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Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures
Marcy Norton
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• Author(s): Marcy Norton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science - Public PoliBefore Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492, no European had ever ...
View full detailsBlue Jays 1, Expos 0: The Urban Rivalry That Killed Major League Baseball in Montreal
David Luchuk
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• Author(s): David Luchuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 2001-2002 offseason was a tumultuous one for Major League Baseball. The commissioner's move to contract tw...
View full detailsDictionary of Television and Audiovisual Terminology
Moshe Moshkovitz
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• Author(s): Moshe Moshkovitz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference With television programming broadcast worldwide 24/7, the industry needs a common language. Constantly...
View full detailsBaseball Barnstorming and Exhibition Games, 1901-1962: A History of Off-Season Major League Play
Thomas Barthel
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• Author(s): Thomas Barthel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Until 1947, professional ball players were paid only from opening day to season's end. Even during the seaso...
View full detailsCapital and Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy
Christian Marazzi, Michael Hardt
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• Author(s): Christian Marazzi | Michael Hardt • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Economics - TheoryA major theorist in the Italian postfordist movement offers a radical new understanding of the current internati...
View full detailsHarmonious Triads: Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Myles W. Jackson
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• Author(s): Myles W. Jackson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryHistorically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music--from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial sp...
View full detailsDazzy Vance: A Biography of the Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Famer
John C. Skipper
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• Author(s): John C. Skipper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Charles "Dazzy" Vance became known as the strike out king after leading the National League in strikeouts seven years i...
View full detailsNorthsiders: Essays on the History and Culture of the Chicago Cubs
Gerald C. Wood, Andrew Hazucha
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• Author(s): Gerald C. Wood | Andrew Hazucha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This collection of 19 essays examine the role of baseball's Cubs in the history and politic...
View full detailsMedia Bias: Finding It, Fixing It
Wm David Sloan, Jenn Burleson MacKay
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• Author(s): Wm David Sloan | Jenn Burleson MacKay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies In this book, scholars examine the many prevailing arguments about media bias from a non-p...
View full detailsQuinn Martin, Producer: A Behind-the-Scenes History of QM Productions and Its Founder
Jonathan Etter
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• Author(s): Jonathan Etter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism "Quinn Martin was the most innovative and most creative of his kind. He was a man in touch...
View full detailsArchitect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell
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• Author(s): Dalia Tsuk Mitchell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Lawyers & JudgesA major figure in American legal history during the first half of the twentieth century, Felix Solom...
View full detailsThe Films of Fay Wray
Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich
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• Author(s): Roy Kinnard | Tony Crnkovich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Widely acclaimed as a horror movie actress, Fay Wray is best rememb...
View full detailsThe Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture
Heather L. Duda
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• Author(s): Heather L. Duda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism As monsters in popular media have evolved and grown more complex, so have those who take on the...
View full detailsThe University in Medieval Life, 1179-1499
Hunt Janin
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• Author(s): Hunt Janin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval The university is indigenous to Western Europe and is probably the greatest and most enduring achievement of the ...
View full detailsJack the Ripper: His Life and Crimes in Popular Entertainment
Gary Coville, Patrick Lucanio
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• Author(s): Gary Coville | Patrick Lucanio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh The identity of Jack the Ripper has consumed public curiosity since he first to...
View full detailsSigns of Cleopatra: Reading an Icon Historically
Mary Hamer
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• Author(s): Mary Hamer • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralCleopatra has been dead for twenty centuries, but her name still resonates in the west. Her story has the st...
View full detailsHow American Governments Work: A Handbook of City, County, Regional, State, and Federal Operations
Roger L. Kemp
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• Author(s): Roger L. Kemp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - National During the past two decades, many countries in the world have peacefully undergone a transition t...
View full detailsMi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Andrew C. Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Christina Gomez
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• Author(s): Andrew C. Garrod | Robert Kilkenny | Christina Gomez • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic & Latino StuAmid the flurry of ...
View full detailsPulp Magazine Holdings Directory: Library Collections in North America and Europe
Jess Nevins
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• Author(s): Jess Nevins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Increasing literacy rates and advanced printing technology gave rise to the pulp magazine in the late...
View full detailsThe Historic King Arthur: Authenticating the Celtic Hero of Post-Roman Britain
Frank D. Reno
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• Author(s): Frank D. Reno • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval Who was King Arthur? How did the story originate? Through careful research of the many primary documents, a pi...
