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The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, and the Reformation
Diego Pirillo
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• Author(s): Diego Pirillo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceThe establishment of permanent embassies in fifteenth-century Italy has traditionally been regarded as the...
View full detailsThe Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America
Noelle Kateri Brigden
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• Author(s): Noelle Kateri Brigden • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationAt the crossroads between international relations and anthropology, The Migrant Passage an...
View full detailsCharles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism
Richard Drake
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• Author(s): Richard Drake • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyRichard Drake presents a new interpretation of Charles Austin Beard's life and work. The foremost ...
View full detailsNo One Size Fits All: Worker Organization, Policy, and Movement in a New Economic Age
Janice Fine, Linda Burnham, Kati Griffith
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• Author(s): Janice Fine | Linda Burnham | Kati Griffith • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralWorkers and their or...
View full detailsPhotographic Literacy: Cameras in the Hands of Russian Authors
Katherine M. H. Reischl
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• Author(s): Katherine M. H. Reischl • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietPhotography, introduced to Russia in 1839, was nothing short of a sensation. Its rapid prolifera...
View full detailsRemaking the Chinese Empire: Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616-1911
Yuanchong Wang
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• Author(s): Yuanchong Wang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaRemaking the Chinese Empire examines China's development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of S...
View full detailsVirgin Whore
Emma Maggie Solberg
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• Author(s): Emma Maggie Solberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalIn Virgin Whore, Emma Maggie Solberg uncovers a surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature...
View full detailsLand-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt: The Origins of the Morrill ACT and the Reform of Higher Education
Nathan M. Sorber
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• Author(s): Nathan M. Sorber • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryClearly written and compellingly argued, Nathan Sorber's Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt should be read by ev...
View full detailsWhen Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
Stacie E. Goddard
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• Author(s): Stacie E. Goddard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Why do great powers accommodate the rise of some challengers but contain and confro...
View full detailsThe Sober Revolution: Appellation Wine and the Transformation of France
Joseph Bohling
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• Author(s): Joseph Bohling • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceBurgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne. The names of these and other French regions bring to mind time-honored winemaki...
View full detailsThe Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America
Noelle Kateri Brigden
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• Author(s): Noelle Kateri Brigden • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationAt the crossroads between international relations and anthropology, The Migrant Passage an...
View full detailsNation-Empire: Ideology and Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan and Its Colonies
Sayaka Chatani
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• Author(s): Sayaka Chatani • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanBy the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of young men in the Japanese colonies, in particular Taiwan and...
View full detailsDarwin's Fox and My Coyote
Holly Menino, Elaine P. English, Graybill & English Literary Agency LLC
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• Author(s): Holly Menino | Elaine P. English | Graybill & English Literary Agency LLC • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsA rare fox in the South American cord...
View full detailsWestchester: History of an Iconic Suburb
Robert Marchant
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• Author(s): Robert Marchant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time o...
View full detailsThe Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly
James L. Neibaur
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• Author(s): James L. Neibaur • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy Hoping to follow his Laurel and Hardy success with a female comedy team, producer Hal Roach paired Th...
View full detailsElectric Motorcycles and Bicycles: A History Including Scooters, Tricycles, Segways and Monocycles
Kevin Desmond
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• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motorcycles - History Beginning in 1881, isolated prototypes of electric tricycles and bicycles were patented and sometimes test...
View full detailsNittany Nightmare: The Sex Murders of 1938-1940 and the Panic at Penn State
Derek J. Sherwood
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• Author(s): Derek J. Sherwood • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Murder - General As the Great Depression hit, Penn State College was cash-strapped and dilapidated. Cuts to athletic scholarships left the foot...
View full detailsThe Complete Wraith
Michael T. Gilbert, Michael T. Gilbert
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• Author(s): Michael T. Gilbert | Michael T. Gilbert • Publisher: Clover Press • Publisher Imprint: Clover Press • BISAC: Crime & MysteryThe Wraith was a cult classic during the early days of indie comics in the 1970s, and a training ground f...
View full detailsThe Blazing World and Other Writings
Margaret Cavendish
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• Author(s): Margaret Cavendish • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)First published in 1666, "The Blazing World", is both one of the first novels written in English and one of the ea...
