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Martin Sherman: Skipping Over Quicksand
Tish Dace
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• Author(s): Tish Dace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Playwright and screenwriter Martin Sherman dramatizes outsiders--gay, female, foreign, disabled, different in religion, clas...
View full detailsSmall Arms for Urban Combat: A Review of Modern Handguns, Submachine Guns, Personal Defense Weapons, Carbines, Assault Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Anti-Mat
Russell C. Tilstra
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• Author(s): Russell C. Tilstra • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Weapons The urbanization of warfare has necessitated the kind of precision targeting that only small arms can de...
View full detailsPsychiatry in the Scientific Image
Dominic Murphy
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• Author(s): Dominic Murphy • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralAn analysis of the understanding, classification, and explanation of mental disorders that proposes that psychiatry adopt the b...
View full detailsReliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory
Gilbert Harman, Sanjeev Kulkarni
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• Author(s): Gilbert Harman | Sanjeev Kulkarni • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: LogicThe implications for philosophy and cognitive science of developments in statistical learning theory.In Reliable Reasoning,...
View full detailsGlimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia
May Adadol Ingawanij, Benjamin McKay
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• Author(s): May Adadol Ingawanij | Benjamin McKay • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSince the late 1990s, a vivid new sphere of cinema...
View full detailsPlays from New River 1
M. Z. Ribalow
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• Author(s): M. Z. Ribalow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is the first volume of Plays from New River, showcasing a place where gifted writers of plays and screenplays are p...
View full detailsThe French Republic
Edward G. Berenson, Vincent Duclert, Christophe Prochasson
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• Author(s): Edward G. Berenson | Vincent Duclert | Christophe Prochasson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn this invaluable reference work, the world's foremost authorit...
View full detailsThe Halloween Encyclopedia, 2d ed.
Lisa Morton
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• Author(s): Lisa Morton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Holidays (non religious) A first edition of The Halloween Encyclopedia was published by McFarland in 2003 (Booklist: "a worthy add...
View full detailsMission to Mach 2: A Fighter Pilot's Memoir of Supersonic Flight
Robert Earl Haney, Lee Courtnage
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• Author(s): Robert Earl Haney | Lee Courtnage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The thirty-year period that marked the advent of the supersonic jet in military aviation was a part...
View full detailsKate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity: Sex, Art and Politics in Mary Lavelle and Other Writings
Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka
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• Author(s): Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Kate O'Brien's work is now widely considered canonical in the English language, and the author herself an ...
View full detailsThe Making of Stan Laurel: Echoes of a British Boyhood
Danny Lawrence
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• Author(s): Danny Lawrence • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General As an adult, Stan Laurel (1890-1965) lived in the United States. As a boy, he lived in north-east England, the s...
View full detailsDixie Walker: A Life in Baseball
Lyle Spatz
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• Author(s): Lyle Spatz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Over the course of fifty years in the mid-twentieth century, Fred "Dixie" Walker lived several baseball lives. D...
View full detailsMedieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook
Joshua Parens, Joseph C. Macfarland
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• Author(s): Joshua Parens | Joseph C. Macfarland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoliticalMedieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook, edited by Ralph Lerner and Muhsin Mahdi, has been...
View full detailsIn Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy After the Berlin Wall and 9/11
Melvyn P. Leffler, Jeffrey W. Legro
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• Author(s): Melvyn P. Leffler | Jeffrey W. Legro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn Uncertain Times considers how policymakers react to dramatic development...
View full detailsRebooting American Politics: The Internet Revolution
Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner
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• Author(s): Jason Gainous | Kevin M. Wagner • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsGoing beyond theory and guess based forec...
View full detailsA Biographical Dictionary of Major League Baseball Managers
John C. Skipper
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• Author(s): John C. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Earl Weaver put his best defensive players on the field early in the game rather than make late-inning defe...
View full detailsKnowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs
Adrian Armstrong, Sarah Kay
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• Author(s): Adrian Armstrong | Sarah Kay • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralIn the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle o...
View full detailsSilver Bats and Automobiles: The Hotly Competitive, Sometimes Ignoble Pursuit of the Major League Batting Championship
David L. Fleitz
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• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Almost from professional baseball's birth more than 130 years ago, the batting championship has been one of...
View full detailsJudicial Monarchs: Court Power and the Case for Restoring Popular Sovereignty in the United States
William J. Watkins
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• Author(s): William J. Watkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - Judicial Branch Who has the final say on the meaning of the Constitution? From high school to law sch...
