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Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding
Dusty Miller
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• Author(s): Dusty Miller • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: GeneralMany books have described victims of rape and battering, but scant attention has been paid to another form of harm increasingly common among women...
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: Nursing - Home & Community Care"At present nursing homes are designed... like outmoded zoos. Residents are kept in small rooms, ...
View full detailsCynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert
Ian Cutler
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• Author(s): Ian Cutler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Cynicism began as a school of philosophy that was largely inspired by Socrates and often decried by popular commentators as...
View full detailsStalin's Last War: Korea and the Approach to World War III
Alan J. Levine
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• Author(s): Alan J. Levine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War Often referred to as "The Forgotten War," the Korean War was the only post-World War II combat between ma...
View full detailsFailing Justice: Charles Evans Whittaker on the Supreme Court
Craig Alan Smith
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• Author(s): Craig Alan Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, Associate Justice Charles Evans Whittaker (1957-1962) merited several disti...
View full detailsThe Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: A Critical Edition Including the Original Spanish Text
Alfonso J. García Osuna
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• Author(s): Alfonso J. García Osuna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary The beginning of the golden age of Spanish literature and the particular socio-political circumstances of ear...
View full detailsBest Songs of the Movies: Academy Award Nominees and Winners, 1934-1958
John Funnell
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• Author(s): John Funnell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General "Thanks for the Memory." "Swinging on a Star." "The Way You Look Tonight." Three great and popular standards of th...
View full detailsThe Indonesian Supreme Court
Sebastiaan Pompe
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• Author(s): Sebastiaan Pompe • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaSince the fall of Indonesian president Suharto, a major focus of the country's r...
View full detailsModern Algeria, Second Edition: The Origins and Development of a Nation
John Ruedy
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• Author(s): John Ruedy • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Africa - NorthPraise for the first edition: "[E]ssential reading for Maghreb specialists as well as for anyone intere...
View full detailsA World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium
Peter J. Katzenstein
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• Author(s): Peter J. Katzenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralObserving the dramatic shift in world politics since the end of the Cold War, Peter J....
View full detailsPioneers of Cable Television: The Pennsylvania Founders of an Industry
Brian Lockman, Don Sarvey
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• Author(s): Brian Lockman | Don Sarvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Although there are different opinions about where cable television actually began, a great deal of the inge...
View full detailsAutobiographical Writings on Mexico: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources
Richard D. Woods
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• Author(s): Richard D. Woods • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This is the definitive bibliography of autobiographical writings on Mexico. The book incorporates works by Mexicans...
View full detailsBuying Nature: The Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy, 1780-2004
Sally K. Fairfax, Lauren Gwin, Mary Ann King
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• Author(s): Sally K. Fairfax | Lauren Gwin | Mary Ann King • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralBuying land to conserve it is not a recent phenomenon. Buying Nature c...
View full detailsCritical Resistance: From Poststructuralism to Post-Critique
David Couzens Hoy
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• Author(s): David Couzens Hoy • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralThis book serves as both an introduction to the concept of resistance in poststructuralist thought and an origina...
View full detailsRoscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933
Stuart Oderman
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• Author(s): Stuart Oderman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Fatty Arbuckle's career came to a sudden halt amidst allegations that he raped and caused the death of a young s...
View full detailsA World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki
Mary Rose Barrington, M. D. Ian Stevenson, Zofia Weaver
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• Author(s): Mary Rose Barrington | M. D. Ian Stevenson | Zofia Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Many people around the world accept the possibility of telepathy or clairvoy...
View full detailsGoverning Academia: Who Is in Charge at the Modern University?
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
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• Author(s): Ronald G. Ehrenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HigherPublic concern over sharp increases in undergraduate tuition has led many to question why colleges and universitie...
View full detailsOn the Sonnets of Robert Frost: A Critical Examination of the 37 Poems
H. a. Maxson
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• Author(s): H. a. Maxson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "The sonnet is the strictest form I have behaved in, and only then by pretending it wasn't a sonnet," Frost once wrote to...
View full detailsWalter B. Gibson and The Shadow
Thomas J. Shimeld
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• Author(s): Thomas J. Shimeld • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? . . . The Shadow knows!" And ...
