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Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems
Vaclav Smil
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• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EnergyA comprehensive, systematic, analytically unified, and interdisciplinary treatment of energy in nature and society, from solar radiation and photosynthe...
View full detailsThe Anabasis of Cyrus
Xenophon, Wayne Ambler, Eric Buzzetti
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• Author(s): Xenophon | Wayne Ambler | Eric Buzzetti • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other)An excellent book for anyone interested in Ancient Greek warf...
View full detailsOn Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism
Jonathan Culler
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• Author(s): Jonathan Culler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryWith an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the que...
View full detailsDrummer Boy Willie McGee, Civil War Hero and Fraud
Thomas Fox
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• Author(s): Thomas Fox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military On December 7, 1864, just one week after the bloody battle of Franklin, Tennessee, William McGee, a drummer boy from Newar...
View full detailsThe Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
Todd Shepard
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• Author(s): Todd Shepard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, To...
View full detailsThe Allied Resupply Effort in the China-Burma-India Theater During World War II
Leo J. Daugherty
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• Author(s): Leo J. Daugherty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 secured for Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Na...
View full detailsRamayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology
Paula Richman
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• Author(s): Paula Richman • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Asian - GeneralWhile some religious texts may remain static over time, the Ramayana epic has been retold in a vari...
View full detailsThunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times
Lewis Sorley
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• Author(s): Lewis Sorley • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: MilitaryGeneral Creighton Abrams has been called the greatest American general since Ulysses S. Grant, yet at the t...
View full detailsGoverning Finance
Andrew Walter
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• Author(s): Andrew Walter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Accounting - GeneralThe international financial community blamed the Asian crisis of 1997-1998 on deep failures of domestic fi...
View full detailsGetting the Goods
Edna Bonacich, Jake B. Wilson
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• Author(s): Edna Bonacich | Jake B. Wilson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: DistributionIn Getting the Goods, Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson focus on the Southern California ports of ...
View full detailsGreat Displays for Your Library Step-By-Step
Susan P. Phillips
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• Author(s): Susan P. Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Need ideas for library displays? Here is an effective tool for designing and cre...
View full detailsNew Zealand in the Pacific War: Personal Accounts of World War II
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 With America's 1941 entry into World War II and the movement of Japanese forces i...
View full detailsScience Fiction Serials: A Critical Filmography of the 31 Hard SF Cliffhangers; With an Appendix of the 37 Serials with Slight SF Content
Roy Kinnard
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• Author(s): Roy Kinnard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Destination Moon; George Pal's 1950 Technicolor epic, is generally cited as the first noteworthy sc...
View full detailsThe Poison Murders of Jack the Ripper: His Final Crimes, Trial and Execution
R. Michael Gordon
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• Author(s): R. Michael Gordon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Considered a primary suspect in the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders, Polish-born Severin Antoniovich Klosows...
View full detailsUnit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism
Ian Bogost
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• Author(s): Ian Bogost • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicIn Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technic...
View full detailsFifty Filmmakers: Conversations with Directors from Roger Avary to Steven Zaillian
Andrew J. Rausch
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• Author(s): Andrew J. Rausch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production This book is an extensive collection of original interviews with 50 noted filmmakers. Condu...
View full detailsBaseball/Literature/Culture: Essays, 2006-2007
Ronald E. Kates, Warren Tormey
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• Author(s): Ronald E. Kates | Warren Tormey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistentl...
View full detailsThe Theatres of Boston: A Stage and Screen History
Donald C. King
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• Author(s): Donald C. King • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The theatre had a difficult time establishing itself in Massachusetts. Colonial authorities i...
View full detailsThe National Debt of the United States, 1941 to 2008, 2d ed.
Robert E. Kelly
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• Author(s): Robert E. Kelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Economic History America's debt is in the trillions--and yet, like those who worry about borrowing five dollars but not about ...
View full detailsBette Davis: The Performances That Made Her Great
Peter McNally
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• Author(s): Peter McNally • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Bette Davis, whose career spanned almost 50 years and covered theatre, radio, TV and motion pictu...
View full detailsFaith and Choice in the Works of Joss Whedon
K. Dale Koontz
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• Author(s): K. Dale Koontz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Joss Whedon once identified himself as an "angry, hard-line atheist" who is nevertheless "...
