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The Hungry Steppe: Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan
Sarah Cameron
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• Author(s): Sarah Cameron • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime, the Kazakh famine of 1930-3...
View full detailsLife Inside the Cloister: Understanding Monastic Architecture--Tradition, Reformation, Adaptive Reuse
Thomas Coomans
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• Author(s): Thomas Coomans • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Buildings - ReligiousChristian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a...
View full detailsEmpire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline
David Leheny
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• Author(s): David Leheny • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & PatriotismEmpire of Hope asks how emotions become meaningful in political life. In a d...
View full detailsAfter Valkyrie: Military and Civilian Consequences of the Attempt to Assassinate Hitler
Don Allen Gregory
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• Author(s): Don Allen Gregory • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf ...
View full detailsSpace, Place, and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History
Mark Bassin, Christopher Ely, Melissa K. Stockdale
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• Author(s): Mark Bassin | Christopher Ely | Melissa K. Stockdale • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralExploring the creation, transformation, and imagina...
View full detailsBaseball and Softball Drills: More Than 200 Games and Activities for Preschool to College Players, 3d ed.
Dirk Baker
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• Author(s): Dirk Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Written for coaches, this book--in its expanded third edition--presents more than 200 baseball and softball game...
View full detailsPrejudice in the Press?: Investigating Bias in Coverage of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Religion
George Yancey, Alicia L. Brunson
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• Author(s): George Yancey | Alicia L. Brunson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Charges of "fake news" tend to be politically motivated whether made by Republicans or Democra...
View full detailsRulers and Realms in Medieval Iberia, 711-1492
Timothy M. Flood
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• Author(s): Timothy M. Flood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval The Muslim conquest of Iberia in 711 began nearly eight centuries of struggle for control of the peninsula....
View full detailsI Wanna Wrock!: The World of Harry Potter-Inspired "Wizard Rock" and Its Fandom
Paul A. Thomas
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• Author(s): Paul A. Thomas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock "Wizard rock"--music based on the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling--is an idiosyncratic subgenre...
View full detailsGendered Landscapes: Short Fiction by Modern and Contemporary Korean Women Novelists
Yung-Hee Kim, Yung-Hee Kim
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• Author(s): Yung-Hee Kim | Yung-Hee Kim • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: LiteraryGendered Landscapes presents ten short stories and novellas by...
View full detailsHoliday Waters
Ginna Moran
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• Author(s): Ginna Moran • Publisher: Sunny Palms Press • Publisher Imprint: Sunny Palms Press • BISAC: Holidays & CelebrationsThe one thing Luna wants for the holiday season is to take Ryan to her home colony of Pearlestria to celebrate thei...
View full detailsThe Gothic Tradition in Supernatural: Essays on the Television Series
Melissa Edmundson
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• Author(s): Melissa Edmundson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The CW's long-running series Supernatural follows the adventures of brothers Sam and De...
View full detailsHindu Gods in an American Landscape: Changing Perceptions of Indian Sacred Images in the Global Age
E. Allen Richardson
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• Author(s): E. Allen Richardson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Hinduism - General In India, Hindu images have been cast for millennia through the lost wax process and brought to life by...
View full detailsThe Mythology of the Superhero
Andrew R. Bahlmann
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• Author(s): Andrew R. Bahlmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a co...
View full detailsThe Making of Tombstone: Behind the Scenes of the Classic Modern Western
John Farkis
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• Author(s): John Farkis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns The day-by-day inside story of the making of Tombstone (1993) as told to the author by those who were the...
View full detailsAmericans in a Splintering Europe: Refugees, Missionaries and Journalists in World War I
Mark Strecker
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• Author(s): Mark Strecker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I World War I began in August 1914--the United States did not enter the conflict until April 1917. During t...
View full detailsLynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772-1938
David Meyers, Elise Meyers Walker
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• Author(s): David Meyers | Elise Meyers Walker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO In the late 19th century Ohio was reeling ...
View full detailsThe Days of Rube, Matty, Honus and Ty: Scenes from the Early Deadball Era, 1904-1907
Chuck Kimberly
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• Author(s): Chuck Kimberly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The early Deadball Era featured landmark achievements, great performances by several of baseball's immortals...
View full detailsEisenhower's Nuclear Calculus in Europe: The Politics of IRBM Deployment in NATO Nations
Gates Brown
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• Author(s): Gates Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Nuclear Warfare Through a reliance on nuclear weapons, President Eisenhower hoped to provide a defense strategy that wo...
