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• Author(s): Heather Urbanski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This analysis examines several recent reimagined science fiction franchises (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, ...

• Author(s): Simon A. Wilkinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Profitable, relatively inexpensive to produce, and with a faithful built-in audience, Hollyw...

• Author(s): Nate Garrelts | Matthew Wilhelm Kapell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Video & Mobile Call of Duty is one of the most culturally significant video game franchises of the ...

• Author(s): Marc A. Ouellette | Jason C. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies This critical study of video games since 9/11 shows how a distinct genre emerged following...

• Author(s): Lynnette Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General As Doctor Who nears its 50th anniversary, it is very much a part of British popular culture, and the Doct...

• Author(s): Ron Snyder • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football - General Baltimore is home to some of the greatest football players ever to step onto the gridiron. From the Colts' Johnn...

• Author(s): Sherilyn Connelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & Fantasy The story of Star Trek's resurrection between the 1969 cancellation of the ori...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): G. Thomas Couser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference"My primary concern is with the ethics of representing vulnerable subjects--persons who are liable to exposure by ...

• Author(s): Joseph J. Darowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels The X-Men comic book franchise is one of the most popular of all time and one of the most intri...

• Author(s): Sherilyn Connelly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Beloved by young girls around the world, Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise has been mir...

• Author(s): John Maxymuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Football Football is a game of numbers--fourth and inches, the three-man rush, a two point conversion, first down. Even with the ...

• Author(s): Sharon Packer | Daniel R. Fredrick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evo...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Jason Barr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The Kaiju (strange monster or strange beast) film genre has a number of themes that go well beyond t...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Irwin Weintraub • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish Studies This annotated bibliography documents Jews' significant contributions to American agriculture as farmers, ranch...

• Author(s): John J. Murphy • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Finance - Wealth ManagementJohn J. Murphy has updated his landmark bestseller Technical Analysis of the Futures Markets, to incl...

• Author(s): James Elkins • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History - RenaissancePerspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. I...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock's imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and ac...

• Author(s): Richard P. Feynman • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - RelativityThe legendary introduction to physics from the subject's greatest teacher "The whole thing was basically ...

• Author(s): Kirsi Peltomaki • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsThe first book-length study of this influential artist's work, focusing on the participatory role of the human subject rath...

• Author(s): Wyman | Richard • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyGlobal Climate Change and Life on Earth focuses on the greenhouse effect and its relation...

• Author(s): Wayne A. Grudem • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicThis new edition of Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem may be the most important resource you c...

• Author(s): Jane Gallop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisThe influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the hu...

• Author(s): Paul Horwich • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsTime is generally thought to be one of the more mysterious ingredients of the universe. In this intriguing book, Paul Horwich ...

• Author(s): David Woodruff • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsSince the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alterna...

• Author(s): Paul B. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyThe Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James...

• Author(s): Dayna L. Barnes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the "good occupation." An Ameri...

• Author(s): Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis handbook introduces key elements of the philological research area called p...

• Author(s): F. a. Hayek • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economic HistoryThis volume presents much newly published work by Hayek on methodology of economics, its development as a subject, its key thinkers and its im...