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The Contemporary American Dramatic Trilogy: A Critical Study
Robert J. Andreach
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• Author(s): Robert J. Andreach • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General The dramatic trilogy has been flourishing for some time now in new works and revivals of older works by A...
View full detailsJoining the United States Navy: A Handbook
Snow Wildsmith
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• Author(s): Snow Wildsmith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Careers - General This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Navy. It wil...
View full detailsRespecting The Stand: A Critical Analysis of Stephen King's Apocalyptic Novel
Jenifer Paquette
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• Author(s): Jenifer Paquette • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Many academics dismiss Stephen King as a mere genre writer, an over-glorified bestseller who ap...
View full detailsAfrican American Dance: An Illustrated History
Barbara S. Glass
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• Author(s): Barbara S. Glass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Folk Africans brought as slaves to North America arrived without possessions, but not without culture. The fascinatin...
View full detailsDead on a High Hill: Essays on War, Literature and Living, 2002-2012
W. D. Ehrhart
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• Author(s): W. D. Ehrhart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military A new collection of Bill Ehrhart's essays--25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietn...
View full detailsPerry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record
Malcolm MacFarlane, Ken Crossland
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• Author(s): Malcolm MacFarlane | Ken Crossland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music Perry Como put aside his career as a barber to become one of the top American crooners of the 20th ce...
View full detailsWerewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions
Kimberley McMahon-Coleman, Roslyn Weaver
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• Author(s): Kimberley McMahon-Coleman | Roslyn Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and televisi...
View full detailsBorn to Battle: Grant and Forrest--Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga
Jack Hurst
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• Author(s): Jack Hurst • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Civil WarFrom the author of the acclaimed Men of Fire, the next stage of the clash between Union general Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate h...
View full detailsThe Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America
Kenneth J. Andrien
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• Author(s): Kenneth J. Andrien • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaThe Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stori...
View full detailsCoaching Myths: Fifteen Wrong Ideas in Youth Sports
Rick Albrecht
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• Author(s): Rick Albrecht • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Unlike the generations of coaches that have gone before them, today's coaches are expected not only to teach motor skill...
View full detailsBud Fowler: Baseball's First Black Professional
Jeffrey Michael Laing
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Michael Laing • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This is the biography of Bud Fowler (ne John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, ...
View full detailsThe Politics of Authenticity in Presidential Campaigns, 1976-2008
Erica J. Seifert
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• Author(s): Erica J. Seifert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State "Authenticity," the dominant cultural value of the baby boom generation, became central to pr...
View full detailsThe Early Public Garages of San Francisco: An Architectural and Cultural Study, 1906-1929
Mark D. Kessler
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• Author(s): Mark D. Kessler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial In the quarter century from San Francisco's devasting fire of 1906 to the begi...
View full detailsAmerican Jewish Films: The Search for Identity
Lawrence J. Epstein
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• Author(s): Lawrence J. Epstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statemen...
View full detailsThe Becoming of Age: Cinematic Visions of Mind, Body and Identity in Later Life
Pamela H. Gravagne
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• Author(s): Pamela H. Gravagne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The Becoming of Age is an examination of the ways that aging and old age are represented in popular film. Ar...
View full detailsPostcolonial Representations
Françoise Lionnet
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• Author(s): Françoise Lionnet • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: FeministPassionate allegiances to competing theoretical camps have stifled dialogue among today's literary critics, assert...
View full detailsHenry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice
Howard E. Covington
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• Author(s): Howard E. Covington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from coll...
View full detailsWomen Champions of Human Rights: Eleven U.S. Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Moira Davison Reynolds
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• Author(s): Moira Davison Reynolds • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Intended for the general reader with an interest in American history, this book profiles eleven women who made ...
View full detailsAmerican Television Abroad: Hollywood's Attempt to Dominate World Television
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Once the major Hollywood studios got over their loathing of television as an entertainment medium, they mov...
View full detailsAmerican Amphibious Gunboats in World War II: A History of LCI and Lcs(l) Ships in the Pacific
Robin L. Rielly
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• Author(s): Robin L. Rielly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands i...
View full detailsSo Far, So Funny: My Life in Show Business
Hal Kanter
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• Author(s): Hal Kanter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Hal Kanter first came to Hollywood at age 18 to work as the ghost writer for a comic strip. Then ...
