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No Man's Land: Globalization, Territory, and Clandestine Groups in Southeast Asia
Justin V. Hastings
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• Author(s): Justin V. Hastings • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)The increased ability of clandestine groups to operate with little regard for bord...
View full detailsThe Twilight Mystique: Critical Essays on the Novels and Films
Amy M. Clarke, Marijane Osborn, Donald E. Palumbo
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• Author(s): Amy M. Clarke | Marijane Osborn | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The 13 essays in this volume explore Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight ser...
View full detailsRadical Islam in the West: Ideology and Challenge
Brian R. Farmer
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• Author(s): Brian R. Farmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book explores the challenge posed by the immersion of 15 million Muslims in Western democracies and the few, but ...
View full detailsCorrespondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987
Tim Harding
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• Author(s): Tim Harding • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess Exploring a bygone aspect of intellectual sport, this book details the history of British and Irish correspondence chess fro...
View full detailsBruk Out
Adajay Brown
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• Author(s): Adajay Brown • Publisher: J. B. Stephens • Publisher Imprint: J. B. Stephens • BISAC: Coming of AgeJaesia Prendergast, a scholar at a prominent all-girls Jamaican high school, is tired of being a good girl.She lives a life too simple...
View full details"Burning Rails as We Pleased": The Civil War Letters of William Garrigues Bentley, 104th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
William Garrigues Bentley, Barbara Bentley Smith, Nina Bentley Baker
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• Author(s): William Garrigues Bentley | Barbara Bentley Smith | Nina Bentley Baker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) William Garrigues Bentley ...
View full detailsThe Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty
Bernadette Wegenstein
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• Author(s): Bernadette Wegenstein • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesHow the act of looking at our own and others' bodies is informed by the techniques, expectations, and strategies of body modification...
View full detailsCarl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodgers All-Star
Ted Reed
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• Author(s): Ted Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports History has remembered Carl Furillo as an opponent of Jackie Robinson becoming a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, despite that ...
View full detailsUnderstanding Missouri's Constitutional Government
Richard Fulton, Jerry Brekke
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• Author(s): Richard Fulton | Jerry Brekke • Publisher: University of Missouri Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Missouri Press • BISAC: American Government - StateIn the study of American government, analysis of state governments is often...
View full detailsMillennial Mythmaking: Essays on the Power of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Films and Games
John Perlich, David Whitt
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• Author(s): John Perlich | David Whitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Contemporary myths, particularly science fiction and fantasy texts, can provide commentary on who we are as...
View full detailsUnited States Marine Corps Medal of Honor Recipients: A Comprehensive Registry, Including U.S. Navy Medical Personnel Honored for Serving Marines in C
George B. Clark
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• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General The Medal of Honor is considered the ultimate sign of courage and devotion above and beyond the call of dut...
View full detailsThe Industrialization of Design: A History from the Steam Age to Today
Carroll Gantz
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• Author(s): Carroll Gantz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Industrial design is a fundamental component of the consumer experience. Almost every commercial product encountered in ...
View full detailsA Critical History of Television's the Red Skelton Show, 1951-1971
Wesley Hyatt
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• Author(s): Wesley Hyatt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General The Red Skelton Show was on the air for 20 years, the longest-running primetime network comedy variety serie...
View full detailsDisneyland and Culture: Essays on the Parks and Their Influence
Kathy Merlock Jackson, Mark I. West
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• Author(s): Kathy Merlock Jackson | Mark I. West • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The success of Disneyland as the world's first permanent, commercially viable theme park sparked ...
View full detailsPublic Law and Private Power
John Cioffi
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• Author(s): John Cioffi • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyIn Public Law and Private Power, John W. Cioffi argues that the highly politicized reform of corporate governan...
View full detailsLocating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants
Nina Glick Schiller, Ayse Çağlar
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• Author(s): Nina Glick Schiller | Ayse Çağlar • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationIn this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse �aglar, along with a stellar group o...
View full detailsGene Tierney: A Biography
Michelle Vogel
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• Author(s): Michelle Vogel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Called the most beautiful woman in movie history, Gene Tierney starred in such 1940s classics as Laura, Leave He...
View full detailsEurope United: Power Politics and the Making of the European Community
Sebastian Rosato
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• Author(s): Sebastian Rosato • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Intergovernmental OrganizationsThe construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of...
View full detailsFall Out
Adajay Brown
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• Author(s): Adajay Brown • Publisher: J. B. Stephens • Publisher Imprint: J. B. Stephens • BISAC: Coming of AgeKristelle Hudge, the youngest daughter of a hardworking single mom, believes life has stacked all the odds against her.She doesn't hav...
View full detailsAl-Qaida After Ten Years of War: A Global Perspective of Successes, Failures, and Prospects
Norman Cigar, Stephanie E. Kramer, Marine Corps University Press
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• Author(s): Norman Cigar | Stephanie E. Kramer | Marine Corps University Press • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Afghan War (2001-2021)Since the September 2001 attacks on the Wo...
