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Mavericks of Italian Cinema: Eight Unorthodox Filmmakers, 1940s-2000s
Roberto Curti
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• Author(s): Roberto Curti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The history of Italian cinema includes, in addition to the renowned auteurs, a number of peculiar...
View full detailsPsience Fiction: The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature
Damien Broderick
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• Author(s): Damien Broderick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parapsychology - ESP (Clairvoyance, Precognition, Telepathy) Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futu...
View full detailsGood Dogs: Edification, Entertainment & Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden
Glynne Walley
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• Author(s): Glynne Walley • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseGood Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacul...
View full detailsObituaries in the Performing Arts, 2017
Harris M. Lentz
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• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2017, including iconic character actor Harry Dean Stanton, comedi...
View full detailsThe Saga of the Volsungs: (Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris with an Introduction by H. Halliday Sparling)
Anonymous, William Morris, Eirikr Magnusson
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• Author(s): Anonymous | William Morris | Eirikr Magnusson • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: ClassicsOne of the most legendary of the Icelandic sagas, "The Saga of the Volsungs" is the 13th century work of unk...
View full detailsIdol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives
Elizabeth Searle, Tamra Wilson
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Searle | Tamra Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors In the midst of acne, social anxiety and training bras are the teen idols that make adolescent l...
View full detailsMyth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music
Robert McParland
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• Author(s): Robert McParland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock Myth pervades heavy metal. With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema, the genre's...
View full detailsGay Icons: The (Mostly) Female Entertainers Gay Men Love
Georges-Claude Guilbert
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• Author(s): Georges-Claude Guilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Who are the most significant gay icons and how did they develop? What influence do they have on gay individual...
View full detailsWisconsin's 37: The Lives of Those Missing in Action in the Vietnam War
Erin Miller, John B. Sharpless
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• Author(s): Erin Miller | John B. Sharpless • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War The signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 signified the end of the Vietnam War. Am...
View full detailsThe Teahouse Under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950-2000
Di Wang
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• Author(s): Di Wang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaTo understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under S...
View full detailsConfronting Dystopia: The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work
Eva Paus
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• Author(s): Eva Paus • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralIn Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working cond...
View full detailsTraders in Motion: Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace
Kirsten W. Endres, Ann Marie Leshkowich
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• Author(s): Kirsten W. Endres | Ann Marie Leshkowich • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWith essays covering diverse topics, from...
View full detailsAn Venice's Intimate Empire: Family Life and Scholarship in the Renaissance Mediterranean
Erin Maglaque
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• Author(s): Erin Maglaque • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyMining private writings and humanist texts, Erin Maglaque explores the lives and careers of two Venetian nobleme...
View full detailsMurder Files from Scotland Yard and the Black Museum
R. Michael Gordon
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• Author(s): R. Michael Gordon • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Murder - General From the files of Scotland Yard's "Black Museum" (open only to police officers) come true crime stories of some of the most inf...
View full detailsSafety Engineering: Principles and Practices
Frank R. Spellman
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• Author(s): Frank R. Spellman • Publisher: Bernan Press • Publisher Imprint: Bernan Press • BISAC: Industrial Health & SafetyThe third edition of Safety Engineering: Principles and Practices has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded...
View full detailsModern Druidism: An Introduction
Yowann Byghan
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• Author(s): Yowann Byghan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Paganism & Neo-Paganism This introduction to modern Druidism provides a comprehensive overview of today's Pagan religion and...
View full detailsThe Chinese Information War: Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests, 2d ed.
Dennis F. Poindexter
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• Author(s): Dennis F. Poindexter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International Relations - General China's information war against the United States is clever technically, broadly applie...
View full detailsThe Sega Arcade Revolution: A History in 62 Games
Ken Horowitz
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• Author(s): Ken Horowitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile Long before it took the home video game console market by storm, Sega was already an arcade powerhouse. Parlay...
View full detailsA Time to Love
Angi Moore
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• Author(s): Angi Moore • Publisher: Booklocker.com • Publisher Imprint: Booklocker.com • BISAC: People & Places - GeneralBeth dreams of being in Scotland in the late 1100's. She will have to take a giant step and trust her best friend to fig...
View full detailsSomething Magic: The Baltimore Orioles, 1979-1983
Charles Kupfer
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• Author(s): Charles Kupfer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History "Orioles Magic" is a phrase fans still associate with the 1979-1983 seasons, Baltimore's last championship e...