View full detailsEmpire of Language
Laurent Dubreuil, David Fieni
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• Author(s): Laurent Dubreuil | David Fieni • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchThe relationship between power and language has been a central theme in critical theory for ...
View full detailsRadicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism During the Vietnam Era
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
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• Author(s): Judy Tzu-Chun Wu • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyTraveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even th...
View full detailsTwelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
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• Author(s): Solomon Northup • Publisher: Applewood Books • Publisher Imprint: Applewood Books • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturySolomon Northup was born a free black man in upstate New York in 1808. By 1841, he had become a husband, a father,...
View full detailsAlan LeMay: A Biography of the Author of The Searchers
Dan Lemay
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• Author(s): Dan Lemay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Although much has been written about the 1950s cult film The Searchers, Alan LeMay, the author of the novel upon which the m...
View full detailsThe Poetics of Stage Space: The Theory and Process of Theatre Scene Design
Bruce a. Bergner
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• Author(s): Bruce a. Bergner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - Stagecraft & Scenography This book analyzes theatre scene design through the powers and characteristics of phys...
View full detailsThe Civil War Roster of Davie County, North Carolina: Biographies of 1,147 Men Before, During and After the Conflict
Mary Alice M. Hasty, Hazel M. Winfree
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• Author(s): Mary Alice M. Hasty | Hazel M. Winfree • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genealogy & Heraldry It could be said that Davie County, North Carolina, entered the Civil War only...
View full detailsInterop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
John Palfrey, Urs Gasser
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• Author(s): John Palfrey | Urs Gasser • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Information Technology
The Lost Battalion and the Meuse-Argonne, 1918: America's Deadliest Battle
Micheal Clodfelter
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• Author(s): Micheal Clodfelter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War I This volume, with exhaustive on-site research, details America's last major offensive of World War I...
View full detailsThe Tiger Woods Phenomenon: Essays on the Cultural Impact of Golf's Fallible Superman
Donna J. Barbie
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• Author(s): Donna J. Barbie • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Golf - General The essays in this book arise from the premise that Tiger Woods is not simply a phenomenal player but is also a...
View full detailsNorth Carolina Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated History
Douglas J. Butler
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• Author(s): Douglas J. Butler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following th...
View full detailsMegafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America
Richard A. Fariña, Sergio F. Vizcaíno, Gerry de Iuliis
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• Author(s): Richard A. Fariña | Sergio F. Vizcaíno | Gerry de Iuliis • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric CreaturesMore than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large...
View full detailsThe Timberclads in the Civil War: The Lexington, Conestoga and Tyler on the 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 Period (1850-1877) In the most detailed history ever of Union warships on the western waters of the C...
View full detailsRewriting the Victorians: Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century
Andrea Kirchknopf
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• Author(s): Andrea Kirchknopf • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adapt...
View full detailsThe Helio Courier Ultra C/STOL Aircraft: An Illustrated Developmental History
Frank Joseph Rowe
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• Author(s): Frank Joseph Rowe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - History Its maneuverability impresses pilots and laymen alike. Its design, which makes it capable of extreme cont...
View full detailsFlying the B-26 Marauder Over Europe: Memoir of a World War II Navigator, 2D Ed.
Carl H. Moore
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• Author(s): Carl H. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General "This is the story of my experiences with the medium bomber designated by the Army as a B-26 and named by the...
View full detailsSilas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician
Milton C. Van Vlack
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• Author(s): Milton C. Van Vlack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Silas Deane was the victim of one of the most vicious character assassina...
View full detailsThe Pulitzer Air Races: American Aviation and Speed Supremacy, 1920-1925
Michael Gough
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• Author(s): Michael Gough • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Three years after American raceplanes failed dismally in the most important air race of 1920, a French magazi...
View full detailsJune Cleaver Was a Feminist!: Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television
Cary O'Dell
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• Author(s): Cary O'Dell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Long dismissed as ciphers, sycophants and "Stepford Wives," women characters of primetime television during t...
View full detailsThe Shutout in Major League Baseball: A History
Warren N. Wilbert
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• Author(s): Warren N. Wilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The shutout--a game in which a team prevents its opponent from scoring--remains relatively rare. Of the r...