View full detailsCLAMP in Context: A Critical Study of the Manga and Anime
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Since its debut manga RG Veda, CLAMP has steadily asserted itself as one of the most widely renowne...
View full detailsThe Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism: Critical Essays
Jason A. Edwards, David Weiss
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• Author(s): Jason A. Edwards | David Weiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays The American experience has been defined, in part, by the rhetoric of exceptionalism. This book of 11 cr...
View full detailsThe Reagan Rhetoric: History and Memory in 1980s America
Toby Glenn Bates
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• Author(s): Toby Glenn Bates • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe Reagan Rhetoric examines the extraordinary connections between Presiden...
View full detailsThe Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News
Amarnath Amarasingam
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• Author(s): Amarnath Amarasingam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest ...
View full detailsThe Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
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• Author(s): Niccolo Machiavelli • Publisher: Simon & Brown • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Brown • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralPackaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential works....
View full detailsJesse James and the Movies
Johnny D. Boggs
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• Author(s): Johnny D. Boggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This illustrated filmography analyzes the plots and players of the more than forty motion pictu...
View full detailsRed Sox Roll Call: 200 Memorable Players, 1901-2011
William F. McNeil
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• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Since the Boston Red Sox came into existence in 1901, some of the greatest players ever to step onto a ba...
View full detailsA Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Charles G. Gross
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• Author(s): Charles G. Gross • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceEssays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys--from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells--in the histo...
View full detailsFeeling Pain and Being in Pain, Second Edition
Nikola Grahek, Daniel C. Dennett
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• Author(s): Nikola Grahek | Daniel C. Dennett • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionAn examination of the two most radical dissociation syndromes of the human pain experience--...
View full detailsThe Art of Indirection in British Espionage Fiction: A Critical Study of Six Novelists
Robert Lance Snyder
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• Author(s): Robert Lance Snyder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh In contrast to the classical detective story, the spy novel tends to be considered a suspe...
View full detailsNew Directions in Sociology: Essays on Theory and Methodology in the 21st Century
Ieva Zake, Michael Decesare
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• Author(s): Ieva Zake | Michael Decesare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - General Written by the new generation of sociologists, these essays chart a course for the future of ...
View full detailsPancreatic Cancer: A Patient & His Doctor Balance Hope & Truth
Michael J. Lippe, Dung T. Le
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• Author(s): Michael J. Lippe | Dung T. Le • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Physician & PatientMichael J. Lippe was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007. This is his ...
View full detailsScience Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains
David L. Ferro, Eric G. Swedin
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• Author(s): David L. Ferro | Eric G. Swedin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy The prevalence of science fiction readership among those who create and program ...
View full detailsWalter M. Miller, Jr.: A Reference Guide to His Fiction and His Life
William H. Roberson
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• Author(s): William H. Roberson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Walter M. Miller, Jr., was one of the twentieth century's leading science fiction writers, a ...
View full detailsArchitecture of Oblivion: Ruins and Historical Consciousness in Modern Russia
Andreas Schönle
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• Author(s): Andreas Schönle • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionDespite attempts to promote the aesthetics of ruins in Russia--from ...
View full detailsInterpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe
Mark D. Steinberg, Valeria Sobol
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• Author(s): Mark D. Steinberg | Valeria Sobol • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralBringing together important new work by an international and interdisc...
View full detailsEdmund Burke for Our Time
William F. Byrne
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• Author(s): William F. Byrne • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PoliticalThis highly readable book offers a contemporary interpretation of the political thought of Edm...
View full detailsCCSVI as the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis: The Science Behind the Controversial Theory
Marie a. Rhodes, Elaine A. Moore
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• Author(s): Marie a. Rhodes | Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - Immune & Autoimmune Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis communit...
View full detailsIndian from the Inside: Native American Philosophy and Cultural Renewal, 2d ed.
Dennis H. McPherson, J. Douglas Rabb
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• Author(s): Dennis H. McPherson | J. Douglas Rabb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Native American Studies Native American philosophy has enabled aboriginal cu...
View full detailsLe Morte D'Arthur
Thomas Malory
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• Author(s): Thomas Malory • Publisher: Simon & Brown • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Brown • BISAC: ClassicsThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original boo...
View full detailsLe Morte D'Arthur
Thomas Malory
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• Author(s): Thomas Malory • Publisher: Simon & Brown • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Brown • BISAC: ClassicsLe Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur") is a reworking of existing tales by...
