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Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric
Wayne A. Rebhorn, Wayne A. Rebhorn
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• Author(s): Wayne A. Rebhorn | Wayne A. Rebhorn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RenaissanceThroughout the European Renaissance, authors famous and obscure debated the nature, goals, an...
View full detailsIndians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire
Timothy J. Shannon
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• Author(s): Timothy J. Shannon • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodOn the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany...
View full detailsTrue Catholic Womanhood
Aurora Morcillo
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• Author(s): Aurora Morcillo • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesWomen faced conflicting demands under Francisco Franco's program of National Catholicism,...
View full detailsViolence and the State in Suharto's Indonesia
Benedict R. O'g Anderson
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• Author(s): Benedict R. O'g Anderson • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThese essays investigate institutionalized violence in New Order Indones...
View full detailsMaking Women Pay
Rachel Roth
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• Author(s): Rachel Roth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Gender & the LawOnce backed primarily by anti-abortion activists, fetal rights claims are now promoted by a wide range of in...
View full detailsThe MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office
G. Richard McKelvey
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• Author(s): G. Richard McKelvey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Since the early 1930s "MacPhail" has been a big name in baseball. Three generations of this one family have provide...
View full detailsThe Birds of Pennsylvania: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure
Gerald M. McWilliams, Daniel W. Brauning, Kenn Kaufman
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• Author(s): Gerald M. McWilliams | Daniel W. Brauning | Kenn Kaufman • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Birdwatching GuidesFrom Eared Grebes, Tundra Swans, and Peregrine Falcons to Lesser Yellowleg...
View full detailsSocial Democracy and Welfare Capitalism: A Century of Income Security Politics
Alexander Hicks
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• Author(s): Alexander Hicks • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareWhat has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income se...
View full detailsDividends of Kinship: Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness
Peter P. Schweitzer
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• Author(s): Peter P. Schweitzer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthr...
View full detailsDizzy and the Gas House Gang: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball
Doug Feldmann
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• Author(s): Doug Feldmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Led by the colorful pitcher Dizzy Dean, the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals personified Depression-era America. The ...
View full detailsOrganizing Immigrants
Ruth Milkman
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• Author(s): Ruth Milkman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationRecruiting the growing numbers of immigrants into union ranks is imperative for the besieged U.S. labor movement. Nowhere is this...
View full detailsInvestment Intelligence from Insider Trading
H. Nejat Seyhun
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• Author(s): H. Nejat Seyhun • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Investments & Securities - GeneralLearn how to profit from information about insider trading.The term insider trading refers to the stock transactions...
View full detailsDewey on Democracy
William R. Caspary
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• Author(s): William R. Caspary • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyRevived appreciation of John Dewey as an inspirational advocate of participatory democrac...
View full detailsYou Don't Always Get What You Pay for: The Economics of Privatization
Elliott D. Sclar, Richard C. Leone
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• Author(s): Elliott D. Sclar | Richard C. Leone • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryToday, nearly all public services--schools, hospitals, prisons, fire departments, sani...
View full detailsFouled Away: The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson
Clifton Blue Parker
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• Author(s): Clifton Blue Parker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports A hundred and ninety-one. Mention the number anywhere near a ballpark and before you can ask who or what, fans will...
View full detailsThe Chaste Passions: Defining Women Through Feminist Practice
Karen A. Winstead
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• Author(s): Karen A. Winstead • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousVirgin martyrs make up one of the largest categories of medieval saints. To judge by their frequent appearances i...
View full detailsPossible Pasts
Robert Blair St George
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• Author(s): Robert Blair St George • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodPossible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field...
View full detailsUndomesticated Ground
Stacy Alaimo
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• Author(s): Stacy Alaimo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryFrom "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Fem...
View full detailsMigrants and Citizens
Rey Koslowski
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• Author(s): Rey Koslowski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipThe Berlin Wall falls as thousands of East Germans move to the West; after the Iron Curtain lifts, Wes...
View full detailsUncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and Scientific Proof
Sylvia Noble Tesh
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• Author(s): Sylvia Noble Tesh • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralOrdinary citizens frequently organize around environmental issues on ...
