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Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
Grant McCracken
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• Author(s): Grant McCracken • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: ForecastingTrenchantly on point and bursting with insight, anthropologist Grant McCracken shows American corporations how keeping a finger on the puls...
View full details1938: Hitler's Gamble
Giles MacDonogh
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• Author(s): Giles MacDonogh • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Europe - GermanyIn this masterful narrative, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh chronicles Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power over the course of o...
View full detailsElizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals
Bethany Latham
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• Author(s): Bethany Latham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perce...
View full detailsThe Films of James Bridges
Peter Tonguette
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• Author(s): Peter Tonguette • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Originally arriving in Hollywood to pursue an acting career, James Bridges went ...
View full detailsLiving Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future
Manning Marable
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• Author(s): Manning Marable • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black StudiesAre the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History ...
View full detailsLiterary and Epigraphical Testimonia: The Athenian Agora V3
R. E. Wycherley
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• Author(s): R. E. Wycherley • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe Athenian Agora V3: Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia is a comprehensive reference book compiled by R. E...
View full detailsConfederate Sheet Music
E. Lawrence Abel
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• Author(s): E. Lawrence Abel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Military & Marches During the American Civil War, songs united and inspired people on both sides. T...
View full detailsLatinos in American Society
Ruth Enid Zambrana
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• Author(s): Ruth Enid Zambrana • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic American StudiesIt is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproport...
View full detailsCities Going Green: A Handbook of Best Practices
Roger L. Kemp, Carl J. Stephani
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp | Carl J. Stephani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban Over the past several decades, numerous planning movements have taken root within the Unite...
View full detailsEugene O'Neill and His Early Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives and the Avant Garde
Eileen J. Herrmann, Robert M. Dowling
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• Author(s): Eileen J. Herrmann | Robert M. Dowling • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Eugene O'Neill was one of the great American playwrights of the twentieth century. Sp...
View full detailsFarewell to the Last Golden Era: The Yankees, the Pirates and the 1960 Baseball Season
Bill Morales
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• Author(s): Bill Morales • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Ba...
View full detailsThe Films of Louis Malle: A Critical Analysis
Nathan C. Southern, Jacques Weissgerber, Heather McBrier
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• Author(s): Nathan C. Southern | Jacques Weissgerber | Heather McBrier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism With films like Les Amants and Le Souffle au coeur, ...
View full detailsBucky Harris: A Biography of Baseball's Boy Wonder
Jack Smiles
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• Author(s): Jack Smiles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1924, at the age of 27, manager and second baseman Stanley "Bucky" Harris--aka "The Boy Wonder"--led the Was...
View full detailsUnited States Merchant Marine Casualties of World War II, REV Ed.
Robert M. Browning
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• Author(s): Robert M. Browning • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The U.S. merchant marine played a critical, though often overlooked, role in ...
View full detailsMexican Movies in the United States: A History of the Films, Theaters and Audiences, 1920-1960
Rogelio Agrasánchez
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• Author(s): Rogelio Agrasánchez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism A surge of immigration in the United States in the 1920s coincided with burgeoning developm...
View full detailsRadio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples Who Verbalized the Jargon of th
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism In the days before television, radio was the constant voice in American life. When radio spoke, Americ...
View full detailsKey States, High Stakes: Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections
Charles S. Bullock, Dante J. Scala, Daniel C. Reed
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• Author(s): Charles S. Bullock | Dante J. Scala | Daniel C. Reed • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsIn this new edited v...
View full detailsBargaining with Baseball: Labor Relations in an Age of Prosperous Turmoil
William B. Gould
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• Author(s): William B. Gould • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General In 1995, William B. Gould IV, then chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, cast the deciding vote ...
View full detailsRebels without Borders
Idean Salehyan
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• Author(s): Idean Salehyan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Rebellion, insurgency, civil war-conflict within a society is customarily treated as a...
View full detailsBy Force and Fear
Anne Jacobson Schutte
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• Author(s): Anne Jacobson Schutte • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MonasticismAn unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures...
View full detailsJim Thorpe: A Biography
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Most biographies of Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) emphasize his Olympic glory and his remarkable abilities in track and footba...
