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Sports

The world's most popular sports, from baseball, football, and hockey to archery tennis, and squash, are covered in this colorful introduction that delineates the equipment, rules, and history of each game

By Tim Hammond and Dave King (illustrator)

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9780394896168 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection | 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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9780394996165 | Random House Childrens Books, September 1, 1988, cover price $20.99 | also contains From Pea to Pumpkin: A Baby Journal | 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.

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science

Product Description: This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ronald R. Thomas

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9780521653039 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie.

Paperback:

9780521527620 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This is the first book about the relationship between the development of forensic science in the nineteenth century and the new literary genre of detective fiction in Britain and America--from Poe, Dickens and Hawthorne through Twain and Conan Doyle to Hammett, Chandler and Christie.

Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body

Product Description: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Gill Plain

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9781579583408 | Routledge, May 1, 2001, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: First Published in 2001.

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9780748610877 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, April 26, 2001, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: This text uses contemporary theories of gender and sexuality to challenge the dominant perception of crime fiction as a conservative gender.

Crime Fiction Since 1800: Detection, Death, Diversity

Product Description: Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern...read more

By Stephen Knight

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9780230580732 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2010), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world.

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9780230580749 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2010), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world.

Pond and River

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

By Steve Parker

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9780789458384, titled "Pond & River" | Dk Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year examines the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

9780394896151 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1988, cover price $19.00 | also contains The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection | 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.

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9780789465559, titled "Pond & River" | Dk Pub, June 1, 2000, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year examines the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

9780394996158 | Random House Childrens Books, January 1, 1989, cover price $20.99 | also contains Changes: A Child's First Poetry Collection | 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.

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9780833550101, titled "Pond & River" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $28.35 | About this edition: A photo essay about the range of plants and animals found in fresh water throughout the year examines the living conditions and survival mechanisms of creatures dwelling at the edge of the water, on its surface, or under the mud.

The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room: Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and Film

Product Description: Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime. Yet in spite of its apparent valorization of rationality, the detective genre has been associated from its inception with three paradoxical motifs â the double, the labyrinth and the locked room...read more

By Ilana Shiloh

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9780820468433 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 15, 2010, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Traditional detective fiction celebrates the victory of order and reason over the senseless violence of crime.

Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel

Product Description: Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, this critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolary fiction, trial reports and prose monologue...read more

By A. B. Emrys

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9780786447862 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 1, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era.

The Millennial Detective: Essays on Trends in Crime Fiction, Film and Television, 1990-2010

Product Description: International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century...read more

By Malcah Effron (editor) and Stephen Knight (foreword by)

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9780786458516 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 19, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction.

Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story

Product Description: Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and a handful of other writers. The 19th century was actually awash in detective stories, though many, like the so-called detective notebooks, are so rare that they lay beyond the reach of even the most dedicated readers...read more

By Leroy Lad Panek

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9780786467877 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 29, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Traditionally, the history of detective stories as a literary genre begins in the 19th century with the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and a handful of other writers.

From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban American Crime Fiction

Product Description: This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century. Contemporary authors, writing in both English and Spanish, have created new hybrid forms of the crime fiction genre that explore the problematic cultural interaction between Cuba and the United States...read more

By Helen Oakley

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9783039110216, titled "From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American Crime Fiction" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 31, 2011, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: This book focuses on Cuban and Cuban-American crime fiction of the 1990s and early twenty-first century.

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-boiled Detective Transformed

Product Description: Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism. This book focuses on Raymond Chandler's creation of Philip Marlowe, a detective whose feeling for community and willingness to compromise radically changed the genre's vigilantism and violence...read more

By John Paul Athanasourelis

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9780786442157 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 6, 2011, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged individualism.

Ed McBain / Evan Hunter: A Literary Companion

Product Description: One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle...read more

By Elizabeth Foxwell (editor) and Erin E. Macdonald

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9780786434886 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 3, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns.

In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero

By Otto Penzler (editor)

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9781935618577 | 1 edition (Benbella Books, April 24, 2012), cover price $14.95

100 American Crime Writers

By Steven Powell (editor)

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

The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography

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

By Drewey Wayne Gunn

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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.

The Crime Fiction Handbook

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

By Peter Messent

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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.

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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.

Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing

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

By Justin Gifford

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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.

Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard

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

By Charles J. Rzepka

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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.

Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction

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 impulsesâtheorized as contamination and containmentâexplain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner...read more

By Pamela Bedore

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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 impulsesâtheorized as contamination and containmentâexplain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.

The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis

By Charles Brownson

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9780786477692 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 2, 2014, cover price $29.95

Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction

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

By John Cullen Gruesser

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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.

America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture

By Erik Dussere

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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

The Metaphysics of Detective Marlowe: Style, Vision, Hard-boiled Repartee, Thugs, and Death-dealing Damsels in Raymond Chandler's Novels

By Mircea Mihaies

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

Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery, A Biography

By Sally Cline

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9781611457841 | Arcade Pub, February 4, 2014, cover price $22.95

The Hard-boiled Female Detective Novel: A Study of a Popular Literary Genre

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.

By William R. Klink

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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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