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First in the South: Why South Carolina's Presidential Primary Matters
H. Gibbs Knotts, Jordan M. Ragusa
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• Author(s): H. Gibbs Knotts | Jordan M. Ragusa • Publisher: University of South Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of South Carolina Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsEvery four years presidential hopefuls a...
View full detailsThe Flamingos: A Complete History of the Doo-Wop Legends
Todd R. Baptista
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• Author(s): Todd R. Baptista • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Soul & R&B Formed by five young black men from Chicago, the Flamingos rose to prominence as on...
View full detailsSixty-One in '61: Roger Maris Home Runs Game by Game
Robert M. Gorman
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• Author(s): Robert M. Gorman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Much has been written about Roger Maris and the historic summer of 1961 when he broke Babe Ruth's single-s...
View full detailsSeabee 71 in Chu Lai: Memoir of a Navy Journalist with a Mobile Construction Battalion, 1967
David H. Lyman
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• Author(s): David H. Lyman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Hoping to stay out of Vietnam, David Lyman joined the U.S. Naval Reserve to avoid the draft. By summer ...
View full detailsBillie Holiday: Essays on the Artistry and Legacy
Michael V. Perez, Jessica McKee
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• Author(s): Michael V. Perez | Jessica McKee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Eleanora "Lady Day" Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, played a primary role in the development of...
View full detailsHome Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers
Sara Hosey
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• Author(s): Sara Hosey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Despite years of propaganda attempting to convince us otherwise, popular media is beginning to catch on to the idea...
View full detailsDeep Space Warfare: Military Strategy Beyond Orbit
John C. Wright
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• Author(s): John C. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Space Science Since the Cold War, outer space has become of strategic importance for nations looking to seize the ultimate hig...
View full detailsThe Cossack Struggle Against Communism, 1917-1945
Brent Mueggenberg
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• Author(s): Brent Mueggenberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union The downfall of tsarism in 1917 left the peoples of Russia facing an uncertain future. ...
View full detailsEasing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice
Paul E. Stepansky
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• Author(s): Paul E. Stepansky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of me...
View full detailsThe British Military Revolution of the 19th Century: "The Great Gun Question" and the Modernization of Ordnance and Administration
Daniel R. LeClair
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• Author(s): Daniel R. LeClair • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Weapons From the Crimean War through the Second Boer War, the British Empire sought to solve the "Great Gun Ques...
View full detailsBeau Jack: The Boxing Life of Sidney Walker, Two-Time Lightweight Champion
Robert Mullins
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• Author(s): Robert Mullins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Among the great lightweights of the 1940s and 1950s, Boxing Hall of Famer Sidney "Beau Jack" Walker (1921-2000) was vir...
View full detailsDon't Go Upstairs!: A Room-by-Room Tour of the House in Horror Movies
Cleaver Patterson
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• Author(s): Cleaver Patterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror Throughout cinematic history, the buildings characters inhabit--whether stately rural mansions or inn...
View full detailsStories from the Samurai Fringe: Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Short Stories and the Turn to Ultranationalism in Early Shōwa Japan
Jeff E. Long
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• Author(s): Jeff E. Long • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseA cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusao's (1903-1975) tenkō experience, Stories from the...
View full detailsThe Trial of Emma Cunningham: Murder and Scandal in the Victorian Era
Brian Jenkins
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• Author(s): Brian Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General The alleged 1857 murder of a wealthy Bond Street dentist by Emma Cunningham, a mature widow he was believed to...
View full detailsWoodrow Wilson as Commander in Chief: The Presidency and the Great War
Michael P. Riccards, Cheryl a. Flagg
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• Author(s): Michael P. Riccards | Cheryl a. Flagg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I This first study on Woodrow Wilson as the commander in chief during ...
View full detailsThe Western Films of Robert Mitchum: Hollywood's Cowboy Rebel
Gene Freese
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• Author(s): Gene Freese • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Westerns Robert Mitchum was--and still is--one of Hollywood's defining stars of Western film. For more than 30 yea...
View full detailsHaskell Himself
Gary Seigel
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• Author(s): Gary Seigel • Publisher: Gary Seigel • Publisher Imprint: Gary Seigel • BISAC: GeneralMeet Haskell Hodge. At sixteen, he's already garnered some fame as a former child actor and star of a popular cereal commercial. But that doesn't d...
View full detailsA Century in Uniform: Military Women in American Films
Stacy Fowler, Deborah A. Deacon
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• Author(s): Stacy Fowler | Deborah A. Deacon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From silents of the early American motion picture era through 21st century fi...
View full detailsGreene and Cornwallis in the Carolinas: The Pivotal Struggle in the American Revolution, 1780-1781
Jeffrey A. Denman, John F. Walsh
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• Author(s): Jeffrey A. Denman | John F. Walsh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) The story of the Revolutionary War in the Northern colonie...
