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Scalable Input/Output: Achieving System Balance
Daniel A. Reed
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• Author(s): Daniel A. Reed • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Hardware - PeripheralsThe major research results from the Scalable Input/Output Initiative, exploring software and algorithmic solutions to the I/O imbalan...
View full detailsIslam in the African-American Experience, Second Edition
Richard Brent Turner
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• Author(s): Richard Brent Turner • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Islam - General"[Sure to become] a classic in the field. Highly recommended." --Library Journal". . . full ...
View full detailsFathers, Families, and the State in France, 1914-1945
Kristen Stromberg Childers
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• Author(s): Kristen Stromberg Childers • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Parenting - FatherhoodThe state's policy with regard to fathers and fatherhood had a great impact on concepts of ...
View full detailsThe Great Shutout Pitchers: Twenty Profiles of a Vanishing Breed
Joe MacKay
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• Author(s): Joe MacKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Throughout baseball's long history, only twenty pitchers have thrown fifty or more complete game shutouts. In al...
View full detailsBuilding Democracy in Contemporary Russia: Western Support for Grassroots Organizations
Sarah L. Henderson
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• Author(s): Sarah L. Henderson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralCan foreign donors help build new democracies? In the 1990s, public and private organizations such as USAI...
View full detailsBallots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence
Evelyn Savidge Sterne
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• Author(s): Evelyn Savidge Sterne • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New EnglandBy the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early indus...
View full detailsAeschylus: Agamemnon
Aeschylus, Philip de May, Philip de May
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• Author(s): Aeschylus | Philip de May | Philip de May • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesTreating ancient plays as living drama. Classical G...
View full detailsIdentity and the Natural Environment: The Psychological Significance of Nature
Susan Clayton, Susan Opotow
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• Author(s): Susan Clayton | Susan Opotow • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyThe often impassioned nature of environmental conflicts can be attributed to the fact that they are bound up with our sense ...
View full detailsThe Transformation of Central Asia
Pauline Jones Luong
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• Author(s): Pauline Jones Luong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaWith the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, former Communist Party leaders in Central Asia were faced ...
View full detailsThe Television Crime Fighters Factbook: Over 9,800 Details from 301 Programs, 1937-2003
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Did you know that detective Adrian Mont (Monk) is afraid of milk? That Pinky's real first name on The Roa...
View full detailsHarry S. Truman
Robert H. Ferrell
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• Author(s): Robert H. Ferrell • Publisher: CQ Press • Publisher Imprint: CQ Press • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of StateEach volume in the new American Presidents Reference Series is organized around an individual presidency and gathers a host...
View full detailsJerry Wiesner, Scientist, Statesman, Humanist: Memories and Memoirs
Judy Rosenblith, Edward M. Kennedy
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• Author(s): Judy Rosenblith | Edward M. Kennedy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science & TechnologyHow Jerry Wiesner, presidential science adviser and president of MIT, worked to make a better and safer world,...
View full detailsVeiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia
Douglas T. Northrop
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• Author(s): Douglas T. Northrop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaDrawing on extensive research in the archives of Russia and Uzbekistan, Douglas Northrop here reconst...
View full detailsThe Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects
Charles Altieri
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• Author(s): Charles Altieri • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThis brilliant, penetrating, and ambitious book by a well-known literary theorist studies the complex ...
View full detailsThird-Sector Development: Making Up for the Market
Christopher Gunn
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• Author(s): Christopher Gunn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentNonprofit corporations, cooperatives, and credit unions constitute an alternative avenue ...
View full detailsEudora Welty and Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature
Marion Montgomery
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• Author(s): Marion Montgomery • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South an...
View full detailsClinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany: A History of Psychiatric Practice
Eric J. Engstrom
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• Author(s): Eric J. Engstrom • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralThe psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginnin...
View full detailsBlack Professional Women in Recent American Fiction
Carmen Rose Marshall
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• Author(s): Carmen Rose Marshall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies The last three decades of the 20th century have marked the triumph of many black professional women again...
View full detailsUnnaturally French: Foreign Citizens in the Old Regime and After
Peter Sahlins
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• Author(s): Peter Sahlins • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and un...
View full detailsArmando Marsans: A Cuban Pioneer in the Major Leagues
Peter T. Toot
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• Author(s): Peter T. Toot • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Armando Marsans, who joined the Cincinnati Reds in 1911, was the first Cuban star of the major leagues. Event...
