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Boris Groys
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• Author(s): Boris Groys • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Art & PoliticsA new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.Art has its own power in the world, ...
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Women Adventurers, 1750-1900: A Biographical Dictionary, with Excerpts from Selected Travel Writings
Women Adventurers, 1750-1900: A Biographical Dictionary, with Excerpts from Selected Travel Writings
Mary F. McVicker
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• Author(s): Mary F. McVicker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been...
View full detailsTerror and the Cinematic Sublime: Essays on Violence and the Unpresentable in Post-9/11 Films
Todd A. Comer, Lloyd Isaac Vayo
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• Author(s): Todd A. Comer | Lloyd Isaac Vayo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This collection considers film in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Eleven essayists addres...
View full detailsConfronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism
Kim Socha, Sarahjane Blum
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• Author(s): Kim Socha | Sarahjane Blum • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Animal Rights As animal exploitation increases, animal liberation issues are of growing concern, as seen through th...
View full detailsMotion Picture Exhibition in Baltimore: An Illustrated History and Directory of Theaters, 1895-2004
Robert K. Headley
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• Author(s): Robert K. Headley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The movie house is part of America's physical and cultural landscape. From nickelodeons to 19...
View full detailsIn Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices
Todd C. Peppers, Artemus Ward
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• Author(s): Todd C. Peppers | Artemus Ward • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Legal HistoryWritten by former law clerks, legal scholars, biographers, historians, and political sci...
View full detailsEmperor of the World
Anne A. Latowsky
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• Author(s): Anne A. Latowsky • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralEmperor of the World, traces the curious history of the story of the alliances forged by Charlemagn...
View full detailsRhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Walter J. Ong
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• Author(s): Walter J. Ong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: RhetoricThis collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance ...
View full detailsGame On, Hollywood!: Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema
Gretchen Papazian, Joseph Michael Sommers
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• Author(s): Gretchen Papazian | Joseph Michael Sommers • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The 14 essays in Game on, Hollywood! take on several points of game and film intersection. ...
View full detailsTurning the Pages of American Girlhood: The Evolution of Girls' Series Fiction, 1865-1930
Emily Hamilton-Honey
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• Author(s): Emily Hamilton-Honey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series boo...
View full detailsThe Wizard of Oz Catalog: L. Frank Baum's Novel, Its Sequels and Their Adaptations for Stage, Television, Movies, Radio, Music Videos, Comic Books, Co
Fraser A. Sherman
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• Author(s): Fraser A. Sherman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature L. Frank Baum's novel The Wizard of Oz had by 2005 spawned 39 official sequels, more...
View full detailsSkyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age: Fifty-One Extravagant Designs, 1875-1910
Joseph J. Korom
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• Author(s): Joseph J. Korom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945) This book is about the design of the facade of 51 of America's most extravagant e...
View full detailsConflict Transformation: Essays on Methods of Nonviolence
Rhea a. Dumont, Tom H. Hastings, Emiko Noma
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• Author(s): Rhea a. Dumont | Tom H. Hastings | Emiko Noma • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Violence in Society Seeking to expand the transformative aspect of conflict resolution, the cont...
View full detailsYankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York: America and Americans in Russian Literary Perception
Milla Fedorova
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• Author(s): Milla Fedorova • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionYankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York examines the myth of Ame...
View full detailsPunch and Judy in 19th Century America: A History and Biographical Dictionary
Ryan Howard
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• Author(s): Ryan Howard • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The hand-puppet play starring the characters Punch and Judy was introduced from England and became extremely popular in th...
View full detailsLeague Park: Historic Home of Cleveland Baseball, 1891-1946
Ken Krsolovic, Bryan Fritz
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• Author(s): Ken Krsolovic | Bryan Fritz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General This is a comprehensive history of League Park, primary home field for Major League Baseball in...
View full detailsCrossed Volume 5
David Lapham, David Hine, Jacen Burrows
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• Author(s): David Lapham | David Hine | Jacen Burrows • Publisher: Avatar Press • Publisher Imprint: Avatar Press • BISAC: HorrorJourney back to the earliest days of the Crossed outbreak, when an outbreak of viral insanity first plunged an unsus...
View full detailsThe Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Denver Brunsman
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• Author(s): Denver Brunsman • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Military - NavalA fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy a...
View full detailsDoctor Who in Time and Space: Essays on Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012
Gillian I. Leitch, Donald E. Palumbo, III Sullivan C. W.
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• Author(s): Gillian I. Leitch | Donald E. Palumbo | III Sullivan C. W. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This collection of fresh essays addresses a broad range of top...
View full detailsBoxing in New Mexico, 1868-1940
Chris Cozzone, Jim Boggio
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• Author(s): Chris Cozzone | Jim Boggio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing On June 28, 1868, a group of men gathered alongside a road 35 miles north of Albuquerque to witness a 165-ro...
