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The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia - David A. Waples - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glass industries in Pittsburgh, and local gas companies evolved from individual wells to an interstate supply network acquired by Rockefeller''s Standard Oil interests. Natural gas is now a prevalent part of American markets and with the production from the Marcellus shale is filling the critical void left by a lack of new coal, oil, and nuclear power facilities. This vital American enterprise began in the Appalachian states as an accidental and underestimated byproduct of the oil rush of 1859. This book explores the evolution and significance of the natural gas industry to the present day.

DKK 429.00

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The Quick, the Dead and the Revived - Joseph Maddrey - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

For well more than a century, Western films have embodied the United States'' most fundamental doctrine--expansionism--and depicted, in a uniquely American way, the archetypal battle between good and evil. Westerns also depict a country defined and re-defined by complex crises. World War II transformed the genre as well as the nation''s identity. Since then, Hollywood filmmakers have been fighting America''s ideological wars onscreen by translating modern-day politics into the timeless mythology of the Old West. This book surveys the most iconic and influential Westerns, examines Hollywood stars and their political stripes and reveals the familiar Western tropes--which became elements in popular action, science fiction and horror films. This then sets the stage for the Western revival of the 1990s and a period of reinvention in the 21st century. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 334.00

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Architect of Death at Auschwitz - John W. Primomo - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history. As the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz, he supervised the killing of more than 1.1 million people. Unlike many of his Nazi colleagues who denied either knowing about or participating in the Holocaust, Hoss remorselessly admitted, both at the Nuremberg war crimes trial and in his memoirs, that he sent hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths in the gas chambers, frankly describing the killing process. His "innovations" included the use of hydrogen cyanide (derived from the pesticide Zyklon B) in the camp''s gas chambers. Hoss lent his name to the 1944 operation that gassed 430,000 Hungarian Jews in 56 days, exceeding the capacity of the Auschwitz''s crematoria. This biography follows Hoss throughout his life, from his childhood through his Nazi command and eventual reckoning at Nuremberg. Using historical records and Hoss'' autobiography, it explores the life and mind of one of history''s most notorious and sadistic individuals.

DKK 429.00

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Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005 - Harriet C. Frazier - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This chronological discussion of the death penalty in Missouri covers those executed from 1803 through 2005. Sources include newspapers, county histories, prison records, Union Army records, pardon papers and appellate court cases. Chapters discuss such topics as the death penalty offenses of Indians and blacks; death sentences carried out by the military; lynchings; the gas chamber; the executions of rapists, juveniles, and women; pardons and commutations; appellate court reversals; and lethal injection.

DKK 745.00

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I fart in your general direction! - Don H. Corrigan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This exhaustive work on flatulence breaks new wind on every aspect of abdominal gas in popular culture. A definitive taxonomy of farts details the characteristics of each variety, including barking spiders, cheek squeakers and green apple dirties. Philosophical positions on colonic expression are examined, from Confucius, Hume, Voltaire and the existentialists. Chapters cover a wide range of fart-focused stand-up comedy, cinema, children''s books, toys and merchandise. The author''s postscript describes a lifetime preparing for his subject through fraternity membership and offbeat assignments as a newspaper journalist.

DKK 249.00

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After Valkyrie - Don Allen Gregory - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government--both the Third Reich and Hitler came to a violent end. Hitler promised a classless fatherland before he became chancellor and had covertly been liquidating Germany''s elite officer corps long before Stalingrad. Today it is possible to reconstruct and connect important events and biographies of the principle characters to chronicle the disappearance of Germany''s officer class, its nobility and, for a time, its civilian leadership.

DKK 429.00

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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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Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah - R. Michael Wilson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Since statehood was achieved in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah, 322 men and 2 women have been executed. The first of these post-statehood executions took place in Nevada on October 30, 1868, and the last took place in Arizona on October 26, 2010. This text provides a case history for each execution, including details of the crimes committed, pursuits and captures, the particulars of the legal processes, and the executions. There have been five methods of execution available in these states, and death by hanging, lethal gas, electrocution, firing squad and lethal injection are all represented.

DKK 921.00

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The CASSIA Spy Ring in World War II Austria - C. Turner - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics. Many were shipped to concentration camps; those deemed most dangerous to the Reich were executed. Yet a few slipped through the Gestapo''s net and organized resistance cells. One group, codenamed CASSIA, became America''s most effective spy ring in Austria during World War II. This first full-length account of CASSIA describes its contributions to the Allied war effort--including reports on the V-2 missile, Nazi death camps and advanced combat aircraft and tanks--before a catastrophic intelligence failure sent key members to the guillotine, firing squad or gas chamber.

