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The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865-1877
Jerry L. West
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• Author(s): Jerry L. West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - General The Reconstruction was to be a time of rebuilding and healing for the South followin...
View full detailsEarly Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area: The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951
Inge Schaefer Horton
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• Author(s): Inge Schaefer Horton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book presents the lives, careers, and work of fifty largely unknown pioneers. It chronicles the triumphs and...
View full detailsChurch and State in Communist Poland: A History, 1944-1989
Marian S. Mazgaj
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• Author(s): Marian S. Mazgaj • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Eastern Europe - General This text explores the nature of Polish Catholicism in the first half of the twentieth century and t...
View full detailsGenesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1: Volume 1
Eduardo Galeano
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• Author(s): Eduardo Galeano • Publisher: Bold Type Books • Publisher Imprint: Bold Type Books • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the c...
View full detailsBlack Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
David Goldberg, Trevor Griffey
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• Author(s): David Goldberg | Trevor Griffey • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralBlack Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the constructio...
View full detailsH.G. Wells on Film: The Utopian Nightmare
Don G. Smith
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• Author(s): Don G. Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism One of the most influential thinkers of his era, H.G. Wells is primarily known for his science fic...
View full detailsBetween the Lines of World War II: Twenty-One Remarkable People and Events
Paul M. Edwards
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• Author(s): Paul M. Edwards • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General This is a collection of 21 accounts of people and events that illuminate the str...
View full detailsEdgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan: A Biography of the Author and His Creation
Robert W. Fenton
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• Author(s): Robert W. Fenton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary Like millions of other readers and moviegoers, as a youngster the late Robert W. Fenton loved swinging through the j...
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 - Modern""The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society"" is a philosophical book wri...
View full detailsThe Anatomy of Utopia: Narration, Estrangement and Ambiguity in More, Wells, Huxley and Clarke
Károly Pintér, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Károly Pintér | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Since the early rise of the novel, utopian stories have h...
View full detailsFrances Farmer: The Life and Films of a Troubled Star
Peter Shelley
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• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Previous biographies of American actress Frances Farmer (1913-1970) have downplayed her professional achievements...
View full detailsThe Crowded Universe: The Race to Find Life Beyond Earth
Alan Boss
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• Author(s): Alan Boss • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Space Science - CosmologyWe are nearing a turning point in our quest for life in the universe -- we now have the capacity to detect Earth-like planets aroun...
View full detailsDoubleheaders: A Major League History
Charlie Bevis
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• Author(s): Charlie Bevis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Award-winning author Charlie Bevis explores the long history of the major league doubleheader from its beginn...
View full detailsThe Cardinals and the Yankees, 1926: A Classic Season and St. Louis in Seven
Paul E. Doutrich
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• Author(s): Paul E. Doutrich • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The two pennant winners in 1926, the National League's Cardinals and the American League's Yankees, were a...
View full detailsMartha Grimes Walks Into a Pub: Essays on a Writer with a Load of Mischief
Sarah D. Fogle
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• Author(s): Sarah D. Fogle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Since the 1979 discovery of her work in a slush pile at Little, Brown, Martha Grimes has gone o...
View full detailsBobby Whitlock: A Rock 'n' Roll Autobiography
Bobby Whitlock, Marc Roberty
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• Author(s): Bobby Whitlock | Marc Roberty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Music From early childhood singing in church to the rock 'n' roll limelight of Derek and the Dominos, Bobby Whit...
View full detailsAppraising The Graduate: The Mike Nichols Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood
J. W. Whitehead
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• Author(s): J. W. Whitehead • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The popular success in 1967 of The Graduate was immediate and total; at the time, only Gone with the Wind and T...
View full detailsWrite Source SkillsBook Student Edition Grade 11
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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• Author(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • Publisher: Great Source Education Group • Publisher Imprint: Great Source Education Group • BISAC: Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing
Write Source SkillsBook Student Edition Grade 12
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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• Author(s): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • Publisher: Great Source Education Group • Publisher Imprint: Great Source Education Group • BISAC: Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing
Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up
Irving Singer, Alan Soble
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• Author(s): Irving Singer | Alan Soble • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other ...
View full detailsUniversal Sound Westerns, 1929-1946: The Complete Filmography
Gene Blottner
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• Author(s): Gene Blottner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General After Fox released In Old Arizona, the first feature length western with sound, in 1929, Universal president Carl...
