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Debating Race: With Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson
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• Author(s): Michael Eric Dyson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Minority StudiesWhether chronicling the class conflict in the African-American community or exposing the failings of the government response in the...
View full detailsThe Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Making of a President
Timothy S. Good
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• Author(s): Timothy S. Good • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century The Lincoln-Douglas senatorial debates of 1858 marked a significant crossroads in the political c...
View full detailsThe Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture
Scott MacFarlane
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• Author(s): Scott MacFarlane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Hippie movement of the 1960s helped change modern societal attitudes toward ethnic and cultural diversity, enviro...
View full detailsBoy Soldier: A German Teenager at the Nazi Twilight
Gerhardt B. Thamm
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• Author(s): Gerhardt B. Thamm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military "As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war. My fight was neither noble nor heroic. I saw the horrors that no 1...
View full detailsThe Wolves of World War II: An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front
Hans Thiel
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• Author(s): Hans Thiel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On September 25, 1944, Hitler attempted to shore up his faltering forces by creating ...
View full detailsBaseball and the Mythic Moment: How We Remember the National Game
James D. Hardy
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• Author(s): James D. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings While moments come and go, and popular trends are created only to be consumed and replaced, a ...
View full detailsSocial Empiricism
Miriam Solomon
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• Author(s): Miriam Solomon • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsFor the last forty years, two claims have been at the core of disputes about scientific change: that scientists reas...
View full detailsThe Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality
Ruth M. J. Byrne
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• Author(s): Ruth M. J. Byrne • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Creative AbilityThe human imagination remains one of the last uncharted terrains of the mind. This accessible and original monograph explores a c...
View full detailsMurder Cases of the Twentieth Century: Biographies and Bibliographies of 280 Convicted or Accused Killers
David K. Frasier
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• Author(s): David K. Frasier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General From Jack Henry Abbott, who stabbed a waiter through the heart for not allowing him to use the toilet, to the "Zodiac...
View full detailsAssembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing
Teri L. Caraway
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• Author(s): Teri L. Caraway • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesDespite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely...
View full detailsKaye Gibbons
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women Authors With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both criti...
View full detailsGerman Military Vehicles of World War II: An Illustrated Guide to Cars, Trucks, Half-Tracks, Motorcycles, Amphibious Vehicles and Others
Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage
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• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Science This volume presents a cross-section of the most common transport vehicles produced and used by the G...
View full detailsCoping with Stress: Commonsense Strategies
Paul R. Robbins
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• Author(s): Paul R. Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Self-Management - Stress Management The dynamics of 21st century life have created a social environment full of stressful situ...
View full detailsCommunity Renewal through Municipal Investment: A Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development Local officials are making investment decisions to enhance the quality of ...
View full detailsGrowing Up in the Middle Ages
Paul B. Newman
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• Author(s): Paul B. Newman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval Dangerous and difficult for both mother and child--what was the birth experience like in the Middle Ages? Dep...
View full detailsCities and Cars: A Handbook of Best Practices
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General Americans for years have treated the automobile as a form of freedom. People can now live in the country an...
View full detailsJust Generosity: A New Vision for Overcoming Poverty in America
Ronald J. Sider
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• Author(s): Ronald J. Sider • Publisher: Baker Books • Publisher Imprint: Baker Books • BISAC: Christian Living - Social IssuesJust Generosity calls Christians to examine their priorities and their pocketbooks in the face of a scandalous tendenc...
View full detailsFord Sterling: The Life and Films
Wendy Warwick White
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• Author(s): Wendy Warwick White • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Vaudeville, burlesque, Shakespeare, baseball--in the course of his career, F...
View full detailsContradiction in Motion
Songsuk Susan Hahn
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• Author(s): Songsuk Susan Hahn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"Everything is contradictory," Hegel declares in Science of Logic. In this analysis of one ...
View full detailsLaughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France
Sara Beam
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• Author(s): Sara Beam • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceBawdy satirical plays--many starring law clerks and seminarians--savaged corrupt officials and royal policies in fi...
