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Trumping Truth: Essays on the Destructive Power of "Alternative Facts"
Salvador Jiménez Murguía
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• Author(s): Salvador Jiménez Murguía • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Corruption & Misconduct When Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, coined the phrase "alternative facts...
View full detailsWhat the Doctor Overheard: Dr. Leopold Müller's Account of Music in Early Meiji Japan
Elizabeth Markham, Naoko Terauchi, Rembrandt Wolpert
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Markham | Naoko Terauchi | Rembrandt Wolpert • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseDespite their significance,...
View full detailsAnthology of Kokugaku Scholars: 1690-1898
John R. Bentley
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• Author(s): John R. Bentley • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseKokugaku "national study" is an academic field of study that spans...
View full detailsChildren in Prison: Six Profiles Before, During and After Incarceration
Jerome Gold
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• Author(s): Jerome Gold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Almost 330,000 children in America are in prison, in a detention center, on probation or parole, or otherwise under th...
View full detailsTip O'Neill and the St. Louis Browns of 1887
Dennis Thiessen
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• Author(s): Dennis Thiessen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1887, Tip O'Neill, left fielder for the St. Louis Browns, won the American Association batting champions...
View full detailsThe Traveling Chautauqua: Caravans of Culture in Early 20th Century America
Roger E. Barrows
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• Author(s): Roger E. Barrows • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Before radio and sound movies, early 20th century performers and lecturers traveled the nation p...
View full detailsComiskey Park's Last World Series: A History of the 1959 Chicago White Sox
Charles N. Billington
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• Author(s): Charles N. Billington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Charter members of the American League and the country's last "neighborhood" pro baseball franchise,...
View full detailsThe Gijon International Chess Tournaments, 1944-1965: A History with Biographies and 213 Games
Pedro Méndez Castedo, Luis Méndez Castedo
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• Author(s): Pedro Méndez Castedo | Luis Méndez Castedo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess Focusing on the recovery of chess in Spain and Europe after World War II, this book traces th...
View full detailsVoodoo, Hoodoo and Conjure in African American Literature: Critical Essays
James S. Mellis
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• Author(s): James S. Mellis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - African American From the earliest slave narratives to modern fiction by the likes of Colson Whitehead and Jesmyn W...
View full detailsGirl Warriors: Feminist Revisions of the Hero's Quest in Contemporary Popular Culture
Svenja Hohenstein
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• Author(s): Svenja Hohenstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Quest narratives are as old as Western culture. In stories like The Odyssey, The Lord of the Rings, Star War...
View full detailsMadeleine Smith on Trial: A Glasgow Murder and the Young Woman Too Respectable to Convict
Brian Jenkins
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• Author(s): Brian Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General In 1855, Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith began a flirtation with Pierre L'Angelier, a handsome clerk--for he...
View full detailsHorror Comes Home: Essays on Hauntings, Possessions and Other Domestic Terrors in Cinema
Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
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• Author(s): Cynthia J. Miller | A. Bowdoin Van Riper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the m...
View full detailsIn Other News
Dale Robbins
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• Author(s): Dale Robbins • Publisher: Seventeen Press • Publisher Imprint: Seventeen Press • BISAC: Coming of AgeWould you whisper your deepest, darkest secret into the living room of every house in America?Marlon Woods is the name on the lips o...
View full detailsBetween the Ropes at Madison Square Garden: The History of an Iconic Boxing Ring, 1925-2007
Mark Allen Baker
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• Author(s): Mark Allen Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Inside Madison Square Garden, the City Ring was the altar of pugilism from 1925 until 2007. Hosting countless champio...
View full detailsMedieval Art and the Look of Silent Film: The Influence on Costume and Set Design
Lora Ann Sigler
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• Author(s): Lora Ann Sigler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Textile & Costume The heyday of silent film soon became quaint with the arrival of "talkies." As early as 1929, critics a...
View full detailsDracula as Absolute Other: The Troubling and Distracting Specter of Stoker's Vampire on Screen
Simon Bacon
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• Author(s): Simon Bacon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horror & Supernatural Dark, dangerous and transgressive, Bram Stoker's Dracula is often read as Victorian society's absolute O...
View full detailsPinkertons, Prostitutes and Spies: The Civil War Adventures of Secret Agents Timothy Webster and Hattie Lawton
John Stewart
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• Author(s): John Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the U.S....
View full detailsRenaissance: Scenes of Industrial Reconversion in the Nord-Pas-De-Calais Coalfield
Jorge Ribalta
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• Author(s): Jorge Ribalta • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Individual Photographers - EssaysThe Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining region, bordering on Belgium, is part of northern Europe's histor...
View full detailsEugene O'Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics
Thierry Dubost
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• Author(s): Thierry Dubost • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General The plays of Eugene O'Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explore...
