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International Negotiation in a Complex World
Brigid Starkey, Mark A. Boyer, Jonathan Wilkenfeld
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• Author(s): Brigid Starkey | Mark A. Boyer | Jonathan Wilkenfeld • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThis hands-on text provides an...
View full detailsMammography and Early Breast Cancer Detection: How Screening Saves Lives
Alan B. Hollingsworth
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• Author(s): Alan B. Hollingsworth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening alto...
View full detailsTerrorism, 2013-2015: A Worldwide Chronology
Edward Mickolus
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• Author(s): Edward Mickolus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This second comprehensive chronology of international terrorist attacks covers three eventful years during ...
View full detailsThat's Me, Groucho!: The Solo Career of Groucho Marx
Matthew Coniam
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• Author(s): Matthew Coniam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Groucho Marx's career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and...
View full detailsA New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917
Andrea L. Turpin
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• Author(s): Andrea L. Turpin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryIn A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shape...
View full detailsAccustomed to Her Face: Thirty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood
Axel Nissen
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• Author(s): Axel Nissen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Drawing on historical documents and newspaper reports, this book provides a fascinating portrait of...
View full detailsThe Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
John C. Tibbetts
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• Author(s): John C. Tibbetts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horror & Supernatural Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity...
View full detailsAlice in Transmedia Wonderland: Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic
Anna Kérchy
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• Author(s): Anna Kérchy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Part of Alice's appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting...
View full detailsGrace in Auschwitz: A Holocaust Christology
Jean-Pierre Fortin
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• Author(s): Jean-Pierre Fortin • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryThe postmodern human condition and relationship to God were forged in response to Auschwitz. Christian theology must now add...
View full detailsBebe Daniels: Hollywood's Good Little Bad Girl
Charles L. Epting
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• Author(s): Charles L. Epting • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Bebe Daniels had one of the most diverse and lengthy careers in show business....
View full detailsAutomobile Manufacturers of Cleveland and Ohio, 1864-1942
Frank E. Wrenick, Elaine V. Wrenick
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• Author(s): Frank E. Wrenick | Elaine V. Wrenick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General This comprehensive look at the heyday of automobile manufacturing in Ohio chronicles...
View full detailsComedian of the Frontier: The Life of Actor/Manager Jack Langrishe, 1825-1895
Margaret McCutcheon Lauterbach, Charles E. Lauterbach
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• Author(s): Margaret McCutcheon Lauterbach | Charles E. Lauterbach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT In his day, theater ac...
View full detailsRingside: Interviews with 24 Fighters and Boxing Insiders
Doveed Linder
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• Author(s): Doveed Linder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Twenty-four exclusive interviews with boxing insiders feature the recollections and perspectives of champions, trainers, ...
View full detailsThe Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
Geoffrey Chaucer
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Chaucer • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Literary Criticism & CollectionsThe classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Pardoner...
View full detailsThe Science Fiction Mythmakers: Religion, Science and Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and Herbert
Jennifer Simkins, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Jennifer Simkins | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular cu...
View full detailsSaints in the Broken City: Football, Fandom and Urban Renewal in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Casey Schreiber
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• Author(s): Casey Schreiber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football Telling the story of Saints football in New Orleans is a way to understand larger social, political and economic cond...
View full detailsPsychologizing: A Personal, Practice-Based Approach to Psychology
Patrick M. Whitehead
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• Author(s): Patrick M. Whitehead • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Psychotherapy - HumanisticPsychologizing introduces students to the study of psychology by encour...
View full detailsPsychologizing: A Personal, Practice-Based Approach to Psychology
Patrick M. Whitehead
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• Author(s): Patrick M. Whitehead • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Psychotherapy - HumanisticPsychologizing introduces students to the study of psychology by encour...
View full detailsCorruption and American Cities: Essays and Case Studies in Ethical Accountability
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 Corruption is a chronic public concern affecting America's cities. Greed, ethical lapse...
View full detailsMaya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past
Patricia A. McAnany, Sarah M. Rowe
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• Author(s): Patricia A. McAnany | Sarah M. Rowe • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ArchaeologyMcAnany sheds light on the varied ways today's Maya communities relate ...
