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• Author(s): Adam Golub | Heather Richardson Hayton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Administration - General Exploring the pedagogical power of the monstrous, this collection of new essay...

• Author(s): Sharla Hutchison | Rebecca A. Brown • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertai...

• Author(s): Frank Lesser • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: GeneralAn Emmy Award-winning writer for The Colbert Report follows in the (big) footsteps of Bigfoot: I Not Dead. Monsters have it tough....

• Author(s): Linda S. Godfrey • Publisher: Tarcher • Publisher Imprint: Tarcher • BISAC: Unexplained PhenomenaFrom pre-Columbian legends to modern-day eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide covers the history, sightings and lore surroundin...

• Author(s): Allen a. Debus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Animals - Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as...

• Author(s): Robert Michael Bobb Cotter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This is a critical overview of monster magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. "Monster magazine...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• 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): Chris Kullstroem • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The first of its kind, this book brings together a collection of 15 do-it-yourself parties and games designed ...

• Author(s): Markus P. J. Bohlmann | Sean Moreland • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about t...

• 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): 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): 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): Leslie Ormandy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The simplicity of children's picture books--stories told with illustrations and a few well chosen words or none at all-...

• Author(s): Loren Coleman • Publisher: Tarcherperigee • Publisher Imprint: Tarcherperigee • BISAC: GeneralFrom the serpentine "Champie" of Lake Champlain to the venerable "Nessie" of Loch Ness, extraordinary-and un-explained-creatures of the dee...

• 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): Abigail Burnham Bloom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Many monsters in Victorian British novels were intimately connected with the protagonists...

• Author(s): E. Natalie Rothman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceIn Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly trave...

• Author(s): Heather L. Duda • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism As monsters in popular media have evolved and grown more complex, so have those who take on the...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• 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): George Ochoa • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Why are audiences drawn to horror films? Previous answers to that question have included everything from a need to...

• 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): Tom Weaver • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers--both in front of and behind the camera--reminisce about some of their...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in 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): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Donald F. Glut • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, s...

• Author(s): Sean Rhoads | Brooke McCorkle • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In 1954, a massive irradiated dinosaur emerged from Tokyo Bay and rained death an...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• 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): Susan Jackson • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Human Kinetics Publishers • BISAC: Sports Psychology The experience of flow is still one of the least understood phenomena in sport. And yet it is one of the r...

• 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): David Deutsch • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThe New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress o...

• Author(s): Stuart Brown • Publisher: Avery Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Avery Publishing Group • BISAC: Social PsychologyFrom a leading expert, a groundbreaking book on the science of play, and its essential role in fueling our happine...