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Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity
J. P. Moreland
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• Author(s): J. P. Moreland • Publisher: Baker Academic & Brazos Press • Publisher Imprint: Baker Academic & Brazos Press • BISAC: Christian Life - GeneralThis volume offers up-to-date arguments for God's existence and for Jesus's deity a...
View full detailsBending with the Wind: Memoir of a Cambodian Couple's Escape to America
Bounchoeurn Sao, Diyana D. Sao, Karline F. Bird
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• Author(s): Bounchoeurn Sao | Diyana D. Sao | Karline F. Bird • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Personal Memoirs Before the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in April 1975, Sao Bounchoeurn ...
View full detailsFleas, Flies, and Friars
Nicholas Orme
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• Author(s): Nicholas Orme • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalMedieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twiste...
View full detailsThe Letters Of Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt, Alexander Dru
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• Author(s): Jacob Burckhardt | Alexander Dru • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: GeneralAs a rule, an author's correspondence possesses only a secondary interest, but Jacob Burckhardt's lett...
View full detailsUnderstanding Combat Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Walter F. McDermott
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• Author(s): Walter F. McDermott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychopathology - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder This introduction to the invisible wound of war, Post Traumatic Stress Di...
View full detailsThe Psychology of Artists and the Arts
Edward W. L. Smith
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• Author(s): Edward W. L. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criticism & Theory This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the psychodynamic theories of artistic creat...
View full detailsNew York at War: Four Centuries of Combat, Fear, and Intrigue in Gotham
Steven H. Jaffe
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• Author(s): Steven H. Jaffe • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - United States
Exceptional Experience and Health: Essays on Mind, Body and Human Potential
Christine Simmonds-Moore
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• Author(s): Christine Simmonds-Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The study of the effect of "exceptional" experiences and beliefs on health--including anomalous, placebo, or ...
View full detailsThe Poorhouses of Massachusetts: A Cultural and Architectural History
Heli Meltsner
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• Author(s): Heli Meltsner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Ever since the English settled in America, extreme poverty and the inability of individuals to support t...
View full detailsJacqueline Cochran: Biography of a Pioneer Aviator
Rhonda Smith-Daugherty
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• Author(s): Rhonda Smith-Daugherty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Adventurers & Explorers Although Amelia Earhart remains the best-known female pilot of the 1930s, Jacqueline Cochra...
View full detailsScience Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Shows
Frank Garcia, Mark Phillips
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• Author(s): Frank Garcia | Mark Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism This is a detailed examination of 58 science fiction television series produ...
View full detailsBlack Baseball Out of Season: Pay for Play Outside of the Negro Leagues
William F. McNeil
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• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Negro League ballplayers, earning paychecks comparable to those of blue-collar workers, needed an off-sea...
View full detailsKing Alfred's Book of Laws: A Study of the Domboc and Its Influence on English Identity, with a Complete Translation
Todd Preston
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• Author(s): Todd Preston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative During the early Middle Ages, King Alfred (reigned 871-99) gained fame as the ruler who brought learning back to Engl...
View full detailsCaribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial
Raphael Dalleo
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• Author(s): Raphael Dalleo • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanBringing together the most exciting recent archival work in anglophone, francophone, an...
View full detailsGeorge Burns: An American Life
Lawrence J. Epstein
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• Author(s): Lawrence J. Epstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Having entered the world in 1896 as a poverty-stricken child named Naftaly (Nathan) Bi...
View full detailsThe United States Coast Guard and National Defense: A History from World War I to the Present
Thomas P. Ostrom
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• Author(s): Thomas P. Ostrom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Naval In addition to port security, ship inspection and safety, law enforcement, and search and rescue, the U.S. C...
View full detailsThe Avant-Garde Feature Film: A Critical History
William E. B. Verrone
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• Author(s): William E. B. Verrone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Here is a critical and historical overview of unconventional and aesthetically challengin...
View full detailsJust Plain Data Analysis: Finding, Presenting, and Interpreting Social Science Data
Gary M. Klass
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• Author(s): Gary M. Klass • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralJust Plain Data Analysis is designed to teach students statistical literac...
View full detailsFrank Sinatra: A Complete Recording History of Techniques, Songs, Composers, Lyricists, Arrangers, Sessions and First-Issue Albums, 1939-1984
Richard W. Ackelson
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• Author(s): Richard W. Ackelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Discography & Buyer's Guides Frank Sinatra's 45-year recording career and the songs he recorded: his professional biog...
