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Nature of Science: Integrating Historical, Philosophical, and Sociological Perspectives
Fernando Espinoza
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• Author(s): Fernando Espinoza • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Professional DevelopmentThe role of science, along with its nature and development, are commonly mis...
View full detailsLabor and the American Left: An Analytical History
Mel Van Elteren
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• Author(s): Mel Van Elteren • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Labor - General According to public opinion data over the past decade, most Americans hold center-left attitudes regarding key...
View full detailsBaseball's Heartland War, 1902-1903: The Western League and American Association Vie for Turf, Players and Profits
Dennis Pajot
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• Author(s): Dennis Pajot • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In late 1901, a number of baseball owners decided to break away from the Western League and form a new league ...
View full detailsThe December Ship: A Story of Lt. Col. Arden R. Boellner's Capture in the Philippines, Imprisonment, and Death on a World War II Japanese Hellship
Betty B. Jones
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• Author(s): Betty B. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General On December 14, 1944, the Oryoku Maru, or "December Ship," was attacked by planes...
View full detailsHugh Culverhouse and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers: How a Skinflint Genius with a Losing Team Made the Modern NFL
Denis M. Crawford
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• Author(s): Denis M. Crawford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports From 1976 until 1994, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost far more games than they won. The Bucs' status as a sporting punc...
View full detailsNicknames of Places: Origins and Meanings of the Alternate and Secondary Names, Sobriquets, Titles, Epithets and Slogans for 4600 Places Worldwide
Adrian Room
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• Author(s): Adrian Room • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical Geography Many places in the world, from the smallest settlement to the largest expanse of land or water, have one or m...
View full detailsSchool Segregation in Western North Carolina: A History, 1860s-1970s
Betty Jamerson Reed
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• Author(s): Betty Jamerson Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS, Although African Americans make up a small portion of the...
View full detailsThe Inner History of Devices
Sherry Turkle
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• Author(s): Sherry Turkle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Social AspectsMemoir, clinical writings, and ethnography inform new perspectives on the experience of technology; personal stories illuminate how technology...
View full detailsSupergod Volume 1
Warren Ellis, Garrie Gastonny, Felipe Massafera
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• Author(s): Warren Ellis | Garrie Gastonny | Felipe Massafera • Publisher: Avatar Press • Publisher Imprint: Avatar Press • BISAC: Superheroes (see also Fiction - Superheroes)Praying to be saved by a man who can fly will get you killed! From War...
View full detailsRaul Castro and the New Cuba: A Close-Up View of Change
Harlan Abrahams, Arturo Lopez-Levy
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• Author(s): Harlan Abrahams | Arturo Lopez-Levy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Regional Studies In 2006, Fidel Castro yielded power over Cuba to his younger brother Raul, making him the...
View full detailsAfrican American Theater Buildings: An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900-1955
Eric Ledell Smith
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• Author(s): Eric Ledell Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism African American theater buildings were theaters owned or managed by blacks or whites and ser...
View full detailsGloria Grahame, Bad Girl of Film Noir: The Complete Career
Robert J. Lentz
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• Author(s): Robert J. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of fil...
View full detailsThe Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899
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: General To both young and old, the circus remains an icon of American entertainment, a wholesome pastime untouched...
View full detailsThe Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010
Malcah Effron
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• Author(s): Malcah Effron • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new crit...
View full detailsIf by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy--From the Revolution to the War of 1812
George C. Daughan
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• Author(s): George C. Daughan • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Military - NavalThe American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous mid...
View full detailsThe History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 Volume; Volume 2
David Hume
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• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - WalesThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred ...
View full detailsDiMaggio's Yankees: A History of the 1936-1944 Dynasty
Lew Freedman
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• Author(s): Lew Freedman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History When Babe Ruth left the New York Yankees in 1935, some feared that the loss would cripple the club for years. ...
View full detailsThe Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese Until 1945
Bernard T. Fitzpatrick
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• Author(s): Bernard T. Fitzpatrick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Sergeant Bernard T. FitzPatrick endured the long and deadly hike to Japanese prisoner of war camps known as the...
View full detailsBy Sword and Plow: Democracy and Industrial Conflict in Post-Reform South Asia
Jennifer E. Sessions
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• Author(s): Jennifer E. Sessions • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn 1830, with France's colonial empire in ruins, Charles X ordered his army to invade Ottoman Algiers. V...
