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They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco: The Lives of Songwriters George Cory and Douglass Cross
Bill Christine
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• Author(s): Bill Christine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music George Cory and Douglass Cross wrote just one hit song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." They were unknown before they...
View full detailsGoon: Memoir of a Minor League Hockey Enforcer, 2D Ed.
Doug Smith, Adam Frattasio
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• Author(s): Doug Smith | Adam Frattasio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Directionless yet driven by a fervent desire to make something of himself, Doug "The Thug" Smith took his o...
View full detailsStorytelling in Video Games: The Art of the Digital Narrative
Amy M. Green, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
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• Author(s): Amy M. Green | Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile Beginning with the structural features of design and play, this book explores video g...
View full detailsThe Ugandan Morality Crusade: The Brutal Campaign Against Homosexuality and Pornography Under Yoweri Museveni
Deborah Kintu
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• Author(s): Deborah Kintu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In 1999, General Museveni, Uganda's autocratic leader, ordered police to arrest homosexuals for engaging in behavior tha...
View full detailsWhen Baseball Met Big Bill Haywood: The Battle for Manchester, New Hampshire, 1912-1916
Scott C. Roper, Stephanie Abbot Roper
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• Author(s): Scott C. Roper | Stephanie Abbot Roper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the early 20th century, immigration, labor unrest, social reforms and government ...
View full detailsFood and Place: A Critical Exploration
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, Fernando J. Bosco
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• Author(s): Pascale Joassart-Marcelli | Fernando J. Bosco • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Agriculture & FoodThis text provides a comprehensive exploration of ...
View full detailsScientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers
Sharon A. Hill
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• Author(s): Sharon A. Hill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Philosophy & Social Aspects In the 21st century, reality television and the Internet have fed public interest in ghosts, UF...
View full details"We used to eat people": Revelations of a Fiji Islands Traditional Village
R. M. W. Dixon
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• Author(s): R. M. W. Dixon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Adventurers & Explorers Living in a reed hut on Taveuni--the "garden isle" of Fiji--the author studied the native language ...
View full detailsWhat the Doctor Overheard: Dr. Leopold Müller's Account of Music in Early Meiji Japan
Elizabeth Markham, Naoko Terauchi, Rembrandt Wolpert
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Markham | Naoko Terauchi | Rembrandt Wolpert • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseDespite their significance,...
View full detailsRage
Suzanne Lowe
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• Author(s): Suzanne Lowe • Publisher: Silvergum Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Silvergum Publishing • BISAC: Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticRage Book two in the Seventeen Series."Revenge. It was all he could think about.His body ached for it...
View full detailsMatthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume V-II - Mark - Luke
Matthew Henry
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• Author(s): Matthew Henry • Publisher: Devoted Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Devoted Publishing • BISAC: Biblical Commentary - GeneralThe twelfth book in this series, this text focuses on textual comments and believer edification of the gospel...
View full detailsJohn Updike Remembered: Friends, Family and Colleagues Reflect on the Writer and the Man
Jack A. de Bellis
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• Author(s): Jack A. de Bellis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures Fifty-three individuals present a prismatic view of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and his work through...
View full detailsThe Emperor and the Peasant: Two Men at the Start of the Great War and the End of the Habsburg Empire
Kenneth Janda
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• Author(s): Kenneth Janda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I There was more to World War I than the Western Front. This history juxtaposes the experiences of a monarc...
View full detailsAnother Me: The Doppelganger in 21st Century Fiction, Television and Film
Heather Duerre Humann
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• Author(s): Heather Duerre Humann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Literature A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--c...
View full detailsMatthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: Volume VI-III - Titus - Revelation
Matthew Henry
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• Author(s): Matthew Henry • Publisher: Devoted Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Devoted Publishing • BISAC: Biblical Commentary - GeneralThe sixteenth book in this series, this text focuses on textual comments and believer edification of the Paul...
View full detailsCultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950
Reine Meylaerts, Lieven D'Hulst, Tom Verschaffel
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• Author(s): Reine Meylaerts | Lieven D'Hulst | Tom Verschaffel • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralFrom the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth ...
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Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire
Brian Drohan
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• Author(s): Brian Drohan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 20th CenturyIn Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials' ...
View full detailsRare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
Julie M. Klinger
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• Author(s): Julie M. Klinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Human GeographyRare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make p...
View full detailsThe Tie That Bound Us: The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
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• Author(s): Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)John Brown was fiercely committed to the militant abolitionist cause, a ...