View full detailsFootball/Soccer: History and Tactics
Jaime Orejan
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• Author(s): Jaime Orejan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Soccer In many parts of the world, football ("soccer" in the U.S.) represents a way of life. Roughly 150 million players register...
View full detailsThe Mysteries of the Cities: Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
Stephen Knight
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• Author(s): Stephen Knight • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction A popular crime genre in the nineteenth century, urban mysteries have largely been ignored ever...
View full detailsPele, Volcano Goddess of Hawai'i: A History
H. Arlo Nimmo
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• Author(s): H. Arlo Nimmo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology When the first Europeans arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, the volcano goddess Pele was the cent...
View full detailsPutting the Barn Before the House: Women and Family Farming in Early Twentieth-Century New York
Nancy Grey Osterud
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• Author(s): Nancy Grey Osterud • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticPutting the Barn Before the House features the voices and viewpoints o...
View full detailsModern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art
Nora A. Taylor, Boreth Ly
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• Author(s): Nora A. Taylor | Boreth Ly • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )"The anthology edited by Nora Taylor and Boreth Ly emerges a...
View full detailsExclusions
Julie Fette
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• Author(s): Julie Fette • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeIn the 1930s, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in ...
View full detailsAmerica's First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the Panic of 1837
Alasdair Roberts
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• Author(s): Alasdair Roberts • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyFor a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The ...
View full detailsA Threat to Public Piety
Elizabeth Depalma Digeser
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Depalma Digeser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryIn A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD ...
View full detailsThe Story of a Life
Anna Pavolovna Vygodskaia, Eugene M. Avrutin, Eugene M. Avrutin
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• Author(s): Anna Pavolovna Vygodskaia | Eugene M. Avrutin | Eugene M. Avrutin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: LiteraryAnna Pavlovna Vygodskaia's autobiography, orig...
View full detailsHandbook of Pentecostal Christianity
Adam S. Stewart
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• Author(s): Adam S. Stewart • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Pentecostal & CharismaticHandbook of Pentecostal Christianity is an easy-to-read guid...
View full details"Rhody Redlegs": A History of the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery and the 103d Field Artillery, Rhode Island Army National Guard, 1801-2010
Robert Grandchamp, Jane Lancaster, Cynthia Ferguson
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• Author(s): Robert Grandchamp | Jane Lancaster | Cynthia Ferguson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Formed in 1801 to protect sea captains against attack from the ...
View full detailsCeltic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs
Sharon Paice MacLeod
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• Author(s): Sharon Paice MacLeod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology This book provides a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numer...
View full detailsLegal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah: A Comprehensive Registry
R. Michael Wilson
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• Author(s): R. Michael Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Penology Since statehood was achieved in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, 322 men and 2 women have been execu...
View full detailsArmies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
Jay Rubenstein
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• Author(s): Jay Rubenstein • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Medieval
Super-History: Comic Book Superheroes and American Society, 1938 to the Present
Jeffrey K. Johnson
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• Author(s): Jeffrey K. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels In the less than eight decades since Superman's debut in 1938, comic book superheroes have beco...
View full detailsAndrea Camilleri: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Lucia Rinaldi, Elizabeth Foxwell
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• Author(s): Lucia Rinaldi | Elizabeth Foxwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This is the first comprehensive reference work in English dedicated to the w...
View full detailsAncient Egypt in the Popular Imagination: Building a Fantasy in Film, Literature, Music and Art
David Huckvale
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• Author(s): David Huckvale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in Western popular culture. Movies such as The Mummy (193...
View full detailsHermann Goring and the Nazi Art Collection: The Looting of Europe's Art Treasures and Their Dispersal After World War II
Kenneth D. Alford
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• Author(s): Kenneth D. Alford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - General During World War II, the Nazis plundered from occupied countries millions of items of incalculable value e...
View full detailsJersey Joe Walcott: A Boxing Biography
James Curl
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• Author(s): James Curl • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Born into extreme poverty in 1914, Jersey Joe Walcott began boxing at the age of 16 to help feed his hungry family. After te...
View full detailsThe Poor and the Perfect: The Rise of Learning in the Franciscan Order, 1209-1310
Neslihan Şenocak
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• Author(s): Neslihan Şenocak • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalOne of the enduring ironies of medieval history is the fact that a group of Italian lay penitents, begging...
