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Immunity
William E. Paul
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• Author(s): William E. Paul • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: ImmunologyA leading figure in immunology takes readers inside the remarkably powerful human immune system.Winner...
View full detailsPure Products of America, Inc.: A Narrative Poem
John T. Irwin
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• Author(s): John T. Irwin • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralThe poetic life and times of Big Bubba, equal parts charismatic trickster and tent revival preac...
View full detailsFrom She-Wolf to Martyr: The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples
Elizabeth Casteen
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Casteen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326-1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ...
View full detailsReframing Decadence: C. P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits
Peter G. Jeffreys
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• Author(s): Peter G. Jeffreys • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoetryDuring his sojourn in England during the 1870s, a young Cavafy found himself enthralled by the aesthetic movement of...
View full detailsWhose Bosnia?: Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914
Edin Hajdarpasic
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• Author(s): Edin Hajdarpasic • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralAs Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over Bosnia and the surrounding region began wel...
View full detailsChariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
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• Author(s): Nuria Silleras-Fernandez • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - SpainIn Chariots of Ladies, N�ria Silleras-Fern�ndez traces the development of devotion and female piety a...
View full detailsEmotional Diplomacy: Official Emotion on the International Stage
Todd H. Hall
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• Author(s): Todd H. Hall • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyIn Emotional Diplomacy, Todd H. Hall explores the politics of officially expressed emotion o...
View full detailsFred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China: How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East
Larry Weirather
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• Author(s): Larry Weirather • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT In the years before World War I, Montana cowboy Fred Barton w...
View full detailsNews and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac's Gazette de Leyde
Jeremy D. Popkin
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• Author(s): Jeremy D. Popkin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceAt the center of this book stands the story of a great but forgotten newspaper: the Gazette de Leyde, edited...
View full detailsInside an Loc: The Battle to Save Saigon, April-May 1972
Van Nguyen Duong, Nghia M. Vo
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• Author(s): Van Nguyen Duong | Nghia M. Vo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War The Battle of An Loc was one of the bloodiest battles in the Vietnam War and a defining ...
View full detailsLessons in Disability: Essays on Teaching with Young Adult Literature
Jacob Stratman
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• Author(s): Jacob Stratman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Disability is a growing reality. According to the United States Census Bureau, approximately 57 million people--19 perc...
View full detailsDark Bayou: Infamous Louisiana Homicides
Alan G. Gauthreaux, D. G. Hippensteel
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• Author(s): Alan G. Gauthreaux | D. G. Hippensteel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in L...
View full detailsLiturgical Reform After Vatican II: The Impact on Eastern Orthodoxy
Nicholas E. Denysenko
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• Author(s): Nicholas E. Denysenko • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistorySacrosanctum Concilium was the first document promulgated by the Second Vatican Council. The impact of this docu...
View full detailsThe Play Versus Story Divide in Game Studies: Critical Essays
Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
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• Author(s): Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile Since the emergence of digital game studies, a number of debates have engaged scholars. The debate b...
View full detailsThe Ages of the Incredible Hulk: Essays on the Green Goliath in Changing Times
Joseph J. Darowski
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• Author(s): Joseph J. Darowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The Incredible Hulk is one of the earliest Marvel Comics superheroes. Through the decades, the ...
View full detailsLeadership: The Operant Model of Effective Supervision
Judith L. Komaki
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• Author(s): Judith L. Komaki • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Industrial & Organizational PsychologyHow can managers motivate their employees? After conducting detailed field studies of work groups in settings a...
View full detailsThe Land of Gold: Post-Conflict Recovery and Cultural Revival in Independent Timor-Leste
Judith M. Bovensiepen
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• Author(s): Judith M. Bovensiepen • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn the village of Funar, located in the central highlands of Timor-Leste, t...
View full detailsI Won't Grow Up!: The Comic Man-Child in Film from 1901 to the Present
Anthony Balducci
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• Author(s): Anthony Balducci • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism A film archetype as old as film itself, the man-child has been an enduring comedy subject. Cla...
View full detailsWhite World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations
Robert Vitalis
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• Author(s): Robert Vitalis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralRacism and imperialism are the twin forces that propelled the course of the United States in...
