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At Belleau Wood with Rifle and Sketchpad: Memoir of a United States Marine in World War I
Louis C. Linn, Laura Jane Linn Wright, B. J. Omanson
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• Author(s): Louis C. Linn | Laura Jane Linn Wright | B. J. Omanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I Of all the American divisions in World War I, the 4t...
View full detailsThe Mental Road to the Major Leagues: A Guide for Rising Ballplayers
Kelly J. Pfaff, Peder N. Piering
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• Author(s): Kelly J. Pfaff | Peder N. Piering • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Integrating sport psychology with the personal testimonies of baseball players, this help...
View full detailsFitting Form to Function: A Primer on the Organization of Academic Institutions
Rudolph H. Weingartner
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• Author(s): Rudolph H. Weingartner • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherWritten informally, Fitting Form to Function that the way in which the...
View full detailsQueens, Empresses, Grand Duchesses and Regents: Women Rulers of Europe, A.D. 1328-1989
Olga S. Opfell
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• Author(s): Olga S. Opfell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies This book presents the lives and accomplishments of 39 women rulers--not "in-name-only," but wielders of real p...
View full detailsThe Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912-1916
Joel S. Franks
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• Author(s): Joel S. Franks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This book chronicles the Hawaiian Travelers, a barnstorming baseball team of multiethnic, multiracial Hawaii...
View full detailsVintage Base Ball: Recapturing the National Pastime
James R. Tootle
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• Author(s): James R. Tootle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Every spring, thousands of ball players across the country step back to the nineteenth century to play vint...
View full detailsBack from the Dead: Remakes of the Romero Zombie Films as Markers of Their Times
Kevin J. Wetmore
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Since 1968, the name of motion picture director George Romero has been synonymous with the living dead. His la...
View full detailsCombat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010, 2d ed.
Steven Jay Rubin
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• Author(s): Steven Jay Rubin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This critical text offers a behind-the-scenes look at fifteen of the most important American war films of the ...
View full detailsActresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties
Axel Nissen
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• Author(s): Axel Nissen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz --all ...
View full detailsThe Fountainheads: Wright, Rand, the FBI and Hollywood
Donald Leslie Johnson
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• Author(s): Donald Leslie Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Speculation abounds about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. Was h...
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Alexander "Fighting Elleck" Hays: The Life of a Civil War General, From West Point to the Wilderness
Alexander "Fighting Elleck" Hays: The Life of a Civil War General, From West Point to the Wilderness
Wayne Mahood
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• Author(s): Wayne Mahood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Although he never achieved the renown of Ulysses S. Grant or Robert E. Lee, General Alexander Hays was one of the great ...
View full detailsSlavery and Crime in Missouri, 1773-1865
Harriet C. Frazier
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• Author(s): Harriet C. Frazier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Slavery and its lasting effects have long been an issu...
View full detailsThe Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
Arthur C. Brooks
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• Author(s): Arthur C. Brooks • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismAmerica faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays -- rather it is a...
View full detailsLiving Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security
Gregory D. Koblentz
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• Author(s): Gregory D. Koblentz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)"Biological weapons are widely feared, yet rarely used. Biological weapons were t...
View full detailsThe French Idea of History
Carolina Armenteros
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• Author(s): Carolina Armenteros • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - France"A fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat... the champion of the hardest, narrowest, and most inflexible d...
View full detailsIn Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide
Nancy Rappaport
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• Author(s): Nancy Rappaport • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Personal MemoirsIn 1963, Nancy Rappaport's mother committed suicide after a bitter divorce and custody battle. Nancy was four years old. As one of ele...
View full detailsSouthern West Virginia and the Struggle for Modernity
Christopher Dorsey
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• Author(s): Christopher Dorsey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Regional Studies This work addresses how southern West Virginia's complex and often chaotic history still impacts key aspec...
View full detailsAnne Francis: The Life and Career
Laura Wagner
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• Author(s): Laura Wagner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General This first-ever biography of American actress Anne Francis will enlighten her casua...
View full detailsVanishing Ironworks of the Ramapos: The Story of the Forges, Furnaces, and Mines of the New Jersey-New York Border Area
James M. Ransom
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• Author(s): James M. Ransom • Publisher: Fall Creek Books • Publisher Imprint: Fall Creek Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThis is the story of early iron mining and manufacturing, and what remains to be seen tod...
