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Cardinal Mercier in the First World War: Belgium, Germany and the Catholic Church
Jan de Volder
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• Author(s): Jan de Volder • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryCardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance a...
View full detailsStatebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines
Reo Matsuzaki
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• Author(s): Reo Matsuzaki • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHow do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders i...
View full detailsNational Reckonings: The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton's England
Ryan Hackenbracht
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• Author(s): Ryan Hackenbracht • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshDuring the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like...
View full detailsDivorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism
Katherine Lemons
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• Author(s): Katherine Lemons • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialDivorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in Indi...
View full detailsDivorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism
Katherine Lemons
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• Author(s): Katherine Lemons • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialDivorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in Indi...
View full detailsThe New Politics of Transnational Labor: Why Some Alliances Succeed
Marissa Brookes
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• Author(s): Marissa Brookes • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsOver the years many transnational labor alliances have succeeded in improving conditions for workers, but many more have n...
View full detailsScandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia
Mary E. McCoy
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• Author(s): Mary E. McCoy • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Political Process - Media & InternetSuccessful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult ...
View full detailsVictorian Skin: Surface, Self, History
Pamela K. Gilbert
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• Author(s): Pamela K. Gilbert • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyIn Victorian Skin, Pamela K. Gilbert uses literary, philosophical, medical, and scientific discourses...
View full detailsFifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, Paolo Squatriti
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• Author(s): Deborah Deliyannis | Hendrik Dey | Paolo Squatriti • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThis important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and...
View full detailsCharles Dickens as an Agent of Change
Joachim Frenk, Lena Steveker
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• Author(s): Joachim Frenk | Lena Steveker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an A...
View full detailsSovereignty Experiments: Korean Migrants and the Building of Borders in Northeast Asia, 1860-1945
Alyssa M. Park
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• Author(s): Alyssa M. Park • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaSovereignty Experiments tells the story of how authorities in Korea, Russia, China, and Japan--through diplomatic...
View full detailsDying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace
Jonathan D. Karmel
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• Author(s): Jonathan D. Karmel • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsIn Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were n...
View full detailsEmpire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World
Aaron Skabelund
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• Author(s): Aaron Skabelund • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanIn 1924, Professor Ueno Eizaburo of Tokyo Imperial University adopted an Akita puppy he named Hachiko. Each even...
View full detailsCharles Dickens as an Agent of Change
Joachim Frenk, Lena Steveker
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• Author(s): Joachim Frenk | Lena Steveker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an A...
View full detailsThe New Politics of Transnational Labor: Why Some Alliances Succeed
Marissa Brookes
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• Author(s): Marissa Brookes • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsOver the years many transnational labor alliances have succeeded in improving conditions for workers, but many more have n...
View full detailsScribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science
Matthew Boyd Goldie
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• Author(s): Matthew Boyd Goldie • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalScribes of Space posits that the conception of space--the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which ...
View full detailsScandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia
Mary E. McCoy
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• Author(s): Mary E. McCoy • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Political Process - Media & InternetSuccessful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult ...
View full detailsProxy Wars: Suppressing Violence Through Local Agents
Eli Berman, David A. Lake
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• Author(s): Eli Berman | David A. Lake • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, coope...
View full detailsThis Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia
Joan Neuberger
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• Author(s): Joan Neuberger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Individual DirectorSergei Eisenstein's unfinished masterpiece, Ivan the Terrible, was no ordinary movie. Commissioned by Jose...
View full detailsInvesting in Financial Research: A Decision-Making System for Better Results
Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, Tony Blair
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• Author(s): Cheryl Strauss Einhorn | Tony Blair • Publisher: Cornell Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cornell Publishing • BISAC: Finance - Financial EngineeringFinalist in the Business/Personal Finance category of the 2019 International Book Awa...
View full detailsInvesting in Financial Research: A Decision-Making System for Better Results
Cheryl Strauss Einhorn, Tony Blair
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• Author(s): Cheryl Strauss Einhorn | Tony Blair • Publisher: Cornell Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cornell Publishing • BISAC: Finance - Financial EngineeringFinalist in the Business/Personal Finance category of the 2019 International Book Awa...
