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Chessie Racing: The Story of Maryland's Entry in the 1997-1998 Whitbread Round the World Race
George J. Collins, Kathy Alexander
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• Author(s): George J. Collins | Kathy Alexander • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Sailing - GeneralNumerous photos document racing action as well as the hoopla on shore.
Post-Colonial Literature
Christopher O'Reilly, John Smart, Pamela Bickley
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• Author(s): Christopher O'Reilly | John Smart | Pamela Bickley • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCritical introductions to a range of liter...
View full detailsAlgeria, 1830-2000: A Short History
Benjamin Stora, Jane Marie Todd, William B. Quandt
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• Author(s): Benjamin Stora | Jane Marie Todd | William B. Quandt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - GeneralA particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a de...
View full detailsWindow on the East
Robert Geraci
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• Author(s): Robert Geraci • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionRobert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the live...
View full detailsUnmaking the Japanese Miracle
William M. Grimes
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• Author(s): William M. Grimes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsIn recent years, Japan's economy has gone from model of success to object lesson in failure. Wil...
View full detailsMuenscher's Keys to Woody Plants
Edward A. Cope, Walter C. Muenscher
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• Author(s): Edward A. Cope | Walter C. Muenscher • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Plants - TreesThis major expansion and revision of W. C. Muenscher's popular reference work brings a wealth of bo...
View full detailsPurchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780
Phyllis Whitman Hunter
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• Author(s): Phyllis Whitman Hunter • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodAmericans have always had a love-hate relationship with possessions. Early Americans s...
View full detailsMedicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting
Vilma Santiago-Irizarry
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• Author(s): Vilma Santiago-Irizarry • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralIn Medicalizing Ethnicity, Vilma Santiago-Irizarry shows how commendable intentions can produce ...
View full detailsThe Race for Consciousness
John G. Taylor
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• Author(s): John G. Taylor • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionScientists may be approaching the finish-line in the race to understand consciousness. John Taylor introduces...
View full detailsWomen Take Care
Katie Hogan
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• Author(s): Katie Hogan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AIDS & HIVSelf-sacrificing mothers and forgiving wives, caretaking lesbians, and vigilant maternal surrogates--these "good w...
View full detailsToxic Exports: The Transfer of Hazardous Wastes and Technologies from Rich to Poor Countries
Jennifer Clapp
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• Author(s): Jennifer Clapp • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyIn recent years, international trade in toxic waste and hazardous technologies by firms i...
View full detailsWörterbuch Der Deutschen Kaufmannssprache Auf Geschichtlichen Grundlagen: Mit Einer Systematischen Einleitung
Alfred Schirmer
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• Author(s): Alfred Schirmer • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Accounting - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Wörterbuch der deutschen Kaufmannssprache auf geschichtlichen Grundlagen" verfügbar.
Crown and Parliaments, 1558-1689
Graham E. Seel, David L. Smith
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• Author(s): Graham E. Seel | David L. Smith • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level his...
View full detailsEinführung in Das Mittelhochdeutsche
Thordis Hennings
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• Author(s): Thordis Hennings • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GermanKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Einführung in das Mittelhochdeutsche" verfügbar.
D.W. Griffith's Intolerance: Its Genesis and Its Vision
William M. Drew
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• Author(s): William M. Drew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production A critical study of the background of D.W. Griffith's film masterpiece, the 1916 epic Intole...
View full detailsFlights of Fancy: The Great Fantasy Films
Kenneth Von Gunden
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• Author(s): Kenneth Von Gunden • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In-depth analyses are presented of 15 superior films, each one representing a subgenre of fa...
View full detailsThe Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
Karen L. Hellekson
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• Author(s): Karen L. Hellekson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This critical work concentrates on the science fiction writings of Paul Linebarger, who wrote...
View full detailsRum and Axes: The Rise of a Connecticut Merchant Family, 1795-1850
Janet Siskind
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• Author(s): Janet Siskind • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialJanet Siskind goes back to the beginnings of industrial capitalism in the United States to...
View full detailsThe Role of Annuity Markets in Financing Retirement
Jeffrey R. Brown, Olivia S. Mitchell, James M. Poterba
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• Author(s): Jeffrey R. Brown | Olivia S. Mitchell | James M. Poterba • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Personal Finance - Retirement PlanningAnnuity insurance products help protect retirees against outliving their in...