View full detailsAsian Designs: Governance in the Contemporary World Order
Saadia M. Pekkanen
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• Author(s): Saadia M. Pekkanen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAsian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How wil...
View full detailsCharting an American Republic: The Origins and Writing of the Federalist Papers
Jude M. Pfister
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• Author(s): Jude M. Pfister • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) With the American revolutionaries in discord following victory at Yorktown an...
View full detailsShipmates: The Men of Lcs 52 in World War II
Gary Burns
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• Author(s): Gary Burns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General In late 1944, 78 U.S. Navy sailors and officers climbed aboard a ship just 150 feet l...
View full detailsPlie Ball!: Baseball Meets Dance on Stage and Screen
Jeffrey M. Katz
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• Author(s): Jeffrey M. Katz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General From the vaudeville gyrations of New York Giants star pitchers Rube Marquard and Christy Mathewson, to Gene...
View full detailsThe Turn to Gruesomeness in American Horror Films, 1931-1936
Jon Towlson
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• Author(s): Jon Towlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Critics have traditionally characterized classic horror by its use of shadow and suggestion. Yet th...
View full detailsGoing Scapegoat: Post-9/11 War Literature, Language and Culture
David A. Buchanan
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• Author(s): David A. Buchanan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Since 9/11, war literature has become a key element in American popular culture, spurring critical debate about depi...
View full detailsHoplites at War: A Comprehensive Analysis of Heavy Infantry Combat in the Greek World, 750-100 bce
Paul M. Bardunias, Jr. Fred Eugene Ray
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• Author(s): Paul M. Bardunias | Jr. Fred Eugene Ray • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Ancient It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated t...
View full detailsPud Galvin: Baseball's First 300-Game Winner
Brian Martin
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• Author(s): Brian Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis "Pud" Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after hi...
View full detailsDietrich Bonhoeffer and the Ethical Self: Christology, Ethics, and Formation
Clark J. Elliston
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• Author(s): Clark J. Elliston • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - EthicsDietrich Bonhoeffers work has persistently challenged Christian consciousness due to both his death at the hands of...
View full detailsHomeless: Narratives from the Streets
Joshua D. Phillips
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• Author(s): Joshua D. Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poverty & Homelessness A half-century after the "War on Poverty" of Lyndon Johnson, poverty rates remain unchanged. Sch...
View full detailsChickenizing Farms and Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers
Ellen K. Silbergeld
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• Author(s): Ellen K. Silbergeld • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Safety & Security - General (See Also House & Home - SafetyA frightening look at the meat industry's...
View full detailsClassic Home Video Games, 1989-1990: A Complete Guide to Sega Genesis, Neo Geo and TurboGrafx-16 Games
Brett Weiss
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• Author(s): Brett Weiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile The third in a series about home video games, this detailed reference work features descriptions and reviews of...
View full detailsTeaching The Wire: Frameworks, Theories and Strategies for the Classroom
Tia Sherèe Gaynor, Jocelyn Devance Taliaferro
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• Author(s): Tia Sherèe Gaynor | Jocelyn Devance Taliaferro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism HBO's critically acclaimed drama The Wire has seen increas...
View full detailsBones Around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur
Tamara Loos
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• Author(s): Tamara Loos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoricalPrince Prisdang Chumsai (1852-1935) served as Siam's first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam'...
View full detailsSara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Margaret Kinsman, Elizabeth Foxwell
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• Author(s): Margaret Kinsman | Elizabeth Foxwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Sara Paretsky's groundbreaking mystery series about Chicago private inves...
View full detailsThe Cubs and the A's of 1910: One Dynasty Ends, Another Begins
Richard Bressler
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• Author(s): Richard Bressler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Cubs were at the end of the best five-season run of any team in history. The team featured Three Finge...
View full detailsSweet Enemy
Heather Snow
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• Author(s): Heather Snow • Publisher: Bluestocking Books Publishing LLC • Publisher Imprint: Bluestocking Books Publishing LLC • BISAC: LiteraryBeakers and ball gowns don't mix. So when lady chemist and avowed spinster, Miss Liliana Claremont, ...
View full detailsThe 18th New York Infantry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Ryan A. Conklin
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• Author(s): Ryan A. Conklin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Responding to President Lincoln's initial call for troops, the 18th New York Infa...
