Mcfarland: 2486 books
American Sports in an Age of Consumption
How Commercialization Is Changing the Game
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Sports are not what they used to be. New publicly funded stadiums resemble shopping malls. Fans compete for cash prizes in fantasy sports leagues. Sports video games are now marketing and public relations tools and team logos have become fashionable brands. The larger social meanings sports hold for...
The Culture of Al Jazeera
Inside an Arab Media Giant
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In the mid 1990s, the emir of Qatar conceived the idea of a satellite channel that would further the progressive image he hoped to establish for his small Arabian/Persian Gulf state. At the same time, a short-lived partnership between the BBC and a Saudi company had left a handful of BBC-trained Arab...
The Beauty of Short Hops
How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that the so-called moneyball approach, based on...
Mother Nature's Daughters
21st Century Women Farmers
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Nearly half of all farmland in the U.S. is owned by women—295,000 of them. In an enterprise traditionally dominated by men, they are taking a lead role in overhauling a complex, often dysfunctional food system. This book features eight stories of women farmers who persevere despite treacherous weather...
Food, Film and Culture
A Genre Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Culinary imagery, much like sexual and violent imagery, is a key cinematic device used to elicit a sensory response from an audience. In many films, culinary imagery is central enough to constitute a new subgenre, defined by films in which food production, preparation, service, and consumption play...
by Steve Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Although food has been part of motion pictures since the silent era, for the most part it has been treated with about as much respect as movie extras: it’s always been there on the screen but seldom noticed. For the most part filmmakers have settled on three basic ways to treat food: as a prop in...
The Wire in the College Classroom
Pedagogical Approaches in the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
The Wire’s provocative subject matter, layered narrative and explicit critiques of American socio-economic institutions make it one of the most teachable television series in recent years. This collection of new essays offers practical examples for implementing The Wire in the college classroom...
by Karen Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness—standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison. Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon,...
Dying to Please
Anorexia, Treatment and Recovery, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2009
This second edition updates the 1983 work (“a gem”—Booklist) with a wealth of new information. The author, a therapist and recovered anorexic, draws upon her own experience and extensive research to produce a comprehensive account of the symptoms, causes and treatments of anorexia nervosa. She...
A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases
More Than 10,000 Idioms and Collocations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers...
A Reference Guide to Television's Bonanza
Episodes, Personnel and Broadcast History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Bonanza aired on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973, playing to 480,000,000 viewers in over 97 countries. It was the second longest running western series, surpassed only by Gunsmoke, and continues to provide wholesome entertainment to old and new fans via syndication. This book provides...
The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920
A Comprehensive History, with a Listing of Builders and Their Ships
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This work offers a new and comprehensive account of the fastest and most beautiful sailing ships ever built. It explores the quest for speed on the seas from the early 1800s through the fast-paced times of the 1850s spurred on by the California Gold Rush of 1849. Not only are the career details of...
The Chinese Information War
Espionage, Cyberwar, Communications Control and Related Threats to United States Interests
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book is about a cyberwar with China. This new type of war, says the author, is China’s effort at bending another country’s will to its own. It is clever, broadly applied, successful, and aimed directly at the United States. This war is neither conventional nor accidental. The U.S. military...
Beer in Maryland
A History of Breweries Since Colonial Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This history begins with the earliest brewers in the colony—women—revealing details of the Old Line State’s brewing families and their methods. Stories never before told trace the effects of war, competition, the Industrial Revolution, Prohibition and changing political philosophies on the brewing...