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"Light of My Life": Love, Time and Memory in Nabokov's Lolita
James D. Hardy, Ann Martin
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• Author(s): James D. Hardy | Ann Martin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Vladimir Nabokov, one of the 20th century's greatest novelists, is particularly remembered for his masterp...
View full detailsVision Aids in America: A Social History of Eyewear and Sight Correction Since 1900
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This text examines the eyewear industry in America from 1900 to 2008, a period which mirrors an increased demand for eye...
View full detailsWarfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail: A History, 1571-1866
David S. T. Blackmore
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• Author(s): David S. T. Blackmore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - Naval Between the last battle fought entirely under oars in 1571 and the first fought entirely under steam in...
View full detailsWhen the Dodgers Were Bridegrooms: Gunner McGunnigle and Brooklyn's Back-to-Back Pennants of 1889 and 1890
Ronald G. Shafer
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• Author(s): Ronald G. Shafer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Urbane real estate investor Charles Byrne and hustling news editor George J. Taylor joined forces in 1883 ...
View full detailsFlorida Paper Money: An Illustrated History, 1817-1934
Ronald J. Benice
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• Author(s): Ronald J. Benice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Coins, Currency & Medals Tying together the history and economic development of the state, this catalog of Florida paper ...
View full detailsPhantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine
Terry L. Leap
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• Author(s): Terry L. Leap • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryU.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to ...
View full detailsFraming Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America
Diana Kendall
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• Author(s): Diana Kendall • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Media StudiesFraming Class explores how the media, including television, film, and news, depict wealth a...
View full detailsLiterature of the Global Age: A Critical Study of Transcultural Narratives
Maurizio Ascari
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• Author(s): Maurizio Ascari • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In an age of world citizenship, literary scholarship is focusing increasingly on texts which communicate effectively o...
View full detailsAs You Like It: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition
William Shakespeare
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• Author(s): William Shakespeare • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare This annotated version of As you Like it, one of the Bard's wittiest and bawdiest plays, provides a detailed g...
View full detailsDeformed and Destructive Beings: The Purpose of Horror Films
George Ochoa
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• Author(s): George Ochoa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Previous answers to that question have included everything from a need to...
View full detailsThe Flash Gordon Serials, 1936-1940: A Heavily Illustrated Guide
Roy Kinnard, Tony Crnkovich, R. J. Vitone
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• Author(s): Roy Kinnard | Tony Crnkovich | R. J. Vitone • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Guides & Reviews Flash Gordon, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars and Flash Gordon Conquers th...
View full detailsStephen King: A Literary Companion
Rocky Wood
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• Author(s): Rocky Wood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General This companion provides a two-part introduction to best-selling author Stephen King, whose enormous popularity o...
View full detailsThe Battle of Glendale: The Day the South Nearly Won the Civil War
Jim Stempel
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• Author(s): Jim Stempel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronic...
View full detailsCameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice
Marjorie Cohn, David Dow
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• Author(s): Marjorie Cohn | David Dow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Do cameras influence courtroom proceedings? What effect, if any, do they have on trial participants? What im...
View full detailsHan Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK
Brian Myers
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• Author(s): Brian Myers • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis first and only study of North Korean literary history by a Western scholar deals with the crucial role playe...
View full detailsMaking Law Work: Chinese Laws in Context
Mattias Burell, Marina Svensson
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• Author(s): Mattias Burell | Marina Svensson • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralBy studying law implementation in different areas and at different levels, contributors from...
View full detailsEndless War: Fiction and Essays by Wang Wen-Hsing
Wen-Hsing Wang, Shu-Ning Sciban, Fred Edwards
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• Author(s): Wen-Hsing Wang | Shu-Ning Sciban | Fred Edwards • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: LiteraryThis volume consists of translations of twenty-four fictional works and five essays ...
View full detailsCall Sign - Dust Off: A History of U.S. Army Aeromedical Evacuation from Conception to Hurricane Katrina: A History of United States Army Aeromedical
Darrel Whitcomb, Borden Institute Walter Reed Army Medica
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• Author(s): Darrel Whitcomb | Borden Institute Walter Reed Army Medica • Publisher: Department of the Army • Publisher Imprint: Department of the Army • BISAC: Emergency MedicineNOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE - ...
View full detailsTennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts of Military and Other Events, Month by Month
James B. Jones
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• Author(s): James B. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The only state designated by Congress as a Civil War National Heritage Area, Tennessee witnessed more...
View full detailsJane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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• Author(s): Charlotte Bronte • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralJane Eyre is a classic novel written by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847. It tells the story of a young orphan girl...
