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Listening on the Short Waves, 1945 to Today
Jerome S. Berg
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• Author(s): Jerome S. Berg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The discovery and development of shortwave technology during the 1920s and 1930s permitted radi...
View full detailsLouis Armstrong: The Life, Music and Screen Career
Scott Allen Nollen
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• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Louis Armstrong was not only a virtuoso musician, singer, composer and actor, but also a dedicated writer who carri...
View full detailsAn Elusive Unity
James J. Connolly
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• Author(s): James J. Connolly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyAlthough many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from ...
View full detailsHow to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
Darby English
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• Author(s): Darby English • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: American - African American & BlackGoing beyond the 'blackness' of black art to examine the integrative and interdisciplinary practices of Kara Walker, ...
View full detailsFatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson--A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic
Peter C. Mancall
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• Author(s): Peter C. Mancall • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Expeditions & DiscoveriesThe English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first E...
View full detailsThe Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
Timothy Snyder
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• Author(s): Timothy Snyder • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the palaces of the Habsburg Empire to the torture chambers of Stalin's Soviet Union, the extraordinary story of a life suspend...
View full detailsThe Fifty-Eighth North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Tennessee
Michael C. Hardy
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• Author(s): Michael C. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War North Carolina contributed more than 70 regiments to Confederate service during the Civil War, but ...
View full detailsAn Introduction to Hmong Culture
Ya Po Cha
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• Author(s): Ya Po Cha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Presenting a holistic perspective of the Hmong way of life, this book touches on every aspect of the Hmong culture, ...
View full detailsThe Psychopathology of the Gothic Romance: Perversion, Neuroses and Psychosis in Early Works of the Genre
Ed Cameron
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• Author(s): Ed Cameron • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book uses clinical psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how early British Gothic fiction reveals undercurrents of psych...
View full detailsThe Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form
Joyce Goggin, Dan Hassler-Forest
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• Author(s): Joyce Goggin | Dan Hassler-Forest • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the e...
View full detailsDavid Bottoms: Critical Essays and Interviews
William Walsh
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• Author(s): William Walsh • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The South has a long tradition of great writers who remain in the South, transforming the local landscape into a univers...
View full detailsEdwidge Danticat: A Reader's Guide
Martin Munro, Dany Laferrière
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• Author(s): Martin Munro | Dany Laferrière • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanBreath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat's chi...
View full detailsEdwidge Danticat: A Reader's Guide
Martin Munro, Dany Laferrière
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• Author(s): Martin Munro | Dany Laferrière • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: GeneralBreath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat's childhood in Haiti and imm...
View full detailsFreelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy
Debra Osnowitz
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• Author(s): Debra Osnowitz • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: OutsourcingContract work is more important than ever--for better or for worse, depending on one's perspective. The security once implied by a full-time job...
View full detailsRochdale Village
Peter Eisenstadt
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• Author(s): Peter Eisenstadt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdal...
View full detailsRadio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom": Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950-1960
Richard H. Cummings
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• Author(s): Richard H. Cummings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General From 1950 to 1960, millions of Americans participated in Radio Free Europe's "Crusade for Freedom." They s...
View full detailsTransnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth and Media
Lan Dong
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• Author(s): Lan Dong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Asian American Studies & Pacific This collection examines transnational Asian American women characte...
View full detailsFrom Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend
Valerie Estelle Frankel
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• Author(s): Valerie Estelle Frankel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every ma...
View full detailsThe Psychology of Genocide and Violent Oppression: A Study of Mass Cruelty from Nazi Germany to Rwanda
Richard Morrock
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• Author(s): Richard Morrock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Social Psychology The twentieth century was one of the most violent in all of human history, with more than 100 million people...
View full detailsUnion General John A. McClernand and the Politics of Command
Christopher C. Meyers
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• Author(s): Christopher C. Meyers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military John A. McClernand was a career politician, and those ambitions and qualities continued during his Civil War se...
View full detailsAmerican Zoos During the Depression: A New Deal for Animals
Jesse C. Donahue, Erik K. Trump
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• Author(s): Jesse C. Donahue | Erik K. Trump • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 20th Century American zoos flourished during the Great Depression, thanks to federal programs...
View full detailsHigher and Faster: Memoir of a Pioneering Air Force Test Pilot
Robert M. White, Jack L. Summers
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• Author(s): Robert M. White | Jack L. Summers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General In 1961, pilot Robert M. White flew a hypersonic rocket-powered airplane six times faster...
