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Berkeley's Thought: Religion and Reform in the Bishopric of Speyer, 1560-1720
George S. Pappas
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• Author(s): George S. Pappas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this highly original account of Bishop George Berkeley's epistemological and metaphysical ...
View full detailsThe Priests of Ancient Egypt
Serge Sauneron, David Lorton, Jean-Pierre Corteggiani
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• Author(s): Serge Sauneron | David Lorton | Jean-Pierre Corteggiani • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe gods were everywhere in Ancient Egypt. Represented by statues, ba...
View full detailsPeople and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance
Clark C. Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, Elinor Ostrom
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• Author(s): Clark C. Gibson | Margaret A. McKean | Elinor Ostrom • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Agriculture - ForestryUnplanned deforestation, which is occurring at unsustainable rates in many parts of the world, ...
View full detailsThe Shadow Welfare State
Marie Gottschalk
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• Author(s): Marie Gottschalk • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralWhy, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-ma...
View full detailsThe Gothic Tradition
Adrian Barlow, John Smart, Pamela Bickley
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• Author(s): Adrian Barlow | John Smart | Pamela Bickley • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genr...
View full detailsRevolutions and Nationalities: Europe 1825-1890
Peter Browning
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• Author(s): Peter Browning • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. ...
View full detailsDreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul
Isabel Moreira
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• Author(s): Isabel Moreira • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Spirituality - GeneralIn early medieval Europe, dreams and visions were believed to reveal divine information about Christian...
View full detailsPopLit, PopCult and The X-Files: A Critical Exploration
Jan Delasara
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• Author(s): Jan Delasara • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism For six acclaimed seasons, FBI paranormal detectives Mulder and Scully have been chasing mon...
View full detailsVoices from the Pastime: Oral Histories of Surviving Major Leaguers, Negro Leaguers, Cuban Leaguers and Writers, 1920-1934
Nick Wilson
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• Author(s): Nick Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Over 1,500 men played major league baseball during the golden era of the 1920s, and over 850 played in the Negro Leagues du...
View full detailsBreakfast with God - Volume 2
Gerard Kelly
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• Author(s): Gerard Kelly • Publisher: Zondervan • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan • BISAC: Prayer
Motherhood in Black and White
Ruth Feldstein
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• Author(s): Ruth Feldstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe apron-clad, white, stay-at-home mother. Black bus boycotters in Montgomery, Alabama. Ruth Fel...
View full detailsArtificial Life VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life
Mark A. Bedau, John S. McCaskill, Norman H. Packard
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• Author(s): Mark A. Bedau | John S. McCaskill | Norman H. Packard • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThe term "artificial life" describes research into synthetic systems that possess s...
View full detailsNitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation in the United States
Anthony Slide
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• Author(s): Anthony Slide • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis study looks at the preservation process: newsreel, television, and color preservation...
View full detailsA Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Maya World: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930
Julian C. Lee
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• Author(s): Julian C. Lee • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Animals - Reptiles & AmphibiansThe Yucat�n Peninsula is today divided among Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Travelers to this region ...
View full detailsAustria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival
Michael P. Steinberg
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• Author(s): Michael P. Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryAustria's renowned Salzburg Festival has from the outset engaged issues of cultural ident...
View full detailsCollecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness
Susan A. Crane
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• Author(s): Susan A. Crane • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyThis provocative book challenges long-held assumptions about the nature of historical consciousness in German...
View full detailsAnne Rice and Sexual Politics: The Early Novels
James R. Keller
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• Author(s): James R. Keller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General From the vampires Lestat and Louis to a sexually liberated Sleeping Beauty, novelist Anne Rice has created ...
View full detailsRichard Serra
Hal Foster
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• Author(s): Hal Foster • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralA critical primer on artist Richard Serra's work.Richard Serra is considered by many to be the most important sculptor of the postw...
View full detailsJoseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon, 2d ed.
David Persuitte
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• Author(s): David Persuitte • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( Just as a growing interest in millennialism at the turn of this c...