View full detailsFear and Learning: Essays on the Pedagogy of Horror
Aalya Ahmad, Sean Moreland
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• Author(s): Aalya Ahmad | Sean Moreland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This groundbreaking collection of new essays presents critical reflections on teach...
View full detailsDinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction: A Thematic Survey
Allen a. Debus
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• Author(s): Allen a. Debus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy From the first illustrated edition of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1867, d...
View full detailsPortraits of a Mature God: Choices in Old Testament Theology
Mark McEntire
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• Author(s): Mark McEntire • Publisher: Fortress Press • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Press • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - GeneralWhat difference would it make for Old Testament theology if we turned our attention from the more dramat...
View full detailsThe Brave New World: A History of Early America
Peter Charles Hoffer
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• Author(s): Peter Charles Hoffer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralA lively synthesis of early American history, now in its third edition.The...
View full detailsThe Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness
Charles R. Embry, Glenn Hughes
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• Author(s): Charles R. Embry | Glenn Hughes • Publisher: University of Missouri Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Missouri Press • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersBy the time Eric Voegelin fled Hitler's regime and made his way to the United...
View full detailsJoseph W. Young, Jr., and the City Beautiful: A Biography of the Founder of Hollywood, Florida
Joan Mickelson
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• Author(s): Joan Mickelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology - Urban Joseph W. Young, Jr., was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. Fro...
View full detailsThe Secrets We Keep
Angela L. Keith
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• Author(s): Angela L. Keith • Publisher: Angela L Keith • Publisher Imprint: Angela L Keith • BISAC: Romance - Contemporary
Baseball Injuries: Case Studies, by Type, in the Major Leagues
W. Laurence Coker
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• Author(s): W. Laurence Coker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In baseball, injuries to players fall into two main categories: overuse and traumatic. Over 162 games, repetitive pi...
View full detailsThe American Popular Novel After World War II: A Study of 25 Best Sellers, 1947-2000
David Willbern
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• Author(s): David Willbern • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Through the perspectives of selected best-selling novels from the end of World War II to the end of the 20th century--i...
View full detailsAbe Saperstein and the American Basketball League, 1960-1963: The Upstarts Who Shot for Three and Lost to the NBA
Murry R. Nelson
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• Author(s): Murry R. Nelson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Basketball This book examines the American Basketball League and its short history, beginning with its conception in 1959-60 a...
View full detailsJames F. Jaquess: Scholar, Soldier and Private Agent for President Lincoln
Patricia B. Burnette
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• Author(s): Patricia B. Burnette • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a pre...
View full detailsThe Swords of Shakespeare: An Illustrated Guide to Stage Combat Choreography in the Plays of Shakespeare
J. D. Martinez
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• Author(s): J. D. Martinez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Richard III and many other Shakespeare plays have at least one thing in common: fight sc...
View full detailsThe 14th Brooklyn Regiment in the Civil War: A History and Roster
Frank Callenda
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• Author(s): Frank Callenda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Most Civil War regiments came from rural areas of the country but the 14th Brooklyn was taken from th...
View full detailsDorothy Lee: The Life and Films of the Wheeler and Woolsey Girl
Jamie Brotherton, Ted Okuda
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• Author(s): Jamie Brotherton | Ted Okuda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Dorothy Lee is best remembered for her screen appearances with the popular comedy team of Bert Whe...
View full detailsThe Flame Within: Memoir of a Firefighter
Wayne Mutza
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• Author(s): Wayne Mutza • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Memoirs A former City of Milwaukee firefighter, the author writes his memoir with candor, depth, spice and emotional insight. He l...
View full detailsOutside the Wire: American Soldiers' Voices from Afghanistan
Christine Dumaine Leche, Brian Turner
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• Author(s): Christine Dumaine Leche | Brian Turner • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: MemoirsA riveting collection of thirty-eight narratives by American soldiers serving in Afgha...
View full detailsThe Wounds of Wisdom
Alexandra Roma
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• Author(s): Alexandra Roma • Publisher: Alexandra Roma • Publisher Imprint: Alexandra Roma • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicFor Celin, a life at Aslemor - the illustrious Court of the kingdom of Artrus - has always been the life that "could have been." If...
View full detailsThe Easter Monday Baseball Game: North Carolina State and Wake Forest on the Diamond, 1899-1956
Tim Peeler
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• Author(s): Tim Peeler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General The fifty-eight year Easter Monday baseball rivalry between North Carolina State University and Wake Forest Univ...
View full detailsJust One of the Kids: Raising a Resilient Family When You Have a Child with Physical Disability
Kay Harris Kriegsman, Sara Palmer
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• Author(s): Kay Harris Kriegsman | Sara Palmer • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Children with Special NeedsIf you have a child with a physical disability, how can you plan y...