View full detailsRemembering Northrop Frye: Recollections by His Students and Others in the 1940s and 1950s
Robert D. Denham
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• Author(s): Robert D. Denham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book brings together letters from 89 of Northrop Frye's students, friends, and acquaintances in which they recor...
View full detailsGendered Justice: Intimate Partner Violence and the Criminal Justice System
Venessa Garcia, Patrick McManimon
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• Author(s): Venessa Garcia | Patrick McManimon • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: CriminologyGendered Justice takes a unique, multi-layered look at the various eleme...
View full detailsThe Other British Isles: A History of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands
David W. Moore
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• Author(s): David W. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Their names bespeak a rich past. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish...
View full detailsSustainability or Collapse?: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth
Robert Costanza, Lisa J. Graumlich, Will Steffen
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• Author(s): Robert Costanza | Lisa J. Graumlich | Will Steffen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Historical GeographyScholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over mil...
View full detailsThe Vows of Silence: A Gripping Psychological Thriller of a Sniper's Reign and a Family's Grief
Susan Hill
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• Author(s): Susan Hill • Publisher: Overlook Press • Publisher Imprint: Overlook Press • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police ProceduralHow can you find a killer when silence is the most powerful weapon?A marksman with a rifle is stalking the...
View full detailsDostoevsky the Thinker
James P. Scanlan
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• Author(s): James P. Scanlan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LiteraryFor all his distance from formal philosophy, Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. In wor...
View full detailsHuron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Indian-European Encounters in Early North America
Erik R. Seeman
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• Author(s): Erik R. Seeman • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Native American"Two thousand Wendat (Huron) Indians stood on the edge of an enormous burial pit... they held in t...
View full detailsBroken Harmony
Joseph M. Ortiz
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• Author(s): Joseph M. Ortiz • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareMusic was a subject of considerable debate during the Renaissance. The notion that music could be interpreted in ...
View full detailsThe Origins of Modern Russian Education
Cynthia H. Whittaker
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• Author(s): Cynthia H. Whittaker • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralAs minister of education and president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Sergei...
View full detailsWomen Artists at the Millennium
Carol Armstrong, Catherine de Zegher
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• Author(s): Carol Armstrong | Catherine de Zegher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryArtists, art historians, and critics look at the legacies of feminism and critical theory in the work of women...
View full detailsPan-African Chronology II: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1865-1915
Everett Jenkins
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• Author(s): Everett Jenkins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl This continuation volume of the Pan-African Chronology se...
View full detailsMacv: The Joint Command in the Years of Escalation, 1962-1967
Graham a. Cosmas, John S. Brown, Center of Military History
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• Author(s): Graham a. Cosmas | John S. Brown | Center of Military History • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Military - Vietnam WarCMH Pub 91-6-1. United States Army in Vietnam. Cover...
View full detailsFugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland
J. Blaine Hudson
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• Author(s): J. Blaine Hudson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped acro...
View full detailsGuerrilla Warfare in the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921
Joseph McKenna
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• Author(s): Joseph McKenna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General Tracing the development of the Irish Republican Army following Ireland's Declaration of Independence, this book...
View full detailsMind-Matter Interaction: A Review of Historical Reports, Theory and Research
Pamela Rae Heath
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• Author(s): Pamela Rae Heath • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General The power of the mind to influence the physical world has long been debated, debunked, studied fo...
View full detailsConfederate Torpedoes: Two Illustrated 19th Century Works with New Appendices and Photographs
Gabriel J. Rains, Peter S. Michie, Herbert M. Schiller
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• Author(s): Gabriel J. Rains | Peter S. Michie | Herbert M. Schiller • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Hoping to deter the Union navy from aggressive action on southern ...
View full detailsSubject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art
Jennifer A. Gonzalez
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• Author(s): Jennifer A. Gonzalez • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyAn exploration of the visual culture of "race" through the work of five contemporary artists who came to prominence ...
View full detailsRobert Altman: Critical Essays
Rick Armstrong
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• Author(s): Rick Armstrong • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The life and work of motion picture director Robert Altman (1925-2006) are interpreted from a variety of perspec...
View full detailsCobb's Legion Cavalry: A History and Roster of the Ninth Georgia Volunteers in the Civil War
Harriet Bey Mesic
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• Author(s): Harriet Bey Mesic • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War "The best regiment of either army, North or South"--this was the description of Cobb's Legion offe...
