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The Senses of Modernism
Sara Danius
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• Author(s): Sara Danius • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn The Senses of Modernism, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding ...
View full detailsBack-Alley Banking
Kellee S. Tsai
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• Author(s): Kellee S. Tsai • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Development - Business DevelopmentChinese entrepreneurs have founded more than thirty million private businesses since Beijin...
View full detailsRemaking Chicago
Joel Rast
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• Author(s): Joel Rast • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentExamining Chicago as a model for urban economic developme...
View full detailsVending Machines: An American Social History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed f...
View full detailsKilled Strangely: The Death of Rebecca Cornell
Elaine Forman Crane
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• Author(s): Elaine Forman Crane • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Criminals & Outlaws"It was Rebecca's son, Thomas, who first realized the victim's identity. His eyes were drawn to t...
View full detailsNot for Bread Alone
Moe Foner, Dan North, Ossie Davis
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• Author(s): Moe Foner | Dan North | Ossie Davis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political"Foner often let others take credit, but with his names and telephone numbers he was the man to...
View full detailsThe Emperor's Tomb: The Classic Sequel to the Radetzky March
Joseph Roth, John Hoare
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• Author(s): Joseph Roth | John Hoare • Publisher: Overlook Press • Publisher Imprint: Overlook Press • BISAC: ClassicsThe haunting sequel to the masterpiece The Radetzky March.As the sun sets on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Franz Ferdinand...
View full detailsProletarian Imagination
Mark D. Steinberg
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• Author(s): Mark D. Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionIn fin-de-si�cle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers prod...
View full detailsPragmalinguistik
Peter Ernst
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• Author(s): Peter Ernst • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralObwohl bis heute keine Einigkeit dar�ber besteht, was genau die Aufgaben der Sprachpragmatik sind und welche T�tigkeitsbereiche von ihr...
View full detailsParapsychology, Philosophy and the Mind: Essays Honoring John Beloff
Fiona Steinkamp
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• Author(s): Fiona Steinkamp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General John Beloff is one of our foremost authorities in parapsychology. He is credited with an instrumen...
View full detailsLife in the Universe
John Billingham
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• Author(s): John Billingham • Publisher: University Press of the Pacific • Publisher Imprint: University Press of the Pacific • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyLife in the Universe was originally published by the National Aeronautics and Space A...
View full detailsCardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball
Joseph Stanton
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• Author(s): Joseph Stanton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - GeneralIn every video replay of the gametill the end of timeTodd Worrell's foot slaps firstAnd the Cards win the Ser...
View full detailsCollege Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy
John Sayle Watterson
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• Author(s): John Sayle Watterson • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Football - General"In March [1892] Stanford and California had played the first college football game on th...
View full detailsGodless Communists: Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932
William B. Husband
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• Author(s): William B. Husband • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: General"Godless Communists" offers a fresh interpretation of early Soviet efforts to create an atheis...
View full detailsAll Things Altered: Women in the Wake of Civil War and Reconstruction
Marilyn Mayer Culpepper
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• Author(s): Marilyn Mayer Culpepper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Few readers of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind remained unmoved by how the strong-willed Scarle...
View full detailsRussian Alphabet and Phonetics
Leon Stilman
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• Author(s): Leon Stilman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General
The Pastime in the Seventies: Oral Histories of 16 Major Leaguers
Bill Ballew
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• Author(s): Bill Ballew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1970s represent one of the most turbulent times in baseball's history. This decade of disco was for basebal...
View full detailsBecoming American, Being Indian
Madhulika S. Khandelwal
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• Author(s): Madhulika S. Khandelwal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSince the 1960s the number of Indian immigrants and their descendants living in ...
View full detailsMerchants and Empire: Trading in Colonial New York
Cathy Matson
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• Author(s): Cathy Matson • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryIn Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's c...
View full detailsEva Hesse
Mignon Nixon
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• Author(s): Mignon Nixon • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralA critical primer on the work of artist Eva Hesse.Eva Hesse's distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minim...
View full detailsThe North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
Charles K. Armstrong
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• Author(s): Charles K. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaNorth Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repe...
