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Early Professional Baseball in Hampton Roads: A History, 1884-1928
Peter C. Stewart
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• Author(s): Peter C. Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This work focuses on the Norfolk team (nicknamed the Mary Janes), which played in the Virginia, Eastern an...
View full detailsThe Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment
Peter Dauvergne
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• Author(s): Peter Dauvergne • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralAn environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the env...
View full detailsNew Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion
Richard Ling
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• Author(s): Richard Ling • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: TelecommunicationsHow cell phones and mobile communication may in many cases strengthen social cohesion.The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone ...
View full detailsImpossible Border: Germany and the East, 1914-1922
Annemarie H. Sammartino
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• Author(s): Annemarie H. Sammartino • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyBetween 1914 and 1922, millions of Europeans left their homes as a result of war, postwar settlement...
View full detailsKentucke's Frontiers
Craig Thompson Friend
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• Author(s): Craig Thompson Friend • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,American culture has long celebrated the heroism frame...
View full detailsThe 22nd Maine Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Ned Smith
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• Author(s): Ned Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This book follows the 22nd Maine Regiment from their formation through their part in Ge...
View full detailsChess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008
Gino Di Felice
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• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This comprehensive reference work presents detailed bibliographical information about worldwide chess periodicals past to...
View full detailsNew Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West: Narushima Ryuhoku Reports from Home and Abroad
Ryuhoku Narushima, Matthew Fraleigh
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• Author(s): Ryuhoku Narushima | Matthew Fraleigh • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - JapanThis book features complete annotated translations of Narushima Ryuhoku's two most widely r...
View full detailsHuman Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850
Karen Racine, Beatriz G. Mamigonian
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• Author(s): Karen Racine | Beatriz G. Mamigonian • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)This collection of compact biographies ...
View full detailsInner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils
Mark Pizzato
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• Author(s): Mark Pizzato • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Among the most intriguing questions of neurology is how conceptions of good and evil arise in the human brain. In a world...
View full detailsMysteries from Baseball's Past: Investigations of Nine Unsettled Questions
Angelo J. Louisa, David Cicotello
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• Author(s): Angelo J. Louisa | David Cicotello • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This collection of nine essays examines some of baseball's most elusive mysteries. Topic...
View full detailsHorrors: Great Stories of Fear and Their Creators
Rocky Wood, Glenn Chadbourne
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• Author(s): Rocky Wood | Glenn Chadbourne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General That notorious evening at Villa Diodati when Lord Byron challenged his contemporaries to write a ghost s...
View full detailsBattered Woman Syndrome as a Legal Defense: History, Effectiveness and Implications
Brenda L. Russell
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• Author(s): Brenda L. Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology The use of the battered woman syndrome defense in the courts is controversial, particularly when women turn to h...
View full detailsThe Plays of Yasmina Reza on the English and American Stage
Amanda Giguere
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• Author(s): Amanda Giguere • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General The seven plays to date of Yasmina Reza, one of France's most prominent female playwrights, are popular both ...
View full detailsClosing 'Em Down: Final Games at Thirteen Classic Ballparks
David M. Jordan
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• Author(s): David M. Jordan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Though the players make the highlight reels, for fans of Major League Baseball the actual ballparks are oft...
View full detailsThe Bloody South Carolina Election of 1876: Wade Hampton III, the Red Shirt Campaign for Governor and the End of Reconstruction
Jerry L. West
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• Author(s): Jerry L. West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, For more than 10 years after the close of the Civil War, South ...
View full detailsWomen Military Pilots of World War II: A History with Biographies of American, British, Russian and German Aviators
Lois K. Merry
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• Author(s): Lois K. Merry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II More than 2000 women in the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union flew military airplanes in...
View full detailsThe Cellphone: The History and Technology of the Gadget That Changed the World
Guy Klemens
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• Author(s): Guy Klemens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Presenting the history of the cellular phone from its beginnings in the 1940s to the present, this book explains the funda...
View full detailsDeborah Kerr: A Biography
Michelangelo Capua
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• Author(s): Michelangelo Capua • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Blessed with a natural beauty, Scotland-born actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) provided the cinema with memor...
