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Reader in Pentecostal Theology: Voices from the First Generation
Douglas Jacobsen
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• Author(s): Douglas Jacobsen • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Christianity - Pentecostal & CharismaticPentecostalism has experienced explosive growth over the past centu...
View full detailsRace, Rights, and the Asian American Experience
Angelo N. Ancheta
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• Author(s): Angelo N. Ancheta • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesIn Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience, Angelo N. Ancheta demonstrates how United States civil...
View full detailsBaseball in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching the National Pastime
Edward J. Rielly
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• Author(s): Edward J. Rielly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings As scholarly interest in baseball has increased in recent years, so too has the use of baseb...
View full detailsDivine Hiddenness and Human Reason
J. L. Schellenberg
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• Author(s): J. L. Schellenberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ReligiousWhy, if a loving God exists, are there "reasonable nonbelievers," people who fail to believe in God but through ...
View full detailsTables of Knowledge: Descartes in Vermeer's Studio
Harriet Stone
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• Author(s): Harriet Stone • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - Baroque & RococoDescartes believed that his analytic model applied to all fields of research and that all bran...
View full detailsIntoxication in Mythology: A Worldwide Dictionary of Gods, Rites, Intoxicants and Places
Ernest L. Abel
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• Author(s): Ernest L. Abel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Myths from the ancient world usually have some supernatural element, a component often generated from ...
View full detailsChess Results, 1931-1935: A Comprehensive Record with 1,065 Tournament Crosstables and 190 Match Scores
Gino Di Felice
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• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This comprehensive chronological reference lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. From the fam...
View full detailsThe Physics of Basketball
John J. Fontanella
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• Author(s): John J. Fontanella • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: BasketballReddick do naturally the things that Isaac Newton says they should.
Anti-Americanisms in World Politics
Peter J. Katzenstein, Robert O. Keohane
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• Author(s): Peter J. Katzenstein | Robert O. Keohane • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAnti-Americanism has been the subject of much commentary but littl...
View full detailsHollywood and the O.K. Corral: Portrayals of the Gunfight and Wyatt Earp
Michael F. Blake
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• Author(s): Michael F. Blake • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism A lot can happen in 30 seconds. In the case of the shoot-out at the O.K. Corral, 30 seconds fo...
View full detailsThe Life of Saint Audrey: A Text by Marie de France
June Hall McCash, Judith Clark Barban
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• Author(s): June Hall McCash | Judith Clark Barban • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious Preserved in a single manuscript in the British library, the Life of Saint Audrey or Vie Sein...
View full detailsThe Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus
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• Author(s): Scott Straus • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - CentralThe Rwandan genocide has become a touchstone for debates about the causes of mass violence and the responsibili...
View full detailsRed Faber: A Biography of the Hall of Fame Spitball Pitcher
Brian E. Cooper
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• Author(s): Brian E. Cooper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports This is the first full biography of Hall of Famer Urban "Red" Faber, who won a record three World Series games in 1917-...
View full detailsMummies and Death in Egypt
Françoise Dunand, Roger Lichtenberg, David Lorton
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• Author(s): Françoise Dunand | Roger Lichtenberg | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Egypt"Today, a good century after the first X-rays of mummies, Egyptology has ...
View full detailsTales from the North and the South: Twenty-Four Remarkable People and Events of the Civil War
Frances H. Casstevens
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• Author(s): Frances H. Casstevens • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War In June 1862, James J. Archer was promoted to the rank of brigadier general by Robert E. Lee. ...
View full detailsFrom Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace
David Shulman
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• Author(s): David Shulman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - General"There are always clients to please, rules to subvert, difficult tasks to perform, work to shirk, and upward mobility to seek.... Most pe...
View full detailsCollett Leventhorpe, the English Confederate: The Life of a Civil War General, 1815-1889
J. Timothy Cole, Bradley R. Foley
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• Author(s): J. Timothy Cole | Bradley R. Foley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military This is the story of Collett Leventhorpe (1815-1889), an Englishman and former captain in the 14th...
View full detailsBecoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York
Philip L. Otterness
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• Author(s): Philip L. Otterness • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialBecoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement...
View full detailsThe 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Neil Hunter Raiford
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• Author(s): Neil Hunter Raiford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In April 1862, the Civil War was entering its second year and North Carolina ...
