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African American Lives in St. Louis, 1763-1865: Slavery, Freedom and the West
Dale Edwyna Smith
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• Author(s): Dale Edwyna Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: African American The African American presence in St. Louis began in 1763 with the arrival of several free men of color who ...
View full detailsWarriors and Wilderness in Medieval Britain: From Arthur and Beowulf to Sir Gawain and Robin Hood
Robin Melrose
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• Author(s): Robin Melrose • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a ...
View full detailsThe Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces
Peter Gardenfors
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• Author(s): Peter Gardenfors • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be described in terms of geometric structures.I...
View full detailsFyodor Dostoevsky--In the Beginning (1821-1845): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
Thomas Gaiton Marullo
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• Author(s): Thomas Gaiton Marullo • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Literary FiguresMore than a century after his death in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to fascin...
View full detailsGender Bending Detective Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Selected Works
Heather Duerre Humann
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• Author(s): Heather Duerre Humann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. R...
View full detailsBrian Friel: A Literary Companion
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his ...
View full detailsThe Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891
Leroy Lad Panek, Mary M. Bendel-Simso
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• Author(s): Leroy Lad Panek | Mary M. Bendel-Simso • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writin...
View full detailsMao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic
Chang-Tai Hung
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• Author(s): Chang-Tai Hung • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung ...
View full detailsReassessing Pearl Harbor: Scapegoats, a False Hero and the Myth of Surprise Attack
James Johns
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• Author(s): James Johns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Following Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet, and ...
View full detailsThe Life and Trials of Roger Clemens: Baseball's Rocket Man and the Questionable Case Against Him
Hansen Alexander
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• Author(s): Hansen Alexander • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History At six feet, four inches and more than 220 pounds, Roger Clemens (1962- ) was a major figure in baseball f...
View full detailsThe Gland Illusion: Early Attempts at Rejuvenation through Male Hormone Therapy
John B. Nanninga
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• Author(s): John B. Nanninga • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Testosterone and estrogen treatments are common today, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the discovery of...
View full detailsHeidegger and the Thinking of Place: Explorations in the Topology of Being
Jeff Malpas
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• Author(s): Jeff Malpas • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe philosophical significance of place--in Heidegger's work and as the focus of a distinctive mode of philosophical thinking.Th...
View full detailsSatan and Salem: The Witch-Hunt Crisis of 1692
Benjamin C. Ray
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• Author(s): Benjamin C. Ray • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThe result of a perfect storm of factors that culminated in a great moral catastrophe...
View full detailsChildren as Caregivers: The Global Fight Against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia
Jean Hunleth
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• Author(s): Jean Hunleth • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Disease & Health IssuesWinner of the 2018 Association for Africanist Anthropology Elliott P. Skinner Book Award In Zambia...
View full detailsSuburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest
Royce Hanson
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• Author(s): Royce Hanson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentLand-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because e...
View full detailsArchitects of Occupation: American Experts and Planning for Postwar Japan
Dayna L. Barnes
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• Author(s): Dayna L. Barnes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the "good occupation." An Ameri...
View full detailsManagerial Control of American Workers: Methods and Technology from the 1880s to Today
Mel Van Elteren
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• Author(s): Mel Van Elteren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a ...
View full detailsSaving the World Through Science Fiction: James Gunn, Writer, Teacher and Scholar
Michael R. Page, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Michael R. Page | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy One of the major figures in science fiction for more th...
View full detailsIntroduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences
Cherstin M. Lyon, Elizabeth M. Nix, Rebecca K. Shrum
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• Author(s): Cherstin M. Lyon | Elizabeth M. Nix | Rebecca K. Shrum • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GeneralIntroduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, E...
View full detailsReappraising Jane Duncan: Sexuality, Race and Colonialism in the My Friends Novels
Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe
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• Author(s): Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Scottish novelist Jane Duncan's semiautobiographical My Friends series was dismissed b...
View full detailsThe American Television Critic: A History
Melissa Crawley
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• Author(s): Melissa Crawley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Aren't we all TV critics? It's a question that overlooks the importance of professional c...
View full detailsFragile Conviction: Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan
Mathijs Pelkmans
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• Author(s): Mathijs Pelkmans • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow do specific secular and religious ideologies--such as nationalism, neoliberalism, a...
