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Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance Among Garment Workers in Thailand
Piya Pangsapa
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• Author(s): Piya Pangsapa • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralBased on intensive ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, Textures of Struggle focuses on the experiences of Thai wom...
View full detailsHistory Of Rasselas, Prince Of Abyssinia
Samuel Johnson, Emerson Oliver Farrar
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• Author(s): Samuel Johnson | Emerson Oliver Farrar • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: ClassicsThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain i...
View full detailsEntrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea
Yves Tiberghien
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• Author(s): Yves Tiberghien • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: CorporateIn Entrepreneurial States, an innovative examination of the comparative politics of reform in stakeholder systems, ...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution
Thom Hatch
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• Author(s): Thom Hatch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference "Remember the Alamo!" is a phrase that is woven into the American consciousness, but what do most people really remember ...
View full detailsThe Culture of Al Jazeera: Inside an Arab Media Giant
Mohamed Zayani, Sofiane Sahraoui
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• Author(s): Mohamed Zayani | Sofiane Sahraoui • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies In the mid 1990s, the emir of Qatar conceived the idea of a satellite channel that would furth...
View full detailsAbraham Lincoln, President-Elect: The Four Critical Months from Election to Inauguration
Larry D. Mansch
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• Author(s): Larry D. Mansch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Immediately after Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States of A...
View full detailsDance, Drugs and Escape: The Club Scene in Literature, Film and Television Since the Late 1980s
Stan Beeler
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• Author(s): Stan Beeler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture In the late 1980s the rave phenomenon swept the youth culture of the United Kingdom, incorporating the generations...
View full detailsFilm Out of Bounds: Essays and Interviews on Non-Mainstream Cinema Worldwide
Matthew Edwards
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• Author(s): Matthew Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Operating outside the commercial boundaries of Hollywood cinema, alternative and independent fi...
View full detailsSiegfried Sassoon: A Study of the War Poetry
Patrick Campbell
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• Author(s): Patrick Campbell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Though Siegfried Sassoon would argue the point throughout his life, most critics regard his war poetry, written durin...
View full detailsImperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia
Gary Marker
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• Author(s): Gary Marker • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christian Church - HistoryHistorian Gary Marker traces the Russian veneration of St. Catherine of Alexandria...
View full detailsTeachers in the Movies: A Filmography of Depictions of Grade School, Preschool and Day Care Educators, 1890s to the Present
Ann C. Paietta
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• Author(s): Ann C. Paietta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The teaching profession has a long history in motion pictures. As early as the late 19th century...
View full detailsMore than Neighbors
Deborah Skok
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• Author(s): Deborah Skok • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MOThe influx of southern and eastern European...
View full detailsThe Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture
Lincoln Geraghty, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Lincoln Geraghty | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism When the first season of Star Trek opened to Am...
View full detailsHollywood Horror from the Director's Chair: Six Filmmakers in the Franchise of Fear
Simon A. Wilkinson
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• Author(s): Simon A. Wilkinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Profitable, relatively inexpensive to produce, and with a faithful built-in audience, Hollyw...
View full detailsGlobal Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns
Kate Bronfenbrenner
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• Author(s): Kate Bronfenbrenner • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralTo meet the challenges of globalization, unions must improve their understanding of the changing nature of c...
View full detailsGrimm Pictures: Fairy Tale Archetypes in Eight Horror and Suspense Films
Walter Rankin
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• Author(s): Walter Rankin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Though Grimm's Fairy Tales was published about 200 years ago, the revered collection of folk stor...
View full detailsBaseball Books: A Collector's Guide
Mike Shannon
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• Author(s): Mike Shannon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General It is widely, and wrongly, assumed that books are never so valuable as when they lie unopened before us, waiti...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Women in the Middle Ages
Jennifer Lawler
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• Author(s): Jennifer Lawler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in...
View full detailsIn Service of Emergent India: A Call to Honor
Jaswant Singh, Strobe Talbott
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• Author(s): Jaswant Singh | Strobe Talbott • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIn Service of Emergent India is an evocative insider's account of a crucial period in I...
View full detailsA History of Information Storage and Retrieval
Foster Stockwell
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• Author(s): Foster Stockwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Throughout history, humans have sought ways not only to acquire but to preserve k...
