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The Ages of the X-Men - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Ages of the X-Men - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The X-Men comic book franchise is one of the most popular of all time and also one of the most intriguing to critically analyse. With storylines that often contain overt social messages within its "mutant metaphor," X-Men is often credited with having more depth than the average superhero property. In this collection, each essay examines a specific era of X-Men related comic books in relationship to contemporary social concerns. The essays are arranged chronologically and advance from an analysis of popular science at the time of the launch of the first X-Men comic book in 1963 through an essay that interprets a storyline in light of the rhetoric used during President Obama's first campaign for the presidency. Several spin-off X-Men titles, including Generation X, X-Statix, and Academy X are also used as source materials. Topics ranging from Communism to celebrity culture to school violence are addressed by scholars who provide new insights into one of the most significant popular culture products of American culture.

DKK 193.00
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The Generation X Librarian - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Generation X Librarian - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Generation X includes those individuals born roughly between the years 1961 and 1981. This generation has faced unique advances in technology, environmental degradation, and widening economic injustice, all of which affect libraries and librarians. This collection of critical essays showcases the unique qualities and challenges that face Generation X librarians. Topics covered include management and leadership, rapidly changing technology, social attitudes and stereotypes within popular culture, and how Generation X librarians have responded to or developed upon those themes. This book fills many of the gaps present in the professional literature on librarianship and our younger generations.

DKK 571.00
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The Advance of Neuroscience - Lori A. Schmied - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Advance of Neuroscience - Lori A. Schmied - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Neuroscience has a short history but a long past, to borrow a phrase once used to describe psychology. Although ideas about the relationship of mind and body have been studied since written records were available, it is only in the last fifty years that the term 'neuroscience' has been applied to bring together the variety of academic disciplines focusing on brain and behavior. While there are many published works that address the history of neuroscience or examine current issues, few present contemporary topics while revisiting the historical roots. The Victorian era was particularly important in the development of theories of the nervous system and remnants of those ideas are often visible in today's discourse on brain and behavior. Advances in technology in neuroscience has sometimes yielded a bag of mixed results in forwarding our understanding. This book explores a mix of neuroscience topics focusing on the brain, psychoactive drugs, and applications to a variety of human behaviors and experiences, such as music and sleep.

DKK 334.00
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Colonels in Blue-Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin - Roger D. Hunt - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Colonels in Blue-Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin - Roger D. Hunt - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Featured in this book are the Civil War Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is the sixth volume in a series documenting Union army colonels who did not advance beyond that rank. A biographical sketch of each colonel is included, providing a synopsis of each colonel's Civil War service followed by pertinent details of their life history.

DKK 429.00
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Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories - Roger D. Hunt - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories - Roger D. Hunt - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the western States and Territories during the Civil War. The seventh volume in a series documenting Union army colonels, this book details the lives of officers who did not advance beyond that rank. Included for each colonel are brief biographical excerpts and any available photographs, many of them published for the first time.

DKK 429.00
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Malcolm X, African American Revolutionary - Dennis D. Wainstock - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Malcolm X, African American Revolutionary - Dennis D. Wainstock - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This biography, though it covers his early life and adulthood, focusses most prominently on Malcolm X''s final years, which were largely dominated by his departure from the Nation of Islam and his conflict with Elijah Muhammad. Throughout, the author addresses a number of lingering issues, including the role of fellow prisoner John Elton Bembry in Malcolm''s prison conversion; whether Malcolm decided to leave the Nation of Islam before he was suspended by Elijah Muhammad; whether he was seeking martyrdom; and the extent of the role that government agencies played in Malcolm X''s assassination in 1965.

DKK 334.00
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The Cinema of Generation X - Peter Hanson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Cinema of Generation X - Peter Hanson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

When Steven Soderbergh exploded onto movie screens with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, it represented more than the arrival of an important new director--it heralded the arrival of an entire generation of important new directors. Quentin Tarantino ( Pulp Fiction ), Kevin Smith ( Dogma ), David Fincher ( Fight Club ), M. Night Shyamalan ( The Sixth Sense ), Ben Stiller ( Reality Bites ), Michael Bay ( Pearl Harbor ), and dozens of others are all members of Generation X, the much talked about but much misunderstood successors to baby boomers. This book is a critical study of the films directed by Gen Xers and how those directors have been influenced by their generational identity. While Generation X as a whole sometimes seems to lack direction, its filmmakers have devoted their careers to making powerful statements about contemporary society and their generation''s role in it. Each section of the book deals with an aspect of Gen X filmmaking, including the influence of popular culture, postmodern narrative devices, "slackerdom" and the lack of direction, disenfranchisement and nihilism, the ever-evolving role of technology, gender issues and sexuality, the question of race, the influence of older filmmakers, and visions of the future.

DKK 329.00
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Out for Queer Blood - Clayton Delery - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Out for Queer Blood - Clayton Delery - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault. They chose Fernando Rios, who died from the beating he received. In perhaps the earliest example of the "gay panic" defense, the three defendants argued that they had no choice but to beat Rios because he had made an "improper advance." When the jury acquitted the three, the courtroom cheered. The author offers a detailed examination of the murder and the trial.