View full detailsEuripides Bacchae
Euripides, David Franklin
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• Author(s): Euripides | David Franklin • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesTreating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is b...
View full detailsThe Enemy on Trial
Julie Anne Cassiday
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• Author(s): Julie Anne Cassiday • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAttempting to indoctrinate the public into a new society, the Bolshevi...
View full detailsSpinach Days
Robert Phillips
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• Author(s): Robert Phillips • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - General"Three cheers for Robert Phillips. We need more poets like him."--Robert Richman, New York Tim...
View full detailsThe Making of NAFTA
Maxwell A. Cameron, Brian W. Tomlin
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• Author(s): Maxwell A. Cameron | Brian W. Tomlin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - Trade & TariffsHow exactly do countries negotiate major international agr...
View full detailsTransformation of American Air Power: Innovation and the Modern Military
Benjamin S. Lambeth
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• Author(s): Benjamin S. Lambeth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)Since the unprecedentedly effective performance of the allied air campaign agains...
View full detailsClassical Pastoral Care: Becoming a Minister
Thomas C. Oden
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• Author(s): Thomas C. Oden • Publisher: Baker Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Baker Publishing Group • BISAC: Institutions & OrganizationsAccording to Millard Erickson, J. I. Packer's God's Words is "a clear, succinct, and perceptive s...
View full detailsSoldiering with Sherman: Civil War Letters of George F. Cram
Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt, Orville Vernon Burton
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• Author(s): Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt | Orville Vernon Burton • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarRare among Civil War correspondence, the colle...
View full detailsAsian American Actors: Oral Histories from Stage, Screen, and Television
Joann Faung Jean Lee
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• Author(s): Joann Faung Jean Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The acting profession is increasingly drawing more and more actors of Asian...
View full detailsGlobal Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West
Lisa Jardine, Jerry Brotton
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• Author(s): Lisa Jardine | Jerry Brotton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton an...
View full detailsGlobalization and Education: Integration and Contestation across Cultures
Nelly P. Stromquist, Karen Monkman, Jill Blackmore
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• Author(s): Nelly P. Stromquist | Karen Monkman | Jill Blackmore • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsThe effects of globalizati...
View full detailsHannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy
Robert Pirro
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• Author(s): Robert Pirro • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA German Jewish refugee suffering tremendous personal and political upheaval ...
View full detailsMuseum Librarianship, 2d ed.
Esther Green Bierbaum
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• Author(s): Esther Green Bierbaum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General In this second edition to Museum Librarianship, the author offers guidance ...
View full detailsClassical Guitarists: Conversations
Jim Tosone
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• Author(s): Jim Tosone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History & Criticism - General Classical Guitarists fills a void in the special world of the classical guitar. Although this rea...
View full detailsResistance, Flight, Creation
Dorothea Olkowski
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• Author(s): Dorothea Olkowski • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThirteen women at the forefront of philosophy locate new feminist points of view within the ...
View full detailsThinking Through Philosophy: An Introduction
Chris Horner, Emrys Westacott
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• Author(s): Chris Horner | Emrys Westacott • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralNo previous knowledge is assumed, and in lively and provocative chapters t...
View full detailsThe Kitchen Spoon's Handle
Michele Ruth Gamburd
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• Author(s): Michele Ruth Gamburd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA common Sinhala proverb states, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length o...
View full detailsThe New Rank and File: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery
Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd
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• Author(s): Staughton Lynd | Alice Lynd • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralMuch has changed for workers in the years since Staughton and Alice Lynd's classic Rank and File: Pe...
View full detailsThe Kitchen Spoon's Handle
Michele Ruth Gamburd
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• Author(s): Michele Ruth Gamburd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesA common Sinhala proverb states, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length of the kitchen spoon's...
View full detailsThe Evidence of Things Not Said
Lawrie Balfour
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• Author(s): Lawrie Balfour • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe Evidence of Things Not Said employs the rich essays of James Baldwin to interrogate the pol...
View full detailsComrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964
Andrew J. Rotter
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• Author(s): Andrew J. Rotter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralComrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relationship between the United States and the new...