View full detailsDowning Street Blues: A History of Depression and Other Mental Afflictions in British Prime Ministers
Jonathan Davidson
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• Author(s): Jonathan Davidson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General Presenting an account of mental illness in British prime ministers from Sir Robert Walpole,...
View full detailsSignature Seasons: Fifteen Baseball Legends at Their Most Memorable, 1908-1949
Paul Warburton
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• Author(s): Paul Warburton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This work recreates for the reader the best of the best, at their best. The author devotes a chapter each to...
View full detailsBuffy in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with the Vampire Slayer
Jodie A. Kreider, Meghan K. Winchell
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• Author(s): Jodie A. Kreider | Meghan K. Winchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book combines the academic and practical aspects of teaching by exploring the ...
View full detailsAction, Ethics, and Responsibility
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: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyLeading philosophers explore responsibility from a variety of perspect...
View full detailsCollege Football's Most Memorable Games, 2d ed.
Fred Eisenhammer, Eric B. Sondheimer
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• Author(s): Fred Eisenhammer | Eric B. Sondheimer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football Presented here are 60 games featuring some of the most outstanding efforts in history--dramatic...
View full detailsThe Great Red Sox Spring Training Tour of 1911: Sixty-Three Games, Coast to Coast
Bill Nowlin
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• Author(s): Bill Nowlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1911, decades before coast-to-coast travel became a fact of life in major league baseball, the Boston Red So...
View full detailsA Concise History of the Common Law. Fifth Edition.
Theodore F. T. Plucknett
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• Author(s): Theodore F. T. Plucknett • Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThe Best Edition of this Classic History: A Comprehensive Legal History of England from...
View full detailsSka: An Oral History
Heather Augustyn
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• Author(s): Heather Augustyn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thou...
View full detailsThe Promethean Illusion: The Western Belief in Human Mastery of Nature
Bob Tostevin
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• Author(s): Bob Tostevin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental Policy This book explores two contradictory realities: our continuing belief that nature is subject...
View full detailsDeclarations of Stock Car Independents: Interviews with Twelve Racers of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
Perry Allen Wood
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• Author(s): Perry Allen Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General Independent stock car racers rarely won, often crashed, and flirted with death constantly, all for less ...
View full detailsForensic Science in Court: Challenges in the Twenty First Century
Donald Shelton
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• Author(s): Donald Shelton • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Civil ProcedureForensic Science in Court explores the legal implications of forensic science-an increas...
View full detailsLearning to Speak, Learning to Listen
Susan E. Chase
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• Author(s): Susan E. Chase • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherOver the past three decades, colleges and universities have committed to encouraging, embracing, and...
View full detailsA Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations
Yuri Dolgopolov
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• Author(s): Yuri Dolgopolov • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which d...
View full detailsThe 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
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• Author(s): Gregory Cochran | Henry Harpending • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsTwo leading researchers make the controversial argument that our species is still measurably...
View full detailsGods in the Desert: Religions of the Ancient Near East
Glenn S. Holland
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• Author(s): Glenn S. Holland • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: HistoryGods in the Desert explores the fascinating religious cultures of the ancient Near East. From ...
View full detailsLost at Guadalcanal: The Final Battles of the Astoria and Chicago as Described by Survivors and in Official Reports
John J. Domagalski
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• Author(s): John J. Domagalski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II The dramatic account of two American warships in the South Pacific, this book follows the USS Astor...
View full detailsFred Hutchinson and the 1964 Cincinnati Reds
Doug Wilson
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• Author(s): Doug Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Fred Hutchinson, the popular manager of the Cincinnati Reds, was at the top of his profession when he was sudde...
View full detailsPaul Robeson: Film Pioneer
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General This is the first book-length study of the 12 films starring African American Ren...
View full detailsThe Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Merrie A. Fidler
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• Author(s): Merrie A. Fidler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball ...
View full detailsColumbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982
Michael R. Pitts
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• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From 1928 through 1982, when Columbia Pictures Corporation was a traded stock company, the studio released som...
View full detailsCharacters and Plots in the Fiction of Raymond Chandler
Robert L. Gale
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• Author(s): Robert L. Gale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Raymond Chandler was a pioneer of what came to be known as hard-boiled mystery-detective fictio...
