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What A Woman
Judi Fennell
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• Author(s): Judi Fennell • Publisher: Judi Fennell • Publisher Imprint: Judi Fennell • BISAC: Romance - ContemporaryAfter starting her housecleaning company, Manley Maids, one woman is determined to make it on her own. And what a woman she is......
View full detailsWhat A Woman Needs
Judi Fennell
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• Author(s): Judi Fennell • Publisher: Judi Fennell • Publisher Imprint: Judi Fennell • BISAC: Romance - ContemporaryWhat happens when three irresistibly sexy brothers lose a poker bet to their enterprising sister? They get hired out for her hous...
View full detailsInvasion USA: Essays on Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and 1960s
David J. Hogan
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• Author(s): David J. Hogan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism With the queasy U.S.-Soviet wartime alliance long dissolved into mutual suspicion, the House Un-...
View full detailsThe Final-Over-Final Condition: A Syntactic Universal
Michelle Sheehan, Theresa Biberauer, Ian Roberts
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• Author(s): Michelle Sheehan | Theresa Biberauer | Ian Roberts • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAn examination of the evidence for and the theoretical implications of a universal word order const...
View full detailsLiving and Loving Better with Time Perspective Therapy: Healing from the Past, Embracing the Present, Creating an Ideal Future
Philip G. Zimbardo, Rosemary K. M. Sword
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• Author(s): Philip G. Zimbardo | Rosemary K. M. Sword • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Self-Management - General In his 2012 book Time Cure, psychologist Philip Zimbardo introduced a groundbreaking therapeut...
View full detailsThe Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain
Shelley E. Barba, Joy M. Perrin
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• Author(s): Shelley E. Barba | Joy M. Perrin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Since her first appearance in 1992, Harley Quinn--eccentric sidekick to the Joker...
View full detailsArrow and Superhero Television: Essays on Themes and Characters of the Series
James F. Iaccino, Cory Barker, Myc Wiatrowski
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• Author(s): James F. Iaccino | Cory Barker | Myc Wiatrowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism This collection of new essays focuses on The CW network's...
View full detailsThe Caribbean Story Finder: A Guide to 438 Tales from 24 Nations and Territories, Listing Subjects and Sources
Sharon Barcan Elswit
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• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who ou...
View full detailsFunny Thing About Murder: Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films
David Geherin
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• Author(s): David Geherin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores...
View full detailsStar-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction
James Gunn
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• Author(s): James Gunn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Personal Memoirs Hugo Award winning writer James Gunn (1923-2020) has been called "the last Golden Age author" of science fiction. ...
View full detailsBaseball on the Brink: The Crisis of 1968
William J. Ryczek
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• Author(s): William J. Ryczek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challe...
View full detailsThe Elusive Thomas Jefferson: Essays on the Man Behind the Myths
M. Andrew Holowchak, Brian W. Dotts
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• Author(s): M. Andrew Holowchak | Brian W. Dotts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy Thomas Jefferson's writings on morality have largely been ignored. His thou...
View full detailsDeath Rites and Hawaiian Royalty: Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819-1953
Ralph Thomas Kam
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• Author(s): Ralph Thomas Kam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Death & Dying The bones of Hawaii's King Kamehameha the Great were hidden at night in a secret location. In contrast, his...
View full detailsKids' TV Grows Up: The Path from Howdy Doody to Spongebob
Jo Holz
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• Author(s): Jo Holz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Children's In the early days of television, suburban families welcomed TV into their homes as an electronic baby...
View full detailsAction and Consequence in Ibsen, Chekhov and Strindberg
Zander Brietzke
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• Author(s): Zander Brietzke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 19th Century Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose...
View full detailsFriendship and Happiness: And the Connection Between the Two
Tim Delaney, Tim Madigan
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• Author(s): Tim Delaney | Tim Madigan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This philosophical and sociological look at friendship and happiness begins with a review of Aristotle's thr...
View full detailsResearching Resistance and Social Change: A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice
Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja, Stellan Vinthagen
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• Author(s): Mikael Baaz | Mona Lilja | Stellan Vinthagen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralExploring various key questions, ranging fr...
View full detailsIndia and the Patent Wars: Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime
Murphy Halliburton
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• Author(s): Murphy Halliburton • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIndia and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on acc...
View full detailsWinston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said
Richard M. Langworth
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• Author(s): Richard M. Langworth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of nume...