View full detailsRadio Program Openings and Closings, 1931-1972
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Ben...
View full detailsThe Eastern Orthodox Churches: Concise Histories with Chronological Checklists of Their Primates
Michael Burgess
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• Author(s): Michael Burgess • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - Orthodox This guide to the Eastern Orthodox churches of the world is presented in alphabetical order by their c...
View full detailsHorror Noir: Where Cinema's Dark Sisters Meet
Paul Meehan
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• Author(s): Paul Meehan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This critical survey examines the historical and thematic relationships between two of the cinema's...
View full detailsSaint Sergius of Radonezh, His Trinity Monastery, and the Formation of the Russian Identity
David B. Miller
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• Author(s): David B. Miller • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: ReligiousWhen Sergius of Radonezh founded a monastery near Moscow, his example spawned a movement of mon...
View full detailsMajor League Careers Cut Short: Leading Players Gone by 30
Charles F. Faber
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• Author(s): Charles F. Faber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Since 1876, approximately 16,000 young men have enjoyed at least a taste of glory by appearing in big leag...
View full detailsSpiritual Elders
Irina Paert
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• Author(s): Irina Paert • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Christian Ministry - Counseling & RecoverySpiritual elders (startsy) are a quintessential part of Russia...
View full detailsRobert E. Howard: A Collector's Descriptive Bibliography of American and British Hardcover, Paperback, Magazine, Special and Amateur Editions, with a
Leon Nielsen
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• Author(s): Leon Nielsen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Robert E. Howard published primarily in pulp magazines, creating memorable characters like Conan of...
View full detailsPower and the Governance of Global Trade: From the GATT to the Wto
Soo Yeon Kim
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• Author(s): Soo Yeon Kim • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyIn Power and the Governance of Global Trade, Soo Yeon Kim analyzes the design, evolution, and economic impact ...
View full detailsBurmese (Myanmar)
John Okell, U. Saw Tun, Daw Khin Mya Swe
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• Author(s): John Okell | U. Saw Tun | Daw Khin Mya Swe • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Southeast Asian Languages (see also Vietnamese)The third volume in a four-par...
View full detailsVietnam and the West
Wynn Wilcox
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• Author(s): Wynn Wilcox • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends th...
View full detailsReligion, Race, and the American Presidency
Gaston Espinosa, Brian Robert Calfano, David G. Dalin
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• Author(s): Gaston Espinosa | Brian Robert Calfano | David G. Dalin • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateThe role that race and religion ...
View full detailsRe-riting Woman: Dianic Wicca and the Feminine Divine
Kristy S. Coleman
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• Author(s): Kristy S. Coleman • Publisher: Altamira Press • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press • BISAC: WitchcraftRe-riting Woman presents the first in-depth ethnographic study of Dianic Wicca. Its subject, Circle of Aradia, is a branch of the re...
View full detailsArthurian Figures of History and Legend: A Biographical Dictionary
Frank D. Reno
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• Author(s): Frank D. Reno • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General This biographical dictionary separates myth from history by differentiating and defining figures associated...
View full details"Girl, Colored" and Other Stories: A Complete Short Fiction Anthology of African American Women Writers in The Crisis Magazine, 1910-2010
Judith Musser
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• Author(s): Judith Musser • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General As the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, ) The Crisis is one o...
View full detailsLouis l'Amour on Film and Television
Ed Andreychuk
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• Author(s): Ed Andreychuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This reference work presents useful information for every known film and television episode drawn...
View full detailsNew York's Fighting Sixty-Ninth: A Regimental History of Service in the Civil War's Irish Brigade and the Great War's Rainbow Division
John Mahon
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• Author(s): John Mahon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - United States Formed in 1851 by Irish immigrants, the Fighting Sixty-Ninth has served with distinction since the Civil W...
View full detailsTheorizing Black Theatre: Art Versus Protest in Critical Writings, 1898-1965
Henry D. Miller
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• Author(s): Henry D. Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General The rich history of African-American theatre has often been overlooked, both in theoretical discourse and in...
View full detailsKorean Battle Chronology: Unit-by-Unit United States Casualty Figures and Medal of Honor Citations
Richard E. Ecker
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• Author(s): Richard E. Ecker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Korean War On June 28, 1950, five U.S. airmen died when their aircraft were shot down over Korea. They...
