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Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America
Claire Sponsler
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• Author(s): Claire Sponsler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThroughout the Americas, performances deriving from medieval European rituals, ceremonies, and festiv...
View full detailsOvid and the Moderns
Theodore Ziolkowski
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• Author(s): Theodore Ziolkowski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and Classical"The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid--his life as well as his works--at the turn of ...
View full detailsSophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles, Eamon Grennan, Rachel Kitzinger
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• Author(s): Sophocles | Eamon Grennan | Rachel Kitzinger • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThe latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations s...
View full detailsDonatello Among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy
Claudia Lazzaro, Roger J. Crum
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• Author(s): Claudia Lazzaro | Roger J. Crum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists' appropr...
View full detailsWe Were Next to Nothing: An American POW's Account of Japanese Prison Camps and Deliverance in World War II
Carl S. Nordin
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• Author(s): Carl S. Nordin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On December 1, 1941, the author's unit was sent to the southern Philippine island...
View full detailsSnake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones: The American Medicine Show
Ann Anderson
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• Author(s): Ann Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment ...
View full detailsStan Getz: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography, with Song and Session Information for Albums
Nicholas Churchill
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• Author(s): Nicholas Churchill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference Some may only know the jazz legend Stan Getz, tenor saxophonist, for his bossa nova hits "Desafinado" and ...
View full detailsThe Dr. Seuss Catalog: An Annotated Guide to Works by Theodor Geisel in All Media, Writings about Him, and Appearances of Characters and Places in the
Richard H. F. Lindemann
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• Author(s): Richard H. F. Lindemann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Theodor Seuss Geisel--known worldwide as the beloved children's author Dr. Seuss--produce...
View full detailsThe Road to the Temple: A Biography of George Cram Cook
Susan Glaspell
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• Author(s): Susan Glaspell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Eugene O' Neill is one of America's most celebrated playwrights, but relatively few Americans know the name of the man ...
View full detailsThe Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models
John M. Gottman, James D. Murray, Catherine C. Swanson
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• Author(s): John M. Gottman | James D. Murray | Catherine C. Swanson • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyDivorce rates are at an all-time high. But without a theoretical underst...
View full detailsJeff Chandler: Film, Record, Radio, Television and Theater Performances
Jeff Wells
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• Author(s): Jeff Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Ruggedly handsome Jeff Chandler won over fans with his versatile acting in film, television, radio, and theatre. He ...
View full detailsConsidering Aaron Sorkin: Essays on the Politics, Poetics and Sleight of Hand in the Films and Television Series
Thomas Fahy
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• Author(s): Thomas Fahy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Aaron Sorkin is one of the most notable voices in Hollywood, attracting millions of weekly viewers with his tel...
View full detailsMortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS
Robert Klitzman, Ronald Bayer
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• Author(s): Robert Klitzman | Ronald Bayer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: EthicsIn the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily availa...
View full detailsPostcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film
Roy Armes
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• Author(s): Roy Armes • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPostcolonial Images is a comprehensive introduction to and resource for cinema of the Ma...
View full detailsIs There Life After Death?: An Examination of the Empirical Evidence
David Lester
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• Author(s): David Lester • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General People have believed in the existence of life after death throughout human history and in all regions...
View full detailsMind, second edition: Introduction to Cognitive Science
Paul Thagard
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• Author(s): Paul Thagard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionCognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary perspective, working at the int...
View full detailsThe Multicultural Dictionary of Proverbs: Over 20,000 Adages from More Than 120 Languages, Nationalities and Ethnic Groups
Harold V. Cordry
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• Author(s): Harold V. Cordry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Quotations All cultures have proverbs that capsulize subjects simply and effectively. Many of these are cross-cultural. For e...
View full detailsThe Image of Librarians in Cinema, 1917-1999
Ray Tevis, Brenda Tevis
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• Author(s): Ray Tevis | Brenda Tevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From its earliest days to the present, the onscreen image of the librarian has remained largely the sa...
View full detailsElectra After Freud: Myth and Culture
Jill Scott
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• Author(s): Jill Scott • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - German"Electra's story is essentially a tale of murder, revenge, and violence. In the ancient myth of Atreus, Agamemno...
View full detailsPay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews
Bruce Nauman, Janet Kraynak
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• Author(s): Bruce Nauman | Janet Kraynak • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralThe most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews ...