View full detailsCrossing Boundaries in Graphic Narrative: Essays on Forms, Series and Genres
Jake Jakaitis, James F. Wurtz
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• Author(s): Jake Jakaitis | James F. Wurtz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Although the idea that graphic narratives represent an important literary form is s...
View full detailsTony Pastor, Father of Vaudeville
Armond Fields
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• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Apprenticed at 14 to life in the circus, Tony Pastor seemed destined for a career in show bu...
View full detailsThe Entrepreneurial Librarian: Essays on the Infusion of Private-Business Dynamism into Professional Service
Mary Krautter, Mary Beth Lock, Mary G. Scanlon
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• Author(s): Mary Krautter | Mary Beth Lock | Mary G. Scanlon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General The old image of an entrepreneur as a scrappy, in...
View full detailsThe Retirement on the Line: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times
Caitrin Lynch
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• Author(s): Caitrin Lynch • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralIn an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle ...
View full detailsRussian Exploration, from Siberia to Space: A History
Brian Bonhomme
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• Author(s): Brian Bonhomme • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General In the history of geographical discovery and exploration, a well-known cast of European characters and events t...
View full detailsGuerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, Volume I: 1862
Bruce Nichols
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• Author(s): Bruce Nichols • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missou...
View full detailsThe Castle of High Winds
Iva Lou Desiata
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• Author(s): Iva Lou Desiata • Publisher: Castle of Book Series • Publisher Imprint: Castle of Book Series • BISAC: Fantasy - GeneralSeventeen-year-old Emily has lived with strange visions and unexplainable sensations all her life, but she has le...
View full detailsWomen and the New Testament: An Analysis of Scripture in Light of New Testament Era Culture
Lesly F. Massey
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• Author(s): Lesly F. Massey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Studies - New Testament - General The status of women in all societies throughout history seems linked to religion. E...
View full detailsDissection on Display: Cadavers, Anatomists and Public Spectacle
Christine Quigley
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• Author(s): Christine Quigley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anatomy Since Herophilus, the "father of anatomy," performed the first public human dissection in the third century B.C.E., ...
View full detailsFrom Vietnam to Hell: Interviews with Victims of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Shirley Dicks
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• Author(s): Shirley Dicks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Neuropsychology "I broke into a house, entering from the back door. When I left, two people inside were dead. I don't remember k...
View full detailsMarketing Your Library: Tips and Tools That Work
Carol Smallwood, Vera Gubnitskaia, Kerol Harrod
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• Author(s): Carol Smallwood | Vera Gubnitskaia | Kerol Harrod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General Concise, how-to case studies from practicing pub...
View full detailsBuffy and the Heroine's Journey: Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One
Valerie Estelle Frankel
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• Author(s): Valerie Estelle Frankel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The worlds of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and other modern epics feature the Cho...
View full detailsThe Monetary Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe: Banking, Currency and Politics in the Writings
Heinz Tschachler
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• Author(s): Heinz Tschachler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In this first-of-its-kind treatment, Heinz Tschachler offers an account of Edgar Allan Poe's relation to the world of...
View full detailsMilitarism in a Global Age
Dirk Bönker
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• Author(s): Dirk Bönker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceAt the turn of the twentieth century, the United States and Germany emerged as the two most rapidly developing i...
View full detailsWhen Victory Is Not an Option
Nathan J. Brown
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• Author(s): Nathan J. Brown • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesThroughout the Arab world, Islamist political movements are joining the electoral proce...
View full detailsFlorentine Codex: Introduction and Indices: Introductory Book Volume 1
Bernardino De Sahagun, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble
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• Author(s): Bernardino De Sahagun | Arthur J. O. Anderson | Charles E. Dibble • Publisher: University of Utah Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Utah Press • BISAC: Latin America - MexicoTwo of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec lan...
View full detailsNigeria: Dancing on the Brink
John Campbell
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• Author(s): John Campbell • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralNigeria, the United States' most important strategic partner in West Af...
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Florentine Codex: Book 7: Book 7: The Sun, the Moon and Stars, and the Binding of the Years Volume 7
Florentine Codex: Book 7: Book 7: The Sun, the Moon and Stars, and the Binding of the Years Volume 7
Bernardino De Sahagun, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Charles E. Dibble
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• Author(s): Bernardino De Sahagun | Arthur J. O. Anderson | Charles E. Dibble • Publisher: University of Utah Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Utah Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTwo of the world's leading scholars of...
View full detailsParachuting into Poland, 1944: Memoir of a Secret Mission with Jozef Retinger
Marek Celt, Jan Chciuk-Celt
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• Author(s): Marek Celt | Jan Chciuk-Celt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General This firsthand account, never before published in English, details ...
View full detailsSpring Training Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Grapefruit and Cactus League Ballparks, 2d ed.
