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Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction
Barbara C. Foley
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• Author(s): Barbara C. Foley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsBarbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fictio...
View full detailsA Dune Companion: Characters, Places and Terms in Frank Herbert's Original Six Novels
Donald E. Palumbo
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• Author(s): Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels--Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Du...
View full detailsMoral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays
Barrington Moore
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• Author(s): Barrington Moore • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBarrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociolog...
View full detailsHistories, Meanings and Representations of the Modern Hotel
Kevin J. James
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• Author(s): Kevin J. James • Publisher: Channel View Publications • Publisher Imprint: Channel View Publications • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismThis book surveys current writing on the history of the modern hotel, focusin...
View full detailsLesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture
Ellen Lewin
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• Author(s): Ellen Lewin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Lesbian StudiesWithin a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were t...
View full detailsThe Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice
Tilottama Rajan
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• Author(s): Tilottama Rajan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the pro...
View full detailsThe Sources of Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848
William M. Wiecek
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• Author(s): William M. Wiecek • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the ant...
View full detailsLord I'm Coming Home: Everyday Aesthetics in Tidewater North Carolina
John Forrest, Deborah Blincoe
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• Author(s): John Forrest | Deborah Blincoe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralLord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern re...
View full detailsPoetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse
Egbert J. Bakker
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• Author(s): Egbert J. Bakker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalApplying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative ...
View full detailsCreativity/Anthropology
Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo
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• Author(s): Smadar Lavie | Kirin Narayan | Renato Rosaldo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Popular CultureCreativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals ...
View full detailsTainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Amanda Anderson
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• Author(s): Amanda Anderson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshProstitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction-...
View full detailsCritical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms
Lisa Lowe
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• Author(s): Lisa Lowe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchExamining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores repre...
View full detailsThe Wages of Oil: Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the Uae
Michael Herb
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• Author(s): Michael Herb • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThe contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible futures facing the ...
View full detailsBorderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature
Margaret R. Higonnet
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• Author(s): Margaret R. Higonnet • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsThe first book to assess the impact of feminist criticism on comparative literature, Borderwork recharts t...
View full detailsHomicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values
David Brion Davis
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• Author(s): David Brion Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyHomicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and ...
View full detailsThe Discourse of Modernism
Timothy J. Reiss
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• Author(s): Timothy J. Reiss • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureTimothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he b...
View full detailsThe Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama
Mary Beth Rose
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• Author(s): Mary Beth Rose • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RenaissanceA public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the proc...
View full detailsEquality Under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
Judith A. Baer
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• Author(s): Judith A. Baer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil ProcedureThe principle of equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed in the Constitution does ...
View full detailsHausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger
William F. S. Miles
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• Author(s): William F. S. Miles • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - GeneralHow have different forms of colonialism shaped societies and their politics? William F. S. Miles focuses...
View full detailsThe Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century
N. Katherine Hayles
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• Author(s): N. Katherine Hayles • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyFrom the central concept of the field--which depicts the world as a mutually interactive whole, wit...
View full details14/18--Rupture or Continuity: Belgian Art Around World War I
Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Laura Kollwelter
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• Author(s): Inga Rossi-Schrimpf | Laura Kollwelter • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: History - European - GeneralWorld War I had a major effect on Belgian visual arts. German occupation, t...
View full detailsThe Forms of Historical Fiction: Sir Walter Scott and His Successors
Harry E. Shaw
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• Author(s): Harry E. Shaw • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsHarry Shaw's aim is to promote a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century historica...
View full detailsMeaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge
G. L. Hagberg
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• Author(s): G. L. Hagberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Epistemology'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question--which ini...
View full detailsScenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
Audrey Jaffe
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• Author(s): Audrey Jaffe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction...
View full detailsI Am Legend as American Myth: Race and Masculinity in the Novel and Its Film Adaptations
Amy J. Ransom
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• Author(s): Amy J. Ransom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend has spawned a series of iconic horror and science fictio...
View full detailsText, Lies and Cataloging: Ethical Treatment of Deceptive Works in the Library
Jana Brubaker
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• Author(s): Jana Brubaker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes What do James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Margaret B. Jones' Love and Consequence and Wanda Koo...
View full detailsJennifer Higdon: Composing in Color
Christina L. Reitz
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• Author(s): Christina L. Reitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Renowned composer Jennifer Higdon is best known for her symphonic pieces blue cathedral, Concerto for Orchestra, Ci...
View full detailsThe Union Cavalry and the Chickamauga Campaign
Dennis W. Belcher
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• Author(s): Dennis W. Belcher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States During the Chickamauga Campaign, General Stanley's two Union cavalry divisions battled Forrest's an...
View full detailsFascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism
Tiago Saraiva
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• Author(s): Tiago Saraiva • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHow the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion.In the fasc...
View full detailsForeign Language Films and the Oscar: The Nominees and Winners, 1948-2017
Michael S. Barrett
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• Author(s): Michael S. Barrett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference The Academy Awards--that yearly Hollywood bash that brings together the glamour and glitz of the internati...
View full detailsThe Ohio Presidents: Eight Men and a Binding Political Philosophy in the White House, 1841-1923
Quentin R. Skrabec
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• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 19...
View full detailsYoung Adult Literature in the Composition Classroom: Essays on Practical Application
Tamara Girardi, Abigail G. Scheg
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• Author(s): Tamara Girardi | Abigail G. Scheg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - General Young adult literature holds an exceptional place in modern Ame...
View full detailsTerrifying Texts: Essays on Books of Good and Evil in Horror Cinema
Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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• Author(s): Cynthia J. Miller | A. Bowdoin Van Riper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror f...