View full detailsDigital Gameplay: Essays on the Nexus of Game and Gamer
Nate Garrelts
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• Author(s): Nate Garrelts • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic In recent years, computer technology has permeated all aspects of life--not just work and education, but ...
View full detailsThe Politics of Piracy: Intellectual Property in Contemporary China
Andrew Mertha
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• Author(s): Andrew Mertha • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Intellectual Property - GeneralChina is by far the world's leading producer of pirated goods--from films and books to clothing...
View full detailsGeneration Existential: Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-1961
Ethan Kleinberg
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• Author(s): Ethan Kleinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernWhen we think of Heidegger's influence in France, we tend to focus on such contemporary thinke...
View full detailsHeidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks
Charles R. Bambach
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• Author(s): Charles R. Bambach • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PoliticalDespite a flood of recent works on Martin Heidegger and Nazism, there has been no sustained investigation of the...
View full detailsRace and Racism in Modern Philosophy
Andrew Valls
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• Author(s): Andrew Valls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIs modern philosophy racist? Do such canonical philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Spinoz...
View full detailsThe Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
Vincent Mosco
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• Author(s): Vincent Mosco • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social Aspects - GeneralInterpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open up a new world.The digital era promise...
View full detailsRace and Racism in Modern Philosophy
Andrew Valls
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• Author(s): Andrew Valls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIs modern philosophy racist? Do such canonical philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Spinoz...
View full detailsInventing for the Environment
Arthur P. Molella, Joyce Bedi
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• Author(s): Arthur P. Molella | Joyce Bedi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceEssays by historians and practioners on how invention can benefit the environment.This ambitious book describes the ma...
View full detailsThe Logic of Sufficiency
Thomas Princen
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• Author(s): Thomas Princen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyWhat if modern society put a priority on the material security of its citizens and the ecological integrity of its resource ...
View full detailsAgents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Michael J. Levin
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• Author(s): Michael J. Levin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyHistorians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the ...
View full detailsIllinois
Roger Biles
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• Author(s): Roger Biles • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOBiles' first-rate primer on the state's hist...
View full detailsDrawing Distinctions: The Varieties of Graphic Expression
Patrick Maynard
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• Author(s): Patrick Maynard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Techniques - Drawing"If our procedure is to work steadily in the direction of drawing as fine art, rather than (as we so oft...
View full detailsCalculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats
Daryl G. Press
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• Author(s): Daryl G. Press • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralCalculating Credibility examines--and ultimately rejects--a fundamental belief held by laypeople a...
View full detailsHow Early America Sounded
Richard C. Rath
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• Author(s): Richard C. Rath • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period"My hope is that by attending to sound I have been able to open up parts of these worlds, not...
View full detailsThe Dance Criticism of Arlene Croce: Articulating a Vision of Artistry, 1973-1987
Marc Raymond Strauss
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• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General Prominent dance critic Arlene Croce wrote for The New Yorker during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Through mor...
View full detailsThe Manufactured Home Buyer's Handbook
Wes Johnson
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• Author(s): Wes Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This handbook details the steps the shopper must follow when buying a manufactured home. It offers advice on choosing a de...
View full detailsArt and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa
Janet Berry Hess
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• Author(s): Janet Berry Hess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The struggle of African nations to achieve independence from colonial rule was a momentous event in world history, an...
View full detailsThe Greek Film Musical: A Critical and Cultural History
Lydia Papadimitriou
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• Author(s): Lydia Papadimitriou • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The Greek film musical was the most popular film genre in Greece in the 1960s. The songs became instant hit...
View full detailsHistory and Social Theory
Peter Burke
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• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyWhat is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, ...
View full detailsStruggle, Defeat or Rebirth: Eugene O'Neill's Vision of Humanity
Thierry Dubost
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• Author(s): Thierry Dubost • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General To Eugene O'Neill, the links between man and his surroundings were of prime importance. His characters strug...
View full detailsTalbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure: A Critical Biography
Brian Taves
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• Author(s): Brian Taves • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures This critical biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy, one...
View full detailsAt War in the Pacific: Personal Accounts of World War II Navy and Marine Corps Officers
Bruce M. Petty
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• Author(s): Bruce M. Petty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General More than 16 million Americans served in the military during World War II--and ne...
