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Baseball Nicknames: A Dictionary of Origins and Meanings
James K. Skipper
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• Author(s): James K. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The nicknames for over 3,600 players, umpires, managers, owners, broadcasters, writers, executives, other ...
View full detailsLost in Action: A World War II Soldier's Account of Capture on Bataan and Imprisonment by the Japanese
Dick Bilyeu
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• Author(s): Dick Bilyeu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military "Lost in action," a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured, was a...
View full detailsMad Muses and the Early Surrealists
Justin Vicari
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• Author(s): Justin Vicari • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - French The early surrealists attempted to create art directly from the unconscious, but the resulting art often revea...
View full detailsA Member of the Local Nine: Baseball and Identity in the Fiction of W.P. Kinsella
William Steele
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• Author(s): William Steele • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The first in-depth study of Kinsella's fiction since 1987, this book offers a unique and updated analysis. Utilizing a ...
View full detailsThomas Jefferson: Farmer
Barbara McEwan
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• Author(s): Barbara McEwan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State Thomas Jefferson is best known as one of the founders of the United States. His chief love, how...
View full detailsUncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-And-Error for Business, Politics, and Society
Jim Manzi
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• Author(s): Jim Manzi • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsHow do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi arg...
View full detailsThe Battle of Hanover Court House: Turning Point of the Peninsula Campaign, May 27, 1862
Michael C. Hardy
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• Author(s): Michael C. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War One year into the Civil War, beset by military and political pressures, General George B. McClellan...
View full detailsThe Lambs Theatre Club
Lewis J. Hardee
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• Author(s): Lewis J. Hardee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism From its origins in 1874 as an intimate actors' dining club, The Lambs by 1925 had become th...
View full detailsThe Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the `Palace of Minos' at Knossos
Rodney Castleden
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• Author(s): Rodney Castleden • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceKnossos, like the Acropolis or Stonehenge, is a symbol for an entire culture. The Knossos Labyrinth was first built in the reign of a Mid...
View full details"I Will Shoot Them from My Loving Heart": Memoir of a South Korean Officer in the Korean War
Won Moo Hurh
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• Author(s): Won Moo Hurh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States In the spring of 1950, 17-year-old South Korean high school senior Won Moo Hurh dreamed of studying law ...
View full detailsThe Invisible Picture: A Study of Psychic Experiences
Louisa E. Rhine
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• Author(s): Louisa E. Rhine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parapsychology - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy) Long among the foremost figures in parapsychological research, Dr...
View full detailsStudent Activism in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow
Meredith L. Weiss
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• Author(s): Meredith L. Weiss • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Political AdvocacyThis work traces the early rise and subsequent decline of politically effective st...
View full detailsThe Theology of Battlestar Galactica: American Christianity in the 2004-2009 Television Series
Kevin J. Wetmore
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The reimagined television series Battlestar Galactica (2005 to 2009 on the Sci Fi Channel), features rel...
View full detailsSugamo Prison, Tokyo: An Account of the Trial and Sentencing of Japanese War Criminals in 1948, by a U.S. Participant
John L. Ginn
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• Author(s): John L. Ginn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II In the aftermath of World War II, Sugamo Prison housed some of the most infamous Japanese war criminals, ...
View full detailsThe Total Work of Art in European Modernism
David Roberts
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• Author(s): David Roberts • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: Movements - ModernismIn this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstra...
View full detailsU.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003: Combat Service Support During Operation Iraqi Freedom (U.S. Marines in the Global War on Terrorism)
Melissa D. Mihocko, Charles P. Neimeyer, U. S. Marine Corps History Division
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• Author(s): Melissa D. Mihocko | Charles P. Neimeyer | U. S. Marine Corps History Division • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - Iraq War (2003-2011)Illusrated with full color maps and photogra...
View full detailsC# Precisely, second edition
Peter Sestoft, Henrik I. Hansen
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• Author(s): Peter Sestoft | Henrik I. Hansen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming Languages - C#A concise reference to the C# programming language, expanded and updated, with a look ahead at C# 5.0.C# is an ...
View full detailsThe U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center 1951-2001
Orlo K. Steele, Charles P. Neimeyer, U. S. Marine Corps History Division
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• Author(s): Orlo K. Steele | Charles P. Neimeyer | U. S. Marine Corps History Division • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Ecosystems & Habitats - MountainsIncludes FULL COLOR maps and illustrations...
View full detailsBallparks of the Deadball Era: A Comprehensive Study of Their Dimensions, Configurations and Effects on Batting, 1901-1919
Ronald M. Selter
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• Author(s): Ronald M. Selter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History While most serious fans know that the Deadball Era was characterized by low scoring, aggressive baserunnin...