View full detailsTelevision Characters: 1,485 Profiles, 1947-2004
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Alice Kramden's (The Honeymooners) first job was as a jelly donut stuffer before she was ...
View full detailsChina's Regulatory State: A New Strategy for Globalization
Roselyn Hsueh Romano
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• Author(s): Roselyn Hsueh Romano • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyToday's China is governed by a new economic model that marks a radical break from the Ma...
View full detailsThe Socialist Car
Lewis H. Siegelbaum
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• Author(s): Lewis H. Siegelbaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionAcross the Soviet Bloc, from the 1960s until the collapse of communism, the automobi...
View full detailsLatin American Popular Culture since Independence: An Introduction
William H. Beezley, Linda A. Curcio-Nagy
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• Author(s): William H. Beezley | Linda A. Curcio-Nagy • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralThis unique reader offers an engaging collection of e...
View full detailsQuentin Crisp: The Profession of Being. A Biography
Nigel Kelly
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• Author(s): Nigel Kelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Memoirs English writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) became a celebrity and gay icon at the age of 60 with the publicati...
View full detailsTo Have or Have Not: Essays on Commerce and Capital in Modernist Theatre
James Fisher
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• Author(s): James Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism In a rapidly changing world, the ways in which economic forces affect both personal and global ...
View full detailsThe Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present
Warren R. Hofstra, Karl Raitz, Center for American Places
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• Author(s): Warren R. Hofstra | Karl Raitz | Center for American Places • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,The Grea...
View full detailsRaymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed
John Paul Athanasourelis
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• Author(s): John Paul Athanasourelis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of Americ...
View full detailsThe Shadows in the Street: A Gripping Psychological Thriller of Strangled Truths and Hidden Lives
Susan Hill
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• Author(s): Susan Hill • Publisher: Overlook Press • Publisher Imprint: Overlook Press • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police ProceduralWhat happens when evil steps out of the shadows?Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is reluctantly recal...
View full detailsSuperheroes of the Round Table: Comics Connections to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Jason Tondro
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• Author(s): Jason Tondro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Few scholars nursed on the literary canon would dispute that knowledge of Western literature benefits...
View full detailsCommon Warfare: Parallel Memoirs by Two World War II GIs in the Pacific
Carl M. Becker, Robert G. Thobaben
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• Author(s): Carl M. Becker | Robert G. Thobaben • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General The vast majority of soldiers and sailors fighting in World ...
View full detailsCultivating Regionalism: Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest
Kenneth H. Wheeler
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• Author(s): Kenneth H. Wheeler • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HistoryIn this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century Am...
View full detailsLibertarianism, from A to Z
Jeffrey a. Miron
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• Author(s): Jeffrey a. Miron • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralLibertarianism seems fairly straightforward on the surface: "Keep your government out of my bedroom and my wallet." But...
View full detailsThe Role of Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO 9001 in Corporate Management: A Plan for Integration of Governance and Operations
William A. Stimson
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• Author(s): William A. Stimson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Corporate Governance At the turn of the 21st century, corporate scandals at major companies like Enron, Tyco International,...
View full detailsAn Introduction to the Psychology of Paranormal Belief and Experience
Tony Jinks
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• Author(s): Tony Jinks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General When someone admits to a strange experience, such as witnessing an unidentified flying object, having t...
View full detailsNew Zealand in the League of Nations: The Beginnings of an Independent Foreign Policy, 1919-1939
Gerald Chaudron
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• Author(s): Gerald Chaudron • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Australia & New Zealand - General When New Zealand's prime minister William Massey joined other heads of British Empire co...
View full detailsThe Jack the Ripper Suspects: Persons Cited by Investigators and Theorists
Stan Russo
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• Author(s): Stan Russo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Murder - General The legendary Jack the Ripper murdered as many as ten women between the years of 1887 and 1891 in the East End of ...
View full detailsJames Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula: A Critical Biography
David Huckvale
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• Author(s): David Huckvale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music Composers give a unique and powerful voice to stories on the big screen. Those who work principally with one genre may le...
View full detailsThe Union Prison at Fort Delaware: A Perfect Hell on Earth
Brian Temple
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• Author(s): Brian Temple • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Located on Pea Patch Island at the entrance to the Delaware River, Fort Delaware was built to protect W...
View full detailsEve Arden: A Chronicle of All Film, Television, Radio and Stage Performances
David C. Tucker
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• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The remarkable career of American actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is thoroughly ch...