View full detailsTerror & Greatness: Ivan & Peter as Russian Myths
Kevin M. F. Platt
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• Author(s): Kevin M. F. Platt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionIn this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russia...
View full detailsEmbryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies
Thomas Banchoff
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• Author(s): Thomas Banchoff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: EthicsSince the first fertilization of a human egg in the laboratory in 1968, scientific and technological breakthroughs hav...
View full detailsThe American Newsreel: A Complete History, 1911-1967, 2d ed.
Raymond Fielding
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• Author(s): Raymond Fielding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism For fifty years, the newsreel was a fixture in American movie theaters. Released twice a week,...
View full detailsJules Dassin: The Life and Films
Peter Shelley
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• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This is the first English language study of Jules Dassin (1911-2008), who began as a contrac...
View full detailsProjecting America, 1958: Film and Cultural Diplomacy at the Brussels World's Fair
Sarah Nilsen
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• Author(s): Sarah Nilsen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The Brussels World's Fair was perhaps the most important propaganda event to be staged for European allie...
View full detailsJacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall
Chris Fujiwara
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• Author(s): Chris Fujiwara • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts At least three of director Jacques Tourneur's films--Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and...
View full detailsEntertainment in the Old West: Theater, Music, Circuses, Medicine Shows, Prizefighting and Other Popular Amusements
Jeremy Agnew
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• Author(s): Jeremy Agnew • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold...
View full details585 Raids and Counting: Memoir of an American Soldier in the Solomon Islands, 1942-1945
Alex Kunevicius
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• Author(s): Alex Kunevicius • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military After receiving his draft notice on March 5, 1941, 21-year old Alex Kunevicius harbored dreams of joining George Patt...
View full detailsMad Minutes and Vietnam Months: A Soldier's Memoir
Micheal Clodfelter
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• Author(s): Micheal Clodfelter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military This thoughtful memoir recounts one man's transformation from a glory-seeking, gung-ho Kansas teenager to a weary,...
View full detailsSkating on Air: The Broadcast History of an Olympic Marquee Sport
Kelli Lawrence
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• Author(s): Kelli Lawrence • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ice & Figure Skating Of all winter sports, none is so widely watched and commented upon by the media as figure skating, whi...
View full detailsI Shop in Moscow: Advertising and the Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Tsarist Russia
Sally West
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• Author(s): Sally West • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThis groundbreaking book is the first to study the cultural history of ad...
View full detailsRenegade Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Eric R. Dursteler
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• Author(s): Eric R. Dursteler • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThis book uses the stories of early modern women in the Mediterranean who left their birthplaces...
View full detailsUpper Elementary Reading Lessons: Case Studies of Real Teaching
Marilyn J. Chambliss, Linda Valli
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• Author(s): Marilyn J. Chambliss | Linda Valli • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & PhonicsThis book provides descript...
View full detailsClark Griffith: The Old Fox of Washington Baseball
Ted Leavengood
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• Author(s): Ted Leavengood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Famed Washington sportswriter Shirley Povich once said that Clark Griffith's life was a true Horatio Alger story. Born i...
View full detailsB-29s Over Japan, 1944-1945: A Group Commander's Diary
Samuel Russ Harris
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• Author(s): Samuel Russ Harris • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military This diary focuses intensely on Col. Samuel Russ Harris' life within his own 499th Bomb Group and his relationship...
View full detailsCult Telefantasy Series: A Critical Analysis of The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, Heroes, Doctor Who and Star Tre
Sue Short, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Sue Short | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General From The Prisoner in the 1960s to the more recent Heroes and Lost, a g...
View full detailsThe Letters of Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt, Alexander Dru
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• Author(s): Jacob Burckhardt | Alexander Dru • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: Historical - General""The Letters of Jacob Burckhardt"" is a collection of personal correspondence written by...
View full detailsPerverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980
Danny Shipka
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• Author(s): Danny Shipka • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The exploitation film industry of Italy, Spain and France during the height of its popularity from 1960 to 1980 is...
View full detailsWilliam Gibson: A Literary Companion
Tom Henthorne
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• Author(s): Tom Henthorne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy William Gibson, author of the cyberpunk classic, Neuromancer (1984), is one today's most widely re...
View full detailsGeneration Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture
Stephanie Boluk, Wylie Lenz
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• Author(s): Stephanie Boluk | Wylie Lenz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Growing from their early roots in Caribbean voodoo to their popularity today, zombies a...