View full detailsThe Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
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• Author(s): Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Interactive & MultimediaA theory of HCI that uses concepts from semiotics and computer science to focus on the communication between desi...
View full detailsThe Burroughs Cyclopaedia: Characters, Places, Fauna, Flora, Technologies, Languages, Ideas and Terminologies Found in the Works of Edgar Rice Burroug
Clark A. Brady
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• Author(s): Clark A. Brady • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Edgar Rice Burroughs was not satisfied with creating characters and events within the world that we know; instead he cr...
View full detailsRadio Sound Effects: Who Did It, and How, in the Era of Live Broadcasting
Robert L. Mott
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• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism To today's radio listener, it is difficult to imagine the influence radio once held over the Am...
View full detailsVenice Triumphant: The Horizons of a Myth
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Lydia G. Cochrane
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• Author(s): Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan | Lydia G. Cochrane • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyPerhaps more than in any other city, Venice has been shaped by its env...
View full detailsText & Presentation, 2004
Stratos E. Constantinidis
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• Author(s): Stratos E. Constantinidis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It...
View full detailsRKO Features: A Complete Filmography of the Feature Films Released or Produced by RKO Radio Pictures, 1929-1960
James L. Neibaur
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• Author(s): James L. Neibaur • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Noted for its "B" westerns, RKO also produced several movie classics; two were Citizen Kane and Gunga Din. Com...
View full detailsThe 1940 Cincinnati Reds: A World Championship and Baseball's Only In-Season Suicide
Brian Mulligan
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• Author(s): Brian Mulligan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History One of the oldest and most celebrated franchises in baseball history, the Cincinnati Reds have left an indel...
View full detailsVoices from the Negro Leagues: Conversations with 52 Baseball Standouts of the Period 1924-1960
Brent Kelley
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• Author(s): Brent Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball lore is replete with the tales of such legendary Negro League stars as Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell,...
View full detailsThe Films of John Carpenter
John Kenneth Muir
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• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal s...
View full detailsBefore They Were the Bombers: The New York Yankees' Early Years, 1903-1915
Jim Reisler
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• Author(s): Jim Reisler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Many histories of the New York Yankees only skim the early years in their rush to pick up with the 1919 season ...
View full detailsBootstrap Dreams
Nancy Jurik
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• Author(s): Nancy Jurik • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralDeclines in real wages, increases in the number of poor families, and cutbacks to welfare and other safety-net programs have stimulated the p...
View full detailsThe Power of Everyday Politics: How Vietnamese Peasants Transformed National Policy
Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
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• Author(s): Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Industries - AgribusinessOrdinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy:...
View full detailsSo the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series
John T. Irwin, Jean McGarry, John Barth
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• Author(s): John T. Irwin | Jean McGarry | John Barth • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and...
View full detailsJoe McCarthy: Architect of the Yankee Dynasty
Alan H. Levy
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• Author(s): Alan H. Levy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Joe McCarthy was headed towards a career as a plumber--until the parish priest intervened, and convinced McCarthy's mot...
View full detailsThe Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-Of-The-Century Odessa
Vladimir Jabotinsky, Michael R. Katz, Michael Stanislawski
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• Author(s): Vladimir Jabotinsky | Michael R. Katz | Michael Stanislawski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Historical - General"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates ...
View full detailsCambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War
Karen J. Coates
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• Author(s): Karen J. Coates • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia Cambodia has never recovered from its Khmer Rouge past. The genocidal regime of 1975-1979 and the follow...
View full detailsMasks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics
Claude Calame, Peter Burk
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• Author(s): Claude Calame | Peter Burk • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalExploring a variety of literary texts representing different poetic genres, Claude Calame,...
View full detailsThe Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World
Toyin Falola, Matt D. Childs
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• Author(s): Toyin Falola | Matt D. Childs • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesThis innovative anthology focuses on the ensla...
View full detailsNobility Reimagined: The Patriotic Nation in Eighteenth-Century France
Jay M. Smith
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• Author(s): Jay M. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the cou...
View full detailsCivil War Sites, Memorials, Museums and Library Collections: A State-By-State Guidebook to Places Open to the Public
Doug Gelbert
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• Author(s): Doug Gelbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Although the exact number will never be known, it is estimated that there were over 10,000 military eng...
