Mcfarland: 2486 books
Romanian New Wave Cinema
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Modern Romanian filmmaking has received wide international recognition. From 2001 to 2011, promising young filmmakers have been embraced as important members of European cinema. The country developed a new fervor for filmmaking and a dozen new movies have received international awards and recognition...
Mathematics in Popular Culture
Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS...
War in Aquarius
Memoir of an American Infantryman in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volunteering for the draft. Soon he was given the one job he most wanted to avoid—infantryman. This is a foot soldier's story of twelve long months in Vietnam....
Conjoined Twins
An Historical, Biological and Ethical Issues Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
When two human ova fail to fully separate during pregnancy, the result is conjoined twins. The twins may be connected by ligament, bone, or just flesh, and they often share organs, but what captures most people’s interest is whether the twins share sensations, thoughts and even souls. This encyclopedia...
Cannabis in Medical Practice
A Legal, Historical and Pharmacological Overview of the Therapeutic Use of Marijuana
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Because marijuana is a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, the therapeutic benefits of cannabis are no longer mentioned in the formal education of health care professionals. Doctors who do learn of the drug’s therapeutic value are often intimidated by its illegal status. Thus millions...
Playing at the Next Level
A History of American Sega Games
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Today a multinational video game developer, Sega was the first to break Nintendo’s grip on the gaming industry, expanding from primarily an arcade game company to become the dominant game console manufacturer in North America. A major part of that success came from the hard work and innovation of...
by Frank Zarnowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The pentathlon, comprising competition in the discus, javelin, long jump, sprint, and wrestling, was hailed as the ultimate test of athletic versatility and remained a staple of the ancient Greek Olympic Games, Crown Games and Pan-Hellenic festivals for 1,200 years. Still, there is little scholarly...
Television Program Master Index
Access to Critical and Historical Information on 2,273 Shows in Books, Dissertations and Journal Articles, 3d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
This work indexes books, dissertations and journal articles that mention television shows. Memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and some popular works meant for fans are also indexed. The major focus is on service to researchers in the history of television. Listings are keyed to an annotated bibliography....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
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Under the guidance of Leslie Heaphy and an editorial board of leading historians, this peer-reviewed, annual book series offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre–Negro League organization...
by Arvis Locklear Boughman, Loretta O. Oxendine
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2003
“There’s nothing happens to a person that can’t be cured if you get what it takes to do it. We come out of the earth, and there’s something in the earth to cure everything … I don’t fix a tonic until I’m sure what’s wrong with a person. I don’t make guesses. I have to be sure, because...
Language in the Visual Arts
The Interplay of Text and Imagery
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
This book discusses text and image relationships in the history of art from ancient times to the contemporary period across a diversity of cultures and geographic areas. Focusing on the use of words in art and words as art forms, thematic chapters include “Pictures in Words/Words in Pictures,”...
The Flame Within
Memoir of a Firefighter
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
A former City of Milwaukee firefighter, the author writes his memoir with candor, depth, spice and emotional insight. He lays out the tumultuous events that led him as a youth into the profession, and the wealth of eye-opening experiences along the way. He plumbs the character of the firefighters...
African American Doctors of World War I
The Lives of 104 Volunteers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
In World War I, 104 African American doctors joined the United States Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The infantry regiments of the 93rd arrived first and were turned over to the French to fill gaps in their decimated lines. The...
CCSVI as the Cause of Multiple Sclerosis
The Science Behind the Controversial Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community. The disease, which has always been considered autoimmune, may be related to vascular problems, in which circulation in the cerebrospinal system is impaired, thereby preventing the proper drainage of venous blood from the brain. This timely...