View full detailsThe Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region
Tom Calarco
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• Author(s): Tom Calarco • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
Cazadores de Sombras Los Origenes, 1. Angel Mecanico: Clockword Angel (the Infernal Devices Series # 1)
Cassandra Clare
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• Author(s): Cassandra Clare • Publisher: Planeta Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Planeta Publishing • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralTessa Gray está dispuesta a encontrar a su hermano. Para ello, se dirige a Londres, donde será raptada p...
View full detailsFannie Lou Hamer: The Life of a Civil Rights Icon
Earnest N. Bracey
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• Author(s): Earnest N. Bracey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political This book explores the life of one of Mississippi's greatest civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for h...
View full detailsGuillaume de Machaut
Elizabeth Eva Leach
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Eva Leach • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: MusicAt once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de Machaut was one of the most protean and creative fi...
View full detailsThe Television World of Pushing Daisies: Critical Essays on the Bryan Fuller Series
Alissa Burger
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• Author(s): Alissa Burger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Pushing Daisies was a unique network television show. This collection of 10 essays addresse...
View full detailsJungle Combat with the 112th Cavalry: Three Texans in the Pacific in World War II
Robert Peyton Wiggins
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• Author(s): Robert Peyton Wiggins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This narrative tracks the experiences of three veterans while providing a comprehensive account ...
View full detailsGeneral Benjamin Smith: A Biography of the North Carolina Governor
Alan D. Watson
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• Author(s): Alan D. Watson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This biography is about one of North Carolina's early governors, an advocate for public education in the post-Colonial ...
View full detailsThe American Martial Arts Film
M. Ray Lott
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• Author(s): M. Ray Lott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Martial arts have appeared in American movies since the days of Mr. Moto and Charlie Chan, but English-language mar...
View full detailsHistoric Movie Theatres in Illinois, 1883-1960
Konrad Schiecke
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• Author(s): Konrad Schiecke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This history and catalog of the movie theaters of Illinois follows their evolution from the ear...
View full detailsFrom War to Peace: A Guide to the Next Hundred Years
Kent D. Shifferd
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• Author(s): Kent D. Shifferd • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Peace The world's first peace organizations emerged in the 19th century and since that time, anti-war activism has progressed...
View full detailsClocks of New York: An Illustrated History
Chris DeSantis, Vinit Parmar
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• Author(s): Chris DeSantis | Vinit Parmar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The phrase "in a New York minute" is virtually synonymous with all that is fast-paced an...
View full detailsVico and Naples
Barbara Ann Naddeo
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• Author(s): Barbara Ann Naddeo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernVico and Naples is an intellectual portrait of the Neapolitan philosopher Giambattista Vico...
View full detailsA Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment
Carrie M. Lane
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• Author(s): Carrie M. Lane • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: ConsultingBeing laid off can be a traumatic event. The unemployed worry about how they will pay their bills and find a new job. In the American economy's b...
View full detailsConstructing Grievance
Elise Giuliano
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• Author(s): Elise Giuliano • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionDemands for national independence among ethnic minorities around the world suggest the po...
View full detailsStrategic Communications for School Leaders
Vicki Gunther, James McGowan, Kate Donegan
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• Author(s): Vicki Gunther | James McGowan | Kate Donegan • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Administration - GeneralGunther, McGowan and Donegan draw on their own ex...
View full detailsThe Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest
Jeffrey Greene
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Greene • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsThe wild boar appears to us as something straight out of a myth. But as Jeffrey Greene learned, thes...
View full detailsLynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865-1965
Julius E. Thompson
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• Author(s): Julius E. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - GeneralStudies lynching in Mississippi from the Civil War through the civil rights movement. It examines ho...
View full detailsYi Kwang-Su and Modern Literature: Mujong
Ann Sung-Hi Lee
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• Author(s): Ann Sung-Hi Lee • Publisher: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureYi Kwang-su (1892-1950) was one of the pioneers of modern Ko...
View full detailsVader, Voldemort and Other Villains: Essays on Evil in Popular Media
Jamey Heit
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• Author(s): Jamey Heit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy What is evil? How do we understand it in our culture? The thirteen essays in this critical volume exp...
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Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
Janine R. Wedel
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• Author(s): Janine R. Wedel • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Government & BusinessIt can feel like we're swimming in a sea of corruption. It's unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The sa...
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