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The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start A Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills--And Leave A Positive Impression!
Debra Fine
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• Author(s): Debra Fine • Publisher: Hyperion Books • Publisher Imprint: Hyperion Books • BISAC: General
No Shame
Lea Lis
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• Author(s): Lea Lis • Publisher: Page Two Books • Publisher Imprint: Page Two Books • BISAC: Parenting - GeneralSex-positive parenting begins before your child starts talking. In No Shame: Real Talk With Your Kids About Sex, Self-Confidence, and...
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R.K. Narayan
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• Author(s): R.K. Narayan • Publisher: Rajpal and Sons • Publisher Imprint: Rajpal • BISAC: Literaryआर. के. नारायण उन पहले भारतीय लेखकों में से थे जिनको विश्व-स्तर पर साहित्यिक ख्याति मिली। 'गाइड' उनका सबसे बेहतरीन उपन्यास है जिसे साहित्य अकादमी ...
View full detailsResponses to Self Harm: An Historical Analysis of Medical, Religious, Military and Psychological Perspectives
Leigh Dale
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• Author(s): Leigh Dale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Self harm is generally regarded as a modern epidemic, associated especially with young women. But references to sel...
View full detailsA Council for the Global Church: Receiving Vatican II in History
Massimo Faggioli
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• Author(s): Massimo Faggioli • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - EcclesiologyThe Second Vatican Council ended in December 1965, but Vatican II is still happening in the global church. Cat...
View full detailsPathways in Theodicy an Introduction to the Problem of Evil
Mark S. M. Scott
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• Author(s): Mark S. M. Scott • Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Augsburg Fortress Publishing • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicWhy does God permit senseless suffering? If God is good and all-powerful, why does e...
View full detailsBibb Falk: The Man Who Replaced Shoeless Joe
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Born in Austin, Texas, in 1899, Bibb August Falk was the classic stereotype of a Texan, standing six feet. ...
View full detailsCuban Cinema After the Cold War: A Critical Analysis of Selected Films
Enrique García
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• Author(s): Enrique García • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The changes Cuba experienced following the collapse of the Soviet Union compelled Cuban filmmake...
View full detailsA Scout's Report: My 70 Years in Baseball
George Genovese, Dan Taylor
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• Author(s): George Genovese | Dan Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is...
View full detailsVideo Games Around the World
Mark J. P. Wolf, Toru Iwatani
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• Author(s): Mark J. P. Wolf | Toru Iwatani • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileThirty-nine essays explore the vast diversity of video game history and culture across all the world's continents.Video g...
View full detailsThe California Campaigns of the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848
Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin | Ursula Carlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General For the Mexican government to go to war with its more powerful northern neighbor in 1846 was fo...
View full detailsThe Adulteress on the Spanish Stage: Gender and Modernity in 19th Century Romantic Drama
Tracie Amend
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• Author(s): Tracie Amend • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism As early as 1760 and as late as 1920, Romantic drama dominated Peninsular Spanish theater. This...
View full detailsThe Consuming Temple: Jews, Department Stores, and the Consumer Revolution in Germany, 1880 1940
Paul Lerner
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• Author(s): Paul Lerner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsDepartment stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, gener...
View full detailsBullying in Popular Culture: Essays on Film, Television and Novels
Abigail G. Scheg
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• Author(s): Abigail G. Scheg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Public awareness of bullying has increased tremendously in recent years, largely through its representation in film, ...
View full detailsRetracing a Winter's Journey: Franz Schubert's Winterreise
Susan Youens
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• Author(s): Susan Youens • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralI like these songs better than all the rest, and someday you will too, Franz Schubert told the friends who were the firs...
View full detailsCasualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War
Lee K. Pennington
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• Author(s): Lee K. Pennington • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThousands of wounded servicemen returned to Japan following the escalation of...
View full detailsWorking Through the Past: Labor and Authoritarian Legacies in Comparative Perspective
Teri L. Caraway, Maria Lorena Cook, Stephen Crowley
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• Author(s): Teri L. Caraway | Maria Lorena Cook | Stephen Crowley • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsDemocratization in the developing and postcommunist world has yielded limited gains ...
View full detailsNine Innings for the King: The Day Wartime London Stopped for Baseball, July 4, 1918
Jim Leeke
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• Author(s): Jim Leeke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game. Along with Queen Mary and ot...
View full detailsThe Brown Recluse Spider
Richard S. Vetter
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• Author(s): Richard S. Vetter • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyThe brown recluse is a fascinating spider very well adapted to dwelling in houses and other buil...
