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Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger
Mirco Göpfert
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• Author(s): Mirco Göpfert • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco Göpfert explor...
View full detailsOver the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers
David M. Edelstein
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• Author(s): David M. Edelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)How do established powers react to growing competitors? The United States currentl...
View full detailsStolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French
Eliza Zingesser
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• Author(s): Eliza Zingesser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalStolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary ...
View full detailsThe World Refugees Made: Decolonization and the Foundation of Postwar Italy
Pamela Ballinger
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• Author(s): Pamela Ballinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyIn The World Refugees Made, Pamela Ballinger explores Italy's remaking in light of the loss of a wide range o...
View full detailsA Precarious Game: The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
Ergin Bulut
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• Author(s): Ergin Bulut • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsA Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almo...
View full detailsThe Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia
Teo Ballvé
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• Author(s): Teo Ballvé • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin AmericanIn The Frontier Effect, Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause...
View full detailsThe Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia
Teo Ballvé
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• Author(s): Teo Ballvé • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - Caribbean & Latin AmericanIn The Frontier Effect, Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause...
View full detailsJapan's Musical Tradition: Hogaku from Prehistory to the Present
Miyuki Yoshikami
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• Author(s): Miyuki Yoshikami • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies What makes Japanese music sound Japanese? Each genre of Japan's pre-Wester...
View full detailsUnfelt: The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment
James Noggle
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• Author(s): James Noggle • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshUnfelt offers a new account of feeling during the British Enlightenment, finding that the passio...
View full detailsSovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam
Trais Pearson
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• Author(s): Trais Pearson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - AsianBy the 1890s, Siam (Thailand) was the last holdout against European imperialism in Southeast Asia. But the kingdo...
View full detailsSkates Made of Bone: A History
B. a. Thurber
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• Author(s): B. a. Thurber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Ice skates made from animal bones were used in Europe for millennia before metal-bladed skates were invented. Archaeolog...
View full detailsSpringhatch: A Tale of Fantasy and Magic
Wilson K. L. Sarah
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• Author(s): Wilson K. L. Sarah • Publisher: Sarah K. L. Wilson • Publisher Imprint: Sarah K. L. Wilson • BISAC: Fantasy - Dark FantasyWhat if the only way to win is to die? A fresh new series from USA Today bestselling author Sarah K. L. Wilson....
View full detailsNoli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)
Jose Rizal, Charles Derbyshire
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• Author(s): Jose Rizal | Charles Derbyshire • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: LiteraryAt the center of "Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)" by Philippine national hero José Rizal is the conflict against Spanish c...
View full detailsThe Hypocritical Hegemon: How the United States Shapes Global Rules Against Tax Evasion and Avoidance
Lukas P. Hakelberg
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• Author(s): Lukas P. Hakelberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyIn The Hypocritical Hegemon, Lukas Hakelberg takes a close look at how US domestic politics affects and ...
View full detailsRevolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
Tatiana Linkhoeva
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• Author(s): Tatiana Linkhoeva • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismRevolution Goes East is an intellectual history that appli...
View full detailsThe Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800
Amanda L. Scott
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• Author(s): Amanda L. Scott • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Spain & PortugalThe Basque Seroras explores the intersections between local community, women's work, and religi...
View full detailsPolicing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger
Mirco Göpfert
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• Author(s): Mirco Göpfert • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco Göpfert explor...
View full detailsWhen There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland
Sarah G. Phillips
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• Author(s): Sarah G. Phillips • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefFor all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peac...
View full detailsSketches from a Hunter's Album
Ivan Turgenev, Constance Garnett
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• Author(s): Ivan Turgenev | Constance Garnett • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: ClassicsGenerally thought to be the work that led to the abolishment of serfdom in Russia, "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" is a...
View full detailsThe Athlete as National Symbol: Critical Essays on Sports in the International Arena
Nicholas Villanueva
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• Author(s): Nicholas Villanueva • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology of Sports Examining the phenomenon of nationalism in the world of sport, this collection of new essays identifi...
View full detailsBattle History of the United States Marine Corps, 1775-1945
George B. Clark
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• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Designed as a reference work for those interested in the combat history of the U.S. Marine Corps, thi...
View full detailsWomen and Video Game Modding: Essays on Gender and the Digital Community
Bridget Whelan, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
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• Author(s): Bridget Whelan | Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic The world of video games has long revolved around a subset of its player base: ...
