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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...

• Author(s): Brett Weiss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The self-proclaimed "Hottest Band in the World," KISS is one of the most popular groups in the history of rock, having sol...

• Author(s): Christine Quigley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History When two human ova fail to fully separate during pregnancy, the result is conjoined twins. The twins may be connecte...

• Author(s): John E. Findling | Kimberly D. Pelle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Study & Teaching This encyclopedia contains individual histories of each of the nearly 100 World's Fa...

• Author(s): Harris M. Lentz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political The first half of the 20th century was perhaps the most turbulent in history. Two world wars and numerous smaller co...

• Author(s): Donald F. Glut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures This is the first supplement to the highly acclaimed Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia that was...

• Author(s): Jennifer Lawler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Europe - Medieval The Middle Ages as they were lived in Eastern Europe are covered in this encyclopedia. An introduction provi...

• Author(s): Robert Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Encyclopedias Edward G. Robinson, a 1930s cinema icon, had an acting career that spanned more than 60 years. After a brush with si...

• Author(s): James R. Heintze • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day. Bringing attention to p...

• Author(s): Lisa Morton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Holidays (non religious) A first edition of The Halloween Encyclopedia was published by McFarland in 2003 (Booklist: "a worthy add...

• Author(s): William D. Crump • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Encyclopedias Among the world's myriad cultures and their associated calendars, the idea of a "New Year" is relative and hard...

• Author(s): Geoff Hamilton | Brian Jones • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the envir...

• Author(s): Jennifer Lawler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in...

• Author(s): Robert L. Gale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Poetry Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) was hailed by many in his day as America's foremost poet, outranking T.S. Eliot, Ro...

• Author(s): James S. Pula • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralAt least nine million Americans trace their roots to Poland, and Polish Americans...

• Author(s): Bradford B. Taliaferro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Reference - Dictionaries & Encyclopedias This encyclopedia is the first book to identify, explain and cate...

• Author(s): Lenora Mamunes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Edward Hopper was one of the most prominent American realist painters of the twentieth century. This comprehensive ency...

• Author(s): Leslie A. Heaphy | Mel Anthony May • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Women have been involved in baseball from the game's early days, in a wide range of capa...

• Author(s): Peter Dendle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology This is a comprehensive overview of zombie movies in the first 11 years of the new millennium, the most ...

• Author(s): Peter Dendle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Zombies are cautionary forms of humankind's most universally cherished ideal--life after death. Ra...

• Author(s): Thom Hatch • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference "Remember the Alamo!" is a phrase that is woven into the American consciousness, but what do most people really remember ...

• Author(s): Mark A. Robinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General Featuring 1,000 detailed entries, this encylopedia examines the phenomenon of television theme songs. Or...

• 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...

• Author(s): Richard Alan Schwartz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Persian Gulf War (1991) Between January 17 and February 28, 1991, an international military coali...

• Author(s): Annette D'Agostino Lloyd • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Harold Lloyd, born in 1893, became one of the greatest comic actors in America. This is a compendium o...

• Author(s): Bob McCann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia provides 360 brief biographies of Afric...

• Author(s): Gene Fernett • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The business of filmmaking began with the Thomas Edison Studio in West Orange, New Jersey. Many studios have come ...

• Author(s): Howard M. Berlin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Reference The first film featuring Charlie Chan, The House Without a Key, appeared in 1925. Forty-seven films and six ...

• Author(s): Michael Benson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History What grandstand collapsed during a game, killing twelve? How high is the Green monster in Fenway? In what pa...

• Author(s): Theresa Bane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology "Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known...

• Author(s): David Garrett Izzo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This comprehensive and accessible reference work serves Isherwood scholars who need quick access to people, place...

• Author(s): Theresa Bane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology From the earliest days of oral history to the present, the vampire myth persists among mankind's deeply-...

• Author(s): Theresa Bane • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Curious about the chains that bound Fenriswulf in Norse mythology? Or the hut of Baba Yaga, the infamous...

• Author(s): Yuwu Song • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: International Relations - General Since 1784, when the American ship Empress of China arrived in Guangzhou, Chinese-American relatio...

• Author(s): Michael Newton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a dail...