View full detailsOn the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought
Daniel Leonhard Purdy
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• Author(s): Daniel Leonhard Purdy • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: History - RomanticismThe eighteenth century struggled to define architecture...
View full detailsGeorge W. Hamilton, USMC: America's Greatest World War I Hero
Mark Mortensen
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• Author(s): Mark Mortensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military In its list of the "Top 10 Badass Marines," Leatherneck magazine declared that Major George W. Hamilton "never asked a...
View full detailsWelsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture: Essays on Adaptations in Literature, Film, Television and Digital Media
Audrey L. Becker, Kristin Noone, Donald E. Palumbo
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• Author(s): Audrey L. Becker | Kristin Noone | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings t...
View full detailsKenichi Zenimura, Japanese American Baseball Pioneer
Bill Staples
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• Author(s): Bill Staples • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History While the story of the Negro Leagues has been well documented, few baseball fans know about the Japanese Ameri...
View full detailsThe Wind Is Never Gone: Sequels, Parodies and Rewritings of Gone with the Wind
M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo
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• Author(s): M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism More than seventy years after its publication in 1936, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with t...
View full detailsUpper Elementary Math Lessons: Case Studies of Real Teaching
Anna O. Graeber, Linda Valli, Kristie Jones Newton
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• Author(s): Anna O. Graeber | Linda Valli | Kristie Jones Newton • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - MathematicsThis book provides ...
View full detailsReframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
Sheila Jasanoff
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• Author(s): Sheila Jasanoff • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsInvestigations into the interplay of biological and legal conceptions of life, from government policies on cloning to DNA p...
View full detailsRidley Scott: A Critical Filmography
William B. Parrill
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• Author(s): William B. Parrill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Ridley Scott, the director of such seminal films as Blade Runner, Alien and Thelma & ...
View full detailsThe Cowboy in Country Music: An Historical Survey with Artist Profiles
Don Cusic
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• Author(s): Don Cusic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This series of biographical profiles shines a spotlight on that special place "Where the West meets the Guitar." From Gene A...
View full detailsStateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History
Petrus Liu
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• Author(s): Petrus Liu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseKnown in the West primarily through poorly subtitled films, Chinese martial arts fiction is one of the most iconic...
View full detailsChronology of Organized Crime Worldwide, 6000 B.C.E. to 2010
Michael Newton
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• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Organized crime has played a significant social role in cultures all over the world. This is the first book to esta...
View full detailsAround-the-World Flights: A History
Patrick M. Stinson
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• Author(s): Patrick M. Stinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Since Wilbur and Orville Wright's first machine-powered flight, adventurers have pondered the prospect o...
View full detailsMania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
David Healy
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• Author(s): David Healy • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - Bipolar DisorderDrawing heavily on primary sources and supplemented with interviews and insight ga...
View full detailsWomen Advocates of Reproductive Rights: Eleven Who Led the Struggle in the United States and Great Britain
Moira Davison Reynolds
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• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General Frances Wright was a pioneer in the fight for women's reproductive rights in late-19th centur...
View full detailsTheda Bara: A Biography of the Silent Screen Vamp, with a Filmography
Ronald Genini
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• Author(s): Ronald Genini • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Despite being a mediocre actress with less than classic beauty, Theda Bara was one of Hollywood's leading perform...
View full detailsConspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious
Barna William Donovan
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• Author(s): Barna William Donovan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy For many years, conspiracy theories have been among the most popular story...
View full detailsBroadcasting Baseball: A History of the National Pastime on Radio and Television
Eldon L. Ham
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• Author(s): Eldon L. Ham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than i...
View full detailsOn Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War
Daniel Grausam
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• Author(s): Daniel Grausam • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWhat does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into ques...
View full detailsWar in Aquarius: Memoir of an American Infantryman in the Vietnam War
Dennis Kitchin
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• Author(s): Dennis Kitchin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Vietnam War Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, t...
View full detailsSworn Bond in Tudor England: Oaths, Vows and Covenants in Civil Life and Literature
Thea Cervone
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• Author(s): Thea Cervone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during ...
View full detailsDisplays!: Dynamic Design Ideas for Your Library Step by Step
Susan P. Phillips
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• Author(s): Susan P. Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Just about any librarian needs new ideas for dynamic, topical library displays. ...
