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Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States: Reimagining Survivors
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
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• Author(s): Elzbieta M. Gozdziak • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)Trafficked children are portrayed by the media--and even by ...
View full detailsWhen Art Makes News
Katia Dianina
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• Author(s): Katia Dianina • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFrom the time the word kul'tura entered the Russian language in the early nineteenth centu...
View full detailsUnfinished Business
Ruth Milkman, Eileen Appelbaum
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• Author(s): Ruth Milkman | Eileen Appelbaum • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsUnfinished Business documents the history and impact of California's paid family leave program, the first ...
View full detailsLibanius the Sophist
Raffaella Cribiore
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• Author(s): Raffaella Cribiore • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalLibanius of Antioch was a rhetorician of rare skill and eloquence. So renowned was he in the fourth ...
View full detailsThe Fleeting Promise of Art
Peter Uwe Hohendahl
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• Author(s): Peter Uwe Hohendahl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryA discussion of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is bound to look significantly different today t...
View full detailsGlobal Models of Urban Planning: Best Practices Outside the United States
Roger L. Kemp, Carl J. Stephani
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp | Carl J. Stephani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development This volume is based on an international literature sea...
View full detailsVeterans of Iraq and Afghanistan: Personal Accounts of 22 Americans Who Served
Harry Spiller
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• Author(s): Harry Spiller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This collection of accounts of American men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan reveals their person...
View full detailsMotherhood in Mexican Cinema, 1941-1991: The Transformation of Femininity on Screen
Isabel Arredondo
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• Author(s): Isabel Arredondo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General How were femininity and motherhood understood in Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the early 1990s? Film analys...
View full detailsWomen and Fitness in American Culture
Sarah Hentges
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• Author(s): Sarah Hentges • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General This book explores common representations and experiences of American fitness. It takes women's experi...
View full detailsPrejudices and Antipathies: A Tract on the LC Subject Heads Concerning People
Sanford Berman
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• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...
View full detailsNew Haven's Civil War Hospital: A History of Knight U.S. General Hospital, 1862-1865
Ira Spar
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• Author(s): Ira Spar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General As the Civil War's toll mounted, an antiquated medical system faced a deluge of sick and wounded soldiers. In response, the U...
View full detailsBenjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Prosecutor and Peace Advocate
Tom Hofmann
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• Author(s): Tom Hofmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nurember...
View full detailsFan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century
Kristin M. Barton, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley
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• Author(s): Kristin M. Barton | Jonathan Malcolm Lampley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, tele...
View full detailsIslamic Images and Ideas: Essays on Sacred Symbolism
John Andrew Morrow
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• Author(s): John Andrew Morrow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Islam - General These 24 studies on specific symbols, images and icons from the Muslim tradition are authored by scholars f...
View full detailsIn Search of La Grande Illusion: A Critical Appreciation of Jean Renoir's Elusive Masterpiece
Nicholas MacDonald
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• Author(s): Nicholas MacDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This is an extended analysis of the film, from different perspectives. The first half is largely a discussio...
View full detailsColonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary
Roger D. Hunt
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• Author(s): Roger D. Hunt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This biographical dictionary documents the Union army colonels who commanded regime...
View full detailsFrom Plato to Platonism
Lloyd P. Gerson
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• Author(s): Lloyd P. Gerson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalWas Plato a Platonist? While ancient disciples of Plato would have answered t...
View full detailsWilliam Hickling Prescott: The Life and Letters of America's First Scientific Historian
Peter O. Koch
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• Author(s): Peter O. Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was one of those rare historians who effectively melded history an...
View full detailsA Rogue's Life: R. Clay Crawford, Prison Escapee, Union Army Officer, Pretend Millionaire, Phony Physician and the Most Respected Man in Macon, Georgi
Lewis A. Lawson
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• Author(s): Lewis A. Lawson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This book reveals the life of R. Clay Crawford, his dreams, his schemes, his succ...
View full detailsThe Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess 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 Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of th...
View full detailsHome Front Heroes: The Rise of a New Hollywood Archetype, 1988-1999
Elizabeth Abele
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Abele • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action...
View full detailsOn Television and Comedy: Essays on Style, Theme, Performer and Writer
Barry Putterman
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• Author(s): Barry Putterman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Television comedy traces its roots to vaudeville, radio and film, from which it developed its own unique ...
