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Object Recognition in Man, Monkey, and Machine
Michael J. Tarr, Heinrich H. Bulthoff
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• Author(s): Michael J. Tarr | Heinrich H. Bulthoff • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of i...
View full detailsA Disunited Kingdom?: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1800-1949
Christine Kinealy
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• Author(s): Christine Kinealy • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralWhen did the United Kingdom come into being? What were the steps which led to its conc...
View full detailsSmall Firms and Network Economies
Martin Perry
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• Author(s): Martin Perry • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis book reviews different types of small-business network, using case-studies from Singapore, New Zealand, Scandinavia and the UK to gi...
View full detailsThe Athletics of Philadelphia: Connie Mack's White Elephants, 1901-1954
David M. Jordan
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• Author(s): David M. Jordan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1900, American League president Ban Johnson convinced Connie Mack to manage the newly created Philadelph...
View full detailsHistory of Ancient Egypt
Erik Hornung, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptFrom our vantage point ancient Egyptian civilization, with its strictly hierarchic organization, ...
View full detailsThe Domain of Images
James Elkins
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• Author(s): James Elkins • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryIn the domain of visual images, those of fine art form a tiny minority. This original and brilliant book ...
View full detailsProust's Lesbianism
Elisabeth Ladenson
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• Author(s): Elisabeth Ladenson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchFor decades, Elisabeth Ladenson says, critics have misread or ignored a crucial element in Marcel Proust...
View full detailsUnarmed Forces
Matthew Evangelista
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• Author(s): Matthew Evangelista • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThroughout the Cold War, people worldwide feared that the U.S. and Soviet governments c...
View full detailsUnsupervised Learning: Foundations of Neural Computation
Geoffrey Hinton, Terrence Sejnowski
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Hinton | Terrence Sejnowski • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: NeuroscienceSince its founding in 1989 by Terrence Sejnowski, Neural Computation has become the leading journal in the fiel...
View full detailsCharacteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume II
III Cooper Anthony Ashley, Philip Ayres, Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
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• Author(s): III Cooper Anthony Ashley | Philip Ayres | Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernShaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Tim...
View full detailsMoney Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism
David Woodruff
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• Author(s): David Woodruff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alterna...
View full detailsThe Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects
Barbara Cruikshank
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• Author(s): Barbara Cruikshank • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralHow do liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves? In con...
View full detailsCultures of Piety
Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul
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• Author(s): Anne Clark Bartlett | Thomas H. Bestul • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshDevotional texts in late medieval England were notable for their flamb...
View full detailsThe Marranos of Spain: From the Late 14th to the Early 16th Century, According to Contemporary Hebrew Sources, Third Edition
B. Netanyahu
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• Author(s): B. Netanyahu • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - SpainB. Netanyahu, one of the world's foremost medievalists, has made a lifelong project of studying the historical ev...
View full detailsIrigaray & Deleuze: Experiments in Visceral Philosophy
Tamsin Lorraine
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• Author(s): Tamsin Lorraine • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyFor Tamsin Lorraine, the works of Luce Irigaray and Gilles Deleuze open up new ways of thinking about subject...
View full detailsThe Holocaust
Peter Neville
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• Author(s): Peter Neville • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: HolocaustAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The mass murder of European Jews by...
View full detailsState/Culture
George Steinmetz
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• Author(s): George Steinmetz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralWhat impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national an...
View full detailsSteelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown
Robert Bruno
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• Author(s): Robert Bruno • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralFor retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label "working class" fits comfortably. Questioning the widely he...
View full detailsThe Fabric of Affect in the Psychoanalytic Discourse
Andre Green, Alan Sheridan
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• Author(s): Andre Green | Alan Sheridan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EmotionsA seminal work on one of the most neglected topics in psychoanalysis, that of affect. Originally published in French as Le Discours Vi...
View full detailsThe Future of the Electronic Marketplace
Derek Leebaert
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• Author(s): Derek Leebaert • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Marketing - ResearchThe electronic marketplace is a global one, and it's changing every aspect of the consumer-vendor relathionship.The marketplace is the ...
