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Susan Glaspell: The Complete Plays
Susan Glaspell, Linda Ben-Zvi, J. Ellen Gainor
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• Author(s): Susan Glaspell | Linda Ben-Zvi | J. Ellen Gainor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The first complete collection of the works of American playwright Susan Glaspell, thi...
View full detailsColor Ontology and Color Science
Jonathan Cohen, Mohan Matthen
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• Author(s): Jonathan Cohen | Mohan Matthen • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuroscienceLeading philosophers and scientists consider what conclusions about color can be drawn when the latest analytic tools a...
View full detailsCity of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
Andrew M. Gardner
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• Author(s): Andrew M. Gardner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationIn City of Strangers, Andrew M. Gardner explores the everyday experiences of workers from India who have migrated to the Kin...
View full detailsFlying Cars, Amphibious Vehicles and Other Dual Mode Transports: An Illustrated Worldwide History
George W. Green
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• Author(s): George W. Green • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General It wasn't very long after the first commercially viable automobiles came on the scene that ambitious engi...
View full detailsIron Ore Transport on the Great Lakes: The Development of a Delivery System to Feed American Industry
W. Bruce Bowlus
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• Author(s): W. Bruce Bowlus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The availability of inexpensive steel, so crucial to the United States' emergence as a leading industr...
View full detailsJohn Huston: Essays on a Restless Director
Tony Tracy, Roddy Flynn
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• Author(s): Tony Tracy | Roddy Flynn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Years after his death, American filmmaker John Huston (1906-1987) remains an enigma...
View full detailsGothic Realities: The Impact of Horror Fiction on Modern Culture
L. Andrew Cooper
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• Author(s): L. Andrew Cooper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Gothic & Romance Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical be...
View full detailsMotherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women
Gloria Thomas Pillow
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• Author(s): Gloria Thomas Pillow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl This book closely examines the mother figure in six ...
View full detailsAmerican Women Theatre Critics: Biographies and Selected Writings of Twelve Reviewers, 1753-1919
Alma J. Bennett
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• Author(s): Alma J. Bennett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General While the history of American theatre has been widely documented, the history of its female reviewers has be...
View full detailsCultures at War
Tony Day, Maya H. T. Liem
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• Author(s): Tony Day | Maya H. T. Liem • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe Cold War in Southeast Asia was a many-faceted conflict, driven by ...
View full detailsContending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses
Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Sean M. Lynn-Jones
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• Author(s): Michael E. Brown | Owen R. Cote | Sean M. Lynn-Jones • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: TerrorismExperts explore the sources of contemporary terrorism, what terrorists want, and how the United States and o...
View full detailsJohn Sayles, Filmmaker: A Critical Study and Filmography, 2d ed.
Jack Ryan
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• Author(s): Jack Ryan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Individual Director In 1980, art house audience word of mouth about an unusual new movie, Return of the Secaucus Seven, launched th...
View full detailsPeddling Bicycles to America: The Rise of an Industry
Bruce D. Epperson
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• Author(s): Bruce D. Epperson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cycling - General This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period f...
View full detailsAldous Huxley and the Search for Meaning: A Study of the Eleven Novels
Ronald T. Sion
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• Author(s): Ronald T. Sion • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Aldous Huxley, author of eleven novels, remains one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, his work resistan...
View full detailsNine Famous Operas: What's Really Going On!
Iris J. Arnesen
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• Author(s): Iris J. Arnesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book contains analyses of the stories and music of nine operas, presented in chronological order from 1791 to 192...
View full detailsAfter the Vote Was Won: The Later Achievements of Fifteen Suffragists
Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene
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• Author(s): Katherine H. Adams | Michael L. Keene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Because scholars have traditionally examined the efforts of American suffragists...
View full detailsThe Boy Detectives: Essays on the Hardy Boys and Others
Michael G. Cornelius
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• Author(s): Michael G. Cornelius • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Much has been written about the girl sleuth in fiction, a feminist figure embodying all t...
View full detailsChina's Rise in Historical Perspective
Brantly Womack
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• Author(s): Brantly Womack • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis innovative text combines an understanding of the history of China's rise with analyses...
View full detailsKnowledge and Environmental Policy: Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Science and Politics
William Ascher, Toddi Steelman, Robert Healy
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• Author(s): William Ascher | Toddi Steelman | Robert Healy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn analysis of the challenges involved in incorporating science and other kinds of know...
