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Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition During the Early Cold War, 1945-1958
Kiril Tomoff
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• Author(s): Kiril Tomoff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralIn the 1940s and 1950s, Soviet musicians and ensembles were acclaimed across the globe. They toured th...
View full detailsHousehold Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
Susan Porter Benson, David Montgomery
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• Author(s): Susan Porter Benson | David Montgomery • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWith unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Por...
View full detailsThe Transhuman Antihero: Paradoxical Protagonists of Speculative Fiction from Mary Shelley to Richard Morgan
Michael Grantham
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• Author(s): Michael Grantham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading Advances in science and technology no longer change how we live, they determine it. In the not-too-distan...
View full detailsFinding the Left Arm of God: Sandy Koufax and the Los Angeles Dodgers, 1960-1963
Brian M. Endsley
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• Author(s): Brian M. Endsley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is the story of the L.A. Dodgers' volatile fortunes during Sandy Koufax's transformation from a wild ...
View full detailsLetters from a Stoic
Seneca
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• Author(s): Seneca • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalLike the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's Letters are a treasure of practical wisdom on how to live and enjoy ...
View full detailsHollywood Death and Scandal Sites: Seventeen Driving Tours with Directions and the Full Story, 2d ed.
E. J. Fleming
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• Author(s): E. J. Fleming • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hol...
View full detailsThe 11th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
William Thomas Venner
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• Author(s): William Thomas Venner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This history of the 11th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War-- civilia...
View full detailsIn Cobb's Shadow: The Hall of Fame Careers of Sam Crawford, Harry Heilmann and Heinie Manush
Dan D'Addona
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• Author(s): Dan D'Addona • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Ty Cobb cast a shadow over the game with his viol...
View full detailsHunger in the Balance: The New Politics of International Food Aid
Jennifer Clapp
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• Author(s): Jennifer Clapp • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentFood aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over ge...
View full detailsNora Ephron: Everything Is Copy
Liz Dance
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• Author(s): Liz Dance • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her divorce from...
View full detailsThe Bulloch Belles: Three First Ladies, a Spy, a President's Mother and Other Women of a 19th Century Georgia Family
Walter E. Wilson
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• Author(s): Walter E. Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Bulloch women of Roswell, Georgia, were not typical antebellum Southern bell...
View full detailsProvocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising
Anthony J. Cortese
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• Author(s): Anthony J. Cortese • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis fourth edition offers an up-to-date, critical analysis of modern advertisin...
View full detailsIndiana-Born Major League Baseball Players: A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014
Pete Cava
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• Author(s): Pete Cava • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical diction...
View full detailsContagion in Prussia, 1831: The Cholera Epidemic and the Threat of the Polish Uprising
Richard S. Ross
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• Author(s): Richard S. Ross • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General In 1831, Prussia was consumed by two fears: the possibility of revolution resulting from the 1830 November ...
View full detailsThe Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television: A Comprehensive Bibliography
J. Gordon Melton, Alysa Hornick
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• Author(s): J. Gordon Melton | Alysa Hornick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampir...
View full detailsArmed Only with Faith: The Civil War Correspondence of Chaplain William Lyman Hyde, 112th New York Infantry
William Lyman Hyde
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• Author(s): William Lyman Hyde • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The 112th New York Infantry Regiment served 1,017 days during the Civil War, f...
View full detailsHow Zombies Conquered Popular Culture: The Multifarious Walking Dead in the 21st Century
Kyle William Bishop
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• Author(s): Kyle William Bishop • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Since the early 2000s, popular culture has experienced a "Zombie Renaissance," beginn...
View full detailsBear Bait
Pamela Beason
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• Author(s): Pamela Beason • Publisher: Wildwing Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildwing Press • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths** Winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award ** Sam Westin is working on a twelve-week project for the National...
View full detailsUndercurrents
Pamela Beason
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• Author(s): Pamela Beason • Publisher: Wildwing Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildwing Press • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Women SleuthsScuba diving off the Galápagos Islands, wildlife biologist and freelance writer Summer "Sam" Westin is not ...
View full detailsThe World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series
Steve Aldous
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• Author(s): Steve Aldous • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Crime Mention Shaft and most people think of Gordon Parks' seminal 1971 film starring Richard Roundtree in a leat...
