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The War After the War: The Struggle for Credibility During America's Exit from Vietnam
Johannes Kadura
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• Author(s): Johannes Kadura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn The War after the War, Johannes Kadura offers a fresh interpretation of American strategy in ...
View full detailsAircraft Nose Art: American, French and British Imagery and Its Influences from World War I through the Vietnam War
Andretta Schellinger
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• Author(s): Andretta Schellinger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation & Space Since World War I, nose art has adorned military aircraft around the world. Intended for ...
View full detailsThe Crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 22: Completing the Record of the 1967 Midair Collision Near Hendersonville, North Carolina
Paul D. Houle
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• Author(s): Paul D. Houle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Against a backdrop of inadequate funding, misplaced priorities and a lack of manpower, American commerci...
View full detailsHorror Films by Subgenre: A Viewer's Guide
Chris Vander Kaay, Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay
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• Author(s): Chris Vander Kaay | Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General More horror movies are produced and released each year than any other film g...
View full detailsGay American Novels, 1870-1970: A Reader's Guide
Drewey Wayne Gunn
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• Author(s): Drewey Wayne Gunn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary ...
View full detailsEdward J. Steptoe and the Indian Wars: Life on the Frontier, 1815-1865
Ron McFarland
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• Author(s): Ron McFarland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is ...
View full detailsInventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology
James Rodger Fleming
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• Author(s): James Rodger Fleming • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyHow scientists used transformative new technologies to understand the complexities of weather and the a...
View full detailsEveryday Piety: Islam and Economy in Jordan
Sarah A. Tobin
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• Author(s): Sarah A. Tobin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWorking and living as an authentic Muslim--comporting oneself in an Islamically appropria...
View full detailsThe Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
Mark Bassin, Ronald Grigor Suny
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• Author(s): Mark Bassin | Ronald Grigor Suny • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geog...
View full detailsRevisiting Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Essays on Lessons About Self and Community
Kathy Merlock Jackson, Steven M. Emmanuel
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• Author(s): Kathy Merlock Jackson | Steven M. Emmanuel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism During its 33-season run, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-20...
View full detailsObserving Hancock at Gettysburg: The General's Leadership through Eyewitness Accounts
Paul E. Bretzger
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• Author(s): Paul E. Bretzger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) General Winfield Scott Hancock was perhaps the most influential officer in the f...
View full detailsText & Presentation
Graley Herren
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• Author(s): Graley Herren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Bringing together some of the best work from the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this book cov...
View full detailsRebellion
Josephine Boyce
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• Author(s): Josephine Boyce • Publisher: Josephine Boyce • Publisher Imprint: Josephine Boyce • BISAC: Science Fiction - GeneralAuria was the last nation in Europe to be occupied by the Global Defence Organisation, the same organisation that pro...
View full detailsConcepts in Urban Transportation Planning: The Quest for Mobility, Sustainability and Quality of Life
Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel
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• Author(s): Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Transportation This book offers solutions for creating sustainable urban transportation. Topics include histo...
View full detailsSelf-Taught, Outsider and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources, 3d ed.
Betty-Carol Sellen
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• Author(s): Betty-Carol Sellen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Much has changed in the world of self-taught art since the millennium. Many of the recognized "masters" have died a...
View full detailsHal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude
James A. Davidson
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• Author(s): James A. Davidson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The original script was sold to a major Hollywood studio virtually overnight; the screenwrite...
View full detailsMrs. Ziegfeld: The Public and Private Lives of Billie Burke
Grant Hayter-Menzies
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• Author(s): Grant Hayter-Menzies • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Broadway actress Billie Burke was one of the most sought after young stage ...
View full detailsThe Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters
Jason Barr
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• Author(s): Jason Barr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond t...
View full detailsPriests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
Juliet Johnson
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• Author(s): Juliet Johnson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GlobalizationPriests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from c...
View full detailsInternet Comedy Television Series, 1997-2015
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Created around the world and available only on the web, Internet "television" series are ...