View full detailsGlobal Commons, Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change
Kathryn Harrison, Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
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• Author(s): Kathryn Harrison | Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyComparative case studies and analyses of the influence of domestic politics on countries' c...
View full detailsDemons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature
Ruth Bienstock Anolik
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• Author(s): Ruth Bienstock Anolik • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Gothic mode, typically preoccupied by questions of difference and otherness, consistently imagines the Other...
View full detailsLynchings of Women in the United States: The Recorded Cases, 1851-1946
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority o...
View full detailsCircles of Exclusion: The Politics of Health Care in Israel
Dani Filc, Quentin Young
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• Author(s): Dani Filc | Quentin Young • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryIn its early years, Israel's dominant ideology led to public provision of health care for all Jewish citizens-regardless of ...
View full detailsThe Captive and the Gift
Bruce Grant
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• Author(s): Bruce Grant • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses th...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Preston Sturges: A Critical Study
Alessandro Pirolini
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• Author(s): Alessandro Pirolini • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Most published works on writer-director Preston Sturges (1898-1959) have focused on the ele...
View full detailsThe Syntax of Adjectives: A Comparative Study
Guglielmo Cinque
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• Author(s): Guglielmo Cinque • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxA new analysis of adjectives, supported by comparative evidence.In The Syntax of Adjectives, Guglielmo Cinque offers cross-linguistic...
View full detailsTime and Identity
Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Harry S. Silverstein
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• Author(s): Joseph Keim Campbell | Michael O'Rourke | Harry S. Silverstein • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: MetaphysicsOriginal essays on the metaphysics of time, identity, and the self, written by distingui...
View full detailsThe Mechanical Fuze and the Advance of Artillery in the Civil War
Edward B. McCaul
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• Author(s): Edward B. McCaul • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The rifled artillery used during the Civil War created the need for a new and mo...
View full detailsIris Murdoch and the Moral Imagination
M. F. Simone Roberts, Alison Scott-Baumann
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• Author(s): M. F. Simone Roberts | Alison Scott-Baumann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The writing of Iris Murdoch has long been of interest to both literature enthusiasts and s...
View full detailsThe ILO and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919Ð2009
Gerry Rodgers, Eddy Lee, Lee Swepston
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• Author(s): Gerry Rodgers | Eddy Lee | Lee Swepston • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsCopublished with the International Labour OrganizationThis book tells the story of the Internation...
View full detailsThe Comedy of Dave Chappelle: Critical Essays
K. a. Wisniewski
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• Author(s): K. a. Wisniewski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comedy Perhaps best known for his highly acclaimed, short-lived Comedy Central program Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle is wi...
View full detailsComing Soon: Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology
Keith M. Johnston
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• Author(s): Keith M. Johnston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The audience's first exposure to a new movie is often in the form of a "coming attraction" trailer, and short...
View full detailsBreaking the Banks in Motor City: The Auto Industry, the 1933 Detroit Banking Crisis and the Start of the New Deal
Darwyn H. Lumley
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• Author(s): Darwyn H. Lumley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General This history tells the relatively unknown story of how the Detroit automobile industry played a major ro...
View full detailsHijacked Justice
Jelena Subotic
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• Author(s): Jelena Subotic • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralWhat is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic trac...
View full detailsWilliam T. Vollmann: A Critical Study and Seven Interviews
Michael Hemmingson
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• Author(s): Michael Hemmingson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading Talking bugs, electricity, the founding of empires, hobos, Nazis, whores, violence, drugs, murder, secr...
View full detailsThe North American Porcupine
Uldis Roze
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• Author(s): Uldis Roze • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - MammalsPraise for the first edition: "Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time autho...
View full detailsEd Wood, Mad Genius: A Critical Study of the Films
Rob Craig
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• Author(s): Rob Craig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Filmmaker Ed Wood was controversial and critically maligned, even labeled "the worst director of a...
View full detailsHomeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes: Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination
Laura S. Brown
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• Author(s): Laura S. Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceIn eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with t...
View full detailsThe Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction
Farah Mendlesohn, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Farah Mendlesohn | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Science fiction is often considered the genre of ideas and imagination, whic...
