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Leslie Marmon Silko: A Literary Companion
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors This companion, appropriate for the lay reader and researcher alike, provides analysis of characters, plots...
View full detailsNew York Baseball in 1951: The Dodgers, the Giants, the Yankees and the Telescope
Rudy Marzano
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• Author(s): Rudy Marzano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This work covers one of the most controversial pennant races in baseball history. The Brooklyn Dodgers were le...
View full detailsAmerican Evangelical Protestantism and European Immigrants, 1800-1924
William J. Phalen
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• Author(s): William J. Phalen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Emigration & Immigration Few topics are as pertinent to the American political scene as immigration. This timely book ex...
View full detailsThe Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank, Creston Davis
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• Author(s): Slavoj Zizek | John Milbank | Creston Davis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ReligiousA militant Marxist atheist and a "Radical Orthodox" Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of...
View full detailsReorienting the Manchus: A Study of Sinicization, 1583-1795
Pei Huang
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• Author(s): Pei Huang • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMaking extensive use of Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, and Western sources, the author adopts a historical multifaceted ap...
View full detailsPan-African Chronology III: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1914-1929
Everett Jenkins
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• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl This third volume of the Pan-African Chronology set cover...
View full detailsW.H. Auden Encyclopedia
David Garrett Izzo
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• Author(s): David Garrett Izzo • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshW.H. Auden's life and work were perhaps best explained and condensed in the words of...
View full detailsThe Left Side of the Screen: Communist and Left-Wing Ideology in Hollywood, 1929-2009
Bob Herzberg
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• Author(s): Bob Herzberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In examining the careers of communist and liberal actors, screenwriters, playwrights, and director...
View full detailsAmerica's Environmental Report Card, Second Edition: Are We Making the Grade?
Harvey Blatt
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• Author(s): Harvey Blatt • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An accessible overview of the most important environmental issues facing the United States, with ne...
View full detailsVisions of Mars: Essays on the Red Planet in Fiction and Science
Howard V. Hendrix, George Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin
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• Author(s): Howard V. Hendrix | George Slusser | Eric S. Rabkin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Seventeen wide-ranging essays explore the evolving scientifi...
View full detailsLooking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series
Randy Laist
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• Author(s): Randy Laist • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Lost has received widespread acclaim as one of the most innovative, intelligent, and influent...
View full detailsWomen Composers of Classical Music: 369 Biographies from 1550 into the 20th Century
Mary F. McVicker
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• Author(s): Mary F. McVicker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Composers & Musicians - General As early as the 1500s, a surprising number of women have composed classical music. Many w...
View full detailsAncient Chinese Warfare
Ralph D. Sawyer
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• Author(s): Ralph D. Sawyer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - AncientThe history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, o...
View full detailsPan-African Chronology I: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1400-1865
Everett Jenkins
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• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The 1400s were a pivotal time in the history of Africans. The Songhai Empire rose to prominence and new city-states ar...
View full detailsBroken Silence: Conversations with 23 Silent Film Stars
Michael G. Ankerich
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• Author(s): Michael G. Ankerich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is a collection of 23 original interviews with stars of the silent screen, with biogra...
View full detailsThey Still Call Me Junior: Autobiography of a Child Star; With a Filmography
Frank Junior Coghlan
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• Author(s): Frank Junior Coghlan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Once called the "perfect example of a homeless waif" by director Cecil B. D...
View full detailsThe Sound of Silence: Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies
Michael G. Ankerich
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• Author(s): Michael G. Ankerich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroi...
View full detailsFinal Hours in the Pacific: The Allied Surrenders of Wake Island, Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore
Donald J. Young
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• Author(s): Donald J. Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II From December 7, 1941, until the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the war with Japan was a losing one. I...
View full detailsHeal Your Brain: How the New Neuropsychiatry Can Help You Go from Better to Well
David J. Hellerstein
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• Author(s): David J. Hellerstein • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: NeurologyMaybe you are one of the more than 45 million people in the United States who is currently struggl...
View full detailsInterfaces on Trial 2.0
Jonathan Band, Masanobu Katoh, Ed Black
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• Author(s): Jonathan Band | Masanobu Katoh | Ed Black • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intellectual Property - CopyrightThe debate over the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the glo...
View full detailsBritish Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays
Tobias Hochscherf, James Leggott, Donald E. Palumbo
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• Author(s): Tobias Hochscherf | James Leggott | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Written by international experts from a range of discipli...