View full detailsThe U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center 1951-2001
Orlo K. Steele, Charles P. Neimeyer, U. S. Marine Corps History Division
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• Author(s): Orlo K. Steele | Charles P. Neimeyer | U. S. Marine Corps History Division • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Ecosystems & Habitats - MountainsIncludes FULL COLOR maps and illustrations...
View full detailsPatrick Henry: First Among Patriots
Thomas S. Kidd
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• Author(s): Thomas S. Kidd • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralMost Americans know Patrick Henry as a fiery speaker whose pronouncement "Give me liberty or give me death!" rallied American defia...
View full detailsThe Working Class Majority: Multimedia Companion Disc
Michael Zweig
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• Author(s): Michael Zweig • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Minority Studies - GeneralIn the second edition of his essential book--which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gende...
View full detailsWorking Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret
Michael Zweig
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• Author(s): Michael Zweig • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Minority Studies - GeneralIn the second edition of his essential book--which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gende...
View full detailsShared Walls: Seattle Apartment Buildings, 1900-1939
Diana E. James
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• Author(s): Diana E. James • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Buildings - Residential The 1900 edition of Polk's Seattle City Directory listed four apartment buildings. By 1939, that number...
View full detailsCammie Up!: Memoir of a Recon Marine in Vietnam, 1967-1968
Steven A. Johnson
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• Author(s): Steven A. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military In this Marine combat memoir, Steve Johnson recounts his service in Vietnam from April 1967 to May 1968. Only 17 wh...
View full detailsHungarian Emigres in the American Civil War: A History and Biographical Dictionary
István Kornél Vida
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• Author(s): István Kornél Vida • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) After the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in 1848 and 1849, thousands ...
View full detailsThe War of the Worlds: A Critical Text of the 1898 London First Edition, with an Introduction, Illustrations 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 Wells' novel, a "scientific romance," attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamo...
View full detailsPearl Cleage and Free Womanhood: Essays on Her Prose Works
Tikenya Foster-Singletary, Aisha Francis
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• Author(s): Tikenya Foster-Singletary | Aisha Francis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of essays examines popular writer Pearl Cleage's work, including her novels,...
View full detailsContagious City: The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
Simon Finger
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• Author(s): Simon Finger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsy...
View full detailsHistorical Dictionary of Chinese Intelligence
I. C. Smith, Nigel West
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• Author(s): I. C. Smith | Nigel West • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Historical Dictionary of Chinese Intelligence covers the history of Chinese Intelligence from 400 B.C. to modern time...
View full detailsThe Subversive Harry Potter: Adolescent Rebellion and Containment in the J.K. Rowling Novels
Vandana Saxena
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• Author(s): Vandana Saxena • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy The seven books in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series bring together a variety of aspects of youn...
View full detailsThe New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors
Fred Olen Ray
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• Author(s): Fred Olen Ray • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Telecommunications Since cinema's earliest beginnings, there has been friction between producers and directors. Shady accounting...
View full detailsGrand National, Producers Releasing Corporation, and Screen Guild/Lippert: Complete Filmographies with Studio Histories
Ted Okuda
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• Author(s): Ted Okuda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Throughout the 1930s, 40s and 50s, several independent film production companies (referred to a "poverty...
View full detailsCivil War Battlefield Orders Gone Awry: The Written Word and Its Consequences in 13 Engagements
Donald R. Jermann
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• Author(s): Donald R. Jermann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) During the Civil War, the outcome of many a battle or campaign hinged on the pr...
View full detailsThe Origins of the French Nationalist Movement, 1886-1914
Robert Lynn Fuller
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• Author(s): Robert Lynn Fuller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General This narrative history explores the emergence of one of the most influential Nationalist movements of moder...
View full detailsThe United States Junior Open Chess Championship, 1946-2016
Alex Dunne
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• Author(s): Alex Dunne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess For 70 years the U.S. Chess Federation has held the U.S. Junior Open, featuring young players under 21. This book is the firs...
View full detailsTurning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
Ed Offley
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• Author(s): Ed Offley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - World War IIAt times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur ma...
View full detailsConspirator: Lenin in Exile
Helen Rappaport
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• Author(s): Helen Rappaport • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateHelen Rappaport's Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin's years of exile in Europe, showing that this oft...
View full detailsThe IRA on Film and Television: A History
Mark Connelly
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• Author(s): Mark Connelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has for decades pursued the goal of unifying its homeland i...
View full detailsSport as Symbol: Images of the Athlete in Art, Literature and Song
Mari Womack
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• Author(s): Mari Womack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Social Aspects Upon first consideration, sport and art seem to occupy separate, even opposing, realms--sport, assoc...
