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Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory
Emily Monosson
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• Author(s): Emily Monosson • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAbout half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. A...
View full detailsChina Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society
Joseph Fewsmith
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• Author(s): Joseph Fewsmith • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehen...
View full detailsMcClellan and Failure: A Study of Civil War Fear, Incompetence and Worse
Edward H. Bonekemper
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• Author(s): Edward H. Bonekemper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War In the eyes of many historians, Union general George B. McClellan single-handedly did more dama...
View full detailsThe Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare This annotated edition of The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet provides two valuable textual services to its reade...
View full detailsThe Secret Lives of Boys: Inside the Raw Emotional World of Male Teens
Malina Saval
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• Author(s): Malina Saval • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Children's StudiesAn edgy and revealing examination of the lives, dreams, and goals of teenage boys today
From Broadway to the Bowery: A History and Filmography of the Dead End Kids, Little Tough Guys, East Side Kids and Bowery Boys Films, with Cast Biogra
Leonard Getz
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• Author(s): Leonard Getz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews In 1935 Sidney Kingsley's play about streetwise urban kids, Dead End, opened on Broadway featuring 14...
View full detailsParentonomics: An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting
Joshua Gans
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• Author(s): Joshua Gans • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralWhat every parent needs to know about negotiating, incentives, outsourcing, and other strategies to solve the economic management problem t...
View full detailsAmerican Notes for General Circulation: Volume 1
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesCharles Dickens (1812-1870) is best remembered today for the novels which offer a fantastic, eve...
View full detailsTrippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember
Gail Gerber, Tom Lisanti
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• Author(s): Gail Gerber | Tom Lisanti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This award-winning memoir about "the hippest guy on the planet" recollects novelist/screenwriter Terr...
View full detailsWhen the Cubs Won It All: The 1908 Championship Season
George R. Matthews
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• Author(s): George R. Matthews • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the fall of 1908, no one could have guessed that the Chicago Cubs, a team that had dominated the Nati...
View full detailsThe Egyptian Strategy for the Yom Kippur War: An Analysis
Dani Asher
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• Author(s): Dani Asher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - General This volume examines the military strategy and issues that Egyptian war planners faced during the 1973 Yom Ki...
View full detailsGlory Was Not Their Companion: The Twenty-Sixth New York Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
Paul Taylor
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• Author(s): Paul Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Recruited primarily from the gentle farmlands of central New York, the men of the Twe...
View full detailsWar and Shadows: The Haunting of Vietnam
Mai Lan Gustafsson
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• Author(s): Mai Lan Gustafsson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Supernatural (Incl. Ghosts)War and Shadows is a fascinating book packed with vibrant stories and lucid exploration of the...
View full detailsOn the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea
Sunyoung Park, Jefferson J. a. Gatrall
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• Author(s): Sunyoung Park | Jefferson J. a. Gatrall • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: LiteraryCollected here are translations into English of six classic stories from colonial Korea (191...
View full detailsMadness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment
Mary de Young
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• Author(s): Mary de Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History "Madness" is, of course, personally experienced, but because of its intimate relationship to the sociocultural context, ...
View full detailsMollie's War: The Letters of a World War II WAC in Europe
Mollie Weinstein Schaffer, Cyndee Schaffer, Jennifer G. Mathers
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• Author(s): Mollie Weinstein Schaffer | Cyndee Schaffer | Jennifer G. Mathers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The 150,000 women who served in the Women's Army Corps are now seen...
View full detailsThe American Worker on Film: A Critical History, 1909-1999
Doyle Greene
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• Author(s): Doyle Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism An examination of the cinematic and cultural discourse surrounding work, the worker, organized lab...
View full detailsAnthony Mann: The Film Career
William Darby
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• Author(s): William Darby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This detailed study of the career of Anthony Mann argues Mann's prominence and influence alo...
View full detailsCinema of the Psychic Realm: A Critical Survey
Paul Meehan
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• Author(s): Paul Meehan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Cinema is ideally suited to the world of psychic phenomena. A technique as simple as a voice-over c...
View full detailsThe Storm of Our Lives: A Vietnamese Family's Boat Journey to Freedom
Tai Van Nguyen
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• Author(s): Tai Van Nguyen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Personal Memoirs This memoir vividly describes the struggle of one Vietnamese family and their seven day ordeal to escape perse...
View full detailsStore in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict
Steven J. Gold
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• Author(s): Steven J. Gold • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThe Store in the Hood is a comprehensive study of conflicts between immigrant merch...
