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Making the Big Red Machine - Daryl Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Making the Big Red Machine - Daryl Smith - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

With a line-up that included future Hall of Famers Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez and Pete Rose, Cincinnati''s "Big Red Machine" powered its way in the 1970s to six division titles, four pennants, and two World Series. Three other times in that decade they finished second in their division to the eventual pennant winner. While much has been written about the players and manager Sparky Anderson, no book until now has given adequate attention to the man behind the Machine, general manager Bob Howsam. From his hire in 1967 through the end of his first stint with the Reds in 1978, Howsam brought about a remarkable change in fortune for the Reds, who had claimed only one pennant in the 26 years before his arrival. This detailed history of baseball''s last dynasty shows not only how the team performed but why, delving into the off-field strategy and moves behind the Reds'' success.

DKK 334.00
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Roger C. Sullivan and the Making of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1881-1908 - Richard Allen Morton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Roger C. Sullivan and the Making of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1881-1908 - Richard Allen Morton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Dominating the Windy City for decades, the Chicago Democratic Machine has become a fixture in American political history. Under Mayor Richard J. Daley, it acquired almost mythical (perhaps notorious) status. Yet its origins have remained murky--some say is began as a shady enterprise during the ethnic upheaval of the late 1920s. Based upon new research, this book offers a fresh perspective. Formed through factional warfare and consolidated with methods borrowed from the business world, the Machine grew out of the unfettered capitalism of the late 19th century. Its principal founder and first "boss," Roger C. Sullivan, represented a generation of businessmen-politicians who emerged in the 1880s. Sullivan and his allies created an informal public power structure that, while serving their own interests, also made government more functional. The Machine is a product of America''s Gilded Age and the Progressive Era and offers a lesson in the advantages and limitations of representative government.

DKK 429.00
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Roger C. Sullivan and the Triumph of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1908-1920 - Richard Allen Morton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Roger C. Sullivan and the Triumph of the Chicago Democratic Machine, 1908-1920 - Richard Allen Morton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Between 1908 and 1920, Roger C. Sullivan and his political allies consolidated their control of the Chicago and Illinois Democratic parties, creating the enduring structure known as the "Chicago Democratic machine." Not a personal faction nor tied to any cause, it was a coalition of professional political operatives employing business principles to achieve legal profit and advantage. Sullivan was its chief organizer and first "boss," rising to primacy after many political battles--with William Jennings Bryan, among others--and went on to become a kingmaker who helped Woodrow Wilson win the presidency. By the time of his death, Sullivan was widely respected, his achievements recognized even by those who deplored his politics. Based upon new research, this first comprehensive study of Sullivan and the early days of the Chicago "machine" focuses on the daily realities of the city''s politics and the personalities who shaped them.

DKK 429.00
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The Time Machine: An Invention - H.g. Wells - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Time Machine: An Invention - H.g. Wells - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Time Machine is one of the most enduring works of the English language. A hundred years after it was first published, the book continues to be studied. The 1895 London first edition is used as a basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world''s foremost Wellsian scholar. The widely reprinted version of 1924 is also fully accounted for. For most students, one of the chief points of interest is what the novel signified to readers when it was first published and how it relates to Wells''s later works. Accordingly, the annotations focus on these questions. The introduction gives in great depth the background of the work and its complex bibliographical history, and a synopsis of the literary conventions that Wells used.

DKK 259.00
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Vending Machines - Kerry Segrave - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Vending Machines - Kerry Segrave - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero--a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century a.d.--who described and illustrated a coin-operated device to be used for vending sacrificial water in Egyptian temples. Completely automatic, the device was set in operation by the insertion of a five-drachma coin. This work traces the history of the vending machine from its inception to its current place in popular American culture, with the eight chapters covering significant eras. Successes and failures of the machines, economic factors influencing the popularity (or lack thereof) of vending machines, and the struggle of industry to become a dominant, large-scale method of retailing products are discussed. This text is richly illustrated and includes appendices on vending dollar value, vending sales by location type and vending statistics.

DKK 429.00
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Edward Drummond Libbey - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Edward Drummond Libbey - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art''s collection. Libbey single-handedly revolutionized glassmaking, a craft which had gone virtually unchanged for 2000 years.

