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Catholics in the American Century
R. Scott Appleby, Kathleen Sprows Cummings
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• Author(s): R. Scott Appleby | Kathleen Sprows Cummings • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Catholic - GeneralOver the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make u...
View full detailsThat the People Might Live
Arnold Krupat
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• Author(s): Arnold Krupat • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: IndigenousThe word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grie...
View full detailsTom Stoppard: Bucking the Postmodern
Daniel Keith Jernigan
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• Author(s): Daniel Keith Jernigan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan ...
View full detailsThe Victorian Vivisection Debate: Frances Power Cobbe, Experimental Science and the "Claims of Brutes"
Theodore G. Obenchain
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• Author(s): Theodore G. Obenchain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Is it justifiable for scientists to subject live animals to open operations--forcing them to suffer for the bene...
View full detailsKozintsev's Shakespeare Films: Russian Political Protest in Hamlet and King Lear
Tiffany Ann Conroy Moore
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• Author(s): Tiffany Ann Conroy Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This book is a study of Grigory Kozintsev's two cinematic Shakespeare adaptations, Ham...
View full detailsHerman "Baron" Lamm, the Father of Modern Bank Robbery
Walter Mittelstaedt
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• Author(s): Walter Mittelstaedt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminals & Outlaws Former Prussian soldier Herman "Baron" Lamm (1890-1930) adapted his military training to a much le...
View full detailsDancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections
Allison Thompson
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• Author(s): Allison Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - General From Chaucer to Fitzgerald, writers have used dancing as a vital, if subtle, element in plot and character de...
View full detailsInspiring African Americans: Black History Makers in the United States, 1750-1980
George L. Lee
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• Author(s): George L. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies This installment of George L. Lee's four fascinating books of p...
View full detailsInteresting People: Black American History Makers
George L. Lee
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• Author(s): George L. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Cameo biographies along with Lee's famous pen-and-ink portraits make this book an inviting and inspiring...
View full detailsLittle Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1st World Publishing
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• Author(s): Louisa May Alcott | 1st World Publishing • Publisher: 1st World Library • Publisher Imprint: 1st World Library • BISAC: ClassicsPurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloada...
View full detailsJames D. Bulloch: Secret Agent and Mastermind of the Confederate Navy
Walter E. Wilson, Gary L. McKay
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• Author(s): Walter E. Wilson | Gary L. McKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Co...
View full detailsHenry Knox and the Revolutionary War Trail in Western Massachusetts
Bernard A. Drew
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• Author(s): Bernard A. Drew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) During the winter of 1776, in one of the most amazing logistical feats of the...
View full detailsAmbiguous Locks: An Iconology of Hair in Medieval Art and Literature
Roberta Milliken
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• Author(s): Roberta Milliken • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - Medieval It has long been said that a woman's hair is her crowning glory. Indeed, throughout history, hair has rema...
View full detailsLincoln and His World: Volume 4, The Path to the Presidency, 1854-1860
Richard Lawrence Miller
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• Author(s): Richard Lawrence Miller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State In the climax of Richard Lawrence Miller's epic four-volume biography of Abraham Linco...
View full detailsThe Ages of Superman: Essays on the Man of Steel in Changing Times
Joseph J. Darowski
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• Author(s): Joseph J. Darowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Since Superman first appeared on the cover of Action Comics #1 in 1938, the superhero has chang...
View full detailsCatch Phrases, Cliches and Idioms: A Dictionary of Familiar Expressions
Doris Craig
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• Author(s): Doris Craig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Catch phrases such as "shop till you drop," cliches like "life begins at forty" and idioms such as "talk the hind leg off ...
View full detailsHistoric Iron and Steel Bridges in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
Glenn A. Knoblock
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• Author(s): Glenn A. Knoblock • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England This book chronicles the development of metal truss and related bridges in M...
View full detailsThe Missing Girls and Women of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: A Sociological Study of Infanticide, Forced Prostitution, Political Imprisonment, "Ghost B
Hua-Lun Huang
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• Author(s): Hua-Lun Huang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General In the past century, tens of millions of women and girls have disappeared in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. There...
View full detailsSupernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group
Chifumi Shimazaki, Chifumi Shimazaki, Stephen Comee
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• Author(s): Chifumi Shimazaki | Chifumi Shimazaki | Stephen Comee • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThe plays of the fifth group, with their great variety, can be divided...
View full detailsBreakup 2.0: Disconnecting Over New Media
Ilana M. Gershon
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• Author(s): Ilana M. Gershon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Web - Social MediaA few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: ...