View full detailsGood Medicine and Good Music: A Biography of Mrs. Joe Person, Patent Remedy Entrepreneur and Musician, Including the Complete Text of Her 1903 Autobio
David Hursh, Chris Goertzen
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• Author(s): David Hursh | Chris Goertzen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell in...
View full detailsThe Making of Salem: The Witch Trials in History, Fiction and Tourism
Robin DeRosa
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• Author(s): Robin DeRosa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Magick Studies The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are a case study in hysteria and group psychology, and the cultural effects still l...
View full detailsWilber Bullet Rogan and the Kansas City Monarchs
Phil S. Dixon
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• Author(s): Phil S. Dixon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Both a biography of Wilber "Bullet" Rogan and a history of his great Kansas City Monarchs teams, 1920-1938, this detailed...
View full detailsCrime Scene Spain: Essays on Post-Franco Crime Fiction
Renée W. Craig-Odders, Jacky Collins
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• Author(s): Renée W. Craig-Odders | Jacky Collins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This essay collection examines the changing cultural, political and phys...
View full detailsThe Secret Life of Movies: Schizophrenic and Shamanic Journeys in American Cinema
Jason Horsley
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• Author(s): Jason Horsley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Film blurs the line between myth and reality better than any other artistic medium, one could arg...
View full detailsIn Case Atom Bombs Fall: An Anthology of Governmental Explanations, Instructions and Warnings from the 1940s to the 1960s
Michael Scheibach
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• Author(s): Michael Scheibach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General With the very real possibility of nuclear war looming on the horizon from 1945 to the early 1960s, b...
View full detailsThe Romantic World of Puccini: A New Critical Appraisal of the Operas
Iris J. Arnesen
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• Author(s): Iris J. Arnesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly...
View full detailsIdentification Discs of Union Soldiers in the Civil War: A Complete Classification Guide and Illustrated History
Larry B. Maier, Joseph W. Stahl
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• Author(s): Larry B. Maier | Joseph W. Stahl • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) As an iconic symbol of the American GI, the dog tag has gained c...
View full detailsThe Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris
George Baker
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• Author(s): George Baker • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralA new theory of the readymade via a new reading of Picabia and a new writing of Dada.The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy,...
View full detailsRay Schalk: A Baseball Biography
Brian E. Cooper
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• Author(s): Brian E. Cooper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This is the first book-length biography of Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk, once described as the yardstick against whi...
View full detailsRadio Crime Fighters: More Than 300 Programs from the Golden Age
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes In the early days of radio, producers, directors and scriptwriters were well aware of the listening publi...
View full detailsDo Not Open: The Discarded Refrigerators of Post-Katrina New Orleans
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde
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• Author(s): Katheryn Krotzer Laborde • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, When the floodwaters that swamped New Orleans finall...
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The Literary Monster on Film: Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations
The Literary Monster on Film: Five Nineteenth Century British Novels and Their Cinematic Adaptations
Abigail Burnham Bloom
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• Author(s): Abigail Burnham Bloom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonists...
View full detailsCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Richard Wrangham
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• Author(s): Richard Wrangham • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Anthropology - PhysicalA startling new theory that the invention of cooking led to the creation of the human species
Feminist Activism in Academia: Essays on Personal, Political and Professional Change
Ellen C. Mayock, Domnica Radulescu
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• Author(s): Ellen C. Mayock | Domnica Radulescu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General The eleven essays making up this book unite scholars from various disciplines to...
View full detailsThree Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions
Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston, Steven Epstein
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• Author(s): Keith Wailoo | Julie Livingston | Steven Epstein • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryIn 2007, Texas governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring t...
View full detailsGeriatric Physical Diagnosis: A Guide to Observation and Assessment
Mark E. Williams
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• Author(s): Mark E. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Geriatrics Informed by more than thirty years of experience, this guide provides a wealth of insight into the clinical observ...
View full detailsThe Boys of Adams' Battery G: The Civil War Through the Eyes of a Union Light Artillery Unit
Robert Grandchamp
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• Author(s): Robert Grandchamp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Raised from Rhode Island farmers and millworkers in the autumn of 1861, the Union soldiers of Batt...
View full detailsMasculinity in Vietnam War Narratives: A Critical Study of Fiction, Films and Nonfiction Writings
Brenda M. Boyle
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• Author(s): Brenda M. Boyle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Occurring alongside the Women's Rights, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, and other identity movements of the 1960s...
View full detailsDorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism, rev. ed.