View full detailsParenting Through Pop Culture: Essays on Navigating Media with Children
Jl Schatz
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• Author(s): Jl Schatz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Parenting - General With the ever-increasing amount of media children are consuming, it has become important for parents to learn ho...
View full detailsApocalypse TV: Essays on Society and Self at the End of the World
Michael G. Cornelius, Sherry Ginn
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• Author(s): Michael G. Cornelius | Sherry Ginn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror The end of the world may be upon us, but it cer...
View full detailsChasing the Bounty: The Voyages of the Pandora and Matavy
Donald a. Maxton
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• Author(s): Donald a. Maxton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Oceania Popular films about the Bounty mutiny only scratch the surface. This rebellion on a British vessel in 1789 sparked th...
View full detailsGirl of Steel: Essays on Television's Supergirl and Fourth-Wave Feminism
Melissa Wehler, Tim Rayborn
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• Author(s): Melissa Wehler | Tim Rayborn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The CW's hit adaptation of Supergirl is a new take on the classic DC charact...
View full detailsVirtual Tribe: Indigenous Identity in Social Media
Steven C. Dinero
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• Author(s): Steven C. Dinero • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Indigenous Studies In the post-colonial era, tribal peoples are particularly vulnerable to new technologies and industrializa...
View full detailsStars of Jazz: A Complete History of the Innovative Television Series, 1956-1958
James A. Harrod
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• Author(s): James A. Harrod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Imagine an educational television series featuring America's greatest jazz artists in performance, airing every week f...
View full detailsText & Presentation, 2019
Amy Muse
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• Author(s): Amy Muse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields ...
View full detailsSection 27 and Freedman's Village in Arlington National Cemetery: The African American History of America's Most Hallowed Ground
Ric Murphy, Timothy Stephens
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• Author(s): Ric Murphy | Timothy Stephens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that ...
View full detailsThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer AND The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged. Complete with all original illustrations)
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Benediction Classics • Publisher Imprint: Benediction Classics • BISAC: Classics"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn . . . It is the best book we have." -- ...
View full detailsMelodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry
Anthony Hecht
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• Author(s): Anthony Hecht • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: PoetryOriginally published in 2003. The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights ...
View full detailsHuman Rights in Islamic North Africa: Clashes Between Constitutional Laws and Penal Codes
Ike E. Udogu
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• Author(s): Ike E. Udogu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Africa - North It is one thing to craft superb human rights tenets in a constitution and another to enforce such policies in prac...
View full detailsEdwin Booth: 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: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The great nineteenth-century stage actor Edwin Booth began his long career in 18...
View full detailsKenny Riley and Black Union Labor Power in the Port of Charleston
Ted Reed, John J. Yurechko
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• Author(s): Ted Reed | John J. Yurechko • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: African American & Black Their ancestors may have been cargo in the slave ships that arrived in Charleston, S....
View full detailsHollywood's Hard-Luck Ladies: 23 Actresses Who Suffered Early Deaths, Accidents, Missteps, Illnesses and Tragedies
Laura Wagner
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• Author(s): Laura Wagner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In the era of Hollywood now considered its Golden Age, there was no shortage of hard-luck stories-...
View full detailsEthics After Poststructuralism: A Critical Reader
Lee Olsen, Brendan Johnston, Ann Keniston
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• Author(s): Lee Olsen | Brendan Johnston | Ann Keniston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy The present era of economic devastation, legacies of colonization an...
View full detailsThe Paul McCartney Catalog: A Complete Annotated Discography of Solo Works, 1967-2019
Ted Montgomery
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• Author(s): Ted Montgomery • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Discography & Buyer's Guides This complete discography of Paul McCartney's solo and other post-Beatles work examines his en...
View full detailsSacred and Mythological Animals: A Worldwide Taxonomy
Yowann Byghan
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• Author(s): Yowann Byghan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Animals - General From the household cat to horses that can fly, a surprisingly wide range of animals feature in religions and m...
View full detailsPhilip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now
David Sandner, Donald E. Palumbo, C. W. Sullivan III
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• Author(s): David Sandner | Donald E. Palumbo | C. W. Sullivan III • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction....
View full detailsSicily on Screen: Essays on the Representation of the Island and Its Culture
Giovanna Summerfield
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• Author(s): Giovanna Summerfield • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism With its physical beauty and kaleidoscopic cultural background, Sicily has long been a sou...
