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Kjlh-FM and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992: Compton's Neighborhood Station in the Aftermath of the Rodney King Verdict
Phylis Johnson
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• Author(s): Phylis Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism As the only independently Black-owned radio station in South Central Los Angeles, KJLH-FM was t...
View full detailsJerry Lewis
Chris Fujiwara
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• Author(s): Chris Fujiwara • Publisher: University of Illinois Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionWell known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide...
View full detailsFairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings
Susan Redington Bobby
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• Author(s): Susan Redington Bobby • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Although readers and filmgoers are strongly familiar with Disney's sanitized child-centric...
View full detailsEscape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey Through Heaven and Hell
Alice H. Amsden
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• Author(s): Alice H. Amsden • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentA provocative view of economic growth in the Third World argues that the countries that have achieved steady economic gr...
View full detailsAlex North, Film Composer: A Biography, with Musical Analyses of A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, The Misfits, Under the Volcano, and Prizzi's Hon
Sanya Shoilevska Henderson
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• Author(s): Sanya Shoilevska Henderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music Alex North (1910-1991) was one of America's most renowned film composers. His musical scores enhanced more th...
View full detailsThe Thirty-seventh North Carolina Troops: Tar Heels in the Army of Northern Virginia
Michael C. Hardy
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• Author(s): Michael C. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) North Carolina contributed more of her sons to the Confederate cause than any ot...
View full detailsTerrorism in American Cinema: An Analytical Filmography, 1960-2008
Robert Cettl
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• Author(s): Robert Cettl • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The American cinema of terrorism, although coming to prominence primarily in the 1970s amidst high...
View full detailsThe Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
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• Author(s): Baroness Orczy • Publisher: Book Jungle • Publisher Imprint: Book Jungle • BISAC: Family Life - GeneralBaroness Orczy was a Hungarian who moved to London. She became a novelist, painter, and playwright. Orcy's book the Scarlet Pimper...
View full detailsDeviant Women
Sharon Kowalsky
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• Author(s): Sharon Kowalsky • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionAfter seizing power in 1917, the Bolsheviks initiated reforms aimed ...
View full detailsThe Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
Douglas Rogers
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• Author(s): Douglas Rogers • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and f...
View full detailsGreat White Sharks in United States Museums
Alessandro de Maddalena, Walter Heim
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• Author(s): Alessandro de Maddalena | Walter Heim • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - Ichthyology & Herpetology This complete guide to great white shark specime...
View full detailsFood in the Movies, 2d ed.
Steve Zimmerman
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• Author(s): Steve Zimmerman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Although food has been part of motion pictures since the silent era, for the most part it has b...
View full detailsMental Reality, second edition, with a new appendix
Galen Strawson
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• Author(s): Galen Strawson • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismAn argument against neobehaviorism and for "naturalized Cartesianism," which couples a wholly materialist approach to the mind with a f...
View full detailsChewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer: The Army Px in World War II
James J. Cooke
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• Author(s): James J. Cooke • Publisher: University of Missouri Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Missouri Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIVeterans of World War II have long sung the praises of the PX--a little piece of home in far-f...
View full detailsChanging the Course of AIDS
David Dickinson, Charles Deutsch
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• Author(s): David Dickinson | Charles Deutsch • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: AIDS & HIVChanging the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of a new and exciting way to create the kind of much-needed behavior...
View full detailsCaribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class
Belinda Edmondson
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• Author(s): Belinda Edmondson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Social Classes & Economic DisparityIt is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture-...
View full detailsThe Roots of Perestroika: The Soviet Breakdown in Historical Context
Sidney Ploss
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• Author(s): Sidney Ploss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet Union With new information from Russian archives, this work examines the historical roots of Gorba...
View full detailsAppalachian Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography
Roberta Teague Herrin, Sheila Quinn Oliver
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• Author(s): Roberta Teague Herrin | Sheila Quinn Oliver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature This comprehensive bibliography includes books written abo...
View full detailsStories of the Soviet Experience
Irina Paperno
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• Author(s): Irina Paperno • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Personal MemoirsBeginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life...
