Mcfarland: 2486 books
Mammography and Early Breast Cancer Detection
How Screening Saves Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening altogether have been gaining ground in the medical community’s decades-long debate over testing and treatment. It is not a purely scientific debate—back-room politics and hidden agendas...
Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland
The Transformation of the Lowlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the landscape became overgrown. The conversion of swampland to farmland began with small drainage projects but complete reclamation was made possible by a system...
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia
A History, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and—as few physicians or hospitals would treat people of color—their work was important in challenging health care inequities...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 1: The Piedmont
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
“I think that we can hold our position here against any force that the enemy can bring against us, as we have an admirable position & are all ready. I can give you no idea when the general attack will take place. It may be this evening, tomorrow or at any moment as both parties are apparently...
The Civil War in North Carolina, Volume 2: The Mountains
Soldiers' and Civilians' Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
“You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service…. Since I have been here I have had a severe sickness but am glad to say at present I am well though I fear my sickness would have incapacitated me for active service…. In all probability our regiment will be stationed here...
North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 1 through 46
A Collection of Tributes to the War Dead and Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by disease. Most were sent home for burial in family plots or community churchyards but thousands could not be identified or could not be transported...
American Jewish Films
The Search for Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America. Both familiar and lesser known films are included. An introduction discusses why American Jews were attracted to films as audiences, performers and business people, and evaluates...
Dead on a High Hill
Essays on War, Literature and Living, 2002-2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
A new collection of Bill Ehrhart’s essays—25 of them, written between 2002 and 2012 on subjects ranging from the Vietnam War failures of American policy-makers to life in 21st century Vietnam; the trenches of the Western Front, the mountains of Korea, the sands of Iraq; from the value of one’s...
The Ugandan Morality Crusade
The Brutal Campaign Against Homosexuality and Pornography Under Yoweri Museveni
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In 1999, General Museveni, Uganda’s autocratic leader, ordered police to arrest homosexuals for engaging in behavior that he characterized as “un–African” and against Biblical teaching. A state-sanctioned campaign of harassment of LGBT people followed. With the approval of sections of Uganda’s...
Death of an Altar Boy
The Unsolved Murder of Danny Croteau and the Culture of Abuse in the Catholic Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal—a string of assaults within the Catholic Church—exploded in the early 2000s. Despite numerous indications—including 40 claims of sexual misconduct with minors—pointing...
by Parley Ann Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1848) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Relying on such diverse works as Frankenstein, Peyton Place, Beloved, and...
by Jennifer Lawler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator...
The Pond Mountain Chronicle
Self-Portrait of a Southern Appalachian Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Located in the area where North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee meet, Pond Mountain rises to over 4,000 feet. In its valley it holds the Pond Mountain community, a small area in Ashe County, North Carolina. Most of the families that live in the valley have been there for generations, farming the...
King Arthur's European Realm
New Evidence from Monmouth's Primary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
What is known of the legendary King Arthur is mostly derived from folklore and literature. Though the evidence is scant and debated, some scholars support a case for the existence of a historical figure in post–Roman Britain. However, the starting point for many King Arthur narratives—Geoffrey...