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Harry Potter and the Cedarville Censors: Inside the Precedent-Setting Defeat of an Arkansas Book Ban
Harry Potter and the Cedarville Censors: Inside the Precedent-Setting Defeat of an Arkansas Book Ban
Brian Meadors
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• Author(s): Brian Meadors • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: ConstitutionalIn 2002, the Cedarville School Board in Crawford County, Arkansas, ordered the removal of J.K. Rowling's H...
View full detailsThrills Untapped: Neglected Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1936
Michael R. Pitts
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• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Giving deserved attention to nearly 150 neglected films, this book covers early sound era features, serials and docum...
View full detailsAmerica's Anchor: A Naval History of the Delaware River and Bay, Cradle of the United States Navy
Kennard R. Wiggins
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• Author(s): Kennard R. Wiggins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Naval This naval history of the Delaware Estuary spans three centuries, from the arrival of the Europeans to the...
View full detailsValor of Many Stripes: Remarkable Americans in World War II
Scott Baron
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• Author(s): Scott Baron • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The award of a military decoration does not define valor--it only recognizes it. Man...
View full detailsBroadway and the Blacklist
K. Kevyne Baar
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• Author(s): K. Kevyne Baar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators we...
View full detailsAbide in Christ
Andrew Murray
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• Author(s): Andrew Murray • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Bible Study GuidesWritten in 1888, "Abide in Christ" is Andrew Murray's beautiful and inspiring spiritual guide to a deeper and m...
View full detailsA Confession and Other Religious Writings
Leo Tolstoy
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• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: GeneralAs a result of his controversial works criticizing the Russian government and the Russian Orthodox Church, Tolstoy was excommunicated in 1901. ...
View full detailsNeil "Soapy" Castles: Memoir of a Life in NASCAR and the Movies
Henry Neil Soapy Castles
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• Author(s): Henry Neil Soapy Castles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports & Recreation - Motor Sports Henry Neil "Soapy" Castles grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and became in...
View full detailsCybersecurity: Current Writings on Threats and Protection
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez, Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Joaquin Jay Gonzalez | Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Security - General Billions of people are connected through billions of devices across the globe. In the ...
View full detailsThe Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
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• Author(s): Edgar Allan Poe • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: American - General"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion."-Edgar Allan Poe. Containing such famous works as "The Raven", "Lenore", ...
View full detailsThe Texas Rangers: A Registry and History
Darren L. Ivey
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• Author(s): Darren L. Ivey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT The Texas Ranger law enforcement agency features so prominentl...
View full detailsHoly Horror: The Bible and Fear in Movies
Steve A. Wiggins
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• Author(s): Steve A. Wiggins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General What, exactly, makes us afraid? Is it monsters, gore, the unknown? Perhaps ...
View full detailsThe Body, the Dance and the Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History
Brynn Wein Shiovitz
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• Author(s): Brynn Wein Shiovitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the ...
View full detailsThe Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s
J. K. Van Dover
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• Author(s): J. K. Van Dover • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as de...
View full detailsThe Muse Process: Unleashing the Power of the Feminine for Success and Fulfillment
Barbara Cox
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• Author(s): Barbara Cox • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Women's Studies We are all instilled with principles, passed down through generations, that guide our feelings and behaviors. Women often feel immense...
View full detailsProblems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations
James A. Wood, Anna Rose Alexander
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• Author(s): James A. Wood | Anna Rose Alexander • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Latin America - Central AmericaNow in its fifth edition, this leading reader has b...
View full detailsSnakes in American Culture: A Hisstory
Jesse C. Donahue, Conor Shaw-Draves
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• Author(s): Jesse C. Donahue | Conor Shaw-Draves • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture The literature on snakes is manifold but overwhelmingly centered on the natural sciences....
View full detailsKusamakura
Soseki Natsume
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• Author(s): Soseki Natsume • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: LiteraryFrom Wikipedia: Kusamakura (__ lit. "grass pillow") is a Japanese novel published in 1906 by Natsume S_seki. It tells the story of an artist who retr...
View full detailsProblems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations
James A. Wood, Anna Rose Alexander
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• Author(s): James A. Wood | Anna Rose Alexander • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Latin America - Central AmericaNow in its fifth edition, this leading reader has b...
View full detailsGraphic Music Analysis: An Introduction to Schenkerian Theory and Practice
Eric Wen
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• Author(s): Eric Wen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationThis book approaches Schenkerian analysis in a practical and accessible...
