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Art in Anime: The Creative Quest as Theme and Metaphor
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Anime, hand-drawn or computer-animated Japanese cartoons, appears in television series, films, video, video game...
View full detailsSeeing the American Woman, 1880-1920: The Social Impact of the Visual Media Explosion
Katherine H. Adams, Michael L. Keene, Jennifer C. Koella
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• Author(s): Katherine H. Adams | Michael L. Keene | Jennifer C. Koella • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General From 1880 to 1920, the first truly national visual culture developed...
View full detailsPractical Applications in Business Aviation Management
James R. Cannon, Franklin D. Richey
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• Author(s): James R. Cannon | Franklin D. Richey • Publisher: Government Institutes • Publisher Imprint: Government Institutes • BISAC: Industries - TransportationThis comprehensive guide to business aviation management provides in-depth and use...
View full detailsThe Maximum of Wilderness: The Jungle in the American Imagination
Kelly Enright
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• Author(s): Kelly Enright • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: GeneralDanger in the Congo! The unexplored Amazon! Long perceived as a place of mystery and danger, and more recently ...
View full detailsGreat Plains Indian Illustration Index
John Van Balen
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• Author(s): John Van Balen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - General Library catalog records often do not adequately describe the contents of books or of the illust...
View full detailsTelevision's Top 100: The Most-Watched American Broadcasts, 1960-2010
Wesley Hyatt
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• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews Remember the finales of M*A*S*H, Cheers and Seinfeld? Do you know who shot J.R. on Dallas? This...
View full detailsAberration in Modern Poetry: Essays on Atypical Works by Yeats, Auden, Moore, Heaney and Others
Lucy Collins, Stephen Matterson
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• Author(s): Lucy Collins | Stephen Matterson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This critical work considers the role played by elements that might be considered aberrational in a p...
View full detailsThe Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas, 1991-2011, 2d ed.
Henry Mark Holzer
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• Author(s): Henry Mark Holzer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Legal History In his twenty terms as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Thomas has wri...
View full detailsStarborn
Aliyah C. Coulson
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• Author(s): Aliyah C. Coulson • Publisher: Archery Press • Publisher Imprint: Archery Press • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralDeath seems to follow Veirella wherever she goes.After a traumatic event ignited her uncontrollable magic, causi...
View full detailsUrban Physical Education: Instructional Practices and Cultural Activities
Rhonda L. Clements, Amy Meltzer Rady
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• Author(s): Rhonda L. Clements | Amy Meltzer Rady • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Human Kinetics Publishers • BISAC: Exercise - GeneralUrban Physical Education targets the teaching circumstances and conditions of urba...
View full detailsThe Life and Death of Thelma Todd
William Donati
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• Author(s): William Donati • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General American film favorite Thelma Todd was much more than the beautiful blonde of the 1930s who played opposite Bust...
View full detailsBritish Fortifications Through the Reign of Richard III: An Illustrated History
Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage
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• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial From the time the Romans first set foot on England's shore in 55 B.C.,...
View full detailsThe Massachusetts Andrew Sharpshooters: A Civil War History and Roster
Alden C. Ellis
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• Author(s): Alden C. Ellis • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Named for Massachusetts governor John Albion Andrew--who prevented these two compa...
View full detailsWho's Who in the Western Fiction of Zane Grey
John Donahue
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• Author(s): John Donahue • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Best known for his popular Western fiction, American author Zane Grey has often been called the "Homer of the West." His ...
View full detailsAmerican Privateers in the War of 1812: The Vessels and Their Prizes as Recorded in Niles' Weekly Register
Timothy S. Good
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• Author(s): Timothy S. Good • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General During the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy numbered several dozen ships and captured fewer than 200 British vess...
View full detailsThe Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton: From the 1919 Transatlantic Flight to the Arctic and the Amazon
Benjamin J. Burns
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• Author(s): Benjamin J. Burns • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Na...
View full detailsPiano Interpretation of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Theory and Practice Using Original Documents
Elena Letnanová
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• Author(s): Elena Letnanová • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Piano & Keyboard How should one interpret music of another century? What standards should be applied...
View full details"Bully for the Band!": The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band
Charles George, Herbert George, Jere George
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• Author(s): Charles George | Herbert George | Jere George • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) From the commanding call of the bugle at reveille t...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Alzheimer's Disease; With Directories of Research, Treatment and Care Facilities, 2d ed.
Elaine A. Moore
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• Author(s): Elaine A. Moore • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - Alzheimer's & Dementia The second edition contains updated resources, research institution inf...