View full detailsThe Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Northwestern Europe: Evidence from Kesselt-Op de Schans
Ann Van Baelen
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• Author(s): Ann Van Baelen • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe shift from Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in northwestern Europe (dated to around 300,000-250,000 years ago)...
View full detailsCoping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy
Harold Wolman, Howard Wial, Travis St Clair
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• Author(s): Harold Wolman | Howard Wial | Travis St Clair • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentCoping with Adversity addresses the quest...
View full detailsHigh Tech and High Touch: Headhunting, Technology, and Economic Transformation
James E. Coverdill, William Finlay
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• Author(s): James E. Coverdill | William Finlay • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralIn High Tech and High Touch, James E. Coverdill and William Finlay invite readers into the dynamic world of headhunters...
View full detailsFearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe
Michael D. Bailey
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• Author(s): Michael D. Bailey • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalSuperstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people...
View full detailsFearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies
Michael D. Bailey
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• Author(s): Michael D. Bailey • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalSuperstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people...
View full detailsNo Fourth River. A Novel Based on a True Story. A profoundly moving read about a woman's fight for survival.
Christine Clayfield
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• Author(s): Christine Clayfield • Publisher: Rasc Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Rasc Publishing • BISAC: Religion - ChristianityElectroshock therapy, child abuse and modern-day slavery... just another day in Christine's life.Take a heart-wrenc...
View full detailsCool Hand Lou: My Fifty Years in Hollywood and on Broadway
Lou Antonio
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• Author(s): Lou Antonio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General In this candid memoir, actor and director Lou Antonio recounts his five decades in t...
View full detailsUnsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956-1998
Emily G. Thompson
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• Author(s): Emily G. Thompson • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Murder - General An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States. Only one in 10,000 are found dead. Yet unsol...
View full detailsHorror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre
Michele Brittany
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• Author(s): Michele Brittany • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror In sharp contrast to many 1960s science fiction films, with idealized views of space exploration, Ridl...
View full detailsHero or Villain?: Essays on Dark Protagonists of Television
Abigail G. Scheg, Tamara Girardi
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• Author(s): Abigail G. Scheg | Tamara Girardi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General One dimensional television characters are a thing of the past--today's popular shows fe...
View full detailsThe Rise of the Nation-State in Europe: Absolutism, Enlightenment and Revolution, 1603-1815
Jack L. Schwartzwald
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• Author(s): Jack L. Schwartzwald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - General The 1648 Treaty of Westphalia marked the emergence of the nation-state as the dominant political entity ...
View full detailsFate's Take-Out Slide: A Baseball Scout Recalls Can't-Miss Prospects Who Did
George Genovese, Dan Taylor
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• Author(s): George Genovese | Dan Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Few would dispute the pitching greatness of Sandy Koufax--but was Paul Pettit better? Jim Baxe...
View full detailsResponding to Call of Duty: Critical Essays on the Game Franchise
Nate Garrelts, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
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• Author(s): Nate Garrelts | Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile Call of Duty is one of the most culturally significant video game franchises of the ...
View full detailsAvignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society
Joëlle Rollo-Koster
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• Author(s): Joëlle Rollo-Koster • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis book traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the ...
View full detailsWilliam Edmondson "Grumble" Jones: The Life of a Cantankerous Confederate
James Buchanan Ballard
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• Author(s): James Buchanan Ballard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones (b. 1824) stands among the most notable ...
View full detailsProfessional Wrestling in the Pacific Northwest: A History, 1883 to the Present
Steven Verrier
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• Author(s): Steven Verrier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wrestling Introduced in the Pacific Northwest in 1883, professional wrestling has a long and storied history in the region and ...
View full detailsA Badge, a Gun, an Attitude: 25 Years as a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff
Dean Scoville
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• Author(s): Dean Scoville • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Law Enforcement During his 25 years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Dean Scoville advanced from nervous recruit to silver-tongued ...
View full detailsThe CASSIA Spy Ring in World War II Austria: A History of the OSS's Maier-Messner Group
C. Turner
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• Author(s): C. Turner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics. Many were s...
View full detailsProtecting the Home Front: Women in Civil Defense in the Early Cold War
Michael Scheibach
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• Author(s): Michael Scheibach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration said that "the importance of women in civil defense can scarc...
View full detailsEssential Facts in Cardiovascular Medicine: Board Review and Clinical Pearls
Yerem Yeghiazarians
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• Author(s): Yerem Yeghiazarians • Publisher: Rutgers University Press Medicine • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press Medicine • BISAC: Test Preparation & ReviewThe treatment and management of cardiovascular disease has seen rapid adv...