View full detailsChief Bender: A Baseball Biography
Robert Peyton Wiggins
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• Author(s): Robert Peyton Wiggins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Hall of Famer Charles Albert Bender has been the subject of renewed interest in recent years, as researchers have...
View full detailsThe Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848-1849: The Setting, Causes, Course and Aftermath of an Epidemic in London
Amanda J. Thomas
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• Author(s): Amanda J. Thomas • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General This work brings together a unique range of sources to reveal a forgotten episode in London'...
View full detailsWomen Pioneers of Medical Research: Biographies of 25 Outstanding Scientists
King-Thom Chung
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• Author(s): King-Thom Chung • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History While most laymen could recognize Florence Nightingale as the founder of modern nursing, it's doubtful they could like...
View full detailsAlaska and Yukon Tokens: Private Coins of the Territories, 3d ed.
Ronald J. Benice
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• Author(s): Ronald J. Benice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coins, Currency & Medals This reference work lists and describes all known tokens (privately issued substitutes for coins...
View full detailsIndian War Sites: A Guidebook to Battlefields, Monuments, and Memorials, State by State with Canada and Mexico
Steve Rajtar
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• Author(s): Steve Rajtar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General From the Seminole Wars to the Little Big Horn, the history of America's native peoples and their contacts...
View full detailsA History of Television's the Virginian, 1962-1971
Paul Green
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• Author(s): Paul Green • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General On September 19, 1962, The Virginian made its primetime broadcast premiere. The 1902 novel by Owen Wister had ...
View full detailsIn Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities
Lori Hope Lefkovitz
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• Author(s): Lori Hope Lefkovitz • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Sexuality & Gender StudiesApplying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narra...
View full detailsRadio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - Reference This is an encyclopedic reference work to 1,802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. E...
View full detailsIntroduction to Vector Analysis
J. C. Tallack
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• Author(s): J. C. Tallack • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - MathematicsThe first eight chapters of this book were originally published in 1966 as the successful...
View full detailsThe 1923 New York Yankees: A History of Their First World Championship Season
Ronald A. Mayer
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• Author(s): Ronald A. Mayer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1923 Yankees started the dynasty. With stars like Babe Ruth, Wally Pipp, Joe Dugan and Bob Meusel, they...
View full detailsClandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border
David Spener
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• Author(s): David Spener • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationClandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-c...
View full detailsEye for Talent: Interviews with Veteran Baseball Scouts
P. J. Dragseth
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• Author(s): P. J. Dragseth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Essays & Writings Baseball scouts are often unseen, seldom recognized, and usually underappreciated by fans, but...
View full detailsMeaning in Life, Volume 1: The Creation of Value
Irving Singer
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• Author(s): Irving Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismAn acclaimed philosopher views the search for meaning in life as the search for a mode of creativity that will make our lives meaningful...
View full detailsPrince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America
Henry Glassie
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• Author(s): Henry Glassie • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Folk & Outsider ArtPrince Twins Seven-Seven (1944-2011) was not only one of Africa's most famous contemporary artists and ...
View full detailsThe Pilgrim's Progress: As Originally Published, Part 1
John Bunyan
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• Author(s): John Bunyan • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: Christian - Classic & AllegoryThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blu...
View full detailsSacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
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 detailsPrinces, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Steffen Hertog
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• Author(s): Steffen Hertog • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsIn Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia...
View full detailsMongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
Clarence E. Walker
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• Author(s): Clarence E. Walker • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarThe debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely ris...
View full detailsIn the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama
William E. Leuchtenburg
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• Author(s): William E. Leuchtenburg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyA ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945--the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
View full detailsTriangular Road: A Memoir
Paule Marshall
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• Author(s): Paule Marshall • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Memoirs
Millard Fillmore
Robert J. Scarry
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• Author(s): Robert J. Scarry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State From the time he left office in 1853, President Millard Fillmore has become increasingly shro...
View full detailsWriting and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric
Heather Urbanski
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• Author(s): Heather Urbanski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Is it true that, in this era of digitization and mass media, reading and writing are on the decline? In a thought-prov...