View full detailsThe Forensic Comicologist: Insights from a Life in Comics
Jamie Newbold
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• Author(s): Jamie Newbold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels A childhood comic book fan turned comic book retailer, the author soon discovered the prevalence of ...
View full detailsPalaeoecology: Ecosystems, Environments and Evolution
P. J. Brenchley, D. a. T. Harper
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• Author(s): P. J. Brenchley | D. a. T. Harper • Publisher: CRC Press • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: PaleontologyThe first palaeoecology book to focus on evolutionary palaeoecology, in both marine and terrestrial environments. Discusses ...
View full detailsDharma of the Dead: Zombies, Mortality and Buddhist Philosophy
Christopher M. Moreman
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• Author(s): Christopher M. Moreman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Buddhism - General With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead ha...
View full detailsApocalyptic Visions in 21st Century Films
Elizabeth A. Ford, Deborah C. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Elizabeth A. Ford | Deborah C. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film & Video The apocalypse on the big screen has expanded beyond the familiar end-of-the-world mo...
View full detailsModern Science Fiction: A Critical Analysis: The Seminal 1951 Thesis with a New Introduction and Commentary
James Gunn, Michael R. Page
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• Author(s): James Gunn | Michael R. Page • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy James Gunn--one of the founding figures of science fiction scholarship and teaching...
View full detailsThe Fate of the New Man: Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945-1965
Claire McCallum
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• Author(s): Claire McCallum • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralBetween 1945 and 1965, the catastrophe of war--and the social and political changes it b...
View full detailsBest of Intentions
Susan Anne Mason
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• Author(s): Susan Anne Mason • Publisher: Bethany House Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Bethany House Publishers • BISAC: Christian - Historical
Lillian Lorraine: The Life and Times of a Ziegfeld Diva
Nils Hanson
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• Author(s): Nils Hanson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General After a meteoric ascent on Broadway that began with Ziegfeld's 1910 Follies, Lillian...
View full detailsNavy Medicine in Vietnam: Oral Histories from Dien Bien Phu to the Fall of Saigon
Jan K. Herman
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• Author(s): Jan K. Herman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War The book chronicles the Navy Medical Department's participation in Vietnam, beginning with the Navy's res...
View full detailsThe Way of the 88 Temples: Journeys on the Shikoku Pilgrimage
Robert C. Sibley
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• Author(s): Robert C. Sibley • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: PhilosophyCompelled to seek something more than what modern society has to offer, Robert Sibley turned to an ancien...
View full detailsCollege Life 301: Junior Seminar
J. B. Vample
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• Author(s): J. B. Vample • Publisher: Jessyca Vample Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Jessyca Vample Publishing • BISAC: School & Education - College & UniversityEntering their junior year at Paradise Valley University; Sidra Howard, Mala...
View full detailsThe Rhetoric of Lincoln's Letters
Marshall Myers
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• Author(s): Marshall Myers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Lincoln's letters have been cited in countless biographical and critical works yet...
View full detailsFormal Indonesian
John U. Wolff
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• Author(s): John U. Wolff • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)Includes an Indonesian-English glossary (nearly 2,000 wor...
View full detailsWho, What Am I?: Tolstoy Struggles to Narrate the Self
Irina Paperno
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• Author(s): Irina Paperno • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Soviet"God only knows how many diverse, captivating impressions and thoughts evoked by these impressions... pass...
View full detailsAncient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
Algernon Blackwood
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• Author(s): Algernon Blackwood • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Fantasy - GeneralAlgernon Blackwood's spooky stories remain as dark, chilling and readable today as the time they were first published at the beginning o...
View full detailsMigration and Integration in Flanders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Christiane Timmerman, Noel Clycq, François Levrau
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• Author(s): Christiane Timmerman | Noel Clycq | François Levrau • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationAcross the world, and due to ongoing globalization, migration ...
View full detailsIn Search of Elena Ferrante: The Novels and the Question of Authorship
Karen Bojar
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• Author(s): Karen Bojar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - Italian Elena Ferrante--named one of the 100 most influential people in 2016 by Time magazine--is best known for her Ne...
View full detailsUtopia
Thomas More
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• Author(s): Thomas More • Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com • Publisher Imprint: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyUtopia is a classic masterpiece that conveys More's vivid imagination of the Island of Utopia. ...
View full detailsThe Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond: An Analytical Art History, 1860 to the Present
Colleen Denney
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• Author(s): Colleen Denney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Art & Politics Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worl...
