Mcfarland: 2486 books
Articulating the Action Figure
Essays on the Toys and Their Messages
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Action figures are more than toys or collectibles—they are statements on race, gender, class, body positivity and more. This collection of nine new essays and one interview argues that action figures should be analyzed in the same light as books, movies, television shows and other media. Through...
Old Fashioned Children's Games
Over 200 Outdoor, Car Trip, Song, Card and Party Activities
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Whatever happened to the old-fashioned children’s games and songs? Old favorites like Kick the Can, Fox and Geese, and Red Rover encouraged camaraderie, physical activity, coordination and social interaction—as electronic and computer games never can. Family and campfire singalongs helped preserve...
H.P. Lovecraft
Selected Works, Critical Perspectives and Interviews on His Influence
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This collection of H.P. Lovecraft’s most influential works presents several of his most famous stories, a sampling of his poetry and an abridgment of his monograph Supernatural Horror in Literature, with commentary providing background and context. Criticism is included from such scholars as S.T....
by S.T. Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those who have obtained merely transient...
The Fantastic Made Visible
Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Fantasy and science fiction began in print, and from the first films to the latest blockbusters, print stories have provided the inspirations, the ideas, and in some cases the detailed blueprints. Adaption Studies has long been an area of intense debate in literature and film studies, but no single...
Psience Fiction
The Paranormal in Science Fiction Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Science fiction has often been considered the literature of futuristic technology: fantastic warfare among the stars or ruinous apocalypses on Earth. The last century, however, saw, through John W. Campbell, the introduction of “psience fiction,” which explores such themes of mental powers as...
Erotica, Love and Humor in Arabia
Spicy Stories from The Book of Songs by al-Isfahani
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The Book of Songs of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (AD 897–971) is the most extensive collection of anecdotes from pre–Islam Mecca, Medina, Damascus and Baghdad to the beginning of the tenth century. Entertaining and informative, these gems have remained largely inaccessible to Western readers. This...
Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics
Echoes in the Vermont Writer's Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American...
by Jason Colavito
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia. From the...
Foundations of Atlantis, Ancient Astronauts and Other Alternative Pasts
148 Documents Cited by Writers of Fringe History, Translated with Annotations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Did aliens visit ancient civilizations? Could Jesus have fathered a dynasty? Did people of the ancient world visit the Americas centuries before Columbus? The public enjoys such questions, which have spawned countless books, movies and television series, but very rarely is any actual evidence produced....
Animation Under the Swastika
A History of Trickfilm in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Among their many idiosyncrasies, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, remained serious cartoon aficionados throughout their lives. They adored animation and their influence on German animation after World War II continues to this day. This study explores Hitler and Goebbels’...
Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld
Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
With a compilation of information that has never before been available in one source, this exhaustive reference work provides complete published election returns for all popular Congressional elections, including special elections, in the United States--over 36,000 since 1788. For all candidates,...
The Tuskegee Veterans Hospital and Its Black Physicians
The Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
When the Tuskegee Veteran’s Hospital opened in 1923, many in the Veteran’s Bureau believed that black physicians and nurses were not competent to staff the facility. Except for nurses’ aides, orderlies, attendants and laborers, hospital personnel would be white. Recruiting and training black...
The Prince, His Tutor and the Ripper
The Evidence Linking James Kenneth Stephen to the Whitechapel Murders
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Of the many attempts to discover Jack the Ripper’s identity, few omit the name of James Kenneth Stephen, tutor to Queen Victoria’s eldest grandson, fondly known as Prince Eddy. While Stephen superficially fit the profile investigators established, was he really capable of the demented violence...