DKK 429.00
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Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry - Gerald M. Carbone - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Brown & Sharpe and the Measure of American Industry - Gerald M. Carbone - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Joseph Brown, founder of Brown & Sharpe, was a skilled clockmaker who invented new machines, and new ways to make things. Samuel Darling, an eccentric inventor from Maine, joined up and brought with him his engine for marking precise graduations on measuring instruments. Lucian Sharpe, with his son Henry and grandson Henry, Jr., guided the company for more than a century--and along with it the global machine tools industry. The men and women of Brown & Sharpe produced and marketed a dazzling array of measuring devices, machine tools and precision machinery. They truly helped shape Rhode Island, the nation and the modern world. The history of Brown & Sharpe covers more than 150 years of technological development, labor history and public policy, culminating in history''s longest strike.

DKK 325.00
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The Mustache Gang Battles the Big Red Machine - John G. Robertson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Mustache Gang Battles the Big Red Machine - John G. Robertson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The 1972 World Series was a terrific clash between two rising Major League franchises, the Oakland A''s and the Cincinnati Reds. Neither had won the pennant in decades. Twice removed from their original home in Philadelphia and unappreciated in Oakland, the A''s quietly played excellent ball, their long hair and mustaches symbols of rebellion. Led by manager Sparky Anderson, the clean-cut Reds--baseball''s most conservative club--were becoming a powerhouse and were the favorites entering the Series. This book chronicles both the A''s and the Reds'' journeys to the memorable ''72 Fall Classic--where six of seven games were won by a single run--with batter-by-batter coverage of the diamond exploits of Bench, Perez, Rose, Rudi, Odom, Tenace, and others.

DKK 334.00
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Synesthesia and the Arts - Dani Cavallaro - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Synesthesia and the Arts - Dani Cavallaro - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This study explores the relationship between synesthesia--the experience of a sensation in one perceptual domain triggering a sensation in another perceptual domain--and the arts (including painting, photography, music and literature). Its aim is twofold: to introduce readers as yet unfamiliar with synesthesia to this intriguing phenomenon by focusing on its impact on the creation and reception of art; and to alert readers already conversant with synesthesia in its many manifestations to its potential to encourage fresh ways of approaching art, of understanding the part played by our bodies in its production and receipt and, by extension, of reassessing our position in nature as humans.

DKK 500.00
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Sex and Manifest Destiny - Martin Naparsteck - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Sex and Manifest Destiny - Martin Naparsteck - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Many factors--political, economic, sociological--contributed to the United States'' westward expansion across the continent. But the role that sex played has largely been unexplored by scholars. This is the first book-length study to examine such topics as Thomas Jefferson''s interest in the sex lives of American Indians, white''s fear of Indians raping white women, Christian missionary beliefs that Native American sexual practices needed to be altered in order to save Indian souls, and the desire of Mormons to practice polygamy. These and other sex-related dynamics all combined to play a role in America''s extension from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

DKK 334.00
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Founders of American Industrial Design - Carroll Gantz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Founders of American Industrial Design - Carroll Gantz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As the Great Depression started in 1929, several dozen creative individuals from a variety of artistic fields, including theatrical, advertising, graphic, fashion, and furniture design, pioneered a new profession. Responding to unprecedented public and industry demand for new styles, these artists entered the industrial world during what was called the 'Machine Age,' to introduce 'Modern' design to the external appearance and form of mass-produced, functional, mechanical, consumer products, formerly not considered 'art.' The popular, modern designs by these 'Machine Designers' increased sales and profits dramatically for manufacturers, which helped the economy to recover; established a new profession, 'industrial design;' and within a decade, changed the fact of American products from mechanical monstrosities into sleek, modern forms expressive of the future. This book is about those few dozen industrial designers, and how they founded, developed, educated, and organised today's profession of 50,000 practitioners, who design all those attractive and useful products you love.

DKK 429.00
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Velodrome Racing and the Rise of the Motorcycle - R.k. Keating - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Velodrome Racing and the Rise of the Motorcycle - R.k. Keating - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

A hybrid machine--powered at times by steam, electricity or internal combustion--the motorcycle in its infancy was an innovation to help bicycle racers go faster. As motor age technology advanced, the quest for greater speed at the velodrome peaked, with riders reaching speeds up to 100 kph on bikes and trikes without brakes, suspensions or gear boxes. This book chronicles the individuals and events at the turn of the 20th century that led to the development of motor-powered two-wheelers.