View full detailsButcher Knight
Charles Holland, Dwayne Turner
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• Author(s): Charles Holland | Dwayne Turner • Publisher: Clover Press • Publisher Imprint: Clover Press • BISAC: Crime & MysteryFrom Charles Holland, writer and producer of the Black Lightning TV show, and Dwayne Turner, renowned comic book ...
View full detailsThe 1964 Republican Convention: Barry Goldwater and the Beginning of the Conservative Movement
John C. Skipper
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• Author(s): John C. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - General Arizona senator Barry Goldwater was a staunch conservative more interested in advancing the cons...
View full detailsHeroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
Dwight F. Reynolds
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• Author(s): Dwight F. Reynolds • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAn astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat B...
View full detailsThe Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War
Leonard V. Smith
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• Author(s): Leonard V. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IHow did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, ...
View full detailsThe Comic Art of War: A Critical Study of Military Cartoons, 1805-2014, with a Guide to Artists
Christina M. Knopf
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• Author(s): Christina M. Knopf • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General For military cartoonists the absurdity of war inspires a laugh-or-cry response and provides an endless s...
View full detailsBicycle Design: An Illustrated History
Tony Hadland, Hans-Erhard Lessing
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• Author(s): Tony Hadland | Hans-Erhard Lessing • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Automotive - CustomizingAn authoritative and comprehensive account of the bicycle's two-hundred-year evolution.The bicycle ranks as one...
View full detailsThe IRA Bombing Campaign Against Britain, 1939-1940
Joseph McKenna
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• Author(s): Joseph McKenna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This detailed account of the Irish Republican Army's bombing campaign against Britain during 1939-1940 descr...
View full detailsViva Vox: Rediscovering the Sacramentality of the Word Through the Annunciation
Joshua D. Genig
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• Author(s): Joshua D. Genig • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicIn failing to take the sacramentality of the word of God seriously, the preaching of the church has suffered nega...
View full detailsTip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007
Jon T. Hoffman
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• Author(s): Jon T. Hoffman • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the spring of 2003 seemed to herald the...
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Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Michelle Armstrong-Partida
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• Author(s): Michelle Armstrong-Partida • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LeadershipTwo hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval per...
View full detailsUnited States Marine Corps Generals of World War II: A Biographical Dictionary
George B. Clark
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• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General This biographical dictionary profiles each of the 98 men who served as generals ...
View full detailsScience with Storytelling: Strategies for the K-5 Classroom
Jane Stenson, Sherry Norfolk, Lynette J. Ford
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• Author(s): Jane Stenson | Sherry Norfolk | Lynette J. Ford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Science & Technology This book is about the intersectio...
View full detailsHow America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
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• Author(s): Jennifer Jensen Wallach • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Social HistoryHow America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture tells the story of A...
View full detailsDelivering the People's Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate
Julia R. Azari
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• Author(s): Julia R. Azari • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsPresidents have long invoked electoral mandates to justify the use of executive ...
View full detailsWomen Opera Composers: Biographies from the 1500s to the 21st Century
Mary F. McVicker
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• Author(s): Mary F. McVicker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera The history of women in the opera is a grand story. Women were singers and patrons, of course, bu...
View full detailsJack Lord: An Acting Life
Sylvia D. Lynch
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• Author(s): Sylvia D. Lynch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Before his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long...
View full detailsHolding the Shop Together
Stephen J. Silvia
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• Author(s): Stephen J. Silvia • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralSince the onset of the Great Recession, Germany's economy has been praised for its superior performance, which...
View full detailsBarriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Organization for Weapons Development
Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley
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• Author(s): Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlIn both the popular imagination and among lawmakers and national security e...
View full detailsFranz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
Stanley Corngold
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• Author(s): Stanley Corngold • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GermanIn Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension betwee...
View full detailsColbert, Mercantilism, and the French Quest for Asian Trade
Glenn Ames
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• Author(s): Glenn Ames • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThis examination of French trade with Asia analyzes France's attempt to establish a mercantile...