View full detailsMasculinity in Children's Animal Stories, 1888-1928: A Critical Study of Anthropomorphic Tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne
Wynn William Yarbrough
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• Author(s): Wynn William Yarbrough • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The animal stories produced around the turn of the 20th century have maintained a remarkable hold on the imagin...
View full detailsThe Caring Self
Clare L. Stacey
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• Author(s): Clare L. Stacey • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Home CareAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the Unite...
View full detailsAnalyzing Mad Men: Critical Essays on the Television Series
Scott F. Stoddart
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• Author(s): Scott F. Stoddart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism AMC's episodic drama Mad Men has become a cultural phenomenon, detailing America's preo...
View full detailsRobert Toombs: The Civil Wars of a United States Senator and Confederate General
Mark Scroggins
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• Author(s): Mark Scroggins • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Robert Toombs of Georgia stands as one of the most fiery and influential politicians of the nineteent...
View full detailsDivided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center
Eric Darton
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• Author(s): Eric Darton • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: History - GeneralWhen the World Trade Towers in New York City were erected at the Hudson's edge, they led the way to a real estate boom that was truly ast...
View full detailsThe Federal Reserve System: A History of the First 75 Years
Carl H. Moore
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• Author(s): Carl H. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General For more than 100 years since its inception, the United States struggled through a variety of financial ...
View full detailsThe Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company, 1833-1854
James C. Burke
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• Author(s): James C. Burke • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Railroads - History In 1833, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to N...
View full detailsSocial Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life
Charles Lemert
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• Author(s): Charles Lemert • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern clas...
View full detailsJennifer Jones: The Life and Films
Paul Green
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• Author(s): Paul Green • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts The distinguished film career of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Jones (1919-2009) is th...
View full detailsBehind the Barbed Wire: Memoir of a World War II U.S. Marine Captured in North China in 1941 and Imprisoned by the Japanese Until 1945
Chester M. Biggs
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• Author(s): Chester M. Biggs • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops methodically took over the U.S. Marine guard posts at Peiping and Tientsin, cau...
View full detailsCarbon Coalitions: Business, Climate Politics, and the Rise of Emissions Trading
Jonas Meckling
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• Author(s): Jonas Meckling • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceAn examination of how a transnational coalition of firms and NGOs influenced the emergence of emissions trading as a central component...
View full detailsThe Logic of Positive Engagement
Miroslav Nincic
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• Author(s): Miroslav Nincic • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyRecent American foreign policy has depended heavily on the use of negative inducements to...
View full detailsMusimathics, Volume 2: The Mathematical Foundations of Music
Gareth Loy, John Chowning
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• Author(s): Gareth Loy | John Chowning • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - TheoryThe second volume of a commonsense, self-contained introduction to the mathematics and physics of music, focusi...
View full detailsHandbook of Computer Game Studies
Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein
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• Author(s): Joost Raessens | Jeffrey Goldstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicA broad treatment of computer and video games from a wide range of perspectives, including cognitive science and ...
View full detailsCritical Reasoning and Philosophy: A Concise Guide to Reading, Evaluating, and Writing Philosophical Works
M. Andrew Holowchak
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• Author(s): M. Andrew Holowchak • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Study & Test-Taking SkillsCritical Reasoning & Philosophy has been praised as an innovativ...
View full detailsIslam on the Street: Religion in Modern Arabic Literature
Muhsin Al-Musawi
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• Author(s): Muhsin Al-Musawi • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Middle EasternIslam on the Street deals with the popular side of Islam, as described not only in trac...
View full detailsThe Complete Peanuts 1979-1982: Gift Box Set - Hardcover
Charles M. Schulz, Al Roker, Lynn Johnston
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• Author(s): Charles M. Schulz | Al Roker | Lynn Johnston • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books • Publisher Imprint: Fantagraphics Books • BISAC: Form - Comic Strips & CartoonsJust in time for the holidays, designed by the Award-winning graphic no...
View full detailsVirginia Fishing Guide
Bob Gooch
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• Author(s): Bob Gooch • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: FishingIn this second edition of Bob Gooch's Virginia Fishing Guide, M. W. Smith offers an updated version of a classic w...
View full detailsAn Accident in August
Laurence Cossé, Alison Anderson
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• Author(s): Laurence Cossé | Alison Anderson • Publisher: Europa Editions • Publisher Imprint: Europa Editions • BISAC: Literary
Embattled Ecumenism: The National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the Trials of the Protestant Left
Jill Gill
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• Author(s): Jill Gill • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Vietnam War and its polarizing era challenged, splintered, and changed The National Council of the ...
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