Mcfarland: 2486 books
by Richard F. Bales
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 swallowed up more than three square miles in two days, leaving thousands homeless and 300 dead. Throughout history, the fire has been attributed to Mrs. O’Leary, an immigrant Irish milkmaid, and her cow. On one level, the tale of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow is merely the...
Stories of Childhood
Evolving Portrayals in Books and Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This study questions the widely held perception that books, as an artistic medium, are superior to and more respectable than film or television, sometimes considered frivolous and pernicious. Criticism of both the big and small screens often obscures their signal accomplishments and the entertainment...
De Vere as Shakespeare
An Oxfordian Reading of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The question may be met with chagrin by traditionalists, but the identity of the Bard is not definitely decided. During the 20th century, Edward de Vere, the most flamboyant of the courtier poets, a man of the theater and literary patron, became the leading candidate for an alternative Shakespeare....
A Sense of Community
Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Television’s Community follows the shenanigans of a diverse group of traditional and nontraditional community college students: Jeff Winger, a former lawyer; Britta Perry, a feminist; Abed Nadir, a pop culture enthusiast; Shirley Bennett, a mother; Troy Barnes, a former jock; Annie Edison, a naïve...
The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural
Essays on the Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The CW’s long-running series Supernatural follows the adventures of brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they pursue the “family business” of hunting supernatural beings. Blending monster-of-the-week storylines with the unfolding saga of the brothers’ often troubled relationship, the show represents...
At Home in the Whedonverse
Essays on Domestic Place, Space and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joss Whedon’s work presents various representations of home spaces that give depth to his stories and storytelling. Through the spaceship in Firefly, a farmhouse in Avengers: Age of Ultron or Whedon’s own house in Much Ado About Nothing,...
Buffy and the Heroine's Journey
Vampire Slayer as Feminine Chosen One
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The worlds of Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, and other modern epics feature the Chosen One—an adolescent boy who defeats the Dark Lord and battles the sorrows of the world. Television’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer represents a different kind of epic—the heroine’s journey, not the hero’s. This...
The Green Line Runner
A Novel of Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Cyprus. 1979. One island, divided by the notorious Green Line. Greeks on one side, Turks on the other. To cross the Green Line means death and 342 men have found that out. John Reid, who grew up in Cyprus, is the first to cross the Green Line, and not once but several times. Certain Greek millionaires...
by Jeremy Agnew
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away from a gunfight—they had to face the legal system...
Literary Eats
Emily Dickinson's Gingerbread, Ernest Hemingway's Picadillo, Eudora Welty's Onion Pie and 400+ Other Recipes from American Authors Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This is a comprehensive collection of authentic recipes, some 500 in all, for drinks and dishes that more than 150 American authors since the late 18th century are known to have enjoyed. The book should appeal to amateur chefs and so-called “foodies” who may want to test some of the recipes in...
Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics
Detecting the Delights of 21 Enduring Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Starting with William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, this book covers in detail the great works of detective fiction—Poe’s Dupin stories, Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Sayers’ Strong Poison,...
Towards Sherlock Holmes
A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Crime fiction—a product of the burgeoning metropolis of the 19th century—features specialists who identify criminals to protect an anxious citizenry. Before detectives came to play the central role, the protagonists tended to be lawyers or other professionals. Major English writers like Gaskell,...
Australian Crime Fiction
A 200-Year History
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Australian crime fiction has grown from the country’s origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convicts becoming heroic bush rangers, or how the system mistreated those who were wrongfully convicted. Later came thrillers about wealthy free settlers and lawless...
The Defiant One
A Biography of Tony Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
This new biography contains excerpts from interviews and articles by and about Curtis all the way from his teens in the Bronx to his death at 85 in 2010. Many of these are little known and provide insights into his complex relationship with fame, family and females, the three obsessions of his life....