View full detailsSpecies of Mind: The Philosophy and Biology of Cognitive Ethology
Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff
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• Author(s): Colin Allen | Marc Bekoff • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThe heart of this book is the reciprocal relationship between philosophical theories of mind and e...
View full detailsLacan and the Political
Yannis Stavrakakis
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• Author(s): Yannis Stavrakakis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralYannis Stavrakakis examines Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality from a p...
View full detailsThink No Evil
C. Fred Alford
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• Author(s): C. Fred Alford • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this investigation of the contemporary notion of evil, C. Fred Alford asks what we can...
View full detailsLady Friends: Organization of Work in the Information Economy
Karen L. Ito
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• Author(s): Karen L. Ito • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialMany indigenous Hawaiians who have moved to the islands' cities languish at the bottom of t...
View full detailsAuthority and Disorder in Tudor Times, 1485-1603
Paul Thomas
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• Author(s): Paul Thomas • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. The Tudor peri...
View full detailsChristian Teachers in Public Schools: A Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Parents
Julia K. Stronks, Gloria Goris Stronks
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• Author(s): Julia K. Stronks | Gloria Goris Stronks • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: InspirationalAssists Christians working in public schools to think Christianly about their jobs and clarify the relationship b...
View full detailsPraktische Sprachreflexion
Ingwer Paul
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• Author(s): Ingwer Paul • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsDie Untersuchung geht von der unstrittigen Beobachtung aus, da Sprecherinnen und Sprecher z.T. hartnäckig und entgegen "besse...
View full detailsThe Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis
T. J. Pempel
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• Author(s): T. J. Pempel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyIn the summer of 1997, a tidal wave of economic problems swept across Asia. Currencies plummeted, banks failed...
View full detailsReading Desire
Debra A. Moddelmog
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• Author(s): Debra A. Moddelmog • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWhether revered for his masculinity, condemned as an icon of machismo, or perceived as possessing compl...
View full detailsAlekhine's Anguish: A Novel of the Chess World
Charles D. Yaffe
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• Author(s): Charles D. Yaffe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a fictionalized account of the life and career of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. Born into Russian ...
View full detailsThe Night Club Era
Stanley Walker, Alva Johnston
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• Author(s): Stanley Walker | Alva Johnston • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe Night Club Era should rate as a Broadway Koran. Other books on th...
View full detailsAkhenaten and the Religion of Light
Erik Hornung, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptAkhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigne...
View full detailsEarly Spelling: From Convention to Creativity
Gunther Kress
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• Author(s): Gunther Kress • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: VocabularyIn his latest book, Gunther Kress explores how children learn to spell in the context of current concerns about early literacy, examining the effe...
View full detailsThe Vanishing Legion a History of Mascot Pictures, 1927-1935
Jon Tuska
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• Author(s): Jon Tuska • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This beautifully written book is a definitive record of the players and productions of a film company that specialized in ch...
View full detailsDreaming as Delirium: How the Brain Goes Out of Its Mind
J. Allan Hobson
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• Author(s): J. Allan Hobson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuropsychologyIn this book J. Allan Hobson sets out a compelling--and controversial--theory of consciousness. Our brain-mind, as he calls it, is not a fi...
View full detailsLooking for Chengdu
Hill Gates
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• Author(s): Hill Gates • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesFor decades, anthropologist Hill Gates had waited for an opportunity to get to know the citizens of China...
View full detailsGender, Policy and Educational Change: Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe
Sheila Riddell, Jane Salisbury
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• Author(s): Sheila Riddell | Jane Salisbury • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformThis book is an edited collection of chapters that aims to look at the developments that have taken place i...
View full detailsEine Wissenschaft etabliert sich
Johannes Janota
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• Author(s): Johannes Janota • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Eine Wissenschaft etabliert sich" verfügbar.
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, a Biography
Fred Kaplan
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• Author(s): Fred Kaplan • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: LiteraryOne of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an ...
View full detailsWonder and Science
Mary Baine Campbell
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• Author(s): Mary Baine Campbell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralDuring the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds--geogr...