DKK 523.00
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Benevolent Barons - Quentin R. Skrabec - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Benevolent Barons - Quentin R. Skrabec - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education. Often criticized as welfare capitalism, this system was unique in the world. Lesser known capitalists like Peter Cooper and George Westinghouse led the movement in the mid- to late 1800s. Westinghouse, in particular, focused on good wages and benefits. Robber barons like George Pullman and Andrew Carnegie would later succeed in corrupting the higher benefits of worker-centered capitalism. This is the story of those accomplished Americans who sought to balance the accumulation of wealth with communal responsibility.

DKK 429.00
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Hollywood and the Military Bureaucracy - Bob Herzberg - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Hollywood and the Military Bureaucracy - Bob Herzberg - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Through a century of movies, the U.S. military held sway over war and service-oriented films. Influenced by the armed forces and their public relations units, Hollywood presented moviegoers with images of a faultless American fighting machine led by heroic commanders. This book examines this cooperation with detailed narratives of military blunders and unfit officers that were whitewashed to be presented in a more favorable light. Drawing on production files, correspondence between bureaucrats and filmmakers, and contemporary critical reviews, the author reveals the behind-the-scenes political maneuvers that led to the rewriting of history on-screen.

DKK 334.00
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Authenticity and How We Fake It - Aaron Duplantier - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Authenticity and How We Fake It - Aaron Duplantier - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, such as reality television and social media, which in theory draw content from somewhere off-screen in our lived experience. This is seen as more "authentic" than the predominantly fictional media of the latter half of the 20th century. Yet much of reality TV and social media is known by both consumers and creators of content to be scripted or contrived. Addressing this problem deepens consumer engagement, as authenticity becomes a preoccupation driving the extension of a new media ethic of truth and savvy. This dynamic is key to understanding consumers'' changing attitudes about the media they value. Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube have created a paradigm shift in the media landscape. Analyzing these three established platforms--all of which have a stake in the conversation about authenticity--this book sheds light on the complicated behaviors and choices of media consumers.

DKK 334.00
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A Rainbow Division Lieutenant in France - John H. Taber - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

A Rainbow Division Lieutenant in France - John H. Taber - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th "Third Iowa" Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force''s 42nd "Rainbow" Division during World War I. His diary provides a detailed narrative of a young officer maturing through his war experiences, from the voyage across the submarine filled Atlantic, to training in France, to front line combat. In a clear, unaffected voice, Taber records his dealings with superiors and enlisted men, billets in French and German towns, life in the trenches, intense shelling, machine gun fire, gas warfare, leaves to Paris, the occupation of Germany, and his return to New York.

DKK 334.00
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"Don't Shoot, G-Men!" - Michael Newton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

"Don't Shoot, G-Men!" - Michael Newton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Between 1933 and 1939, the FBI pursued an aggressive, highly publicized nationwide campaign against a succession of Depression era "public enemies," including John Dillinger, George "Baby Face" Nelson, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, George "Machine Gun Kelly" Barnes, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and the Ma Barker Gang. Bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover''s successes in this crusade made him the hero of law and order in the public mind. This historical analysis reveals the agency''s often illegal tactics, including torture, frame-ups, and summary executions--later expanded throughout Hoover''s 48-year reign in Washington, D.C., and exposed only after his death (some say murder) in 1972.

DKK 334.00
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The Great War from the German Trenches - Artur H. Boer - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Great War from the German Trenches - Artur H. Boer - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Life in the trenches for German soldiers during World War I was every bit as hellish as it was for Allied troops. Arthur Boer survived almost four years of continual fighting on both the Eastern and Western fronts as a sapper (combat engineer) who found himself in the thick of major battles. He laid barbed wire in no-man''s-land under machine gun fire, bet money on aerial combat above the trenches between Baron von Richthofen and the English, faced starvation and crushing boredom. His war diary describes all in gritty detail, including the horror of gas warfare, doomed vainglorious charges and his return home to a ruined Germany.

