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An expansive look into the first 100 years of film music, this book delves into music in the movi...

In September 1999, the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh presented North Carolina and t...

In 1907, General J. Franklin Bell, Army Chief of Staff, changed the troubled Regular Army's white...

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Through conducting painstaking research and dozens of interviews, Robert Gaunt produced an except...

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This book studies masks in worldwide mythology and religion, the stories they tell, and the cerem...

Covers sex in William Blake's works and Blake's personal views about sex, and offers a more gener...

Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide the na...

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How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? Will...

The Scottish novelist Alistair MacLean didn't speak English until he was six, but he went on to b...

Originally published in 1999, this book won the Nelson Ross Award for 'Outstanding Recent Achieve...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a small family-owned German company made and exported the world's...

Of the many stories from Hollywood's vibrant, free-wheeling pre-Code era, one of the most intrigu...

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In the wild and woolly world of 1980s Texas Wrestling, the brightest star of all was Gino Hernand...

Blending practical advice, personal stories and historical context, this book highlights North Ca...

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This work explores the interconnectivity of Southern Appalachia with other regions of the United ...

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Since the beginning of the foundation of the United States of America, dance and music combined h...

Award-winning author John Kenneth Muir returns for his fifth 'Horror Films of' decade book for Mc...

Sometime in the distant past, a human being noticed his or her reflection in a body of water. And...

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Incorporating recent scholarship and new archival discoveries, this is the updated biography of o...

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