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Sheldon Pollack
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• Author(s): Sheldon Pollack • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralIn a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized con...
View full detailsAffirmative Action for the Future
James Sterba
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• Author(s): James Sterba • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalAt a time when private and public institutions of higher education are reassessing their admissions policies in l...
View full detailsIslam on the Street: Religion in Modern Arabic Literature
Muhsin Al-Musawi
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• Author(s): Muhsin Al-Musawi • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: AfricanIslam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in tracts and ...
View full detailsAmerican Presidents Attend the Theatre: The Playgoing Experiences of Each Chief Executive
Thomas A. Bogar
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• Author(s): Thomas A. Bogar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism Not every presidential visit to the theatre is as famous as Lincoln's last night at Ford's, ...
View full detailsIndiscretions of Archie
P. G. Wodehouse
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• Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse • Publisher: SMK Books • Publisher Imprint: SMK Books • BISAC: ClassicsThis book tells the story of an impoverished, embarrassment-prone Drone Archibald "Archie" Moffam (pronounced "Moom"), and his difficult relations...
View full detailsGrande Dame Guignol Cinema: A History of Hag Horror from Baby Jane to Mother
Peter Shelley
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• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This critically analytical filmography examines 45 movies featuring "grande dames" in horror sett...
View full detailsIrwin Allen Television Productions, 1964-1970: A Critical History of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the G
Jon Abbott
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• Author(s): Jon Abbott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Before establishing himself as the "master of disaster" with the 1970s films The Poseidon Adventure and The To...
View full detailsWilliam Blake and Religion: A New Critical View
Magnus Ankarsjö
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• Author(s): Magnus Ankarsjö • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Over the last ten years the field of Blake studies has profited from new discoveries about Blake's life and work. This...
View full detailsEvelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook
Lynn Kear, James King
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• Author(s): Lynn Kear | James King • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Evelyn Brent's life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was hap...
View full detailsNew Deal Art in Virginia: The Oils, Murals, Reliefs and Frescoes and Their Creators
Anita Price Davis
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• Author(s): Anita Price Davis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945) This book is the only record of federally-funded art projects in Virginia post ...
View full detailsFrom Ruins to Reconstruction
Karl D. Qualls
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• Author(s): Karl D. Qualls • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionSevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet ...
View full detailsBlake's Margins: An Interpretive Study of the Annotations
Hazard Adams
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• Author(s): Hazard Adams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Known for his prophetic and imaginative works of poetry, painting, and printmaking, William Blake was also a prolific rea...
View full detailsMasks and Masking: Faces of Tradition and Belief Worldwide
Gary Edson
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• Author(s): Gary Edson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of ...
View full detailsPrince of Quacks: The Notorious Life of Dr. Francis Tumblety, Charlatan and Jack the Ripper Suspect
Timothy B. Riordan
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• Author(s): Timothy B. Riordan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This is a biography of the controversial and flamboyant nineteenth century doctor Francis Tumblety....
View full detailsThe South Atlantic League, 1904-1963: A Year-by-Year Statistical History
Marshall D. Wright
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• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This book presents season-by-season information for the original South Atlantic Baseball League, which o...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations
Yuwu Song
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• Author(s): Yuwu Song • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International Relations - General Since 1784, when the American ship Empress of China arrived in Guangzhou, Chinese-American relatio...
View full detailsThe Christopher Lee Filmography: All Theatrical Releases, 1948-2003
Tom Johnson, Mark a. Miller
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• Author(s): Tom Johnson | Mark a. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews The career of Christopher Lee has stretched over half a century in every sort of film...
View full detailsThe Original Amos 'n' Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928-1943 Radio Serial
Elizabeth McLeod
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• Author(s): Elizabeth McLeod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General This critical reexamination of Amos 'n' Andy, the pioneering creation of Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, ...
View full detailsUnited States and Allied Submarine Successes in the Pacific and Far East During World War II, 4th Ed.
John D. Alden, Craig R. McDonald
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• Author(s): John D. Alden | Craig R. McDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Here is a comprehensive accounting of all United States and al...
View full detailsCochlear Implants: A Handbook
Bonnie Poitras Tucker
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• Author(s): Bonnie Poitras Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Hearing & Speech Cochlear implants continue to change the lives of children and adults with severe or profound heari...
