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To Follow in Their Footsteps
Nicholas L. Paul
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• Author(s): Nicholas L. Paul • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalWhen the First Crusade ended with the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099, jubilant crusaders returned home to E...
View full detailsKyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Animation (See Also Film - Genres - Animated) Kyoto Animation, a studio with very humble beginnings, has gained recognition the...
View full detailsOrigins of Arthurian Romances: Early Sources for the Legends of Tristan, the Grail and the Abduction of the Queen
Flint F. Johnson
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• Author(s): Flint F. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh There are three archetypal and widespread Arthurian stories--the abduction of Guinevere, the ...
View full detailsDivided Libraries: Remodeling Management to Unify Institutions
T. D. Webb
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• Author(s): T. D. Webb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Given the highly trained library workforce now available and the vast and growing array...
View full detailsThe Will to Imagine
J. L. Schellenberg
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• Author(s): J. L. Schellenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AgnosticismThe Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy in the philosophy of religion, following his acclai...
View full detailsLanguage and Culture in the Growth of Imperialism
Sharron Gu
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• Author(s): Sharron Gu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Political science interpretations of international relations tend to focus on abstract terms of economic interest, dominati...
View full detailsThe Hardy Boys Mysteries, 1927-1979: A Cultural and Literary History
Mark Connelly
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• Author(s): Mark Connelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction In its 80+ years, the Hardy Boys series has sold more than 50 million books in 25 or more langua...
View full detailsCollege Football Awards: All National and Conference Winners Through 2010
Dave Blevins
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• Author(s): Dave Blevins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football Each year, more than 575 awards and trophies are presented to college football players and coaches around the country. T...
View full detailsThe Underground Railroad in Western Illinois
Owen W. Muelder
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• Author(s): Owen W. Muelder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO Fugitives fleeing from slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, and poi...
View full detailsMysticism and Alchemy through the Ages: The Quest for Transformation
Gary Edson
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• Author(s): Gary Edson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General An in-depth look into the foundations of mysticism and alchemy, this book describes both physical and spiritual aspects of ...
View full detailsSacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States
Steve Lerner, Phil Brown
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• Author(s): Steve Lerner | Phil Brown • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)The stories of residents of low-income communities across the country who took action ...
View full detailsOpening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, Linda Olson
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• Author(s): Kathryn Kerby-Fulton | Maidie Hilmo | Linda Olson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralDeeply informed and lavishly illustrated, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts is ...
View full detailsProsper or Perish
Lynette H. Ong
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• Author(s): Lynette H. Ong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralThe official banking institutions for rural China are Rural Credit Cooperatives (RCCs). Although these co-op...
View full detailsHogs, Blogs, Leathers and Lattes: The Sociology of Modern American Motorcycling
William E. Thompson
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• Author(s): William E. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Social Aspects This book combines more than 45 years of the author's riding experiences with data collected...
View full detailsLa Caída del Rey / When the King Falls
Marie Niehoff, Ana Compañy Martínez
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• Author(s): Marie Niehoff | Ana Compañy Martínez • Publisher: Planeta Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Planeta Publishing • BISAC: VampiresELLA ES SU ELEGIDA.ES SU DESTINO.TAMBI�N SER� SU MUERTE.Los vampiros han gobernado a la humanidad durante s...
View full detailsChester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy
Jean Gould O'Connell
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• Author(s): Jean Gould O'Connell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In 1931, the Chicago Tribune introduced the public to an exciting new comic strip destined to become a classic: D...
View full detailsTen Commandments and the Beatitudes: Biblical Studies and Ethics for Real Life
Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, Daniel J. Harrington, Sj James F. Keenan
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• Author(s): Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan | Daniel J. Harrington | Sj James F. Keenan • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Biblical Studies - New Testament - GeneralThe Ten Comm...
View full detailsHistorical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema
John Sundholm, Isak Thorsen, Lars Gustaf Andersson
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• Author(s): John Sundholm | Isak Thorsen | Lars Gustaf Andersson • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema covers the history of the ...
View full detailsThe Forrest J Ackerman Oeuvre: A Comprehensive Catalog of the Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Screenplays, Film Appearances, Speeches and Other Works, wi
Christopher M. O'Brien
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• Author(s): Christopher M. O'Brien • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Although he is most remembered for his vast collection of science fiction memorabilia; his influential m...
View full detailsTen Commandments and the Beatitudes: Biblical Studies and Ethics for Real Life
Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, Daniel J. Harrington, Sj James F. Keenan
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• Author(s): Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan | Daniel J. Harrington | Sj James F. Keenan • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Biblical Studies - New Testament - GeneralThe Ten Comm...