View full detailsUnknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China
Jie Yang
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• Author(s): Jie Yang • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSince the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new...
View full detailsWomen Writers of Yiddish Literature: Critical Essays
Rosemary Horowitz
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• Author(s): Rosemary Horowitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Taking stock of Yiddish literature in 1939, critic Shmuel Niger highlighted the increasing number and importance of ...
View full detailsClass, Please Open Your Comics: Essays on Teaching with Graphic Narratives
Matthew L. Miller
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• Author(s): Matthew L. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Comics and sequential art are increasingly in use in college classrooms. Multimodal, multimedia ...
View full detailsJohn Brown in Memory and Myth
Michael Daigh
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• Author(s): Michael Daigh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General John Brown's father on the day of his birth, May 9, 1800, wrote "John was born one hundred years after his great grandfa...
View full detailsThe Florida Land Boom of the 1920s
Gregg M. Turner
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• Author(s): Gregg M. Turner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General During the Roaring Twenties, millions of Americans moved to the Sunshine State seeking quick riches in...
View full detailsThe Fourth Marine Brigade in World War I: Battalion Histories Based on Official Documents
George B. Clark
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• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I During World War I, the American Expeditionary Force Second Division saw more action and captured more ...
View full detailsThe Making of The Magnificent Seven: Behind the Scenes of the Pivotal Western
Brian Hannan
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• Author(s): Brian Hannan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The story behind The Magnificent Seven could have been a movie in itself. It had everything--actor...
View full detailsReflections on the New River: New Essays, Poems and Personal Stories
Chris Arvidson, Scot Pope, Julie E. Townsend
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• Author(s): Chris Arvidson | Scot Pope | Julie E. Townsend • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General From its headwaters in western North Carolina near the Tennessee line, the N...
View full detailsEnding the Fossil Fuel Era
Thomas Princen, Jack P. Manno, Pamela L. Martin
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• Author(s): Thomas Princen | Jack P. Manno | Pamela L. Martin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than...
View full detailsLatin American Women and the Literature of Madness: Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics and the Mind
Elvira Sánchez-Blake, Laura Kanost
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• Author(s): Elvira Sánchez-Blake | Laura Kanost • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represen...
View full detailsAs I Saw It in the Trenches: Memoir of a Doughboy in World War I
Dae Hinson
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• Author(s): Dae Hinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I "Now that the United States has declared war upon the German Empire, and that men will more than likely be c...
View full detailsTribal Criminal Law and Procedure
Carrie E. Garrow, Sarah Deer
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• Author(s): Carrie E. Garrow | Sarah Deer • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralThis book examines the complex subject of tribal criminal law and ...
View full detailsJane Eyre
Helen Jerome
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• Author(s): Helen Jerome • Publisher: Samuel French Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Samuel French Ltd • BISAC: GeneralCondensing the dramatic action of the classic novel, playwright Helen Jerome, as in her acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride an...
View full detailsBrethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
Margaret Ellen Newell
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• Author(s): Margaret Ellen Newell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New EnglandIn Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known asp...
View full detailsAfrican Traditional Religion in the Modern World, 2d ed.
Douglas E. Thomas
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• Author(s): Douglas E. Thomas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General African traditional religion encompasses a variety of non-dogmatic, spir...
View full detailsThe Origins of Right to Work: Antilabor Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Chicago
Cedric de Leon
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• Author(s): Cedric de Leon • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: United States - 19th Century"Right to work" states weaken collective bargaining rights and limit the ability of unions to effectively advocate on behalf of...
View full detailsIf We Can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement
Fran Quigley
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• Author(s): Fran Quigley • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsDo service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed m...
View full detailsClassic Horror Films and the Literature That Inspired Them
Ron Backer
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• Author(s): Ron Backer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Classic horror films such as Dracula, Frankenstein and The Picture of Dorian Gray are based on famou...
View full detailsWar, States, and Contention: A Comparative Historical Study
Sidney Tarrow
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• Author(s): Sidney Tarrow • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"--disruption...
View full detailsDig That Beat!: Interviews with Musicians at the Root of Rock 'n' Roll
Sheree Homer
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• Author(s): Sheree Homer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock Disc jockey Alan Freed coined the term "rock and roll" in the 1950s. Rooted in rockabilly, rhythm and ...
View full detailsBehind the Scenes of They Were Expendable: A Pictorial History
Lou Sabini, Nicholas Scutti
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• Author(s): Lou Sabini | Nicholas Scutti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1945 U.S. Navy photographer Nick Scutti found himself in the Florida Keys on th...