View full detailsThe Art of American Screen Acting, 1960 to Today
Dan Callahan
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• Author(s): Dan Callahan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Acting & Auditioning Modern screen acting in English is dominated by two key figures: Method acting guru Lee Strasberg--who t...
View full detailsThe Horror Comic Never Dies: A Grisly History
Michael Walton
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• Author(s): Michael Walton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Constitutional Horror comics were among the first comic books published--ghastly tales that soon developed an avid young reader...
View full detailsJourneys to the Underworld and Heavenly Realm in Ancient and Medieval Literature
John C. Stephens
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• Author(s): John C. Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient and Classical Concepts of heaven and hell are among the oldest, most widespread religious beliefs in history. In West...
View full detailsBrutal Reasoning: Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England
Erica Fudge
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• Author(s): Erica Fudge • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshEarly modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before t...
View full detailsBrothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979
Andrew Mertha
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• Author(s): Andrew Mertha • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentWhen the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and int...
View full detailsAbbott and Costello on the Home Front: A Critical Study of the Wartime Films
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud A...
View full detailsBlood Feud
Ginna Moran
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• Author(s): Ginna Moran • Publisher: Sunny Palms Press • Publisher Imprint: Sunny Palms Press • BISAC: Romance - ParanormalOne donor to three vampires. A promise of forever. But what if forever doesn't come? I was certain that I would spend t...
View full detailsCountry Boy: A Biography of Albert Lee
Derek Watts
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• Author(s): Derek Watts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Best known for his unique musical style and blindingly fast hybrid picking technique, English guitarist Albert Lee is ofte...
View full detailsThe Greatest Minor League: A History of the Pacific Coast League, 1903-1957
Dennis Snelling
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• Author(s): Dennis Snelling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1903, a small league in California defied Organized Baseball by adding teams in Portland and Seattle to ...
View full detailsPerspectives on Stephen King: Conversations with Authors, Experts and Collaborators
Andrew J. Rausch
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• Author(s): Andrew J. Rausch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horror & Supernatural Stephen King is one of the most successful authors in the history of American literature. His books...
View full detailsShow Business Homicides: An Encyclopedia, 1908-2009
David K. Frasier
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• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A companion volume to the author's Suicide in the Entertainment Industry: An Encyclopedia of 840 Twentieth Century Ca...
View full detailsPerspectives on Digital Comics: Theoretical, Critical and Pedagogical Essays
Jeffrey Sj Kirchoff, Mike P. Cook
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Sj Kirchoff | Mike P. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels This collection of new essays explores various ways of reading, interpreting an...
View full detailsConfederate Ironclads at War
R. Thomas Campbell
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• Author(s): R. Thomas Campbell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Naval Hampered by lack of materials, shipyards and experienced shipbuilders, even so the South managed to constr...
View full detailsLaird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy
Gregory William Mank
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• Author(s): Gregory William Mank • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of t...
View full detailsMy Name is Rose
Alexa Kingaard
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• Author(s): Alexa Kingaard • Publisher: Alexa Kingaard • Publisher Imprint: Alexa Kingaard • BISAC: Coming of AgeRose is unsettled, curious, and bored. Life in a hippie commune is her parent's dream come true, not hers. She doesn't share their p...
View full detailsBirthplace of the Atomic Bomb: A Complete History of the Trinity Test Site
William S. Loring
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• Author(s): William S. Loring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General It was not Robert Oppenheimer who built the bomb--it was engineers, chemists a...
View full detailsThe Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier: Escapes from Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa and the Territories of Kansas, Nebraska and the Indian Nations
James Patrick Morgans
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• Author(s): James Patrick Morgans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century All along the mid-1800s Western frontier, the path of fugitive slaves in the Underground Ra...
View full detailsEarly Language Learning and Teacher Education: International Research and Practice
Subhan Zein, Sue Garton
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• Author(s): Subhan Zein | Sue Garton • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis book investigates both the theoretical and practical aspects of teacher education ...
View full detailsEarly Language Learning and Teacher Education: International Research and Practice
Subhan Zein, Sue Garton
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• Author(s): Subhan Zein | Sue Garton • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis book investigates both the theoretical and practical aspects of teacher education ...
View full detailsBig Sur
Jack Kerouac
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• Author(s): Jack Kerouac • Publisher: Martino Fine Books • Publisher Imprint: Martino Fine Books • BISAC: Literary2019 Reprint of 1962 Edition. Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation...