View full detailsScience Fiction and Futurism: Their Terms and Ideas
Ace G. Pilkington, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Ace G. Pilkington | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Science and science fiction have become inseparable--...
View full detailsPublic Workers: Government Employee Unions, the Law, and the State, 1900-1962
Joseph E. Slater
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• Author(s): Joseph E. Slater • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyFrom the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, barga...
View full detailsThe Modern Bachateros: 27 Interviews
Julie A. Sellers
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• Author(s): Julie A. Sellers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General The guitar-based music known as bachata was born in the Dominican Republic in the early 1960s. Brought to the...
View full detailsFascist Lizards from Outer Space: The Politics, Literary Influences and Cultural History of Kenneth Johnson's V
Dan Copp
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• Author(s): Dan Copp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 pe...
View full detailsFighting Irish in the American Civil War and the Invasion of Mexico: Essays
Arthur H. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Arthur H. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) As mid-19th century America erupted in violence with the invasion of Mexico an...
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Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920: Sharpers, Snatchers, Swindlers, Flimflammers and Other Con Men
Bunco Artists in Richmond, 1870-1920: Sharpers, Snatchers, Swindlers, Flimflammers and Other Con Men
Harry M. Ward
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• Author(s): Harry M. Ward • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, L Richmond in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was home to ...
View full detailsNinigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country
Julie A. Fisher, David J. Silverman
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• Author(s): Julie A. Fisher | David J. Silverman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native AmericanNinigret (c. 1600-1676) was a sachem of the Niantic and Narragansett Indians of what is ...
View full detailsHal Trosky: A Baseball Biography
William H. Johnson
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• Author(s): William H. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Hal Trosky played first base (and was team captain) for the Cleveland Indians during the Great Depressio...
View full detailsColonels in Blue--Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin: 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 The sixth in a series documenting Union army colonels, this biographical dictionary lists regimental c...
View full detailsMaking Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia
Abigail Perkiss
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• Author(s): Abigail Perkiss • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate ...
View full detailsHow He-Man Mastered the Universe: Toy to Television to the Big Screen
Brian C. Baer
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• Author(s): Brian C. Baer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment tod...
View full detailsPonyville Confidential: The History and Culture of My Little Pony, 1981-2016
Sherilyn Connelly
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• Author(s): Sherilyn Connelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise has been mir...
View full details2015 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit Conditions & Performance Report to Congress
Federal Highway Administration (U S. )., Federal Transit Administration (U S )
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• Author(s): Federal Highway Administration (U S. ). | Federal Transit Administration (U S ) • Publisher: Claitor's Pub Division • Publisher Imprint: Claitor's Pub Division • BISAC: Public TransportationThis 2015 Status of the Nation's Highways, ...
View full detailsWhose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (With a New Prologue)
Heather Ann Thompson
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• Author(s): Heather Ann Thompson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collec...
View full detailsThomas Jefferson: Moralist
M. Andrew Holowchak
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• Author(s): M. Andrew Holowchak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a consummate immoralist. ...
View full detailsInformal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective
Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, Martha A. Chen
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• Author(s): Adrienne E. Eaton | Susan J. Schurman | Martha A. Chen • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralInformal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective ...
View full detailsThe English Lyric Tradition: Reading Poetic Masterpieces of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
R. James Goldstein
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• Author(s): R. James Goldstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Modern readers can sometimes be unsure about the language and the literary conventions of medieval and Renaissance ...
View full detailsBrown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry: Making the Precision Machine Tools That Enabled Manufacturing, 1833-2001
Gerald M. Carbone, Rhode Island Historical Society
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• Author(s): Gerald M. Carbone | Rhode Island Historical Society • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockma...
View full detailsThe 1933 New York Giants: Bill Terry's Unexpected World Champions
Lou Hernández
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• Author(s): Lou Hernández • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Bill Terry had some big shoes to fill in midseason 1932, when he took over managing the second division New Y...
View full detailsThe Brown Mountain Lights: History, Science and Human Nature Explain an Appalachian Mystery
Wade Edward Speer
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• Author(s): Wade Edward Speer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, L Mysterious nighttime lights near Brown Mountain in North Ca...
