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Emerson's Life in Science
Laura Dassow Walls
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• Author(s): Laura Dassow Walls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralRalph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of...
View full detailsComic Strip Artists in American Newspapers, 1945-1980
Moira Davison Reynolds
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• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Millions of Americans know and love Charlie Brown and Snoopy, Blondie and Dagwood, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner...
View full detailsOpera for Libraries: A Guide to Core Works, Audio and Video Recordings, Books and Serials
Clyde T. McCants
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• Author(s): Clyde T. McCants • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Opera is a unique expression of the human mind and spirit--a play that communicates plot, charac...
View full detailsSystematic Analysis of University Libraries: An Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to the MIT Libraries
Jeffrey A. Raffel, Robert Shishko, Fred C. Ikle
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• Author(s): Jeffrey A. Raffel | Robert Shishko | Fred C. Ikle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Accounting - GeneralA study in the systematic policy analysis of the MIT Libraries. The study identifies two principal m...
View full detailsSelected Readings in Macroeconomics and Capital Theory from Econometrica
David Cass, Lionel W. McKenzie
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• Author(s): David Cass | Lionel W. McKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsA great many of the most important developments in modern economics were first revealed in the pages of Economet...
View full detailsUnfinished Business: An Agenda for Labor, Management, and the Public
Abraham J. Siegel, David B. Lipsky
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• Author(s): Abraham J. Siegel | David B. Lipsky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralWriting in the New York Times, dateline Cambridge, Mass., March 23, 1977, A.H. Raskin reported as follows: Never had so...
View full detailsMultinationals from Small Countries
Tamir Agmon, Charles P. Kindleberger
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• Author(s): Tamir Agmon | Charles P. Kindleberger • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - GeneralIt is generally known that the United States, a large country, has spawned business corporations that transcend...
View full detailsGood Night, Chet: A Biography of Chet Huntley
Lyle Johnston
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• Author(s): Lyle Johnston • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Media Studies""If a judgment were ever rendered on all the multi-million words I have spoken into microphones, I hope so...
View full detailsUrban Migration and Economic Development in Chile
Bruce H. Herrick
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• Author(s): Bruce H. Herrick • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThe years between 1940 and 1960 in Chile were marked by economicstagnation. Urban migration, reflecting this economic decay, as well a...
View full detailsThesaurus of Textile Terms, second edition: Covering Fibrous Materials and Processes
Stanley Backer, Emery I. Valko
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• Author(s): Stanley Backer | Emery I. Valko • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Chemical & BiochemicalThis thesaurus provides an indispensable tool in the area of textile information storage and retrieval. At prese...
View full detailsThe World and the Great-Power Triangles
William E. Griffith
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• Author(s): William E. Griffith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe coming of Sino-U.S. and Soviet-U.S. détente in the early 1970's and the resulting shift in international relation...
View full detailsSunday Baseball: The Major Leagues' Struggle to Play Baseball on the Lord's Day, 1876-1934
Charlie Bevis
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• Author(s): Charlie Bevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Playing baseball on Sunday was a divisive issue in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On one ...
View full detailsThe Rules of Play
David Leheny
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• Author(s): David Leheny • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Japanese government seeks to influence the use of leisure time to a degree that America...
View full detailsFalse Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management And Why Their Ideas Are Bad For Business Today
James Hoopes
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• Author(s): James Hoopes • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Management - GeneralAccording to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based-authority, power, control-are increasingly at odds wit...
View full detailsAtomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945-1955
Michael Scheibach
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• Author(s): Michael Scheibach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, numerous "atomic narratives"--books, newspapers,...
View full detailsA History of Modern Computing
Paul E. Ceruzzi
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• Author(s): Paul E. Ceruzzi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History
The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives
Jan P. Hogendijk, Abdelhamid I. Sabra
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• Author(s): Jan P. Hogendijk | Abdelhamid I. Sabra • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryRecent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.Between A.D. 800 and 1450, the most impo...
View full detailsEast Timor: A Memoir of the Negotiations for Independence
Jamsheed Marker
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• Author(s): Jamsheed Marker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia Following the end of the Salazar dictatorship and the establishment of democracy in Portugal in 1975, Ea...
View full detailsEating Disorders: A Handbook for Teens, Families, and Teachers
Tania Heller
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• Author(s): Tania Heller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Eating Disorders & Body Image "If I gain any weight, I'll lose all control." These words, spoken by a 14-year-old anorexia ne...
