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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): 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): 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): 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): Charles C. Euchner • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HistoryCan a sports franchise "blackmail" a city into getting what it wants--a new stadium, say, or favorable...

• 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): 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): 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): Chris Zantow • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General When the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta after the 1965 season, many impassioned fans grew indifferent to b...

• Author(s): Melanie A. Marotta | Donald E. Palumbo | C. W. Sullivan III • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy From the Star Wars expanded universe to Westworld, t...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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...