View full detailsThe Beijing Consensus: Legitimizing Authoritarianism in Our Time
Stefan Halper
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• Author(s): Stefan Halper • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralBeijing presents a clear and gathering threat to Washington -- but not for the reasons you think. China's challenge to ...
View full details"The Women Will Howl": The Union Army Capture of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia, and the Forced Relocation of Mill Workers
Mary Deborah Petite
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• Author(s): Mary Deborah Petite • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In July 1864, Union General William T. Sherman ordered the arrest and deporta...
View full detailsMusical Terms, Symbols and Theory: An Illustrated Dictionary
Michael C. Thomsett
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• Author(s): Michael C. Thomsett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Noted lexicographer Thomsett here dissects more than 1,400 terms, a buttula to zither, with clarity and precisi...
View full detailsSweethearts of the Sage: Biographies and Filmographies of 258 Actresses Appearing in Western Movies
Buck Rainey
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• Author(s): Buck Rainey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Hundreds of leading ladies have appeared in the thousands of Westerns produced since 1903's The Great Train Robbery, ridin...
View full detailsImpious Fidelity
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg
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• Author(s): Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisIn Impious Fidelity, Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg investigates the legacy of Anna Freud at ...
View full detailsCollege Student Retention: Formula for Student Success
Alan Seidman, Alexander W. Astin, Joseph B. Berger
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• Author(s): Alan Seidman | Alexander W. Astin | Joseph B. Berger • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: HigherRetention lingers as a major problem in higher education de...
View full detailsWhat We Know about Emotional Intelligence: How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health
Moshe Zeidner, Gerald Matthews, Richard D. Roberts
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• Author(s): Moshe Zeidner | Gerald Matthews | Richard D. Roberts • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionSorting out the scientific facts from the unsupported hype about emotiona...
View full detailsShip Island, Mississippi: Rosters and History of the Civil War Prison
Theresa Arnold-Scriber, Terry G. Scriber
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• Author(s): Theresa Arnold-Scriber | Terry G. Scriber • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Ship Island was used as a French base of operations for Gulf Coast maneuve...
View full detailsParallel 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 detailsThe USS Ward: An Operational History of the Ship That Fired the First American Shot of World War II
Richard P. Klobuchar
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• Author(s): Richard P. Klobuchar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly. T...
View full detailsLegal Tender
John Griffith Urang
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• Author(s): John Griffith Urang • Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi • BISAC: GeneralAt first glance, romance seems an improbable angle from which to write ...
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Murdering Miss Marple: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the New Golden Age of Women's Crime Fiction
Murdering Miss Marple: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in the New Golden Age of Women's Crime Fiction
Julie H. Kim
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• Author(s): Julie H. Kim • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General During the interwar "golden age" of British detective fiction, women writers like Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie r...
View full detailsStephen Russell Mallory: A Biography of the Confederate Navy Secretary and United States Senator
Rodman L. Underwood
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• Author(s): Rodman L. Underwood • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Just as Confederate naval action is commonly overshadowed by the land battles of the Civil War, the n...
View full detailsFantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema: Interviews with 20 Actresses from Biker, Beach, and Elvis Movies
Tom Lisanti
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• Author(s): Tom Lisanti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Elvis Presley musicals, beach romps, biker flicks, and alienated youth movies were some of the most...
View full detailsOpening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Toru Iiyoshi, M. S. Vijay Kumar, John Seely Brown
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• Author(s): Toru Iiyoshi | M. S. Vijay Kumar | John Seely Brown • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HigherExperts discuss the potential for open education tools, resources, and knowledge to transform the economics and ...
View full detailsFatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy
Robert B. Pippin
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• Author(s): Robert B. Pippin • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe crime melodramas of the 1940s known now as film noir shared many formal and thema...
View full detailsA Lifetime with Shakespeare: Notes from an American Director of All 38 Plays
Paul Barry
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• Author(s): Paul Barry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Theater - General Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare's plays, this text represents an ...
View full detailsThe Mute Immortals Speak: Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
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• Author(s): Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Middle EasternA body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-...
View full detailsAmerica on the Eve of the Civil War
Edward L. Ayers, Carolyn R. Martin, Tricia Hagan
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• Author(s): Edward L. Ayers | Carolyn R. Martin | Tricia Hagan • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - Civil War"This remarkable publication provides a captivating and ...
View full detailsThe Sonarman's War: A Memoir of Submarine Chasing and Mine Sweeping in World War II
H. G. Jones
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• Author(s): H. G. Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This memoir is an intimate and sometimes irreverent account of one man's coming of age during World War II...
View full detailsThe Ball Game Biz: An Introduction to the Economics of Professional Team Sports
David George Surdam
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• Author(s): David George Surdam • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This work uses economic theory, simple probability, statistical concepts and game theory to analyze the economics ...