View full detailsThe Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki
Eric Reinders
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• Author(s): Eric Reinders • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Widely regarded as Japan's greatest animated director, Hayao Miyazaki creates films lauded for vi...
View full detailsThe Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War
Meredith Oyen
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• Author(s): Meredith Oyen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyDuring the Cold War, both Chinese and American officials employed a wide range of migration...
View full detailsOn Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome
Jörg Rüpke
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• Author(s): Jörg Rüpke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeProvocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â- Religious Studi...
View full detailsNative to the Republic: Empire, Social Citizenship, and Everyday Life in Marseille Since 1945
Minayo Nasiali
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• Author(s): Minayo Nasiali • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn Native to the Republic, Minayo Nasiali traces the process through which expectations about living standards...
View full detailsWomen on Southern Stages, 1800-1865: Performance, Gender and Identity in a Golden Age of American Theater
Robin O. Warren
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• Author(s): Robin O. Warren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Women played an integral role in the theater of the Antebellum and Civil War South. Yet thei...
View full detailsThe Cleveland Rams: The NFL Champs Who Left Too Soon, 1936-1945
James C. Sulecki
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• Author(s): James C. Sulecki • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football In 2016 the Rams left St. Louis for Los Angeles--having departed L.A. for St. Louis in 1995--and caused much heartbr...
View full detailsBuilding the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago
Costas Spirou, Dennis R. Judd
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• Author(s): Costas Spirou | Dennis R. Judd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI,By the time he left office on May 16, 2011, M...
View full detailsRichard Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Andy Gabriel-Powell
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• Author(s): Andy Gabriel-Powell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period England's ill-fated first attempt to colonize America at Roanoke Island in 1587, more than...
View full detailsFollowing the Textual Revolution: The Standardization of Radical Critical Theories of the 1960s
Tymon Adamczewski
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• Author(s): Tymon Adamczewski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Analysis of literature and culture abounds in modern scholarship, customarily written in the familiar language of li...
View full detailsClarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
Terry Castle
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• Author(s): Terry Castle • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: FeministAs Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex, ' Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic fe...
View full detailsLove Itself is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology of the Saints
Matthew A. Rothaus Moser
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• Author(s): Matthew A. Rothaus Moser • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicWhat do the saints have to do with truth? Saints and their concern for holiness are often relegated to t...
View full detailsBread and Circuses: Alcohol and Other Drugs on the Job
Patrick Brantlinger
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• Author(s): Patrick Brantlinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a sy...
View full detailsRevolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929
Michael David-Fox
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• Author(s): Michael David-Fox • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherUsing archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analy...
View full detailsSocialist Churches: Radical Secularization and the Preservation of the Past in Petrograd and Leningrad, 1918-1988
Catriona Kelly
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• Author(s): Catriona Kelly • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralIn Russia, legislation on the separation of church and state in early 1918 marginalized r...
View full detailsNabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
Leona Toker
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• Author(s): Leona Toker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietVladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation ...
View full detailsTransfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism
Carolyn Williams
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• Author(s): Carolyn Williams • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EssaysExploring the intricacy and complexity of Walter Pater's prose, Transfigured World challenges traditional approaches ...
View full detailsBuilding a National Literature
Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Renate Baron Franciscono
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• Author(s): Peter Uwe Hohendahl | Renate Baron Franciscono • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GermanBuilding a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary ...
View full detailsThe Institution of Criticism
Peter Uwe Hohendahl
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• Author(s): Peter Uwe Hohendahl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryGerman radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and...
View full detailsProletarian Peasants
Robert Edelman
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• Author(s): Robert Edelman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Rob...
View full detailsGender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television: An Analysis of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood
Tom Powers
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• Author(s): Tom Powers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction televi...
View full detailsThe Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926
Jonathan Coopersmith
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• Author(s): Jonathan Coopersmith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EnergyThe Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in R...
View full detailsFailure to Pursue: How the Escape of Defeated Forces Prolonged the Civil War
David Frey
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• Author(s): David Frey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Was the Civil War preordained to last four years or were there reasons why neither sid...
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