View full detailsInformation Ethics, Globalization and Citizenship: Essays on Ideas to Praxis
Toni Samek, Lynette Shultz
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• Author(s): Toni Samek | Lynette Shultz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General The boundaries of citizenship have been blurred by global information ...
View full detailsStealing Lumby
Gail Fraser
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• Author(s): Gail Fraser • Publisher: Lazygoose Usa, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Lazygoose Usa, LLC • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - General2017 Edition! Book #2 in the Lumby series. What Garrison Keillor did for Lake Wobegon and Jan Karon did for...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2015-2016
William M. Simons
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• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on...
View full detailsOn Evil, Providence, and Freedom
Mark Wiebe
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• Author(s): Mark Wiebe • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyThis original study is concerned with the reconciliation of divine providence, grace, and free will...
View full detailsRevisions and Dissents: Essays
Paul Gottfried
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• Author(s): Paul Gottfried • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: EssaysPaul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisi...
View full detailsPower and Principle: The Politics of International Criminal Courts
Christopher Rudolph
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• Author(s): Christopher Rudolph • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: InternationalOn August 21, 2013, chemical weapons were unleashed on the civilian population in Syria, killing another 1,...
View full detailsThe United States Merchant Marine in World War I: Ships, Crews, Shipbuilders and Operators
Greg H. Williams
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• Author(s): Greg H. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. Sailors on cargo ships faced th...
View full detailsDecades Behind Bars: A 20-Year Conversation with Men in America's Prisons
Gaye D. Holman
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• Author(s): Gaye D. Holman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Penology More than two million people are incarcerated in America's prisons--one in nine is serving a life sentence. Mass long-...
View full detailsJacob's Shipwreck: Diaspora, Translation, and Jewish-Christian Relations in Medieval England
Ruth Nisse
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• Author(s): Ruth Nisse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalJewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over...
View full detailsPaul Bartel: The Life and Films
Stephen B. Armstrong
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• Author(s): Stephen B. Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Director Paul Bartel enjoyed poking holes in the expectations of audiences and critics wit...
View full detailsThe Farmer's War
Elise Kova
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• Author(s): Elise Kova • Publisher: Silver Wing Press • Publisher Imprint: Silver Wing Press • BISAC: Action & Adventure - PiratesThey can hardly stand each other. But they're going to have to be ready to die for each other. Craig has only e...
View full detailsI Am Where I Come from: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories
Andrew C. Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Melanie Benson Taylor
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• Author(s): Andrew C. Garrod | Robert Kilkenny | Melanie Benson Taylor • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Regional"The organizing principle for this anthology is the common...
View full detailsI Am Where I Come From
Andrew C. Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Melanie Benson Taylor
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• Author(s): Andrew C. Garrod | Robert Kilkenny | Melanie Benson Taylor • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Regional"The organizing principle for this anthology is the common...
View full detailsThe Promise of Lumby
Gail Fraser
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• Author(s): Gail Fraser • Publisher: Lazygoose Usa, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Lazygoose Usa, LLC • BISAC: Humorous - General2017 Edition! Book #4 of the Lumby series. What Garrison Keillor did for Lake Wobegon and Jan Karon did for Mitford, Gail ...
View full detailsGovernor's Houses and State Houses of British Colonial America, 1607-1783: An Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Survey
Hoke P. Kimball, Bruce Henson
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• Author(s): Hoke P. Kimball | Bruce Henson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or c...
View full detailsCount Dracula Goes to the Movies: Stoker's Novel Adapted, 3D Ed.
Lyndon W. Joslin
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• Author(s): Lyndon W. Joslin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print. Yet most people ar...
View full detailsJews on Broadway: An Historical Survey of Performers, Playwrights, Composers, Lyricists and Producers, 2D Ed.
Stewart F. Lane
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• Author(s): Stewart F. Lane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Broadway & Musicals Fanny Brice, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken, Stephen Sondheim--Je...
View full detailsThe All-American Girls After the AAGPBL: How Playing Pro Ball Shaped Their Lives
Kat D. Williams
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• Author(s): Kat D. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The hit 1992 film A League of Their Own made the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League famous. B...
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