DKK 334.00

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Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia - David Garrett Izzo - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This comprehensive and accessible reference work serves Isherwood scholars who need quick access to people, places, novels, stories, essays and plays, introduces Isherwood to those who know little of him, expands the knowledge of the literate general reader, and refreshes teachers of literature with Isherwood details. Entries on Isherwood''s most influential friends, including W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley and Stephen Spender, are significant. Included are all of the monumental "roles" Isherwood exemplified during his life--writer, rebel, gay-activist hero, and proud exponent of the Eastern philosophy known as Vedanta.

DKK 523.00

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Virginia Woolf and the Power of Story - Linda Nicole Blair - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

From novels to films, our everyday lives are filled with stories that comfort and connect us and enable new ways of thinking. One of the most innovative writers in modern history, Virginia Woolf, changed the landscape of fiction and challenged our notions of what it means to be human. Her novels invite readers to envision a world in which stories have the power to effect positive change. This book explores the phenomenon of Story as practiced by Woolf, interpreting her work in the context of literary Darwinism--a critical approach focusing on patterns of innate human behavior.

DKK 429.00

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Romancing the Zombie - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The zombie--popular culture''s undead darling--shows no signs of stopping. But as it develops to suit changing audience tastes, its characteristics transform. This collection of new essays examines the latest incarnation, the romantic zombie, a re-humanized monster we want to help, heal and connect with rather than destroy. The authors discuss our increasingly sympathetic view of the reanimated dead as more than physical bodies devoid of life and personality. Their essays cover a range of topics, including audience obsession with Apocalyptic love; the problem of a kinder, gentler undead; the millennial reinvention of the "sexy zombie"; and "uncanny valley romance."

DKK 334.00

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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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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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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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Surviving Theresienstadt - Vera Schiff - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

After the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Vera Schiff and her family were sent to Theresienstadt. Touted as the "model ghetto" for propaganda purposes, as well as to deceive Red Cross inspectors, it was in fact a holding camp for famous Jews--in case the world was to inquire. For most, however, it was the last stop on the way to the gas chambers. Those "lucky" enough to remain alive faced slave labor, starvation and disease. Shiff''s intimate narrative of endurance recounts her and her family''s three years in Theresienstadt, the challenges of life under postwar communism, and her escape to the nascent and turbulent state of Israel.

DKK 334.00

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American Sports in an Age of Consumption - Cory Hillman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Sports are not what they used to be. New publicly funded stadiums resemble shopping malls. Fans compete for cash prizes in fantasy sports leagues. Sports video games are now marketing and public relations tools and team logos have become fashionable brands. The larger social meanings sports hold for fans are being eclipsed by their commercial function as a means to sell merchandise and connect corporate sponsors with consumers. This book examines how the American consumer culture affects professional and collegiate sports, reducing fans to consumers and trivializing sports themselves. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here .

DKK 334.00

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Evelyn Brent - Lynn Kear - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Evelyn Brent''s life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films The Underworld and The Last Command. She''d also been a sensation in Paramount''s first dialogue film, Interference. But by the end of that year Brent was headed for a quick, downward spiral ending in bankruptcy and occasional work as an extra. What happened is a complicated story laced with bad luck, poor decisions, and treachery detailed in this first and only full-length biography.

DKK 429.00

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Music at the Extremes - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Away from the spotlight of the pop charts and the demands of mainstream audiences, original music is still being played and audiences continue to engage with innovative artists. This collection of fresh essays gathers together critical writing on such genres as Power Electronics, Black Metal, Neo-Folk, Martial Industrial, Hard-Core Punk and Horrorcore. The contributors report from the periphery of the music world, seeking to understand these new genres, how fans connect with artists and how artists engage with their audiences. Diverse music scenes are covered, from small-town New Zealand to Washington, D.C., and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Artists discussed include Coil, Laibach, Whitehouse, Insane Clown Posse, Wolves in the Throne Room, Turisas, Tyr, GG Allin and many others.

DKK 240.00

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Easing Pain on the Western Front - Paul E. Stepansky - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

World War I is regarded as the first modern war, driven by fearful new technologies of mechanized combat. The unprecedented carnage rapidly advanced military medicine, transforming the nature of wartime caregiving and paving the way for modern nursing practice. Drawing on firsthand accounts of American nurses, as well as their Canadian and British counterparts, historian Paul E. Stepansky describes nurses'' encounters with devastating new forms of injury--wounds from high-explosive artillery shells, poison gas burns, "shell shock," the Spanish Flu. Comparing nursing practice on the western front with nursing care during the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War, the author is especially attentive to the emergent technologies employed by nurses of the Great War.

