Mcfarland: 2486 books
Beyond Sustainability
A Thriving Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This book approaches the study of the environment from two academic disciplines: both sociologists and philosophers have concerns about our environment’s ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The book examines the differences between “sustainability” and “thrivability.” Such...
The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing Games
Agency, Ritual and Meaning in the Medium
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity’s cultural development, predating art and literature. Since the late 20th century, Western society has undergone a “ludification,” as the influence of game-playing has grown ever more prevalent. At the same time, new...
Historicism, Originalism and the Constitution
The Use and Abuse of the Past in American Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The use of history in law is a time honored tradition. Over the years the practice has assumed many forms, including historicism, intentionalism, interpretivist history, law office history, historical narrative, originalism, etc. This book picks up where past commentators have left off. The different...
The Dream of Christian Nagasaki
World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The...
Multiethnic American Literatures
Essays for Teaching Context and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature. Some of the essays focus on individual authors’ works, others view American literature more broadly, and still others focus on the application of culturally...
Vietnam War Nurses
Personal Accounts of 18 Americans
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Eighteen nurses who served in the United States military nurse corps during the Vietnam War present their personal accounts in this book. They represent all military branches and both genders. They served in the theater of combat, in the United States, and in countries allied with the U.S. They served...
Doctor Who and History
Critical Essays on Imagining the Past
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
When Sydney Newman conceived the idea for Doctor Who in 1963, he envisioned a show in which the Doctor and his companions would visit and observe, but not interfere with, events in history. That plan was dropped early on and the Doctor has happily meddled with historical events for decades. This collection...
by Theresa Bane
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.
Zombies and Sexuality
Essays on Desire and the Living Dead
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant...
The Aleut Internments of World War II
Islanders Removed from Their Homes by Japan and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2014
This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population. From the closing years of the 17th century when the Russians first set foot on the shores of the far-flung Aleutian Islands, through the war years, to...
Player and Avatar
The Affective Potential of Videogames
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Do you make small leaps in your chair while attempting challenging jumps in Tomb Raider? Do you say “Ouch!” when a giant hits you with a club in Skyrim? Have you had dreams of being inside the underwater city of Rapture? Videogames cast the player as protagonist in an unfolding narrative. Like...
Mass Murder in the United States
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Is mass murder a historically new phenomenon that emerged in the 1960s? How has it changed over time? And what causes a person to commit multiple murders in a matter of hours or even minutes? This book explores these questions by examining 909 mass murders that took place in the United States between...
White Robes and Burning Crosses
A History of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
With its fiery crosses and nightriders in pointed hoods and flowing robes, the Ku Klux Klan remains a recurring nightmare in American life. What began in the earliest post–Civil War days as a social group engaging in drunken hijinks at the expense of perceived inferiors soon turned into a murderous...
The National States Rights Party
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Founded in 1958 by members of America’s first postwar domestic Nazi-inspired movement, the National States Rights Party developed both as a political protest movement and as a vehicle of violent resistance to the black civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Its acts of terrorism made international...