View full detailsRewiring the Nation: The Place of Technology in American Studies
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Carolyn T. de la Pena
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• Author(s): Siva Vaidhyanathan | Carolyn T. de la Pena • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryScholars working among an array of "technologies" and "Americas" were invited ...
View full detailsRandom Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde
Branden W. Joseph
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• Author(s): Branden W. Joseph • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralAn examination of the artistic development of Robert Rauschenberg, focusing on his relationship with John Cage and his role ...
View full detailsRemember with Advantages: Chasing The Fugitive and Other Stories from an Actor's Life
Barry Morse, Anthony Wynn, Robert E. Wood
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• Author(s): Barry Morse | Anthony Wynn | Robert E. Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General His resume of roles includes Macbeth, Cyrano de Berg...
View full detailsLa lengua espanola: Panorama sociohistorico
Rainer H. Goetz
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• Author(s): Rainer H. Goetz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Spanish The Spanish language has a long and rich history, from its prehistoric roots to its position today as the mother tongu...
View full detailsWomen Swindlers in America, 1860-1920
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Although female lawbreakers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were rarely considered dangerous criminals, there ...
View full detailsOn the Short Waves, 1923-1945: Broadcast Listening in the Pioneer Days of Radio
Jerome S. Berg
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• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism As radio developed in the early 1920s, the focus for most people was the AM band and stations s...
View full detailsJuki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry
Caitrin Lynch
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• Author(s): Caitrin Lynch • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralWhen a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught betw...
View full detailsConsciousness, Function, and Representation, Volume 1: Collected Papers
Ned Block
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• Author(s): Ned Block • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralThis volume of Ned Block's writings collects his papers on consciousness, functionalism, and representationism. A number of these papers treat th...
View full detailsSid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969-1993
Hal Erickson
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• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost: For a generation o...
View full detailsCultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Frank Dikötter, Ian Brown
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• Author(s): Frank Dikötter | Ian Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralPrisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanit...
View full detailsCars I Could've, Should've, Kept: Memoir of a Life Restoring Classic Sports Cars
Jackson Brooks
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• Author(s): Jackson Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General A small business owner and lifelong lover of classic sports cars, Jackson Brooks began in the early 1960s ...
View full detailsChronology of Housing in the United States
Russell O. Wright
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• Author(s): Russell O. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This chronology explores the development of housing in the United States from the arrival of the fir...
View full detailsD-Day in the Pacific: The Battle of Saipan
Harold J. Goldberg
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• Author(s): Harold J. Goldberg • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralIn June 1944 the attention of the nation was riveted on events unfolding in ...
View full detailsMy Darkest Years: Memoirs of a Survivor of Auschwitz, Warsaw and Dachau
James Bachner
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• Author(s): James Bachner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Born in Berlin in 1922, James Bachner was a German Jew during the darkest days of the Third Reich. Once a h...
View full detailsThe Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory
Henry H. Bauer
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• Author(s): Henry H. Bauer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: AIDS & HIV Thanks to enormous funding for educational programs, the whole world "knows" that HIV causes AIDS. But is what w...
View full detailsCharlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film
Grant Hayter-Menzies
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• Author(s): Grant Hayter-Menzies • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Charlotte Greenwood never intended to become a comedienne, but she was unfa...
View full detailsUlysses S. Grant, 1861-1864: His Rise from Obscurity to Military Greatness
William Farina
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• Author(s): William Farina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State On May 3, 1861, Illinois Governor Richard Yates appointed a Mexican War veteran with Democratic...
View full detailsThe Conscious Mind and the Material World: On Psi, the Soul and the Self
Douglas M. Stokes
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• Author(s): Douglas M. Stokes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General What makes us who we are? From a scientific viewpoint, any individual's existence is improbable ...
View full detailsTelevision Western Players of the Fifties: A Biographical Encyclopedia of All Regular Cast Members in Western Series, 1949-1959
Everett Aaker
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• Author(s): Everett Aaker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Modeled after the Mack V. Wright 1920 film version, the 1949 western television series The Lone Ranger ma...
View full detailsThe Mirror of Antiquity
Caroline Winterer
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• Author(s): Caroline Winterer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during...
