Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2024
ISBN 10: 0786408065 ISBN 13: 9780786408061
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The postromantic works of the Spaniard Rosala de Castro and the Colombian Jos Asuncin Silva are indispensable in any anthology of 19th century Spanish and Latin American poetry. However, they found few appreciative readers during their lifetimes, even while displaying two of the most sincere voices of the day. Dever's book is unique: it is the first comparison of Castro's and Silva's poetry. Their works have meaningful differences but share remarkable likenesses in theme, tone, and style, though it is doubtful that either was aware of the other's existence. Of interest to feminist critics is an interpretation of Castro's literary vocation within a patriarchal society.Using the ideas of three 20th century Spanish thinkers, Jos Ortega y Gasset, Xavier Zubiri, and Pedro Lan Entralgo, Dever applies the concept of radical insufficiency to a comparison of the poets' works. Radical insufficiency holds that humans lack a determined being and fixed course for life, thus norms are not available to make the world intelligible. Humans experience feelings of uncertainty and emptiness, which inevitably lead to anxiety. Confronted by the mystery and pathos of human life, Castro and Silva both describe futile attempts to overcome this insufficiency through creation and contemplation of art, human relationships, and religion. The significance of these writers has transcended their own time; when examined in the context of Spanish and Latin American authors and thinkers who succeeded them, the importance of their works will continue to grow.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2003
ISBN 10: 0786412607 ISBN 13: 9780786412600
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Softcover. Condition: Good. "This history of the Phillies begins with the club's inception in 1883 and goes through the 2011 season, highlighting the team's finer moments and players but also covering less memorable times. An exploration of the Phillies' relationship with Philadelphia and numerous historic photographs complete this celebration of the oldest continuous one-name, one-city franchise in sports history"--Provided by publisher.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2007
ISBN 10: 0786429348 ISBN 13: 9780786429349
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. This innovative dictionary allows the user to find given names which relate to a specific meaning. Arranged alphabetically by definition, the names are followed by the language of origin, variations (derivatives, diminutives, and nicknames) of the name itself, and the name as interpreted in different languages. Separate sections are included for male and female names. Using the dictionary you could discover that there are over 160 names listed for "flower," from Anthea (Greek) to Zahara (African).
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2005
ISBN 10: 0786421134 ISBN 13: 9780786421138
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. A three time All-Star, Cecil Travis was coming into his prime and already well on his way to a Hall of Fame career when he was drafted for World War II in 1941. He would spend the next four years in the 76th infantry division. When he finally returned to the game, in 1945, Travis was no longer the dominant player he had been. In the three seasons that followed his return-the last three seasons of his career-only once did Travis play in more than 75 games, and his offensive numbers plummeted. Yet his pre-war accomplishments were such that he finished his 12-year career with a .314 batting average and baseball maven Bill James put Travis atop his list of players most likely to have lost a Hall of Fame career to the war. This biography documents the dynamic career of a baseball player whose path to stardom was cut short by the onset of war. It begins with Travis childhood years, which he spent working on his familys Riverdale farm in rural Georgia. It describes his demonstration of talent during high school, which earned him athletic scholarships at several universities. Next the author details the start of Travis professional career with the minor league Chattanooga Lookouts in 1931, his impressive rookie year with the Washington Senators, and his remaining prewar seasons in the major leagues. Traviss time as a soldier is then discussed, followed by chapters on postwar playing decline from 1945 to 1947 and his consequent retirement from major league baseball. An epilogue provides Cecil Travis personal commentary on his baseball career, its untimely dissolution, the effects of the war, and his present life in Riverdale, where he raises livestock on his childhood farm.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1988
ISBN 10: 0899503667 ISBN 13: 9780899503660
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. English, Italian (translation).