View full detailsPlato "Protagoras" and "Meno"
Plato, Robert C. Bartlett
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• Author(s): Plato | Robert C. Bartlett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, the Protagoras and ...
View full detailsAmerican Cars in Prewar England: A Pictorial Survey
Bryan Goodman
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• Author(s): Bryan Goodman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History After World War I, there was a great hunger for cars in Britain. Many servicemen had learned to drive and h...
View full detailsThe Jews in Colonial America
Oscar Reiss
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• Author(s): Oscar Reiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period The first synagogue in colonial America was built in New York City in 1730 on land that was purcha...
View full detailsRomanticism
David Stevens
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• Author(s): David Stevens • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceCritical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Romanticism offers guidance through t...
View full detailsRuling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
Milton L. Mueller
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• Author(s): Milton L. Mueller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralIn Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and govern...
View full detailsProtagoras and Meno
Plato, Robert C. Bartlett
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• Author(s): Plato | Robert C. Bartlett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThis volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, t...
View full detailsThe Bamboo Gulag: Political Imprisonment in Communist Vietnam
Nghia M. Vo
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• Author(s): Nghia M. Vo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism This comprehensive review of the gulag system instituted in commu...
View full detailsProduction Design in the Contemporary American Film: A Critical Study of 23 Movies and Their Designers
Beverly Heisner
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• Author(s): Beverly Heisner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production While the viewer's eyes are trained on the actors, the production design sets the mood for t...
View full detailsChristy Mathewson: A Biography
Michael Hartley
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• Author(s): Michael Hartley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Mathewson, one of the towering figures in baseball history, won 373 games in 17 seasons, all but one of those victories...
View full detailsMechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust
Donald MacKenzie
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• Author(s): Donald MacKenzie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceMost aspects of our private and social lives--our safety, the integrity of the financial system, the functioning of utilities and other s...
View full detailsCorporate Financing and Governance in Japan: The Road to the Future
Takeo Hoshi, Anil K. Kashyap, Stanley Fischer
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• Author(s): Takeo Hoshi | Anil K. Kashyap | Stanley Fischer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Banks & BankingIn this book, Takeo Hoshi and Anil Kashyap examine the history of the Japanese financial system, from i...
View full detailsNineteenth Century Baseball: Year-By-Year Statistics for the Major League Teams, 1871 Through 1900
Marshall D. Wright
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• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In March 1871, ten of the United States' most powerful professional baseball clubs met in Brooklyn, New ...
View full detailsOrganizing Crime in Chinatown: Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890-1910
Jeffrey Scott McIllwain
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Scott McIllwain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology More than a century ago, organized criminals were intrinsically involved with the political, social, and e...
View full detailsJimmie Foxx: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967
W. Harrison Daniel
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• Author(s): W. Harrison Daniel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports In February 1925, 17-year-old Jimmie Foxx left his home in Sudlersville, Maryland, and joined the Philadelphia Athle...
View full detailsDirt Track Auto Racing, 1919-1941: A Pictorial History
Don Radbruch
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• Author(s): Don Radbruch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports - General Prior to World War I, auto racing featured expensive machines and teams financed by auto factories. The te...
View full detailsNationalism and Historical Loss in Renaissance England
Andrew Escobedo
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• Author(s): Andrew Escobedo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshAndrew Escobedo here seeks to provide a new understanding of the emergence of national consci...
View full detailsNobody's Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
Thomas Edward Gass, Bruce C. Vladeck
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• Author(s): Thomas Edward Gass | Bruce C. Vladeck • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health Care Delivery"At present nursing homes are designed... like outmoded zoos. Residents are kept in small rooms, emotionally iso...
View full detailsHerbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
Arvis Locklear Boughman, Loretta O. Oxendine
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• Author(s): Arvis Locklear Boughman | Loretta O. Oxendine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Herbal Medications "There's nothing happens to a person that can't be cured if you get what it t...
View full detailsNietzsche and Zion
Jacob Golomb
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• Author(s): Jacob Golomb • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - General"Nietzsche's ideas were widely disseminated among and appropriated by the first Hebrew Zionist writers and l...