View full detailsThe Northrop Frye Handbook: A Biographical and Bibliographic Guide
Robert D. Denham
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• Author(s): Robert D. Denham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Canadian literary theorist Northrop Frye reshaped literary studies with his 1957 book Anatomy of Criticism. During hi...
View full detailsHigh Definition Television: The Creation, Development and Implementation of HDTV Technology
Philip J. Cianci
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• Author(s): Philip J. Cianci • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television & Video The 40-year history of high definition television technology is traced from initial studies in Japan, ...
View full detailsThe World of Angela Carter: A Critical Investigation
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Angela Carter, a prolific author who worked in numerous genres, remains one of the most important British writers of th...
View full detailsThe Survival of North Korea: Essays on Strategy, Economics and International Relations
Suk Hi Kim, Terence Roehrig, Bernhard Seliger
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• Author(s): Suk Hi Kim | Terence Roehrig | Bernhard Seliger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Since the end of the Cold War, scholars and analysts have been predicting the collapse...
View full detailsThe Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History in and Beyond the Arctic
Emily E. Auger
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• Author(s): Emily E. Auger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Indigenous Inuit art, both ancient and contemporary, has inspired the interest of scholars, collectors and art lovers around th...
View full detailsAmerican Frontiersmen on Film and Television: Boone, Crockett, Bowie, Houston, Bridger and Carson
Ed Andreychuk
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• Author(s): Ed Andreychuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From the French and Indian War to the Civil War, well over a hundred years of American history is...
View full detailsNew York Harbor: A Geographical and Historical Survey
Arthur D. Kellner
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• Author(s): Arthur D. Kellner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic The harbor connects New York to the Hudson and then to the rest of the U...
View full detailsThe Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
James Palmer
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• Author(s): James Palmer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaIn the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternb...
View full detailsMusic, Theology and Worship: Selected Writings, 1841-1896
Jonathan L. Friedmann
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• Author(s): Jonathan L. Friedmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious - Christian This book offers a representative collection of insightful essays about devotional music from nine...
View full detailsMarjorie Main: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Ma Kettle
Michelle Vogel
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• Author(s): Michelle Vogel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism She was a slum mother, witty housekeeper, nosy neighbor, meddling maid, town gossip, and most me...
View full details"Only If You Are Really Interested": Celebrity, Gender, Desire and the World of Morrissey
Nicholas P. Greco
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• Author(s): Nicholas P. Greco • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: LGBT One of the keys to the enduring popularity of the British singer Morrissey is his carefully crafted enigmatic persona. ...
View full detailsRight Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley Jr. and the Conservative Movement
Richard Brookhiser
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• Author(s): Richard Brookhiser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal MemoirsRichard Brookhiser wrote his first cover story for National Review at age fourteen, and became the magazine's youngest senior edito...
View full detailsThe American Academic Profession: Transformation in Contemporary Higher Education
Joseph C. Hermanowicz
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• Author(s): Joseph C. Hermanowicz • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThe academic profession, like many others, is rapidly being transformed. This boo...
View full detailsRoman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery
Regina Hansen
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• Author(s): Regina Hansen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The intersection of religious practice and theatricality has long been a subject of interest to scholars. This co...
View full detailsDirected by Jack Arnold
Dana M. Reemes
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• Author(s): Dana M. Reemes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Arnold made some of the most enduring science fiction films of the 1950s--It Came from Outer ...
View full detailsA Natural History of Revolution: Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789-1794
Mary Ashburn Miller
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• Author(s): Mary Ashburn Miller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceHow did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their r...
View full detailsStudy Guide for Practical Statistics for Educators
Ruth Ravid, Elizabeth Oyer
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• Author(s): Ruth Ravid | Elizabeth Oyer • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: StatisticsThe fourth edition of the Study Guide for Practical Statistics for Educators ser...
View full detailsArthur Kaufmann: A Chess Biography, 1872-1938
Olimpiu G. Urcan, Peter Michael Braunwarth
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• Author(s): Olimpiu G. Urcan | Peter Michael Braunwarth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This biography explores the life and chess career of Arthur Kaufmann, an early 20th centur...
View full detailsBucketfoot Al: The Baseball Life of Al Simmons
Clifton Blue Parker
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• Author(s): Clifton Blue Parker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Al Simmons, at top form in the Roaring Twenties, sparked one of baseball's greatest dynasties, the Philadelphia Ath...
View full detailsOur Sweetest Hours: Recreation and the Mental State of Absorption
Gene Quarrick
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• Author(s): Gene Quarrick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The phenomenon of "absorption" or the intense focusing of attention that results in a sense of escape and diversion is e...
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