View full detailsGlobal Perspectives On Gender And Work: Readings And Interpretations
Jacqueline Goodman
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• Author(s): Jacqueline Goodman • Publisher: Rawat Publication • Publisher Imprint: Rawat Publication • BISAC: Gender StudiesCentral to all our lives, work affects our status in the state, the family, and the economy. This comprehensive reader ex...
View full detailsDigital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online
Eszter Hargittai, Christian Sandvig
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• Author(s): Eszter Hargittai | Christian Sandvig • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MethodologyBehind-the-scenes stories of how Internet research projects actually get done.The realm of the digital offers both new met...
View full detailsSocial Change
Jay Weinstein
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• Author(s): Jay Weinstein • Publisher: Rawat Publication • Publisher Imprint: Rawat Publication • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis introduction to social change covers the momentous and relatively recent changes that have occurred in the human con...
View full detailsVico's New Science: A Philosophical Commentary
Donald Phillip Verene
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• Author(s): Donald Phillip Verene • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernGiambattista Vico (1668-1744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Sc...
View full detailsLiving Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community
Julia Cassaniti
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• Author(s): Julia Cassaniti • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Rituals & PracticeIn Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment,...
View full detailsWomen Nobel Peace Prize Winners, 2d ed.
Anita Price Davis, Marla J. Selvidge
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• Author(s): Anita Price Davis | Marla J. Selvidge • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General From the first woman Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Bertha von Suttner (1905), t...
View full detailsLiving Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community
Julia Cassaniti
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• Author(s): Julia Cassaniti • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Rituals & PracticeIn Living Buddhism, Julia Cassaniti explores Buddhist ideas of impermanence, nonattachment,...
View full detailsButtoned Up: Clothing, Conformity, and White-Collar Masculinity
Erynn Masi de Casanova
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• Author(s): Erynn Masi de Casanova • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Beauty & Grooming - GeneralWho is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and ...
View full detailsTheory Can Be More Than It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus
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• Author(s): Dominic Boyer | James D. Faubion | George E. Marcus • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWithin anthropology, as elsewhere in the human scien...
View full detailsThe Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
Reinier H. Hesselink
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• Author(s): Reinier H. Hesselink • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the ta...
View full detailsFaroe-Islander Saga: A New English Translation
Robert K. Painter
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• Author(s): Robert K. Painter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General This new English translation of the Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga saga)--a great medieval Icelandic saga--...
View full detailsHitchcock's Objects as Subjects: The Significance of Things on Screen
Marc Raymond Strauss
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• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock's imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and ac...
View full detailsTheory Can Be More Than It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus
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• Author(s): Dominic Boyer | James D. Faubion | George E. Marcus • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWithin anthropology, as elsewhere in the human scien...
View full detailsVenetian Renaissance Fortifications in the Mediterranean
Dragoş Cosmescu
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• Author(s): Dragoş Cosmescu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General The Renaissance was a revolution of ideas, arts and sciences alike, with Italy at its center. Venice was am...
View full detailsVan Gogh in Popular Culture
Lynnette Porter
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• Author(s): Lynnette Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - General Vincent van Gogh continues to fascinate more than a century after his death in 1890. Yet how much of what is...
View full detailsPortrait of a Suburbanite: Poems of Choi Seung-Ja
Eunju Kim, Choi Seung-Ja
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• Author(s): Eunju Kim | Choi Seung-Ja • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThis volume is a translation of Choi Seung-ja's 1991 anth...
View full detailsReading Wang Wenxing: Critical Essays
Shu-Ning Sciban, Ihor Pidhainy
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• Author(s): Shu-Ning Sciban | Ihor Pidhainy • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual...
View full details1943: China at the Crossroads
Joseph W. Esherick, Matthew Combs
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• Author(s): Joseph W. Esherick | Matthew Combs • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn the grand narrative of modern Chinese history, 1943 is usually passed over with little not...
View full detailsThe Battle for Vella Lavella: The Allied Recapture of Solomon Islands Territory, August 15-September 9, 1943
Reg Newell
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• Author(s): Reg Newell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle betwe...
View full detailsCordelia Underwood: or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League
Van Reid
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• Author(s): Van Reid • Publisher: Down East Books • Publisher Imprint: Down East Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralStep back in time to Portland, Maine, in 1896. When the young, beautiful, redheaded Cordelia Underwood inherits a parcel of land ...