View full detailsThe Blue Collar Thoroughbred: An Inside Account of the Real World of Racing
Gene McCormick
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• Author(s): Gene McCormick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Horse Racing The world of Thoroughbred horse racing is much more than the glitz-and-glamour Saturday races shown on TV. From Su...
View full detailsThe Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 2005-2006
William M. Simons
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• Author(s): William M. Simons • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings This anthology gathers selected papers from the 2006 and 2007 meetings of the Cooperstown S...
View full detailsThe Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster
Werner Troesken
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• Author(s): Werner Troesken • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceThe history of a long-running environmental catastrophe chronicles the harmful effects of lead pipes and their continued use despite ...
View full detailsThe Self in Moral Space: Life Narrative and the Good
David Parker
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• Author(s): David Parker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAll of us take our moral bearings from a conception of the good, or a range of goods, that we consider mo...
View full detailsHip Hop Dance: Meanings and Messages
Carla Stalling Huntington
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• Author(s): Carla Stalling Huntington • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Modern Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social hi...
View full detailsThe Bard in the Bluegrass: Two Centuries of Shakespearean Performance in Lexington, Kentucky
Kevin Lane Dearinger
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• Author(s): Kevin Lane Dearinger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Lexington, Kentucky, has been called "the cradle of the legitimate theatre west of the Appalachians" si...
View full detailsMillipedes and Moon Tigers: Science and Policy in an Age of Extinction
Stephen Nash
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• Author(s): Stephen Nash • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceMillipedes and Moon Tigers explores those uneasy places where scientific research meets public pol...
View full detailsCasanova Was a Librarian: A Light-Hearted Look at the Profession
Kathleen Low
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• Author(s): Kathleen Low • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General What do Casanova, Pope Pius XI, Benjamin Franklin and first lady Laura Bush have in c...
View full detailsHit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era
Don Tyler
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• Author(s): Don Tyler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a chronology of the most famous songs from the years before rock 'n' roll. The top hits for each year are described,...
View full detailsOut of the Park: Memoir of a Minor League Baseball All-Star
Ed Mickelson
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• Author(s): Ed Mickelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings During the Golden Age of baseball, as many as 59 minor leagues operated in a single season, and ...
View full detailsEl Birdos: The 1967 and 1968 St. Louis Cardinals
Doug Feldmann
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• Author(s): Doug Feldmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1953, August A. Busch purchased the St. Louis Cardinals for nearly four million dollars. His dream include...
View full detailsEye on Science Fiction: 20 Interviews with Classic SF and Horror Filmmakers
Tom Weaver
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• Author(s): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The march of the monster movie makers continues in Tom Weaver's ninth book of in-depth interviews with the men and w...
View full detailsA MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953
No Kum-Sok, J. Roger Osterholm
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• Author(s): No Kum-Sok | J. Roger Osterholm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Memoirs On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a...
View full detailsThe Pure Theory of Capital: Volume 12
F. A. Hayek, Lawrence H. White, Lawrence H. White
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• Author(s): F. A. Hayek | Lawrence H. White | Lawrence H. White • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralThe Pure Theory of Capital, F. A. Hayek's long-overlooked, little...
View full detailsTheories of Memory: A Reader
Michael Rossington, Anne Whitehead
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• Author(s): Michael Rossington | Anne Whitehead • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTheories of Memory provides a comprehensive introduction to the rapidl...
View full detailsArab and Israeli Terrorism: The Causes and Effects of Political Violence, 1936-1993
Kameel B. Nasr
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• Author(s): Kameel B. Nasr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - General Historically, terrorism has generally failed as a means to reach a political objective. Most often, terro...
View full detailsBranch Rickey: A Biography, rev. ed.
Murray Polner
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• Author(s): Murray Polner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Has any sport executive had as many words written about him as Branch Rickey? A one-time catcher, Rickey managed the St. ...
View full detailsFeminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil
Robin May Schott
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• Author(s): Robin May Schott • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyAny glance at the contemporary history of the world shows that the problem of evil is a centra...
View full detailsThe Films of Larry Buchanan: A Critical Examination
Rob Craig
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• Author(s): Rob Craig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Films such as The Naked Witch, Zontar, The Thing From Venus and Mars Needs Women have gained large cu...
View full detailsFool's Gold: Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library
Mark Y. Herring
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• Author(s): Mark Y. Herring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any ...
View full detailsRivers Revealed: Rediscovering America's Waterways
Jerry M. Hay
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• Author(s): Jerry M. Hay • Publisher: Quarry Books • Publisher Imprint: Quarry Books • BISAC: Ecosystems & Habitats - RiversWritten in an engaging, conversational style, Rivers Revealed combines the author's lifelong love of America's waterw...