View full detailsAuthors and Apparatus: A Media History of Copyright
Monika Dommann, Sarah Pybus
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• Author(s): Monika Dommann | Sarah Pybus • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Intellectual Property - CopyrightCopyright is under siege. From file sharing to vast library scanning projects,...
View full detailsLatin American Collection Concepts: Essays on Libraries, Collaborations and New Approaches
Gayle Ann Williams, Jana Lee Krentz
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• Author(s): Gayle Ann Williams | Jana Lee Krentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Collection Development Though still hampered by some challenging obst...
View full detailsThe Nosferatu Story: The Seminal Horror Film, Its Predecessors and Its Enduring Legacy
Rolf Giesen
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• Author(s): Rolf Giesen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Director F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, made in 1921, right after the devastating Spanish F...
View full detailsThe Hair Wreath and Other Stories
Halli Villegas
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• Author(s): Halli Villegas • Publisher: Chizine Publications • Publisher Imprint: Chizine Publications • BISAC: GhostGirls and boys disappear; couples caught in the heat and suppressed rage of urban life are haunted by the ghosts of their own ma...
View full detailsSin-A-Gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought
David Bashevkin
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• Author(s): David Bashevkin • Publisher: Cherry Orchard Books • Publisher Imprint: Cherry Orchard Books • BISAC: Judaism - TheologyThis volume presents the concepts of sin and failure in Jewish thought, weaving together biblical and rabbinic stu...
View full detailsRethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition
Alex Dupuy, Jr. Robert Fatton
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• Author(s): Alex Dupuy | Jr. Robert Fatton • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin AmericanThis important book provides a critical reinterpr...
View full detailsGood Queen Anne: Appraising the Life and Reign of the Last Stuart Monarch
Judith Lissauer Cromwell
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• Author(s): Judith Lissauer Cromwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Queen Anne (1665-1714) was not charismatic, brilliant or beautiful, but under her rule, England rose ...
View full detailsBefore They Were the Cubs: The Early Years of Chicago's First Professional Baseball Team
Jack Bales
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• Author(s): Jack Bales • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Founded in 1869, the Chicago Cubs are a charter member of the National League and the last remaining of the eigh...
View full detailsRethinking the Haitian Revolution: Slavery, Independence, and the Struggle for Recognition
Alex Dupuy, Jr. Robert Fatton
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• Author(s): Alex Dupuy | Jr. Robert Fatton • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin AmericanThis important book provides a critical reinterpr...
View full detailsBlood Loss
Ginna Moran
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• Author(s): Ginna Moran • Publisher: Sunny Palms Press • Publisher Imprint: Sunny Palms Press • BISAC: VampiresWho knew our enemies could be good? Not me. Unfortunately, it's because our allies suck. The universe works in mysterious ways. Or m...
View full detailsThe Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise
Ron Riekki, Jeffrey A. Sartain
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• Author(s): Ron Riekki | Jeffrey A. Sartain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror One of the top-grossing independent films of all time, The Evil Dead (1981) sparked a w...
View full detailsCharles Taylor's Doctrine of Strong Evaluation: Ethics and Ontology in a Scientific Age
Michiel Meijer
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• Author(s): Michiel Meijer • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalThis book provides a comprehensive critical account of Taylor's writings, and argues that a cl...
View full detailsAuto Racing in the Shadow of the Great War: Streamlined Specials and a New Generation of Drivers on American Speedways, 1915-1922
Robert Dick
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• Author(s): Robert Dick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History From 1915 through the early 1920s, American auto racing experienced rapid and exciting change. Competition by...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2017-2018
William M. Simons
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• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on...
View full detailsCharles Clifton of Pierce-Arrow: A Sure Hand and a Fine Automobile
Roger J. Sherman
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• Author(s): Roger J. Sherman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History As head of Pierce-Arrow in its formative years, Colonel Charles Clifton played a significant role in the...
View full detailsPardonable Matricide: Robert Irving Latimer, from Michigan's "Most Dangerous Inmate" to Free Man
Tobin T. Buhk
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• Author(s): Tobin T. Buhk • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: General In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll...
View full detailsTrigger: The Lives and Legend of Roy Rogers' Palomino, 2d ed.
Leo Pando
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• Author(s): Leo Pando • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Roy Rogers' golden palomino, Trigger, was the perhaps the most famous horse in film--more popular than the ...