View full detailsThe 1969 Seattle Pilots: Major League Baseball's One-Year Team
Kenneth Hogan
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• Author(s): Kenneth Hogan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Mariners were not Seattle's first major league baseball team. In 1937, Seattle businessman Emil Sick boug...
View full detailsDecorated Marines of the Fourth Brigade in World War I
George B. Clark
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• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I World War I found American soldiers overseas participating in unprecedented acts of bravery...
View full detailsDirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita
Elisabeth Ladenson
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• Author(s): Elisabeth Ladenson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Books & ReadingIn Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involv...
View full detailsWhy France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination
Laura Lee Downs, Stephane Gerson, Roger Chartier
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• Author(s): Laura Lee Downs | Stephane Gerson | Roger Chartier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceFrance has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accompli...
View full detailsThe St. Louis Cardinals in the 1940's
Mel R. Freese
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• Author(s): Mel R. Freese • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Though very few teams can accurately be called dynasties, the 1940s Cardinals certainly made a strong case. D...
View full detailsJapan Remodeled
Steven K. Vogel
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• Author(s): Steven K. Vogel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyAs the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business execu...
View full detailsArbuckle and Keaton: Their 14 Film Collaborations
James L. Neibaur
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• Author(s): James L. Neibaur • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism From 1917 to 1919, Joseph Schenck produced a series of Comique comedies starring master movie ...
View full detailsEngines of the Black Power Movement: Essays on the Influence of Civil Rights Actions, Arts, and Islam
James L. Conyers
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• Author(s): James L. Conyers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies The decade of the 1960s was an era of protest in America, an...
View full detailsPershing: General of the Armies
Donald Smythe
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• Author(s): Donald Smythe • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: MilitaryThe product of nearly 25 years of research, Pershing: General of the Armies remains one of the most author...
View full detailsFounding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
Andrew Schocket
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• Author(s): Andrew Schocket • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Corporate & Business History - GeneralDuring its first heady decades, the United States promised to ...
View full detailsDishonest Dollars: The Dynamics of White-Collar Crime
Terry L. Leap
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• Author(s): Terry L. Leap • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Business EthicsIn an environment where corporate scandals fill the headlines and ethics courses have suddenly become standard fare in business schools, Terr...
View full detailsHeadhunters: Matchmaking in the Labor Market
William Finlay, James E. Coverdill
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• Author(s): William Finlay | James E. Coverdill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LaborHeadhunters--third-party agents paid a fee by companies for locating job candidates--perform a uniq...
View full detailsUnfinished Agendas: New and Continuing Gender Challenges in Higher Education
Judith Glazer-Raymo
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• Author(s): Judith Glazer-Raymo • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HigherThis revealing volume examines the current role and status of women in higher education--and suggests ...
View full detailsJames Arness: An Autobiography [LARGE PRINT]
James Arness, Jr. James E. Wise
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• Author(s): James Arness | Jr. James E. Wise • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts James Arness was born May 26, 1923, in Minneapolis. He entered college ju...
View full detailsSophocles and Alcibiades
Michael Vickers
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• Author(s): Michael Vickers • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalLiterary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist Sophocles deal purely...
View full detailsPlans Unraveled
Scott Kaufman
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• Author(s): Scott Kaufman • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyDuring the past decade, the literature on the Carter administration's foreign ...
View full detailsOz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books
Richard Tuerk
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• Author(s): Richard Tuerk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature When moviegoers accompany Dorothy through the gates of the Emerald City, they may think ...
View full detailsThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A History
William Baldwin, Army Corps of Engineers (Us)
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• Author(s): William Baldwin | Army Corps of Engineers (Us) • Publisher: Department of Defense • Publisher Imprint: Department of Defense • BISAC: Military ScienceNOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE -- Significantly r...
View full detailsHoop Lore: A History of the National Basketball Association
Connie Kirchberg
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• Author(s): Connie Kirchberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball In an age where teenage hoop stars sign multimillion-dollar endorsement deals before their first professional tip-...
View full detailsHitchcock and the Methods of Suspense
William Hare
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• Author(s): William Hare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock had a gift for turning the familiar into the unfamiliar, the mundane into the une...
View full detailsBrushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South
Bruce Adelson
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• Author(s): Bruce Adelson • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Baseball - HistoryWhile Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947,...