View full detailsSmall Ball in the Big Leagues: A History of Stealing, Bunting, Walking and Otherwise Scratching for Runs
James D. Szalontai
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• Author(s): James D. Szalontai • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The typical baseball fan yearns for one of two things: a strikeout or a home run. But most of the game t...
View full detailsFace to Face with Angels: Images in Medieval Art and in Film
Sandra Gorgievski
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• Author(s): Sandra Gorgievski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Arch-mediator between the divine and the mundane, the angel is an enduring figure in the Western world. It has been ...
View full detailsThe Great Revivalists in American Religion, 1740-1944: The Careers and Theology of Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney, Dwight Moody, Billy Sunday and Ai
William H. Cooper
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• Author(s): William H. Cooper • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book presents a historical and theological understanding of how and why Christian revivalism came to be what it...
View full detailsThe National Hockey League, 1917-1967: A Year-by-Year Statistical History
Marshall D. Wright
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• Author(s): Marshall D. Wright • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Winter Sports - Hockey This is a statistical history of the National Hockey League in its first 50 seasons. It provides eve...
View full detailsMourning Happiness
Vivasvan Soni
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• Author(s): Vivasvan Soni • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFor many eighteenth-century thinkers, happiness was a revolutionary new idea filled with the promise of ...
View full detailsThe Role of Revelation in the World's Religions
Beverly Moon
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• Author(s): Beverly Moon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The human reception of divine messages, known as revelation, has often played a central role in world religions. This stu...
View full detailsGlobalization and Islamism: Beyond Fundamentalism
Nevzat Soguk
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• Author(s): Nevzat Soguk • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GlobalizationThis book explores non-Arab Islamic orientations, convincingly showing that Islam as a histo...
View full detailsRichard Matheson on Screen: A History of the Filmed Works
Matthew R. Bradley
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• Author(s): Matthew R. Bradley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Though innumerable biographies have been written about novelists, playwrights, and poets, screenwriters are ...
View full detailsActivists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago
Pierre Clavel
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• Author(s): Pierre Clavel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New EnglandIn 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among co...
View full detailsToy Cannon: The Autobiography of Baseball's Jimmy Wynn
Jimmy Wynn, Bill McCurdy
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• Author(s): Jimmy Wynn | Bill McCurdy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Despite the pressures of racism and a troubled personal life, Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn achieve...
View full detailsSouthern Appalachian Storytellers: Interviews with Sixteen Keepers of the Oral Tradition
Saundra Gerrell Kelley
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• Author(s): Saundra Gerrell Kelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology To be from Appalachia--to be at home there and to love it passionately--informs the narratives...
View full detailsField Guide to Common Macrofungi in Eastern Forests and Their Ecosystem Function
Michael E. Ostry
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• Author(s): Michael E. Ostry • Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • Publisher Imprint: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UK • BISAC: Agriculture - ForestryWith illustrations in full color. This guide is intended to serve as a quick reference to selecte...
View full detailsCarolina Cottage: A Personal History of the Piazza House
Margaret Ruth Little
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• Author(s): Margaret Ruth Little • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: History - GeneralMargaret Ruth Little's new book is a celebration and a history of one of the most recognizable...
View full detailsSoviet Medicine
Frances Lee Bernstein, Christopher Burton, Dan Healey
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• Author(s): Frances Lee Bernstein | Christopher Burton | Dan Healey • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: HistoryThanks to the opening of archives and the forging of exch...
View full detailsReconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, Merritt Roe Smith
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• Author(s): Jeff Horn | Leonard N. Rosenband | Merritt Roe Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryClosely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of e...
View full detailsUnfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World
Sam W. Haynes
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• Author(s): Sam W. Haynes • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyWriting from the vantage point of America’s unrivaled global dominance, historians have te...
View full detailsSeparate Schools
E. Thomas Ewing
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• Author(s): E. Thomas Ewing • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Student Life & Student AffairsStarting in 1943, millions of children were separated into boys' and g...
View full detailsThe Cubs and the White Sox: A Baseball Rivalry, 1900 to the Present
Dan Helpingstine
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• Author(s): Dan Helpingstine • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Beginning with the premise that there is no other rivalry in team sports like that between the Cubs and th...
View full detailsItalian Horror Film Directors
Louis Paul
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• Author(s): Louis Paul • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production There is no cinema with such effect as that of the hallucinatory Italian horror film. From Riccar...
View full detailsWarren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood
John Stangeland
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• Author(s): John Stangeland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General On the motion picture screen, Hollywood star Warren William (1894-1948) was a magnificent rogue, often deliciou...
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