View full detailsHistoric Places of Worship: Stories of 51 Extraordinary American Religious Sites Since 1300
Paul D. Buchanan
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• Author(s): Paul D. Buchanan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Religion In St. Augustine, Florida, stands the replicated Mission Nombre de Dios, with a 208-foot stainless steel...
View full detailsBeyond His Dark Materials: Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman
Susan Redington Bobby
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• Author(s): Susan Redington Bobby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Beyond the His Dark Materials series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many d...
View full detailsCulture Wars in British Literature: Multiculturalism and National Identity
Tracy J. Prince
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• Author(s): Tracy J. Prince • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The past century's culture wars that Britain has been consumed by, but that few North American...
View full detailsStorming the Desert: A Marine Lieutenant's Day-by-Day Chronicle of the Persian Gulf War
Sean T. Coughlin
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• Author(s): Sean T. Coughlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military On December 15, 1990, Lieutenant Sean T. Coughlin left Norton Air Force Base, California. His destination: Saudi Ara...
View full detailsDeconstructing Organized Crime: An Historical and Theoretical Study
Joseph L. Albini, Jeffrey Scott McIllwain
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• Author(s): Joseph L. Albini | Jeffrey Scott McIllwain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology What is organized crime? There have been many answers over the decades from scholars, g...
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Greek and Macedonian Land Battles of the 4th Century B.C.: A History and Analysis of 187 Engagements
Greek and Macedonian Land Battles of the 4th Century B.C.: A History and Analysis of 187 Engagements
Fred Eugene Ray
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• Author(s): Fred Eugene Ray • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General With its mixture of famous battles and storied commanders, warfare in 4th century B.C. Greece has long held...
View full detailsIndian Summer
Mieko Kanai, Tomoko Aoyama, Barbara Hartley
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• Author(s): Mieko Kanai | Tomoko Aoyama | Barbara Hartley • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: LiteraryIndian Summer (Koharu biyori) is the title of a relatively short novel by Kanai Mieko ...
View full details"This Terrible Struggle for Life": The Civil War Letters of a Union Regimental Surgeon
Thomas S. Hawley
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• Author(s): Thomas S. Hawley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through th...
View full detailsHazen Kiki Cuyler: A Baseball Biography
Ronald T. Waldo
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• Author(s): Ronald T. Waldo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports One of the greatest outfielders of his generation, Hazen "Kiki" Cuyler (1898-1950) was working as a roof assembler in a...
View full detailsOccasional Glory: The History of the Philadelphia Phillies, 2d ed.
David M. Jordan
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• Author(s): David M. Jordan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History With more losses and last-place finishes than any other club in Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phi...
View full detailsTracking the Weretiger: Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia
Patrick Newman
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• Author(s): Patrick Newman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthrop...
View full detailsOperation Goodtime and the Battle of the Treasury Islands, 1943: The World War II Invasion by United States and New Zealand Forces
Reg Newell
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• Author(s): Reg Newell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II A force of New Zealanders and Americans invaded the Treasury Islands in the South Pacific on October 27, 19...
View full detailsFeminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry and Prose
Tara Prescott, Aaron Drucker
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• Author(s): Tara Prescott | Aaron Drucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels This collection of new essays looks carefully at the broad spectrum of Neil Gaiman's...
View full detailsDramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays
Verna A. Foster
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• Author(s): Verna A. Foster • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General These new essays explore the ways in which contemporary dramatists have retold or otherwise made use of myth...
View full detailsThe Thought Reader Craze: Victorian Science at the Enchanted Boundary
Barry H. Wiley
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• Author(s): Barry H. Wiley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parapsychology - General Beginning in 1870, the hunger for scientific discovery in Great Britain drove prominent scientists, ph...
View full detailsHot Zone: Memoir of a Professional Firefighter
Christopher Teale Howes
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• Author(s): Christopher Teale Howes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Personal Memoirs This memoir is a riveting account of what it's like to be a professional firefighter, from rookie to ...
View full detailsDo You Believe in Rock and Roll?: Essays on Don McLean's American Pie
Raymond I. Schuck, Ray Schuck
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• Author(s): Raymond I. Schuck | Ray Schuck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock Since its release in 1971, Don McLean's song "American Pie" has become an indelible ...
View full detailsHunted
Krys Fenner
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• Author(s): Krys Fenner • Publisher: Two Realms Publishing LLC • Publisher Imprint: Two Realms Publishing LLC • BISAC: DystopianOn her next mission, Thalasia finds herself in the realm of Bahalah, home to harsh sands and unforgiving heat, where ...