View full detailsPlacenames of the Civil War: Cities, Towns, Villages, Railroad Stations, Forts, Camps, Islands, Rivers, Creeks, Fords and Ferries
John D. Bennett
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• Author(s): John D. Bennett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Despite the plethora of books about the Civil War, the origins of many of the placenames associated ...
View full detailsThe Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia: A History from the First Discovery to the Tapping of the Marcellus Shale, 2d ed.
David A. Waples
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• Author(s): David A. Waples • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Economic History The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George ...
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Makers of Western Science: The Works and Words of 24 Visionaries from Copernicus to Watson and Crick
Makers of Western Science: The Works and Words of 24 Visionaries from Copernicus to Watson and Crick
Todd Timmons
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• Author(s): Todd Timmons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Non-scientists often perceive science as a dry, boring vocation pursued by dry, boring people. Contrary to popular percep...
View full detailsTransnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Parin Dossa, Cati Coe, Parin Dossa
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• Author(s): Parin Dossa | Cati Coe | Parin Dossa • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyTransnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the soc...
View full detailsJoining the United States Army: A Handbook
Snow Wildsmith
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• Author(s): Snow Wildsmith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Careers - General This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Army. It wil...
View full detailsNot Lives, Volume 5
Wataru Karasuma
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• Author(s): Wataru Karasuma • Publisher: Seven Seas • Publisher Imprint: Seven Seas • BISAC: Manga - GeneralA gaming genius who suddenly finds himself struggling to survive in a deadly game--as a girl! High school student Mikami has always been ...
View full detailsFat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America's War on Fat
Susan Greenhalgh
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• Author(s): Susan Greenhalgh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Disease & Health IssuesIn recent decades, America has been waging a veritable war on fat in which not just public healt...
View full detailsDirecting
Virginia Wright Wexman, Virginia Wright Wexman, Charlie Keil
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• Author(s): Virginia Wright Wexman | Virginia Wright Wexman | Charlie Keil • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionWhen a film is acclaimed, the director usual...
View full detailsAlien Universe: Extraterrestrial Life in Our Minds and in the Cosmos
Don Lincoln
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• Author(s): Don Lincoln • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Astronomy - GeneralAre alien civilizations really possible?If extraterrestrials exist, where are they? How likely is...
View full detailsQueen Salome: Jerusalem's Warrior Monarch of the First Century B.C.E.
Kenneth Atkinson
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• Author(s): Kenneth Atkinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General As the ruler of Judea from 76 to 67 B.C.E., Queen Salome Alexandra (ca. 141 B.C.E.-67 B.C.E.) appointed the...
View full detailsThe World Health Organization between North and South
Nitsan Chorev
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• Author(s): Nitsan Chorev • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliverySince 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health c...
View full detailsHousing the New Russia
Jane R. Zavisca
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• Author(s): Jane R. Zavisca • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn Housing the New Russia, Jane R. Zavisca examines Russia's attempts to transition from a socialist vision...
View full detailsReading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America
Barbara Jensen
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• Author(s): Barbara Jensen • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Social Classes & Economic DisparityDiscussions of class make many Americans uncomfortable. This accessible book makes class visible in everyday life. S...
View full detailsReforming Asian Labor Systems
Frederic C. Deyo
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• Author(s): Frederic C. Deyo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsIn Reforming Asian Labor Systems, Frederic C. Deyo examines the implications of post-1980s ...
View full detailsJoining the United States Coast Guard: A Handbook
Snow Wildsmith
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• Author(s): Snow Wildsmith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Careers - General This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Coast Guard....
View full detailsEd McBain/Evan Hunter: A Literary Companion
Erin E. MacDonald, Elizabeth Foxwell
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• Author(s): Erin E. MacDonald | Elizabeth Foxwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter ...
View full detailsRhode Island's Civil War Hospital: Life and Death at Portsmouth Grove, 1862-1865
Frank L. Grzyb
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• Author(s): Frank L. Grzyb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) During the Civil War, thousands of wounded Union soldiers and Confederate prisoner...
View full detailsIs the Universe a Hologram?: Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions
Adolfo Plasencia, Tim O'Reilly
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• Author(s): Adolfo Plasencia | Tim O'Reilly • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EssaysQuestions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.Science t...
View full detailsA Short History of Film, Third Edition
Wheeler Winston Dixon, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
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• Author(s): Wheeler Winston Dixon | Gwendolyn Audrey Foster • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWith more than 250 images, new information on international ci...
View full detailsBuildings of New Orleans
Karen Kingsley, Lake Douglas
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• Author(s): Karen Kingsley | Lake Douglas • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: History - General Winner of Best Guidebook Award 2019 from the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Arc...
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