View full detailsAir Plants: Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens
David H. Benzing
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• Author(s): David H. Benzing • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyOften growing far above the ground, "air plants" (or epiphytes) defy many of our common perceptions about plant...
View full detailsImagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II
Veronica Della Dora, David Lowenthal
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• Author(s): Veronica Della Dora | David Lowenthal • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece)For more than one thousand years the monastic repub...
View full detailsLand and Loyalty
Tomas Larsson
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• Author(s): Tomas Larsson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyDomestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial...
View full detailsThe American Presidents Ranked by Performance, 1789-2012, 2D Ed.
Charles F. Faber, Richard B. Faber
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• Author(s): Charles F. Faber | Richard B. Faber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State This is a revision and an updating of the first edition, published in 2000...
View full detailsFijian-English Dictionary: With Notes on Fijian Culture and Natural History
Ronald Gatty
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• Author(s): Ronald Gatty • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: DictionariesThe Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, recommends Ronald Gatty's Fijian-English Dict...
View full detailsCaroline Munro, First Lady of Fantasy: A Complete Annotated Record of Film and Television Appearances
Robert Michael Bobb Cotter
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• Author(s): Robert Michael Bobb Cotter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews This filmography (including television and music video appearances) chronicles the care...
View full detailsThe Meaning of Superhero Comic Books
Terrence R. Wandtke
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• Author(s): Terrence R. Wandtke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels For decades, scholars have been making the connection between the design of the superhero stor...
View full detailsJimmy Collins: A Baseball Biography
Charlie Bevis
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• Author(s): Charlie Bevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This first book-length biography of Jimmy Collins examines the life of an intensely private, business-oriented ballplayer...
View full detailsI See You: The Shifting Paradigms of James Cameron's Avatar
Ellen Grabiner, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Ellen Grabiner | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In the blockbuster film Avatar, science fiction and the...
View full detailsCinema as Pulpit: Sherwood Pictures and the Church Film Movement
J. Ryan Parker
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• Author(s): J. Ryan Parker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Sherwood Pictures is the filmmaking ministry of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Georgia, and ...
View full detailsLegal Executions in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma Including the Indian Territory: A Comprehensive Registry
R. Michael Wilson
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• Author(s): R. Michael Wilson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--w...
View full detailsThe Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia: Illustrated Histories, 1770-2010
Franklin F. Webb, Ricky L. Cox
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• Author(s): Franklin F. Webb | Ricky L. Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General From the time of early settlement in Virginia, water-powered mills...
View full detailsThe Budding Artist
Laura Laxton
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• Author(s): Laura Laxton • Publisher: Gryphon House • Publisher Imprint: Gryphon House • BISAC: Animals - General
Dawn's Early Light
Walter Lord, Scott S. Sheads
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• Author(s): Walter Lord | Scott S. Sheads • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Military - United StatesIn the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated as...
View full detailsJoe Namath, Game by Game: The Complete Professional Football Career
Bryan L. Yeatter
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• Author(s): Bryan L. Yeatter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General This is a comprehensive reference work covering Joe Namath's entire professional football career, followin...
View full detailsMusic in American Combat Films: A Critical Study
Wesley J. O'Brien
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• Author(s): Wesley J. O'Brien • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Instruction & Study - Theory The book explores ways in which combat film scores interact collaboratively with other film...
View full detailsCaring for Children Who Have Severe Neurological Impairment: A Life with Grace
Julie M. Hauer
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• Author(s): Julie M. Hauer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Home CareGlobal impairment of the central nervous system, whether stable or progressive, is often called severe n...
View full detailsTerms of Play: Essays on Words That Matter in Videogame Theory
Zach Waggoner
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• Author(s): Zach Waggoner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Electronic This edited collection of new essays is devoted to the terminology used in the fields of videogame theory...
View full detailsEvolution of Arms Control: From Antiquity to the Nuclear Age
Richard Dean Burns
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• Author(s): Richard Dean Burns • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlWritten in an engaging and accessible manner, The Evolution o...
View full detailsTeaching Comics and Graphic Narratives: Essays on Theory, Strategy and Practice
Lan Dong
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• Author(s): Lan Dong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and l...
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