View full detailsNew Images of Nazi Germany: A Photographic Collection
Paul Garson
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• Author(s): Paul Garson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II With its battlefields paved over and its bunkers crumbled, the Third Reich of Nazi Germany nevertheless li...
View full detailsA Most Stirring and Significant Episode
H. Paul Thompson
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• Author(s): H. Paul Thompson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlWhen Atlanta enacted prohibition in...
View full detailsThe Worlds of Langston Hughes
Vera M. Kutzinski
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• Author(s): Vera M. Kutzinski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanThe poet Langston Hughes was a tireless world traveler and a prolific translator, editor, and m...
View full detailsModern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia
Julia Mannherz
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• Author(s): Julia Mannherz • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionModern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia traces the history of occult thought and pra...
View full detailsWelfare through Work
Mari Miura
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• Author(s): Mari Miura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareHigh economic growth and relatively equitable distribution were among the most consp...
View full detailsConflicting Commitments
Shannon Gleeson
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• Author(s): Shannon Gleeson • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationIn Conflicting Commitments, Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated ...
View full detailsPeter Sellers: A Film History
Michael Seth Starr
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• Author(s): Michael Seth Starr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Peter Sellers left behind a rich legacy of film work, some of which is only belatedly r...
View full detailsJapanese Films: A Filmography and Commentary, 1921-1989
Beverley Bare Buehrer
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• Author(s): Beverley Bare Buehrer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Japanese culture as seen in film is a world of arranged marriages and loyalty beyond death, ...
View full detailsMary Elizabeth Braddon: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Anne-Marie Beller, Elizabeth Foxwell
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• Author(s): Anne-Marie Beller | Elizabeth Foxwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction An important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth ...
View full detailsWestern Movie References in American Literature
Henryk Hoffmann
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• Author(s): Henryk Hoffmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General References to western movies scattered over some 250 works by more than 130 authors constitute the subject matt...
View full detailsThe English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution
Michael A. Beatty
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• Author(s): Michael A. Beatty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genealogy & Heraldry For about a century and a half after they arrived from Britain, America's first permanent colonists...
View full detailsShakespeare and the Problem Play: Complex Forms, Crossed Genres and Moral Quandaries
E. L. Risden
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• Author(s): E. L. Risden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite dee...
View full detailsThe Fight for the Yazoo, August 1862-July 1864: Swamps, Forts and Fleets on Vicksburg's Northern Flank
Myron J. Smith
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• Author(s): Myron J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Following the loss of the CSS Arkansas in early August 1862, Union and Confederate...
View full detailsThe Postmodern Sacred: Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres
Emily McAvan
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• Author(s): Emily McAvan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files, recent science fiction and fanta...
View full detailsChristians and Their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE
Éric Rebillard
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• Author(s): Éric Rebillard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralFor too long, the study of religious life in Late Antiquity has relied on the premise that Je...
View full detailsViolence, Inequality, and Human Freedom
Peter Iadicola, Anson Shupe
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• Author(s): Peter Iadicola | Anson Shupe • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Violence in SocietyViolence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction...
View full detailsNorth Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society
Kyung-Ae Park, Scott Snyder
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• Author(s): Kyung-Ae Park | Scott Snyder • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFollowing the death of Kim Jong Il, North Korea has entered a period o...
View full detailsThe United States Military in Limited War: Case Studies in Success and Failure, 1945-1999
Kevin Dougherty
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• Author(s): Kevin Dougherty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General After World War II, the United States military increasingly found itself involved in operations that have b...
View full detailsMormonism and the Nature of God: A Theological Evolution, 1830-1915
Kurt Widmer
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• Author(s): Kurt Widmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( Until around the latter part of the 20th century, Mormonism has been ...
View full detailsDreyfus and the Literature of the Third Republic: Secularism and Tolerance in Zola, Barres, Lazare and Proust
Evlyn Gould
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• Author(s): Evlyn Gould • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish army officer, spent twelve years from 1894 to 1906 in solitary confineme...
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Masters of the Grotesque: The Cinema of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch
Masters of the Grotesque: The Cinema of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers and David Lynch
Schuy R. Weishaar
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• Author(s): Schuy R. Weishaar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The concepts and theories surrounding the aesthetic category of the grotesque are explored in...
View full detailsIsrael and the Quest for Permanence
Dan Perry, Alfred Ironside
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• Author(s): Dan Perry | Alfred Ironside • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & Palestine For many years, the conflict between Jews and Arabs has affected Middle East ...
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