View full detailsTony Lazzeri: A Baseball Biography
Paul Votano
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• Author(s): Paul Votano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball player Tony Lazzeri was the first great Italian-American sports superstar. He was known for his excell...
View full detailsThe Independent Carolina Baseball League, 1936-1938: Baseball Outlaws
R. G. (Hank) Utley, Scott Verner
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• Author(s): R. G. (Hank) Utley | Scott Verner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Shortly after the independent Carolina League was formed in 1936, officials of the Nation...
View full detailsAverroes on Plato's Republic
Averroes, Ralph Lerner
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• Author(s): Averroes | Ralph Lerner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical"In one fashion or another, the question with which this introduction...
View full detailsSanctified Vision: An Introduction to Early Christian Interpretation of the Bible
John J. O'Keefe, R. R. Reno
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• Author(s): John J. O'Keefe | R. R. Reno • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn Sanctified Vision John J. O'Keefe and R. R. Reno explain the structure and logic of the e...
View full detailsElise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace
Mary Lee Morrison
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• Author(s): Mary Lee Morrison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Elise Boulding has been among the most influential of social reformers to advocate the integration of peace ...
View full detailsIphigenias at Aulis
Sean Alexander Gurd
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• Author(s): Sean Alexander Gurd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalHow should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and...
View full detailsPerforming Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia
Elizabeth A. Wood
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• Author(s): Elizabeth A. Wood • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionAfter seizing power in 1917, the Bolshevik regime faced the daunting task of educating...
View full detailsThe Iron Horse and the Windy City
David M. Young
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• Author(s): David M. Young • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryWith the coming of railroads, upstart Chicago quickly became the Midwest's center for ...
View full details"Ee-Yah": The Life and Times of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer
Jack Smiles
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• Author(s): Jack Smiles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Baseball player and manager Hugh Ambrose Jennings was the kind of colorful personality who inspired nicknames. Sportswrite...
View full detailsWomen in Horror Films, 1930s
Gregory William Mank
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• Author(s): Gregory William Mank • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy,...
View full detailsGreat Chess Books of the Twentieth Century in English
Alex Dunne
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• Author(s): Alex Dunne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Among the first books ever published was the 1474 translation of the Game and Playe of the Chesse. Ove...
View full detailsRomantic Stages: Set and Costume Design in Victorian England
Alicia Finkel
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• Author(s): Alicia Finkel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography Though Romantic elements in stage design are often thought to have ended with the advent ...
View full detailsThe Art of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West: A Critical Appreciation
John Fawell
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• Author(s): John Fawell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Few directors are characterized by both extraordinary film craft and the ironic reputation for lowbrow films. Despi...
View full detailsProphetic Politics: Christian Social Movements and American Democracy
David S. Gutterman
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• Author(s): David S. Gutterman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - General"In an era of military conflict and economic hardship, religious and political leaders adam...
View full detailsWomen Characters in Baseball Literature: A Critical Study
Kathleen Sullivan
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• Author(s): Kathleen Sullivan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Since the early 20th century, American writers have both recorded and fictionalized the real-life activities...
View full detailsFive Percenter Rap: God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission
Felicia Miyakawa
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• Author(s): Felicia Miyakawa • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful ...
View full detailsUn Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice
Thomas G. Weiss, Tatiana Carayannis, Louis Emmerij
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• Author(s): Thomas G. Weiss | Tatiana Carayannis | Louis Emmerij • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: International Relations - Diplomacy"The authors have cajoled, intrigued, or reassured t...
View full detailsFrom Edison to Marconi: The First Thirty Years of Recorded Music
David J. Steffen
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• Author(s): David J. Steffen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Like any profound technological breakthrough, the advent of sound recording ushered in a peri...
View full detailsKenya: From Colonization to Independence, 1888-1970
R. Mugo Gatheru
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• Author(s): R. Mugo Gatheru • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Africa - General This book relates a series of events leading from Kenya's colonization through its emergence as an independen...
View full detailsRobert E. Howard's Weird Works Volume 3: People of the Dark
Robert E. Howard
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• Author(s): Robert E. Howard • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: Fantasy - Collections & AnthologiesThe third volume of the Weird Works of Robert E. Howard continues reprinting Howard's fantasy from Weird...
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