Mcfarland Company Inc Publishers imprint: 86 books
Shoeless
The Life and Times of Joe Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2001
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing...
by William N. Taylor, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
The first edition of this work, published in 1982, concentrated on the athlete's use of and the physician's knowledge of, anabolic steroids. This fully updated second edition discusses the continuing controversy over their use in competitive sports. An introduction of the use and abuse of anabolic...
Heavyweight Boxing in the 1970s
The Great Fighters and Rivalries
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This work covers the individuals and events of what most consider to be the greatest era in boxing history. The first chapter compares the 1970s to all other eras, from the early 1900s and Jack Johnson to the present day and the Klitschko brothers, proving through an established set of criteria that...
Rube Waddell
The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2000
George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that...
Cracking Baseball's Cold Cases
Filling in the Facts About 17 Mystery Major Leaguers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This book is the result of one man's twenty-year quest to solve some of baseball's most enduring mysteries--the "cold cases" of major leaguers about whom virtually nothing is known. (In many instances, the various baseball encyclopedias list only their names and one other word: "deceased.")...
Honus Wagner
The Life of Baseball's "Flying Dutchman"
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2003
Regarded by many of his contemporaries as the greatest baseball player of all time, John Peter "Honus" Wagner enjoyed a remarkable career with the Pittsburgh Pirates. His record of 17 consecutive .300-plus seasons is a mark that will probably never be broken. He led the National League eight...
.721
A History of the 1954 Cleveland Indians
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This book is the day by day story of the 1954 Indians, whose .721 winning percentage is still the highest in American League history. It tells how down the city of Cleveland was on the team following three straight second-place finishes, how little was expected of it by its fans, and even some of...
Bewitched Again
Supernaturally Powerful Women on Television, 1996-2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Starting in 1996, U.S. television saw an influx of superhuman female characters who could materialize objects like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, defeat evil like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and have premonitions like Charmed's Phoebe. The extraordinary abilities of these women showed resistance to traditional...
Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History, 2d ed.
An Illustrated Cultural History, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2004
It's a rare comic character who can make audiences laugh for well over half a century--but then again, it's a pretty rare cartoon hero who can boast of forearms thicker than his waist, who can down a can of spinach in a single gulp, or who generally faces the world with one eye squinted completely...
by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2006
Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face...
Approaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis
A Literary and Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in an effort to better understand both its significance and its appeal. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the Hunger Games trilogy, drawing from literary studies, psychology, gender studies, media...
The Existential Joss Whedon: Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity
Evil and Human Freedom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Serenity
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2006
This study examines the major works of contemporary American television and film screenwriter Joss Whedon. The authors argue that these works are part of an existentialist tradition that stretches back from the French atheistic existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, through the Danish Christian existentialist...
Hermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts
Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The new essays in this book make two central claims. First, for some people, the word "feminist" has been either poorly defined or, in some cases, even demonized. Hermione Granger, of the Harry Potter series, serves as an outstanding example of what modern young feminism looks like: activist,...
Doctor Who in Time and Space
Essays on Themes, Characters, History and Fandom, 1963-2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This collection of fresh essays addresses a broad range of topics in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, both old (1963-1989) and new (2005-present). The book begins with the fan: There are essays on how the show is viewed and identified with, fan interactions with each other, reactions...