Mcfarland Company Inc Publishers imprint: 86 books
A MiG-15 to Freedom: Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953
Memoir of the Wartime North Korean Defector Who First Delivered the Secret Fighter Jet to the Americans in 1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
On September 21, 1953, U.S. airmen at Kimpo Air Base near Seoul, Korea, were startled to see landing a MiG-15, the most advanced Soviet-built fighter plane of the era, piloted by Senior Lieutenant No Kum-Sok, a 21-year-old North Korean Air Force officer. Once he landed, Lieutenant No found that his...
Between Two Evils: The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp
The World War II Memoir of a Girl in Occupied Warsaw and a Nazi Labor Camp
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
This vivid memoir describes the author's experiences as young girl in Poland, forced to flee to Warsaw after the Nazi bombing of Brest at the outbreak of World War II. She recounts the realities of life in occupied Poland, including the arrest by the Gestapo of her father and his death soon after...
by John Kenneth Muir
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in Little China), his films reflect a unique approach to filmmaking and singular views...
Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
This group of new critical essays offers multidisciplinary analysis of director Peter Jackson's spectacularly successful adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). Part One of the collection,...
Terror Television
American Series, 1970-1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Although horror shows on television are popular in the 1990s thanks to the success of Chris Carter's The X-Files, such has not always been the case. Creators Rod Serling, Dan Curtis, William Castle, Quinn Martin, John Newland, George Romero, Stephen King, David Lynch, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, Aaron...
The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2010
Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, marched, elected civic leaders, infiltrated law enforcement, and committed crimes ranging from petty vandalism to assassination and mass murder. This is...
North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea
Essays on Daily Life in North Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime manage to transcend his tyranny in their daily...
by Hunt Janin, Ursula Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
In medieval and Renaissance Europe, mercenaries--professional soldiers who fought for money or other rewards--played violent, colorful, international roles in warfare, but they have received relatively little scholarly attention. In this book a large number of vignettes portray their activities in...
by Harvey J. Irwin and Caroline A. Watt
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2007
This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of our highly acclaimed university textbook on the science of parapsychology. The objective of this book is to provide an introductory survey of parapsychologists' efforts to explore the authenticity and bases of anomalous, apparently paranormal phenomena....
Baseball's Creation Myth
Adam Ford, Abner Graves and the Cooperstown Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven false...
The Deaths of the Popes: Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places and Epitaphs
Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places and Epitaphs
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
The traditions associated with a pope's death have changed from when they were buried in the catacombs of Rome. Various ceremonies, rites and rituals developed over time, but a formal procedure was not initiated until the early 1300s and even then was not always strictly followed. This comprehensive...
The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book
Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their "far-ranging web of wit and allusion,"...
The Kansas City Athletics
A Baseball History, 1954-1967
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
The Athletics spent thirteen seasons in Kansas City before moving to Oakland--a colorful history despite one of the worst records in baseball history. Even so, many of the players who were part of the world championship teams in Oakland in the 1970s began their careers in Kansas City. This work presents...
The Fearless Harry Greb
Biography of a Tragic Hero of Boxing
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
The legendary Harry Greb stepped into the ring more than 300 times from 1913 to 1926, defeated opponents who outweighed him by more than 30 pounds, held the middleweight and light heavyweight titles and beat every Hall of Fame boxer he ever fought. Dubbed "the Pittsburgh Windmill" because...