Author: Roger L. Kem
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: public, officials, citizens, handbook, practices, government, election, local
Number of Pages: 495
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0786405678
ISBN-13: 9780786405671

The book provides an introduction to local election practices, a review of traditional election methods, and a discussion of future issues, potential solutions, and their implications. Complete details are given for such practices as the ward system, at-large plurality system, combined system, limited voting, cumulative voting, proportional representation, and alternative voting, and their myriad variations. Two appendices detail the National Civic League’s suggested election guidelines.

Author: Jean Maddern Pitrone
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: social, history, dime, five, american, woolworth
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 2003-03-12
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0786414332
ISBN-13: 9780786414338

For more than a century, Woolworth?s five and dime stores represented Americana, mirroring the country?s growth, its good times and bad, its foibles and its fads. The chain was founded by Frank W. Woolworth, who in 1879 established two stores?one in Utica, New York, which failed and was closed down, and another in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which succeeded and marked the beginning of the legacy of the Woolworth?s Five and Tens. This work is a full account of the chain, its rags-to-riches founder, Frank W. Woolworth, and his flamboyant and tragic descendants. It traces the important role that Woo

Author: Vicki Anderso
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: literature, children, novel, dime
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2004-11-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0786418435
ISBN-13: 9780786418435

Frequently identified as sensational literature filled with violent characters, intricately woven plots, changing identities and confusion between issues of right and wrong, many considered the Dime Novel guilty of sending serious and improper messages to the day’s impressionable youth. Though read by many from the middle of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, these short, pocket-sized publications were severely criticized. This work looks at the authors, publishers, illustrators, and subject matter of the dime novel. Other types of children’s literature, such as story pa

Author: Andrei Lankov
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: north, korea, life, essays, dmz, daily
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2007-04-24
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786428392
ISBN-13: 9780786428397

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 existence.This book describes that difficult but determined existence and the world that the North Koreans have created for themselves in the face of oppression. Many features of this world are unique and even bizarre. But they have been created by the citizens to reflect their own ideas and val

Author: H. J. Irwi
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: fourth, parapsychology, introduction
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0786418338
ISBN-13: 9780786418336

Reviews of earlier editions: "Excellent…comprehensive…well written…high quality…recommended for public, college and university libraries"—Choice; "highly recommended...give[s] an intelligent overview…clear...organization is excellent"—The Journal of Parapsychology; "fills the gap because it is up to date, formally written, and wide in scope...a particularly useful resource for students and teachers alike...as a textbook, Irwin’s book is the best of its kind"—Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research; "an invaluable source book for students and would-be students of parapsy

Author: Brent Kelley
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: baseball, heroes, conversations, revisited, leagues, negro
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0786408758
ISBN-13: 9780786408757

This is a followup volume to the acclaimed ("wonderful book"-Booklist/RBB; "a solid contribution"-MultiCultural Review) Voices from the Negro Leagues, which featured interviews with 52 former Negro League players from the 1920s to 1960s. Interviewed in this new volume are Bobby Robinson, Double Duty Radcliffe, Red Lindsay, Pullman Porter, Earl Wilson, Sr., Percy Reed, Joe Burt Scott, Willie Simms, Bo Campbell, Big Train Dudley, Mex Johnson, Buck O’Neil, Herbert Barnhill, Bernard Fernandez, Dick Powell, Jimmy Barnes, Charlie Biot, Monk Favors, Alton King, Buster Haywood, Casey Jones, Hick

Author: Thomas K. Perry
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: mill, teams, carolina, south, league, baseball, textile
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2004-01-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0786418753
ISBN-13: 9780786418756

After the Civil War, the Yankee textile industry began a steady transfer south, bringing with it the tradition of a mill village, usually owned by the mill’s owner, where the workers and their families lived. The new game of baseball quickly became a foundation of mill village life. A rich tradition of textile league baseball in South Carolina is here reconstructed from newspaper accounts and interviews with former players and fans. Players such as “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and Champ Osteen made their marks as “lintheads” in these semipro leagues. The fierce rivalries between competing mills