View full detailsThe Early Years of Folk Music: Fifty Founders of the Tradition
David Dicaire
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• Author(s): David Dicaire • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This history of folk music looks at musicians, collectors and other figures from around the world. The book presents an ...
View full detailsThe Negro Leagues Revisited: Conversations with 66 More Baseball Heroes
Brent Kelley
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• Author(s): Brent Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History This is a followup volume to the acclaimed Voices from the Negro Leagues, (McFarland, 1998; softcover 2005) w...
View full detailsHorror Stars on Radio: The Broadcast Histories of 29 Chilling Hollywood Voices
Ronald L. Smith
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• Author(s): Ronald L. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General This book chronicles the radio appearances of all prominent classic horror movie stars--Boris Karloff, Bela Lu...
View full detailsThe Jewish World of Sigmund Freud: Essays on Cultural Roots and the Problem of Religious Identity
Arnold D. Richards
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• Author(s): Arnold D. Richards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Though Freud is one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century, too little attention has been pa...
View full detailsThe Things You Find on the Appalachian Trail: A Memoir of Discovery, Endurance and a Lazy Dog
Kevin Runolfson
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• Author(s): Kevin Runolfson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Northeast - General This upbeat nitty-gritty memoir, based on the author's 2001 trail journal, chronicles one ...
View full detailsThe Randolph Hornets in the Civil War: A History and Roster of Company M, 22nd North Carolina Regiment
Wallace E. Jarrell
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• Author(s): Wallace E. Jarrell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The turbulent years of 1861-1865 were especially rough for the people of Rando...
View full detailsRailroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey
Theodore Kornweibel
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• Author(s): Theodore Kornweibel • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Railroads - HistoryWinner, 2011 George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award, Railway and Locomotive Histori...
View full detailsGentlemen at the Bat: A Fictional Oral History of the New York Knickerbockers and the Early Days of Base Ball
Howard Burman
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• Author(s): Howard Burman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Beginning in 1845, the New York Knickerbockers were the first fully organized base ball club to play the game...
View full detailsSocrates and Subtitles: A Philosopher's Guide to 95 Thought-Provoking Movies from Around the World
William G. Smith
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• Author(s): William G. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History & Surveys - General A sequel to the author's earlier work Plato and Popcorn: A Philosopher's Guide to 75 Thought-...
View full detailsPeter Carey: A Literary Companion
Mary Ellen Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Mary Ellen Snodgrass • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Australian & Oceanian Peter Carey, writer of such celebrated works as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Ga...
View full detailsFundamentals of Film Directing
David K. Irving
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• Author(s): David K. Irving • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Current and aspiring film directors can make their job easier by studying the 10 directing f...
View full detailsThe Life Of Reason Or The Phases Of Human Progress: Reason In Society (1905)
George Santayana
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• Author(s): George Santayana • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society is a philosophical work written...
View full detailsThe Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell
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• Author(s): Thomas Sowell • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Real Estate - Mortgages
Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)Significance of Melanin
Adele Logan Alexander
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• Author(s): Adele Logan Alexander • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Cultural HeritageWhen William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was ...
View full detailsWorkplace Flexibility
Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider
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• Author(s): Kathleen Christensen | Barbara Schneider • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralAlthough today's family has changed, the workplace has not--and the resulting one-size-...
View full detailsRoyal Poetrie
Peter C. Herman
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• Author(s): Peter C. Herman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshRoyal Poetrie is the first book to address the significance of a distinctive body ...
View full detailsIcelanders in the Viking Age: The People of the Sagas
William R. Short
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• Author(s): William R. Short • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Nordic Countries The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, ...
View full detailsFootball Fortunes: The Business, Organization and Strategy of the NFL
Frank P. Jozsa
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• Author(s): Frank P. Jozsa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Business Aspects Football may be sport, but the National Football League is at heart a business--how else to account for the st...
View full detailsFixing Global Finance
Martin Wolf
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• Author(s): Martin Wolf • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Political Economy