View full detailsMyth-Making and Religious Extremism and Their Roots in Crises
Arthur G. Neal, Helen Youngelson-Neal
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• Author(s): Arthur G. Neal | Helen Youngelson-Neal • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology According to sociologist C. Wright Mills, we do not live in a world of solid f...
View full detailsThe Wesleys in Cornwall, 1743-1789: A Record of Their Activities Town by Town
Samuel J. Rogal
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• Author(s): Samuel J. Rogal • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - Methodist In nearly a half-century of missionary work throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, brothers...
View full detailsDiscovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition
Glenn M. Stein
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• Author(s): Glenn M. Stein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - General From 1850 to 1854, the ambitious Commander Robert McClure captained the HMS Investigator on ...
View full detailsBuilding China: Informal Work and the New Precariat
Sarah Swider
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• Author(s): Sarah Swider • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsRoughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and constructi...
View full detailsThe Concerned Women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas
Elizabeth Holzer
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Holzer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareIn The Concerned Women of Buduburam, Elizabeth Holzer offers an unprecedented ...
View full detailsRoller Coasters: United States and Canada, 4th ed.
Todd H. Throgmorton, Samantha K. Throgmorton
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• Author(s): Todd H. Throgmorton | Samantha K. Throgmorton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Business Aspects In its fourth edition, this exhaustive guide to roller coasters in the United S...
View full detailsSurfing in the Movies: A Critical History
John Engle
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• Author(s): John Engle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Surfing has fascinated filmmakers since Thomas Edison shot footage of Waikiki beachboys in 1906. Bef...
View full detailsReading Scripture as a Political Act: Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible
Matthew a. Tapie
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• Author(s): Matthew a. Tapie • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicThis volume explores the political character of premodern and modern readings of scripture with attention to how...
View full detailsFlamenco on the Global Stage: Historical, Critical and Theoretical Perspectives
K. Meira Goldberg, Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum, Michelle Heffner Hayes
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• Author(s): K. Meira Goldberg | Ninotchka Devorah Bennahum | Michelle Heffner Hayes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk The language of the body is central to the study of flame...
View full detailsCollege Mathematics Through Baseball
Fred Worth
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• Author(s): Fred Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Mathematics is often challenging for students majoring in nontechnical fields. This book makes mathematical conc...
View full detailsA Rainbow Division Lieutenant in France: The World War I Diary of John H. Taber
John H. Taber
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• Author(s): John H. Taber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th "Third Iowa" Infantry Regiment of...
View full detailsAn Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe
Samuel Pufendorf, Jodocus Crull
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• Author(s): Samuel Pufendorf | Jodocus Crull • Publisher: Arkose Press • Publisher Imprint: Arkose Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge b...
View full detailsReassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention
Stefano Recchia
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• Author(s): Stefano Recchia • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Na...
View full detailsSavages and Saints: The Changing Image of American Indians in Westerns
Bob Herzberg
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• Author(s): Bob Herzberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The history of American Indians on screen can be compared to a light shining through a prism. We m...
View full detailsRed Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America
David J. Silverman
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• Author(s): David J. Silverman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native AmericanNew England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth ...
View full detailsCannabis Extracts in Medicine: The Promise of Benefits in Seizure Disorders, Cancer and Other Conditions
Jeffrey Dach, Elaine A. Moore, Justin Kander
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Dach | Elaine A. Moore | Justin Kander • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General As of December 2014, medicinal cannabis is legal in 23 states where news and medical jo...
View full detailsThe Lessons of Nature in Mythology
Rachel S. McCoppin
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• Author(s): Rachel S. McCoppin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental Policy This examination of myths from around the world focuses on the role nature plays withi...
View full detailsAmerican Crimes and the Liberation of Paris: Robbery, Rape and Murder by Renegade GIs, 1944-1947
Kenneth D. Alford
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• Author(s): Kenneth D. Alford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds o...
View full detailsPuzzling the Parables of Jesus: Methods and Interpretation
Ruben Zimmermann
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• Author(s): Ruben Zimmermann • Publisher: Augsburg Books • Publisher Imprint: Augsburg Books • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Jesus, the Gospels & ActsModern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself sai...
View full detailsRussian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Eileen Kane
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• Author(s): Eileen Kane • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Islam - HistoryIn the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a ...
View full detailsNested Security: Lessons in Conflict Management from the League of Nations and the European Union
Erin K. Jenne
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• Author(s): Erin K. Jenne • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Why does soft power conflict management meet with variable success over the course of a...