View full detailsWondrous Healing
James McClenon
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• Author(s): James McClenon • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HistoryFor thousands of years, spiritual questions have haunted the hearts and minds of humankind. Do hig...
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: Government & BusinessToday, nearly all public services--schools, hospitals, prisons, fire department...
View full detailsIn the First Line of Battle
Samuel M. Blackwell
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• Author(s): Samuel M. Blackwell • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)From its first major engagement at Harpers Ferry, Virgin...
View full detailsThe Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban
Rosemarie Skaine
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• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's StudiesThis work addresses the religion, revolution and national identity of Afghan women and places them within thei...
View full detailsThe Future of the Safety Net: Social Insurance and Employee Benefits
Sheldon Friedman, David Jacobs
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• Author(s): Sheldon Friedman | David Jacobs • Publisher: Labor and Employment Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Labor and Employment Research Association • BISAC: Insurance - GeneralSocial insurance and employee benefits are key elements...
View full detailsBlackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe: Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season
Robert C. Cottrell
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• Author(s): Robert C. Cottrell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath...
View full detailsModern Dreams
Beng-Lan Goh
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• Author(s): Beng-Lan Goh • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Regional StudiesA fascinating ethnographic study of the cultural politics of urban redevelopment in Kampu...
View full detailsOpusculum de Sectis Apud Sinenses Et Tunkinenses: A Small Treatise on the Sects Among the Chinese and Tonkinese
Father Adriano Di St Thecla, Olga Dror, Mariya Berezovska
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• Author(s): Father Adriano Di St Thecla | Olga Dror | Mariya Berezovska • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: EasternThis 1750 text, written by a Catholic missionary in...
View full detailsCrito
Plato, J. Adam
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• Author(s): Plato | J. Adam • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalPlato's Crito is an investigation of morality and justice. It presents a ...
View full detailsGender, Household, State: Doi Moi in Viet Nam
Jayne Werner, Danièle Bélanger
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• Author(s): Jayne Werner | Danièle Bélanger • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaA collection of essays addressing the state of women's lives in V...
View full detailsApology of Socrates
Plato, Adela Marion Adam
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• Author(s): Plato | Adela Marion Adam • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalFirst published in 1914, this volume was edited by the Cambridg...
View full detailsWalking on Fire: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940
Beverly Bell, Edwidge Danticat
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• Author(s): Beverly Bell | Edwidge Danticat • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesHaiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history...
View full detailsGiordano Bruno and Renaissance Science: Broken Lives and Organizational Power
Hilary Gatti
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• Author(s): Hilary Gatti • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime; hi...
View full detailsEthics of Transracial Adoption
Hawley Fogg-Davis
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• Author(s): Hawley Fogg-Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social WorkTransracial adoption is one of the most contentious issues in adoption politics and in the politics of race mor...
View full detailsOutrageous Fortune: What's Wrong with Hall of Fame Voting and How to Make It Statistically Sound
James F. Vail
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• Author(s): James F. Vail • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, enshrines some players whose worthiness seems...
View full detailsAnabolic Steroids and the Athlete
William N. Taylor
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• Author(s): William N. Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Substance Abuse & Addictions - General The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's ...
View full detailsThe Favored Circle: The Social Foundations of Architectural Distinction
Garry Stevens
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• Author(s): Garry Stevens • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - GeneralA look at the field of architecture written by an outsider who demystifies the mechanics of fame and fortune.The popular view of architectu...
View full detailsI of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self
Rodolfo R. Llinas
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• Author(s): Rodolfo R. Llinas • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuropsychologyA highly original theory of how the mind-brain works, based on the author's study of single neuronal cells.In I of the Vortex, Ro...
View full detailsJukeboxes: An American Social History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edi...
View full detailsFoundations of Object-Oriented Languages: Types and Semantics
Kim B. Bruce
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• Author(s): Kim B. Bruce • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Programming - Object OrientedA presentation of the formal underpinnings of object-oriented programming languages.In recent years, object-oriented programming...
View full detailsDostoevsky the Thinker
James P. Scanlan
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• Author(s): James P. Scanlan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LiteraryFor all his distance from formal philosophy, Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. In wor...