View full detailsCultural Studies and Political Theory
Jodi Dean
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• Author(s): Jodi Dean • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis ambitious collection of work at the intersection of cultural studies and contemporary pol...
View full detailsWomen of Okinawa
Ruth Ann Keyso, Masahide Ota
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• Author(s): Ruth Ann Keyso | Masahide Ota • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesSince World War II, Okinawa has been the stage where the United States and Japan act out dramat...
View full detailsSelf and Story in Russian History
Laura Engelstein, Stephanie Sandler
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• Author(s): Laura Engelstein | Stephanie Sandler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionRussians have often been characterized as people with souls rather ...
View full detailsMicroeconomics of Market Failures
Bernard Salanie
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• Author(s): Bernard Salanie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MicroeconomicsBernard Salanié studies situations where competitive markets fail to achieve a collective optimum and the interventions used to ...
View full detailsWomen of Okinawa
Ruth Ann Keyso, Masahide Ota
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• Author(s): Ruth Ann Keyso | Masahide Ota • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesSince World War II, Okinawa has been the stage where the United States and Japan act out dramat...
View full detailsThe Deleuze Connections
John Rajchman
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• Author(s): John Rajchman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern
Antler on the Sea: The German Tragedy
Anna M. Kerttula
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• Author(s): Anna M. Kerttula • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAnna M. Kerttula, an anthropologist, offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki, a Si...
View full detailsLouis Pasteur
Patrice Debre, Patrice Debra(c), Patrice Debr?
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• Author(s): Patrice Debre | Patrice Debra(c) | Patrice Debr? • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyThe most extensive, balanced, and detailed account of P...
View full detailsNationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The Dismal Fate of New Nations
Ernst B. Haas
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• Author(s): Ernst B. Haas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralFar from being an inevitably aggressive and destructive force, nationalism is, for Ernst B. Haas...
View full detailsDisowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780-1860
Joanne Pope Melish
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• Author(s): Joanne Pope Melish • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsFollowing the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed t...
View full detailsDifference Satire Makes
Fredric V. Bogel
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• Author(s): Fredric V. Bogel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Horror & SupernaturalOffering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of th...
View full detailsZarathustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918
Christopher Forth
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• Author(s): Christopher Forth • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceFriedrich Nietzsche's descent into madness prevented him from achieving his dream of se...
View full detailsA People Born to Slavery
Marshall T. Poe
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• Author(s): Marshall T. Poe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionMany Americans and Europeans have for centuries viewed Russia as a despotic country in w...
View full detailsShakespearean and Jacobean Tragedy
Rex Gibson
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• Author(s): Rex Gibson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Tragedies echoed ...
View full detailsMy Heart Is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller
Robert N. Hudspeth
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• Author(s): Robert N. Hudspeth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThis single-volume selection of the letters of Margaret Fuller affords a unique opportunity for renewed acquainta...
View full detailsOf Religion and Empire
Robert Geraci, Michael Khodarkovsky
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• Author(s): Robert Geraci | Michael Khodarkovsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionRussia's ever-expanding imperial boundaries encompassed diverse peo...
View full detailsManmade Breast Cancers
Zillah Eisenstein
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• Author(s): Zillah Eisenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Diseases - CancerA new understanding of humanity and feminism from the starting point of breast health is the ultimate goa...
View full detailsThree Faces of Love
Rolf M. Johnson
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• Author(s): Rolf M. Johnson • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismThis work draws upon ancient myth, modern poetry, and classic novels, as well as wor...
View full detailsThe Search for God in Ancient Egypt: An Immigrant Community in New York City
Jan Assmann, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Jan Assmann | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the...
View full detailsBiology of the Domestic Pig, Second Edition
Wilson G. Pond, Harry J. Mersmann
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• Author(s): Wilson G. Pond | Harry J. Mersmann • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyAn invaluable resource for animal scientists, veterinarians, and biomedical researchers, thi...