DKK 334.00
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The Film Crew of Hollywood - James C. Udel - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Film Crew of Hollywood - James C. Udel - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

These in-depth profiles illuminate the careers of ten motion picture crew members who worked during Hollywood''s Independent Age of film and television production--basically from 1945 to 1980. A celebratory insiders'' look at the Tinseltown machine, the book utilizes individual interviews and rare crew photographs to provide the back story of production challenges and solutions for some of the world''s most recognized movies, including such classics as The Searchers, Chinatown, The Hustler , and Bullitt among many others. It provides not only an educational treatment of the jobs and techniques of filmmaking but also a dose of humorous and memorable experiences from the trenches.

DKK 334.00
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As I Saw It in the Trenches - Dae Hinson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As I Saw It in the Trenches - Dae Hinson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

"Now that the United States has declared war upon the German Empire, and that men will more than likely be conscripted into the service, I shall feel embarrassed should I fail to be among the first to go to the training camp," wrote Dae Hinson of Leesville, Louisiana, in April 1917. His World War I memoir gives a compelling account of a young man''s induction into the army, basic training, friendships formed and frontline combat in France with the 156th Infantry. Hinson vividly records his daily struggles for survival in the trenches amid gas attacks, exploding shells and the constant "rattle and fuss" of machine-gun fire.

DKK 334.00
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Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons - Gerald Prenderghast - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons - Gerald Prenderghast - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

From the very earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have wanted to develop weapons with more firepower. This has inevitably led to a wide variety of repeating weapons, capable of a degree of sustained fire without reloading. Based largely upon new research, this book explores the history of repeating and multi-fire weapons, beginning with the Chinese repeating crossbow in the 4th century BCE, and ending with the world''s most common firearm, the Kalashnikov AK-47. The author describes the potency of the machine gun in World War I, the development of the semiautomatic pistol and the role of the submachine gun in improving the effectiveness of the infantryman.

DKK 523.00
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The Big Top on the Big Screen - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Big Top on the Big Screen - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have often worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed herein are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque spaces wherein characters--and by extension audience members--can confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality, identity, ethics, and more. The circus as discussed in these essays encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting; and it is welcoming, malicious or terrifying. Circus performers are family, friends, foe or all of the above. And film is the medium that brings it all together. This volume starts the conversation about how circuses and film can combine to form productive, exciting spaces where almost anything can happen.

DKK 315.00
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American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960 - Nathanael T. Booth - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960 - Nathanael T. Booth - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Does the myth of the small town conceal deep-seated reactionary tendencies or does it contain the basis of a national re-imagining? During the period between 1940 and 1960, America underwent a great shift in self-mythologizing that can be charted through representations of small towns. Authors like Henry Bellamann and Grace Metalious continued the tradition of Sherwood Anderson in showing the small town--by extension, America itself--profoundly warping the souls of its citizens. Meanwhile, Ray Bradbury, Toshio Mori and Ross Lockridge, Jr., sought to identify the small town''s potential for growth, away from the shadows cast by World War II toward a more inclusive, democratic future. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience.

DKK 429.00
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American Military Transport Aircraft Since 1925 - E. R. Johnson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American Military Transport Aircraft Since 1925 - E. R. Johnson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Without the support of airlift, the modern American military machine would be brought to a standstill. Since World War II--beginning with the Cold War and continuing up to the present day--the U.S. armed forces have come increasingly to rely upon airlift for mobility. The power to rapidly move and thereafter support a military operation--anywhere in the world, at any time--has become a foundational element of American defense policy. This work provides the reader with a comprehensive historical survey--including technical specifications, drawings, and photographs--of each type of fixed-wing aircraft used by U.S. military forces over a nearly 90-year period to carry out the airlift mission.

DKK 523.00
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Wells Meets Deleuze - Michael Starr - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Wells Meets Deleuze - Michael Starr - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The writings of H.G. Wells have had a profound influence on literary and cinematic depictions of the present and the possible future, and modern science fiction continues to be indebted to his "scientific romances," such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau . Interpreted and adapted for more than a century, Wells''s texts have resisted easy categorization and are perennial subjects for emerging critical and theoretical perspectives. The author examines Wells''s works through the post-structuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Via this critical perspective, concepts now synonymous with science fiction--such as time travel, alien invasion and transhumanism--demonstrate the intrinsic relevance of Wells to the genre and contemporary thought.

DKK 429.00
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