View full detailsJohn Zorn: Tradition and Transgression
John Brackett
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• Author(s): John Brackett • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Individual Composer & MusicianJohn Zorn is one of the most prolific and active American composers/performers w...
View full detailsMyth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography
Mario Liverani, Zainab Bahrani, Marc Van de Mieroop
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• Author(s): Mario Liverani | Zainab Bahrani | Marc Van de Mieroop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyThe essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts fr...
View full detailsEvolution of the American Diesel Locomotive
J. Parker Lamb
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• Author(s): J. Parker Lamb • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)The diesel locomotive sent shock waves through rigid corporate cultures and staid government regulators....
View full detailsBallots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence
Evelyn Savidge Sterne
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• Author(s): Evelyn Savidge Sterne • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New EnglandBy the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early indus...
View full detailsJames Agee: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #27)
James Agee, Andrew Hudgins
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• Author(s): James Agee | Andrew Hudgins • Publisher: Library of America • Publisher Imprint: Library of America • BISAC: American - GeneralBetter known for writing in a variety of other genres, James Agee always thought of himself as essentially...
View full detailsReimagining Politics after the Terror
Andrew Jainchill
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• Author(s): Andrew Jainchill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceIn the wake of the Terror, France's political and intellectual elites set out to refound the Republic and, i...
View full detailsFloyd Patterson: A Boxer and a Gentleman
Alan H. Levy
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• Author(s): Alan H. Levy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Floyd Patterson delivered a number of knockout punches during his Hall of Fame career, but it might have been the fights h...
View full detailsWomen of Afghanistan in the Post-Taliban Era: How Lives Have Changed and Where They Stand Today
Rosemarie Skaine
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• Author(s): Rosemarie Skaine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies This book examines the changing roles of Afghani women in the aftermath of the overthrow of the oppressive Ta...
View full detailsBreaking the Ashes: The Culture of Illicit Liquor in Sri Lanka
Michele Ruth Gamburd
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• Author(s): Michele Ruth Gamburd • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social"I'm going to break the ashes," yelled one daily drinker to another as their paths ...
View full detailsState of Suffering
Susanna Trnka
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• Author(s): Susanna Trnka • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralHow do ordinary people respond when their lives are irrevocably altered by terror and violence? Susanna ...
View full detailsLiving Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative
Paul John Eakin
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• Author(s): Paul John Eakin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Developmental - GeneralAutobiography is naturally regarded as an art of retrospect, but making autobiography is equally part...
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Scotland as We Know It: Representations of National Identity in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
Scotland as We Know It: Representations of National Identity in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
Richard Zumkhawala-Cook
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• Author(s): Richard Zumkhawala-Cook • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - Scotland Spanning more than 100 years of cultural history, this book examines the ways that r...
View full detailsNever Good Enough
Ariel Ducey
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• Author(s): Ariel Ducey • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Hospital Administration & CareFrontline health care workers have always been especially vulnerable to the perpetual tides of health care 'reform, ' but in...
View full detailsRuffians, Yakuza, Nationalists
Eiko Maruko Siniawer
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• Author(s): Eiko Maruko Siniawer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanViolence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inex...
View full detailsIn the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, New Edition
Jean Baudrillard, Sylvere Lotringer, Hedi El Kholti
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• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard | Sylvere Lotringer | Hedi El Kholti • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: EssaysBaudrillard's remarkably prescient meditation on terrorism throws light on post-9/11 delusional fears an...
View full detailsThe Final Film of Laurel and Hardy: A Study of the Chaotic Making and Marketing of Atoll K
Norbert Aping
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• Author(s): Norbert Aping • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The remarkable story behind the planning, development and marketing of Laurel and Hardy's ill-rec...
View full detailsThe Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli, N. H. Thompson
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• Author(s): Niccolo Machiavelli | N. H. Thompson • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralIf any book could be called legendary, surely it is this one. Its author, Italian diplomat and...
View full detailsViolence in the Media and Its Influence on Criminal Defense
Cynthia A. Cooper
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• Author(s): Cynthia A. Cooper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Violence in Society How much are today's youth actually influenced by violence in the media? People who would never dispute ...
View full detailsThe Second Infantry Division in World War I: A History of the American Expeditionary Force Regulars, 1917-1919
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 When the United States entered World War I in 1917, it sent the American Expeditionary Forc...
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