View full detailsDeviations
Sherelle Winters
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• Author(s): Sherelle Winters • Publisher: Zenbi Press • Publisher Imprint: Zenbi Press • BISAC: Romance - LGBT"We're just deviants, that's all. You, me, Taka. We're deliciously, wonderfully deviant."SCARREDSeventeen-year-old Miho has spent years...
View full detailsHow Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement
Lambros Malafouris, Colin Renfrew
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• Author(s): Lambros Malafouris | Colin Renfrew • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceAn account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the...
View full detailsAdoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience
Valerie Estelle Frankel
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• Author(s): Valerie Estelle Frankel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama's popularity? Is it author Dian...
View full detailsTrevilian Station, June 11-12, 1864: Wade Hampton, Philip Sheridan and the Largest All-Cavalry Battle of the Civil War
Joseph W. McKinney
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• Author(s): Joseph W. McKinney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In June 1864, General Ulysses Grant ordered his cavalry commander, Philip Sher...
View full detailsMaking Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity
Jonathan Wyrtzen
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• Author(s): Jonathan Wyrtzen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - General"There is no question that the value of a detailed account of Moroccan colonial history in English is an im...
View full detailsWhat I Thought I Knew and other plays
Alice Eve Cohen
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• Author(s): Alice Eve Cohen • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralWHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW and Other Plays, by Alice Eve Cohen Here are four brave, haunting, and heart-breakingly funny solo plays by writer and performe...
View full detailsReligion in Britain from the Megaliths to Arthur: An Archaeological and Mythological Exploration
Robin Melrose
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• Author(s): Robin Melrose • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (45...
View full detailsDancing with Dharma: Essays on Movement and Dance in Western Buddhism
Harrison Blum
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• Author(s): Harrison Blum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Both Buddhism and dance invite the practitioner into present-moment embodiment. The rise of Western Buddhism, sa...
View full detailsSportsmanship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Tim Delaney
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• Author(s): Tim Delaney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology of Sports Sportsmanship is a broad concept: ethics, fairness, honor and self-control. Some people find it difficult to d...
View full detailsMerging Lines: American Railoads, 1900-1970
Richard Saunders
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• Author(s): Richard Saunders • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryWhy did American railroads decline from the glory days of the early twentieth centur...
View full detailsThe Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the Us and UK
Austin Long
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• Author(s): Austin Long • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)For both the United States and United Kingdom counterinsurgency was a serious component o...
View full detailsAugustine and Academic Skepticism: A Philosophical Study
Blake D. Dutton
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• Author(s): Blake D. Dutton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalAmong the most important, but frequently neglected, figures in the history of...
View full detailsThe Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture: Essays on Fiction, Film and Television
Susan Redington Bobby, Eileen M. Harney
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• Author(s): Susan Redington Bobby | Eileen M. Harney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artem...
View full detailsThe 5th Marine Regiment Devil Dogs in World War I: A History and Roster
Michael A. Eggleston
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• Author(s): Michael A. Eggleston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I More than 8,000 men served in the Fifth Marine Regiment during World War I and the occupation of G...
View full detailsImmigration and America's Cities: A Handbook on Evolving Services
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez, Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Joaquin Jay Gonzalez | Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban Generations ago, immigrants came to the U.S. from Europe and Africa in large numbers. T...
View full detailsThe Strange Comrade Balabanoff: The Life of a Communist Rebel
Maria LaFont
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• Author(s): Maria LaFont • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Born in 1878 to a wealthy Ukrainian family, Angelica Balabanoff broke ties with her parents and left for Europe t...
View full detailsChronology of Latin Americans in Baseball, 1871-2015
Lou Hernández
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• Author(s): Lou Hernández • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This combination reference book and history covers the inroads and achievements made on professional ball fie...
View full detailsAfrican American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia: A History, 1900-1965
Phoebe Ann Pollitt
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• Author(s): Phoebe Ann Pollitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nurs...
View full detailsTyphoid Fever: A History
Richard Adler, Elise Mara
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• Author(s): Richard Adler | Elise Mara • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In the 21st century, typhoid fever afflicts more than 21 million people each year, primarily in underdevelo...