DKK 240.00
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Early U.S. Navy Carrier Raids, February-April 1942 - David Lee Russell - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Early U.S. Navy Carrier Raids, February-April 1942 - David Lee Russell - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

 After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America''s fast carrier task forces, with their aircraft squadrons and powerful support warships, went on the offensive. Under orders from Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, the newly appointed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, took the fight to the Japanese, using island raids to slow their advance in the Pacific. Beginning in February 1942, a series of task force raids led by the carriers USS Enterprise , USS Yorktown , USS Lexington and USS Hornet were launched, beginning in the Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands. An attempted raid on Rabaul was followed by successful attacks on Wake Island and Marcus Island. The Lae-Salamaua Raid countered Japanese invasions on New Guinea. The most dramatic was the unorthodox Tokyo (Doolittle) Raid, where 16 carrier-launched B-25 medium bombers demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was open to U.S. air attacks. The raids had a limited effect on halting the Japanese advance but kept the enemy away from Hawaii, the U.S. West coast and the Panama Canal, and kept open lines of communications to Australia.

DKK 429.00
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Back to Human Nature - Charles B. Osburn - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Back to Human Nature - Charles B. Osburn - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industry and technology, however, this subjective information is becoming less valued in critical decisions. Rational thought and the accumulation of objective knowledge are often credited with humanity''s thriving success in recent centuries. This book makes the case that humanity''s social progress has only been possible through these too often repressed subjective factors, and will be equally crucial in altering the present course of society.

DKK 665.00
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Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Teaching Comics and Graphic Narratives - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and learning tools in college and university classes across different disciplines. There are six sections: American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women''s and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Genre Studies, and Composition, Rhetoric and Communication. With a combination of practical and theoretical investigations, the book brings together discussions among teacher-scholars to advance the scholarship on teaching comics and graphic narratives--and provides scholars with useful references, critical approaches, and particular case studies.

DKK 325.00
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Human Rights in Islamic North Africa - E. Ike Udogu - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Human Rights in Islamic North Africa - E. Ike Udogu - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

It is one thing to craft superb human rights tenets in a constitution and another to enforce such policies in practice. This book explores the contradictions between interpretations of constitutional tenets and the dogmas contained in the penal code of Islamic North Africa--particularly in regard to Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. Provided are brief histories of each country that connect the colonial past to present-day human rights records. The author also suggests ways in which to mitigate human rights infractions to advance peaceful coexistence that could promote political and economic development.

DKK 429.00
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Power Under Her Foot - Chris Lezotte - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Power Under Her Foot - Chris Lezotte - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Since their introduction in 1964, American muscle cars have been closely associated with masculinity. In the 21st century, women have been a growing presence in the muscle car world, exhibiting classic cars at automotive events and rumbling to work in modern Mustangs, Camaros and Challengers. Informed by the experiences of 88 female auto enthusiasts, this book highlights women''s admiration and passion for American muscle, and reveals how restoring, showing and driving classic and modern cars provides a means to challenge longstanding perceptions of women drivers and advance ideas of identity and gender equality.

DKK 429.00
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Reading Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens - Judith P. Saunders - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Reading Edith Wharton Through a Darwinian Lens - Judith P. Saunders - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Beneath the polished surface of the genteel environments delineated in Wharton''s fiction, characters are competing fiercely for desirable mates, questing for social status and resources, and plotting ruthlessly to advance their relatives'' fortunes in life. This book identifies these and other evolutionary issues central to her fiction, demonstrating their significance in terms of character, setting, plot, and theme. Connections to existing Wharton criticism are made throughout the book, so that readers can see how an evolutionary perspective enriches, refutes, or reconfigures insights derived from other critical approaches.

DKK 429.00
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Opening The X-Files - Darren Mooney - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Opening The X-Files - Darren Mooney - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

More than 20 years after it was first broadcast, The X-Files still holds the public imagination. Over nine seasons and two feature films, agents Mulder and Scully pursued monsters, aliens, mutants and shadowy conspirators across the American landscape. Running for more than 200 episodes, the series transformed television, crafting a postmodern mythology that spoke to the anxieties and uncertainties of the end of the 20th century. Covering the entire series from its debut through the second feature film, this book examines how creator Chris Carter and his team of writers turned a scrappy cult favorite on Fox into a global phenomenon.

DKK 240.00
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Fake - Donal O'sullivan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fake - Donal O'sullivan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Throughout history, forgers have attempted to fabricate documents to manipulate the historical record. The book explores the most egregious cases--their intent, effectiveness, exposure and significance--from the Donation of Constantine to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to the Hitler Diaries. Ironically, forgeries have helped advance the discipline of history. Case studies trace how scholars worked to reveal the truth behind bogus manuscripts while developing new tools and standards for accuracy and authenticity. In the age of "fake news" and digital editing software, the spectacular history of fraud in print has never been more relevant.