View full detailsThe Mythic Fantasy of Robert Holdstock: Critical Essays on the Fiction
Donald E. Morse, Kálmán Matolcsy, Donald E. Palumbo
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• Author(s): Donald E. Morse | Kálmán Matolcsy | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Robert Holdstock was a prolific writer whose oeuvre includ...
View full detailsThe Taking of American Indian Lands in the Southeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Forced Relocations, 1607-1840
David W. Miller
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• Author(s): David W. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Between the time of the settling of Jamestown and the Trail of Tears in the 1830's, thousands of Ameri...
View full detailsSarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays
James Al-Shamma
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• Author(s): James Al-Shamma • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Although not yet 40, two-time Pulitzer finalist Sarah Ruhl has established herself as one of America's most ...
View full detailsThe Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball
Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch
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• Author(s): Sheldon Hirsch | Alan Hirsch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, ...
View full detailsGovernor Alexander Martin: Biography of a North Carolina Revolutionary War Statesman
Charles D. Rodenbough
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• Author(s): Charles D. Rodenbough • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Governor Alexander Martin of North Carolina was one of the most important figures in the colonial and early st...
View full detailsBreaking the Confederacy: The Georgia and Tennessee Campaigns of 1864
Jack H. Lepa
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• Author(s): Jack H. Lepa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War As the Civil War moved into 1864, people in the North expected newly appointed general-in-chief Ulysses...
View full detailsState and National Boundaries of the United States
Gary Alden Smith
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• Author(s): Gary Alden Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General With the exception of oceans, boundaries are artificial, man-made divisions of geography that many ti...
View full detailsJay-Z: Essays on Hip Hop's Philosopher King
Julius Bailey
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• Author(s): Julius Bailey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop Jay-Z is one of America's leading rappers and entrepreneurs, as well known for his music...
View full detailsTransnationalism and Society: An Introduction
Michael C. Howard
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• Author(s): Michael C. Howard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social In the past, as in the present, transnationalism has played a vital role in the develop...
View full detailsJames Allison: A Biography of the Engine Manufacturer and Indianapolis 500 Cofounder
Sigur E. Whitaker
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• Author(s): Sigur E. Whitaker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Business Among the engineers fueling the rapid rise of the automotive industry at the dawn of the 20th century was James All...
View full detailsBetween Homeland and Motherland: Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America
Alvin B. Tillery
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• Author(s): Alvin B. Tillery • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlIn Between Homeland and Motherland, Alvin B. Tillery Jr...
View full detailsPopular Democracy in Japan
Sherry L. Martin
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• Author(s): Sherry L. Martin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyPopular Democracy in Japan examines a puzzle in Japanese politics: Why do Japanese women tu...
View full detailsWomen and Language: Essays on Gendered Communication Across Media
Melissa Ames, Sarah Himsel Burcon
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• Author(s): Melissa Ames | Sarah Himsel Burcon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General The present volume of essays examines women's communication as it has evolved his...
View full detailsPolitical Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-Buri
Yoshinori Nishizaki
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• Author(s): Yoshinori Nishizaki • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyThe powerful Thai politician Banharn Silpa-archa has been disparage...
View full detailsPolitical Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand
Yoshinori Nishizaki
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• Author(s): Yoshinori Nishizaki • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyThe powerful Thai politician Banharn Silpa-archa has been disparage...
View full detailsThe Religious Factor in the 1960 Presidential Election: An Analysis of the Kennedy Victory Over Anti-Catholic Prejudice
Albert J. Menendez
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• Author(s): Albert J. Menendez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century The candidacy of John F. Kennedy provoked widespread discussion of issues relating to church a...
View full detailsIn the Peanut Gallery with Mystery Science Theater 3000: Essays on Film, Fandom, Technology and the Culture of Riffing
Robert G. Weiner, Shelley E. Barba
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• Author(s): Robert G. Weiner | Shelley E. Barba • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The award-winning television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (198...
View full detailsKerouac in Ecstasy: Shamanic Expression in the Writings
Thomas R. Bierowski
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• Author(s): Thomas R. Bierowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This critical text considers Jack Kerouac as writer-shaman, exploring the content and ecstatic technique of the no...