View full detailsPatrick White Within the Western Literary Tradition
John Beston
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• Author(s): John Beston • Publisher: Sydney University Press • Publisher Imprint: Sydney University Press • BISAC: EssaysPatrick White within the Western Literary Tradition is a collection of essays demonstrating the strong influence of European...
View full detailsThe Films of George Roy Hill, rev. ed.
Andrew Horton
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• Author(s): Andrew Horton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production As late as 1976, George Roy Hill was the first and only director to have two all-time, top-ten...
View full detailsRalph Waldo Emerson: Man And Teacher (1884)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Author(s): Ralph Waldo Emerson • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: EssaysRalph Waldo Emerson: Man And Teacher is a non-fiction book written by Ralph Waldo Emerson himself in 1884. The book is a c...
View full detailsMelanges Occitaniques V12: Recueil Politique, Religieux, Philosophique Et Litteraire (1834)
Tournel Publisher
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• Author(s): Tournel Publisher • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyLe livre ""M�����langes Occitaniques V12: Recueil Politique, Religieux, Philosophique Et Litt�����rair...
View full detailsInside Gilligan's Island: From Creation to Syndication
Sherwood Schwartz
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• Author(s): Sherwood Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Direction & Production While every new TV series has to face some problems, no show had to overcome greater...
View full detailsLectures on the relation between law & public opinion in England during the nineteenth century.
Albert Venn Dicey
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• Author(s): Albert Venn Dicey • Publisher: Gale, Making of Modern Law • Publisher Imprint: Gale, Making of Modern Law • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThe Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,...
View full detailsScreen Enemies of the American Way: Political Paranoia About Nazis, Communists, Saboteurs, Terrorists and Body Snatching Aliens in Film and Television
Fraser A. Sherman
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• Author(s): Fraser A. Sherman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens ...
View full detailsAmerican Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile
Richard John Neuhaus
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• Author(s): Richard John Neuhaus • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe paradox of being Catholic in America, explored with grace and economy by one of the country's most influential--and co...
View full detailsLetters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke, Snell Reginald
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• Author(s): Rainer Maria Rilke | Snell Reginald • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: LettersThese ten letters, written by one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, offer deep and sincere ad...
View full detailsBilly Wilder, Movie-Maker: Critical Essays on the Films
Karen McNally
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• Author(s): Karen McNally • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Billy Wilder's work remains a masterful combination of incisive social commentary, skilled wri...
View full detailsGulf War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 14 Americans, 1990-1991 and 2003-2010
Patricia Rushton
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• Author(s): Patricia Rushton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Iraq War (2003-2011) Since the pioneering work of nineteenth-century nurses such as Florence Nightingale, Dorothea...
View full detailsBallooning: A History, 1782-1900
S. L. Kotar, J. E. Gessler
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• Author(s): S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History The hot air balloon has a fascinating history of much trial and error, scientific research and b...
View full detailsLove and Death in Kubrick: A Critical Study of the Films from Lolita through Eyes Wide Shut
Patrick Webster
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• Author(s): Patrick Webster • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The films of Stanley Kubrick have left an indelible mark on the history of American cinema. This text explores ...
View full detailsWrite Source Student Edition Grade 12
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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• Author(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • Publisher: Great Source Education Group • Publisher Imprint: Great Source Education Group • BISAC: Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing
The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present
Michael E. Latham
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• Author(s): Michael E. Latham • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAfter World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymak...
View full detailsReforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country
Janet L. Polasky
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• Author(s): Janet L. Polasky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralReforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class pro...
View full detailsEncountering Religion in the Workplace
Raymond F. Gregory
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• Author(s): Raymond F. Gregory • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Business LawIn a recent survey, 20 percent of the workers interviewed reported that they had either experienced religious prejudice while at work or kn...
View full detailsProblem Solving Courts: A Measure of Justice
Joann Miller, Donald C. Johnson
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• Author(s): Joann Miller | Donald C. Johnson • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: CriminologyProblem Solving Courts explores a relatively new approach to criminal just...
View full detailsEveryday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a 'Post-Racial' World
Melanie E. L. Bush, Joe R. Feagin
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• Author(s): Melanie E. L. Bush | Joe R. Feagin • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe second edition of this groundbreaking book ...
View full detailsLiterary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources
Faye H. Christenberry
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• Author(s): Faye H. Christenberry • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: ResearchLiterary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources is a research guide to the literature...
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