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Not of Woman Born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
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• Author(s): Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Medieval"Not of woman born, the Fortunate, the Unborn"--the terms designating those born by Caesarean section in ...
View full detailsThe Comstocks of Cornell: John Henry Comstock and Anna Botsford Comstock
Anna Botsford Comstock
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• Author(s): Anna Botsford Comstock • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Environmentalists & NaturalistsThe Comstocks of Cornell is the autobiography written by naturalist educator Anna Botsford C...
View full detailsFrom Song to Book: The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry
Sylvia Huot
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• Author(s): Sylvia Huot • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchAs the visual representation of an essentially oral text, Sylvia Huot points out, the medieval illuminated manu...
View full detailsSons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece
Peter W. Rose
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• Author(s): Peter W. Rose • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number ...
View full detailsThe Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy
Judith A. Swanson
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• Author(s): Judith A. Swanson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersAristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a rem...
View full detailsThe Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages: Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction
Jesse Gellrich
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• Author(s): Jesse Gellrich • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalThis book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich...
View full detailsLiterature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
Glending Olson
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• Author(s): Glending Olson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalThis book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval ju...
View full detailsCommunities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours
Sharon Farmer
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• Author(s): Sharon Farmer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalSharon Farmer here investigates the ways in which three medieval communities--the town of Tours, the basilica...
View full detailsLife of Inland Waters: An Elementary Text Book of Fresh-Water Biology for Students
James G. Needham
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• Author(s): James G. Needham • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThis work is a textbook of fresh-water life dealing with its forms, its conditions, its fitnesses, its associa...
View full detailsLouis Agassiz as a Teacher: Illustrative Extracts on His Method of Instruction
Lane Cooper
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• Author(s): Lane Cooper • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: EducatorsBy a succession of living pictures, as it were, this book shows the eminent naturalist in the very act of teaching. Sometimes he ...
View full detailsTextbook of Arthropod Anatomy
R. E. Snodgrass
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• Author(s): R. E. Snodgrass • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - InvertebratesThe facts of arthropod structure are presented in clear, easy-to-use fashion in this text by R....
View full detailsHomer: The Poetry of the Past
Andrew Ford
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• Author(s): Andrew Ford • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalAndrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what ...
View full detailsThe Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
Penelope Reed Doob
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• Author(s): Penelope Reed Doob • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure all...
View full detailsNoble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100-1343
John B. Freed
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• Author(s): John B. Freed • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Marriage & Long Term RelationshipsFreed documents the network of marriage practices among ministerials in the archdiocese ...
View full detailsInterpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text
Charles Segal
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• Author(s): Charles Segal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents ov...
View full detailsCulture and Cognition: The Boundaries of Literary and Scientific Inquiry
Ronald Schleifer, Robert Con Davis, Nancy Mergler
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• Author(s): Ronald Schleifer | Robert Con Davis | Nancy Mergler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesThis groundbreaking book challenges the disciplinary boundaries tha...
View full detailsPoets, Patrons, and Printers: Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France
Cynthia J. Brown
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• Author(s): Cynthia J. Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalCynthia J. Brown explains why the advent of print in the late medieval period brought about changes in relationship...
View full detailsLavoisier--The Crucial Year: The Background and Origin of His First Experiments on Combustion in 1772
Henry Guerlac
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• Author(s): Henry Guerlac • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe author explores the origins of the eighteenth-century chemical revolution as it centers on Antoine-Laurent Lavoisie...
View full detailsNature Guiding
William Gould Vinal
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• Author(s): William Gould Vinal • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: GeneralNature Guiding is the science of inculcating nature enthusiasm, nature principles, and nature facts into the spirit of indi...
View full detailsThe Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Medieval West
Clarissa W. Atkinson
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• Author(s): Clarissa W. Atkinson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Parenting - MotherhoodAccording to an old story, a woman concealed her sex and ruled as pope for a few years in the nin...
View full detailsThe Medieval Saga
Carol J. Clover
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• Author(s): Carol J. Clover • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - GermanWritten in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners,...
View full detailsRitual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides
Helene P. Foley
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• Author(s): Helene P. Foley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalRitual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, ...