View full detailsFour Views on Divine Providence
William Lane Craig, Ron Highfield, Gregory A. Boyd
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• Author(s): William Lane Craig | Ron Highfield | Gregory A. Boyd • Publisher: Zondervan Academic • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan Academic • BISAC: Christian Theology - SoteriologyThis book guides students, pastors, and lay learners to consider an...
View full detailsHistory of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution; Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. Vol. II.
Mercy Otis Warren
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• Author(s): Mercy Otis Warren • Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions • Publisher Imprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarTitle: History of the rise, progress, and termination...
View full detailsBlack Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860
Larry Koger
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• Author(s): Larry Koger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper...
View full detailsHistory of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution; Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. Vol. III
Mercy Otis Warren
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• Author(s): Mercy Otis Warren • Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions • Publisher Imprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)Title: History of the rise, progress, ...
View full detailsCities of the Maya in Seven Epochs, 1250 B.C. to A.D. 1903
Steve Glassman, Armando Anaya
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• Author(s): Steve Glassman | Armando Anaya • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Telling the story of the Maya peoples from their earliest beginnings to the start of the 20th c...
View full detailsAllied Looting in World War II: Thefts of Art, Manuscripts, Stamps and Jewelry in Europe
Kenneth D. Alford
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• Author(s): Kenneth D. Alford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Looting has long been recognized as one of the crimes committed by the Third R...
View full detailsCaregiver's Guide: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Loved Ones
Sharon E. Hohler
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• Author(s): Sharon E. Hohler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caregiving Every year, 65 million people give care to their frail, ailing, or disabled loved ones. Whether caregiving begins ...
View full detailsSaving Sea Turtles: Extraordinary Stories from the Battle Against Extinction
James R. Spotila
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• Author(s): James R. Spotila • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Animals - Marine LifeIn April 2007, eleven leatherback turtles captured the imagination of the public worldwide...
View full detailsText & Presentation
Kiki Gounaridou
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• Author(s): Kiki Gounaridou • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre a...
View full detailsBorn This Day: A Book of Birthdays and Quotations of Prominent People Through the Centuries, 2d ed.
Robert A. Nowlan
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• Author(s): Robert A. Nowlan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General This paperback reprint of the 2007 second edition (a few reviews above) lists 12 significant people born on e...
View full detailsChronology of World Terrorism, 1901-2001
Henry E. Mattox
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• Author(s): Henry E. Mattox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Terrorism The attacks of September 11, 2001, brought unprecedented attention to the problem of terrorism. Yet the threat of te...
View full detailsThe South Bend Blue Sox: A History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Team and Its Players, 1943-1954
Jim Sargent, Robert M. Gorman
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• Author(s): Jim Sargent | Robert M. Gorman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Immortalized in the film A League of Their Own, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball...
View full detailsChina on the Margins
Sherman Cochran, Paul G. Pickowicz
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• Author(s): Sherman Cochran | Paul G. Pickowicz • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaShould modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins ...
View full detailsMoral Theory at the Movies: An Introduction to Ethics
Dean Kowalski
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• Author(s): Dean Kowalski • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyMoral Theory at the Movies provides students with a wonderfully approachabl...
View full detailsThe Shadow of the Past
Gregory D. Miller
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• Author(s): Gregory D. Miller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IIn The Shadow of the Past, Gregory D. Miller examines the role that reputation plays in ...
View full detailsThe Citizen's Constitution
Seth Lipsky
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• Author(s): Seth Lipsky • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Constitutions
The Cluetrain Manifesto (10th Anniversary Edition)
Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls
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• Author(s): Rick Levine | Christopher Locke | Doc Searls • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: New Business EnterprisesThe Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have wo...
View full detailsLong Taters: A Baseball Biography of George Boomer Scott
Ron Anderson
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• Author(s): Ron Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports When African American first baseman George "Boomer" Scott made his debut in the major leagues in 1966, he took the field f...
View full detailsInvestigating Heroes: Essays on Truth, Justice and Quality TV
David Simmons
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• Author(s): David Simmons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Premiering in September of 2006, the weekly NBC television series Heroes was an immediate commercial and cr...
View full detailsThe Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India
Stephanie W. Jamison
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• Author(s): Stephanie W. Jamison • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyVedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material concerning the mythology and religious ...
View full detailsFields of Combat
Erin P. Finley
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• Author(s): Erin P. Finley • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - Post Traumatic Stress DisorderFor many of the 1.6 million U.S. service members who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, the tr...
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