View full detailsThe Changing Spanish Family: Essays on New Views in Literature, Cinema and Theater
Tiffany Trotman
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• Author(s): Tiffany Trotman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: European - Spanish & Portuguese Despite centuries of Catholic conservatism, Spain stands among the Western countries that ...
View full detailsThe Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling
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• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Read Books • Publisher Imprint: Read Books • BISAC: GeneralMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are r...
View full detailsHot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt
Edward P. Kohn
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• Author(s): Edward P. Kohn • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyOne of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppre...
View full detailsHeinlein's Juvenile Novels: A Cultural Dictionary
C. W. Sullivan, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): C. W. Sullivan | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Robert A. Heinlein's early, juvenile science fiction nov...
View full detailsPrinces, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Steffen Hertog
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• Author(s): Steffen Hertog • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of ...
View full detailsCreative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism After 1950
Orfeo Fioretos
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• Author(s): Orfeo Fioretos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsTwentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economi...
View full detailsOne Day Longer
Lynn R. Williams
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• Author(s): Lynn R. Williams • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: PoliticalLynn Williams remains one of the most influential North American union leaders of the twentieth century. His two terms as president of the Unite...
View full detailsBack to Basics: A Study of the Second Lebanon War and Operation CAST LEAD
Scott C. Farquhar
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• Author(s): Scott C. Farquhar • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineThis work studies the combat actions in two operations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. The writing team focused on the ...
View full detailsCameras into the Wild: A History of Early Wildlife and Expedition Filmmaking, 1895-1928
Palle B. Petterson
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• Author(s): Palle B. Petterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The cinematographers and directors who shot film in wilderness areas at the turn of the 19th...
View full detailsPostcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles
Edgard Sankara
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• Author(s): Edgard Sankara • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: European - FrenchBringing a comparative perspective to the study of autobiography, Edgard Sankara considers a cross-s...
View full detailsRace, Oppression and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition
Christopher M. Moreman, Cory James Rushton
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• Author(s): Christopher M. Moreman | Cory James Rushton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology The figure of the zombie is a familiar one in world culture, acting as a ...
View full detailsAndrew V. McLaglen: The Life and Hollywood Career
Stephen B. Armstrong
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• Author(s): Stephen B. Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Here is a comprehensive survey of the film and television career of London-born director Andrew V. McLagle...
View full detailsThe Creation: Secular, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Muslim Perspectives Analyzed
Everett Jenkins
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• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comparative Religion The major monotheistic religions of the world--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--have certain elements in ...
View full detailsMurray Leinster: The Life and Works
Billee J. Stallings, Jo-An J. Evans
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• Author(s): Billee J. Stallings | Jo-An J. Evans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Will F. Jenkins, known to science fiction fans by his penname Murray Leinst...
View full detailsTolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays
Jason Fisher
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• Author(s): Jason Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Source criticism--analysis of a writer's source material--has emerged as one of the most popular ap...
View full detailsThe Life of Reason, Critical Edition, Volume 7: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One
George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman
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• Author(s): George Santayana | Marianne S. Wokeck | Martin A. Coleman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernSantayana argues that instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of rea...
View full detailsJack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
Spiro Dimolianis
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• Author(s): Spiro Dimolianis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical Jack the Ripper is a gothic tale of Victorian conspiracies, the supernatural, secret societies and the police. Sco...
View full detailsThe Galaxy Is Rated G: Essays on Children's Science Fiction Film and Television
R. C. Neighbors, Sandy Rankin
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• Author(s): R. C. Neighbors | Sandy Rankin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Through spaceships, aliens, ray guns and other familiar trappings, science fiction uses the futu...
View full detailsMobilizing Restraint: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia
Emmanuel Teitelbaum
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• Author(s): Emmanuel Teitelbaum • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn Mobilizing Restraint, Emmanuel Teitelbaum argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, democracies are b...
View full detailsWe Will Be Satisfied With Nothing Less
Hugh Davis
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• Author(s): Hugh Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsHistorians have focused almost entirely on the attempt by southern African Americans to attain equal rights during Re...
View full detailsEmployee Ownership and Shared Capitalism: New Directions in Research
Edward J. Carberry
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• Author(s): Edward J. Carberry • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Labor - GeneralOne of the most persistent and important, but often ignored, trends cont...