View full detailsFrom Development to Dictatorship: Bolivia and the Alliance for Progress in the Kennedy Era
Thomas C. Field
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• Author(s): Thomas C. Field • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsDuring the most idealistic years of John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress dev...
View full detailsPromiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945
Hikari Hori
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• Author(s): Hikari Hori • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Jap...
View full detailsOrganized Crime in the United States, 1865-1941
Kristofer Allerfeldt
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• Author(s): Kristofer Allerfeldt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies) Why do Americans alternately celebrate and condemn gangsters, outlaws and corr...
View full detailsTom Gamboa: My Life in Baseball
Tom Gamboa, David Russell
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• Author(s): Tom Gamboa | David Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Tom Gamboa played baseball professionally, coached, scouted, managed in the minors and in Puerto...
View full detailsEngaging Adversaries: Peacemaking and Diplomacy in the Human Interest
Mel Gurtov
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• Author(s): Mel Gurtov • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PeaceThis groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and...
View full detailsEngaging Adversaries: Peacemaking and Diplomacy in the Human Interest
Mel Gurtov
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• Author(s): Mel Gurtov • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PeaceThis groundbreaking book explores how adversaries in world politics can surmount their differences and...
View full detailsThe Musical Artistry of Rap
Martin E. Connor
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• Author(s): Martin E. Connor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop For years Rap artists have met with mixed reception--acclaimed by fans yet largely ov...
View full detailsThe Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
Jimmy Maher
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• Author(s): Jimmy Maher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & MobileExploring the often-overlooked history and technological innovations of the world's first true multimedia computer.Long ago, in 1985, person...
View full detailsA Green and Pagan Land: Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television
David Huckvale
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• Author(s): David Huckvale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh British literature often refers to pagan and classical themes through richly detailed landscape...
View full detailsThe Idylls of the King
Alfred Tennyson, Arthur G. Doughty
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• Author(s): Alfred Tennyson | Arthur G. Doughty • Publisher: Sagwan Press • Publisher Imprint: Sagwan Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization ...
View full detailsThe Idylls of the King
Alfred Tennyson, Arthur G. Doughty
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• Author(s): Alfred Tennyson | Arthur G. Doughty • Publisher: Sagwan Press • Publisher Imprint: Sagwan Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization ...
View full detailsThrough an Unlocked Door: In Walks Murder
Kevin M. Sullivan
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• Author(s): Kevin M. Sullivan • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Murder - General "We never lock our doors." This is an often-heard remark expressing a commonplace American attitude or belief that, despite wh...
View full detailsChina's Interests and Goals in The Arctic: Implications For The United States
Elizabeth Wishnick
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Wishnick • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAlthough China is not an Arctic state, Chinese officials are taking great pains to demonstrate its intrinsic interests i...
View full detailsReading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931-1941
Ingo Farin, Jeff Malpas
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• Author(s): Ingo Farin | Jeff Malpas • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EssaysHeidegger scholars consider the philosopher's recently published notebooks, including the issues of Heidegger's Nazism and anti-Semitism.Fo...
View full detailsEyes on Havana: Memoir of an American Spy Betrayed by the CIA
Verne Lyon, Philip Zwerling
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• Author(s): Verne Lyon | Philip Zwerling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political An Iowa boy away at college, Verne Lyon was recruited by the CIA to spy on college professors and fello...
View full detailsMotor City Champs: Mickey Cochrane and the 1934-1935 Detroit Tigers
Scott Ferkovich
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• Author(s): Scott Ferkovich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General In the early 1930s, the Motor City was sputtering from the Great Depression. Then came a talented Detroit T...
View full detailsJapan's Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaiju Cinema
Sean Rhoads, Brooke McCorkle
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• Author(s): Sean Rhoads | Brooke McCorkle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death an...
View full detailsIndie Science Fiction Cinema Today: Conversations with 21st Century Filmmakers
Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay, Chris Vander Kaay
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• Author(s): Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay | Chris Vander Kaay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy Much of 20th century science fiction foretold...
View full detailsA Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Agata Zarzycka
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• Author(s): Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice | Agata Zarzycka • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new es...
View full detailsTerrorism Worldwide, 2016
Edward Mickolus
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• Author(s): Edward Mickolus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Terrorism This third comprehensive chronology of international terrorist attacks covers 2016, during which the Islamic State s...
View full detailsRigorism of Truth: Moses the Egyptian and Other Writings on Freud and Arendt
Hans Blumenberg, Joe Paul Kroll, Ahlrich Meyer
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• Author(s): Hans Blumenberg | Joe Paul Kroll | Ahlrich Meyer • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: EpistemologyIn "Moses the Egyptian"--the centerpi...