DKK 325.00

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Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality - Richard M. Langworth - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965. Yet he is still accused of numerous sins, from alcoholism and racism to misogyny and warmongering. On the Internet, he simmers in a stew of imagined misdeeds--using poison gas, firebombing Dresden, causing the Bengal famine, and so on. Drawing on the author''s fifty years of research and writing on Churchill, this book uncovers scores of myths surrounding him--the popular and the obscure--to reveal what he really said and did about many issues. Churchill had two personas--one that thought deeply about the nature of humanity, and one that helped solve seemingly intractable problems. In his many decades in public life, he made mistakes, but his faults were well eclipsed by his virtues.

DKK 334.00

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The Carbon Boycott - Samuel C. Avery - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The science is clear: by the mid-20th century human beings must stop burning coal, oil and natural gas. Reducing carbon emissions is not enough--they must be eliminated. Each individual "doing their part" is only a start. We heat our homes, light our rooms, power our cars, prepare our food, and produce and distribute consumer goods with the help of fossil fuels. A practical and visionary re-imagining of the future is needed. Calling for a technical and spiritual ground-shift, this book proposes carbon boycotts as collective action, with groups and communities changing what products they consume and seeking new ways to work, live and play to steer aggregate demand towards solar, wind, geothermal and renewable energy alternatives.

DKK 240.00

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Film Quotations - Robert A. Nowlan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Certain lines define a movie. Marlene Dietrich in Morocco: ""Anyone who has faith in me is a sucker."" Too, there are lines that fit actor and character. Mae West in I'm No Angel: ""I'm very quick in a slow way."" Jane Fonda in California Suite: ""Fit? You think I look fit? What an awful shit you are. I look gorgeous."" From the classics to the grade-B slasher movies, over 11,000 quotes are arranged by over 900 subjects, like accidents, double entendres, eyes (and other body parts!), ice cream, luggage, parasites, and ugliness. Each quote gives the movie title, production company, year of release, speaker of the line, and, when appropriate, a comment putting the quote in context.

DKK 791.00

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Marines Dodging Death - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Most Marine and Navy Corpsmen who have seen active combat have, at one time or another, experienced a close call when they were seconds or perhaps inches from death yet survived because of a quick reaction, divine intervention or just plain luck. From Pearl Harbor to Baghdad, this volume contains the stories of 62 Marines who narrowly escaped death while fighting in America''s wars. Inspired by the author''s own close call in May 1968, it recounts a great variety of harrowing experiences. Personal background from before and after the close calls provides a more human facet while additional research adds historical information to these fascinating stories of Marines and Navy Corpsmen.

DKK 334.00

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Ancient Roman Sports, A-Z - David Matz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Chariot races. Gladiatorial combat. Fishing. Hunting. Swimming. The ancient Romans enjoyed these sports--sometimes with fanatical enthusiasm. This reference book contains more than 100 entries covering sporting events and activities of the era, and the Romans who sponsored, competed in and attended them. Charioteer Appuleius Diocles, in a career spanning 24 years, competed in 4,257 races, winning an astounding 1,462 of them. Alypius, the young friend of St. Augustine, was both drawn to and repulsed by gladiatorial battles and struggled to shake his mania for the spectacle of blood sport. Brief abstracts of the entries are included for quick reference, along with an expansive glossary and biographical notes on the ancient authors cited.

DKK 608.00

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The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia - David A. Waples - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Quick, the Dead and the Revived - Joseph Maddrey - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Architect of Death at Auschwitz - John W. Primomo - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Death Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005 - Harriet C. Frazier - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

I fart in your general direction! - Don H. Corrigan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

After Valkyrie - Don Allen Gregory - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

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

Legal Executions After Statehood in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah - R. Michael Wilson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The CASSIA Spy Ring in World War II Austria - C. Turner - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia - David Garrett Izzo - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Virginia Woolf and the Power of Story - Linda Nicole Blair - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Romancing the Zombie - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

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

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

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

Surviving Theresienstadt - Vera Schiff - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American Sports in an Age of Consumption - Cory Hillman - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Evelyn Brent - Lynn Kear - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Music at the Extremes - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Easing Pain on the Western Front - Paul E. Stepansky - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality - Richard M. Langworth - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Carbon Boycott - Samuel C. Avery - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Film Quotations - Robert A. Nowlan - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Marines Dodging Death - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Ancient Roman Sports, A-Z - David Matz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

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