View full detailsThe Clements Checklist of Birds of the World
James F. Clements, Jared Diamond, Anthony W. White
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• Author(s): James F. Clements | Jared Diamond | Anthony W. White • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesBirds have long held a unique dual role as a model group for scientists and as...
View full detailsFederico Garcia Lorca and the Culture of Male Homosexuality
Ángel Sahuquillo
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• Author(s): Ángel Sahuquillo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: LGBT Spain in the twentieth century gave birth to an array of astounding artistic and literary talent, including the passiona...
View full detailsI Was a Teenage Movie Maker: The Book
Don Glut
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• Author(s): Don Glut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1953, a nine-year-old boy watched a prehistoric film called Beast From 20,000 Fathoms featuring the...
View full detailsLens of an Infantryman: A World War II Memoir with Photographs from a Hidden Camera
Murray Leff
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• Author(s): Murray Leff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military After he arrived in Europe with the 35th Infantry Division, Murray Leff traded his cigarette ration for a 35mm camera. By...
View full detailsBaseball Over the Air: The National Pastime on the Radio and in the Imagination
Tony Silvia
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• Author(s): Tony Silvia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This narrative contains the documentation and interpretation of two imaginative pastimes (radio and baseball) a...
View full detailsInstitutions and Norms in Economic Development
Mark Gradstein, Kai A. Konrad
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• Author(s): Mark Gradstein | Kai A. Konrad • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentExperts address "the development puzzle"--unprecedented growth coupled with unequal distribution of that ...
View full detailsThe Last Days of the Renaissance: & the March to Modernity
Theodore K. Rabb
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• Author(s): Theodore K. Rabb • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThere is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pi...
View full detailsThe Pronunciation of Placenames: A Worldwide Dictionary
Adrian Room
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• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dictionaries This reference dictionary provides a user-friendly pronunciation guide for over 12,000 placenames worldwide. Avoiding...
View full detailsThe Literary Mother: Essays on Representations of Maternity and Child Care
Susan C. Staub
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• Author(s): Susan C. Staub • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The essays in this book examine the ideology of motherhood in British and American literature f...
View full detailsThe Arrival of the American League: Ban Johnson and the 1901 Challenge to National League Monopoly
Warren N. Wilbert
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• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1901, Charles Comiskey and Ban Johnson launched a brazen challenge to the National League's supremacy....
View full detailsHugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction
Gary Westfahl, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Gary Westfahl | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo ...
View full detailsThe Landings at Suvla Bay, 1915: An Analysis of British Failure During the Gallipoli Campaign
Michael J. Mortlock
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• Author(s): Michael J. Mortlock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I This work is an extensive analysis of the 1915 British landing at Suvla Bay, one of the...
View full detailsFrederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star
Leslie Norton, Frederic Franklin
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• Author(s): Leslie Norton | Frederic Franklin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General With a ballet career spanning well over eight decades, legenda...
View full detailsManaging Money: A Guide for Librarians
Anne M. Turner
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• Author(s): Anne M. Turner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General The cataloging department insists that an unreasonable number of books be replaced....
View full detailsThe First Generation of Country Music Stars: Biographies of 50 Artists Born Before 1940
David Dicaire
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• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music This book focuses on 50 of the most important entertainers in the history of country music, from its beginnings in the fol...
View full detailsWhat Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace
Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall, Peter Haynes
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• Author(s): Richard B. Freeman | Peter Boxall | Peter Haynes • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThis book brings together research in the United States, Canada, the United Kin...
View full detailsTango: Creation of a Cultural Icon
Jo Baim
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• Author(s): Jo Baim • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralIn Tango: Creation of a Cultural Icon Jo Baim dispels common stereotypes of the tango and tells the real story behind...
View full detailsThe Political Economy of Grand Strategy
Kevin Narizny
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• Author(s): Kevin Narizny • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyA nation's grand strategy rarely serves the best interests of all its citizens. Instead, every strategic choi...
View full detailsBaseball and the Blame Game: Scapegoating in the Major Leagues
John Billheimer
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• Author(s): John Billheimer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner....
View full detailsThe Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling | Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: World - GeneralJoseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best...
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