View full detailsThe Magnificent Max Baer: The Life of the Heavyweight Champion and Film Star
Colleen Aycock, David W. Wallace
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• Author(s): Colleen Aycock | David W. Wallace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Boxing might not have survived the 1930s if not for Max Baer. A contender for every heavyweight champ...
View full detailsTrain Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters
George Bibel
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• Author(s): George Bibel • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Safety & Security - Personal Safety & Self-Defense
A Lynching in Little Dixie: The Life and Death of James T. Scott, ca. 1885-1923
Patricia L. Roberts
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• Author(s): Patricia L. Roberts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missou...
View full detailsViolence and Victimhood in Hispanic Crime Fiction: Essays on Contemporary Works
Shalisa M. Collins, Renée W. Craig-Odders, Marcella L. Paul
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• Author(s): Shalisa M. Collins | Renée W. Craig-Odders | Marcella L. Paul • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction At the heart of crime fiction is an investigatio...
View full detailsBombs, Bullets and Bread: The Politics of Anarchist Terrorism Worldwide, 1866-1926
Michael Kemp
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• Author(s): Michael Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Anarchism During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a wave of political violence swept across the glo...
View full detailsRedes literarias: Antologia del texto hispanico en su contexto historico-cultural
Mindy E. Badía, Bonnie L. Gasior
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• Author(s): Mindy E. Badía | Bonnie L. Gasior • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin American Esta nueva antologia literaria--dirigida a estudiantes del tercer o cuarto an...
View full detailsHo Chi Minh's Blueprint for Revolution: In the Words of Vietnamese Strategists and Operatives
Virginia Morris, Clive A. Hills
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• Author(s): Virginia Morris | Clive A. Hills • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War When Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, the communist victory s...
View full detailsDear Parents: A Field Guide for College Preparation
Jon McGee, Chris Farrell
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• Author(s): Jon McGee | Chris Farrell • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherFew moments in parenting are as fraught as preparing your kid for college. Le...
View full detailsHamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World
Khairudin Aljunied
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• Author(s): Khairudin Aljunied • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Islam - TheologySince the early twentieth century, Muslim reformers have been campaigning for a tot...
View full detailsLiving with Animals: Bonds Across Species
Natalie Porter, Ilana M. Gershon
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• Author(s): Natalie Porter | Ilana M. Gershon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralLiving with Animals is a collection of imagined animal guides--a playful ...
View full detailsHamka and Islam: Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World
Khairudin Aljunied
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• Author(s): Khairudin Aljunied • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Islam - TheologySince the early twentieth century, Muslim reformers have been campaigning for a tot...
View full detailsWissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel: Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215
Stephan Dusil
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• Author(s): Stephan Dusil • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalBetween 1000 and 1215, the knowledge of canon law changed fundamentally. Although ecclesiastic rules of law had...
View full detailsSmoking Under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia
Tricia Starks
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• Author(s): Tricia Starks • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsApproaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, Smoking under the Tsars p...
View full detailsMore Than Words: Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali
Richard Fox
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• Author(s): Richard Fox • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MiscellaneousGrounded in ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges convent...
View full detailsUnderstanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts
Dominick LaCapra
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• Author(s): Dominick LaCapra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTo what extent do we and can we understand others--other peoples, species, times, and places...
View full detailsBattling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built
Jessica Marie Falcone
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• Author(s): Jessica Marie Falcone • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Rituals & PracticeBattling the Buddha of Love is a work of advocacy anthropology that explores the cont...
View full detailsUnderstanding Others: Peoples, Animals, Pasts
Dominick LaCapra
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• Author(s): Dominick LaCapra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTo what extent do we and can we understand others--other peoples, species, times, and places...
View full detailsLysistrata and Other Plays: (Translated with Annotations by The Athenian Society)
Aristophanes, The Athenian Society
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• Author(s): Aristophanes | The Athenian Society • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalGreek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the pr...
View full detailsGus Dorais: Gridiron Innovator, All-American and Hall of Fame Coach
Joe Niese, Bob Dorais
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• Author(s): Joe Niese | Bob Dorais • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football Charles "Gus" Dorais (1891-1954) was the quarterback of Notre Dame's "Dorais to Rockne" tandem that revolution...
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: Religious - Christian - InspirationalNo Fourth River. A Novel Based on a True Story. A profoundly moving read about a woman's fight for su...
View full detailsThe Ku Klux Klan's Campaign Against Hispanics, 1921-1925: Rhetoric, Violence and Response in the American Southwest
Juan O. Sánchez
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• Author(s): Juan O. Sánchez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Ku Klux Klan's persecution of Hispanics during the early 1920s was just as brutal as their terrorizing of the blac...
View full detailsThe Winter Palace and the People: Staging and Consuming Russia's Monarchy, 1754-1917
Susan McCaffray
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• Author(s): Susan McCaffray • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralSt. Petersburg's Winter Palace was once the supreme architectural symbol of Russia's aut...
View full detailsPirates in History and Popular Culture
Antonio Sanna
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• Author(s): Antonio Sanna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary n...
View full detailsThe Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Christopher Newfield
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• Author(s): Christopher Newfield • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherA remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have undermined the Ame...
View full detailsThe Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness
Edward W. L. Smith
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• Author(s): Edward W. L. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The pagan mythology of the Vikings offers a rich metaphor for consciousness. This book presents th...
View full detailsThe Films of Budd Boetticher
Robert Nott
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• Author(s): Robert Nott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Budd Boetticher (1916-2001) was a bullfighter, a pleasant madman and a talented journeyman filmmaker who ...
View full detailsFrankenstein
Mary Shelley
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• Author(s): Mary Shelley • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GothicIn this all-time classic of gothic horror, the mad Dr. Frankenstein, ina bid to discover the mysteries of life and death, creates a hulking, tragic monst...
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