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9780802776402 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 15, 2015, cover price $26.00

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9781632866387 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 11, 2016), cover price $17.00

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By Brian Holsopple (narrator)

CD/Spoken Word:

9781511364324 | Mp3 una edition (Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, January 12, 2016), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors. Historically, the racist stereotypes often central to crime fiction and the socially conservative nature of the genre presented problems for writing the black experience, and the tropes of justice and restoration of social order have not resonated with authors who saw social justice as a work in progress...read more

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9780786499380 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 9, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An immensely popular genre, crime fiction has only in recent years been engaged significantly by African American authors.

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A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

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9780813937014 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 4, 2015, cover price $59.50
9780394896151, titled "Pond and River" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Pond and River | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year, examining the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.
9780394896168, titled "Sports" | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains Sports | About this edition: Examines the equipment, rules, and background of many different team, target, and court sports, including soccer, rugby, Gaelic football, softball, cricket, ice hockey, table tennis, archery, and pool.

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9780813937021 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 4, 2015, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: In her reading of detective fiction and passing narratives from the end of the nineteenth century forward, Jinny Huh investigates anxieties about race and detection.

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Product Description: In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour...read more

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9781472452535 | Ashgate Pub Co, April 28, 2015, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour.

Updated to cover new laws and standards, including Federal Safe Drinking Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Clean Air Act of 1990. Applies sanitation and engineering theory and principles to environmental control in urban, suburban and rural communities. Engineering design, construction, operation and maintenance details are provided throughout as they relate to plants and structures. Topics include: disease control, water supply, wastewater treatment and disposal, air pollution and noise control, radiation uses and protection, recreation areas, solid waste management and much more.

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9781137469656 | Palgrave Pivot, April 8, 2015, cover price $67.50
9780471523772, titled "Environmental Engineering and Sanitation" | Wiley-Interscience, April 1, 1992, cover price $250.00 | also contains Environmental Engineering and Sanitation | About this edition: Updated to cover new laws and standards, including Federal Safe Drinking Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Clean Air Act of 1990.

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Product Description: The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This book explores the development of detective fiction during the critical period between Conan Doyle's creation of Holmes and the advent of the Golden Age of the detective story during World War I...read more

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9780786477654 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 29, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work.

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Product Description: Small towns have long been a commonplace setting in cozy mysteries, but in recent years writers of realistic crime fiction have discovered fresh possibilities in small town settings. There they can take advantage of distinct facets of small town life--a sense of community, slower pace of life, proximity to nature--and yet deal with social, economic and environmental issues...read more

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9780786494286 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 20, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Small towns have long been a commonplace setting in cozy mysteries, but in recent years writers of realistic crime fiction have discovered fresh possibilities in small town settings.

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Product Description: The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics...read more
By Julie H. Kim (editor)

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9780786473236 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 3, 2014, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The crime fiction world of the late 1970s, with its increasingly diverse landscape, is a natural beginning for this collection of critical studies focusing on the intersections of class, culture and crime--each nuanced with shades of gender, ethnicity, race and politics.

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Product Description: A study that explores women heroines in detective fiction written by women authors. It features heroines who subvert pop culture's traditional stereotypes for women. It further examines how this sub-genre has changed over time as does the popular culture it embodies.

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9780773442962 | Edwin Mellen Pr, February 15, 2014, cover price $249.95 | About this edition: A study that explores women heroines in detective fiction written by women authors.

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9780739186572, titled "The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe: Style, Vision, Hard-Boiled Repartee, Thugs, and Death-Dealing Damsels in Raymond Chandler’s Novels" | Lexington Books, December 20, 2013, cover price $80.00

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9780199969913 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 1, 2013, cover price $105.00

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9780199969920 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 2013, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction (the origins of which derive in part from turn-of-the-20th-century notions about gender, race and nationality), and it concludes with a discussion of contemporary mystery series with inner-city settings that address black male and female heroism...read more

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9780786465361 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 28, 2013, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts.

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Product Description: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses―theorized as contamination and containment―explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner...read more

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9781137288646 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 6, 2013, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses―theorized as contamination and containment―explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.

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Product Description: Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating "cool" characters. In Being Cool, Charles J. Rzepka looks at what makes the dope-dealers, bookies, grifters, financial advisors, talent agents, shady attorneys, hookers, models, and crooked cops of Leonard's world cool...read more

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9781421410159 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 13, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special knack for creating "cool" characters.

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Product Description: Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer, promised the cover of" Run Man Run," Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition. In "Pimping Fictions," Justin Gifford provides a hard-boiled investigation of hundreds of pulpy paperbacks written by Himes, Donald Goines, and Iceberg Slim (aka Robert Beck), among many others...read more

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9781439908105 | Temple Univ Pr, January 25, 2013, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: Lush sex and stark violence colored Black and served up raw by a great Negro writer, promised the cover of" Run Man Run," Chester Himes' pioneering novel in the black crime fiction tradition.

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9781439908112 | Temple Univ Pr, January 25, 2013, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: "A volume in The American Literatures Initiative"--P.

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Product Description: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts. Provides an accessible and well-written introduction to the genre of crime fiction Moves with ease between a general overview of the genre and useful theoretical approaches Includes a close analysis of the key texts in the crime fiction tradition Identifies what makes crime fiction of such cultural importance and illuminates the social and political anxieties at its heart...read more

Hardcover:

9780470657034 | Blackwell Pub, December 18, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

Paperback:

9780470657041 | Blackwell Pub, November 28, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, focusing mainly on American British, and Scandinavian texts.

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Product Description: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded...read more

Hardcover:

9780810885882 | New edition (Scarecrow Pr, November 8, 2012), cover price $94.00 | About this edition: In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953.

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9780810856813 | Scarecrow Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In 1953, Rodney Garland's The Heart in Exile was published, marking the first time a gay sleuth was featured in a novel.

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By Steven Powell (editor)

Hardcover:

9780230525375 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 4, 2012, cover price $100.00

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