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Great Expectations And Hard Times (1904)
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: ClassicsGreat Expectations and Hard Times is a novel written by the renowned English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1904...
View full detailsLectures on Logic: Berlin, 1831
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Clark Butler
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• Author(s): Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Clark Butler • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: LogicGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel gave many lectures in logic ...
View full detailsWomen and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader
Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar
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• Author(s): Sumit Sarkar | Tanika Sarkar • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralSocial reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of...
View full detailsSecuring Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia
Richard J. Samuels
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• Author(s): Richard J. Samuels • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)For the past sixty years, the U.S. government has assumed that Japan's security po...
View full detailsHarrison Ford: The Films
Brad Duke
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• Author(s): Brad Duke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Harrison Ford has been labeled one of the top 100 stars of all time, the sexiest man alive, and the highest-grossing ...
View full detailsThe Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus
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• Author(s): Scott Straus • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - CentralThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibili...
View full detailsBritish Horror Film Locations
Derek Pykett
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• Author(s): Derek Pykett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Designed as a source for enthusiasts of British horror films, this guide reveals the shooting locations of more th...
View full detailsOrderly Change
David M. Andrews
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• Author(s): David M. Andrews • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryThe Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 resulted in the formation of the International Monetary Fund and World...
View full detailsLe Morte Darthur: the Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 1 of 4]
Thomas Malory
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• Author(s): Thomas Malory • Publisher: Lulu Press • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Press • BISAC: GeneralLe Morte d'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French and English Arthurian romances. The book contains some of Malory's own original...
View full detailsGenocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II
Tadeusz Piotrowski
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• Author(s): Tadeusz Piotrowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland...
View full detailsThe Asian Influence on Hollywood Action Films
Barna William Donovan
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• Author(s): Barna William Donovan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Filmmakers of the Pacific Rim have been delivering punches and flying kicks to the Hollyw...
View full detailsKings of the Jungle: An Illustrated Guide to "Tarzan" on Screen and Television [LARGE PRINT]
David Fury
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• Author(s): David Fury • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Cast, production credits, release date, and running time are provided for each of the Tarzan films. ...
View full detailsProtectors of Privacy
Abraham L. Newman
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• Author(s): Abraham L. Newman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: PrivacyFrom credit-card purchases to electronic fingerprints, the amount of personal data available to government and busi...
View full detailsTransnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States
Carolina Bank Muñoz
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• Author(s): Carolina Bank Muñoz • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThis book looks at the flip side of globalization: How does a company from the Global South behave differently when it also produc...
View full detailsGothic and Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity
John Paul Riquelme
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• Author(s): John Paul Riquelme • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryGothic and Modernism establishes and interprets the significant presence and the transf...
View full detailsAmerican Silent Film Comedies: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Persons, Studios and Terminology
Blair Miller
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• Author(s): Blair Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many movie genres developed during the silent era, but none was as lasting as comedies. Actors and...
View full detailsObesity in America, 1850-1939: A History of Social Attitudes and Treatment
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History This is a study of obesity in America from 1850 to 1939, concentrating on how the condition was viewed, studied, and tre...
View full detailsCrisis as Catalyst
Andrew Macintyre, T. J. Pempel, John Ravenhill
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• Author(s): Andrew Macintyre | T. J. Pempel | John Ravenhill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsThe financial crisis that swept across East Asia during 1997-1998 ...
View full detailsRadio by the Book: Adaptations of Literature and Fiction on the Airwaves
Tim DeForest
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• Author(s): Tim DeForest • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism During the first half of the 20th century, radio's hunger for captivating characters and stories ...
View full detailsBrain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change
Bruce E. Wexler
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• Author(s): Bruce E. Wexler • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyResearch shows that between birth and early adulthood the brain requires sensory stimulation to develop physically. The nat...
View full detailsQuicksilver: A History of the Use, Lore and Effects of Mercury
Richard M. Swiderski
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• Author(s): Richard M. Swiderski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Though modern scientists recognize mercury as a harmful environmental pollutant and one of the world's most dange...
View full detailsNancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths: Essays on the Fiction of Girl Detectives
Michael G. Cornelius, Melanie E. Gregg
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• Author(s): Michael G. Cornelius | Melanie E. Gregg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made fam...