View full detailsSmall Works
John A. Donaldson
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• Author(s): John A. Donaldson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentHow can policymakers effectively reduce poverty? Most mainstream economists advocate pro...
View full detailsFrom Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization
Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee, Mary E. Gallagher
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• Author(s): Sarosh Kuruvilla | Ching Kwan Lee | Mary E. Gallagher • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn the thirty years since the opening of China's economy, China's economic...
View full detailsThe CSS Arkansas: A Confederate Ironclad on Western Waters
Myron J. Smith
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• Author(s): Myron J. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War While the Monitor and Merrimack are the most famous of the Civil War ironclads, the Confederacy had a...
View full detailsThe Struggle to Serve: The Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church
Simone M. St Pierre
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• Author(s): Simone M. St Pierre • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Christian Theology - EcclesiologyAppointed by Pope Paul IV to examine the role of women in the Bible, the Pontific...
View full detailsRadical Embodied Cognitive Science
Anthony Chemero
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• Author(s): Anthony Chemero • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-e...
View full detailsTheorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World
Maggie Parke, Natalie Wilson
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• Author(s): Maggie Parke | Natalie Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Since the publication of Twilight in 2005, Stephenie Meyer's four-book saga about the torture...
View full detailsPicturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Janice M. Bogstad, Philip E. Kaveny
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• Author(s): Janice M. Bogstad | Philip E. Kaveny • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of dir...
View full detailsNobel Writers on Writing
Ottar G. Draugsvold
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• Author(s): Ottar G. Draugsvold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greates...
View full detailsFighting the Current: The Rise of American Women's Swimming, 1870-1926
Lisa Bier
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• Author(s): Lisa Bier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Water Sports - Swimming & Diving In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first female to swim the English Channel--and broke the exi...
View full detailsFrank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel
Connie M. Sage, Richard F. Barry, The Norfolk Historical Society
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• Author(s): Connie M. Sage | Richard F. Barry | The Norfolk Historical Society • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: BusinessFrank Batten Sr. (1927-2009) created the Weather Channel ...
View full detailsThe Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace: American Conversions to Orthodox Christianity
Amy Slagle
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• Author(s): Amy Slagle • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionLike many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in wha...
View full detailsThe Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus: Hermeticism from Ancient to Modern Times
Florian Ebeling, David Lorton, Jan Assmann
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• Author(s): Florian Ebeling | David Lorton | Jan Assmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory"Perhaps Hermeticism has fascinated so many people precisely because it h...
View full detailsDreaming and Storytelling
Bert O. States
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• Author(s): Bert O. States • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAre dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes pleasant, sometimes terrifying, but ...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Heads of States and Governments, 1900 through 1945
Harris M. Lentz
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• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political The first half of the 20th century was perhaps the most turbulent in history. Two world wars and numerous smaller co...
View full detailsHarlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (Loa #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry
Rafia Zafar
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• Author(s): Rafia Zafar • Publisher: Library of America • Publisher Imprint: Library of America • BISAC: LiteraryHARLEM RENAISSANCE: Five Novels of the 1920s leads off with Jean Toomer's Cane (1923), a unique fusion of fiction, poetry, and drama...
View full detailsThe End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money
J. Bradford DeLong, Stephen S. Cohen
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• Author(s): J. Bradford DeLong | Stephen S. Cohen • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International - EconomicsTwo award-winning economists detail how America's declining economic power will reshape its place on th...
View full detailsThe Sea Was My Last Chance: Memoir of an American Captured on Bataan in 1942 Who Escaped in 1944 and Led the Liberation of Western Mindanao
Donald H. Wills, Reyburn W. Myers
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• Author(s): Donald H. Wills | Reyburn W. Myers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General D.H. (Herb) Wills fought the Japanese on Bataan, was captured...
View full detailsThen Came the Fire: Personal Accounts From the Pentagon, 11 September 2001
Stephen J. Lofgren, Richard W. Stweart, Center of Military History
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• Author(s): Stephen J. Lofgren | Richard W. Stweart | Center of Military History • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - United StatesFull color illustrations throughout. Two days after the Septe...
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