View full detailsForm Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture
Sylvia Lavin
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• Author(s): Sylvia Lavin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralHow modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious."Eight million Americans ...
View full detailsMoral Psychology, Volume 1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Christian B. Miller
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• Author(s): Walter Sinnott-Armstrong | Christian B. Miller • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionPhilosophers and psychologists discuss new collaborative work in moral philosop...
View full detailsMaid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers, Second Edition
Nicole Constable
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• Author(s): Nicole Constable • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesMiddle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbe...
View full detailsA Critical History of Doctor Who on Television
John Kenneth Muir
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• Author(s): John Kenneth Muir • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Since its inception in November 1963, the British science fiction television series Doc...
View full detailsSubjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan
Lorenzo Chiesa
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• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...
View full detailsAfter the Peace: Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-Accord Northern Ireland
Carolyn Gallaher
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• Author(s): Carolyn Gallaher • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)The 1998 Belfast Agreement promised to release citizens of Northern Ireland from the...
View full detailsTrain Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape
John R. Stilgoe
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• Author(s): John R. Stilgoe • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Railroads - GeneralUnlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and par...
View full detailsAugust "Garry" Herrmann: A Baseball Biography
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference August Garry Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in Cincinnati, serving as a trusted ...
View full detailsSouth of the Color Barrier: How Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League Pushed Baseball Toward Racial Integration
John Virtue
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• Author(s): John Virtue • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This book tells the story of how Mexican multimillionaire businessman Jorge Pasquel and the Mexican League hast...
View full details"So has a Daisy vanished": Emily Dickinson and Tuberculosis
George Mamunes
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• Author(s): George Mamunes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry This work places Emily Dickinson's poetry in a new setting, examining the many ways in which Dickinson's literary style ...
View full detailsDigital Citizenship: The Internet, Society, and Participation
Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, Ramona S. McNeal
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• Author(s): Karen Mossberger | Caroline J. Tolbert | Ramona S. McNeal • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralThis analysis of how the ability to participate in society online affects political and econom...
View full detailsHuskerville: A Story of Nebraska Football, Fans, and the Power of Place
Roger C. Aden
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• Author(s): Roger C. Aden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed between native Nebraskans and the University ...
View full detailsZeroville
Steve Erickson
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• Author(s): Steve Erickson • Publisher: Europa Editions • Publisher Imprint: Europa Editions • BISAC: LiteraryA Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Newsweek Best Book of the Year It is an August afternoon in 1969. A hippie "family" led by Ch...
View full detailsNew York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth Century Fiction and Drama
Edward Margolies
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• Author(s): Edward Margolies • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This work reveals the myths of New York and the various, often paradoxical ways that authors have portrayed New York ...
View full detailsPeacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the Ground Floor
Paula M. Pickering
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• Author(s): Paula M. Pickering • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PeaceAfter suffering years of war, Bosnia is now the target of international efforts to reconstruct and democratize a cul...
View full detailsKnowing Fear: Science, Knowledge and the Development of the Horror Genre
Jason Colavito
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• Author(s): Jason Colavito • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Tracing the development of horror entertainment since the late 18th century, this study argues that scientific discover...
View full detailsSpain, Britain and the American Revolution in Florida, 1763-1783
James W. Raab
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• Author(s): James W. Raab • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General As a result of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, Spain relinquished Florida, a land it had possessed for over 200 yea...
View full detailsThe Partisan Press: A History of Media Bias in the United States
Si Sheppard
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• Author(s): Si Sheppard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This book is the first to place the contemporary debate over media bias in historical context, illustratin...
View full detailsWomen Political Leaders in Africa
Rosemarie Skaine
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• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies In Africa, women leaders have a strong legacy. Female pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt, queens and queen mothers ...
View full detailsThe Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War
Michael J. Forsyth
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• Author(s): Michael J. Forsyth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The Confederacy had a great opportunity to turn the Civil War in its favor in 1864, but squandere...
View full detailsAmerican Indian Lacrosse: Little Brother of War
Jr. Vennum Thomas
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• Author(s): Jr. Vennum Thomas • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: LacrosseTo understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic w...