View full detailsFires of Olympus: Books Ten, Eleven & Twelve
Eliza Raine
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• Author(s): Eliza Raine • Publisher: Logic in Creativity • Publisher Imprint: Logic in Creativity • BISAC: Animals - Mythical CreaturesThose who survive will be celebrated. Those who win will live forever.With just three Trials left, there's sti...
View full detailsPresidents by Fate: Nine Who Ascended Through Death or Resignation
F. Martin Harmon
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• Author(s): F. Martin Harmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Throughout the history of the United States, only nine men were elevated to the White House by the de...
View full detailsThe NFL's Greatest Day: Roger Staubach, Franco Harris and the Story of Immaculate Saturday
Brad Schultz
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• Author(s): Brad Schultz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General A tight, dramatic NFL playoff game is exciting on its own, but two of the most dramatic in the same afternoon ...
View full detailsAcademy of Vampire Heirs: Blood Sources 102
Ginna Moran
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• Author(s): Ginna Moran • Publisher: Sunny Palms Press • Publisher Imprint: Sunny Palms Press • BISAC: Romance - ParanormalBeing a personal blood donor at the Academy of Vampire Heirs sucks. But being a dhampir at the school for the impending ci...
View full detailsMa'tao The Warrior Within: Book 1 Ulitao
Myk Steel
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• Author(s): Myk Steel • Publisher: Red Ulitao Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Red Ulitao Publishing • BISAC: Fantasy - HistoricalFrom the mystical and mysterious islands of the Pacific Ocean, a most skillful and tacticaleighteen-year-old ulitao ...
View full detailsBob Steele on the Radio: The Life of Connecticut's Beloved Broadcaster
Paul Hensler
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• Author(s): Paul Hensler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural Heritage For more than sixty years, Bob Steele was the radio voice of Southern New England, entertaining listeners of W...
View full detailsTechnology and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
D. C. Lozar, Elaine A. Moore
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• Author(s): D. C. Lozar | Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Medicine is an ancient profession that advances as each generation of practitioners passes it down. It r...
View full detailsReality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film and Television
Heather Duerre Humann
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• Author(s): Heather Duerre Humann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouri...
View full detailsPine-Thomas Productions: A History and Filmography
David C. Tucker
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• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Dubbed "The Dollar Bills," William H. Pine and William C. Thomas made 1940s Hollywood take noti...
View full detailsMa'tao "The Warrior Within": Book 1 "Ulitao"
Myk Steel
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• Author(s): Myk Steel • Publisher: Red Ulitao Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Red Ulitao Publishing • BISAC: Fantasy - Historical From the mystical and mysterious islands of the Pacific Ocean, a most skillful and tacticaleighteen-year-old ulitao...
View full detailsEmpire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
Stephanie Malia Hom
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• Author(s): Stephanie Malia Hom • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyIts brilliant prose makes [Empire's Mobius Strip] easily accessible to anyone interested in today's migrat...
View full detailsDust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador
Erynn Masi de Casanova, Maximina Salazar
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• Author(s): Erynn Masi de Casanova | Maximina Salazar • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsWhat makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditio...
View full detailsEmpire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention
Stephanie Malia Hom
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• Author(s): Stephanie Malia Hom • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyIts brilliant prose makes [Empire's Mobius Strip] easily accessible to anyone interested in today's migrat...
View full detailsDifference and Orientation: An Alexander Kluge Reader
Alexander Kluge, Richard Langston
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• Author(s): Alexander Kluge | Richard Langston • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: Media StudiesAlexander Kluge is one of contemporary Germany's l...
View full detailsTheaters of Pardoning
Bernadette Meyler
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• Author(s): Bernadette Meyler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareFrom Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pard...
View full detailsHow the Left and Right Think: The Roots of Division in American Politics
Bill Meulemans
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• Author(s): Bill Meulemans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism Emerson said of the left and right, "Each is a good half, but an impossib...
View full detailsRough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance
Amy J. Rutenberg
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• Author(s): Amy J. Rutenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceRough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam ...
View full detailsCivil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge
Emily L. King
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• Author(s): Emily L. King • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareWhat is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carn...
View full detailsThe Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917
Bruce F. Adams
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• Author(s): Bruce F. Adams • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PenologyBruce F. Adams examines how Russia's Main Prison Administration was created, the number of prison...
View full detailsMaking the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order
Hal Brands
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• Author(s): Hal Brands • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises a...