View full detailsAbel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability
Peter Pesic
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• Author(s): Peter Pesic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & PhilosophyThe intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics.In 1824 a young Norwegian named ...
View full detailsBest Teaching Practices for Reaching All Learners: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do
Randi Stone
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• Author(s): Randi Stone • Publisher: Corwin Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Corwin Publishers • BISAC: Teaching - GeneralHow are the best teachers in our nation reaching students? This one-of-a-kind educational resource provides ideas from 43 of...
View full detailsMemory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America
Susan Stabile
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• Author(s): Susan Stabile • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - RegionalA renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia--Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Debo...
View full detailsA Woman's Work: Writing Baseball History with Harold Seymour
Dorothy Jane Mills
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• Author(s): Dorothy Jane Mills • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports From 1949 until 1990, Dorothy Jane Mills quietly contributed her research and writing to the first baseball historie...
View full detailsForeign Films in America: A History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Foreign films once enjoyed a position of prominence on American theater screens. By the start of Wor...
View full detailsIn the Shadow of Just Wars: Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action
Médecins Sans Frontières, Fabrice Weissman
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• Author(s): Médecins Sans Frontières | Fabrice Weissman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDuring the planning stages of military intervention in Iraq, hu...
View full detailsRacism in Mind
Michael P. Levine, Tamas Pataki
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• Author(s): Michael P. Levine | Tamas Pataki • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)This philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of racism brings toget...
View full detailsThe Scorsese Psyche on Screen: Roots of Themes and Characters in the Films
Maria T. Miliora
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• Author(s): Maria T. Miliora • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production This study examines the life and work of acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese, showing t...
View full detailsImmigrants, Progressives, and Exclusion Politics: The Dillingham Commission, 1900-1927
Robert F. Zeidel
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• Author(s): Robert F. Zeidel • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe "Great American Problem" at the turn of the twentieth century was immig...
View full detailsThe Brevard Rosenwald School: Black Education and Community Building in a Southern Appalachian Town, 1920-1966
Betty J. Reed
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• Author(s): Betty J. Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies A century ago, the Brevard Rosenwald School in Transylvania Cou...
View full detailsMr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium: Baseball Films in the Capra Tradition
Wes D. Gehring
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• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the "feel good" movie genre now ...
View full detailsWhat's Class Got to Do with It?: American Society in the Twenty-First Century
Michael Zweig
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• Author(s): Michael Zweig • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union"Whether in regard to the economy or issues of war and peace, class is central to our everyday lives. Yet class has not ...
View full detailsThe Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
Russell Frank Weigley
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• Author(s): Russell Frank Weigley • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Military - General"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perh...
View full detailsThe Sporting Muse: A Critical Study of Poetry about Athletes and Athletics
Don Johnson
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• Author(s): Don Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This study analyzes contemporary American sports poetry, demonstrating that poems about sports express common a...
View full detailsRussia Gets the Blues
Michael Urban, Andrei Evdokimov
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• Author(s): Michael Urban | Andrei Evdokimov • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EthnomusicologyMichael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance o...
View full detailsItalian Horror Films of the 1960s: A Critical Catalog of 62 Chillers
Lawrence McCallum
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• Author(s): Lawrence McCallum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Until I vampiri (The Vampires) in 1956, Italian filmmakers generally eschewed horror in favor o...
View full detailsHmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land
Sue Murphy Mote
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• Author(s): Sue Murphy Mote • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbe...
View full detailsJules Verne on Film: A Filmography of the Cinematic Adaptations of His Works, 1902 Through 1997
Thomas C. Renzi
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• Author(s): Thomas C. Renzi • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Jules Verne--Voila!--a name that resonates with visions of fantastic adventures and images of exot...
View full detailsDistracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture
Carol Thomas Neely
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• Author(s): Carol Thomas Neely • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareIn the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobil...
View full detailsMoving Pictures and Classic Images: Memories of Forty Years in the Vintage Film Hobby
Samuel K. Rubin
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• Author(s): Samuel K. Rubin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General In 1962, Samuel K. Rubin founded 8mm Collector, the predecessor to Classic Images, a widely respected publica...
View full detailsChaucer as Children's Literature: Retellings from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras
Velma Bourgeois Richmond
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• Author(s): Velma Bourgeois Richmond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature Although Geoffrey Chaucer is the major author for Middle English studies, he ...
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