View full detailsLost in the Sun: The Comebacks and Comedowns of Major League Ballplayers
G. Richard McKelvey
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• Author(s): G. Richard McKelvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Baseball players, like teams, have their ups and downs. Pitchers inexplicably lose their command of the...
View full detailsYouth, Identity, and Digital Media
David Buckingham
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• Author(s): David Buckingham • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ResearchContributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual and social ident...
View full detailsBeyond the Black Box: The Forensics of Airplane Crashes
George Bibel
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• Author(s): George Bibel • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryThe black box is orange--and there are actually two of them. They house the cockpit voice recorde...
View full detailsMy Father's Game: Life, Death, Baseball
Rick Wilber
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• Author(s): Rick Wilber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings During his long baseball career, Del Wilber caught for the Red Sox, Cardinals and Phillies; manag...
View full detailsMaking Words Kindergarten: 50 Interactive Lessons that Build Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Spelling Skills
Dorothy Hall, Patricia Cunningham
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• Author(s): Dorothy Hall | Patricia Cunningham • Publisher: Pearson • Publisher Imprint: Pearson • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts
Making Words Third Grade: 70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes, Suffixes, and Homophones
Patricia Cunningham, Dorothy Hall
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• Author(s): Patricia Cunningham | Dorothy Hall • Publisher: Pearson • Publisher Imprint: Pearson • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Language Arts Patricia M. Cunningham Dorothy P. Hall Making Words 3rd Grade 70 Hands-On Lessons for Teaching Prefixes...
View full detailsLong Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians
James W. Brown, Rita T. Kohn, James W. Brown
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• Author(s): James W. Brown | Rita T. Kohn | James W. Brown • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Native AmericanThrough first-person accounts, Long Journey Home presents the stor...
View full detailsFarmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households in the Global Coffee Economy
Deborah Sick
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• Author(s): Deborah Sick • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSick explores contemporary issues of gender, empowerment, access to res...
View full detailsLiterary Research and the Era of American Nationalism and Romanticism: Strategies and Sources
Angela Courtney
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• Author(s): Angela Courtney • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: American - GeneralThe early years of American nationhood, beginning at the close of colonial rule and ending with the onset of the Civil War, ...
View full detailsLaboratories of Faith
John Warne Monroe
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• Author(s): John Warne Monroe • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MysticismAt a fascinating moment in French intellectual history, an interest in matters occult was not equivalent to a rej...
View full detailsThe New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949
Charlie Bevis
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• Author(s): Charlie Bevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This book delves deep into the history of the New England League, whose years of operation spanned six decade...
View full detailsSo Great a Light, So Great a Smoke
Louisa A. Burnham
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• Author(s): Louisa A. Burnham • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalIn So Great a Light, So Great a Smoke, Louisa A. Burnham takes us inside the world of a little-known here...
View full detailsBig Ed Walsh: The Life and Times of a Spitballing Hall of Famer
Jack Smiles
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• Author(s): Jack Smiles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports As a young man living in the Anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, it seemed Ed Walsh's course in life was set. But he em...
View full detailsLost Horizon Companion: A Guide to the James Hilton Novel and Its Characters, Critical Reception, Film Adaptations and Place in Popular Culture
John R. Hammond
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• Author(s): John R. Hammond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh This comprehensive reference guide introduces James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon for contempora...
View full detailsJohn Ford in Focus: Essays on the Filmmaker's Life and Work
Kevin L. Stoehr, Michael C. Connolly
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• Author(s): Kevin L. Stoehr | Michael C. Connolly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Best known for his enduring westerns (Stagecoach, The Searchers) and clas...
View full detailsStanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy
Gary D. Rhodes
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• Author(s): Gary D. Rhodes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Seventeen essays examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick from a variety of pers...
View full detailsLegal Executions in New England: A Comprehensive Reference, 1623-1960
Daniel Allen Hearn
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• Author(s): Daniel Allen Hearn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshi...
View full detailsPassion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes
Carol Lansing
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• Author(s): Carol Lansing • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In...
View full detailsShoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson [LARGE PRINT]
David L. Fleitz
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• Author(s): David L. Fleitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford ...
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