View full detailsThe Jew in Christian Theology: Martin Luther's Anti-Jewish Vom Schem Hamphoras, Previously Unpublished in English, and Other Milestones in Church Doct
Gerhard Falk
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• Author(s): Gerhard Falk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christian Theology - General Martin Luther's viciously anti-Jewish pamphlet, Vom Schem Hampboras, presented here in its original ...
View full detailsThe Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia: From Darul Islam to Jem'ah Islamiyah
Solahudin, Dave McRae, Greg Fealy
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• Author(s): Solahudin | Dave McRae | Greg Fealy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: TerrorismAvailable for the first time in English, this groundbreaking book is an in-depth investigation ...
View full detailsForeign-Born American Patriots: Sixteen Volunteer Leaders in the Revolutionary War
Reneé Critcher Lyons
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• Author(s): Reneé Critcher Lyons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) This book presents profiles of sixteen individuals born and raised in co...
View full detailsThe Great Depression and the New Deal: Legislative Acts in Their Entirety (1932-1933) and Statistical Economic Data (1926-1946)
Frederick E. Hosen
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• Author(s): Frederick E. Hosen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The Great Depression--1929 through 1939 when the United States and the world were economically crip...
View full detailsThat the Nightingale Return: Memoir of the Polish Resistance, the Warsaw Uprising and German P.O.W. Camps
Leokadia Rowinski
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• Author(s): Leokadia Rowinski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On August 1, 1944, Leokadia Rowinski and fellow members of the Polish Resistan...
View full detailsKabul Classroom: Memoir of an American Teacher in Afghanistan
P. B. Travis
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• Author(s): P. B. Travis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Personal Memoirs The author, at age 60-something, decided she was ready to do tackle something different, somewhere completely di...
View full detailsClive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Works
Gary Hoppenstand
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• Author(s): Gary Hoppenstand • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Unlike many horror fiction and fantasy writers, Clive Barker is true to the literary heritage of the genre. Though aw...
View full detailsMrs. Mark Twain: The Life of Olivia Langdon Clemens, 1845-1904
Martin Naparsteck, Michele Cardulla
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• Author(s): Martin Naparsteck | Michele Cardulla • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary This is the first book-length biography of Olivia Langdon Clemens, Mark Twain's wife. Livy was a...
View full detailsThe Mexican Spy Company: United States Covert Operations in Mexico, 1845-1848
A. Brooke Caruso
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• Author(s): A. Brooke Caruso • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century James Knox Polk (1845-1849) was the first commander-in-chief to demand detailed knowledge of his...
View full detailsPhoto Recon Became Fighter Duty: Marine Observation Squadron 251 in World War II
Steven K. Dixon
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• Author(s): Steven K. Dixon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Trained as a photo reconnaissance unit, Marine Observation Squadron 251 ended up serving as a fighter ...
View full detailsWyatt Earp's Cow-boy Campaign: The Bloody Restoration of Law and Order Along the Mexican Border, 1882
Chuck Hornung
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• Author(s): Chuck Hornung • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT What can be learned from another retelling of the Tombstone sag...
View full detailsAmerican Military Communities in West Germany: Life in the Cold War Badlands, 1945-1990
John W. Lemza
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• Author(s): John W. Lemza • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General On April 28, 1946, a small group of American wives and children arrived at the port of Bremerhaven, West Germ...
View full detailsHappy Felsch: Banished Black Sox Center Fielder
Thomas Rathkamp
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• Author(s): Thomas Rathkamp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Schooled on the sandlots of Milwaukee, Chicago Black Sox center fielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch (1891-1964) wa...
View full detailsCoxey's Crusade for Jobs: Unemployment in the Gilded Age
Jerry Prout
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• Author(s): Jerry Prout • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyIn the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessma...
View full detailsEducation and Social Media: Toward a Digital Future
Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend, Colin Agur
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• Author(s): Christine Greenhow | Julia Sonnevend | Colin Agur • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Distance, Open & Online EducationLeading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, inc...
View full detailsCambodia's Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy
Astrid Noren-Nilsson
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• Author(s): Astrid Noren-Nilsson • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: World - AsianCambodia's Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, d...
View full detailsPerspectives on Western Sahara: Myths, Nationalisms, and Geopolitics
Anouar Boukhars, Jacques Roussellier
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• Author(s): Anouar Boukhars | Jacques Roussellier • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - Middle EasternThis thorough, impartial survey brings together some of th...
View full detailsThe Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come: Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present
Lauren J. Lacey, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Lauren J. Lacey | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction b...