View full detailsConflict, Violence, and Displacement in Indonesia
Eva-Lotta E. Hedman
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• Author(s): Eva-Lotta E. Hedman • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Regional StudiesThis volume foregrounds the dynamics of displacement and the experiences of intern...
View full detailsByron and the Websters: The Letters and Entangled Lives of the Poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster
John Stewart
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• Author(s): John Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Arguably the most offensive, despised, and ridiculed dandy of the Regency period, Sir James Webster-Wedderburn would like...
View full detailsThe Causes of the Civil War: The Political, Cultural, Economic and Territorial Disputes between North and South
Paul Calore
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• Author(s): Paul Calore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War While South Carolina's preemptive strike on Fort Sumter and Lincoln's subsequent call to arms started th...
View full detailsWaters of Discord: The Union Blockade of Texas During the Civil War
Rodman L. Underwood
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• Author(s): Rodman L. Underwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War At the beginning of the American Civil War the Federal government imposed a blockade of the sout...
View full detailsThe Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography
Robert Michael Bobb Cotter
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• Author(s): Robert Michael Bobb Cotter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Any on-screen schmuck can take down a wolfman with a silver bullet. It takes a certain ...
View full detailsUnited States Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education
Carl Mirra
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• Author(s): Carl Mirra • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In light of the United States' "age of terrorism" and the controversial involvement in the war in Iraq, U.S. policies towar...
View full detailsWomen and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Penology Perhaps the single medium in which women have been consistently treated as equal to men is the American judicial system...
View full detailsAbide in Christ
Andrew Murray
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• Author(s): Andrew Murray • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: DevotionalI pray earnestly that our gracious Lord may be pleased to bless this little book, to help those who seek to know Him fully. I ...
View full detailsHandbook of Antitrust Economics
Paolo Buccirossi
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• Author(s): Paolo Buccirossi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryExperts examine the application of economic theory to antitrust issues in both the United States and Europe, discussing mergers, agreem...
View full detailsTeen Television: Essays on Programming and Fandom
Sharon Marie Ross, Louisa Ellen Stein
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• Author(s): Sharon Marie Ross | Louisa Ellen Stein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism This essay collection explores the phenomenon of "teen TV" in the ...
View full detailsThe Falklands War: Britain Versus the Past in the South Atlantic
Daniel K. Gibran
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• Author(s): Daniel K. Gibran • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Wars & Conflicts (Other) The Falklands War is an ideal showcase for how British policy evolved in the 1970s an...
View full detailsThe Atlantic World: 1450a 2000
Toyin Falola, Kevin D. Roberts
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• Author(s): Toyin Falola | Kevin D. Roberts • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Modern - GeneralThis ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by e...
View full detailsWhen Enough is Enough: A Comprehensive Guide to Successful Intervention
Candy Finnigan, Sean Finnigan
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• Author(s): Candy Finnigan | Sean Finnigan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Substance Abuse & Addictions - AlcoholRead Candy Finnigan's posts on the Penguin Blog. From a nationally ...
View full detailsBase Politics
Alexander Cooley
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• Author(s): Alexander Cooley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAccording to the Department of Defense's 2004 Base Structure Report, the United States off...
View full detailsDomestic Programs of the American Presidents: A Critical Evaluation
Richard B. Faber, Elizabeth A. Bedford
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• Author(s): Richard B. Faber | Elizabeth A. Bedford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Since the Constitution delegates presidential powers in general rather than sp...
View full detailsGross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America--And How We Can Get More of It
Arthur C. Brooks
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• Author(s): Arthur C. Brooks • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: EssaysDemocrats and Republicans have two very different visions of America. Which one will make us happier?
Base Ball on the Western Reserve: The Early Game in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, Year by Year and Town by Town, 1865-1900
James M. Egan
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• Author(s): James M. Egan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Cleveland and the surrounding area was home to one of the earliest and most active baseball scenes outside of...
View full detailsTo Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves
Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd
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• Author(s): Kevin Bales | Zoe Trodd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: SlaveryBoys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into b...
View full detailsOld Dominion, New Commonwealth: A History of Virginia, 1607-2007
Ronald L. Heinemann, John G. Kolp, Anthony S. Parent
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• Author(s): Ronald L. Heinemann | John G. Kolp | Anthony S. Parent • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,"On the morni...
View full detailsSister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America
Beth Salerno
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• Author(s): Beth Salerno • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarMany nineteenth-century women got their first taste of political activism in small...
