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Orphan Dreamer and the Glass Tattoo
J. Nell Brown
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• Author(s): J. Nell Brown • Publisher: Rogue Reads, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Rogue Reads, LLC • BISAC: Coming of AgeOne boy. One girl. One mission―to protect Earth from its previous occupants. Where will you live if they fail?Meet the girl, Dani...
View full detailsSeeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature through Film
Raj Chandarlapaty
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• Author(s): Raj Chandarlapaty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; t...
View full detailsThe Ages of The Flash: Essays on the Fastest Man Alive
Joseph J. Darowski
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• Author(s): Joseph J. Darowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels While many American superheroes have multiple powers and complex gadgets, the Flash is simply f...
View full detailsThe Pokemon Go Phenomenon: Essays on Public Play in Contested Spaces
Jamie Henthorn, Andrew Kulak, Kristopher Purzycki
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• Author(s): Jamie Henthorn | Andrew Kulak | Kristopher Purzycki • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic Pokemon Go is not just play--the game has had an impact on public s...
View full detailsThe Golden Age of Disaster Cinema: A Guide to the Films, 1950-1979
Nik Havert
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• Author(s): Nik Havert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Action & Adventure From the 1950s through the 1970s, disaster movies were a wildly popular genre. Audiences thr...
View full detailsFat Talk: A Feminist Perspective
Denise Martz
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• Author(s): Denise Martz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Women have unintentionally become their own worst enemies through their engagement in "fat talk"--critical dialogue about...
View full detailsThe Cold War Defense of the United States: Strategy, Weapon Systems and Operations
John E. Bronson
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• Author(s): John E. Bronson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other) During the Cold War, as part of its defense strategy against the Soviet Union, the U.S...
View full detailsLiterary Journalism in British and American Prose: An Historical Overview
Doug Underwood
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• Author(s): Doug Underwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism The debate surrounding "fake news" versus "real" news is nothing new. From Jonathan Swift's work as an acerbic, anon...
View full detailsAnatomy of the Slasher Film: A Theoretical Analysis
Sotiris Petridis
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• Author(s): Sotiris Petridis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror The term "slasher film" was common parlance by the mid-1980s but the horror subgenre it describes was ...
View full detailsA Hospital for Ashe County: Four Generations of Appalachian Community Health Care
Janet C. Pittard
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• Author(s): Janet C. Pittard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General When Ashe County Memorial Hospital opened in November 1941, it was the realization of a dream for the poor, sparsely ...
View full detailsThe Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Suzeteo Enterprises • Publisher Imprint: Suzeteo Enterprises • BISAC: Classics"The Pickwick Papers" was Charles Dickens' first novel, establishing him immediately as one of England's greatest writers. Ini...
View full detailsErnie Banks: The Life and Career of Mr. Cub
Lew Freedman
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• Author(s): Lew Freedman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Ernie Banks is perhaps the most popular ballplayer in the history of the Chicago Cubs--a man as famous for his...
View full detailsThe Wasteland: By Takahashi Takako
Britten Dean, Britten Dean
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• Author(s): Britten Dean | Britten Dean • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThe Wasteland explores the psychology of the modern Ja...
View full detailsEdwin Forrest: A Biography and Performance History
Arthur W. Bloom
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• Author(s): Arthur W. Bloom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Edwin Forrest was the foremost American actor of the nineteenth century. His advocacy of Ame...
View full detailsAstor Pictures: A Filmography and History of the Reissue King, 1933-1965
Michael R. Pitts
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• Author(s): Michael R. Pitts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Founded by Robert M. Savini in 1933, Astor Pictures Corporation distributed hundreds of films in its 32 year...
View full detailsPeanuts and American Culture: Essays on Charles M. Schulz's Iconic Comic Strip
Peter W. Y. Lee
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• Author(s): Peter W. Y. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz insisted good ol' Charlie Brown and his friends were neither "gr...
View full detailsThe New York Yankees in Popular Culture: Critical Essays
David Krell
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• Author(s): David Krell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History How did Reggie Jackson go from superstar to icon? Why did Joe DiMaggio's nickname change from "Deadpan Joe" to ...
View full detailsThe German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan
Dennis Showalter, Joseph P. Robinson, Janet A. Robinson
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• Author(s): Dennis Showalter | Joseph P. Robinson | Janet A. Robinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I If wars were wagered on like pro sports or horse ...
View full detailsFolk Music and the New Left in the Sixties
Michael Scott Cain
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• Author(s): Michael Scott Cain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Artists have often provided the earliest demonstrations of conscience and ethical examination in response to politic...