View full detailsAmerican Gothic Literature: A Thematic Study from Mary Rowlandson to Colson Whitehead
Ruth Bienstock Anolik
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• Author(s): Ruth Bienstock Anolik • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Gothic & Romance American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along...
View full detailsThe Astrological Autobiography of a Medieval Philosopher: Henry Bate's Nativitas (1280-81)
Steven Vanden Broecke, Carlos Steel, David Juste
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• Author(s): Steven Vanden Broecke | Carlos Steel | David Juste • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersThe present book reveals the riches of the earliest known astrologic...
View full detailsPersistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature
Joel B. Lande
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• Author(s): Joel B. Lande • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: European - GermanJoel B. Lande's Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted accoun...
View full detailsAmerican Labyrinth: Intellectual History for Complicated Times
Raymond Haberski, Andrew Hartman
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• Author(s): Raymond Haberski | Andrew Hartman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralAmerican Labyrinth contains a stimulating and useful collection of essays by histor...
View full detailsThe City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean
Tamar M. Boyadjian
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• Author(s): Tamar M. Boyadjian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalPoetic elegies for lost or fallen cities are seemingly as old as cities themselves. In the Judeo-Christian tradit...
View full detailsStrong Governments, Precarious Workers: Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization
Philip Rathgeb
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• Author(s): Philip Rathgeb • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsWhy do some European welfare states protect unemployed and inadequately employed workers ("outsiders") from economic uncert...
View full detailsFrame, Glass, Verse: The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance
Rayna Kalas
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• Author(s): Rayna Kalas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn a book that draws attention to some of our most familiar and unquestioned habits of thought--from "framin...
View full detailsTo Build as Well as Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam
Andrew J. Gawthorpe
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• Author(s): Andrew J. Gawthorpe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFor years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States buil...
View full detailsThe United States of Belgium: The Story of the First Belgian Revolution
Jane C. Judge
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• Author(s): Jane C. Judge • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsIn 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Asse...
View full detailsCovert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War
Lindsey A. O'Rourke
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• Author(s): Lindsey A. O'Rourke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreign-imposed regime ch...
View full detailsOn the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II
Stephanie A. Carpenter
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• Author(s): Stephanie A. Carpenter • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesRosie the Riveter is an icon for women's industrial contribution to World War II, ...
View full detailsThe Showgirl Costume: An Illustrated History
Jane Merrill
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• Author(s): Jane Merrill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comedy Fashion is synonymous with change yet the iconic showgirl costume--feathers, sparkle and revealing clothes--has remained l...
View full detailsLe Confesseur Du Prince Dans Les Pays-Bas Espagnols (1598-1659): Une Fonction, Des Individus
Pierre-François Pirlet
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• Author(s): Pierre-François Pirlet • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Europe - SpainLes Gouverneurs-g�n�raux des Pays-Bas espagnols du dix-septi�me si�cle b�n�ficiaient du conseil de leur c...
View full detailsShakespeare's Symmetries: The Mirrored Structure of Action in the Plays
James E. Ryan
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• Author(s): James E. Ryan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures The organization of Shakespeare's plays has challenged, even baffled audiences and critics since the 17th centu...
View full detailsComing of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted
Patricia Keer Munro
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• Author(s): Patricia Keer Munro • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Judaism - Rituals & PracticeThe Jewish practice of bar mitzvah dates back to the twelfth century, but this ancient c...
View full detailsRobert A. Lovett and the Development of American Air Power
David M. Jordan
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• Author(s): David M. Jordan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation & Space Robert Lovett grew up in Texas, went to Yale, and earned his wings as a naval air force hero i...
View full detailsPublic Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over U.S. Television
Allison Perlman
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• Author(s): Allison Perlman • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismWinner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the...
View full detailsThe British Comic Book Invasion: Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison and the Evolution of the American Style
Jochen Ecke
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• Author(s): Jochen Ecke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels What makes a successful comics creator? How can storytelling stay exciting and innovative? How can gen...
View full detailsWhen Love Meets Dementia: Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) and the Family
Ada Anbar, Elaine A. Moore
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• Author(s): Ada Anbar | Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - Alzheimer's & Dementia Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) is now recognized as one ...
View full detailsSex, Death and Resurrection in Altered Carbon: Essays on the Netflix Series
Aldona Kobus, Lukasz Muniowski
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• Author(s): Aldona Kobus | Lukasz Muniowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror The 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon is a vital ...