View full detailsPathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South Asia
Arjun Guneratne, Anita M. Weiss
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• Author(s): Arjun Guneratne | Anita M. Weiss • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - AsianPathways to Power introduces the domestic politics and ongoing transform...
View full detailsThe Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women and the Origins of Western Culture
Sharon Paice MacLeod
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• Author(s): Sharon Paice MacLeod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General This book is an exploration of the spiritual traditions of ancient Europe, focusing on the numinous pre...
View full detailsThe Vampire Goes to College: Essays on Teaching with the Undead
Lisa A. Nevárez
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• Author(s): Lisa A. Nevárez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of original essays presents pedagogical tools, methods, and approaches for incorporating the figure of...
View full detailsPro Football Schedules: A Complete Historical Guide from 1933 to the Present
Ivan Urena
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• Author(s): Ivan Urena • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General This book explains how the NFL determines each team's opponents and how the league's scheduling format has evolv...
View full detailsReimagining the Soul: Afterlife in the Age of Matter
Douglas M. Stokes
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• Author(s): Douglas M. Stokes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parapsychology - General This book explores conceptions of the soul and the afterlife that are consistent with the findings ...
View full detailsThe Clydesdale Motor Truck Company: An Illustrated History, 1917-1939
Tiffany Willey Middleton, James M. Semon
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• Author(s): Tiffany Willey Middleton | James M. Semon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History The Clydesdale Motor Truck Company existed in Clyde, Ohio, from 1917 until 1939...
View full detailsFour Arab American Plays: Works by Leila Buck, Jamil Khoury, Yussef El Guindi, and Lameece Issaq & Jacob Kader
Michael Malek Najjar
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• Author(s): Michael Malek Najjar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Four Arab American Plays is the first published collection of plays by contemporary Arab American playw...
View full detailsRichard Wagner: New Light on a Musical Life
John Louis Digaetani
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• Author(s): John Louis Digaetani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a new biography of the German composer Richard Wagner, 200 years after his birth, re-examining his life i...
View full detailsJolly Good Detecting: Humor in English Crime Fiction of the Golden Age
Bruce Shaw
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• Author(s): Bruce Shaw • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detecti...
View full detailsKurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq
Diane E. King
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• Author(s): Diane E. King • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesAnthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Ira...
View full detailsThe Fifth New York Cavalry in the Civil War
Vincent L. Burns
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• Author(s): Vincent L. Burns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Fifth New York Cavalry was a volunteer regiment organized in response to the...
View full detailsRepresentation in Scientific Practice Revisited
Catelijne Coopmans, Janet Vertesi, Michael E. Lynch
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• Author(s): Catelijne Coopmans | Janet Vertesi | Michael E. Lynch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EssaysA fresh approach to visualization practices in the sciences that considers novel forms of imaging technology a...
View full detailsGib Bodet, Major League Scout: Twelve Thousand Baseball Games and Six Million Miles
Gib Bodet, P. J. Dragseth
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• Author(s): Gib Bodet | P. J. Dragseth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Gib Bodet's 70-year love affair with baseball dates from his childhood in Fair Lawn, New Jersey,...
View full detailsNevirapine and the Quest to End Pediatric AIDS
Rebecca J. Anderson
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• Author(s): Rebecca J. Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Forensic Medicine In 1999, investigators announced that a single dose of nevirapine, a new antiviral drug, could stop the ...
View full detailsRichard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908-1960
Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani
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• Author(s): Toru Kiuchi | Yoshinobu Hakutani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In this minutely detailed, comprehensive chronology, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani document the ...
View full detailsThe Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life
Robert Trivers
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• Author(s): Robert Trivers • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionWhether it's in a cockpit at takeoff or the planning of an offensive war, a romantic relationship or a dispute at t...
View full detailsToo Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room
David Weinberger
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• Author(s): David Weinberger • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social Aspects - General"If anyone knows anything about the web, where it's been and where it's going, it's David Weinberger. . . . Too Big To Know i...
View full detailsThe First American Declaration of Independence?: The Disputed History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775
Scott Syfert
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• Author(s): Scott Syfert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - General This is a comprehensive history of one of the greatest mysteries in American history--did Mecklenbu...
View full detailsBitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
Michael Khodarkovsky
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• Author(s): Michael Khodarkovsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialRussia's attempt to consolidate its authority in the North Caucasus has exerted a t...
View full detailsLiberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention
David L. Phillips
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• Author(s): David L. Phillips • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyA compelling account of the diplomatic and military actions that led to Kosovo's independence and their implications ...
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