View full detailsThe Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2017 Edition
Paula Guran
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• Author(s): Paula Guran • Publisher: Prime Books • Publisher Imprint: Prime Books • BISAC: Fantasy - Collections & AnthologiesThe supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated an...
View full detailsActs of Violence in the School Setting: National and International Responses
Kimberly A. McCabe, Brianna M. Egan, Toy D. Eagle
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• Author(s): Kimberly A. McCabe | Brianna M. Egan | Toy D. Eagle • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: CriminologyActs of School Violence in the School Setting provides ...
View full detailsSeason of the Cats
Pamela Sargent
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• Author(s): Pamela Sargent • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: Fantasy - ContemporaryGena and Don seemed an ideal couple. Young. In love. Playful and imaginative. They often pretended to be cats, purring and ...
View full detailsDubliners
James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Public Park Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Public Park Publishing • BISAC: Action & AdventureDo you want to read Dubliners? If so then keep reading... James Joyce's Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching p...
View full detailsAmerican Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency
Gerardo Martí
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• Author(s): Gerardo Martí • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Social Classes & Economic DisparityAmerican Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presiden...
View full detailsWelcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City Institution
Sharon Packer, Daniel R. Fredrick
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• Author(s): Sharon Packer | Daniel R. Fredrick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evo...
View full detailsVigilantes: Private Justice in Popular Cinema
Kevin Grant
Paperback
• Author(s): Kevin Grant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism For many people, the cinematic vigilante has been shaped by Charles Bronson's character in Death Wi...
View full detailsSailing Under John Paul Jones: The Memoir of Continental Navy Midshipman Nathaniel Fanning, 1778-1783
Nathaniel Fanning
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• Author(s): Nathaniel Fanning • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Connecticut privateer Nathaniel Fanning (1755-1805) was captured by the Bri...
View full detailsThe Civil War in the South Carolina Lowcountry: How a Confederate Artillery Battery and a Black Union Regiment Defined the War
Ron Roth
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• Author(s): Ron Roth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Some of the most dramatic and consequential events of the Civil War era took place in the South Carolina Lo...
View full detailsThe Minds Behind Adventure Games: Interviews with Cult and Classic Video Game Developers
Patrick Hickey
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• Author(s): Patrick Hickey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic Featuring interviews with the creators of 31 popular video games--including Grand Theft Auto, Strider, M...
View full detailsDemocracy's Troubles: Twelve Threats to the American Ideal and How We Can Overcome Them
John E. Miller
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• Author(s): John E. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Democracy Evidence is accumulating that democracy is under siege--in the United States and around the wo...
View full detailsThe Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building
Tuong Vu, Sean Fear
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• Author(s): Tuong Vu | Sean Fear • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThrough the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and...
View full detailsCampus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students' Search for Community at Historically White Universities
Micere Keels
Hardcover
• Author(s): Micere Keels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherFrustrated with the flood of news articles and opinion pieces that were skeptical of minority students...
View full detailsThe Republic of Vietnam, 1955-1975: Vietnamese Perspectives on Nation Building
Tuong Vu, Sean Fear
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• Author(s): Tuong Vu | Sean Fear • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThrough the voices of senior officials, teachers, soldiers, journalists, and...
View full detailsLabor in the Time of Trump
Jasmine Kerrissey, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds
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• Author(s): Jasmine Kerrissey | Eve Weinbaum | Clare Hammonds • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsLabor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unio...
View full detailsActs of Violence in the School Setting: National and International Responses
Kimberly A. McCabe, Brianna M. Egan, Toy D. Eagle
Hardcover
• Author(s): Kimberly A. McCabe | Brianna M. Egan | Toy D. Eagle • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: CriminologyActs of School Violence in the School Setting provides ...
View full detailsThucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism
Laurie M. Johnson
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• Author(s): Laurie M. Johnson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis original book has been consistently cited by scholars of internatio...
View full detailsCampus Counterspaces: Black and Latinx Students' Search for Community at Historically White Universities
Micere Keels
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• Author(s): Micere Keels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherFrustrated with the flood of news articles and opinion pieces that were skeptical of minority students...
View full detailsLabor in the Time of Trump
Jasmine Kerrissey, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds
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• Author(s): Jasmine Kerrissey | Eve Weinbaum | Clare Hammonds • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsLabor in the Time of Trump critically analyzes the right-wing attack on workers and unio...
View full detailsMachiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Human Liberty, and Politics Reformed
Vickie B. Sullivan
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• Author(s): Vickie B. Sullivan • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - RenaissanceMachiavelli's ambiguous treatment of religion has fueled a content...
View full detailsStrategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century
Alasdair Roberts
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• Author(s): Alasdair Roberts • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationWith the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of rel...
View full detailsVisions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Mayte Green-Mercado
Hardcover
• Author(s): Mayte Green-Mercado • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Spain & PortugalIn Visions of Deliverance, Mayte Green-Mercado traces the circulation of Muslim and crypto-...