View full detailsImaginary Cartographies
Daniel Lord Smail
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• Author(s): Daniel Lord Smail • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalHow, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their co...
View full detailsManufacturing Advantage: Why High Performance Work Systems Pay Off
Eileen Appelbaum, Thomas Bailey, Peter Berg
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• Author(s): Eileen Appelbaum | Thomas Bailey | Peter Berg • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementMuch of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based...
View full detailsHostile Environment
Gwendolyn Mink
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• Author(s): Gwendolyn Mink • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesAccording to some of President Clinton's feminist supporters, his alleged behavior toward Paula Jones did not ...
View full detailsElephant Story: Jumbo and P.T. Barnum Under the Big Top
Les Harding
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• Author(s): Les Harding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The newspapers called him "Overshadowing Monarch Mastodon," "Behemoth of Holy Writ" and "Prodigious Mountain." He was the ...
View full detailsPublic Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy
James Bohman
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• Author(s): James Bohman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative de...
View full detailsMorkinskinna
Theodore M. Andersson, Kari Ellen Gade
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• Author(s): Theodore M. Andersson | Kari Ellen Gade • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MedievalMorkinskinna ("rotten parchment"), the first full-length chronicle of the kings of medieval ...
View full detailsVenus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery
Elizabeth Haiken
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Haiken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe surprising history of cosmetic surgery--and America's quest for physical perfection--from the turn o...
View full detailsInside/Outside Nietzsche
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
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• Author(s): Eugene Victor Wolfenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernFriedrich Nietzsche is both subject and interlocutor in this innovative study. The b...
View full detailsAmerican Drama 1900-1990
Don Shiach
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• Author(s): Don Shiach • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: DramaCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book is written for those beginning a study of Ame...
View full detailsSelf-Stabilization
Shlomi Dolev
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• Author(s): Shlomi Dolev • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Networking - GeneralShlomi Dolev presents the fundamentals of self-stabilization and demonstrates the process of designing self-stabilizing distributed syste...
View full detailsTraditional Musicians of the Central Blue Ridge: Old Time, Early Country, Folk and Bluegrass Label Recording Artists, with Discographies
Marty McGee
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• Author(s): Marty McGee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General The Central Blue Ridge, taking in the mountainous regions of northwestern ...
View full detailsDirty Jokes and Beer
Drew Carey
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• Author(s): Drew Carey • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Grand Central Publishing • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
Baseball's Other All-Stars: The Greatest Players from the Negro Leagues, the Japanese Leagues, the Mexican League, and the Pre-1960 Winter Leagues in
William F. McNeil
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• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball is played in all corners of the world, so it is no surprise to learn that some of the greatest h...
View full detailsThe Imagery Debate
Michael Tye
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• Author(s): Michael Tye • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionMichael Tye untangles the complex web of empirical and conceptual issues of the newly revived imagery debate in ...
View full detailsVoices of Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival
Mary Terrell Cargill, Jade Quang Huynh
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• Author(s): Mary Terrell Cargill | Jade Quang Huynh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General On April 30, 1975, the Hanoi government of North Vietnam took control over the South. South Vi...
View full detailsProfits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China
Michael A. Santoro
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• Author(s): Michael A. Santoro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAfter the Tiananmen Square massacre, a vigorous international debate erupted, not only a...
View full detailsLine Drawings
Cressida Heyes
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• Author(s): Cressida Heyes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoliticalAt the heart of feminist theory lies the seemingly intractable issue of essentialism. Feminism has thus far failed t...
View full detailsPresumptive Meanings: The Theory of Generalized Conversational Implicature
Stephen C. Levinson
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• Author(s): Stephen C. Levinson • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionThis is the first extended discussion of preferred interpretation in language understanding, integrating m...
View full detailsNegotiating the World Economy
John S. Odell
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• Author(s): John S. Odell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: InternationalIt is often said economics has become as important as security in international relations, yet we work with much ...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1997 (Jackie Robinson)
Peter M. Rutkoff
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• Author(s): Peter M. Rutkoff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is an anthology of 14 papers that were presented at the Ninth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and A...
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