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A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray
Penelope Deutscher
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• Author(s): Penelope Deutscher • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThe influential philosopher and theorist Luce Irigaray has been faulted for giving more imp...
View full detailsOvid
Niklas Holzberg, Geoffrey M. Goshgarian
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• Author(s): Niklas Holzberg | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThe Roman poet Ovid is enjoying a renaissance. Though relegated to the margins...
View full detailsPolitical Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution
Paul Friedland
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• Author(s): Paul Friedland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceFrom the start of the French Revolution, contemporary observers were struck by the overwhelming theatricality ...
View full detailsImitation in Animals and Artifacts
Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv
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• Author(s): Kerstin Dautenhahn | Chrystopher L. Nehaniv • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsAn interdisciplinary overview of current research on imitation in animals and artifac...
View full detailsFilm and Television Locations: A State-By-State Guidebook to Moviemaking Sites, Excluding Los Angeles
Doug Gelbert
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• Author(s): Doug Gelbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world. Film and television se...
View full detailsContending with Stalinism
Lynne Viola
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• Author(s): Lynne Viola • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismResistance has become an important and controversial analytical ...
View full detailsMerry Wives and Others: A History of Domestic Humor Writing
Penelope Fritzer, Bartholomew Bland
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• Author(s): Penelope Fritzer | Bartholomew Bland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Humor In many ways, the history of domestic humor writing is also a history of domestic life in the twent...
View full detailsAdvances and Innovations in American Daily Life, 1600s-1930s
Ernie Gross
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• Author(s): Ernie Gross • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Throughout its history, America has seen incremental improvements in the domestic and social lives of its ...
View full detailsMy Baby's Father
Maureen R. Waller
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• Author(s): Maureen R. Waller • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyAbout one-third of births in the United States occur to unmarried parents. Evidence sugge...
View full detailsThe Thames Torso Murders of Victorian London
R. Michael Gordon
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• Author(s): R. Michael Gordon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal ...
View full detailsUnarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems
Wyatt Prunty, John Irwin
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• Author(s): Wyatt Prunty | John Irwin • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWyatt Prunty's poems have been described as "quiet, reflective, and of unexpected de...
View full detailsEthics and Hrd: A New Approach to Leading Responsible Organizations
Tim Hatcher
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• Author(s): Tim Hatcher • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Business EthicsAs corporations become increasingly more powerful, their decisions have a larger impact on the social and ecological landscape both domesti...
View full detailsViolent Entrepreneurs
Vadim Volkov
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• Author(s): Vadim Volkov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyEntering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses ...
View full detailsThe Art of Life: The Culture and Politics of Class Formation
John Kekes
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• Author(s): John Kekes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be ta...
View full detailsFilm and Knowledge: Essays on the Integration of Images and Ideas
Kevin L. Stoehr
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• Author(s): Kevin L. Stoehr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Film has become such an underpinning of art and pop culture that its potential for inspiring se...
View full detailsHorizons of the Sacred
Timothy Matovina, Gary Riebe-Estrella
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• Author(s): Timothy Matovina | Gary Riebe-Estrella • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - GeneralHorizons of the Sacred explores the distinctive worldview underlying...
View full detailsThe Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories
D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence D. H., Dieter Mehl
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• Author(s): D. H. Lawrence | Lawrence D. H. | Dieter Mehl • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThe thirteen short stories in this volume were written between 1924 and 1928, and ...
View full detailsArchitectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture
Sanford Kwinter
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• Author(s): Sanford Kwinter • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralAn exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form.In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a crit...
View full detailsGunboat on the Yangtze: The Diary of Captain Glenn F. Howell of the USS Palos, 1920-1921
Glenn F. Howell
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• Author(s): Glenn F. Howell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Captain Glenn F. Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years. His journals now make up 202...
View full detailsAmerica Unrivaled: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan
G. John Ikenberry
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• Author(s): G. John Ikenberry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAmerican power today is without historical precedent, dominating the world system. No oth...