View full detailsThe Radio Boys and Girls: Radio, Telegraph, Telephone and Wireless Adventures for Juvenile Readers, 1890-1945
Mike Adams
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• Author(s): Mike Adams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Series fiction about wireless and radio was a popular genre of young adult literature at the turn of the 20th century and a...
View full detailsTeaching Civics in the Library: An Instructional and Historical Guide for School and Public Librarians
Reneé Critcher Lyons
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• Author(s): Reneé Critcher Lyons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Civics education is "on the books" in all 50 states, yet civic illiteracy is ...
View full detailsStories of Childhood: Evolving Portrayals in Books and Films
Dean W. Duncan
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• Author(s): Dean W. Duncan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This study questions the widely held perception that books, as an artistic medium, are superior to and more respectable...
View full detailsCluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet: Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe
Scott G. Bruce
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• Author(s): Scott G. Bruce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted ...
View full detailsFrench Sociology
Johan Heilbron
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• Author(s): Johan Heilbron • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrench Sociology offers a uniquely comprehensive view of the oldest and still one of the most vibrant nati...
View full detailsSuffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era
Laura E. Free
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• Author(s): Laura E. Free • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsThe Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate vot...
View full detailsSexual Minorities and Politics: An Introduction
Jason Pierceson
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• Author(s): Jason Pierceson • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Civil RightsSexual Minorities and Politics is the first textbook to provide students with an up-to-dat...
View full detailsRecapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency
Brian Balogh, Bruce J. Schulman
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• Author(s): Brian Balogh | Bruce J. Schulman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Law EnforcementSeveral generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of o...
View full detailsNationalist Passions
Stuart J. Kaufman
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• Author(s): Stuart J. Kaufman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialNationalist and ethnic conflict can take many forms, from genocidal violence and civil...
View full detailsRecapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency
Brian Balogh, Bruce J. Schulman
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• Author(s): Brian Balogh | Bruce J. Schulman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Law EnforcementSeveral generations of historians figuratively abandoned the Oval Office as the bastion of o...
View full detailsFor God and Globe: Christian Internationalism in the United States Between the Great War and the Cold War
Michael G. Thompson
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• Author(s): Michael G. Thompson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFor God and Globe recovers the history of an important yet largely forgotten intellectual mo...
View full detailsA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (with an Introduction by Fallon Evans)
James Joyce, Fallon Evans
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• Author(s): James Joyce | Fallon Evans • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: LiteraryOriginally published in serial format in "The Egoist" between 1914 and 1915, "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," is the ...
View full detailsAtomics in the Classroom: Teaching the Bomb in the Early Postwar Era
Michael Scheibach
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• Author(s): Michael Scheibach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General After the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan's unconditional surrender, America's educa...
View full detailsGender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film and Television Adaptations Since 2009
Nadine Farghaly
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• Author(s): Nadine Farghaly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doy...
View full detailsTeaching Young Adult Literature: Integrating, Implementing, and Re-Imagining the Common Core
Judith A. Hayn, Jeffrey S. Kaplan, Amanda L. Nolen
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• Author(s): Judith A. Hayn | Jeffrey S. Kaplan | Amanda L. Nolen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Schools - Levels - ElementaryThis text is intended to give educat...
View full detailsThe Experimental Poetry of Jose Juan Tablada: A Collection in Spanish and English
José Juan Tablada, A. Scott Britton
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• Author(s): José Juan Tablada | A. Scott Britton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - Spanish & Portuguese Jose Juan Tablada (1871-1945) wrote more than 20 books on a range of ...
View full detailsTeaching Young Adult Literature: Integrating, Implementing, and Re-Imagining the Common Core
Judith A. Hayn, Jeffrey S. Kaplan, Amanda L. Nolen
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• Author(s): Judith A. Hayn | Jeffrey S. Kaplan | Amanda L. Nolen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Schools - Levels - ElementaryThis text is intended to give educat...
View full detailsJust Too Good: The Undefeated 1948 Cleveland Browns
Gary Webster
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• Author(s): Gary Webster • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football According to the National Football League, the 1972 Miami Dolphins are the only undefeated, untied Super Bowl champions....
View full detailsA Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global Politics of Climate Change
Guy Edwards, J. Timmons Roberts, Ricardo Lagos
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• Author(s): Guy Edwards | J. Timmons Roberts | Ricardo Lagos • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHow Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing clima...
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