View full detailsThe First Louisiana Special Battalion: Wheat's Tigers in the Civil War
Gary Schreckengost
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• Author(s): Gary Schreckengost • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) From the little-known Filibuster Wars to the Civil War battlefield of Gaines' ...
View full detailsWorld Epidemics: A Cultural Chronology of Disease from Prehistory to the Era of Zika, 2d ed.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Encyclopedias In its expanded second edition, this chronology examines the effects of epidemic illness and death on human...
View full detailsHenry Green: Havoc in the House of Fiction
Peter Wolfe
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• Author(s): Peter Wolfe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy By mid-career, many successful writers have found a groove and their readers come to expect a famili...
View full detailsThe Great Sports Documentaries: 100+ Award Winning Films
Michael Peters
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• Author(s): Michael Peters • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Documentary Sports and competition have been film subjects since the dawn of the medium. Olympic sports documen...
View full detailsWestern Film Series of the Sound Era
Michael R. Pitts
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• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The western genre touched on ideals of honor, conquest, and freedom of spirit, and its stories packed cinemas ...
View full detailsMetamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism
Robin Van Den Akker, Alison Gibbons, Timotheus Vermeulen
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• Author(s): Robin Van Den Akker | Alison Gibbons | Timotheus Vermeulen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Modern - GeneralBrings together many of the most influentia...
View full detailsA Duterte Reader: Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte's Early Presidency
Nicole Curato
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• Author(s): Nicole Curato • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: PoliticalA critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this colle...
View full detailsBetween the Hills and the Sea
K. B. Gilden, David Montgomery
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• Author(s): K. B. Gilden | David Montgomery • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: PoliticalBetween the Hills and the Sea by Katya and Bert Gilden vividly portrays the disillusionment of working-class idealists in the lat...
View full detailsYour Child with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Family Guide for Caregiving
North American Society for Pediatric Gas, Maria Oliva-Hemker, David Ziring
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• Author(s): North American Society for Pediatric Gas | Maria Oliva-Hemker | David Ziring • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: PediatricsA comprehensive guide to easing the disco...
View full detailsThey Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic
Kenneth Cohen
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• Author(s): Kenneth Cohen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralIn They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater prod...
View full detailsThe Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy Toward Argentina
William Michael Schmidli
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• Author(s): William Michael Schmidli • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyDuring the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a p...
View full detailsSpaces of Feeling: Affect and Awareness in Modernist Literature
Marta Figlerowicz
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• Author(s): Marta Figlerowicz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryCan other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz ...
View full detailsVanished and Vanishing Parrots: Profiling Extinct and Endangered Species
Joseph M. Forshaw, Noel F. R. Snyder, Frank Knight
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• Author(s): Joseph M. Forshaw | Noel F. R. Snyder | Frank Knight • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Animals - BirdsJoseph M. Forshaw, one of the world's leading authorities on parrots, calls attent...
View full detailsWoolf's Ambiguities: Tonal Modernism, Narrative Strategy, Feminist Precursors
Molly Hite
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• Author(s): Molly Hite • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist ...
View full detailsSex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic
Alexia Bloch
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• Author(s): Alexia Bloch • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralSex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migrat...
View full detailsThe Campaign State: Communist Mobilizations for the East German Countryside, 1945-1990
Gregory Witkowski
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• Author(s): Gregory Witkowski • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyCommunist regimes are defined by dictatorial power, state planning, and active propaga...
View full detailsFrank Wisbar: The Director of Ferryman Maria, from Germany to America and Back
Henry Nicolella
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• Author(s): Henry Nicolella • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - German German director Frank Wisbar (1899-1967) had the misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as Hitl...
View full detailsWe Who Lived: Two Teenagers in World War II Poland
Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi
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• Author(s): Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939. Hiding in ...
View full detailsMatthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume I-II - Leviticus to Deuteronomy
Matthew Henry
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• Author(s): Matthew Henry • Publisher: Devoted Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Devoted Publishing • BISAC: DevotionalThe second book in this series, this text focuses on textual comments and believer edification of Leviticus, Numbers and Deutero...
View full detailsFrom Furs to Farms: The Transformation of the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1825
John Reda
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• Author(s): John Reda • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThis original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of Fr...
View full detailsThe Yanks Are Coming Over There: Anglo-Saxonism and American Involvement in the First World War
Dino E. Buenviaje
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• Author(s): Dino E. Buenviaje • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I World War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries-old dynasties and launched "the American ce...
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