View full detailsU.S. Navy Auxiliary Vessels: A History and Directory from World War I to Today
Ken W. Sayers
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• Author(s): Ken W. Sayers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Naval For more than a century, the U.S. Navy's battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines and amphibious warfare v...
View full detailsOpdycke's Tigers in the Civil War: A History of the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Thomas Crowl
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• Author(s): Thomas Crowl • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Organized in the fall of 1862, the 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was commanded by the aggressive and amb...
View full detailsBlue Wave: The 2018 Midterms and What They Mean for the 2020 Elections
Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik
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• Author(s): Larry Sabato | Kyle Kondik • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsIn this timely book, Larry Sabato and Kyle Kon...
View full detailsFinding God in the Devil's Music: Critical Essays on Rock and Religion
Alex Diblasi, Robert McParland
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• Author(s): Alex Diblasi | Robert McParland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock From the rise of the American Evangelical movement to the introduction of Eastern p...
View full detailsWhen the Heavyweight Title Mattered: Five Championship Fights That Captivated the World, 1910-1971
John G. Robertson
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• Author(s): John G. Robertson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing The world heavyweight boxing championship once transcended the sport, conferring global renown. This book gives detai...
View full detailsA Doll's House and Other Plays
Henrik Ibsen, R. Farquharson Sharp, William Archer
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• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen | R. Farquharson Sharp | William Archer • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: European - GeneralCollected together here is a selection of six plays by Norway's most famous playwright, arg...
View full detailsThe Films of Robin Williams: Critical Essays
Johnson Cheu
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• Author(s): Johnson Cheu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From his first appearance as Mork from Ork on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, Robin Williams was heralded as a singul...
View full detailsVietnam Veterans Unbroken: Conversations on Trauma and Resiliency
Jacqueline Murray Loring
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• Author(s): Jacqueline Murray Loring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War For 50 years, civilians have avoided hearing about the controversial experiences of Vietnam ve...
View full detailsPlaying on an Uneven Field: Essays on Exclusion and Inclusion in Sports
Yuya Kiuchi
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• Author(s): Yuya Kiuchi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General We expect sports to be fair and equal--everyone who tries out has a chance to play and everyone who plays hard has a chanc...
View full detailsThe Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: Classics"The Man Who Would be King and Other Stories" is a classic collection of some of the most loved short stories of Rudyard Kipling, one of t...
View full detailsThe Instrumental University: Education in Service of the National Agenda After World War II
Ethan Schrum
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• Author(s): Ethan Schrum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherIn The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational env...
View full detailsNarkomania: Drugs, Hiv, and Citizenship in Ukraine
Jennifer J. Carroll
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• Author(s): Jennifer J. Carroll • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAgainst the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and ...
View full detailsPoppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy
James Tharin Bradford
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• Author(s): James Tharin Bradford • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaHistorians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium in...
View full detailsThe Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami
Monika Gosin
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• Author(s): Monika Gosin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & Race RelationsThe Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in loca...
View full detailsNarkomania: Drugs, Hiv, and Citizenship in Ukraine
Jennifer J. Carroll
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• Author(s): Jennifer J. Carroll • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAgainst the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and ...
View full detailsVoices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow
Jeff Sahadeo
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• Author(s): Jeff Sahadeo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionJeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningra...
View full detailsPoppies, Politics, and Power: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy
James Tharin Bradford
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• Author(s): James Tharin Bradford • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaHistorians have long neglected Afghanistan's broader history when portraying the opium in...
View full detailsTo Shape Our World for Good: Master Narratives and Regime Change in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1900-2011
C. William Walldorf
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• Author(s): C. William Walldorf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWhy does the United States pursue robust military invasions to change some foreign regi...
View full detailsThe Racial Politics of Division: Interethnic Struggles for Legitimacy in Multicultural Miami
Monika Gosin
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• Author(s): Monika Gosin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & Race RelationsThe Racial Politics of Division deconstructs antagonistic discourses that circulated in loca...
View full detailsEnlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
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• Author(s): Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWith air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the ...
View full detailsQuarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution
John Gilbert McCurdy
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• Author(s): John Gilbert McCurdy • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military - United StatesWhen Americans declared independence in 1776, they cited King George III "for quartering large ...
View full detailsGender, War, and World Order: A Study of Public Opinion
Richard C. Eichenberg
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• Author(s): Richard C. Eichenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Motivated by the lack of scholarly understanding of the substantial gender diff...