View full detailsHow to Become a Professional Baseball Player
Bo Durkac
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• Author(s): Bo Durkac • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The way to becoming a professional ballplayer is not an easy one. So many factors are out of a player's control. ...
View full detailsChicago Aviation: An Illustrated History
David M. Young
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• Author(s): David M. Young • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryFrom the dawn of flight, Chicago has played a vital role in the development of aviation...
View full detailsJean-Jacques Rousseau
Joseph Reisert
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• Author(s): Joseph Reisert • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyScholars have long debated the contribution Rousseau has made to political thought. Is he a theo...
View full detailsAffirmative Exclusion: Cultural Pluralism and the Rule of Custom in France
Jean-Loup Amselle, Jane Marie Todd
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• Author(s): Jean-Loup Amselle | Jane Marie Todd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialJean-Loup Amselle explores the issue of multiculturalism by delving ...
View full detailsSovereign Nations, Carnal States
Kam Shapiro
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• Author(s): Kam Shapiro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralSovereign Nations, Carnal States is an extraordinarily synthetic intellectual tour de force. Kam S...
View full detailsWhen Baseball Returned to Brooklyn: The Inaugural Season of the New York-Penn League Cyclones
Ed Shakespeare
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• Author(s): Ed Shakespeare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Major league baseball has a long, rich history in Brooklyn. From the time Brooklyn started play in 1884 unti...
View full detailsGendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages
Mary C. Erler, Maryanne Kowaleski
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• Author(s): Mary C. Erler | Maryanne Kowaleski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesGendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed...
View full detailsFlattop Fighting in World War II: The Battles Between American and Japanese Aircraft Carriers
Patrick Degan
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• Author(s): Patrick Degan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General World War II's naval battles between the United States and Japan have been the sub...
View full detailsArtificial Love: A Story of Machines and Architecture
Paul Shepheard
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• Author(s): Paul Shepheard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism
What Makes an Elite Pitcher?: Young, Mathewson, Johnson, Alexander, Grove, Spahn, Seaver, Clemens, and Maddux
Warren N. Wilbert
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• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Elite baseball pitchers are elite for a reason. They seem to have it all: a variety of pitches that no on...
View full detailsThe Poe Cinema: A Critical Filmography of Theatrical Releases Based on the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Don G. Smith
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• Author(s): Don G. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Who can forget haunting tales like "The Oblong Box," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "Tortur...
View full detailsManagement: Inventing and Delivering Its Future
Thomas A. Kochan, Richard Schmalensee
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• Author(s): Thomas A. Kochan | Richard Schmalensee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Manageme...
View full detailsRevolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out
Katia Roberto, Jessamyn West
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• Author(s): Katia Roberto | Jessamyn West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General "Revolting librarians aren't defined by what they are, they are defi...
View full detailsWorking Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff
Tom Zaniello
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• Author(s): Tom Zaniello • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsThe revised and expanded edition of Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff offers 350 titles compared to the original edi...
View full detailsStand and Deliver: A History of Pinch-Hitting
Paul Votano
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• Author(s): Paul Votano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History From "Princeton Charlie" Reilly, the first pinch-hitter ever, to today's pinnacle in pinch-hitting, Lenny Harri...
View full detailsWatching M*A*S*H, Watching America: A Social History of the 1972-1983 Television Series
James H. Wittebols
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• Author(s): James H. Wittebols • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism It has been said that M*A*S*H was a show set in the 1950s which reflected the shifting...
View full detailsAlternative Lives of Jesus: Noncanonical Accounts Through the Early Middle Ages
Roland H. Worth
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• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - History - General There is a body of religious literature, most of which was written centuries after the New Te...
View full detailsSurgeons and the Scope
James R. Zetka
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• Author(s): James R. Zetka • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: HistoryIn Surgeons and the Scope, James R. Zetka Jr. describes the impact of the video laparoscope on the work lives of contemporary surgeons. The video la...
View full detailsIn War's Dark Shadow
W. Bruce Lincoln
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• Author(s): W. Bruce Lincoln • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyIn the quarter century before World War I, change came to Russia at a dizzying pac...
View full detailsEbbets to Veeck to Busch: Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball
Burton A. Boxerman, Benita W. Boxerman
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• Author(s): Burton A. Boxerman | Benita W. Boxerman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few abou...
View full detailsKim Il Sung and Korea's Struggle: An Unconventional Firsthand History
Won Tai Sohn
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• Author(s): Won Tai Sohn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General In 1910, Japan took control over Korea by military and political force. Then, in 1945, Korea was arbitrarily...