View full detailsChasing Dillinger: Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the Rivalry to Capture Public Enemy No. 1
Ellen Poulsen, Lori Hyde
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• Author(s): Ellen Poulsen | Lori Hyde • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Criminals & Outlaws Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s. Pushing ...
View full detailsThe Literary Haunted House: Lovecraft, Matheson, King and the Horror in Between
Rebecca Janicker
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• Author(s): Rebecca Janicker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The haunted house of American fiction is an iconic union of setting and theme with an enduring presence in popular cu...
View full detailsRunning the Rails: Capital and Labor in the Philadelphia Transit Industry
James Wolfinger
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• Author(s): James Wolfinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strik...
View full detailsGlamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles
Tom Lisanti
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• Author(s): Tom Lisanti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General During the 1960s, many models, Playboy centerfolds, beauty queens, and Las Vegas sho...
View full detailsThe Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy
Paul Kane
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• Author(s): Paul Kane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Best-selling horror novelist Clive Barker's 1987 film Hellraiser has become an undisputed horror clas...
View full detailsQuaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis
Radulphus Brito, Gordon Wilson
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• Author(s): Radulphus Brito | Gordon Wilson • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: LogicThe history of logic and its development during the medieval period. Radulphus Brito's Quaestiones super...
View full detailsHate Crime in America, 1968-2013: A Chronology of Offenses, Legislation and Related Events
Michael Newton
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• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Crimes motivated by prejudice date to the beginning of human history. Despite legislation addressing bias-driven of...
View full detailsThe Californios: A History, 1769-1890
Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin | Ursula Carlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General Before the Gold Rush of 1848-1858, Alta (Upper) California was an isol...
View full detailsJavanese Literature in Surakarta Manuscripts: Manuscripts of the Radya Pustaka Museum and the Hardjonagaran Library
Nancy K. Florida
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• Author(s): Nancy K. Florida • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book completes a series of three volumes cataloguing the Javanese-language manusc...
View full detailsElectric Boats and Ships: A History
Kevin Desmond
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• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - General Electric propulsion for boats was developed in the early 19th century and--despite the advent...
View full detailsOutside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy
M. Chirimuuta
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• Author(s): M. Chirimuuta • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyAn integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color.Is color real or ...
View full detailsOperation Squarepeg: The Allied Invasion of the Green Islands, February 1944
Reg Newell
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• Author(s): Reg Newell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook...
View full detailsSexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities
Michael Lesher
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• Author(s): Michael Lesher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies This book--the first of its kind--analyzes how and why cases of child sexual abuse have been systematically conc...
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On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers": Centennial Essays, Interviews and Adaptations
On Susan Glaspell's Trifles and "A Jury of Her Peers": Centennial Essays, Interviews and Adaptations
Martha C. Carpentier, Emeline Jouve
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• Author(s): Martha C. Carpentier | Emeline Jouve • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohe...
View full detailsStars of '90s Dance Pop: 29 Hitmakers Discuss Their Careers
James Arena
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• Author(s): James Arena • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalThe 1990s produced some of the greatest artists and hits in dance music history. And the de...
View full detailsComing Full Circle: Constructing Native Christian Theology
Steven Charleston, Elaine A. Robinson
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• Author(s): Steven Charleston | Elaine A. Robinson • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicComing Full Circle, a unique, multicollaborative project, provides a working constructive...
View full detailsLeslie Fiedler: Critic, Provocateur, Pop Culture Guru
Prem Kumari Srivastava
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• Author(s): Prem Kumari Srivastava • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The controversial Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003) was one of the first critics of popular culture as well as an earl...
View full detailsPlayer and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames
David Owen, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
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• Author(s): David Owen | Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider...
View full detailsThe Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940
Eric Downing
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• Author(s): Eric Downing • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: European - GermanIn The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection betwee...
View full detailsOglethorpe and Colonial Georgia: A History, 1733-1783
David Lee Russell
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• Author(s): David Lee Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, L Many of America's first European settlers felt they were tr...
View full detailsThe Talents of Jacopo Da Varagine: A Genoese Mind in Medieval Europe
Steven A. Epstein
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• Author(s): Steven A. Epstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalJacopo da Varagine (c. 1228-1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden...
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