DKK 759.00
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Hoplites at War - Fred Eugene Ray Jr - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Hoplites at War - Fred Eugene Ray Jr - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today, through a wave of successful action films, novels and documentaries. The mass-media popularity of these famed warriors has, however, helped spawn a number of misconceptions about them. Drawing on classical literature, archaeology and the latest data from physical, behavioral and medical science, this study of hoplite equipment, tactics and command seeks to separate modern myths from observable facts. The authors resolve some persistent controversies and advance new theories about the nature of ancient Greek warfare.

DKK 429.00
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Aluminum in America - Quentin R. Skrabec - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Aluminum in America - Quentin R. Skrabec - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The history of aluminum: metallurgy, engineering, global business and politics--and the advance of civilization itself. The earth''s most abundant metal, aluminum remained largely inaccessible until after the Industrial Revolution. A precious commodity in 1850s, it later became a strategic resource: while steel won World War I, aluminum won World War II. A generation later, it would make space travel possible and the 1972 Pioneer spacecraft would carry a message from mankind to extraterrestrial life, engraved on an aluminum plate. Today aluminum, along with oil, is the natural resource driving geopolitics, and China has taken the lead in manufacture.

DKK 429.00
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Resistance to the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars - Charles Quince - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Resistance to the Spanish-American and Philippine Wars - Charles Quince - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Following the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, pro-war arguments in the American press led public opinion to favor engaging in the Spanish-American War--or so goes the popular version of events. Yet there was a substantial anti-imperialist segment of the public that tried to halt the advance towards conflict. Drawing on contemporary sources, the author analyzes the anti-war arguments that preceded the Spanish-American War and continued during the war in the Philippines. News articles, letters to editors, opinion pieces and the yellow journalism of the day show how anti-war groups ultimately failed to stop a war with Spain.

DKK 429.00
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The Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond - Colleen Denney - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Visual Culture of Women's Activism in London, Paris and Beyond - Colleen Denney - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Women''s bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women''s rights worldwide. This study examines the domains of public and private space--and the interstices between them--with a focus on how women advance in the public arena, drawing on the domestic politics of the private realm in their drive for social justice and equality. The author examines the visual culture of first-wave feminists in Edwardian England and feminist developments in France. Late 20th century and 21st century women''s movements are discussed in the context of how they continue to honor first-wave suffrage history.

DKK 334.00
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The Animals' Freedom Fighter - Jon Hochschartner - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Animals' Freedom Fighter - Jon Hochschartner - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Founded in the 1970s and today active in more than 40 countries, the Animal Liberation Front has in recent years been considered a domestic terrorist group by both the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center--despite the ALF''s official stance of nonviolence. A clandestine, phantom cell organization, the ALF has functioned as a sort of Underground Railroad for captive animals, executing raids and attacks on animal testing facilities. Yet little has been written about the group or its founder. With unprecedented access by the author, this book tells the story of Ronnie Lee, the unassuming British activist who launched an extremist movement that continues to use intimidation and economic sabotage to advance its cause.

DKK 334.00
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Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote - Bernadette Cahill - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Alice Paul, the National Woman's Party and the Vote - Bernadette Cahill - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

When women picketed the White House demanding the vote on January 10, 1917, they broke new ground in political activism. Demanding that President Wilson influence Congress, they marched in the streets in the nation''s first ever coast-to-coast campaign for political rights. Women were imprisoned for peaceful protests, went on hunger strikes and were beaten and tortured by authorities. But they won the 19th Amendment, ensuring that the right to vote could not be denied because of gender. Their successful nonviolent civil rights campaign established a precedent for those that followed, giving them the tools--including the vote--needed to advance their goals. This book chronicles the work of Alice Paul and the National Woman''s Party and their influence on American political activism.

DKK 222.00
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Vying for the Iron Throne - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Vying for the Iron Throne - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Game of Thrones has changed the landscape of television during an era hailed as the Golden Age of TV. An adaptation of George R.R. Martin''s epic fantasy A Song of Fire and Ice , the HBO series has taken on a life of its own with original plotlines that advance past those of Martin''s books. The death of protagonist Ned Stark at the end of Season One launched a killing spree in television--major characters now die on popular shows weekly. While many shows kill off characters for pure shock value, death on Game of Thrones produces seismic shifts in power dynamics--and resurrected bodies that continue to fight. This collection of new essays explores how power, death, gender, and performance intertwine in the series.

DKK 255.00
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The Union Cavalry and the Chickamauga Campaign - Dennis W. Belcher - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Union Cavalry and the Chickamauga Campaign - Dennis W. Belcher - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

During the Chickamauga Campaign, General Stanley''s two Union cavalry divisions battled Forrest''s and Wheeler''s cavalry corps in some of the most difficult terrain for mounted operations. The Federal troopers, commanded by Crook and McCook, guarded the flanks of the advance on Chattanooga, secured the crossing of the Tennessee River, then pushed into enemy territory. The battle exploded on September 18 as Col. Minty and Col. Wilder held off a determined attack by Confederate infantry. The fighting along Chickamauga Creek included notable actions at Glass Mill and Cooper''s Gap. Union cavalry dogged Wheeler''s forces throughout Tennessee. The Union troopers fought under conditions so dusty they could hardly see, leading the infantry through the second costliest battle of the war.

DKK 429.00
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