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Chips and Change: How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry
Clair Brown, Greg Linden
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• Author(s): Clair Brown | Greg Linden • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralHow the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shif...
View full detailsCritique and Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past and Future
Nikolas Kompridis
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• Author(s): Nikolas Kompridis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismA provocatively argued call for shifting the emphasis of critical theory from Habermasian "critique," restricted to normative clarification, to...
View full detailsConsciousness Revisited: Materialism Without Phenomenal Concepts
Michael Tye
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• Author(s): Michael Tye • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyFour major puzzles of consciousness philosophical materialism must confront after rejecting the phenomenal concept strategy.We are material bei...
View full detailsMeyerhold, Eisenstein and Biomechanics: Actor Training in Revolutionary Russia
Alma Law
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• Author(s): Alma Law • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold designed Biomechanics--a system of actor training--shortly after the Ru...
View full detailsThe Dragon Tattoo and Its Long Tail: The New Wave of European Crime Fiction in America
David Geherin
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• Author(s): David Geherin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The enormous popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy has raised awareness of other cont...
View full detailsConducting Educational Research
Bruce W. Tuckman, Brian E. Harper
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• Author(s): Bruce W. Tuckman | Brian E. Harper • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherConducting Educational Research is geared to help graduate...
View full detailsConducting Educational Research
Bruce W. Tuckman, Brian E. Harper
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• Author(s): Bruce W. Tuckman | Brian E. Harper • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ResearchConducting Educational Research is geared to help graduate students underst...
View full detailsThe Old Italian School of Singing: A Theoretical and Practical Guide
Daniela Bloem-Hubatka
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• Author(s): Daniela Bloem-Hubatka • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Instruction & Study - Voice This work describes in accessible language the technical foundations of the Old Italian ...
View full detailsBlack Social Dance in Television Advertising: An Analytical History
Carla Stalling Huntington
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• Author(s): Carla Stalling Huntington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General The influence of dance upon consumers has long been understood by advertisers. This work investigate...
View full detailsGeorge Scarbrough, Appalachian Poet: A Biographical and Literary Study with Unpublished Writings
Randy Mackin
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• Author(s): Randy Mackin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General A writer's writer, East Tennessee poet and novelist George Scarbrough enjoyed a career that spanned eight deca...
View full detailsThe Presidents on Film: A Comprehensive Filmography of Portrayals from George Washington to George W. Bush
Sarah Miles Bolam, Thomas J. Bolam
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• Author(s): Sarah Miles Bolam | Thomas J. Bolam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General America's executive office and its occupant have found their way into numerous films--more ...
View full detailsLand Battles in 5th Century B.C. Greece: A History and Analysis of 173 Engagements
Fred Eugene Ray
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• Author(s): Fred Eugene Ray • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General In the 5th century B.C., Greece was a patchwork country of small, independent city-states whose tendency to...
View full detailsThe Deacon and the Schoolmaster: Phillippe and Leever, Pittsburgh's Great Turn-of-the-Century Pitchers
Robert Peyton Wiggins
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• Author(s): Robert Peyton Wiggins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Among the great pitchers in baseball history, Charles "Deacon" Phillippe and Samuel "The Schoolmaster...
View full detailsHard Interests, Soft Illusions
Natasha Hamilton-Hart
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• Author(s): Natasha Hamilton-Hart • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by ...
View full detailsTransforming America: Barack Obama in the White House
Steven E. Schier, John J. Coleman, James L. Guth
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• Author(s): Steven E. Schier | John J. Coleman | James L. Guth • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralThe presidency of Barack Obama seeks a major...
View full detailsDeer: The Animal Answer Guide
George A. Feldhamer, William J. McShea
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• Author(s): George A. Feldhamer | William J. McShea • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsThink of deer and the image that pops into most American's minds is tha...
View full detailsOutlaw Rhetoric
Jenny C. Mann
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• Author(s): Jenny C. Mann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the ...
View full detailsAt Home with the Diplomats
Iver B. Neumann
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• Author(s): Iver B. Neumann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe 2010 WikiLeaks release of 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables has made it eminently clear ...
View full detailsEdward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker
Quentin R. Skrabec
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• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and cre...
View full detailsThe Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952-2009
Shuntaro Tanikawa, Takako U. Lento, Takako U. Lento
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• Author(s): Shuntaro Tanikawa | Takako U. Lento | Takako U. Lento • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThis extensive selection of Tanikawa Shuntaro's poetry reflects the fu...
View full detailsCasino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places
Susan Chandler, Jill B. Jones
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• Author(s): Susan Chandler | Jill B. Jones • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsCasino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with...