View full detailsAfter Capitalism
David Schweickart
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• Author(s): David Schweickart • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalSince first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activist...
View full detailsBarbary Baseball: The Pacific Coast League of the 1920s
R. Scott Mackey
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• Author(s): R. Scott Mackey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the 1920s baseball fans flocked to minor league ballparks, making stars of players who would never wear ...
View full detailsThey Started in MGs: Profiles of Sports Car Racers of the 1950s
Carl Goodwin
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• Author(s): Carl Goodwin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports An affordable, lightweight sports car suitable for racing, the MG TC launched the sports car scene in postwar Americ...
View full detailsWorldwide Interesting People: 162 History Makers of African Descent
George L. Lee
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• Author(s): George L. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Selected from his newspaper feature which appeared in most ...
View full detailsIn Strangers' Arms: The Magic of the Tango
Beatriz Dujovne
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• Author(s): Beatriz Dujovne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Popular The tango is easily the most iconic dance of the last century, its images as familiar as an old friend. But ar...
View full detailsLincoln's Gift from Homer, New York: A Painter, an Editor and a Detective
Martin A. Sweeney
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• Author(s): Martin A. Sweeney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State Although Illinois enjoys the indisputable title of "The Land of Lincoln," one small town in ...
View full detailsBrit at the Ballpark: An Englishman's Baseball Tour of All 50 States
Peter Taylor
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• Author(s): Peter Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This work follows the journey Peter Taylor undertook during the summer of 2007 (and a bit of 2009), when he se...
View full detailsSodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
Morris B. Kaplan
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• Author(s): Morris B. Kaplan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralSodom on the Thames looks closely at three episodes involving sex between men in late-ninet...
View full detailsWomen on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching
Carol Smallwood, Colleen S. Harris, Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
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• Author(s): Carol Smallwood | Colleen S. Harris | Cynthia Brackett-Vincent • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry In these 59 essays, published female poets share a wealth of practical a...
View full detailsSoutherners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s
Andrew B. Leiter
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• Author(s): Andrew B. Leiter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The representation of Southerners on film has been a topic of enduring interest and debate amo...
View full detailsMing China, 1368-1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire
John W. Dardess
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• Author(s): John W. Dardess • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's m...
View full detailsMexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004, 3d ed.
Carl J. Mora
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• Author(s): Carl J. Mora • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Mexican filmmaking is traced from its early beginnings in 1896 to the present in this book. Of particular interest...
View full detailsCuban Baseball: A Statistical History, 1878-1961
Jorge S. Figueredo
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• Author(s): Jorge S. Figueredo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In March 1999, the Baltimore Orioles played a team of Cuban all-stars, the first time a major league bas...
View full detailsHigurashi When They Cry: Eye Opening Arc, Vol. 4
Ryukishi07, Yutori Houjyou, Athena Nibley
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• Author(s): Ryukishi07 | Yutori Houjyou | Athena Nibley • Publisher: Yen Press • Publisher Imprint: Yen Press • BISAC: Manga - GeneralThe demon of the Sonozaki family has found fertile soil in Shion's soul, and her fury rages out of control as s...
View full detailsSmirk, Sneer and Scream: Great Acting in Horror Cinema
Mark Clark
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• Author(s): Mark Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General While you may think the old adage about oil and water being unable to mix applies perfectly to the cinema of terror ...
View full detailsThe Atlantic Transport Line, 1881-1931: A History with Details on All Ships
Jonathan Kinghorn
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• Author(s): Jonathan Kinghorn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - History In 1881, the dynamic Baltimorean Bernard N. Baker established the Atlantic Transport Line...
View full detailsAmerican Militarism and Anti-Militarism in Popular Media, 1945-1970
Lisa M. Mundey
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• Author(s): Lisa M. Mundey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Scholars have characterized the early decades of the Cold War as an era of rising militarism in the United S...
View full detailsScrewball Comedy and Film Noir: Unexpected Connections
Thomas C. Renzi
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• Author(s): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is a comprehensive comparative analysis of the screwball comedy and film noir genres--two ...
View full detailsI Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to the Blind Side, and Beyond
Michael Oher
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• Author(s): Michael Oher • Publisher: Turtleback Books • Publisher Imprint: Turtleback Books • BISAC: Sports
Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments
John R. Vile
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• Author(s): John R. Vile • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ConstitutionalA Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments is designed to show studen...
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