sweeney Todd in 2007, this comprehensive critical...
View full detailsScience and Technology in World History, Volume 1: The Ancient World and Classical Civilization
David Deming
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• Author(s): David Deming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human histo...
View full detailsTed Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators: The Last Winning Season
Ted Leavengood
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• Author(s): Ted Leavengood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Heading into their ninth season, the expansion Washington Senators had never won more than 76 games in a sea...
View full detailsRebels without Borders
Idean Salehyan
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• Author(s): Idean Salehyan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a...
View full detailsRoy Lichtenstein
Graham Bader
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• Author(s): Graham Bader • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralThe most comprehensive collection on Lichtenstein, from the earliest reviews to recent reassessments, including several hard-to-f...
View full detailsJohnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
Leigh H. Edwards
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• Author(s): Leigh H. Edwards • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - GeneralThroughout his career, Johnny Cash has been depicted--and has depict...
View full detailsBlack American Military Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary
Walter L. Hawkins
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• Author(s): Walter L. Hawkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: MilitaryOffers detailed, career-oriented summaries of men and women who often overcame societal obstacles to become ranking ...
View full detailsCheap Tricks and Class Acts: Special Effects, Makeup and Stunts from the Fantastic Fifties
John J. J. Johnson
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• Author(s): John J. J. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In the 1950s Hollywood unleashed a wave of monsters; everything from demon aliens and dinosaurs to blobs and...
View full detailsThe 1945 Detroit Tigers: Nine Old Men and One Young Left Arm Win It All
Burge Carmon Smith
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• Author(s): Burge Carmon Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Having finished the previous season a mere game behind pennant-winning St. Louis, the Detroit Tigers ent...
View full detailsGuillermo Calles: A Biography of the Actor and Mexican Cinema Pioneer
Rogelio Agrasánchez
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• Author(s): Rogelio Agrasánchez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In 1912, Guillermo Calles (1893-1958) became the first Mexican actor to appear in films made in California....
View full detailsLife under Pressure: Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
Tommy Bengtsson, Cameron Campbell, James Z. Lee
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• Author(s): Tommy Bengtsson | Cameron Campbell | James Z. Lee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: DemographyA pioneering work in comparative history and social science that compares population behavior in response to a...
View full detailsThe Nature of Love, Volume 2: Courtly and Romantic
Irving Singer
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• Author(s): Irving Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismAn examination of ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and the transition into later Romantic love, analyzing the work of Dante, Sh...
View full detailsThe Natural World in Latin American Literatures: Ecocritical Essays on Twentieth Century Writings
Adrian Taylor Kane
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• Author(s): Adrian Taylor Kane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From the Popol Vuh to postmodernism, imagery of the natural world has played an important role in Latin American li...
View full detailsHollywood in the Holy Land: Essays on Film Depictions of the Crusades and Christian-Muslim Clashes
Nickolas Haydock, E. L. Risden
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• Author(s): Nickolas Haydock | E. L. Risden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This collection of essays analyzes film representations of the Crusades, other ...
View full detailsEveryday Engineering: An Ethnography of Design and Innovation
Dominique Vinck
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• Author(s): Dominique Vinck • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)A guide to the everyday working world of engineers, written by researchers trained in both engineering and sociology.Everyday Enginee...
View full detailsBoys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti
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• Author(s): Antonia Levi | Mark McHarry | Dru Pagliassotti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels "Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by wom...
View full detailsDictionary of Sports and Games Terminology
Adrian Room
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• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The specialized jargon of some sports can be quite esoteric. Non-Americans, for example, are likely puzzled by baseball ...
View full detailsNils Thor Granlund: Show Business Entrepreneur and America's First Radio Star
Larry J. Hoefling
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• Author(s): Larry J. Hoefling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Nils T. Granlund (1882-1957) created the first movie preview, filmed the first...
View full detailsDana Andrews: The Face of Noir
James McKay
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• Author(s): James McKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Dana Andrews, arguably the finest minimalist actor of his generation, as one critic commented, could convey more wi...
View full detailsThe White House in Mourning: Deaths and Funerals of Presidents in Office
Martin S. Nowak
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• Author(s): Martin S. Nowak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State Eight U.S. presidencies have ended in death. This work covers the deaths and attendant mournin...
View full detailsAnarchy as Order: The History and Future of Civic Humanity
Mohammed a. Bamyeh
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• Author(s): Mohammed a. Bamyeh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political Ideologies - AnarchismThis original and impressively researched book explores the concept...
View full detailsForties Film Funnymen: The Decade's Great Comedians at Work in the Shadow of War
Wes D. Gehring
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• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining com...
View full detailsHabits of the Heartland
Lyn C. MacGregor
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• Author(s): Lyn C. MacGregor • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Rural"So, how do Americans in a small town make community today? This book argues that there is more than one a...
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