View full detailsMentoring Faculty of Color: Essays on Professional Development and Advancement in Colleges and Universities
Dwayne Mack, Elwood D. Watson, Michelle Madsen Camacho
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• Author(s): Dwayne Mack | Elwood D. Watson | Michelle Madsen Camacho • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Higher The 14 new essays in this collection, from under-represented faculty who teach...
View full detailsMaking Political Geography
John Agnew, Luca Muscarà
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• Author(s): John Agnew | Luca Muscarà • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyNow thoroughly revised and updated, this concise text offers a dee...
View full detailsMaking Political Geography
John Agnew, Luca Muscarà
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• Author(s): John Agnew | Luca Muscarà • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyNow thoroughly revised and updated, this concise text offers a dee...
View full detailsBeyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates
Peter S. Wenz
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• Author(s): Peter S. Wenz • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyWhy Americans do not divide neatly into red and blue or right and left but form coalitions across party lines on hot-button ...
View full detailsClaes Oldenburg
Nadja Rottner
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• Author(s): Nadja Rottner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralContemporary criticism, interviews, scholarly reassessments, and texts by the artist focusing on Claes Oldenburg's sculptures, inst...
View full detailsThe Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics
Martin Jay
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• Author(s): Martin Jay • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhen Michael Dukakis accused George H. W. Bush of being the "Joe Isuzu of American Politics...
View full detailsAbu Ghraib After the Scandal: A Firsthand Account of the 344th Combat Support Hospital, 2005-2006
Salvatore Anthony Esposito
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• Author(s): Salvatore Anthony Esposito • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War In March 2003 the United States military launched an invasion of Iraq. Months afterwards ...
View full detailsEbbets Field: Essays and Memories of Brooklyn's Historic Ballpark, 1913-1960
John G. Zinn, Paul G. Zinn, David Cicotello
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• Author(s): John G. Zinn | Paul G. Zinn | David Cicotello • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Ebbets Field volume is the second in McFarland's series on historic ballp...
View full detailsThe Wider Worlds of Jim Henson: Essays on His Work and Legacy Beyond The Muppet Show and Sesame Street
Jennifer C. Garlen, Anissa M. Graham
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• Author(s): Jennifer C. Garlen | Anissa M. Graham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Jim Henson was the creative force behind a huge catalog of televisi...
View full detailsMaigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories
Bill Alder
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• Author(s): Bill Alder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a phenomenally successful author of crime fiction. His 75 Maigret n...
View full detailsJustice Stanley Mosk: A Life at the Center of California Politics and Justice
Jacqueline R. Braitman, Gerald F. Uelmen
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• Author(s): Jacqueline R. Braitman | Gerald F. Uelmen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Lawyers & Judges This is the first biography of Stanley Mosk (1912-2001), iconic protector of ci...
View full detailsInteresting Athletes: A Newspaper Artist's Look at Blacks in Sports
George L. Lee
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• Author(s): George L. Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General George L. Lee was an extraordinarily talented and sensitive artist whose career began in the 1930s in the newspaper busi...
View full detailsNetwork Radio Ratings, 1932-1953: A History of Prime Time Programs Through the Ratings of Nielsen, Crossley and Hooper
Jim Ramsburg
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• Author(s): Jim Ramsburg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General Network radio from 1932 to 1953 was a high-stakes competition embracing technology, industry, government and adve...
View full detailsImagination and Meaning in Calvin and Hobbes
Jamey Heit
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• Author(s): Jamey Heit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels From 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six...
View full detailsEl Norte or Bust!: How Migration Fever and Microcredit Produced a Financial Crash in a Latin American Town
David Stoll
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• Author(s): David Stoll • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this unexpected story of a financial bubble and collapse, David Sto...
View full detailsComic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns
Chris York, Rafiel York
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• Author(s): Chris York | Rafiel York • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Conventional wisdom holds that comic books of the post-World War II era are poorly drawn ...
View full detailsSilent Film Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for More Than 350 Actors and Actresses
Roy Liebman
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• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Each entry includes brief biographical and career data for the performer, with birthplace and year of...
View full detailsCultural Resource Laws and Practice
Thomas F. King
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• Author(s): Thomas F. King • Publisher: Altamira Press • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyIn this fourth edition of the CRM classic, Thomas F. King shares his expertise in dealing with laws regulating the use of cultural res...
View full detailsCultural Resource Laws and Practice
Thomas F. King
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• Author(s): Thomas F. King • Publisher: Altamira Press • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyIn this fourth edition of the CRM classic, Thomas F. King shares his expertise in dealing with laws regulating the use of cultural res...
View full detailsHeart-Pine Russia: Walking and Writing the Nineteenth-Century Forest
Jane T. Costlow
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• Author(s): Jane T. Costlow • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ecosystems & Habitats - Forests & RainforestsRussia has more woodlands than any other country in the world, and its ...