View full detailsLeaving the House of Ghosts: Cambodian Refugees in the American Midwest
Sarah Streed
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• Author(s): Sarah Streed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia On April 17, 1975, after five years of civil war, the Khmer Rouge guerrillas invaded Cambodia's major citie...
View full detailsDarkness Visible: Memoir of a World War II Combat Photographer
Charles Eugene Sumners
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• Author(s): Charles Eugene Sumners • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The average GI in World War II carried a rifle, had military support, was committed to whatever action his uni...
View full detailsThe Frankenstein Archive: Essays on the Monster, the Myth, the Movies, and More
Donald F. Glut
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• Author(s): Donald F. Glut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, s...
View full detailsSphinx
Christiane Zivie-Coche, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Christiane Zivie-Coche | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Sphinxes are legion in Egypt--what is so special about this one?... We shall take a st...
View full detailsThe Empire of Disorder
Alain Joxe, Ames Hodges
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• Author(s): Alain Joxe | Ames Hodges • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: PoliticalIn The Empire of Disorder, Alain Joxe offers the first truly comprehensive analysis of the new world disorder of the twenty-first ...
View full detailsFor the Good of the Country: World War II Baseball in the Major and Minor Leagues
David Finoli
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• Author(s): David Finoli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Like virtually every other aspect of American life, baseball was affected by World War II. Many of its players...
View full detailsThe Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France
John J. Conley
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• Author(s): John J. Conley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe salon was of particular importance in mid- to late-seventeenth-century France, enabling ari...
View full detailsClose Shave: The Life and Times of Baseball's Sal Maglie
James D. Szalontai
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• Author(s): James D. Szalontai • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Sal Maglie was a feared and hated pitcher perhaps best known for his vicious knockdown pitches that made batters tre...
View full detailsMazes of the Serpent
Roger B. Salomon
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• Author(s): Roger B. Salomon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceIn a compact, readable, and accessible book, Roger B. Salomon explores the nature of horror in literatu...
View full detailsBorders and Brethren: Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijani Identity
Brenda Shaffer
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• Author(s): Brenda Shaffer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe Azerbaijani people have been divided between Iran and the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan for more than 150 years, yet they h...
View full detailsBroadway Musicals: A Hundred Year History
David H. Lewis
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• Author(s): David H. Lewis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Broadway & Musicals Musicals have been a major part of American theater for many years, and nowhere have they bee...
View full detailsBritish Author House Museums and Other Memorials: A Guide to Sites in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Shirley Hoover Biggers
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• Author(s): Shirley Hoover Biggers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General The most celebrated authors of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are immortalized n...
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Kosciuszko, We Are Here!: American Pilots of the Kosciuszko Squadron in Defense of Poland, 1919-1921
Kosciuszko, We Are Here!: American Pilots of the Kosciuszko Squadron in Defense of Poland, 1919-1921
Janusz Cisek
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• Author(s): Janusz Cisek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Poland was in ruins after World War I. The fighting front had rolled through some areas more than seven different times,...
View full detailsDigital Dragon: High-Technology Enterprises in China
Adam Segal
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• Author(s): Adam Segal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - Computers & Information TechnologyDuring the economic reforms of the last twenty years, China adopted a wide arr...
View full detailsHispanas de Queens
Milagros Ricourt, Ruby Danta
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• Author(s): Milagros Ricourt | Ruby Danta • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhat happens when persons of several Latin American national groups reside...
View full detailsKilling for Life
Carol Mason
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• Author(s): Carol Mason • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political AdvocacyHow can those who seek to protect the "right to life" defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol ...
View full detailsMontgomery Clift: A Biography
Michelangelo Capua
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• Author(s): Michelangelo Capua • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts At the peak of his career in the 1950s, Montgomery Clift was the symbol of a very talen...
View full detailsCrime Fighting Heroes of Television: Over 10,000 Facts from 151 Shows, 1949-2001
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Superheroes and characters who fight crime by extraordinary means have populated the television airwaves from t...
View full detailsVision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception
Alva Noë, Evan Thompson
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• Author(s): Alva Noë | Evan Thompson • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: EpistemologyThe philosophy of perception is a microcosm of the metaphysics of mind. Its central problems--What is perception? What is the...
