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Beating The Breaks - Major League Ballplayers Who Overcame Disabilities

by Rick Swaine

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 Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. More than 20 players who have overcome their disabilities to have major league careers are profiled in this work.
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Five Years Behind Hitler'S Barbed Wire - A Diary Of French Officers In A German Prison Camp, 1940-1945

by Adam Refregier e Henri Natter

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 On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria. Prisoners of war of the Third Reich, they had arrived at Oflag XVIIA, a quad of grim looking barracks encircled by barbed wire, their new home for the next five years.
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Monsters And Monstrosity From The Fin De Siecle To The Millennium - New Essays

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 Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago. This collection of essays covers 150 years of enduringly popular Gothic monsters who have shocked and horrified audiences in literature, film and comics.
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When Baseball Returned To Brooklyn - The Inaugural Season Of The New York-Penn League Cyclones

by Ed Shakespeare

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 Major league baseball has a long, rich history in Brooklyn. This work follows the rookie-level club's first season, bridging the present to the past with comparisons of the Cyclones to the Dodgers of yesteryear. Each day of the season, which ran from mid-June to early September, is covered.
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Pro Football Championships Before The Super Bowl - A Year-By-Year History, 1926-1965

by Joseph S. Page

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 While the NFL Super Bowl has become a worldwide cultural event, the annual league championship had a long history even before the first Super Bowl in January, 1967. From the first title game in 1926 this history offers a narrative of each game, including line-ups, box scores, and team statistics.
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Beyond Ballyhoo - Motion Picture Promotion And Gimmicks

by Mark Thomas Mcgee

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 This volume examines motion picture promotion and gimmicks.
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Great Displays For Your Library Step By Step

by Susan P. Phillips

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 Helps in designing and creating visual statements for library spaces. Beginning with a variety of suggestions for drawing inspiration, this book offers advice on utilizing everyday materials to create economical presentations on topics as diverse as authors, world cultures, traditions, natural habitats and book genres.
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The Women Who Made Television Funny - Ten Stars Of 1950s Sitcoms

by David C. Tucker

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 Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air. This book pays tribute to 10 prominent television actresses who played lead roles in popular comedy shows of the 1950s. Each chapter covers the works and personalities of one actress: Lucille Ball (I Love Lucy), Gracie Allen, Joan Davis, and others.
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Theatre In A Media Culture - Production, Performance And Perception Since 1970

by Amy Petersen Jensen

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 Demonstrates how mediatization, or the adoption of the semantics and the contexts of mass media, has changed the way American theatre is produced, performed, and perceived. This work includes chapters that use various works to demonstrate the shifting nature of live performance.
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Bringing Classes Into The Public Library - A Handbook For Librarians

by Lucretia I. Duwel e Martha Seif Simpson

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 Articulates the reasons and defines a strategy for promoting a program of class visits to the public library, including instructions and templates.
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Suntanning In 20th Century America

by Kerry Segrave

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 Examining the 20th century suntan as a social and scientific phenomenon, this illustrated book debunks the myth that changing attitudes toward the tan sprang largely from the world of fashion. Initial pro-tanning medical hype, negative opinions of sunbathing, development of sunscreens, debate over its efficacy, and the sunless tan are covered.
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Kipling And Afghanistan - A Study Of The Young Author As Journalist Writing On The Afghan Border Crisis Of 1884-1885

by Neil K. Moran

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 A historical biography providing a perspective on Kipling's days as an employee of the Civil and Military Gazette. Information garnered from uncovered letters and diaries of Dr. Owen gives personal insight into Kipling's life as well as perceptions of the Boundary Commission's work.
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Baseball Scorekeeping - A Practical Guide To The Rules

by Andres Wirkmaa

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 Here, Andres Wirkmaa leads the reader through the daunting maze of rules that govern official baseball scorekeeping. Chapters explain and clarify the official scorer's duties, responsibilities and authority; the official scorer's reports; and all the game-to-game details.
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Arthur Kennedy, Man Of Characters - A Stage And Cinema Biography

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 An exploration of Arthur Kennedy's film and stage career, film-by-film and play-by-play, providing pictures, synopses and commentaries for each one. It includes acting anecdotes from Kennedy himself or from his peers in film and on stage, such as Errol Flynn, Elia Kazan and Humphrey Bogart.
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Down And Dirty - Hollywood'S Exploitation Filmmakers And Their Movies

by Mike Quarles

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 Taboo breakers and trend setters, shameless hucksters and famous directors, exploitation filmmaking has seen it all. This collection features ""classic films"" such as ""The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"" and ""Nude On The Moon"".
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The Films Of Peter Greenaway - Sex, Death And Provocation

by Douglas Keesey

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 Explores nine of Peter Greenaway's feature films, dedicating a chapter to each. This book examines the characters and plot, studies the structure and elements of the story, explores Greenaway's motives and reactions, and reveals audience reactions, including comments from viewers.
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Ellison "Tarzan" Brown - The Narragansett Indian Who Twice Won The Boston Marathon

by Michael Ward

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 Ellison ""Tarzan"" Brown was one of America's premier marathon runners during the 1930's and 1940's. This volume tells the story of his life from the beginning of his budding career in the early 1930's through his untimely death in 1975. It covers events such as Brown's first Boston Marathon victory and his trips to the 1936 and 1940 Olympic Games.
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The War Aims And Strategies Of Adolf Hitler

by Oscar Pinkus

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 This evaluation of Hitler's objectives in World War II expands upon a theory gaining prominence among historians: Hitler's true motive was a crusade against the East, and he had little interest in waging war with England, much less the United States.
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The Boys - The Cinematic World Of Laurel And Hardy

by Scott Allen Nollen

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 This text evaluates the work of Laurel and Hardy. It summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to other contemporary comedians. Brief biographies analyse early solo films and the development of the team. Attention is given to cinematic and comic style.
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American Journalism - History, Principles, Practices

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 These 39 essays cover the theory and practice of print, radio, and TV news reporting. Politics and partisanship, press and the government, gender and the press corps, presidential coverage, war reportage, technology and news gathering and sensationalism are all covered in the book.
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Pearl Harbor Survivors - An Oral History Of 24 Servicemen

by Harry Spiller

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 Here are 24 personal accounts of servicemen who survived the Pearl Harbor attack. These accounts cover in detail the location of each of the men and his experience during and after the attack. General information about Pearl Harbor is also included.
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The King Arthur Myth In Modern American Literature

by Andrew E. Mathis

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 In American fiction, two forms of the Arthurian myth are commonly found: the use of the myth for political reasons, and the use of the myth for the continuation of an aesthetic tradition.
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Say Goodnight, Gracie - The Last Years Of Network Radio

by Jim Cox

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 This work examines what could be called the final decade of AM network radio and the many factors that contributed to its decline. The first chapter is an overview of AM radio in the 1950s. Subsequent chapters detail its demise, discuss changes in programming and the rise of ""drive time"" radio.
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A Cunning Kind Of Play - The Cubs-Giants Rivalry, 1876-1932

by Warren N. Wilbert

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 Warren N. Wilbert's history of the rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants begins in 1876, when the Cubs won the first NL championship. The story ends in 1932 when John McGraw stepped down as manager of the Giants.
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