View full detailsLaurette Taylor, American Stage Legend
Lynn Kear
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• Author(s): Lynn Kear • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General How did Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) become America's most celebrated actress? What tra...
View full detailsChemical and Electrical Hypersensitivity: A Sufferer's Memoir
Jerry Evans
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• Author(s): Jerry Evans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Electrical and multiple chemical sensitivities are disabling illnesses, yet many doctors know little of these conditions, ...
View full detailsThe Shadow Puppet Theatre of Malaysia: A Study of Wayang Kulit with Performance Scripts and Puppet Designs
Beth Osnes
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• Author(s): Beth Osnes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General This comprehensive book explores the Malaysian form of shadow puppet theatre, highlighting its unique nature with...
View full detailsSubstances and Universals in Aristotle's "metaphysics"
Theodore Scaltsas
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• Author(s): Theodore Scaltsas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn this book, Theodore Scaltsas brings the insights of contemporary philoso...
View full detailsProto-Austronesian Phonology with Glossary
John U. Wolff, Laurent Sagart
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• Author(s): John U. Wolff | Laurent Sagart • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)This work, divided into two volumes, is ...
View full detailsFacing Age: Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture
Laura Hurd Clarke
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• Author(s): Laura Hurd Clarke • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFacing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsesse...
View full detailsProto-Austronesian Phonology with Glossary
John U. Wolff, Laurent Sagart
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• Author(s): John U. Wolff | Laurent Sagart • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)This work, divided into two volumes, is ...
View full detailsA Century of Detection: Twenty Great Mystery Stories, 1841-1940
John Cullen Gruesser
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• Author(s): John Cullen Gruesser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Designed for mystery lovers as well as professors and students in college courses devoted to detective fiction, t...
View full detailsRag Paper Manufacture in the United States, 1801-1900: A History, with Directories of Mills and Owners
Aj Valente
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• Author(s): Aj Valente • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Outlining the early history of the U.S. paper industry, this book provides details on paper manufacturing f...
View full detailsVoices in the Dark: Interviews with Horror Writers, Directors and Actors
Paul Kane, Marie O'Regan
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• Author(s): Paul Kane | Marie O'Regan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Covering a range from supernatural fiction to dark fantasy to graphic horror, these 25 interviewees d...
View full detailsDracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010
John Edgar Browning, Picart
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• Author(s): John Edgar Browning | Picart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is a comprehensive sourcebook on the world's most famous vampire, with more t...
View full detailsForgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War
Edwin G. Burrows
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• Author(s): Edwin G. Burrows • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison...
View full detailsMao's New World
Chang-Tai Hung
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• Author(s): Chang-Tai Hung • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung ...
View full detailsMarriage on the Rock
Jimmy Evans, Karen Evans
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• Author(s): Jimmy Evans | Karen Evans • Publisher: Zdl Books • Publisher Imprint: Zdl Books • BISAC: Christian Living - Love & MarriageSociety requires years of preparation for almost any significant career endeavor, but demands no preparati...
View full detailsWeapons of the Wealthy: Predatory Regimes and Elite-Led Protests in Central Asia
Scott B. Radnitz
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• Author(s): Scott B. Radnitz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacyMass mobilization is among the most dramatic and inspiring forces for political change. When ordinary cit...
View full detailsThe Muslim Diaspora, Volume 1, 570-1500: A Comprehensive Chronology of the Spread of Islam in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas
Everett Jenkins
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• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islam - General This first volume covers the development of Islam in the period from the birth of Muhammad in C.E. 570 through...
View full detailsBurmese (Myanmar)
John Okell, U. Saw Tun, Daw Khin Mya Swe
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• Author(s): John Okell | U. Saw Tun | Daw Khin Mya Swe • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)The second volume in a four-pa...
View full detailsThe Anticipation Novelists of 1950s French Science Fiction: Stepchildren of Voltaire
Bradford Lyau, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Bradford Lyau | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house ...
View full detailsMilitary Loyalists of the American Revolution: Officers and Regiments, 1775-1783
Walter T. Dornfest
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• Author(s): Walter T. Dornfest • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary War This book focuses not only on those officers residing within the borders of the 13 rebell...
View full detailsSpiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
Daromir Rudnyckyj
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• Author(s): Daromir Rudnyckyj • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity--...
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