View full detailsThe Confederate Yellow Fever Conspiracy: The Germ Warfare Plot of Luke Pryor Blackburn, 1864-1865
H. Leon Greene
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• Author(s): H. Leon Greene • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Defeat was looming for the South--as the Civil War continued, paths to possible victory were fast dis...
View full detailsThank You for Your Service: Collected Poems
W. D. Ehrhart
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• Author(s): W. D. Ehrhart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Fifty-five years in the writing, these are the collected poems of W.D. Ehrhart, one of the major figures in V...
View full detailsSyrian Women Refugees: Personal Accounts of Transition
Ozlem Ezer
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• Author(s): Ozlem Ezer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's StudiesBased on original interviews conducted across three continents, this book relates the experiences of nine Syrian wom...
View full detailsA Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers
Tom Weaver
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• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In this jam-packed jamboree of conversations, more than 60 movie veterans describe their experiences...
View full detailsThe Mayor of Shantytown: The Life of Father James Renshaw Cox
Richard Gazarik
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• Author(s): Richard Gazarik • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious Father James R. Cox became the voice of Pittsburgh's poor and jobless during the worst years of the Great Depression...
View full detailsGeneral Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs: A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn
Brian Patrick Duggan
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• Author(s): Brian Patrick Duggan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century General George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie Custer, were wholehearted dog lovers. A...
View full detailsTerrorism Worldwide, 2018
Edward Mickolus
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• Author(s): Edward Mickolus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Terrorism This comprehensive worldwide study catalogs terrorist attacks in 2018, during which the Islamic State continued its ...
View full detailsItalian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989
Roberto Curti
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• Author(s): Roberto Curti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The Italian Gothic horror genre underwent many changes in the 1980s, with masters such as Mario B...
View full detailsThe Writer's Guide to Self-Editing: Essential Tips for Online and Print Publication
Naveed Saleh
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• Author(s): Naveed Saleh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Writing - General Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publi...
View full detailsThe Culture and Art of Death in 19th Century America
D. Tulla Lightfoot
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• Author(s): D. Tulla Lightfoot • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of la...
View full detailsThe Orphan Maker's Sin
Holly Deherrera
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• Author(s): Holly Deherrera • Publisher: Blackside Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Blackside Publishing • BISAC: Family - Orphans & Foster HomesFifteen years have passed since a car bomb blew up seven-year-old Ella's father, a colonel in the...
View full detailsPioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry: Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Nagase Kiyoko
Takako U. Lento, Takako U. Lento
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• Author(s): Takako U. Lento | Takako U. Lento • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralThis bilingual book ...
View full detailsA World of Indigenous Languages: Politics, Pedagogies and Prospects for Language Reclamation
Teresa L. McCarty, Sheilah E. Nicholas, Gillian Wigglesworth
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• Author(s): Teresa L. McCarty | Sheilah E. Nicholas | Gillian Wigglesworth • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralSpanning Indigenous settings across six contine...
View full detailsA Burned Land: The Trans-Mississippi in the Civil War
Robert R. Laven
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• Author(s): Robert R. Laven • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Often neglected by historians, actions in Missouri and Kansas had an important influence on the cour...
View full detailsLongstreet at Gettysburg: A Critical Reassessment
Cory M. Pfarr
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• Author(s): Cory M. Pfarr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States This is the first book-length, critical analysis of Lieutenant General James Longstreet's actions at th...
View full detailsAmerican Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960: A Critical Study
Nathanael T. Booth
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• Author(s): Nathanael T. Booth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - General In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the ...
View full detailsFilm Appreciation through Genres
Michael Patrick Gillespie
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• Author(s): Michael Patrick Gillespie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Our love of films often leads us to discuss them in enthusiastic, if not necessarily ...
View full detailsLee Smith: A Literary Companion
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This literary companion surveys the works of Lee Smith, a Southern author lauded for her autobiographical famil...
View full detailsNuts about Squirrels: The Rodents That Conquered Popular Culture
Don H. Corrigan
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• Author(s): Don H. Corrigan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Squirrels have made numerous appearances in mass media over the years, from Beatrix Potter's Nutkin and Timmy ...
View full detailsChurch and State in the Roberts Court: Christian Conservatism and Social Change in Ten Cases, 2005-2018
Jerold Waltman
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• Author(s): Jerold Waltman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religion, Politics & State Religious liberty is often called "the first freedom." For many years, few decisions made by the...
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