View full detailsScreen Sirens Scream!: Interviews with 20 Actresses from Science Fiction, Horror, Film Noir and Mystery Movies, 1930s to 1960s
Paul Parla, Charles P. Mitchell
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• Author(s): Paul Parla | Charles P. Mitchell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General These twenty heroines portrayed imperiled women in science fict...
View full detailsBallparks of North America: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia of Baseball Grounds, Yards and Stadiums, 1845 to 1988
Michael Benson
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• Author(s): Michael Benson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History What grandstand collapsed during a game, killing twelve? How high is the Green monster in Fenway? In what pa...
View full detailsLibrarianship in Gilded Age America: An Anthology of Writings, 1868-1901
Leonard Schlup, Stephen H. Paschen
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• Author(s): Leonard Schlup | Stephen H. Paschen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General The gilded age was a formative period in the development and e...
View full detailsBodies Like Bright Stars: Saints and Relics in Orthodox Russia
Robert H. Greene
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• Author(s): Robert H. Greene • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralWhile Russian Orthodox theologians celebrated saints as paragons of vir...
View full detailsTip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007
Jon T. Hoffman
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• Author(s): Jon T. Hoffman • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq in the s...
View full detailsWhy France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination
Laura Lee Downs, Stephane Gerson, Roger Chartier
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• Author(s): Laura Lee Downs | Stephane Gerson | Roger Chartier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceFrance has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accompli...
View full detailsClimate Change Policy in the United States: The Science, the Politics, and the Prospects for Change
Dianne Rahm
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• Author(s): Dianne Rahm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental Policy This overview of global warming and its human causes examines the international agreements re...
View full detailsWilliam Holden: A Biography
Michelangelo Capua
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• Author(s): Michelangelo Capua • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General William Holden was a Hollywood star whose career spanned four decades, more t...
View full detailsPolitics and Society in Southeast Asia
Peter A. Poole
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• Author(s): Peter A. Poole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Economy The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 caused severe hardship in Southeast Asia, and many countries tightene...
View full detailsThe Iowa Caucuses: First Tests of Presidential Aspiration, 1972-2008
John C. Skipper
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• Author(s): John C. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & Elections Smaller in population than several U.S. cities, the state of Iowa has become an ...
View full detailsAnomalous Experiences: Essays from Parapsychological and Psychological Perspectives
Matthew D. Smith
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• Author(s): Matthew D. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General Thirteen essays on the psychology and parapsychology of anomalous experience explore a range of p...
View full detailsAncient Greek Lyrics
Elli Tzalopoulou Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, William E. McCulloh
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• Author(s): Elli Tzalopoulou Barnstone | Willis Barnstone | William E. McCulloh • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalAncient Greek Lyrics collects Willis ...
View full detailsFrom Predators to Icons: Exposing the Myth of the Business Hero
Michel Villette, Catherine Vuillermot, George Holoch
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• Author(s): Michel Villette | Catherine Vuillermot | George Holoch • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralIn the popular imagination, the business media, and the schools of busine...
View full detailsThe Vanishing Physician-Scientist?
Andrew I. Schafer
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• Author(s): Andrew I. Schafer • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: ResearchThroughout history, physicians have played a vital role in medical discovery. These physician-scientists devote the majority of their profession...
View full detailsSlavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path
Laura Engelstein
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• Author(s): Laura Engelstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionTwentieth-century Russia, in all its political incarnations, lacked the basic features ...
View full detailsHuman Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500-2000
Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Karen Racine
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• Author(s): Beatriz G. Mamigonian | Karen Racine • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GeneralLike snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in...
View full detailsLiterary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources
Alison M. Lewis
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• Author(s): Alison M. Lewis • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFocusing on work produced between 1880 and 1945, Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Source...
View full detailsCombat Operations of the Korean War: Ground, Air, Sea, Special and Covert
Paul M. Edwards
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• Author(s): Paul M. Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Korean War This reference work provides information on all known military operations carried out under ...
View full detailsLabor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present
Jacqueline Jones
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• Author(s): Jacqueline Jones • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery wa...
View full detailsTrails of Historic New Mexico: Routes Used by Indian, Spanish and American Travelers through 1886
Ursula Carlson, Hunt Janin
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• Author(s): Ursula Carlson | Hunt Janin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West This is a survey of the major historic trails of New Mexico and other par...
View full detailsBaseball's Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service
Gary Bedingfield
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• Author(s): Gary Bedingfield • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History While most fans know that baseball stars Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, and Bob Feller served in the milita...
