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From Classroom to White House: The Presidents and First Ladies as Students and Teachers
James McMurtry Longo
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• Author(s): James McMurtry Longo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History President Eisenhower, who was not always the best student, once wrote, "One cannot always read a man's future in ...
View full detailsEurope United: Power Politics and the Making of the European Community
Sebastian Rosato
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• Author(s): Sebastian Rosato • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Intergovernmental OrganizationsThe construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of...
View full detailsThe Gus Van Sant Touch: A Thematic Study--Drugstore Cowboy, Milk and Beyond
Justin Vicari
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• Author(s): Justin Vicari • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as M...
View full detailsThe Life and Truth of George R. Stewart: A Literary Biography of the Author of Earth Abides
Donald M. Scott
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• Author(s): Donald M. Scott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Best known for his 1949 post-apocalyptic thriller Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (1895-1980) spent a lifetime wanderi...
View full detailsThe Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities
Virginia Rutter, Pepper Schwartz
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• Author(s): Virginia Rutter | Pepper Schwartz • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how t...
View full detailsTip of the Spear: U.S. Army Small-Unit Action in Iraq, 2004-2007
Jon T. Hoffman, U. S. Army Center for Military History
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• Author(s): Jon T. Hoffman | U. S. Army Center for Military History • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)The lightning campaign that toppled the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq i...
View full detailsWomen of the Resistance: Eight Who Defied the Third Reich
Marc E. Vargo
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• Author(s): Marc E. Vargo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Women took part in perilous resistance missions during World War II alongside a mu...
View full detailsThe Tragedie of Macbeth: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare As Shakespeare's works are most accessible when viewed as working theatrical playscripts, "The Tragedie of Mac...
View full detailsPricing the Future: Finance, Physics, and the 300-Year Journey to the Black-Scholes Equation: A Story of Genius and Discovery
George G. Szpiro
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• Author(s): George G. Szpiro • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economic HistoryOptions have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities...
View full detailsPredictive Health: How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years
Kenneth L. Brigham, Michael Me Johns
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• Author(s): Kenneth L. Brigham | Michael Me Johns • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Health PolicyOur health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare...
View full detailsCitizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman
Aida D. Donald
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• Author(s): Aida D. Donald • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State
Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
Nancy Marie Brown
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• Author(s): Nancy Marie Brown • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryThe medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during the Dark Ages -...
View full detailsAnswers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to a More Meaningful Life
Massimo Pigliucci
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• Author(s): Massimo Pigliucci • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyHow should we live? According to philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci, the greatest guidance to this essential q...
View full detailsThe Funny Parts: A History of Film Comedy Routines and Gags
Anthony Balducci
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• Author(s): Anthony Balducci • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Classic comedy routines and individual gags have been around for many hundreds of years, proba...
View full detailsFinancing Schools and Educational Programs: Policy, Practice, and Politics
Al Ramirez
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• Author(s): Al Ramirez • Publisher: R & L Education • Publisher Imprint: R & L Education • BISAC: FinanceThis book will be great for preparing for entry-level school administration positions as well as candidates for advanced degrees who...
View full detailsIndefinite Objects: Scrambling, Choice Functions, and Differential Marking
Luis Lopez
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• Author(s): Luis Lopez • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationA novel view of the syntax-semantics interface that analyzes the behavior of indefinite objects.In Indefinite Objects, Luis López pres...
View full detailsRalph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide
Bryan Crable
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• Author(s): Bryan Crable • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: American - GeneralRalph Ellison and Kenneth Burke focuses on the little-known but important friendship between two cano...
View full detailsThe Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You about Global Warming
Roger Pielke
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• Author(s): Roger Pielke • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeWhy has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fa...
View full detailsPractical Ethics in Sport Management
Angela Lumpkin, Sharon Kay Stoll, Jennifer M. Beller
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• Author(s): Angela Lumpkin | Sharon Kay Stoll | Jennifer M. Beller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Leaders and managers throughout the sporting world face many ethical challenges...
View full detailsCosmos & Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context
National Aeronautics and Space Administr, Steven J. Dick, Roger D. Launius
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• Author(s): National Aeronautics and Space Administr | Steven J. Dick | Roger D. Launius • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyIntegrating concepts from philosophical, anthropological, and astrob...