View full detailsMentoring in Librarianship: Essays on Working with Adults and Students to Further the Profession
Carol Smallwood, Rebecca Tolley-Stokes
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• Author(s): Carol Smallwood | Rebecca Tolley-Stokes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Both new librarians and those changing directions in the f...
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 - Greece
The Mysterious Stranger & Other Stories (Large Print Edition)
Mark Twain
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• Author(s): Mark Twain • Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Serenity Publishers, LLC • BISAC: ClassicsLarge print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Twain's classic work.
Gone with the Wind on Film: A Complete Reference Work
Cynthia Marylee Molt
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• Author(s): Cynthia Marylee Molt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This is the definitive collection of data about all aspects of this film. The ten sections...
View full detailsElizabeth Bishop in Brazil and After: A Poetic Career Transformed
George Monteiro
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• Author(s): George Monteiro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry The life and career of American poet and writer Elizabeth Bishop falls into two distinct segments: the pre-Brazil years...
View full detailsDuck and Cover: Civil Defense Images in Film and Television from the Cold War to 9/11
Melvin E. Matthews
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• Author(s): Melvin E. Matthews • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism During the 1950s and early 1960s, school air-raid drills, bomb shelters, and unnerving...
View full detailsThe Nature of War: Origins and Evolution of Violent Conflict
Jim Stempel
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• Author(s): Jim Stempel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General For over 12,000 years human beings have warred, slaughtering each other with persistence and brutality. From sp...
View full detailsHeartland of the Imagination: Conservative Values in American Literature from Poe to O'Connor to Haruf
Jeffrey J. Folks
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• Author(s): Jeffrey J. Folks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Conservative strands in American literature are often overlooked in university courses. This book focuses ...
View full detailsThe Tell-Tale Art: Poe in Modern Popular Culture
Christine A. Jackson
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• Author(s): Christine A. Jackson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Greed and guilt, near-indecipherable codes, murder plots born of madness--these motifs drive the best ...
View full detailsMourning Films: A Critical Study of Loss and Grieving in Cinema
Richard Armstrong
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• Author(s): Richard Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The first in-depth study of its subject, this book seeks to account for a type of modernist film that revolve...
View full detailsTelevision Series Regulars of the Fifties and Sixties in Interview
Dina-Marie Kulzer
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• Author(s): Dina-Marie Kulzer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General In this collection of 22 interviews (with Ralph Bellamy, Angela Cartwright, Barbara Eden, Kathy Garver,...
View full detailsMere Equals
Lucia McMahon
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• Author(s): Lucia McMahon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Student Life & Student AffairsIn Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enj...
View full detailsTolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in War and Peace
Rick McPeak, Donna Tussing Orwin
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• Author(s): Rick McPeak | Donna Tussing Orwin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionIn 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades l...
View full detailsThe Broken Village
Daniel R. Reichman
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• Author(s): Daniel R. Reichman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn The Broken Village, Daniel R. Reichman tells the story of a remote village in Honduras that transformed almost o...
View full detailsSomething Hidden
Louisa E. Rhine
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• Author(s): Louisa E. Rhine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General Louisa E. Rhine--whose name is destined in the annals of science to be forever linked with that of...
View full detailsU.S. Marines in Iraq, 2003: Combat Service Support During Operation Iraqi Freedom (U.S. Marines in the Global War on Terrorism)
Melissa D. Mihocko, Charles P. Neimeyer, U. S. Marine Corps History Division
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• Author(s): Melissa D. Mihocko | Charles P. Neimeyer | U. S. Marine Corps History Division • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)Illusrated with full color maps ...
View full detailsThe Origin of Sin
Prudentius, Martha A. Malamud
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• Author(s): Prudentius | Martha A. Malamud • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalAurelius Prudentius Clemens (348-ca. 406) is one of the great Christian Latin writers of...
View full detailsA Liberal World Order in Crisis
Georg Sørensen
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• Author(s): Georg Sørensen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismThe collapse of the bipolar international system near the end of the twen...
View full detailsVoyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs
Cathy A. Small
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• Author(s): Cathy A. Small • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn Voyages, Cathy A. Small offers a view of the changes in migration, globalization, and ...
View full detailsCurious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred
David L. Martin
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• Author(s): David L. Martin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EpistemologyHaunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy ...
View full detailsThe Doctor Who Franchise: American Influence, Fan Culture and the Spinoffs
Lynnette Porter
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• Author(s): Lynnette Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General As Doctor Who nears its 50th anniversary, it is very much a part of British popular culture, and the Doct...
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