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1998
ISBN 10: 0786403527 ISBN 13: 9780786403523
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Casebound. The language of tap dancing is as rich and varied as that of any art, and different choreographers, teachers and performers often use totally different terms for exactly the same step. The various names of all steps and clear descriptions of them are collected for the first time in this reference work. The emphasis is on all variations of a name, from universally recognized terms to simple "pet" names that individual performers and choreographers have created, with extensive cross-references provided. Each of the steps is fully described, with appropriate counts, explanations and history. Many antique and unusual steps such as the Patting Juba, the Quack and the Swanee Shuffle are included.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786428163 ISBN 13: 9780786428168
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1997
ISBN 10: 078640311X ISBN 13: 9780786403110
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1994
ISBN 10: 089950809X ISBN 13: 9780899508092
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Arranged chronologically, this reference work provides production company-written plot synopses or, when a synopsis was not available, trade paper reviews of 476 films about moonshining, feuding, coal mining, mountain love triangles, and many other topics. Also provided are studio, date of release, and length.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1989
ISBN 10: 0899504124 ISBN 13: 9780899504124
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Shapiro, Mitchell E.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1988
ISBN 10: 0899503306 ISBN 13: 9780899503301
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1987
ISBN 10: 0899502865 ISBN 13: 9780899502861
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1991
ISBN 10: 0899505473 ISBN 13: 9780899505473
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Annotated edition. Star Trek was first beamed into people's homes in 1966 and when it went off the air three years later it was on its way to being the most successful failure in television history. Along the way it spawned nine feature films, three new television series, novels, books, video and audio tapes, records, computer games, merchandising tie-ins, fan clubs and conventions. Gibberman has summarized 25 years of just about everything written about Star Trek including details about the stars and guest-stars and information about the making of the television series and feature films. This work lists over 1,300 English-language articles about every aspect of the phenomenon; fully indexed.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1993
ISBN 10: 0899508804 ISBN 13: 9780899508801
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1985
ISBN 10: 0899501761 ISBN 13: 9780899501765
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2007
ISBN 10: 0786430559 ISBN 13: 9780786430550
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: New. When the 1949-1953 New York Yankees won an astounding five consecutive World Series, they did it without the offensive firepower that characterized so many of their championship teams before and after. The franchise came to rely instead on three aging pitchers, an unlikely trio that won 255 games during the five-year championship run.This book focuses on the close relationship and quiet achievement of Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi and Eddie Lopat. Soon after Robinson and the cross-town Dodgers had publicly confronted the issues of race and ethnicity, these men from very different backgrounds--Creek Indian, Italian and Polish--established a deep communion with each other, became lifelong friends, and over a handful of years re-wrote baseball history.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2001
ISBN 10: 0786407697 ISBN 13: 9780786407699
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Between the two world wars, a demobilized British ex-officer became the most beloved fictional character since Sherlock Holmes. Captain Hugh Drummond-better known as "Bulldog"-was the hero of seventeen novels and more than twenty films, stage plays, and BBC radio programs. The series was popular enough, in fact, to outlive the original author, Herman Cyril McNeile ("Sapper"), and to withstand the interruption occasioned by the Second World War before finally disappearing from the public eye in the 1950s, with the introduction of the James Bond character. The books are now out of print and only a few videos of the films can be found. This volume contains complete descriptions and detailed information on the characters and the world of Bulldog Drummond, a world rife with Bolsheviks, terrorists, spies, saboteurs, Packards, English Channel packets, Rolls-Royces, castles, mastiffs, and tarantulas. Information is replete on Sapper, Gerard Fairlie (the second author), and the several actors who starred as the legendary hero.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1988
ISBN 10: 0899503071 ISBN 13: 9780899503073
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1990
ISBN 10: 0899505104 ISBN 13: 9780899505107
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Segrave, Kerry.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1994
ISBN 10: 0899507719 ISBN 13: 9780899507712
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cast, production credits, release date, and running time are provided for each of the Tarzan films. The plot synopses include the storyline, background information on the making of the film, and contemporary critical commentary. Also examined is Tarzan on television, from the TV movie Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) to the 1991 series. Heavily illustrated.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2006
ISBN 10: 078642818X ISBN 13: 9780786428182