View full detailsDubliners
James Joyce
Hardcover
• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Public Park Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Public Park Publishing • BISAC: Action & AdventureDo you want to read Dubliners? If so then keep reading... James Joyce's Dubliners is a vivid and unflinching p...
View full detailsAmerican Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency
Gerardo Martí
Hardcover
• Author(s): Gerardo Martí • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Social Classes & Economic DisparityAmerican Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presiden...
View full detailsScience Fiction and the Dismal Science: Essays on Economics in and of the Genre
Gary Westfahl, Gregory Benford, Howard V. Hendrix
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• Author(s): Gary Westfahl | Gregory Benford | Howard V. Hendrix • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Despite the growing importance of economics in our lives, li...
View full detailsVeteran Care and Services: Essays and Case Studies on Practices, Innovations and Challenges
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez, Mickey P. McGee, Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Joaquin Jay Gonzalez | Mickey P. McGee | Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Human Services The public services and care being provided to our veteran citizens are...
View full detailsManteo and the Algonquians of the Roanoke Voyages
Brandon Fullam
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• Author(s): Brandon Fullam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period When the English first arrived at the Outer Banks in the summer of 1584, they were greeted by n...
View full detailsLost Girl: A Shelby Day Novel
Holly Kammier
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• Author(s): Holly Kammier • Publisher: Holly Youmans • Publisher Imprint: Holly Youmans • BISAC: GeneralAn appalling act of violence and an unsolved double-murder.Small-town investigative reporter, Shelby Day, is determined to hunt a killer. As...
View full detailsManaging Organizational Conflict
Sam Blank
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• Author(s): Sam Blank • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Conflict Resolution & Mediation Conflict in business and personal relationships is inevitable--much of the success of companies ...
View full detailsAfrican American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand: A History, 1788-1941
Bill Egan
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• Author(s): Bill Egan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl Eleven African Americans, including a musician, were among the...
View full detailsLost to the Shoah: Eight Lives
Vera Schiff, Jeff McLaughlin
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• Author(s): Vera Schiff | Jeff McLaughlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General It is important to remember not just what the Holocaust was but the individuals who were the subjects of...
View full detailsElectric Trucks: A History of Delivery Vehicles, Semis, Forklifts and Others
Kevin Desmond
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• Author(s): Kevin Desmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - Trucks Welcomed at end of the 19th century as the solution to the severe problem of horse manure in city streets, e...
View full detailsThe Mage's Pawn: Battle Mage Rising Series: Book 1
A. E. Folk
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• Author(s): A. E. Folk • Publisher: Aspie Press • Publisher Imprint: Aspie Press • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralBridget, a young apprentice mage, is caught in the crosshairs of political intrigue. On one side, the powerful conclave of ...
View full detailsThe White House's Unruly Neighborhood: Crime, Scandal and Intrigue in the History of Lafayette Square
Edward P. Moser
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• Author(s): Edward P. Moser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic Chronicling the sometimes outlandish, often tragic history of the environs...
View full detailsThe Italian Squad: How the NYPD Took Down the Black Hand Extortion Racket
Andrew Paul Mele
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• Author(s): Andrew Paul Mele • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Organized Crime At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Italian immigrants left their home country for the United ...
View full detailsThe Aeon Chronicles Book 3: A Supernatural Psychological Thriller
April M. Woodard, Shannan Thompson Shannanthompsonart, Tiffany White
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• Author(s): April M. Woodard | Shannan Thompson Shannanthompsonart | Tiffany White • Publisher: April M Woodard • Publisher Imprint: April M Woodard • BISAC: Paranormal, Occult & SupernaturalANGELS ARE FALLING DESTINY IS CALLINGWhile Earth ...
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Alexandria Warwick
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• Author(s): Alexandria Warwick • Publisher: Andromeda Press • Publisher Imprint: Andromeda Press • BISAC: Fantasy - Dark FantasyIntroducing the first novel in the North series. Set in a brutal, Arctic-inspired world, this is a YA fantasy ser...
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Alexandria Warwick
Hardcover
• Author(s): Alexandria Warwick • Publisher: Andromeda Press • Publisher Imprint: Andromeda Press • BISAC: Fantasy - Dark FantasyIntroducing the first novel in the North series. Set in a brutal, Arctic-inspired world, this is a YA fantasy series ...
View full detailsFrench Chivalry: Chivalric Ideas and Practices in Mediaeval France
Sidney Painter
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• Author(s): Sidney Painter • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: LandscapeOriginally published in 1940. Chivalry denotes the ideals and practices considered suitable for a noble....
View full detailsThe Boys of St. Joe's '65 in the Vietnam War
Dennis G. Pregent
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• Author(s): Dennis G. Pregent • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Eleven high school friends in idyllic North Adams, Massachusetts, enlisted to serve in Vietnam, and ...
View full detailsHollywood and the Female Body: A History of Idolization and Objectification
Stephen Handzo
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• Author(s): Stephen Handzo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From the first, brief moving images of female nudes in the 1880s to the present, the motion pict...
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