View full detailsTo Plead Our Own Cause: Personal Stories by Today's Slaves
Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd
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• Author(s): Kevin Bales | Zoe Trodd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: SlaveryBoys strapped to carpet looms in India, women trafficked into sex slavery across Europe, children born into b...
View full detailsTaming the Disorderly City
Martin J. Murray
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• Author(s): Martin J. Murray • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn postapartheid Johannesburg, tensions of race and class manifest themselves starkly in struggles over "r...
View full detailsChronology of Immigration 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 The United States is truly a nation of immigrants. While it was very sparsely populated by mostly Na...
View full detailsWorldly Acts and Sentient Things
Robert A. Chodat
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• Author(s): Robert A. Chodat • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralAnts, ghosts, cultures, thunderstorms, stock markets, robots, computers: this is just a partial list of t...
View full detailsAircraft Record Cards of the United States Air Force: How to Read the Codes
Robert A. Mann
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• Author(s): Robert A. Mann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This work details the methods of deciphering and reading the coding found on Individual Aircraft Record Card...
View full detailsAngels: An Indexed and Partially Annotated Bibliography of Over 4300 Scholarly Books and Articles Since the 7th Century B.C.
George J. Marshall
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• Author(s): George J. Marshall • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes In the 1990s alone, more than 400 works on angels were published, adding to an already burgeon...
View full detailsAeschylus: Persians and Other Plays
Aeschylus, Christopher Collard
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• Author(s): Aeschylus | Christopher Collard • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalA new, accurate, and readable translation of four of Aeschylus' plays: Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants...
View full detailsComputability: Computable Functions, Logic, and the Foundations of Mathematics
Richard L. Epstein, Walter A. Carnielli
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• Author(s): Richard L. Epstein | Walter A. Carnielli • Publisher: Advanced Reasoning Forum • Publisher Imprint: Advanced Reasoning Forum • BISAC: Logic
All-Stars for All Time: A Sabermetric Ranking of the Major League Best, 1876-2007
William F. McNeil
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• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This work uses practical measures to scientifically rank major league players, position by position, acco...
View full detailsChess Results, 1941-1946: A Comprehensive Record with 810 Tournament Crosstables and 80 Match Scores, with Sources
Gino Di Felice
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• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This comprehensive chronological reference work lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world--tournam...
View full detailsBaseball Drills for Young People: More Than 180 Games and Activities for Preschool to High School Players, 2d ed.
Dirk Baker
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• Author(s): Dirk Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coaching - Baseball Written for coaches, this work presents more than 180 baseball games and activities for young children and adol...
View full detailsRock Band Name Origins: The Stories of 240 Groups and Performers
Greg Metzer
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• Author(s): Greg Metzer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Rock This book details the origins of the names of 240 musical acts, focusing on the most popular groups (an...
View full detailsMargaret Mahler: A Biography of the Psychoanalyst
Alma Halbert Bond
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• Author(s): Alma Halbert Bond • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Social Scientists & Psychologists Margaret Mahler was from a young age intrigued by the theories of Sigmund Freud and Hu...
View full detailsLatin American Popular Culture
Arthur A. Natella
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• Author(s): Arthur A. Natella • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of ...
View full detailsHarry Langdon: His Life and Films, 2d ed.
William Schelly
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• Author(s): William Schelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General A top vaudeville comedian for the first quarter of the 20th century, Harry Langd...
View full detailsThe Rockies in First Person: A Critical Study of Recent American Memoirs from the Region
Ron McFarland
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• Author(s): Ron McFarland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The autobiography has not always been acknowledged as true literature. Since 1970, however, American memoirs have reveal...
View full detailsArthritis: A Patient's Guide
Sharon E. Hohler
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• Author(s): Sharon E. Hohler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - Musculoskeletal The two most common types of arthritis in the United States are osteoarthritis an...
View full detailsCamera and Action: American Film as Agent of Social Change, 1965-1975
Elaine M. Bapis
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• Author(s): Elaine M. Bapis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This study examines the changes in the American film industry, audiences, and feature films bet...
View full detailsSouthern Appalachian Poetry: An Anthology of Works by 37 Poets
Marita Garin
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• Author(s): Marita Garin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors) The mountain South thrives on centuries-old traditions, a fact well known to readers of Appalachia...
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