View full detailsA Sarong for Clio: Essays on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Thailand--Inspired by Craig J. Reynolds
Maurizio Peleggi
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• Author(s): Maurizio Peleggi • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA Sarong for Clio testifies to an ongoing intellectual dialogue between its ten ...
View full detailsDemanding Devaluation: Exchange Rate Politics in the Developing World
David A. Steinberg
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• Author(s): David A. Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyExchange rate policy has profound consequences for economic development, financial crises, and internati...
View full detailsThe Social World of the Sages: An Introduction to Israelite and Jewish Wisdom Literature
Mark R. Sneed
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• Author(s): Mark R. Sneed • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - Poetry & Wisdom LiteraturThe notion of a distinct wisdom tradition in ancient Israel has a long historybut ...
View full detailsJames and Paul: The Politics of Identity at the Turn of the Ages
V. George Shillington
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• Author(s): V. George Shillington • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Biblical Studies - New Testament - GeneralRecent interest in the person and work of James of Jerusalem and in the community he led has som...
View full detailsFinnish Video Games: A History and Catalog
Juho Kuorikoski
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• Author(s): Juho Kuorikoski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile In the past three decades Finland's video game industry has become the backbone of Finnish cultural export....
View full detailsDrawn from the Classics: Essays on Graphic Adaptations of Literary Works
Stephen E. Tabachnick, Esther Bendit Saltzman
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• Author(s): Stephen E. Tabachnick | Esther Bendit Saltzman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The graphic novel is the most exciting literary format to emerge in...
View full detailsA Question of Consensus the Doctrine of Assurance After the Westminster Confession
Jonathan Master
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• Author(s): Jonathan Master • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryFrom the very earliest days after its completion in 1646, the Westminster Confessions position on assurance has been a sub...
View full detailsNew York Cafe Society: The Elite Meet to See and Be Seen, 1920s-1940s
Anthony Young
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• Author(s): Anthony Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General In the midst of the Great Depression, an elite group of New Yorkers lived seemingly ...
View full detailsHonor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries
Peter Arnade, Walter Prevenier
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• Author(s): Peter Arnade | Walter Prevenier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalAmong the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters-...
View full detailsLabor Relations in a Globalizing World
Harry C. Katz, Thomas A. Kochan, Alexander J. S. Colvin
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• Author(s): Harry C. Katz | Thomas A. Kochan | Alexander J. S. Colvin • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsCompelled by the extent to which globalization has changed the nature of labor r...
View full detailsChildren of the Streets of Richmond, 1865-1920
Harry M. Ward
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• Author(s): Harry M. Ward • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Richmond in the late 19th century was not the genteel peaceful community historians have made it. Virgin...
View full detailsThe Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts After the Transnational Turn
Brooke L. Blower, Mark Philip Bradley
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• Author(s): Brooke L. Blower | Mark Philip Bradley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer origi...
View full detailsThe Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts After the Transnational Turn
Brooke L. Blower, Mark Philip Bradley
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• Author(s): Brooke L. Blower | Mark Philip Bradley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer origi...
View full detailsA World of Work: Imagined Manuals for Real Jobs
Ilana M. Gershon, Jean Lave
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• Author(s): Ilana M. Gershon | Jean Lave • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialEver wondered what it would be like to be a street magician in Paris? A fish farmer in Norway? A costume ...
View full detailsThe Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915 1952
Reto Hofmann
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• Author(s): Reto Hofmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanIn The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive m...
View full detailsThe Politics of The Hunger Games
Jamey Heit
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• Author(s): Jamey Heit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature Set in the future dystopia of Panem, The Hunger Games trilogy follows the rise of a provinc...
View full detailsInternet Lesbian and Gay Television Series, 1996-2014
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews Created around the world and available only on the Web, internet "television" series are ind...
View full detailsOsage and Settler: Reconstructing Shared History through an Oklahoma Family Archive
Janet Berry Hess
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• Author(s): Janet Berry Hess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this b...
View full detailsEzzard Charles: A Boxing Life
William Dettloff
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• Author(s): William Dettloff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Greatness is often overlooked in its own time. For Ezzard Charles--one of boxing's most skilled practitioners, with a ...
View full detailsMusic at the Extremes: Essays on Sounds Outside the Mainstream
Scott A. Wilson
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• Author(s): Scott A. Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Away from the spotlight of the pop charts and the demands of mainstream audiences, original music is still being playe...
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