View full detailsHollywood Bohemians: Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream
Brett L. Abrams
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• Author(s): Brett L. Abrams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Between 1917 and 1941, Hollywood studios, gossip columnists and novelists featured an unprecede...
View full detailsGrowing Civil Society: From Nonprofit Sector to Third Space
Jon Van Til
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• Author(s): Jon Van Til • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityGrowing Civil Society investigates the role of voluntary action and nonprofit organization in contempo...
View full detailsThe Great Radio Soap Operas
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - Reference This reference work contains exhaustive histories of 31 of network radio's most durable soap operas on the air betwe...
View full detailsSermones Y Bosquejos de Toda La Biblia, 13 Tomos En 1
James K. A. Smith
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• Author(s): James K. A. Smith • Publisher: Vida Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Vida Publishers • BISAC: Christian Life - GeneralJames Smith, nos regala esta magnífica ayuda para la elaboración de sermones, bajo un análisis homilético y amplio d...
View full detailsFilm and Television In-Jokes: Nearly 2,000 Intentional References, Parodies, Allusions, Personal Touches, Cameos, Spoofs and Homages
Bill Van Heerden
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• Author(s): Bill Van Heerden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In Only the Lonely (1991), Ally Sheedy appeases prospective mother-in-law Maureen O'Hara by go...
View full detailsManufacturing Truth
Elizabeth Astrid Papazian
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Astrid Papazian • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionThe Bolshevik Revolution uprooted not only the social and pol...
View full detailsChina's Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics
Robert S. Ross, Zhu Feng
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• Author(s): Robert S. Ross | Zhu Feng • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Assessments of China's importance on the world stage usually focus on a sin...
View full detailsThe California Winter League: America's First Integrated Professional Baseball League
William F. McNeil
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• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The California Winter League was the first to bring together Negro League teams and white professional te...
View full details'30: Major League Baseball's Year of the Batter
Ray Zardetto
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• Author(s): Ray Zardetto • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1930 baseball season was unlike any other. Big league rosters included more Hall of Famers than at any tim...
View full detailsBoris Karloff: A Critical Account of His Screen, Stage, Radio, Television and Recording Work
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This comprehensive analysis of Boris Karloff's life and career incorporates criticism, in-depth production inform...
View full detailsBeggars, Iconoclasts, and Civic Patriots
Peter Arnade
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• Author(s): Peter Arnade • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralThe Dutch Revolt has long been hailed as the triumph of political freedom over monarchical tyranny. In ...
View full detailsDefiant Dads
Jocelyn Elise Crowley
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• Author(s): Jocelyn Elise Crowley • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Men's Studies - GeneralAll across America, angry fathers are demanding rights. These men claim that since the breakdow...
View full detailsA Dick Francis Companion: Characters, Horses, Plots, Settings and Themes
Stephen Sugden
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• Author(s): Stephen Sugden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This exhaustive reference work examines the complete fictional works of Dick Francis, a former ...
View full detailsThe Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution
Margaret Marsh, Wanda Ronner
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• Author(s): Margaret Marsh | Wanda Ronner • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Medical - GeneralAs Louise Brown--the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization--celebrates h...
View full detailsThe Internet Imaginaire
Patrice Flichy
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• Author(s): Patrice Flichy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Internet - GeneralThe collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees, politicians, and indiv...
View full detailsThe Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights
Philip C. Kolin
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• Author(s): Philip C. Kolin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism The author of A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was never shy about drawing...
View full detailsBlack Summer
Warren Ellis, Juan Jose Ryp
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• Author(s): Warren Ellis | Juan Jose Ryp • Publisher: Avatar Press • Publisher Imprint: Avatar Press • BISAC: Superheroes (see also Fiction - Superheroes) Warren Ellis' eight-issue opus of masked hero revolution, Black Summer, perfectly complime...
View full detailsWho Will Take Our Children?: The British Evacuation Program of World War II, rev. ed.
Carlton Jackson
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• Author(s): Carlton Jackson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II The evacuation of British children before and during World War II transformed the country forever and ...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War
Richard Alan Schwartz
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• Author(s): Richard Alan Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Persian Gulf War (1991) Between January 17 and February 28, 1991, an international military coali...