View full detailsPercival Lowell's Big Red Car: The Tale of an Astonomer and a 1911 Steves-Duryea
William Lowell Putnam
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• Author(s): William Lowell Putnam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History This is the story of one car--a 1911 Stevens-Duryea Model Y "Big Six"--and its famous owner Perciva...
View full detailsThe Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction: A Critical Study of a New Literary Genre
Peter Brigg
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• Author(s): Peter Brigg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more...
View full detailsMadonna as Postmodern Myth: How One Star's Self-Construction Rewrites Sex, Gender, Hollywood and the American Dream
Georges-Claude Guilbert
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• Author(s): Georges-Claude Guilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater cultural importance by ...
View full detailsReading Psychoanalysis
Peter L. Rudnytsky
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• Author(s): Peter L. Rudnytsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisIn a stunning fusion of literary criticism and intellectual history, Peter L. Rudnytsky explore...
View full detailsArchitectural Acoustics
Christopher N. Brooks
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• Author(s): Christopher N. Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation Acoustics as a branch of physics involves heavy mathematics, and the practi...
View full detailsRussia at Play
Louise McReynolds
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• Author(s): Louise McReynolds • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionAn athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a mov...
View full detailsMitsui Madhouse: Memoir of A U.S. Army Air Corps POW in World War II
Herbert Zincke, Scott A. Mills
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• Author(s): Herbert Zincke | Scott A. Mills • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Herbert Zincke was stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines when Japanese aircraft struck there on...
View full detailsThe Invention of Native American Literature: A New Approach to Dealing with Hostile, Threatening, and Uncivil Behavior
Robert Dale Parker
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• Author(s): Robert Dale Parker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Nat...
View full detailsScandal Nation
Kathryn Temple
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• Author(s): Kathryn Temple • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeKathryn Temple argues that eighteenth-century Grub Street scandals involving prin...
View full detailsTelerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control
Thomas B. Sheridan
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• Author(s): Thomas B. Sheridan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: RoboticsThis reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common...
View full detailsMade-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Gary L. Drescher
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• Author(s): Gary L. Drescher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Intelligence (AI) & SemanticsMade-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer progr...
View full detailsAnti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America
Cyndy Hendershot
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• Author(s): Cyndy Hendershot • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America's attention turned from world w...
View full detailsNationalism and Revolution in Indonesia
George McT Kahin, Benedict R. O'g Anderson
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• Author(s): George McT Kahin | Benedict R. O'g Anderson • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaProfessor Kahin's classic 1952 study, reprinted for a...
View full detailsThe Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily
Gordon S. Brown
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• Author(s): Gordon S. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Italy The Normans originally came to Italy and Sicily in the 11th and 12th centuries looking for adventure or a livel...
View full detailsCulture and Subjective Well-Being
Edward Diener, Eunkook M. Suh
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• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...
View full detailsShort-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops
Wesley Hyatt
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• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews Do you remember the 1959 game show where ABC cancelled a tape featuring a female impersonator (...
View full detailsSeeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy
Paul J. Niemeyer
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• Author(s): Paul J. Niemeyer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism "Great authors" are increasingly being encountered by general audiences and critics than...
View full detailsGermany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories
Omer Bartov
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• Author(s): Omer Bartov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HolocaustOmer Bartov, a leading scholar of the Wehrmacht and the Holocaust, provides a critical analysis of various recent ways ...
View full detailsThe Moviegoing Experience, 1968-2001
Richard W. Haines
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• Author(s): Richard W. Haines • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The experience of going to the movies, be it a single screen theater, twin, multiplex or driv...
View full detailsThe First Evidence: A Memoir of Life in Iraq Under Saddam Hussein
Juman Kubba
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• Author(s): Juman Kubba • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Few countries in contemporary times have had more political intrigue, violence and terror than the Iraq of Sa...
View full detailsRobert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered: New Critical Perspectives
William B. Jones
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• Author(s): William B. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Critical interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has never been greater. New editions of the autho...
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