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Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State
Melissa M. Lee Desfor
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• Author(s): Melissa M. Lee Desfor • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - AsianPolicymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces ...
View full detailsMore Than Medicine: Nurse Practitioners and the Problems They Solve for Patients, Health Care Organizations, and the State
Latonya J. Trotter
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• Author(s): Latonya J. Trotter • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Hospital Administration & CareIn More Than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) workin...
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Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Defiant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
Michelle Armstrong-Partida
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• Author(s): Michelle Armstrong-Partida • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LeadershipTwo hundred years after canon law prohibited clerical marriage, parish priests in the late medieval per...
View full detailsImmigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-Nationalist Society
Gracia Liu-Farrer
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• Author(s): Gracia Liu-Farrer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralImmigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows, millions of immigrants ma...
View full detailsPlaying Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of Fema
Timothy W. Kneeland
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• Author(s): Timothy W. Kneeland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticHurricane Agnes struck the United States in June of 1972, just months...
View full detailsGreek Warfare Beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States
David A. Blome
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• Author(s): David A. Blome • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceGreek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of cl...
View full detailsEmperor of the World
Anne A. Latowsky
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• Author(s): Anne A. Latowsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalEmperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while...
View full detailsCluny and the Muslims of La Garde-Freinet: Hagiography and the Problem of Islam in Medieval Europe
Scott G. Bruce
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• Author(s): Scott G. Bruce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn the summer of 972 a group of Muslim brigands based in the south of France near La Garde-Freinet abducted ...
View full detailsCreating the Suburban School Advantage: Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis
John L. Rury
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• Author(s): John L. Rury • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administration - GeneralCreating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competi...
View full detailsAlzheimer's Disease and Infectious Causes: The Theory and Evidence
Elaine A. Moore
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• Author(s): Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases - Alzheimer's & Dementia With the recent discovery that amyloid beta protein, the cause of plaques in Alzheimer's...
View full detailsCrime and Spy Jazz on Screen Since 1971: A History and Discography
Derrick Bang
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• Author(s): Derrick Bang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Jazz Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. Isaac Hayes' theme from S...
View full detailsMedieval Women on Film: Essays on Gender, Cinema and History
Kevin J. Harty
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Harty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In this first ever book-length treatment, 11 scholars with a variety of backgrounds in medieval ...
View full detailsExploring Star Trek: Voyager: Critical Essays
Robert L. Lively
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• Author(s): Robert L. Lively • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror In 1995, Star Trek: Voyager brought a new dynamic to Star Trek's ...
View full detailsExcavating Indiana Jones: Essays on the Films and Franchise
Randy Laist
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• Author(s): Randy Laist • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Action & Adventure With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the rousing sounds of his orchestral anthem, and hi...
View full detailsCrime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970: A History and Discography
Derrick Bang
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• Author(s): Derrick Bang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Jazz Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry's arrangement ...
View full detailsThe Many Lives of It: Essays on the Stephen King Horror Franchise
Ron Riekki
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• Author(s): Ron Riekki • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horror & Supernatural After its publication in 1986, Stephen King's novel It sparked sequels, remakes, parodies and solidified ...
View full detailsAppalachian Fiddler Albert Hash: The Last Leaf on the Tree
Malcolm L. Smith, Edwin Lacy
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• Author(s): Malcolm L. Smith | Edwin Lacy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music World-class luthier and renowned guitarist Wayne Henderson calls Albert Hash "a real folk hero." A virtuos...
View full detailsThe Black Athlete in West Virginia: High School and College Sports from 1900 Through the End of Segregation
Bob Barnett, Dana Brooks, Ronald Althouse
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• Author(s): Bob Barnett | Dana Brooks | Ronald Althouse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology of Sports This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three bl...
View full detailsOverland Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West: Expeditions and Writers of the American Frontier
Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin | Ursula Carlson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza ...
View full detailsHenry Clay Frick and the Golden Age of Coal and Coke, 1870-1920
Cassandra Vivian
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• Author(s): Cassandra Vivian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century Once the beehive coke oven was perfected in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the coal and coke indu...
View full detailsThe Most Effective Official SAT Study Guide: The 717 pg All-in-One Solution for your Highest Possible Score
Boulevard Books
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• Author(s): Boulevard Books • Publisher: Boulevard Books • Publisher Imprint: Boulevard Books • BISAC: Study Aids - Test PreparationThe Most Effective Official SAT Study Guide includes SIX SAT practice tests. With updated guidance and practice p...