View full detailsThe Lives of Justine Johnstone: Follies Star, Research Scientist, Social Activist
Kathleen Vestuto
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• Author(s): Kathleen Vestuto • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts As a Ziegfeld Follies girl and film actress, Justine Johnstone (1895-1982) was celebrated...
View full detailsChanging Minds Changing Tools: From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
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• Author(s): Vsevolod Kapatsinski • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change.In this book, Vsevolod Kapa...
View full detailsPack Council
Crissy Smith
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• Author(s): Crissy Smith • Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Totally Bound Publishing • BISAC: Fantasy - ParanormalAlpha Council Representative Kurt Moore has his hands full with his investigation into the Church for Human...
View full detailsRethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival
Gargi Bhattacharyya
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• Author(s): Gargi Bhattacharyya • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - GeneralA reappraisal of the history of capitalism that...
View full detailsOne of the Boys
Sean Morriseau
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• Author(s): Sean Morriseau • Publisher: Tellwell Talent • Publisher Imprint: Tellwell Talent • BISAC: Social Themes - General (see also headings under Family)One of the Boys is an inspiring and relatable non-fictional story told through the pers...
View full detailsScience and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
Javiera Barandiaran
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• Author(s): Javiera Barandiaran • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyThe politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral...
View full detailsToo Many Men on the Ice: The 1978-1979 Boston Bruins and the Most Famous Penalty in Hockey History
John G. Robertson
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• Author(s): John G. Robertson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Hockey Entering the 1978-1979 season, the Boston Bruins had been one of the best teams in the National Hockey League for mor...
View full detailsSermons of George Whitefield: The 57 Preaching Lectures on Christian Theology, History, Bible Doctrine and Prophecy, Complete
George Whitefield
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• Author(s): George Whitefield • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Sermons - ChristianA total of 57 lectures of George Whitefield, one of the most celebrated preachers of England and the American colonies in the 18th cent...
View full details"An Arch Rebel Like Myself": Dan Showalter and the Civil War in California and Texas
Gene C. Armistead, Robert D. Arconti
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• Author(s): Gene C. Armistead | Robert D. Arconti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Dan Showalter was Speaker Pro Tem of the California State Assembly at the outbreak of the Civil...
View full detailsVirginia in the War of 1812
Christopher M. Bonin
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• Author(s): Christopher M. Bonin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - War of 1812 Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Af...
View full detailsUtopia
Thomas More
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• Author(s): Thomas More • Publisher: Bibliotech Press • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press • BISAC: SatireUtopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of ficti...
View full detailsUtopia
Thomas More
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• Author(s): Thomas More • Publisher: Bibliotech Press • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press • BISAC: SatireUtopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of ficti...
View full detailsMiddle Georgia and the Approach of Modernity: Essays on Race, Culture and Daily Life, 1885-1945
Fred R. Van Hartesveldt
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• Author(s): Fred R. Van Hartesveldt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, L By the eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a ...
View full detailsGenealogy and the Librarian: Perspectives on Research, Instruction, Outreach and Management
Carol Smallwood, Vera Gubnitskaia
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• Author(s): Carol Smallwood | Vera Gubnitskaia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Covering trends, issues and case studies, this collection presents 34 new essays by library profess...
View full detailsH.P. Lovecraft: Selected Works, Critical Perspectives and Interviews on His Influence
H. P. Lovecraft, Leverett Butts
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• Author(s): H. P. Lovecraft | Leverett Butts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horror & Supernatural This collection of H.P. Lovecraft's most influential works presents several of his ...
View full detailsCharlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity
Claudrena N. Harold, Louis P. Nelson
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• Author(s): Claudrena N. Harold | Louis P. Nelson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LWhen hate groups descended on ...
View full detailsThe Age of Dimes and Pulps: A History of Sensationalist Literature, 1830-1960
Jeremy Agnew
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• Author(s): Jeremy Agnew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Publishers & Publishing Industry From the dime novels of the Civil War era to the pulp magazines of the early 20th century to...
View full detailsThe Automobile and American Life, 2d ed.
John Heitmann
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• Author(s): John Heitmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History Now revised and updated, this book tells the story of how the automobile transformed American life and how ...
View full detailsChaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
N. Katherine Hayles
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• Author(s): N. Katherine Hayles • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryHayles's point is that the almost simultaneous appearance of interest in complex systems across ma...
View full detailsReasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government
G. John Ikenberry
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• Author(s): G. John Ikenberry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EnergyIn this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973-74 and...
View full detailsSignature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship
Peggy Kamuf
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• Author(s): Peggy Kamuf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheorySome contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, extern...
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