View full detailsEveryday Evangelism
Randy Becton
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• Author(s): Randy Becton • Publisher: 21st Century Christian, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: 21st Century Christian, Inc. • BISAC: Christianity - Pentecostal & Charismatic1. Telling the Story 2. A Passion for Evangelism 3. The World We Live In 4....
View full detailsWomen, Art and the New Deal
Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene
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• Author(s): Katherine H. Adams | Michael L. Keene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General In 1935, the United States Congress began employing large numbers of American ar...
View full detailsTim Burton: Essays on the Films
Johnson Cheu
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• Author(s): Johnson Cheu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Since his early days at Disney, Tim Burton has shown a unique talent and vision. His writing and d...
View full detailsGeneral Henry Baxter, 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry: A Biography
Jay C. Martin
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• Author(s): Jay C. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Few 19th-century Americans were as adventurous as Henry Baxter. Best known for his Civil War exploits-...
View full detailsProperty and Power in English Gothic Literature
Ruth Bienstock Anolik
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• Author(s): Ruth Bienstock Anolik • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Eighteenth-century England witnessed major social and economic changes, including the commodification of propert...
View full detailsPass Receiving in Early Pro Football: A History to the 1960s
Jerry Roberts
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• Author(s): Jerry Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football Big television contracts in the 1960s created the Super Bowl, as well as the 1970 merger of the National Football Leagu...
View full detailsAugust Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle: Critical Perspectives on the Plays
Sandra G. Shannon
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• Author(s): Sandra G. Shannon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays...
View full detailsIsrael's Way of War: A Strategic and Operational Analysis, 1948-2014
Ehud Eilam
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• Author(s): Ehud Eilam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Strategy Israel has fought many wars since its founding in 1948, from conventional military conflicts with Arab forces t...
View full detailsAn Exile Revisits Cuba: A Memoir of Humility
Gabriel Ness
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• Author(s): Gabriel Ness • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Memoirs In the summer of 2012, the author returned to his native Cuba to retrieve his birth certificate after an absence of 50 ye...
View full detailsShakespeare's Prop Room: An Inventory
John Leland, Alan Baragona
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• Author(s): John Leland | Alan Baragona • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography This study provides the first comprehensive examination of every prop in Sh...
View full detailsUnsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases, 1934-1970
Michael Newton
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• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 called for review and reinvestigation of "viola...
View full detailsLyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community
Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge
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• Author(s): Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: PoetryIn Lyric Orientations, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the po...
View full detailsA Galaxy Here and Now: Historical and Cultural Readings of Star Wars
Peter W. Lee
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• Author(s): Peter W. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Star Wars begins with its famous title sequence, setting the story in the ancient past of a remote...
View full detailsParadigms for a Metaphorology
Hans Blumenberg, Robert Savage
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• Author(s): Hans Blumenberg | Robert Savage • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & Comparative"Paradigms for a Metapho...
View full detailsThe First Georgia Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Michael Bowers Cavender
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• Author(s): Michael Bowers Cavender • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In 1861 Captain James J. Morrison resigned his commission in the United S...
View full detailsLights, Camera, Madison Avenue: The Golden Age of Advertising
Robert Naud
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• Author(s): Robert Naud • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism This inside look at the production of 20th century television commercials begins with a revie...
View full detailsWalt Kelly and Pogo: The Art of the Political Swamp
James Eric Black
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• Author(s): James Eric Black • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels One of the most popular comic strips of the 1950s and the first to reference politics of the day,...
View full detailsHmong Refugees in the New World: Culture, Community and Opportunity
Christopher Thao Vang
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• Author(s): Christopher Thao Vang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies Almost no one in the West had heard of the Hmong before National Geog...
View full detailsThe Prehistories of Baseball
Seelochan Beharry
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• Author(s): Seelochan Beharry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past. The ancient arts of throwing (distance warfare), hitting...
View full detailsThe South African Communist Party: Adapting to Thrive in a Post-Communist Age
Thomas Stanley Kolasa
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• Author(s): Thomas Stanley Kolasa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, communist parties are widely regar...
View full detailsThe Unity of Music and Dance in World Cultures
David Akombo
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• Author(s): David Akombo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Dance This study surveys music and dance from a global perspective, viewing them as a composite whole found...
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