View full detailsUnited States Direct Investment in France: An Investigation of the French Charges
Allan W. Johnstone
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• Author(s): Allan W. Johnstone • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe atmosphere for furtber extension of U.S. economic influence in France bas become increasingly inhospitable; French...
View full detailsMythmaking in the New Russia
Kathleen E. Smith
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• Author(s): Kathleen E. Smith • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionAfter the collapse of Communist rule in 1991, those loyal to the old regime tried to s...
View full detailsLong Before the Dodgers: Baseball in Brooklyn, 1855-1884
James L. Terry
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• Author(s): James L. Terry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Exactly one hundred years before the Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1955 World Series, the Brooklyn Excelsiors wer...
View full detailsJustice Contained: Law and Politics in the European Union
Lisa J. Conant
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• Author(s): Lisa J. Conant • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: InternationalIn this probing analysis of the European Union's transnational legal system, Lisa Conant explores the interactio...
View full detailsDemocracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics
John McGowan
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• Author(s): John McGowan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyHow do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do...
View full detailsAnd the Skipper Bats Cleanup: A History of Baseball Player-Manager, with 42 Biographies of Men Who Filled the Dual Role
Fred Stein
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• Author(s): Fred Stein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports At least as far back as 1842 through about the late 1930s and mid-1940s, before baseball became commercialized and teams wer...
View full detailsLepidoptera. Nemeobiinae
Hans Stichel
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• Author(s): Hans Stichel • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Lepidoptera. Nemeobiinae" verfügbar.
Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War
Harriet Martineau
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• Author(s): Harriet Martineau • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - Civil WarA leading social reformer and pioneering abolitionist, British journalist Har...
View full detailsShakespeare Remains
Courtney Lehmann
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• Author(s): Courtney Lehmann • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismNo literary figure has proved so elusive as Shakespeare. How, Courtney Lehmann asks, can the ...
View full detailsInvisible Natives
Armando José Prats
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• Author(s): Armando José Prats • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis incisive, provocative, and wide-ranging book casts a critical eye on the representatio...
View full detailsThe Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England
Rebecca J. Tannenbaum
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• Author(s): Rebecca J. Tannenbaum • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoryThis book, the first to describe women medical practitioners other than midwives in the colonial period, emphas...
View full detailsRed, White, and Blue Letter Days
Matthew Dennis
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• Author(s): Matthew Dennis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin...
View full detailsChildren and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations
Peter H. Kahn, Stephen R. Kellert
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• Author(s): Peter H. Kahn | Stephen R. Kellert • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Developmental - ChildFor much of human evolution, the natural world was one of the most important contexts of children's maturation. In...
View full detailsGrowing Up on the Set: Interviews with 39 Former Child Actors of Classic Film and Television
Tom Goldrup, Jim Goldrup
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• Author(s): Tom Goldrup | Jim Goldrup • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Former child actor Paul Petersen once said, "Fame is a dangerous drug and should...
View full detailsThe Soccer Starter: Your Guide to Coaching Young Players
William C. Summers
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• Author(s): William C. Summers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Soccer Soccer is the fastest growing sport in America: almost nine million children between the ages of six and eleven play...
View full detailsTap Roots: The Early History of Tap Dancing
Mark Knowles
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• Author(s): Mark Knowles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Tap Tracing the development of tap dancing from ancient India to the Broadway stage in 1903, when the word "Tap" was firs...
View full detailsThe Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt
Sarah Buss, Lee Overton
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• Author(s): Sarah Buss | Lee Overton • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernA wide range of philosophical essays informed by the work of Harry Frankfurt, who offers a response to each...
View full detailsThe Job Training Charade: Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis
Gordon Lafer
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• Author(s): Gordon Lafer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesJob training has long been promoted as a central policy response to poverty and unemployme...
View full detailsThe Summer of '64: A Pennant Lost
William A. Cook
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• Author(s): William A. Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The 1964 season, highlighted by two significant trades, a game-winning home run, and three no-hitters, was ...
View full detailsAutoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers
Elaine A. Moore
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• Author(s): Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases - Immune & Autoimmune Autoimmune Disease (AD) refers to any of a number of disorders caused by an immune system d...
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