View full detailsCowboy Courage: Westerns and the Portrayal of Bravery
William Hampes
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• Author(s): William Hampes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Film and television Westerns are most often associated with physical bravery. However, many--especiall...
View full detailsThe Novel in Transition: Gender and Literature in Early Colonial Korea
Jooyeon Rhee
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• Author(s): Jooyeon Rhee • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureHaving been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to...
View full detailsCrossed Paths: Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong, 1938-1958
Yan Lu
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• Author(s): Yan Lu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaLabor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political moveme...
View full detailsCrossed Paths: Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong, 1938-1958
Yan Lu
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• Author(s): Yan Lu • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - ChinaLabor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political moveme...
View full detailsMermaid Mates
Ginna Moran
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• Author(s): Ginna Moran • Publisher: Sunny Palms Press • Publisher Imprint: Sunny Palms Press • BISAC: MermaidsMy kiss changed her life forever. I've spent my merman existence knowing that one day the ocean would send me the perfect human to b...
View full detailsAmerica through Transgender Eyes
J. E. Sumerau, Lain A. B. Mathers
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• Author(s): J. E. Sumerau | Lain A. B. Mathers • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: LGBT Studies - GeneralAmerica through Transgender Eyes provides an opportunity for ...
View full detailsDubliners
James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)First published in 1914, James Joyce's "Dubliners" is a collection of fifteen short stories which naturalistically depict...
View full detailsBallyhoo
Hastings Hensel
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• Author(s): Hastings Hensel • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: GeneralA poetry collection that grapples with the tragicomic nature of language, memory, love, work, and the per...
View full detailsText & Presentation, 2018
Jay Malarcher
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• Author(s): Jay Malarcher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conferen...
View full detailsProfessionalizing Medicine: James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care
John M. Harris
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• Author(s): John M. Harris • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the m...
View full detailsCollege Life 401: Senior Experience
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 & UniversitySenior year has finally arrived for many students of Paradise Valley Univers...
View full detailsThe Harry Potter Generation: Essays on Growing Up with the Series
Emily Lauer, Balaka Basu
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• Author(s): Emily Lauer | Balaka Basu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The generation of readers most heavily impacted by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series--those who grew...
View full detailsMass Suicides on Saipan and Tinian, 1944: An Examination of the Civilian Deaths in Historical Context
Alexander Astroth
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• Author(s): Alexander Astroth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinia...
View full detailsNarratives of Adult English Learners and Teachers: Practical Applications
Clarena Larrotta
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• Author(s): Clarena Larrotta • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Adult & Continuing EducationThis practical guide to adult literacy development and ESL learning and teaching co...
View full detailsThe Jean Harlow Films
James L. Neibaur
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• Author(s): James L. Neibaur • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism One of the powerful icons of 1930s Hollywood film, Jean Harlow died a tragically early death i...
View full detailsAlert America!: The Atomic Bomb and "The Show That May Save Your Life"
Michael Scheibach
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• Author(s): Michael Scheibach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Law Enforcement To address the threat of an atomic-armed Soviet Union during the early days of the Cold War, President Harry...
View full detailsThe Electric Car in America, 1890-1922: A Social History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History The electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorless, noisel...
View full detailsThe Psychology of Moviegoing: Choosing, Viewing and Being Influenced by Films
Ashton D. Trice, Hunter W. Greer
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• Author(s): Ashton D. Trice | Hunter W. Greer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General How do we choose what movies to go see? How do we process the sounds and images of those film...
View full detailsHistoric Nevada Waters: Four Rivers, Three Lakes, Past and Present
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 - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT The Great Basin is a hydrographic region that inc...
View full detailsA Jet Powered Life: Allen E. Paulson, Aviation Entrepreneur
Donald J. Porter
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• Author(s): Donald J. Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Raised on a bankrupt farm along the Mississippi River, Allen E. Paulson would become owner of the Fortune ...
View full detailsWomen's College Softball on the Rise: A Season Inside the Game
Mark Allister
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• Author(s): Mark Allister • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Softball Sidestepping the inflated egos and scandal that have infiltrated many men's sports, college female softball players exh...
View full detailsThe Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony After Genocide
Carolyn J. Dean
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• Author(s): Carolyn J. Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThe Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean sh...
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