View full detailsDomino Lady: Blonde Ambition
Nancy Holder, Lori Gentile, Mark Sparacio
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• Author(s): Nancy Holder | Lori Gentile | Mark Sparacio • Publisher: Moonstone Press • Publisher Imprint: Moonstone Press • BISAC: Crime & Mystery Los Angeles, the 1930's. The city of angels. Just beneath the surface is a city stinking of co...
View full detailsClub Red
Diane P. Koenker
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• Author(s): Diane P. Koenker • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power o...
View full detailsThe Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation, Volume 2
Scott Cook, Scott Cook
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• Author(s): Scott Cook | Scott Cook • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: EasternThis study renders the complex corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable form, incorporating ...
View full detailsAmerican Cars, 1960-1965: Every Model, Year by Year
J. Kelly Flory
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• Author(s): J. Kelly Flory • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General The automotive industry underwent great change in the 1960s. The continuing trend toward market consolidat...
View full detailsGlimpses of Phoenix: The Desert Metropolis in Written and Visual Media
David William Foster
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• Author(s): David William Foster • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West Part of the self-image of Phoenix is that the city has no history and that anyth...
View full detailsA Second Chance
Asher Frend, Mark Karis, Zara Astrid
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• Author(s): Asher Frend | Mark Karis | Zara Astrid • Publisher: Asher Frend • Publisher Imprint: Asher Frend • BISAC: Religious - Christian - Mysteries & Detective StoriesWhat would you trade to save the ones you love?For Mikaila, faith is s...
View full detailsExtras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Pity the "extras." Mostly overlooked and forgotten. Especially those in the major Hollywood films 1913 to 1945--r...
View full detailsThe Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield, Massachusetts: A Town Militia in War and Peace, 1851-1975
Barry M. Stentiford
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• Author(s): Barry M. Stentiford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This book traces the history of the Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield, Massachusetts, from its origin...
View full detailsGeorge Cukor: A Critical Study and Filmography
James Bernardoni
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• Author(s): James Bernardoni • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production This work illuminates the art of George Cukor, the director of some of the most acclaimed a...
View full detailsMedals for Soldiers and Airmen: Awards and Decorations of the United States Army and Air Force
Fred L. Borch
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• Author(s): Fred L. Borch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General This is the first and only comprehensive history of all decorations and medals that may be awarded to men and...
View full detailsThe 115th New York in the Civil War: A Regimental History
Mark Silo
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• Author(s): Mark Silo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The 115th New York began as part of the largest surrender of U.S. troops before World W...
View full detailsDominion Undeserved
Eric B. Song
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• Author(s): Eric B. Song • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThat the writings of John Milton continue to provoke study and analysis centuries after his life...
View full detailsHistory, Literature, Critical Theory
Dominick LaCapra
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• Author(s): Dominick LaCapra • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex re...
View full detailsThe 1957 San Francisco Seals: End of an Era in the Pacific Coast League
P. J. Dragseth
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• Author(s): P. J. Dragseth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The 1957 PCL season faced uncertainty about the impending "invasion of major league baseball" in 1958. While...
View full detailsThe Art and Practice of Western Medicine in the Early Nineteenth Century
Carl J. Pfeiffer
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• Author(s): Carl J. Pfeiffer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "The main problem of leech therapy related to excessive bleeding following the removal of leeches... Another problema...
View full detailsBrandy Station, Virginia, June 9, 1863: The Largest Cavalry Battle of the Civil War
Joseph W. McKinney
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• Author(s): Joseph W. McKinney • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The winter of 1862-63 found Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Ambrose Burnside's Army...
View full detailsBewitched Again: Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011
Julie D. O'Reilly
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• Author(s): Julie D. O'Reilly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Starting in 1996, U.S. television saw an influx of superhuman female characters who could materialize o...
View full detailsAmerican Cars, 1966-1972: Every Model, Year by Year
J. Kelly Flory
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• Author(s): J. Kelly Flory • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History The automotive industry underwent great change in the 1960s and the early 1970s. The continuing trend towa...
View full detailsThe Crane Maiden
M. H. Woodscourt
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• Author(s): M. H. Woodscourt • Publisher: True North Press • Publisher Imprint: True North Press • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicWar has reached her doorstep.She will answer with a sword.When her little sister dies during an enemy raid, Jenai prays to Ho...
View full detailsBeyond Love: The Family Connection in Relationships
Leon Sanders
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• Author(s): Leon Sanders • Publisher: Leon Sanders • Publisher Imprint: Leon Sanders • BISAC: Social Themes - Dating & SexLove is powerful-but what if it's not enough?Many relationships begin with deep affection, yet fall apart because criti...
View full detailsBeyond Love: The Family Connection in Relationships
Leon Sanders
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• Author(s): Leon Sanders • Publisher: Leon Sanders • Publisher Imprint: Leon Sanders • BISAC: Religious - Christian - Family & RelationshipsLove is powerful-but what if it's not enough?Many relationships begin with deep affection, yet fall a...
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