View full detailsFilm History Through Trade Journal Art, 1916-1920
Jeff Codori
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• Author(s): Jeff Codori • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The period in film history between the regimentation of the Edison Trust and the vertical integrati...
View full detailsThemes in Latin American Cinema: A Critical Survey, 2D Ed.
Keith John Richards
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• Author(s): Keith John Richards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This updated and expanded edition gives critical analyses of 23 Latin American films from t...
View full detailsApocalyptic Ecology in the Graphic Novel: Life and the Environment After Societal Collapse
Clint Jones
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• Author(s): Clint Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaste...
View full detailsRay Milland: The Films, 1929-1984
James McKay
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• Author(s): James McKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism With no formal training as an actor, Welsh-born Ray Milland (1907-1986), a former trooper in the Br...
View full detailsNew Jack: Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist
New Jack, Jason Norman
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• Author(s): New Jack | Jason Norman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wrestling You may have cheered him. You may have booed him out of the building. But until now, you've never really kno...
View full detailsNick McLean Behind the Camera: The Life and Works of a Hollywood Cinematographer
Wayne Byrne, Nick McLean
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• Author(s): Wayne Byrne | Nick McLean • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Nick McLean was one of the most acclaimed camera operators in American cinema of the ...
View full detailsBoss of Murder, Inc.: The Criminal Life of Albert Anastasia
Michael Newton
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• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: Exposit Books • Publisher Imprint: Exposit Books • BISAC: Organized Crime Umberto Anastasio, better known as Albert Anastasia, was an Italian-American mobster and hitman who became one of the deadliest cri...
View full detailsDeep Gossip: New and Selected Poems
Sidney Wade
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• Author(s): Sidney Wade • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsA great and frequently subversive book by a lyric poet at the height of her craft.Throughout her seven ...
View full detailsThe Pittsburgh Penguins: The First 25 Years
Greg Enright
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• Author(s): Greg Enright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Hockey - General The Pittsburgh Penguins have captured the Stanley Cup five times since 1991--more than any NHL team during the s...
View full detailsThe Baltimore Stallions: The Brief, Brilliant History of the CFL Champion Franchise
Ron Snyder
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• Author(s): Ron Snyder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General Baltimore is home to some of the greatest football players ever to step onto the gridiron. From the Colts' Johnn...
View full detailsAdolph Sutro: King of the Comstock Lode and Mayor of San Francisco
William R. Huber
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• Author(s): William R. Huber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century Adolph Sutro was forever seeking challenges. Emigrating from Prussia to the U.S. at age 20, the ...
View full detailsBrothers in the Mekong Delta: A Memoir of PBR Section 513 in the Vietnam War
Godfrey Garner
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• Author(s): Godfrey Garner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Following the Tet Offensive, a shift in U.S. naval strategy in 1967-1968 saw young men fresh out of high...
View full detailsThe Spirit Transcendent: Exploring the Extraordinary in Human Experience
Mark F. Yama
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• Author(s): Mark F. Yama • Publisher: Toplight Books • Publisher Imprint: Toplight Books • BISAC: Parapsychology - General What are we to make of direct spiritual experience? Of accounts of going to heaven or meeting angels? Traditional science ...
View full detailsThe American Eagle Squadrons of the Royal Air Force: Operational Records and Combat Reports, 1940-1942
Timothy S. Good
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• Author(s): Timothy S. Good • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General While the United States sought to remain neutral in the early years of World War...
View full detailsJohn Derek: Actor, Director, Photographer
Michelangelo Capua
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• Author(s): Michelangelo Capua • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Actor and director John Derek was born in Hollywood, where his striking good ...
View full detailsLatinos in American Football: Pathbreakers on the Gridiron, 1927 to the Present
Mario Longoria, Jorge Iber
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• Author(s): Mario Longoria | Jorge Iber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In 1927 Cuban national Ignacio S. Molinet was recruited to play with the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the o...
View full detailsThe Running Boy and Other Stories
Megumu Sagisawa, Tyran Grillo
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• Author(s): Megumu Sagisawa | Tyran Grillo • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseWith this newly translated version of The Running Boy, the fiction of Megumu Sagisawa makes i...
View full detailsReputation for Resolve: How Leaders Signal Determination in International Politics
Danielle L. Lupton
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• Author(s): Danielle L. Lupton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)How do reputations form in international politics? What influence do these reputat...
View full detailsRobber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics During the Era of American Industrialization
Robert F. Zeidel
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• Author(s): Robert F. Zeidel • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsRobber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the s...
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