View full detailsThe Mutinous Regiment: The Thirty-Third New Jersey in the Civil War
John G. Zinn
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• Author(s): John G. Zinn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This treasure-trove of information details the 33rd New Jersey regiment's formation ...
View full detailsDowntown Chicago's Historic Movie Theatres
Konrad Schiecke
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• Author(s): Konrad Schiecke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The story of downtown Chicago--its early development, later struggles, and current restoration--is mirrored in ...
View full detailsHorror Film Festivals and Awards
Thomas M. Sipos
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• Author(s): Thomas M. Sipos • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The rise of independent horror filmmaking has spurred a growth of "indie" horror film festivals, promising prom...
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"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity": An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I
"A Hideous Bit of Morbidity": An Anthology of Horror Criticism from the Enlightenment to World War I
Jason Colavito
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• Author(s): Jason Colavito • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Horror fiction stormed the bestseller lists with classics like Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, setting the stage for ...
View full detailsMeaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation
Frank R. Ankersmit
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• Author(s): Frank R. Ankersmit • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyIn this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problem...
View full detailsWomen Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles
Armond Fields
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• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Here are the stories of 80 women who were among the top vaudeville acts in the late 19th and...
View full detailsThe Mafia at Apalachin, 1957
Michael Newton
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• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General On November 14, 1957, state troopers raided an estate in Apalachin, New York, and arrested 59 affluent ...
View full detailsEminent Victorian Chess Players: Ten Biographies
Tim Harding
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• Author(s): Tim Harding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book portrays British chess life in the nineteenth century through biographical studies of ten players who shaped the...
View full detailsThe First Men in the Moon: A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
H. G. Wells
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• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction - General The First Men in the Moon is the last in a series of "scientific romances" begun by Wells with The Time ...
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Collaborative Learning and Writing: Essays on Using Small Groups in Teaching English and Composition
Collaborative Learning and Writing: Essays on Using Small Groups in Teaching English and Composition
Kathleen M. Hunzer
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• Author(s): Kathleen M. Hunzer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts Although most writing instructors know the benefits of collaborative learn...
View full detailsThe Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine: A Critical Text of the 1902 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
H. G. Wells
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• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Much attention has been paid to the "scientific romance" novels of H.G. Wells, a founder of modern s...
View full detailsWar and Morality: Citizens' Rights and Duties
Michael Cavanagh
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• Author(s): Michael Cavanagh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History & Theory - General In democratic societies, it is said that wars and military interventions are fought in the nam...
View full detailsMan Who Could Work Miracles: A Critical Text of the 1936 New York First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
H. G. Wells
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• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Man Who Could Work Miracles (without a The) is a 1937 film, ostensibly a comedy, that H.G. Wells scripted late in l...
View full detailsThe Federal League of Base Ball Clubs: The History of an Outlaw Major League, 1914-1915
Robert Peyton Wiggins
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• Author(s): Robert Peyton Wiggins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national...
View full detailsThings to Come: A Critical Text of the 1935 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
H. G. Wells
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• Author(s): H. G. Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Things to Come is the 1936 release of London Films, produced from the 1935 "film story" by H.G. Wells, the text of the pr...
View full detailsInternal Reasons: Contemporary Readings
Kieran Setiya, Hille Paakkunainen
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• Author(s): Kieran Setiya | Hille Paakkunainen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyA collection of the most important recent work on reasons for action and the question "why be moral?"Some ...
View full detailsThe Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota through 1863
Jessica Dawn Palmer
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• Author(s): Jessica Dawn Palmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Native American The Dakota people, alternatively referred to as Sioux Native Americans or Oceti Sakowin (The People of the...
View full detailsGoing to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978-1986
Adam Rockoff
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• Author(s): Adam Rockoff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General John Carpenter's Halloween, released on October 25, 1978, marked the beginning of the horror film's most colorful...
View full detailsThe Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Henry Louis Gates, Abby Wolf
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• Author(s): Henry Louis Gates | Abby Wolf • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysEducator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most ...
View full detailsThere Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters
Claire Berlinski
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• Author(s): Claire Berlinski • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralGreat Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline -- ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for gl...
View full detailsPractical Moviemaking: A Handbook for the Real World
Joe Wallenstein
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• Author(s): Joe Wallenstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Every year, hundreds of American film schools graduate thousands of aspiring filmmakers. Ver...
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