Choice Reviews Online April 2014

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Zarnowski, Frank.  American work-sports: a history of competitions for cornhuskers, lumberjacks, firemen and others.  McFarland, 2013.  230p bibl  index  afp ISBN 9780786467846 <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9780786467846> pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780786491261 ebook <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9780786491261 ebook>, contact publisher for price (reviewed in CHOICE April 2014).

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Surdam, David George.  Run to glory & profits: the economic rise of the NFL during the 1950s.  Nebraska, 2013.  433p bibl  index  afp ISBN 9780803246966 <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9780803246966>, $55.00 (reviewed in CHOICE April 2014).

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Smil, Vaclav.  Made in the USA: the rise and retreat of American manufacturing.  MIT, 2013.  263p bibl  indexes  afp ISBN 9780262019385 <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9780262019385> pbk, $27.95 (reviewed in CHOICE April 2014).

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Sax, Boria.  Imaginary animals: the monstrous, the wondrous and the human.  Reaktion Books, 2013.  278p bibl ISBN 9781780231730 <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9781780231730>, $39.00 (reviewed in CHOICE April 2014).

 Full review available online: http://www.cro3.org/lookup/doi/10.5860/CHOICE.51-4212

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Rutherford, Jennifer.  Zombies.  Routledge, 2013.  111p bibl  index ISBN 9780415524476 <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9780415524476>, $100.00; ISBN 9780415524483 <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9780415524483> pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9780203101841 ebook <http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/9780203101841 ebook>, contact publisher for price (reviewed in CHOICE April 2014).

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