View full detailsThe Eye's Mind
Karen Jacobs
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• Author(s): Karen Jacobs • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyThe Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visu...
View full detailsPower and Gender in Oneota Culture
Thomas Edward Berres
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• Author(s): Thomas Edward Berres • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyExamining the traces left by inhabitants of prehistoric Illinois, archaeologist Thomas B...
View full detailsRetrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics
Sonia Kruks
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• Author(s): Sonia Kruks • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryIn Retrieving Experience, Sonia Kruks engages critically with the postmodern turn in feminist and ...
View full detailsCulture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government
Neil a. Englehart
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• Author(s): Neil a. Englehart • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: American Government - NationalA broad reevaluation of Siam's political culture as it existed prior t...
View full detailsFinancial Policy and Central Banking in Japan
Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, Takatoshi Ito
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• Author(s): Thomas F. Cargill | Michael M. Hutchison | Takatoshi Ito • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Banks & BankingThis book analyzes how the bank-dominated financial system--a key element of the oft-heralded ...
View full detailsConflict, Communism and Fascism
Frank McDonough
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• Author(s): Frank McDonough • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history....
View full detailsAfrican American Jazz and Rap: Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior
James L. Conyers
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• Author(s): James L. Conyers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Jazz Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature. While jazz and rap are m...
View full detailsDissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition
Carl Watner, Wendy McElroy
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• Author(s): Carl Watner | Wendy McElroy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & Elections It's the same message every election year: "Get out and vote--It's y...
View full detailsEnduring What Cannot Be Endured: Memoir of a Woman Medical Aide in the Philippines in World War II
Dorothy Dore Dowlen
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• Author(s): Dorothy Dore Dowlen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General Dorothy Dore was born in the Philippines to a British father who served ther...
View full detailsPulsed Neural Networks
Wolfgang Maass, Christopher M. Bishop
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• Author(s): Wolfgang Maass | Christopher M. Bishop • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: GeneralMost practical applications of artificial neural networks are based on a computational model involving the propagati...
View full detailsJohn Chavis: African American Patriot, Preacher, Teacher, and Mentor (1763-1838)
Helen Chavis Othow
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• Author(s): Helen Chavis Othow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General John Chavis had a profound impact upon the history of North Carolina, the life of African Americans, and the course...
View full detailsThe Historiography of Modern Architecture
Panayotis Tournikiotis
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• Author(s): Panayotis Tournikiotis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralThe history of modern architecture as constructed by historians and key texts.Writing, according to Panayotis Tournikiotis, has al...
View full detailsMrs. Stanton's Bible
Kathi Kern
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• Author(s): Kathi Kern • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesMrs. Stanton's Bible traces the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's religious dissent on the suffrage movement at t...
View full detailsInfinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941
David Joselit
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• Author(s): David Joselit • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EuropeanIn Infinite Regress, David Joselit considers the plurality of identities and practices within Duchamp's life and art between 1910 and 1941, conducti...
View full detailsGenerations in Touch
Leng Leng Thang
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• Author(s): Leng Leng Thang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA dilemma long faced by western societies--how to bring the generations together--is als...
View full detailsUnder the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945
Hildi Kang
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• Author(s): Hildi Kang • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaIn the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the...
View full detailsCrossing the Great Divide
Vicki Smith
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• Author(s): Vicki Smith • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThe 1990s were years of turmoil and transformation in American work experiences and employment relationships. Trends...
View full detailsSophocles: Ajax
Sophocles, Shomit Dutta
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• Author(s): Sophocles | Shomit Dutta • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalTreating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life...
View full detailsThe Tarzan Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs: An Illustrated Reader's Guide
David A. Ullery
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• Author(s): David A. Ullery • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Those who recognize that the original Tarzan is a literary creation of Edgar Rice Burroughs unde...
View full detailsHow Architecture Got Its Hump
Roger Connah
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• Author(s): Roger Connah • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismFables of content and undoing on the current state of architecture.In How Architecture Got Its Hump, Roger Connah explores the "interference" of oth...
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