View full detailsIntroduction to Effective Music Teaching: Artistry and Attitude
Alfred S. Townsend
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• Author(s): Alfred S. Townsend • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesIntroduction to Effective Music Teaching provides the pr...
View full detailsMoney: Its Origin, Development and Modern Use
Carl H. Moore, Alvin E. Russell
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• Author(s): Carl H. Moore | Alvin E. Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Money & Monetary Policy Fascinating facts, laws and lore about currency and the money supply, past and pr...
View full detailsGrace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Kurt W. Beyer
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• Author(s): Kurt W. Beyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: WomenThe career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's pe...
View full detailsA Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players
Jesper Juul
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• Author(s): Jesper Juul • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicHow casual games like Guitar Hero, Bejeweled, and those for Nintendo Wii are expanding the audience for video games. We used to think th...
View full detailsThe CIA on Campus: Essays on Academic Freedom and the National Security State
Philip Zwerling
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• Author(s): Philip Zwerling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Former CIA Personnel Director F.W.M. Janney once wrote, "It is absolutely essential that the Agency have available to i...
View full detailsAt the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise That Saved the Union
Robert V. Remini
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• Author(s): Robert V. Remini • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debat...
View full detailsThen Came the Fire: Personal Accounts From the Pentagon, 11 September 2001
Stephen J. Lofgren, Ricahrd W. Stewart, U. S. Army Center of Military History
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• Author(s): Stephen J. Lofgren | Ricahrd W. Stewart | U. S. Army Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - United StatesFull color illustrations throughout. Two days afte...
View full detailsDeeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalem-Bound Pilgrims: The Earliest Chronicle of the First Crusade
Nirmal Dass
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• Author(s): Nirmal Dass • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis new translation offers a faithful yet accessible English-language rendering of the t...
View full detailsNature of Science: Integrating Historical, Philosophical, and Sociological Perspectives
Fernando Espinoza
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• Author(s): Fernando Espinoza • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Science & TechnologyThe role of science, along with its natur...
View full detailsCharacters and Plots in the Fiction of James M. Cain
Robert L. Gale
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• Author(s): Robert L. Gale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A pioneer in "hard-boiled fiction," James Mallahan Cain achieved fame with his first novel, The Postman Always Rings Tw...
View full detailsTortured into Fake Confession: The Dishonoring of Korean War Prisoner Col. Frank H. Schwable, USMC
Raymond B. Lech
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• Author(s): Raymond B. Lech • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States In 1952, during the Korean War, Colonel Frank H. Schwable became the second-highest-ranking officer h...
View full detailsRothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series
David Pietrusza
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• Author(s): David Pietrusza • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Criminals & OutlawsHistory remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for Th...
View full detailsPortraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre
Véronique Bragard, Christophe Dony, Warren Rosenberg
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• Author(s): Véronique Bragard | Christophe Dony | Warren Rosenberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Commentators and artists attempting to represent the events of ...
View full detailsThe Foreign Burial of American War Dead: A History
Chris Dickon
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• Author(s): Chris Dickon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Normandy, Flanders Field and other overseas cemeteries of the American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC)...
View full detailsE.X. Ferrars: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Gina MacDonald, Elizabeth Sanders, Elizabeth Foxwell
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• Author(s): Gina MacDonald | Elizabeth Sanders | Elizabeth Foxwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction E.X. Ferrars was one of the most popular and prolific B...
View full detailsFood Policy for Developing Countries: The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Derrill D. Watson II, Soren E. Frandsen
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• Author(s): Per Pinstrup-Andersen | Derrill D. Watson II | Soren E. Frandsen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Agriculture & FoodDespite technological advances in agriculture, nearly...
View full detailsBegging Pardon and Favor: Ritual and Political Order in Early Medieval France
Geoffrey Koziol
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Koziol • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn reconstructing and interpreting rituals of supplication, Geoffrey Koziol here uncovers the dense meanings ...
View full detailsThe CSS Albemarle and William Cushing: The Remarkable Confederate Ironclad and the Union Officer Who Sank It
Jim Stempel
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• Author(s): Jim Stempel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War On October 27, 1864, two marvels of the Civil War collided on the Roanoke River near Plymouth, North Car...
View full detailsThe New Media Invasion: Digital Technologies and the World They Unmake
John David Ebert
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• Author(s): John David Ebert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Information Technology From the 15th century until the mid-1990s, media based on the printed word--books, magazines, handbill...