View full detailsThe B-29 Superfortress Chronology, 1934-1960
Robert A. Mann
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• Author(s): Robert A. Mann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was.The introd...
View full detailsThe Early Image of Black Baseball: Race and Representation in the Popular Press, 1871-1890
James E. Brunson
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• Author(s): James E. Brunson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This volume examines early black baseball as it was represented in the artwork and written accounts of the...
View full details"Football! Navy! War!": How Military "Lend-Lease" Players Saved the College Game and Helped Win World War II
Wilbur D. Jones
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• Author(s): Wilbur D. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Not coincidentally, the sport of football naturally employs terms usually associated with war, such as "aerial attack,...
View full detailsThe 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Dennis W. Belcher
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• Author(s): Dennis W. Belcher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The 10th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry waged battle for the Union for three years during th...
View full detailsLast Man Out: Glenn McDole, USMC, Survivor of the Palawan Massacre in World War II [LARGE PRINT]
Bob Wilbanks
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• Author(s): Bob Wilbanks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the stor...
View full detailsMediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory
Astrid Erll, Ann Rigney, Laura Basu
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• Author(s): Astrid Erll | Ann Rigney | Laura Basu • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GeneralThis collection of essays brings together two major new developments in cultural memory studies: firstly, the sh...
View full detailsCaledonian Jews: A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland
Nathan Abrams
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• Author(s): Nathan Abrams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General This is the first full history of the Jews in Scotland who lived outside Edinburgh and Glasgow....
View full detailsFathers and Sons in Baseball Broadcasting: The Carays, Brennamans, Bucks and Kalases
Tony Silvia
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• Author(s): Tony Silvia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In this work, first-hand accounts and original interviews illuminate how the father-son relationship thrives be...
View full detailsSurvival Artist: A Memoir of the Holocaust
Eugene Bergman
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• Author(s): Eugene Bergman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Memoirs This vividly detailed memoir describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped death by living a c...
View full detailsHard-Luck Harvey Haddix and the Greatest Game Ever Lost
Lew Freedman
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• Author(s): Lew Freedman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History He pitched a baseball game that was more than perfect, and yet he lost. Southpaw Harvey Haddix had logged a so...
View full detailsTarnished Heroes, Charming Villains, and Modern Monsters: Science Fiction in Shades of Gray on 21st Century Television
Lynnette Porter
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• Author(s): Lynnette Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The heroes, villains, and monsters portrayed in such popular science fiction television s...
View full detailsFairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity
Pauline Greenhill
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• Author(s): Pauline Greenhill • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis ISBN refers to the ebook edition of this text, available directly from the publis...
View full detailsDown Detour Road: An Architect in Search of Practice
Eric J. Cesal
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• Author(s): Eric J. Cesal • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Professional PracticeA young architect's search for new architectural values in a time of economic crisis.I paused at the stoop and thought this could be th...
View full detailsFrankenstein
Mary Shelley
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• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Simon & Brown • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Brown • BISAC: GothicThis best selling classic is about a young Swiss student who uncovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body p...
View full detailsJews and the Imperial State
Eugene M. Avrutin
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• Author(s): Eugene M. Avrutin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralAt the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, a gradual shift occurred in the wa...
View full detailsEnfoldment and Infinity: Comparative Philosophical Perspectives
Laura U. Marks
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• Author(s): Laura U. Marks • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralTracing the connections--both visual and philosophical--between new media art and classical Islamic art.In both classical Is...
View full detailsOrigins of Human Communication
Michael Tomasello
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• Author(s): Michael Tomasello • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human c...
View full detailsHappiness: A Revolution in Economics
Bruno S. Frey
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• Author(s): Bruno S. Frey • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryA leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-being) to answer important questions that st...
View full detailsDyslexia, Learning, and the Brain
Roderick Nicolson, Angela Fawcett
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• Author(s): Roderick Nicolson | Angela Fawcett • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuropsychologyA unique overview of research on dyslexia and an account of the underlying causes at cognitive, brain, and neural system...
View full detailsMelting-Pot Modernism
Sarah Wilson
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• Author(s): Sarah Wilson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralBetween 1891 and 1920 more than 18 million immigrants entered the United States. While many Americans respond...
View full detailsThe Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media
Ilana M. Gershon
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• Author(s): Ilana M. Gershon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Internet - Social MediaA few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special obje...
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