View full detailsGoing Native
Shari M. Huhndorf
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• Author(s): Shari M. Huhndorf • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Native American StudiesSince the 1800's, many European Americans have relied on Native Americans as models for their own n...
View full detailsTransforming Europe
Maria Green Cowles, James Caporaso, Thomas Risse
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• Author(s): Maria Green Cowles | James Caporaso | Thomas Risse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDoes the European Union change the domestic politics and...
View full detailsRegicide and Republic: England 1603-1660
Graham E. Seel
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• Author(s): Graham E. Seel • 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 period ...
View full detailsA Case for Conservatism: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York
John Kekes
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• Author(s): John Kekes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn his recent book Against Liberalism, philosopher John Kekes argued that liberalism as a political...
View full detailsJames J. Corbett: A Biography of the Heavyweight Boxing Champion and Popular Theater Headliner
Armond Fields
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• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General When he died in 1933, James J. "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was honored by two distingu...
View full detailsCauses of War
Stephen Van Evera
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• Author(s): Stephen Van Evera • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhat causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Eve...
View full detailsThe Fantasy Role-Playing Game: A New Performing Art
Daniel MacKay
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• Author(s): Daniel MacKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as ...
View full detailsDamaged Identities, Narrative Repair: Worker Risk and Opportunity in the New Economy
Hilde Lindemann Nelson
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• Author(s): Hilde Lindemann Nelson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyHilde Lindemann Nelson focuses on the stories of groups of people--including Gypsies, mothers, nurse...
View full detailsMoney Rules
Henry Laurence
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• Author(s): Henry Laurence • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralHenry Laurence traces financial market reform in Britain and Japan over the last two decades, charting the m...
View full detailsBridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations
Colin Elman, Miriam Fendius Elman
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• Author(s): Colin Elman | Miriam Fendius Elman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBridges and Boundaries offers a conversation between what might loosely be described as traditionalist di...
View full detailsSophocles, Philoctetes
Sophocles, Judith Affleck
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• Author(s): Sophocles | Judith Affleck • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralTreating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this serie...
View full detailsThe Punished Self: Surviving Slavery in the Colonial South
Alex Bontemps
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• Author(s): Alex Bontemps • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesThe Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South ...
View full detailsBody and World
Samuel Todes, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Piotr Hoffman
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• Author(s): Samuel Todes | Hubert L. Dreyfus | Piotr Hoffman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyBody and World is the definitive edition of a book that should now take its place as a major contribution ...
View full detailsThurman Munson: A Baseball Biography
Christopher Devine
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• Author(s): Christopher Devine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports When in 2000 the Baseball Writers Association of America elected the ever-durable Carlton Fisk to the National Baseb...
View full detailsDown and Dirty: Hollywood's Exploitation Filmmakers and Their Movies
Mike Quarles
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• Author(s): Mike Quarles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Taboo breakers and trendsetters, shameless hucksters and famous directors. Exploitation filmmak...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture
William M. Simons
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• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is an anthology of 19 papers that were presented at the Twelfth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball an...
View full detailsModern Hatreds: Cycles of Logics of Action
Stuart J. Kaufman
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• Author(s): Stuart J. Kaufman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralEthnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an eni...
View full detailsBusiness Strategy for A2
David Dyer, Peter Stimpson
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• Author(s): David Dyer | Peter Stimpson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - GeneralFull coverage of the compulsory A2 synoptic module from OCR. Concepts and processes are cl...
View full detailsThe Achieving Institution
Monat William
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• Author(s): Monat William • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HigherFocusing on the evolution of Northern Illinois University since 1965, the author highlights the proc...
View full detailsRekindling the Movement: Labor's Quest for Relevance in the 21st Century
Lowell Turner, Harry C. Katz, Richard W. Hurd
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• Author(s): Lowell Turner | Harry C. Katz | Richard W. Hurd • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralFrom gloomy times in the 1980s, the American labor movement has returned to appa...
View full detailsTwentieth Century British Drama
John Smart
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• Author(s): John Smart • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Looking back on 2...
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