View full detailsThe Other End of the Spear: The Tooth-to-Tail Ratio in Modern Military Operations
John J. McGrath
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• Author(s): John J. McGrath • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Military - Iraq War (2003-2011)This book looks at several troop categories based on primary function and analyzes the ratio between these categories to deve...
View full detailsKokoro
Soseki Natsume
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• Author(s): Soseki Natsume • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: LiteraryFrom Wikipedia: Kokoro (a aCuaCi or a a aCi) is a novel by the Japanese author Natsume Soseki. It was first published in 1914 in serial form in the J...
View full detailsField Guide to Common Macrofungi in Eastern Forests and Their Ecosystem Function
Michael E. Ostry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
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• Author(s): Michael E. Ostry | U. S. Department of Agriculture | Forest Service • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Agriculture - ForestryWith illustrations in full color. This guide i...
View full detailsSelfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness
James H. Austin
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• Author(s): James H. Austin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Zen (see also Philosophy - Zen)Attention, self-consciousness, insight, wisdom, emotional maturity: how Zen teachings can illuminate the way our...
View full detailsCommunities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Celia Pearce, Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie A. Nardi
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• Author(s): Celia Pearce | Tom Boellstorff | Bonnie A. Nardi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicThe odyssey of a group of "refugees" from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent ...
View full detailsPhotography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida
Geoffrey Batchen
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Batchen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryAn essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes's influential text.Roland B...
View full detailsFalling for Science: Objects in Mind
Sherry Turkle
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• Author(s): Sherry Turkle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EssaysPassion for objects and love for science: scientists and students reflect on how objects fired their scientific imaginations."This is a book about sci...
View full detailsHollywood Art: Art Direction in the Days of the Great Studios
Beverly Heisner
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• Author(s): Beverly Heisner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production In the 1930s and 40s heyday of Hollywood studio art departments, strong art directors like C...
View full detailsRadical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism
Eli Berman
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• Author(s): Eli Berman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: TerrorismApplying fresh tools from economics to explain puzzling behaviors of religious radicals: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish; violent and benign.How do radi...
View full detailsPursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities
Charles M. Vest, Norman B. Augustine
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• Author(s): Charles M. Vest | Norman B. Augustine • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThe former president of MIT discusses challenges and policy issues confronting academia, science and techno...
View full detailsRoger Connor: Home Run King of 19th Century Baseball
Roy Kerr
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• Author(s): Roy Kerr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Known today as "the Babe Ruth of the 1880s," Hall of Famer Roger Connor was the greatest of the nineteenth-century...
View full detailsSpacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969
Gary Westfahl
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• Author(s): Gary Westfahl • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - GeneralFilmmakers employ various images to suggest the strangeness of outer space, but protective spacesuits most...
View full detailsThe 11th Missouri Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Dennis W. Belcher
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• Author(s): Dennis W. Belcher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The 11th Missouri Infantry distinguished itself as just the type of regiment the Union needed in t...
View full detailsThe Films of Oliver Reed
Susan D. Cowie, Tom Johnson
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• Author(s): Susan D. Cowie | Tom Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From the obscure 1958 Sonja Henie vehicle Hello London to the 2000 Academy Award w...
View full detailsThe Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays
Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Stephen McVeigh
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• Author(s): Matthew Wilhelm Kapell | Stephen McVeigh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Among the most expensive--and most profitable--films of all time, the works of James C...
View full detailsThe Folk Music Revival, 1958-1970: Biographies of Fifty Performers and Other Influential People
David Dicaire
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• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is the second in a series of books focusing upon the history of folk music. This volume concentrates on the period ...
View full detailsThe Forced Removal of American Indians from the Northeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Relocations, 1620-1854
David W. Miller
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• Author(s): David W. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General Between the settlement of the Pilgrims in New England in 1620 and the 1850s, nativ...
View full detailsStatistical Abstract of the United States, 2012
Census Bureau, U. S. Department of Commerce
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• Author(s): Census Bureau | U. S. Department of Commerce • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Yearbooks & AnnualsStatistical Abstract presents data on the social, political, and eco...
View full detailsOptimization for Machine Learning
Suvrit Sra, Sebastian Nowozin, Stephen J. Wright
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• Author(s): Suvrit Sra | Sebastian Nowozin | Stephen J. Wright • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn up-to-date account of the interplay between optimization and machine learning, accessible to students and res...
View full detailsRiddle Me This, Batman!: Essays on the Universe of the Dark Knight
Kevin K. Durand, Mary K. Leigh
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• Author(s): Kevin K. Durand | Mary K. Leigh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels From his first comic-book appearance in 1939 through his many incarnations on the ...
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