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: New. In the first four years of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1961-64), Hollywood did not dramatize the current military conflict but rather romanticized earlier ones. Cartoons reflected only previous trends in U.S. culture, and animators comically but patriotically remembered the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and both World Wars. In the early years of military escalation in Vietnam, Hollywood was simply not ready to illustrate America's contemporary radicalism and race relations in live-action or animated films.But this trend changed when US participation dramatically increased between 1965 and 1968. In the year of the Tet Offensive and the killings of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy, the violence of the Vietnam War era caught up with animators. This book discusses the evolution of U.S. animation from militaristic and violent to liberal and pacifist and the role of the Vietnam War in this development. The book chronologically documents theatrical and television cartoon studios' changing responses to U.S. participation in the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1973, using as evidence the array of artistic commentary about the federal government, the armed forces, the draft, peace negotiations, the counterculture movement, racial issues, and pacifism produced during this period. The study further reveals the extent to which cartoon violence served as a barometer of national sentiment on Vietnam. When many Americans supported the war in the 1960s, scenes of bombings and gunfire were prevalent in animated films. As Americans began to favor withdrawal, militaristic images disappeared from the cartoon. Soon animated cartoons would serve as enlightening artifacts of Vietnam War-era ideology. In addition to the assessment of primary film materials, this book draws upon interviews with people involved in the production Vietnam-era films. Film critics responding in their newspaper columns to the era's innovative cartoon sociopolitical commentary also serve as invaluable references. Three informative appendices contribute to the work.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2007
ISBN 10: 0786429771 ISBN 13: 9780786429776
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1999
ISBN 10: 0786406089 ISBN 13: 9780786406081
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Born in 1911 (and still working), Gian Carlo Menotti created the first television opera (Amahl and the Night Visitors), made opera successful on Broadway while winning two Pultizer Prizes (The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker Street), and founded the Spoleto Festivals in Italy and the United States. Menotti has had a magnificent career: 21 of his operas and stage works have been filmed, taped or telecast. Each chapter of this reference work covers one opera or stage work and includes a history of the work, a description of its primary screen adaptation, and a chronological listing of screen and audio versions with cast and credits. Additional chapters are devoted to Menotti's screen biographies and screen collaborators, the Spoleto Festivals, and his unfilmed operas. An annotated bibliography completes the guide.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1988
ISBN 10: 0899503543 ISBN 13: 9780899503547
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. The world has changed dramatically since the 1988 first edition of this work. The very notion of what is meant by peace, at least domestically, has been profoundly affected by the events of September 11, 2001.New to this edition are additional discussions of the contributions of feminist theorists to the understanding of peacemaking, the role of the family, and the creation of visions and hope for the future. The volume begins with a discussion of the concepts of peace and peace education. It then considers religious and historical concepts of war, peace and peace education, describes how peace education can move people to work for social change and look for alternatives to violence, and discusses ways to begin implementing peace education in schools, churches and other community settings such as youth groups. It goes on to address sensitive issues in peace education, key concepts and topics, important biological and cultural factors, and barriers facing those who teach peace. It provides the "how" of peace education by examining optimal pedagogy and practices.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1991
ISBN 10: 0899505392 ISBN 13: 9780899505398
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. New edition. My Man Godfrey, Four's a Crowd, My Favorite Wife, The Devil and Miss Jones-for their inspired blend of slapstick humor with casual elegance and witty repartee, these movies are examples of what became known as "screwball" comedies. This study focuses on the genre, film-by-film, year-by-year, providing the film enthusiast or serious researcher with an informed guide to the screen offerings of the era. Each of the major contributors is profiled, from directors (such as Capra, Hawks, McCarey or LaCava) to writers (Hecht, Krasna, Wilder, and others) to the inspired lunacy of performers (Grant, Lombard Dunne, or MacMurray). The large filmography covers more than 50 films, appearing chronologically, and gives title, studio, date, time, director, producer, writers, source, photography, cast, plot description and background notes.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2002
ISBN 10: 0786413743 ISBN 13: 9780786413744
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1993
ISBN 10: 0899507808 ISBN 13: 9780899507804
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Abstract or erotic, new Chinese cinema or zombie films, 775 genres are included in this comprehensive reference work. Each entry includes a brief description of the category, the subgenres or related types of films, and a list of movies that best exemplify the genre, showing original title or titles, nationality (73 countries are represented), year of production, additional titles (working title, re-release title, translation, etc.) and director or filmmaker.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 2024
ISBN 10: 078641524X ISBN 13: 9780786415243
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Offers an alphabetical listing of topics relating to Halloween, including bobbing for apples, mumming, and witches.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, 1995
ISBN 10: 0786400218 ISBN 13: 9780786400218
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Though the characters were different, Western shows' format often fell into one of several broad categories: marshals, sheriffs and other lawmen, wagon trains, cattle drives and ranchers, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns, and even spoofs. Arranged by categories, over 150 television Westerns are analyzed here, focusing on the characters, stories and why the shows succeeded or failed. How Native Americans have been portrayed is examined, as are such phenomena as single parent families (in shows such as The Big Valley, The Rifleman and Bonanza), women, Asians and blacks.
Published by Brand: McFarland n Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006
ISBN 10: 0786425903 ISBN 13: 9780786425907
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Condition: new.