View full detailsFor Comrade and Country: Oral Histories of World War II Veterans
Robert G. Thobaben
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• Author(s): Robert G. Thobaben • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Ray Hill was a cook and machine gunner who survived the sinking of a PT boat by a kamikaze. German forces in the m...
View full detailsPrinciples of Polymer Chemistry
Jr. Flory Paul J.
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• Author(s): Jr. Flory Paul J. • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Chemistry - Organic
Arthur Kennedy, Man of Characters: A Stage and Cinema Biography
Meredith C. Macksoud, Craig R. Smith, Jackie Lohrke
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• Author(s): Meredith C. Macksoud | Craig R. Smith | Jackie Lohrke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts "Basically, all parts are character parts. The probl...
View full detailsAfrican American Women and Sexuality in the Cinema
Norma Manatu
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• Author(s): Norma Manatu • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies The representation of African American women is an important iss...
View full detailsEvery Valley Shall Be Exalted: The Discourse of Opposites in Twelfth-Century Thought
Constance Brittain Bouchard
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• Author(s): Constance Brittain Bouchard • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LogicIn high medieval France, men and women saw the world around them as the product of tensions between opposit...
View full detailsCreating Cooperation
Pepper D. Culpepper
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• Author(s): Pepper D. Culpepper • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralIn Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms...
View full detailsGender and Groupwork
Marcia Cohen, Audrey Mullender
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• Author(s): Marcia Cohen | Audrey Mullender • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkBased on practice experience in both the UK and the USA, Gender and Groupwork brings together the best of groupwork knowledge, ...
View full detailsPhilippine-American Military History, 1902-1942: An Annotated Bibliography
Richard B. Meixsel
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• Author(s): Richard B. Meixsel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Military obligations rested lightly upon the Filipino people for much of the period that America occupied the Phi...
View full detailsThe LOCUS Distributed System Architecture
Gerald J. Popek
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• Author(s): Gerald J. Popek • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceLOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution. It makes a collection of computers, whe...
View full detailsStep by Step: Essays on Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik
Roger Martin, David Michaels, Juan Uriagereka
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• Author(s): Roger Martin | David Michaels | Juan Uriagereka • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of essays presents an up-to-date overview of research in the minimalist program of li...
View full detailsThe Rise of Universities
Charles Homer Haskins, Theodor E. Mommsen
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• Author(s): Charles Homer Haskins | Theodor E. Mommsen • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HigherThe origin and nature of the earliest universities are the subjects of this famous and witt...
View full detailsMethods in Neuronal Modeling, second edition: From Ions to Networks
Christof Koch, Idan Segev
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• Author(s): Christof Koch | Idan Segev • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceMuch research focuses on the question of how information is processed in nervous systems, from the level of individual ionic channe...
View full detailsWesterners in China: A History of Exploration and Trade, Ancient Times through the Present
Foster Stockwell
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• Author(s): Foster Stockwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - China Today the doors of China are opening to foreign investment and trade as never before, but the history of contact...
View full detailsThe New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain
William R. Uttal
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• Author(s): William R. Uttal • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuropsychologyWilliam Uttal is concerned that in an effort to prove itself a hard science, psychology may have thrown away one of its most impor...
View full detailsForm and Function in the Brain and Spinal Cord: Perspectives of a Neurologist
Stephen G. Waxman, W. I. McDonald
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• Author(s): Stephen G. Waxman | W. I. McDonald • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: NeuropsychologyThis book reflects Stephen Waxman's three decades of research on the form and functions of the brain and spina...
View full detailsStorm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939
Mary R. Habeck
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• Author(s): Mary R. Habeck • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military - StrategyIn this fascinating account of the battle tanks that saw combat in the European Theater of World War II, M...
View full detailsCycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution
Susan Oyama, Russell D. Gray, Paul E. Griffiths
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• Author(s): Susan Oyama | Russell D. Gray | Paul E. Griffiths • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: GeneralThe nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental...
View full detailsPiracy in the Motion Picture Industry
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Film piracy began almost immediately after the birth of the film industry. Initially it was a wit...
View full detailsLubavitchers as Citizens
Jan Feldman
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• Author(s): Jan Feldman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyLubavitchers are active in the civic life of their communities and so should be considered good ...