View full detailsThe Afterlives of the Terror: Facing the Legacies of Mass Violence in Postrevolutionary France
Ronen Steinberg
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• Author(s): Ronen Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution st...
View full detailsBishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul
Gregory I. Halfond
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• Author(s): Gregory I. Halfond • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalFollowing the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, local Christian leaders were confronted with the ...
View full detailsLethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria
Joshua Cole
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• Author(s): Joshua Cole • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialPart murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a fore...
View full detailsTransmedia Harry Potter: Essays on Storytelling Across Platforms
Christopher E. Bell
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• Author(s): Christopher E. Bell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Transmediation--the telling of a single story across multiple media--is a relatively new phenomenon. While ...
View full detailsPioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry: Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Nagase Kiyoko
Takako Lento, Takako Lento
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• Author(s): Takako Lento | Takako Lento • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThis bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-centur...
View full detailsCommunication Alternatives in Autism: Perspectives on Typing and Spelling Approaches for the Nonspeaking
Edlyn Vallejo Peña
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• Author(s): Edlyn Vallejo Peña • Publisher: Toplight Books • Publisher Imprint: Toplight Books • BISAC: Psychopathology - Autism Ten autistic self-advocates share their experiences with alternative forms of communication such as rapid prompting ...
View full detailsThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: (Abridged, annotated)
Edward Gibbon, Amn
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• Author(s): Edward Gibbon | Amn • Publisher: Ancient Wisdom Publications • Publisher Imprint: Ancient Wisdom Publications • BISAC: Ancient - RomeAccording to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the grad...
View full detailsCinderella in Spain: Variations of the Story as Socio-Ethical Texts
Maia Fernández-Lamarque
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• Author(s): Maia Fernández-Lamarque • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology Every culture in the world has a version of the story of Cinderella. ...
View full detailsMy Soviet Youth: A Memoir of Ukrainian Life in the Final Years of Communism
Irina Rodríguez
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• Author(s): Irina Rodríguez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union Putting on gas masks and learning how to shoot Kalashnikov rifles in grade school made So...
View full detailsElbridge Durbrow's War in Vietnam: The Ambassador's Influence on American Involvement, 1957-1961
Ronald Bruce Frankum
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• Author(s): Ronald Bruce Frankum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Elbridge Durbrow served as the third United States ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam from 1957...
View full detailsGeorge Humphrey, Charles Wilson and Eisenhower's War on Spending
James Worthen
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• Author(s): James Worthen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century The first Republican president since the Great Depression, Dwight Eisenhower was the victorious su...
View full detailsMeet the Bronies: The Psychology of the Adult My Little Pony Fandom
Patrick Edwards, Daniel P. Chadborn, Courtney N. Plante
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• Author(s): Patrick Edwards | Daniel P. Chadborn | Courtney N. Plante • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture In 2010, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic premiered on television...
View full detailsThe Old Romantic
Louise Dean
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• Author(s): Louise Dean • Publisher: Pomeranian Books • Publisher Imprint: Pomeranian Books • BISAC: LiteraryAn Oprah Book Club Choice. A dark comedy hailed by reviewers as 'extremely funny' with 'a clever plot and plenty of surprises.' Meet Ke...
View full detailsWhat Happened to the Hippies?: Voices and Perspectives
Stewart L. Rogers
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• Author(s): Stewart L. Rogers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Peaceniks. Stoners. Tree huggers. Freaks. For many, the hippies of the 1960s and early 1970s we...
View full detailsClever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat: Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition
Anita Best
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• Author(s): Anita Best • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyClever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat showcases the stories of two Newfoundland storytellers, Phi...
View full detailsBuffy to Batgirl: Essays on Female Power, Evolving Femininity and Gender Roles in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Julie M. Still, Zara T. Wilkinson
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• Author(s): Julie M. Still | Zara T. Wilkinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Science fiction and fantasy are often thought o...
View full detailsThe Faithful Librarian: Essays on Christianity in the Profession
Garrett B. Trott
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• Author(s): Garrett B. Trott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General What do Christianity and librarianship have in common? Netherlands Prime Minister...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Television Pilots: 2,470 Films Broadcast 1937-2019, 2d ed.
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference On November 27, 1937, NBC presented TV's first pilot film, Sherlock Holmes (then called an "experiment"...
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