View full detailsPhotography Performing Humor
Liesbeth Decan, Mieke Bleyen
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• Author(s): Liesbeth Decan | Mieke Bleyen • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: CriticismDespite the ubiquitous presence of photographic humor in art and popular media, the phenomenon has as y...
View full detailsRethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV
Emily Mendenhall, Mark Nichter
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• Author(s): Emily Mendenhall | Mark Nichter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and loc...
View full detailsThe Paradox of Ukrainian LVIV: A Borderland City Between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists
Tarik Cyril Amar
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• Author(s): Tarik Cyril Amar • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twe...
View full detailsMaking Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR
Adeeb Khalid
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• Author(s): Adeeb Khalid • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaIn Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russi...
View full detailsRethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV
Emily Mendenhall, Mark Nichter
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• Author(s): Emily Mendenhall | Mark Nichter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and loc...
View full detailsStatecraft by Stealth: Secret Intelligence and British Rule in Palestine
Steven B. Wagner
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• Author(s): Steven B. Wagner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineBritain relied upon secret intelligence operations to rule Mandatory Palestine. Statecr...
View full detailsFood, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
Sarah Lawson Welsh
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• Author(s): Sarah Lawson Welsh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanInvestigates the relationship between Caribbean food and a variety of...
View full detailsFood, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
Sarah Lawson Welsh
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• Author(s): Sarah Lawson Welsh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanInvestigates the relationship between Caribbean food and a variety of...
View full detailsSalvaging Community: How American Cities Rebuild Closed Military Bases
Michael Touchton, Amanda J. Ashley
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• Author(s): Michael Touchton | Amanda J. Ashley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAmerican communities face serious challenges when m...
View full detailsParenting in the Zombie Apocalypse: The Psychology of Raising Children in a Time of Horror
Steven J. Kirsh
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• Author(s): Steven J. Kirsh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Developmental - Child Parenting is difficult under the best of circumstances--but extremely daunting when humanity faces catac...
View full detailsEnemy Within
Marcella Burnard
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• Author(s): Marcella Burnard • Publisher: Wild Rose Press • Publisher Imprint: Wild Rose Press • BISAC: Romance - FantasyHorrific torture in an alien prison torpedoed Captain Ari Idylle's military career. Stripped of command and banished to her ...
View full detailsClaiming Her Place in Congress: Women from American Political Families as Legislators
Katherine H. Adams
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• Author(s): Katherine H. Adams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women The fall of 2018 saw an unprecedented number of women elected to Congress, changing estimates of how long it might t...
View full detailsGeneral Emory Upton in the Civil War: The Formative Experiences of an American Military Visionary
Robert N. Thompson
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• Author(s): Robert N. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Considered by many to be the architect of the modern U.S. Army, Union General Emory Upton commande...
View full detailsWorld War II Veterans in Motorsports
Art Evans
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• Author(s): Art Evans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny," said President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the young...
View full detailsDeath in Supernatural: Critical Essays
Amanda Taylor, Susan Nylander
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• Author(s): Amanda Taylor | Susan Nylander • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Over 14 seasons, television's Supernatural has developed a devoted following of both fans and scholars. ...
View full details"Hailing frequencies open": Communication in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Thomas D. Parham, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Thomas D. Parham | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Star Trek: The Next Gene...
View full detailsShakespeare Scholars in Conversation: Interviews with 24 Leading Experts
Michael P. Jensen
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• Author(s): Michael P. Jensen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare Twenty-four of today's most prominent Shakespeare scholars discuss the best-known works in Shakespeare studies,...
View full detailsHe Cheated, She Cheated, We Cheated: Women Speak About Infidelity
Ebony A. Utley
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• Author(s): Ebony A. Utley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Infidelity raises questions: Why do women stay with a cheater? Why do women cheat? Why do women become "the Oth...
View full detailsThe Struggle Behind the Soundtrack: Inside the Discordant New World of Film Scoring
Stephan Eicke
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• Author(s): Stephan Eicke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Do you want to pick up a light saber whenever you hear John Williams' Star Wars theme? Get the urge to ride into the des...
View full detailsObituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018
Harris M. Lentz
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• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, "Queen of Soul" Areth...
View full detailsAcademy of Vampire Heirs: Dhampirs 101
Ginna Moran
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• Author(s): Ginna Moran • Publisher: Sunny Palms Press • Publisher Imprint: Sunny Palms Press • BISAC: Romance - ParanormalThe Vampire Uprising saved the world but ravaged humanity. Families were separated, covens created, and the back-world for...
View full detailsLaTonya 2: Fathers maybe
Amanishakhete Amanishakhete
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• Author(s): Amanishakhete Amanishakhete • Publisher: Kush Kingdom Publications • Publisher Imprint: Kush Kingdom Publications • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralLaTonya 2: fathers maybe, is loaded with more surprises leading LaTonya into d...