View full detailsInscrutable Malice
Jonathan A. Cook
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• Author(s): Jonathan A. Cook • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligionIn Inscrutable Malice, Jonathan A. Cook expertly illuminates Melville's...
View full detailsSymbolic Logic: Syntax, Semantics, and Proof
David Agler
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• Author(s): David Agler • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: LogicBrimming with visual examples of concepts, derivation rules, and proof strategies, this introductory ...
View full detailsThe American League in Transition, 1965-1975: How Competition Thrived When the Yankees Didn't
Paul Hensler
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• Author(s): Paul Hensler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General In the years following the decline of the New York Yankees dynasty that ended in 1964, three American League t...
View full detailsAnother Stage
Beng Choo Lim
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• Author(s): Beng Choo Lim • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismBy examining the life and career of the most prominent noh practitioner of the furyū noh comp...
View full detailsThe Expos in Their Prime: The Short-Lived Glory of Montreal's Team, 1977-1984
Alain Usereau
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• Author(s): Alain Usereau • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Montreal Expos provided their fans with spectacular play produced by s...
View full detailsSiddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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• Author(s): Hermann Hesse • Publisher: Digireads.com • Publisher Imprint: Digireads.com • BISAC: ClassicsThe title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, "siddha," which is defined as "achieved," and "artha" which is defined as "m...
View full detailsEast Harlem Remembered: Oral Histories of Community and Diversity
Christopher Bell
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• Author(s): Christopher Bell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic The community of East Harlem in New York City lays claim to a rich and cu...
View full detailsThe I Got My Dream Job and So Can You Softcover
Pete Leibman
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• Author(s): Pete Leibman • Publisher: Amacom • Publisher Imprint: Amacom • BISAC: Careers - Job HuntingWhen he was only 21 years old, Pete Leibman landed his dream job working in the front office of the NBA's Washington Wizards. He went on to be...
View full detailsMission Earth Volume 3: The Enemy Within
L. Ron Hubbard
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• Author(s): L. Ron Hubbard • Publisher: Galaxy Press (CA) • Publisher Imprint: Galaxy Press (CA) • BISAC: Thrillers - EspionageEarthlings: Beware!Do you know who your enemies are? Your neighbor? Your boss? Your butcher? Your wife? Only the Volta...
View full detailsSex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life: A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity Are Revolutionizing Our View of Human Natur
Douglas T. Kenrick
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• Author(s): Douglas T. Kenrick • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition"Kenrick writes like a dream." -- Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology and Neurology, Stanford University; aut...
View full detailsFantasy Media in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching with Film, Television, Literature, Graphic Novels and Video Games
Emily Dial-Driver, Sally Emmons, Jim Ford
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• Author(s): Emily Dial-Driver | Sally Emmons | Jim Ford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General A common misconception is that professors who use popular culture and fantasy in the class...
View full detailsHarold E. Stassen: The Life and Perennial Candidacy of the Progressive Republican
Alec Kirby, John F. Rothmann
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• Author(s): Alec Kirby | John F. Rothmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General In 1938 Harold E. Stassen was elected governor of Minnesota at age 3...
View full detailsTaking Sustainable Cities Seriously, Second Edition: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities
Kent E. Portney
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• Author(s): Kent E. Portney • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceA theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in American cities, updated with the latest research and additional case...
View full detailsJews and Muslims in British Colonial America: A Genealogical History
Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, Donald N. Yates
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman | Donald N. Yates • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period Americans have learned in elementary school that their country ...
View full detailsThe Politics of Timor-Leste
Michael Leach, Damien Kingsbury
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• Author(s): Michael Leach | Damien Kingsbury • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: World - AsianThe Politics of Timor-Leste explores the critical issues facing the Asia...
View full detailsJohn Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood: Pioneers of Mayan Archaeology
Peter O. Koch
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• Author(s): Peter O. Koch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Daring exploits and astounding achievements were common for two 19th century adventurers--John Lloyd Stephens, a New Yor...
View full detailsThe Science of the Fastball
William Blewett
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• Author(s): William Blewett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This book presents a scientific but easy to understand explanation of pitching power. Illustrated with anec...
View full detailsAnti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books, 1920-1960
Nathan Vernon Madison
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• Author(s): Nathan Vernon Madison • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comi...
View full detailsAmerican Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry
Daniel E. Bender
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• Author(s): Daniel E. Bender • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAt the beginning of the twentieth century, industrialization both dramatically altered everyday...
View full detailsMusic in Biblical Life: The Roles of Song in Ancient Israel
Jonathan L. Friedmann
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• Author(s): Jonathan L. Friedmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General Music was integral to the daily life of ancient Israel. It accompanied activi...
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