View full detailsDocumentary Filmmakers Handbook
Ned Eckhardt
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• Author(s): Ned Eckhardt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production A complete guide to all phases of documentary production, this is an essential handbook for stu...
View full detailsEliot Asinof and the Truth of the Game: A Critical Study of the Baseball Writings
William Farina
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• Author(s): William Farina • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings The late Eliot Asinof (1919-2008), renowned author of Eight Men Out, on which the movie versio...
View full detailsProfessional Development Schools: Researching Lessons From the Field
Rick Breault, Donna Adair Breault
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• Author(s): Rick Breault | Donna Adair Breault • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development Schools: Researching Lessons from ...
View full detailsThe Question of Competence
Brian D. Hodges, Lorelei Lingard, M. Brownell Anderson
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• Author(s): Brian D. Hodges | Lorelei Lingard | M. Brownell Anderson • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Education & TrainingMedical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define comp...
View full detailsPlayers and Teams of the National Association, 1871-1875
Paul Batesel
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• Author(s): Paul Batesel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This reference work is in two parts. The first is a biographical dictionary of the 325 men who played in the N...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Television Subjects, Themes and Settings
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...
View full detailsSpoils of Truce
Reinoud Leenders
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• Author(s): Reinoud Leenders • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - Middle EasternIn Spoils of Truce, Reinoud Leenders documents the extensive corruption that accompanied the reconstr...
View full detailsA Cultural History of the Chinese Language
Sharron Gu
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• Author(s): Sharron Gu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Chinese, one of the oldest active languages, evolved over 5,000 years. As such, it makes for a fascinating case study in th...
View full detailsFeminisms and Educational Research
Wendy R. Kohli, Nicholas C. Burbules
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• Author(s): Wendy R. Kohli | Nicholas C. Burbules • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsThe latest book in the Philosophy, Theory...
View full detailsFright Night on Channel 9: Saturday Night Horror Films on New York's WOR-TV, 1973-1987
James Arena
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• Author(s): James Arena • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General From 1973 to 1987, Fright Night was a fixture of the late Saturday evening schedule on independent New York t...
View full detailsOf Birds Crying
Minako Oba, Michiko N. Wilson, Michael K. Wilson
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• Author(s): Minako Oba | Michiko N. Wilson | Michael K. Wilson • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseOf Birds Crying (Naku tori no, 1985), the recipient of the Noma Bungei Pr...
View full detailsThe Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Andrea Tone
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• Author(s): Andrea Tone • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: HistoryAnxious Americans have increasingly pursued peace of mind through pills and prescriptions. In 2006, the National Institute of Mental Health estimat...
View full detailsEliot Ness and the Untouchables: The Historical Reality and the Film and Television Depictions, 2d ed.
Kenneth Tucker
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• Author(s): Kenneth Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Lawman Eliot Ness has been transformed into legend by the films and television programs th...
View full detailsCain's Legacy: Liberating Siblings from a Lifetime of Rage, Shame, Secrecy, and Regret
Jeanne Safer
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• Author(s): Jeanne Safer • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Developmental - Child
Women and Poverty in 21st Century America
Paula Vw Dáil
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• Author(s): Paula Vw Dáil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Despite an overhaul in the 1990s, the American welfare system remains with a business model focused on the botto...
View full detailsThe Earl of Oxford and the Making of "Shakespeare": The Literary Life of Edward de Vere in Context
Richard Malim
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• Author(s): Richard Malim • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Figures The identity of Shakespeare, the most important poet and dramatist in the English language, has been debated fo...
View full detailsThe 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry: A Civil War History
David Williamson
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• Author(s): David Williamson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Organized at Indianapolis in December 1861, the 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry's Civil War service...
View full detailsCrime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York, 1691-1776
Douglas S. Greenberg
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• Author(s): Douglas S. Greenberg • Publisher: Fall Creek Books • Publisher Imprint: Fall Creek Books • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThe winner of the first New York State Historical Association Manuscript Award, this...
View full detailsColumbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926-1955: The Harry Cohn Years
Gene Blottner
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• Author(s): Gene Blottner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Blondie, Boston Blackie, Ellery Queen, The Lone Wolf, Gasoline Alley, Jungle Jim... There were 27 film series pro...