View full detailsEcuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters
Tammy L. Lewis
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• Author(s): Tammy L. Lewis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom,...
View full details"When Brothers Dwell in Unity": Byzantine Christianity and Homosexuality
Stephen Morris
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• Author(s): Stephen Morris • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay Studies In the world of early Byzantine Christianity, monastic rules acknowledged but discouraged the homo...
View full detailsThe Tragedy of Bleiburg and Viktring, 1945
Florian Rulitz, Andreas Niedermayer, Paul Gottfried
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• Author(s): Florian Rulitz | Andreas Niedermayer | Paul Gottfried • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe atrocities and ma...
View full detailsRails Across Dixie: A History of Passenger Trains in the American South
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - History Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the go...
View full detailsTelevision's Female Spies and Crimefighters: 600 Characters and Shows, 1950s to the Present
Karen A. Romanko
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• Author(s): Karen A. Romanko • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Emma Peel wearing her "kinky boots." Amanda King and her poppy seed cake. Julie Barnes a...
View full detailsVan Heflin: A Life in Film
Derek Sculthorpe
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• Author(s): Derek Sculthorpe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General A versatile craftsman, actor Van Heflin was never concerned with popularity or ...
View full detailsThe Post-9/11 City in Novels: Literary Remappings of New York and London
Karolina Golimowska
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• Author(s): Karolina Golimowska • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Post-9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from u...
View full detailsLast Stand on Bataan: The Defense of the Philippines, December 1941-May 1942
Christopher L. Kolakowski
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• Author(s): Christopher L. Kolakowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.S.-Filipino army fought...
View full detailsBorrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
Jennifer Glaser
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• Author(s): Jennifer Glaser • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyIn the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a mea...
View full detailsWar Stories: A GI Reporter in Vietnam, 1970-1971
Conrad M. Leighton
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• Author(s): Conrad M. Leighton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"an enlisted man writing primarily for e...
View full detailsLabor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies
Heather Jacobson
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• Author(s): Heather Jacobson • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Parenting - MotherhoodWhile the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed wo...
View full detailsTelevision Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003, 2d ed.
Hal Erickson
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• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference This comprehensive reference to TV cartoon shows covers some 75 years. In the decade or so since the first...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Women and Baseball
Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May
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• Author(s): Leslie A. Heaphy | Mel Anthony May • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Women have been involved in baseball from the game's early days, in a wide range of capa...
View full detailsCertain Sainthood: Canonization and the Origins of Papal Infallibility in the Medieval Church
Donald S. Prudlo
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• Author(s): Donald S. Prudlo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryThe doctrine of papal infallibility is a central tenet of Roman Catholicism, and yet it is freque...
View full detailsTranscending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought
Howard Brick
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• Author(s): Howard Brick • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyTranscending Capitalism explains why many influential midcentury American social theorists came to ...
View full detailsWhat Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
Lawrence Lipking
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• Author(s): Lawrence Lipking • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history...
View full detailsFighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy
Apichai W. Shipper
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• Author(s): Apichai W. Shipper • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationAlthough stereotypically homogenized and hostile to immigrants, Japan has experienced an infl...
View full detailsTrans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Sarah Tobias, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
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• Author(s): Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel | Sarah Tobias | Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Transgender StudiesWinner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera ...
View full detailsThe Things We Do: Using the Lessons of Bernard and Darwin to Understand the What, How, and Why of Our Behavior
Gary A. Cziko
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• Author(s): Gary A. Cziko • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyCziko shows how the lessons of Bernard and Darwin, updated with the best of current scientific knowledge, can provide solutions to certain ...
View full detailsEvolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach
Kenneth A. de Jong
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• Author(s): Kenneth A. de Jong • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA clear and comprehensive introduction to the field of evolutionary computation that takes an integrated approach.Evol...
View full detailsWilliam Lloyd Garrison and American Abolitionism in Literature and Memory
Brian Allen Santana
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• Author(s): Brian Allen Santana • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General For nearly 150 years, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the famed antislavery newspaper The Liber...
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