Mcfarland: 2486 books
Community and Change in the North Carolina Mountains
Oral Histories and Profiles of People from Western Watauga County
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Oral history and memoirs preserve much more than a single event. They record information about a time and a particular way of life. Buying a loaf of bread for a dime and a 25-pound bag of flour for a dollar, walking 9 ½ miles in 5 hours, watching the Cove Creek gym (and several school buses) go up...
by Gregg M. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
During the Roaring Twenties, millions of Americans moved to the Sunshine State seeking quick riches in real estate. Many made fortunes; others returned home penniless. Within a few years thousands of residential subdivisions, palatial estates, inviting apartment buildings and impressive commercial...
"Masquerading in Male Attire"
Women Passing as Men in America, 1844-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Historically, American women have dressed as men for a number of reasons: to enter the military, to travel freely, to commit a criminal act, to marry other women—most often however to secure employment. During the 1800s and early 1900s, most jobs were barred to women, and those that were available...
World War I on Film
English Language Releases through 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English language films. Torn between the powerful isolationist movement in the U.S. and a growing hatred of the “Hun,” contemporary films were mainly propaganda calling citizens to arms. The American film industry...
The Storytime Handbook
A Full Year of Themed Programs, with Crafts and Snacks
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Fresh, fun ideas for children’s storytime fill this book. The author, a long-time storytime facilitator, has put together 52 weekly themes plus additional plans for holidays, all with detailed instructions for talking about the theme and choosing the books, crafts, songs, poems, games and snacks....
Continuing Education for Librarians
Essays on Career Improvement Through Classes, Workshops, Conferences and More
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
It is an exciting time to be a librarian. Advances in technology have let libraries expand far beyond walls and lead the way in information delivery, while transforming the physical library into a place where customers can connect to information in new ways. It is also a challenging time to be a librarian....
I've Seen It All at the Library
The View from Behind the Desk
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Most people think of libraries as solemn places filled with dusty books and dustier people. This “memoir and more” of a career librarian explodes that misconception. Recounting his years behind the reference desk with an emphasis on the strange behavior of patrons, the author shows that public...
Iowa Baseball Greats
Sixteen Major Leaguers Who Were in the Game for Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
In the world of sports, Iowa is probably best known for wrestling but the state has also produced more than 200 major league baseball players. Sixteen of them are profiled here, including six Hall of Famers, the game’s brightest star of the 19th century, an American League batting champion, the...
Baseball Meets the Law
A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town’s meeting house. Ball games on Sundays were barred by a Pennsylvania statute in 1794. In 2015, a federal court held that baseball’s exemption from...
Happy Felsch
Banished Black Sox Center Fielder
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Schooled on the sandlots of Milwaukee, Chicago Black Sox center fielder Oscar “Happy” Felsch (1891–1964) was a rising star who then blew a promising career for a few bucks by participating in the throwing of the 1919 World Series. On the field, Felsch was hitting his peak in 1920, the year the...
Ebbets to Veeck to Busch
Eight Owners Who Shaped Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Of baseball there have been countless books, but, surprisingly, relatively few about the owners, the men and women who invested their time—and, frequently, their fortunes—in baseball teams. What has been written tends to concentrate on the financial aspects of ownership or individual owners and...
The Louisville Grays Scandal of 1877
The Taint of Gambling at the Dawn of the National League
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
By the mid–1870s, gambling in baseball threatened the public’s confidence in the sport and its very existence as a professional enterprise. Recognizing this, Chicago owner William A. Hulbert and seven of his colleagues formed the National League, dedicating it to such high-minded ideals as preventing...
Henry Frye
North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a transformational change. When he graduated from college in 1953, African Americans like him could only hope that the future would be different from the past. At the close of his public career in 2001, he was chief justice of the North Carolina...
The Bowling Chronicles
Collected Writings of Dr. Jake
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Millions of people bowl yet few know much about bowling’s rich history. For more than 25 years, J.R. “Dr. Jake” Schmidt has been recounting that history in Bowlers Journal International with vitality and detail. This collection of 90 of his classic articles presents portraits of Dick Weber,...