View full detailsAn Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica
John Kenneth Muir
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• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism When the space drama Battlestar Galactica debuted on ABC in 1978, it was expected to be...
View full detailsThe Psychology of Dreams
Paul R. Robbins
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• Author(s): Paul R. Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dreams Our dreams fascinate us as individuals and as a society. What do surveys report people dream about? How about the dream...
View full detailsThe Search for the Causes of Crime: A History of Theory in Criminology
Michael Dow Burkhead
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• Author(s): Michael Dow Burkhead • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology For centuries scholars have studied the possible causes of criminal behavior in the hopes of shedding light o...
View full detailsCities and Nature: A Handbook for Renewal
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban Cities and towns across the United States are making concerted efforts to restore nature and increase green sp...
View full detailsThe Hill Wars of the Korean Conflict: A Dictionary of Hills, Outposts and Other Sites of Military Action
Paul M. Edwards
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• Author(s): Paul M. Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Korean War In many respects, all wars are alike. All soldiers compete for position and mobility; all forces struggl...
View full detailsMaking Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
Mary P. Callahan
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• Author(s): Mary P. Callahan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persi...
View full detailsScepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning
John Koethe
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• Author(s): John Koethe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Epistemology"The problem of philosophical scepticism is not so much what to say about the view itself (there being a consensus t...
View full detailsFree Agency and Competitive Balance in Baseball
Ronald W. Cox, Daniel Skidmore-Hess
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• Author(s): Ronald W. Cox | Daniel Skidmore-Hess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General As early as the 1880s, baseball owners and sportswriters were decrying the greediness ...
View full detailsOutdoor Recreation in America
Clayne R. Jensen, Steven P. Guthrie
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• Author(s): Clayne R. Jensen | Steven P. Guthrie • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Human Kinetics Publishers • BISAC: Outdoor SkillsOutdoor Recreation in America is back--fully revised and updated, with significant new ...
View full detailsThe Black Stars Who Made Baseball Whole: The Jackie Robinson Generation in the Major Leagues, 1947-1959
Rick Swaine
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• Author(s): Rick Swaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History For major league baseball, the decade following Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut was one of slow yet persistent cha...
View full detailsThe Metallurgic Age: The Victorian Flowering of Invention and Industrial Science
Quentin R. Skrabec
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• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Modern - 19th Century Throughout history, the use and workmanship of metal has been closely associated with the very notion...
View full detailsThe Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century
Thomas L. Dublin, Walter Licht
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• Author(s): Thomas L. Dublin | Walter Licht • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThe anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania once prospered...
View full detailsChickamauga, Andersonville, Fort Sumter and Guard Duty at Home: Four Civil War Diaries by Pennsylvania Soldiers
Robert P. Broadwater
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• Author(s): Robert P. Broadwater • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The best way to bring an event from the past into vivid life is to see it through the eyes of s...
View full detailsThe Vice Presidents: Biographies of 45 Men Who Have Held the Second Highest Office in the United States
Carole Chandler Waldrup
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• Author(s): Carole Chandler Waldrup • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General John Nance Garner once colorfully described the office of vice president of the United States as ...
View full detailsInequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Jonas Pontusson
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• Author(s): Jonas Pontusson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyWhat are the relative merits of the American and European socioeconomic systems? Long-standing ...
View full detailsTeaching Ethnic Diversity with Film: Essays and Resources for Educators in History, Social Studies, Literature and Film Studies
Carole Gerster, Laura W. Zlogar
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• Author(s): Carole Gerster | Laura W. Zlogar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From the beginning of the 20th century, Hollywood filmmakers have shaped public beliefs about ...
View full detailsThe Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rates
Richard K. Lyons
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• Author(s): Richard K. Lyons • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralHistorically, the fields of exchange-rate economics and microstructure finance have progressed independently of each other. Recent inter...
View full detailsWhat Is Thought?
Eric B. Baum
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• Author(s): Eric B. Baum • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Mind & BodyIn What Is Thought? Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work What...
View full detailsClaiming Macedonia: The Struggle for the Heritage, Territory and Name of the Historic Hellenic Land, 1862-2004
George C. Papavizas
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• Author(s): George C. Papavizas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece) For nearly 130 years, the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Yugoslavs have fough...
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