View full detailsEnlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko
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• Author(s): Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWith air pollution now intimately affecting every resident of Ulaanbaatar, the ...
View full detailsThe Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World
Maartje de Meulder, Joseph J. Murray, Rachel L. McKee
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• Author(s): Maartje de Meulder | Joseph J. Murray | Rachel L. McKee • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsThis book presents the first comprehensive ov...
View full detailsThe Next Frontier of Restaurant Management: Harnessing Data to Improve Guest Service and Enhance the Employee Experience
Alex M. Susskind, Mark Maynard
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• Author(s): Alex M. Susskind | Mark Maynard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism"The Next Frontier of Restaurant Management is of the highest ...
View full detailsThe Next Frontier of Restaurant Management: Harnessing Data to Improve Guest Service and Enhance the Employee Experience
Alex M. Susskind, Mark Maynard
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• Author(s): Alex M. Susskind | Mark Maynard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism"The Next Frontier of Restaurant Management is of the highest ...
View full detailsSpeaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation
Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
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• Author(s): Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacySince 1990 public political criticism has evolved into a prominent feature of Vietnam's politic...
View full detailsWhen the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited
Jonathan Kirshner, Jon Lewis
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• Author(s): Jonathan Kirshner | Jon Lewis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable ...
View full detailsVictory's Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia
Thomas W. Barton
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• Author(s): Thomas W. Barton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalAt the beginning of the eleventh century, Catalonia was a patchwork of counties, viscounties, and lordship...
View full detailsWhen the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited
Jonathan Kirshner, Jon Lewis
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• Author(s): Jonathan Kirshner | Jon Lewis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn When the Movies Mattered Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis gather a remarkable ...
View full detailsThe Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World
Maartje de Meulder, Joseph J. Murray, Rachel L. McKee
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• Author(s): Maartje de Meulder | Joseph J. Murray | Rachel L. McKee • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Alphabets & Writing SystemsThis book presents the first comprehensive ov...
View full detailsUnderstanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics, 2D Ed.
Gabriel B. Costa, Michael R. Huber, John T. Saccoman
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• Author(s): Gabriel B. Costa | Michael R. Huber | John T. Saccoman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics Interest in Sabermetrics has increased dramatically in recent yea...
View full detailsWoody Allen and Charlie Chaplin: Little Men, Big Auteurs
Jill Franks
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• Author(s): Jill Franks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film & Video The comic archetype of the Little Man--a "nobody" who stands up to unfairness--is central to the films of Woody A...
View full detailsWords of a Monster: Analyzing the Writings of H.H. Holmes, America's First Serial Killer
Rebecca Frost
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• Author(s): Rebecca Frost • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: General Decades before the term "serial killer" was coined, H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago "Murder Castle." In h...
View full detailsCreativity for Library Career Advancement: Perspectives, Techniques and Eureka Moments
Vera Gubnitskaia, Carol Smallwood
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• Author(s): Vera Gubnitskaia | Carol Smallwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General "Creativity is just connecting things," observed Steve Jobs. In...
View full detailsThe Rise of K-Dramas: Essays on Korean Television and Its Global Consumption
Jaeyoon Park, Ann-Gee Lee
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• Author(s): Jaeyoon Park | Ann-Gee Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Korean dramas gained popularity across Asia in the late 1990s, and their globa...
View full detailsThe North Carolina Symphony: A History
Joe A. Mobley, John W. Lambert
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• Author(s): Joe A. Mobley | John W. Lambert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Classical From its beginnings during the Great Depression, the North Carolina Symphony h...
View full detailsRocky Colavito: Cleveland's Iconic Slugger
Mark Sommer
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• Author(s): Mark Sommer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Iconic ballplayer Rocky Colavito captivated fans during the 1950s and 1960s with his movie-star looks, boyish ...
View full detailsRobots in American Popular Culture
Steve Carper
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• Author(s): Steve Carper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture They are invincible warriors of steel, silky-skinned enticers, stealers of jobs and lovable goofball sidekicks. ...
View full detailsDavid McCampbell: Top Ace of U.S. Naval Aviation in World War II
David Lee Russell
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• Author(s): David Lee Russell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military David McCampbell was the leader of the most successful naval air group in combat in World War II. An unequalled nav...
View full detailsHudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
Howard Taylor
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• Author(s): Howard Taylor • Publisher: Martino Fine Books • Publisher Imprint: Martino Fine Books • BISAC: Religious2019 Reprint of 1932 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. James Hud...
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