View full detailsUnwanted Company: Foreign Investment in American Industries
Jonathan Crystal
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• Author(s): Jonathan Crystal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn the last quarter century, the U.S. economy has been transformed by a large inflow of dire...
View full detailsBali and the Tourist Industry: A History, 1906-1942
David Shavit
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• Author(s): David Shavit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Industries - General The island of Bali's sensational image was created by the tourists, artists, and scholars who visited the ti...
View full detailsShakespeare and Jungian Typology: A Reading of the Plays
Kenneth Tucker
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• Author(s): Kenneth Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare The reader of Shakespeare has always been curious about the Bard's actual religion, opinions, sexual orientation, a...
View full detailsFort Limhi: The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory 1855-1858 Volume 6
David L. Bigler
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• Author(s): David L. Bigler • Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company • Publisher Imprint: Arthur H. Clark Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Pacific NorthwestIn 1855 the Mormons established a mission at the foot of famous Lemhi Pas...
View full detailsInterpreting Minds
Radu J. Bogdan
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• Author(s): Radu J. Bogdan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EpistemologyUnlike most current researchers in philosophy and psychology, who view interpretation as a way to understand the minds and behavior of others, ...
View full detailsDark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930
Patrick Brantlinger
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• Author(s): Patrick Brantlinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPatrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "pri...
View full detailsThe Person of the Therapist
Edward W. L. Smith
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• Author(s): Edward W. L. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The techniques of psychotherapy are often given undue emphasis, slighting the importance of the psychotherapist. Re...
View full detailsThe Man Who Tasted Shapes, Revised Edition
Richard E. Cytowic, Jonathan Cole
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• Author(s): Richard E. Cytowic | Jonathan Cole • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuropsychologyIn this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, or "joined sensation," illuminates a wide sw...
View full detailsEthical Leadership for School Administrators and Teachers
Joseph P. Hester
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• Author(s): Joseph P. Hester • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Administration - General The mission of educational leadership seems to have shifted from culture growth to standardized test...
View full detailsThe Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
Slavoj Zizek
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• Author(s): Slavoj Zizek • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralOne of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first ...
View full detailsDiscerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages
Nancy Mandeville Caciola
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• Author(s): Nancy Mandeville Caciola • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalTrance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often reg...
View full detailsBergman's Muses: Aesthetic Versatility in Film, Theatre, Television and Radio
Egil Törnqvist
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• Author(s): Egil Törnqvist • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Bergman is a most versatile director who has devoted himself to several muses in a variety of...
View full detailsThe Saga of Olaf Tryggvason
Oddr Snorrason, Theodore M. Andersson
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• Author(s): Oddr Snorrason | Theodore M. Andersson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralOddr Snorrason, a Benedictine monk in northern Iceland in the late twelfth centur...
View full detailsLet the Credits Roll: Interviews with Film Crew
Barbara Baker
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• Author(s): Barbara Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General What exactly is a best boy or a grip? As the credits roll at the end of every film, listing the names of all the ...
View full detailsSurvivor Lessons: Essays on Communication and Reality Television
Matthew J. Smith, Andrew F. Wood
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• Author(s): Matthew J. Smith | Andrew F. Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This collection of scholarly essays examines reality television. The first show, Surviv...
View full detailsTracing Genres Through Organizations: A Sociocultural Approach to Information Design
Clay Spinuzzi
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• Author(s): Clay Spinuzzi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Information TechnologyA sociocultural study of workers' ad hoc genre innovations and their significance for information design.In Tracing Genres through Org...
View full detailsConverging Worlds: Religion and Community in Peasant Russia, 1861-1917
Chris Chulos
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• Author(s): Chris Chulos • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - OrthodoxConverging Worlds describes the interplay between peasant religious life and the bro...
View full detailsWillard Gayheart, Appalachian Artist
Willard Gayheart, Donia S. Eley
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• Author(s): Willard Gayheart | Donia S. Eley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General Willard Gayheart, a pencil artist from eastern Kentucky who now l...
View full detailsBuffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II
Hondon B. Hargrove
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• Author(s): Hondon B. Hargrove • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The 92nd Infantry ("Buffalo") Division was the last segregated (all-black) U....
View full detailsEuropäische Grundrechte Und Grundfreiheiten
Dirk Ehlers
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• Author(s): Dirk Ehlers • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: ConstitutionalDas europäische Recht verdrängt und verlagert immer mehr das nationale Recht. Die bisherigen Darstellungen des Europarechts orientieren sich z...
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