View full detailsTinclads in the Civil War: Union Light-Draught Gunboat Operations on Western Waters, 1862-1865
Myron J. Smith
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• Author(s): Myron J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Once the Union Army gained control of the upper rivers of the Mississippi Valley during the first hal...
View full detailsHorace Greeley's "New-York Tribune"
Adam Tuchinsky
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• Author(s): Adam Tuchinsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarIn the mid-nineteenth century, Horace Greeley's New-York Tribune had the largest national circulatio...
View full detailsJoy in Mudville: Essays on Baseball and American Life
John B. Wiseman
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• Author(s): John B. Wiseman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This collection of essays by experts on baseball history focuses on the national pastime as a marker of our...
View full detailsJames Edwards: African American Hollywood Icon
Pamala S. Deane
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• Author(s): Pamala S. Deane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General One of Hollywood's most heralded postwar African American movie stars, James Edwards catapulted to stardom foll...
View full detailsWhat We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors
Greg Giberson
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• Author(s): Greg Giberson • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Writing - GeneralGreg Giberson and Tom Moriarty have collected a rich volume that offers a state-of-the-field look at th...
View full detailsMagic as Metaphor in Anime: A Critical Study
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Since its inception as an art form, anime has engaged with themes, symbols and narrative strateg...
View full detailsLost to the Collective
Kenneth M. Pinnow
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• Author(s): Kenneth M. Pinnow • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: SuicideAs an act of unbridled individualism, suicide confronted the Bolshevik regime with a dilemma that challenged both i...
View full detailsEthics and Entertainment: Essays on Media Culture and Media Morality
Howard Good, Sandra L. Borden
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• Author(s): Howard Good | Sandra L. Borden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism As modern media shift from the distribution of information to its creation, a fresh inquiry into the...
View full detailsThe Ethnography of Charles Darwin: A Study of His Writings on Aboriginal Peoples
Charles De Paolo
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• Author(s): Charles De Paolo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Because of his stature as one of the great minds of the nineteenth century, Darwin and his work have been exa...
View full detailsStrangers in This Land: Religion, Pluralism and the American Dream, Revised Edition
E. Allen Richardson
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• Author(s): E. Allen Richardson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology of Religion This updated, revised version of the important 1988 first edition ("must reading for anyone seriousl...
View full detailsAmerican Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television
Christopher E. Bell
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• Author(s): Christopher E. Bell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Genres - Reality, Game Shows & Talk Shows The popular definition characterizes celebrity as a product of ...
View full detailsZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career
Charles Stumpf
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• Author(s): Charles Stumpf • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Most often remembered for her gestures, expressive eyes, and body language on the...
View full detailsFederal Laws of the Reconstruction: Principal Congressional Acts and Resolutions, Presidential Proclamations, Speeches and Orders, and Other Legislati
Frederick E. Hosen
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• Author(s): Frederick E. Hosen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century This collection of documents (primarily statutes and presidential proclamations), provide an i...
View full detailsRum Point: A Baseball Novel
Rick Wilber
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• Author(s): Rick Wilber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Set on the gulf coast of Florida and the Cayman Islands, this novel provides a unique blend of modern mystery thriller and ...
View full detailsMajor League Baseball Expansions and Relocations: A History, 1876-2008
Frank P. Jozsa
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• Author(s): Frank P. Jozsa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This study considers the importance of location for new and relocated major league franchises in the more th...
View full detailsWriting the War: My Ten Months in the Jungles, Streets and Paddies of South Vietnam, 1968
Stephen E. Atkins
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• Author(s): Stephen E. Atkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.D. work in Fren...
View full detailsLiberators, Patriots and Leaders of Latin America: 32 Biographies, 2d ed.
Jerome R. Adams
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• Author(s): Jerome R. Adams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General This book features biographies of 32 of the most notable figures in Latin American history. To the 23 ind...
View full detailsThe Teenage Tarzan: A Literary Analysis of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Stan Galloway
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• Author(s): Stan Galloway • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Following the 1912 publication of his wildly successful Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs authored four bestsel...
View full detailsCrossing the Zorn: The January 1945 Battle at Herrlisheim as Told by the American and German Soldiers Who Fought It
Edward Monroe-Jones
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• Author(s): Edward Monroe-Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Conceived in desperation after the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, Germ...
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