View full detailsJack Coombs: A Life in Baseball
John P. Tierney
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• Author(s): John P. Tierney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Jack Coombs rose to deadball-era stardom as the ace of Connie Mack's Athletics, winners of back-to-back wor...
View full detailsThree Views on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
Stanley N. Gundry, Kenneth Berding, Walter C. Kaiser Jr
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• Author(s): Stanley N. Gundry | Kenneth Berding | Walter C. Kaiser Jr • Publisher: Zondervan Academic • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan Academic • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Exegesis & HermeneuticsThree approaches to questions about the theologi...
View full detailsAcademic Child: A Memoir
Hazard Adams
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• Author(s): Hazard Adams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Educators A leading scholar of English romanticism and literary theory and criticism, Hazard Adams writes of a lifetime as a stud...
View full detailsThe Printed Homer: A 3,000 Year Publishing and Translation History of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Philip H. Young
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• Author(s): Philip H. Young • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient and Classical The Iliad and the Odyssey are the foundation of Greek culture ("Our earliest infancy was entrusted to th...
View full detailsLiterally Entitled: A Dictionary of the Origins of the Titles of More Than 1300 Major Literary Works of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Adrian Room
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• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading The titles are primarily from fiction (including, along with novels, particularly important poetry, plays, and...
View full detailsFilm and Television Scores, 1950-1979: A Critical Survey by Genre
Kristopher Spencer
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• Author(s): Kristopher Spencer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Hollywood film scores underwent a supersonic transformation from the 1950s through the 1970s. This genre-by-...
View full detailsDavid Copperfield
Charles Dickens, Terry Kepner, Aka Phiz Hablot K. Browne
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens | Terry Kepner | Aka Phiz Hablot K. Browne • Publisher: Flying Chipmunk Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Flying Chipmunk Publishing • BISAC: ClassicsDavid Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, &a...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Stage Lighting
Jody Briggs
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• Author(s): Jody Briggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography This encyclopedia contains more than 1500 detailed entries covering such topics as equipmen...
View full detailsWorld Monetary Units: An Historical Dictionary, Country by Country
Howard M. Berlin
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• Author(s): Howard M. Berlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this comprehensive reference work covers the monetary systems of 203 countries ...
View full detailsMaurice Tourneur: The Life and Films
Harry Waldman
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• Author(s): Harry Waldman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961), the French and American director, actor, and theatrical manager,...
View full detailsMuslims and Matriarchs
Jeffrey Hadler
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Hadler • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Islamic StudiesMuslims and Matriarchs is a history of an unusual, probably heretical, and ultimately resilient cultural syste...
View full detailsThebaid: A Song of Thebes
Statius, Jane Wilson Joyce
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• Author(s): Statius | Jane Wilson Joyce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThe Thebaid, a Latin epic in twelve books by Statius (c. 45-96 C. E.) reexamines events f...
View full detailsIntroducing New Gods: The Politics of Athenian Religion
Robert Garland
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• Author(s): Robert Garland • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyThe religious imagination of the Greeks, Robert Garland observes, was populated by divine beings...
View full detailsPerpetua of Carthage: Portrait of a Third-Century Martyr
William Farina
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• Author(s): William Farina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General This is a study of the life and times of Saint Perpetua, Saint Felicity and their companions, all martyred at...
View full detailsThe Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point
Don Cusic
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• Author(s): Don Cusic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Born in 1856 in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper was nine at the end of the Civil War. His parents, par...
View full detailsThe 1976 Cincinnati Reds: Last Hurrah for the Big Red Machine
Doug Feldmann
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• Author(s): Doug Feldmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The era of free agency in Major League Baseball ensured that it would be difficult to keep star teams togethe...
View full detailsUnderstanding Depression, 2d ed.
Paul R. Robbins
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• Author(s): Paul R. Robbins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mood Disorders - Depression Since the publication of the first edition in 1993, there have been important developments in the ...
View full detailsThree Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
Brendan Simms
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• Author(s): Brendan Simms • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralIn the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Tradition...
View full detailsLiterary Research and Irish Literature: Strategies and Sources
Greg J. Matthews
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• Author(s): Greg J. Matthews • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Research and Irish Literature: Strategies & Sources explores primary and secondary research resou...
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