Susan M. Levin
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• Author(s): Susan M. Levin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Like her more famous brother William, Dorothy Wordsworth was also an important writer. Yet her ...
View full detailsThe Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies: Essays on Transformations in American Undergraduate Programs
Tanya Augsburg, Stuart Henry
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• Author(s): Tanya Augsburg | Stuart Henry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Schools - Levels - Higher This collection of essays first highlights the popularity of interdisciplinary undergr...
View full detailsLynchings in Missouri, 1803-1981
Harriet C. Frazier
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• Author(s): Harriet C. Frazier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General At least 227 mob murders took place on Missouri soil between 1803 and 1981, all of which are identi...
View full detailsSiddhartha: An Indian Tale
Hermann Hesse
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• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Editorium • Publisher Imprint: Editorium • BISAC: LiteraryIn the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. Once he was a wandering monk, and briefly, like thousands of others,...
View full detailsPhilosophy for A2: Unit 3: Key Themes in Philosophy, 2008 Aqa Syllabus
Michael Lacewing
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• Author(s): Michael Lacewing • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralPhilosophy for A2: Unit 3 is the definitive textbook for students of the current AQA Advanced Level syllabus. Structured very closely around the A...
View full detailsPhilosophy for A2: Unit 4: Philosophical Problems, 2008 AQA Syllabus
Michael Lacewing
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• Author(s): Michael Lacewing • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis is the ideal companion to Unit 4 of the new AQA philosophy syllabus, covering the set texts in Unit 4: Philosophical Problems.The author look...
View full detailsThe Scheme Programming Language, fourth edition
R. Kent Dybvig
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• Author(s): R. Kent Dybvig • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming Languages - GeneralA thoroughly updated and expanded edition brings this popular introductory text and reference up to date with the current Sc...
View full detailsRoy Rogers: A Biography, Radio History, Television Career Chronicle, Discography, Filmography, Comicography, Merchandising and Advertising History, Co
Robert W. Phillips
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• Author(s): Robert W. Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This is the definitive work on Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys." The lives and car...
View full detailsModularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems
Werner Callebaut, Diego Rasskin-Gutman, Herbert A. Simon
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• Author(s): Werner Callebaut | Diego Rasskin-Gutman | Herbert A. Simon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: System TheoryExperts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmenta...
View full detailsMonetary Policy Strategy
Frederic S. Mishkin
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• Author(s): Frederic S. Mishkin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Money & Monetary PolicyA leading academic authority and policymaker discusses monetary policy strategy from the perspectives of both scholar and p...
View full detailsChange of State: Information, Policy, and Power
Sandra Braman
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• Author(s): Sandra Braman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceHow control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power: theoretical foundations and e...
View full detailsPlacenames of France: Over 4,000 Towns, Villages, Natural Features, Regions and Departments
Adrian Room
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• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - France From Arles and fontana to sanctus, Joinville-le-Pont and Notre-Dame-des-Champs, this work is an alphabetical dict...
View full detailsReading Appalachia from Left to Right
Carol Mason
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• Author(s): Carol Mason • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: FinanceIn Reading Appalachia from Left to Right, Carol Mason examines the legacies of a pivotal 1974 curriculum dispute in West ...
View full detailsThe Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II
Michael Alfred Peszke
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• Author(s): Michael Alfred Peszke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General This military history covers the attempts of General Wladyslaw Sikorski and his successor (General Kazim...
View full detailsChicago Journalism: A History
Wayne Klatt
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• Author(s): Wayne Klatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism This history of Chicago journalism is framed against the larger landscape of American media and the ways in which techn...
View full detailsCheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames
Mia Consalvo
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• Author(s): Mia Consalvo • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicA cultural history of digital gameplay that investigates a wide range of player behavior, including cheating, and its relationship to t...
View full detailsRhetoric Reclaimed: Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition
Janet M. Atwill
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• Author(s): Janet M. Atwill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of trad...
View full detailsCyborgs, Santa Claus and Satan: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films Made for Television
Fraser A. Sherman
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• Author(s): Fraser A. Sherman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism In the three decades since the first SF film produced for television--1968's Shadow on ...
View full detailsConrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography
John T. Soister
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• Author(s): John T. Soister • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Conrad Veidt, a native of Berlin, began acting in small parts as an extra until called into ser...
View full detailsStates' Gains, Labor's Losses
Dorothy J. Solinger
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• Author(s): Dorothy J. Solinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LaborIn this explicitly comparative work, Dorothy J. Solinger examines the effects of global markets on the domestic pol...
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