View full detailsThe Songs of Genesis: A Complete Guide to the Studio Recordings
Steve Aldous
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• Author(s): Steve Aldous • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Discography & Buyer's Guides Quintessentially British, Genesis spearheaded progressive rock in the 1970s, evolving into a cha...
View full detailsThe Streaming of Hill House: Essays on the Haunting Netflix Adaptation
Kevin J. Wetmore
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House has received both critical a...
View full detailsNew York Loves Them, Cooperstown Snubs Them: Great Mets and Yankees Who Belong in the Hall of Fame
Tom Van Riper
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• Author(s): Tom Van Riper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Despite the big market, bright lights and World Series rings, many Hall of Fame level players from the Mets a...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Vampire Mythology
Theresa Bane
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• Author(s): Theresa Bane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology From the earliest days of oral history to the present, the vampire myth persists among mankind's deeply-...
View full detailsHomeschooling and Libraries: New Solutions and Opportunities
Vera Gubnitskaia, Carol Smallwood
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• Author(s): Vera Gubnitskaia | Carol Smallwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General As families are looking for better ways to educate their childr...
View full detailsAmerican Indian Image Makers of Hollywood
Frank Javier Garcia Berumen
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• Author(s): Frank Javier Garcia Berumen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Images from movies and film have had a powerful influence in how Native Americans ...
View full detailsThe Weatherwomen: Militant Feminists of the Weather Underground
Mona Rocha
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• Author(s): Mona Rocha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomen--members of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the ...
View full detailsMadeleine Carroll: Actress and Humanitarian, from the 39 Steps to the Red Cross
John Pascoe
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• Author(s): John Pascoe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General At the height of her celebrity, Madeleine Carroll (1906-1987) was the world's highest-paid actress. She worked alon...
View full detailsWindows into The West Wing: Theoretical Approaches to an Ideal Presidency
Patrick Webster
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• Author(s): Patrick Webster • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The West Wing, first broadcast in 1999, is thought by many to have been one of the most s...
View full detailsFilm Directors and Emotion: An Affective Turn in Contemporary American Cinema
Darragh Greene, Graham Price
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• Author(s): Darragh Greene | Graham Price • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Cinema is an affective medium. Films move us to feel wonder, joy, and love as ...
View full detailsGender and Werewolf Cinema
Jason Barr
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• Author(s): Jason Barr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror It all begins with a howl, the unsettling sound which tells audiences that someone will soon become a werewo...
View full detailsAs I Was Burying Comrade Stalin: My Life Becoming a Jewish Dissident
Arkady Polishchuk
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• Author(s): Arkady Polishchuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union Arkady Polishchuk came of age in Stalin's Russia, in the turbulent times before, during...
View full detailsMajor General Philip Kearny: A Soldier and His Time in the American Civil War
Robert R. Laven
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• Author(s): Robert R. Laven • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics i...
View full detailsThe Bionic Woman and Feminist Ethics: An Analysis of the 1970s Television Series
David Greven
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• Author(s): David Greven • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror The ABC TV series The Bionic Woman, created by Kenneth Johnson, was a...
View full detailsMobilizing for Development: The Modernization of Rural East Asia
Kristen E. Looney
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• Author(s): Kristen E. Looney • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentMobilizing for Development tackles the question of how countries achieve rural developme...
View full detailsFreedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization
Colleen Woods
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• Author(s): Colleen Woods • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralFreedom Incorporated demonstrates how anticommunist political projects were critical to the Uni...
View full detailsRussian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Eileen Kane
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• Author(s): Eileen Kane • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Islam - HistoryIn the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a ...
View full detailsContingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-Day Saints in American Political Culture
Spencer W. McBride, Brent M. Rogers, Keith A. Erekson
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• Author(s): Spencer W. McBride | Brent M. Rogers | Keith A. Erekson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Contingent Citizens feat...
View full detailsThe Consequences of Humiliation: Anger and Status in World Politics
Joslyn Trager Barnhart
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• Author(s): Joslyn Trager Barnhart • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThe Consequences of Humiliation explores the nature of national humiliation and it...