View full detailsSlingshot Warbirds: World War II U.S. Navy Scout-Observation Airmen
William Neufeld
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• Author(s): William Neufeld • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II A unique and little-known chapter in World War II naval aviation history concerns the exploits of the ...
View full detailsAm I a Snob?
Sean Latham
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• Author(s): Sean Latham • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIs there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and a...
View full detailsThe Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930-1935
Jared Lobdell
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• Author(s): Jared Lobdell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction "'The new Sayers' is not merely admirable; it is adorable. There were, in Miss Sayers's more rec...
View full detailsDaniel "Chappie" James: The First African American Four Star General
Earnest N. Bracey
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• Author(s): Earnest N. Bracey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military General Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr., USAF, fought in three American wars and became the first African American to a...
View full detailsThe Ancient Constitution: And the Origins of Anglo-American Liberty
John Phillip Reid
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• Author(s): John Phillip Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, English and American lawyers appealed to "t...
View full detailsLove and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin
Douglas Smith
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• Author(s): Douglas Smith • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralOf all of history's great romances, few can compare with that of Catherine the Great and Prince Gri...
View full detailsSoviet-American Relations, 1953-1960: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange During the Eisenhower Presidency
Victor Rosenberg
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• Author(s): Victor Rosenberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev presided over a pivotal period in Soviet-American relations. The o...
View full detailsThe Once and Future Budapest
Robert Nemes
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• Author(s): Robert Nemes • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryTracing the complex process by which Budapest became a Hungarian city, Robert...
View full detailsWorked Over
Dimitra Doukas
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• Author(s): Dimitra Doukas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryWorked Over is a book about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations o...
View full detailsUncas: First of the Mohegans
Michael Leroy Oberg
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• Author(s): Michael Leroy Oberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - IndigenousMany know the name Uncas only from James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the M...
View full detailsTechnology Choice in Developing Countries: The Textile and Pulp and Paper Industries
Michel A. Amsalem
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• Author(s): Michel A. Amsalem • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA developing country's choice of an appropriate technology from among those available for use in a particular industry...
View full detailsWelfare, Planning, and Employment: Selected Essays in Economic Theory
Abram Bergson
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• Author(s): Abram Bergson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryAbram Bergson has been making significant contributions to economic theory since the 1930s, and this selection of fifteen of his most infl...
View full detailsSelections from the Scientific Correspondence of Elihu Thomson
Harold J. Abrahams, Marion B. Savin
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• Author(s): Harold J. Abrahams | Marion B. Savin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryElihu Thomson (1853-1937) was one of the most inventive scientists of his time and one of the few truly scientific inventors. ...
View full detailsThe Estimation Of Probabilities: An Essay on Modern Bayesian Methods
Irving John Good
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• Author(s): Irving John Good • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralThe problem of how to estimate probabilities has interested philosophers, statisticians, actuaries, and mathematicians for a long time. It is curr...
View full detailsThe Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems
Leslie F. Greengard
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• Author(s): Leslie F. Greengard • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Physics - Mathematical & ComputationalThe Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems presents a group of algorithms for the computat...
View full detailsLanguage in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought
Dedre Gentner, Susan Goldin-Meadow
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• Author(s): Dedre Gentner | Susan Goldin-Meadow • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and in...
View full detailsReferences On City and Regional Planning
Caroline Shillaber
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• Author(s): Caroline Shillaber • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningA bibliography on city planning to be used as a guide to libraries in the development of their architecture and city-plann...
View full detailsAlois Riegl: Art History and Theory
Margaret Iversen
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• Author(s): Margaret Iversen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralAlois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the founders of art history as a discipline. This is the first general introduction to the...
View full detailsSpheroidal Wave Functions: Including Tables of Separation Constants and Coefficients
Julius A. Stratton, P. M. Morse, LAN Jen Chu
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• Author(s): Julius A. Stratton | P. M. Morse | LAN Jen Chu • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Waves & Wave MechanicsA set of tables of spheroidal wave functions designed to simplify the computation of acoustic and...
View full detailsBlack Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre
Kevin J. Wetmore
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• Author(s): Kevin J. Wetmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - African American Many playwrights, authors, poets and historians have used images, metaphors and references to and...
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