View full detailsA Song to My City: Washington, DC
Carol Lancaster, Douglas Farrar
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• Author(s): Carol Lancaster | Douglas Farrar • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThis deeply felt memoir is a love letter to Washin...
View full detailsOn Stage at the Ballet: My Life as Dancer and Artistic Director
Robert Barnett, Cynthia Crain
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• Author(s): Robert Barnett | Cynthia Crain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet Dancer Robert Barnett trained under legendary choreographer Bronislava Nijinska...
View full detailsPlants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II
Judith Sumner
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• Author(s): Judith Sumner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military...
View full detailsA U.S. Army Medical Base in World War I France: Life and Care at Bazoilles Hospital Center, 1918-1919
Peter Wever
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• Author(s): Peter Wever • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I Nothing in the small village of Bazoilles-sur-Meuse in the northeast of France bears witness t...
View full detailsThe Television Horrors of Dan Curtis: Dark Shadows, the Night Stalker and Other Productions, 2D Ed.
Jeff Thompson
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• Author(s): Jeff Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he dar...
View full detailsBlack Baseball's Last Team Standing: The Birmingham Black Barons, 1919-1962
William J. Plott
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• Author(s): William J. Plott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Birmingham Black Barons were a nationally known team in baseball's Negro leagues from 1920 through 19...
View full detailsStudy Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality
Martin Howard
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• Author(s): Martin Howard • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study ...
View full detailsStudy Abroad, Second Language Acquisition and Interculturality
Martin Howard
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• Author(s): Martin Howard • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book unites studies on second language acquisition and interculturality in a study ...
View full detailsJoss Whedon, Anarchist?: A Unified Theory of the Films and Television Series
James Rocha, Mona Rocha, Sherry Ginn
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• Author(s): James Rocha | Mona Rocha | Sherry Ginn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Joss Whedon has created numerous TV series...
View full detailsWomen's Space: Essays on Female Characters in the 21st Century Science Fiction Western
Melanie A. Marotta, Donald E. Palumbo, C. W. Sullivan III
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• Author(s): Melanie A. Marotta | Donald E. Palumbo | C. W. Sullivan III • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld, t...
View full detailsThe Dirty College Game: Corruption, Gambling and the Pursuit of Money in NCAA Football and Basketball
Al Figone
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• Author(s): Al Figone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General Commercial aspects of college football and basketball during the mid- to late 20th century were dominated by a fe...
View full detailsNavigating the C-124 Globemaster: In the Cockpit of America's First Strategic Heavy-Lift Aircraft
Billy D. Higgins
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• Author(s): Billy D. Higgins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Aviation & Space The C-124 Globemaster--a U.S. military heavy-lift transport in service 1950 through 1974--bar...
View full detailsBeryl Halley: The Life and Follies of a Ziegfeld Beauty, 1897-1988
Jacob L. Bapst, Ivan M. Tribe
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• Author(s): Jacob L. Bapst | Ivan M. Tribe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Born in rural Ohio in 1897, Beryl Halley was educated at a strict Freewill Ba...
View full detailsBeowulf
Anonymous, Frances B. Grummere
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• Author(s): Anonymous | Frances B. Grummere • Publisher: Bibliotech Press • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press • BISAC: GeneralBeowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important works of ...
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Anonymous, Frances B. Grummere
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• Author(s): Anonymous | Frances B. Grummere • Publisher: Bibliotech Press • Publisher Imprint: Bibliotech Press • BISAC: GeneralBeowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important works of ...
View full detailsAutogenic Training: A Mind-Body Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Pain Syndrome and Stress-Related Disorders, 3d ed.
Micah R. Sadigh
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• Author(s): Micah R. Sadigh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Neurology Using repeated sets of exercises meant to relax and desensitize the mind, autogenic training equips patients to deal...
View full detailsMountain Miles: A Memoir of Section Hiking the Southern Appalachian Trail
Mark Clegg
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• Author(s): Mark Clegg • Publisher: Toplight Books • Publisher Imprint: Toplight Books • BISAC: Mountaineering The Appalachian Mountains are a well-known world treasure, perhaps the most biodiverse region on the planet. This book spans almost s...
View full detailsPatty Berg: Pioneer Champion of Women's Golf
Kevin Kenny
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• Author(s): Kevin Kenny • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Golf - General The Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA) was formed in 1950, 34 years after the men's association. There ...
View full detailsNatural History of the Farm: A Guide to the Practical Study of the Sources of Our Living in Wild Nature
James G. Needham
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• Author(s): James G. Needham • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Natural HistoryThis is a guide to the practical study of the sources in wild nature of our living. It contains a series of study outl...
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