View full detailsTo Be an Entrepreneur: Social Enterprise and Disruptive Development in Bangladesh
Julia Qermezi Huang
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• Author(s): Julia Qermezi Huang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn To Be an Entrepreneur, Julia Qermezi Huang focuses on Bangladesh's iAgent social-enterprise model, the...
View full detailsTo Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations
Lauren Frances Turek
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• Author(s): Lauren Frances Turek • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWhen American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in th...
View full detailsBlack Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics
Rosemary A. Kelanic
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• Author(s): Rosemary A. Kelanic • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralBlack Gold and Blackmail seeks to explain why great powers adopt such different strategies to protec...
View full detailsUndoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work
James A. Chamberlain
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• Author(s): James A. Chamberlain • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThis revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, ...
View full detailsClark Gable, in Pictures: Candid Images of the Actor's Life
Chrystopher J. Spicer
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• Author(s): Chrystopher J. Spicer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Celebrity From the very beginning of Clark Gable's screen career, the life of the glamorous film...
View full detailsImperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire
Katherine D. Moran
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• Author(s): Katherine D. Moran • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodThrough a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing...
View full detailsTraversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic
Susanna Trnka
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• Author(s): Susanna Trnka • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTraversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how...
View full detailsTasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature
Gitanjali G. Shahani
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• Author(s): Gitanjali G. Shahani • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious d...
View full detailsDespotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace
Alex J. Wood
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• Author(s): Alex J. Wood • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsDespotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we u...
View full detailsFar from the Caliph's Gaze: Being Ahmadi Muslim in the Holy City of Qadian
Nicholas H. a. Evans
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• Author(s): Nicholas H. a. Evans • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Islam - GeneralHow do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themsel...
View full detailsWaging the War Within: A Marine's Memoir of Vietnam and PTSD
Tim Fortner, Elizabeth Ridley
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• Author(s): Tim Fortner | Elizabeth Ridley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military United Sates Marine Sergeant Tim Fortner survived 14 months in Vietnam as a door gunner in a CH-46 hel...
View full detailsThe British Aristocracy in Popular Culture: Essays on 200 Years of Representations
Stefania Michelucci, Ian Duncan, Luisa Villa
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• Author(s): Stefania Michelucci | Ian Duncan | Luisa Villa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture As traditional social hierarchies fall away, ever steeper levels of economic in...
View full detailsMarketing the Frontier in the Northwest Territory: Land Sales, Soils and the Settling of the Great Lakes Region in the 19th Century
Robert E. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Robert E. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Combining narrative history with data-rich social and economic analysis, this new institutional eco...
View full detailsThe Hallmark Channel: Essays on Faith, Race and Feminism
Emily L. Newman, Emily Witsell
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• Author(s): Emily L. Newman | Emily Witsell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Originally known as a brand for greeting cards, Hallmark has seen a surge...
View full detailsDubliners
James Joyce
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• Author(s): James Joyce • Publisher: Clearlight • Publisher Imprint: Clearlight • BISAC: Action & AdventureWith these fifteen stories James Joyce reinvented the art of fiction, using a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that were a...
View full detailsPower and Marginalization in Popular Culture: The Oppressed in Six Television and Literature Media Franchises
Lisa a. King
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• Author(s): Lisa a. King • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism In many pop culture texts, "monsters" can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U....
View full detailsAfrocubanas: History, Thought, and Cultural Practices
Devyn Spence Benson, Karina Alma, Daisy Rubiera Castillo
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• Author(s): Devyn Spence Benson | Karina Alma | Daisy Rubiera Castillo • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: PoliticalOriginally published in Spanish and edited by Cuba...
View full detailsElevate and Excel: A Guided Affirmation Journal for College Students
T. Allaire Williams
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• Author(s): T. Allaire Williams • Publisher: Write Rules Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Write Rules Publishing • BISAC: Social Topics - Self-Esteem & Self-RelianceHave you ever looked at your college-bound or college student and wondered, "...
View full detailsGirls to the Rescue: Young Heroines in American Series Fiction of World War I
Emily Hamilton-Honey, Susan Ingalls Lewis
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• Author(s): Emily Hamilton-Honey | Susan Ingalls Lewis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature During World War I, as young men journeyed overseas to batt...
View full detailsEco-Vampires: The Undead and the Environment
Simon Bacon
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• Author(s): Simon Bacon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Horror This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead. Many of ...
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