View full detailsSex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930
Judith Surkis
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• Author(s): Judith Surkis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis is a masterful study of the ways in which sex and law were inextricably inter...
View full detailsThe Scarlet Heir: A Cursed Crown Novel
Kitty Aldrin
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• Author(s): Kitty Aldrin • Publisher: Kitty Aldrin Books LLC • Publisher Imprint: Kitty Aldrin Books LLC • BISAC: Fantasy - RomanceWas Amara cursed from the beginning?Trapped between the realm of her dreams and the harsh realities of her waking ...
View full detailsChild's Play: Sport in Kids' Worlds
Michael A. Messner, Michela Musto, Don Sabo
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• Author(s): Michael A. Messner | Michela Musto | Don Sabo • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: GeneralIs sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of you...
View full detailsDeadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
Ralph R. Frerichs
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• Author(s): Ralph R. Frerichs • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: EpidemiologyIn October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfold--soon to become the world...
View full detailsThe Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy (16pt Large Print Edition)
Gerald F. Davis
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• Author(s): Gerald F. Davis • Publisher: ReadHowYouWant • Publisher Imprint: ReadHowYouWant • BISAC: Insurance - GeneralIt may be hard to believe in an era of Walmart, Citizens United, and the Koch brothers, but corporations are on the decline. ...
View full detailsThe Upper Room and Tomb of David: The History, Art and Archaeology of the Cenacle on Mount Zion
David Christian Clausen
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• Author(s): David Christian Clausen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Spirituality It has been a church, a mosque and a synagogue. Jesus is said to have dined there. James, his brother, is...
View full detailsClarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses That may
Samuel Richardson, 1743-1825 Barbauld
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• Author(s): Samuel Richardson | 1743-1825 Barbauld • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilizati...
View full detailsClarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life; and Particularly Shewing the Distresses That may
Samuel Richardson, 1743-1825 Barbauld
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• Author(s): Samuel Richardson | 1743-1825 Barbauld • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: LettersThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilizati...
View full detailsElizabethan Espionage: Plotters and Spies in the Struggle Between Catholicism and the Crown
Patrick H. Martin
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• Author(s): Patrick H. Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General In the wake of the 1588 destruction of the Spanish Armada, English Catholics launched an in...
View full detailsConfederate Cabinet Departments and Secretaries
Dennis L. Peterson
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• Author(s): Dennis L. Peterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Thousands of books have been written covering every aspect of the Civil War. Y...
View full detailsThe Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland
Dennis W. Belcher
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• Author(s): Dennis W. Belcher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) During its two-year history, the cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland fought t...
View full detailsClass and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College
Elizabeth M. Lee
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• Author(s): Elizabeth M. Lee • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherIn 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks m...
View full detailsClass and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College
Elizabeth M. Lee
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• Author(s): Elizabeth M. Lee • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherIn 2015, the New York Times reported, "The bright children of janitors and nail salon workers, bus drivers and fast-food cooks m...
View full detailsWho Travels with the Doctor?: Essays on the Companions of Doctor Who
Gillian I. Leitch, Sherry Ginn
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• Author(s): Gillian I. Leitch | Sherry Ginn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Throughout the long-running BBC series Doctor Who, the Doctor has rarely ...
View full detailsTrafficked 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 detailsWho Wrote the Night Before Christmas?: Analyzing the Clement Clarke Moore vs. Henry Livingston Question
MacDonald P. Jackson
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• Author(s): MacDonald P. Jackson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry Published anonymously in 1823, "The Night Before Christmas" has traditionally been attributed to Clement Clarke Mo...
View full detailsFeeding the Future: School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
Jennifer Geist Rutledge
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• Author(s): Jennifer Geist Rutledge • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareA century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368...
View full detailsFeeding the Future: School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy
Jennifer Geist Rutledge
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• Author(s): Jennifer Geist Rutledge • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareA century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368...
View full detailsMaking the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
Hal Brands
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• Author(s): Hal Brands • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises a...
View full detailsMexican Business Culture: Essays on Tradition, Ethics, Entrepreneurship and Commerce and the State
Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez, John T. Hyatt
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• Author(s): Carlos M. Coria-Sánchez | John T. Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Western business owners and managers are increasingly interested in doing business in Mexico. ...
View full detailsKeeping Your Career on Track: Avoiding Derailment, Enriching the Work Experience and Helping Your Organization
David Noer
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• Author(s): David Noer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Career derailment, found at all organizational levels in the workplace, is under-documented. Most books examining how caree...
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