Josh Pahigian
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• Author(s): Josh Pahigian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Spring training is a time of renewal for baseball, when teams and fans descend on Florida and Arizona to begi...
View full detailsA Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan
Karen Nakamura
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• Author(s): Karen Nakamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social"This is a terrific book: moving, clear, and compassionate. It not only illustrates the w...
View full detailsA Medieval Storybook
Morris Bishop, Alison Mason Kingsbury
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• Author(s): Morris Bishop | Alison Mason Kingsbury • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology"Medieval men were great storytellers. In the long da...
View full detailsThe Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy
Edward D. Berkowitz, Larry DeWitt
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• Author(s): Edward D. Berkowitz | Larry DeWitt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThe Other Welfare offers the first comprehensive history of ...
View full detailsDeath Row: Interviews with Inmates, Their Families and Opponents of Capital Punishment
Shirley Dicks
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• Author(s): Shirley Dicks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Penology The 34 chapters in this book are largely composed of interviews--with the men on death row, with individuals fighting t...
View full detailsContent Matters: Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle School
Leif Fearn, Eric Fearn
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• Author(s): Leif Fearn | Eric Fearn • Publisher: R & L Education • Publisher Imprint: R & L Education • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Social ScienceThis book explains the content of nine areas in social studies. If teachers k...
View full detailsThe Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period
Stephen D. Miller
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• Author(s): Stephen D. Miller • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asia - JapanThe Wind from Vulture Peak addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian ...
View full detailsSymbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary, 2d ed.
Steven Olderr
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• Author(s): Steven Olderr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory The use of symbolism is an art, not a science. Different people use symbols in a variety of ways and each...
View full detailsThe London Confederates: The Officials, Clergy, Businessmen and Journalists Who Backed the American South During the Civil War
John D. Bennett
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• Author(s): John D. Bennett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Although the British government declared its neutrality during the American Civil War, London nevert...
View full detailsMental Illness in Popular Media: Essays on the Representation of Disorders
Lawrence C. Rubin
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• Author(s): Lawrence C. Rubin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies Whether in movies, cartoons, commercials, or even fast food marketing, psychology and mental illness remain pe...
View full detailsRed Dragon Nightfall
E. a. Stark
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• Author(s): E. a. Stark • Publisher: Burch Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Burch Publishing • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralIn Book Four of THE ABI ACARDI SERIESLeaving Kyoto behind, Burton, Abi, and their friends hope Osaka will finall...
View full detailsThe Wizard of Oz as American Myth: A Critical Study of Six Versions of the Story, 1900-2007
Alissa Burger
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• Author(s): Alissa Burger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General Since the publication of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, authors, filmmakers, and theatri...
View full detailsNine Lives of Israel: A Nation's History through the Lives of Its Foremost Leaders
Jack L. Schwartzwald
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• Author(s): Jack L. Schwartzwald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & Palestine This study offers a concise yet comprehensive account of Israel's history as told th...
View full detailsChristmas Books: And Reprinted Pieces
Charles Dickens
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• Author(s): Charles Dickens • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralImmerse yourself in the festive spirit with Charles Dickens's timeless collection, "Christmas Books and Reprinted Pieces." This volume brings tog...
View full detailsThe Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History--Imagination and Performance
Hugh de Ferranti
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• Author(s): Hugh de Ferranti • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biw...
View full detailsPennant Hopes Dashed by the Homer in the Gloamin': The Story of How the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates Blew the National League Pennant
Ronald T. Waldo
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• Author(s): Ronald T. Waldo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History After many disappointing seasons during the 1930s, the 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates looked like they were finall...
View full detailsBallplayers in the Great War: Newspaper Accounts of Major Leaguers in World War I Military Service
Jim Leeke, Gary Mitchem, Mark Durr
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• Author(s): Jim Leeke | Gary Mitchem | Mark Durr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This volume presents carefully selected, and annotated, articles about major-leaguers ...
View full detailsThe First Black United States Marines: The Men of Montford Point, 1942-1946
Ronald K. Culp
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• Author(s): Ronald K. Culp • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II On June 1, 1942, the United States Marine Corps broke a 144-year tradition and enlisted the first black...
View full detailsOpera: An Encyclopedia of World Premieres and Significant Performances, Singers, Composers, Librettists, Arias and Conductors, 1597-2000
Franklin Mesa
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• Author(s): Franklin Mesa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Opera This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of ...
View full detailsThe New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream?
Earl Wysong, Robert Perrucci, David Wright
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• Author(s): Earl Wysong | Robert Perrucci | David Wright • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe New Class Society introduces students to the socio...
View full detailsCipriano Baca, Frontier Lawman of New Mexico
Chuck Hornung
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• Author(s): Chuck Hornung • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Law Enforcement This is the first biography of the legendary officer Cipriano Baca, scion of a prestigious Spanish lineage traci...
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