View full detailsNature Cure
Richard Mabey, Vivien Green
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• Author(s): Richard Mabey | Vivien Green • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: EssaysEarly in Nature Cure Richard Mabey returns continually to the swift, who in its spectacular migra...
View full detailsA Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers
Virginia Department of Historic Resource, Scott David Arnold
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• Author(s): Virginia Department of Historic Resource | Scott David Arnold • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - South - South Atlantic (General)Including nearly nine ...
View full detailsLe Morte Darthur: the Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table [volume 2 of 4]
Thomas Malory
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• Author(s): Thomas Malory • Publisher: Lulu Press • Publisher Imprint: Lulu Press • BISAC: GeneralLe Morte d'Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French and English Arthurian romances. The book contains some of Malory's own original...
View full detailsText & Presentation
Stratos E. Constantinidis
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• Author(s): Stratos E. Constantinidis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It...
View full detailsBlue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals and the Mass Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915
Andrew L. Erdman
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• Author(s): Andrew L. Erdman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism This work reveals the often racy, ribald, and sexually charged nature of the vaudeville sta...
View full detailsDriving from Japan: Japanese Cars in America
Wanda James
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• Author(s): Wanda James • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History This study chronicles the success of the Japanese car in America. Starting with Japan's first gasoline-powere...
View full detailsMurder After Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England
Richard Sugg
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• Author(s): Richard Sugg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshJust as museum exhibits of plastinated corpses, television dramas about forensics, and books abo...
View full detailsBooking Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series
Karen Rhodes
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• Author(s): Karen Rhodes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism On September 26, 1968, Hawaii Five-O premiered on CBS. The show's exotic locale and quality ...
View full detailsDouble-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone
Michael Martone
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• Author(s): Michael Martone • Publisher: Quarry Books • Publisher Imprint: Quarry Books • BISAC: LiteraryIn this one volume, readers have access to the two decades of Hoosier mythology created by Michael Martone, one of Indiana's most recognized...
View full detailsWalt Whitman, Philosopher Poet: Leaves of Grass by Indirection
John W. McDonald
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• Author(s): John W. McDonald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry Was Walt Whitman--celebrated poet of freedom and democracy--a determinist at heart? A close study of Leaves of Grass s...
View full detailsThe Tragedy of the Vietnam War: A South Vietnamese Officer's Analysis
Van Nguyen Duong
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• Author(s): Van Nguyen Duong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Vietnam War What Americans call the Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the commun...
View full detailsThoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology
Jonas Lowgren, Erik Stolterman
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• Author(s): Jonas Lowgren | Erik Stolterman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Software Development & Engineering - Systems Analysis & DesiThe authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design go beyond the usual techn...
View full detailsGothic Plays and American Society, 1794-1830
M. Susan Anthony
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• Author(s): M. Susan Anthony • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - History & Criticism In the aftermath of the American Revolution, the production of Gothic plays brought into sh...
View full detailsThe Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost Its Way
R. Michael Gordon
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• Author(s): R. Michael Gordon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aeronautics & Astronautics This critical study of NASA's space shuttle program provides an in-depth examination of the e...
View full detailsThe Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version
Henry Adams, Ondine LeBlanc
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• Author(s): Henry Adams | Ondine LeBlanc • Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society • Publisher Imprint: Massachusetts Historical Society • BISAC: LiteraryBoth a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and at the head of the Modern Library's list of the...
View full detailsTelling Stories Out of Court
Ruth O'Brien, Liza Featherstone
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• Author(s): Ruth O'Brien | Liza Featherstone • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Discrimination"Few of the countless real-life stories of workplace discrimination suffered by men and women...
View full detailsTelling Stories
Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, Barbara Laslett
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• Author(s): Mary Jo Maynes | Jennifer L. Pierce | Barbara Laslett • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ResearchIn Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett ar...
View full detailsTearing Apart the Land
Duncan McCargo
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• Author(s): Duncan McCargo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralSince January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than thr...
View full detailsSame Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961
James L. Baughman
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• Author(s): James L. Baughman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismEver wonder how American television came to be the much-derided, advertisi...
View full detailsMy Road to Radio and the Vocal Scene: Memoir of an Opera Commentator
George Jellinek
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• Author(s): George Jellinek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Born in Ujpest, Hungary, in 1919, George Jellinek began his musical career playing violin with...
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