View full detailsBought and Sold: Living and Losing the Good Life in Socialist Yugoslavia
Patrick Hyder Patterson
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• Author(s): Patrick Hyder Patterson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralYugoslavia was unique among the communist countries of the Cold War era in its openness to m...
View full detailsAggressive Fictions: Reading the Contemporary American Novel
Kathryn Hume
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• Author(s): Kathryn Hume • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralA frequent complaint against contemporary American fiction is that too often it puts off readers in ways they...
View full detailsCormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn
Leslie Harper Worthington
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• Author(s): Leslie Harper Worthington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Mark Twain once wrote, "We are nothing but echoes." Despite this pronouncement, Twain's voice continues to r...
View full detailsRising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact
Hunt Janin, Scott A. Mandia
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin | Scott A. Mandia • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate Change The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's politica...
View full detailsIngrid Bergman: The Life, Career and Public Image
David Smit
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• Author(s): David Smit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Smit studies the woman behind the public image as a natural, wholesome, even saintly ...
View full detailsViolence, Inequality, and Human Freedom
Peter Iadicola, Anson Shupe
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• Author(s): Peter Iadicola | Anson Shupe • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Violence in SocietyViolence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction...
View full detailsFinancing Schools and Educational Programs: Policy, Practice, and Politics
Al Ramirez
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• Author(s): Al Ramirez • Publisher: R & L Education • Publisher Imprint: R & L Education • BISAC: FinanceThis book will be great for preparing for entry-level school administration positions as well as candidates for advanced degrees who...
View full detailsThis Great Struggle: America's Civil War
Steven E. Woodworth
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• Author(s): Steven E. Woodworth • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: United States - Civil WarReferring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landsca...
View full detailsLiminality in Fantastic Fiction: A Poststructuralist Approach
Sandor Klapcsik
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• Author(s): Sandor Klapcsik • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This critical work diversifies Victor Turner's concept of liminality, a basic category of postmo...
View full detailsSomali Piracy and Terrorism in the Horn of Africa
Christopher L. Daniels
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• Author(s): Christopher L. Daniels • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Africa - EastThis book provides readers with a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the spate of piracy and terrorism plaguing the wa...
View full detailsThe Phnom Penh Airlift: Confessions of a Pig Pilot in the Early 1970s
Charles W. Heckman
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• Author(s): Charles W. Heckman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War Superbly written, this is an account by a participant in the airlift that supplied the blockaded cap...
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Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter
Howard Gardner
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• Author(s): Howard Gardner • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsFrom ancient times, philosophers, theologians, and artists have attempted to describe and categorize the definin...
View full detailsParadise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920
Robert W. Kirk
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• Author(s): Robert W. Kirk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pac...
View full detailsPower and Control in the Television Worlds of Joss Whedon
Sherry Ginn
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• Author(s): Sherry Ginn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Ever since the premiere of the small-screen incarnation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1997, ...
View full detailsRegional Horror Films, 1958-1990: A State-by-State Guide with Interviews
Brian Albright
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• Author(s): Brian Albright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews During the second half of the 20th century, landmark works of the horror film genre were as much th...
View full detailsBig Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a...
View full detailsGay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography
Drewey Wayne Gunn
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• Author(s): Drewey Wayne Gunn • Publisher: Scarecrow Press • Publisher Imprint: Scarecrow Press • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesIn The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detective...
View full detailsWomen of Lebanon: Interviews with Champions for Peace
Nelda LaTeef
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• Author(s): Nelda LaTeef • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Despite sixteen years of civil war that left 150,000 dead, 425,000 injured, and nearly a million refugees within ...
View full detailsFaculty Success Through Mentoring: A Guide for Mentors, Mentees, and Leaders
Carole J. Bland, Anne L. Taylor, S. Lynn Shollen
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• Author(s): Carole J. Bland | Anne L. Taylor | S. Lynn Shollen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Teaching - GeneralFew things are more essential to the success of a...
View full detailsA Nation Astray
Ingrid Anne Kleespies
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• Author(s): Ingrid Anne Kleespies • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionThe metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia...
View full detailsThe Spirit of Things
Julius Bautista
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• Author(s): Julius Bautista • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Comparative ReligionWhat role do objects play in crafting the religions of Southeast Asia and shaping ...
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