View full detailsLectures on Ancient Philosophy
Manly P. Hall, Howard W. Wookey
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• Author(s): Manly P. Hall | Howard W. Wookey • Publisher: Martino Fine Books • Publisher Imprint: Martino Fine Books • BISAC: Mind & Body2018 Reprint of 1947 Second Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical...
View full detailsThe Mistaken History of the Korean War: What We Got Wrong Then and Now
Paul M. Edwards
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• Author(s): Paul M. Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War Much of the history of the Korean War has been misinterpreted or obscured. Intense propaganda and limite...
View full detailsThe Art of American Screen Acting, 1912-1960
Dan Callahan
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• Author(s): Dan Callahan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Acting & Auditioning Some people claim that audiences go to the movies for the genre. Others say they go for the director. Bu...
View full detailsThe Indianapolis Automobile Industry: A History, 1893-1939
Sigur E. Whitaker
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• Author(s): Sigur E. Whitaker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History In 1893, Indianapolis carriage maker Charles Black created a rudimentary car--perhaps the first designe...
View full detailsCapitol Hill Pages: Young Witnesses to 200 Years of History
Marcie Sims
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• Author(s): Marcie Sims • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Capitol Page Program allowed teenagers to serve as nonpartisan federal employees performing a number of duties within ...
View full detailsBreaking the Appalachian Barrier: Maryland as the Gateway to Ohio and the West, 1750-1850
John Hrastar
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• Author(s): John Hrastar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier betw...
View full detailsDead Stick
Steven Dewolf
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• Author(s): Steven Dewolf • Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stephen F. Austin University Press • BISAC: Action & AdventureRyan Conley is a marine second lieutenant stationed in Abu Al Khasib, Iraq. Just as ...
View full detailsBecoming John Wayne: The Early Westerns of a Screen Icon, 1930-1939
Larry Powell, Jonathan H. Amsbary
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• Author(s): Larry Powell | Jonathan H. Amsbary • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Exploring the early westerns of John Wayne--from his first st...
View full detailsAssembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domains
Julian C. Chambliss, William L. Svitavsky, Daniel Fandino
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• Author(s): Julian C. Chambliss | William L. Svitavsky | Daniel Fandino • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy The Marvel Cinematic Universe--compr...
View full detailsRenegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers
Donald B. Kraybill
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• Author(s): Donald B. Kraybill • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Christianity - AmishHow a series of violent Amish-on-Amish attacks shattered the peace of a peace-loving peop...
View full detailsBonds of Brotherhood in Sons of Anarchy: Essays on Masculinity in the FX Series
Susan Fanetti
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• Author(s): Susan Fanetti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Storytelling One of FX's most successful original productions, Sons of Anarchy roared onto the screen in 2008 and dominated the ...
View full detailsEarly Bicycles and the Quest for Speed: A History, 1868-1903, 2d ed.
Andrew Ritchie
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• Author(s): Andrew Ritchie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bicycles From the earliest "velocipedes" through the advent of the pneumatic tire to the rise of modern road and track competit...
View full detailsThe Collected Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Zombie
William Shakespeare, Chase Pielak
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare | Chase Pielak • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General What if one of literature's greatest poets was actually a zombie, writing in an Elizabet...
View full detailsMy Most-Wanted Marijuana Mom: Growing Up in a Smuggling Family
David Michael McNelis
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• Author(s): David Michael McNelis • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Personal Memoirs "You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder." With those words, the West Palm Beach assi...
View full detailsThe Liberators of Pilsen: The U.S. 16th Armored Division in World War II Czechoslovakia
Bryan J. Dickerson
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• Author(s): Bryan J. Dickerson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Formed in July 1943 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, the 16th Armored Division was ...
View full detailsUkraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West and the "New Cold War"
Gordon M. Hahn
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• Author(s): Gordon M. Hahn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - European The Ukrainian crisis that dominated headlines in fall 2013 was decades in the making. Two great schisms shaped...
View full detailsState of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin
Rebecca Reich
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• Author(s): Rebecca Reich • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralWhat madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness e...
View full detailsDangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities During the War for Independence
Ken Miller
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• Author(s): Ken Miller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding ...
View full detailsFrench Cartoon Art in the 1960s and 1970s: Pilote Hebdomadaire and the Teenager Bande Dessinée
Wendy Michallat
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• Author(s): Wendy Michallat • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsThe French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely ...
View full detailsResurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives
Chad R. Diehl
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• Author(s): Chad R. Diehl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanIn Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of Augus...
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