{"id":56876,"date":"2022-10-10T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=56876"},"modified":"2022-10-10T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:12:45","slug":"forthcoming-mcfarland-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/forthcoming-mcfarland-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming McFarland books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do publishers make it so difficult to find out about forthcoming books? For instance, the McFarland website has no way to search by <em>all books<\/em> + <em>latest, by date<\/em>. But after some naughty URL-hacking by me, <a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/?orderby=date&#038;paged=1&#038;s=&#038;search_id=product&#038;post_type=product\">they do now<\/a>. Though even then you still have to manually open the book blurb fold-away section for each and every page. And then another section to get the publication date. Sigh. Oh, for a unified all-publishers news-feed for all forthcoming non-fiction books in English. Hint: it&#8217;s definitely not Amazon, which is rubbish at that and also clogged up with shovelware and &#8216;blank notepads&#8217; junk.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, some possible forthcoming or just-out McFarland titles of interest to <em>Tentaclii<\/em> readers. As always with McFarland, some will be gems, some clunkers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/ancient-stone-sites-of-new-england-and-the-debate-over-early-european-exploration-2d-ed\/\">Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration<\/a><\/em> (2nd Edition)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/reading-the-great-american-zombie\/\">Reading the Great American Zombie: The Living Dead in Literature<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/the-dark-side-of-g-k-chesterton\/\">The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton<\/a><\/em> (&#8220;explores the darker fringes of his wild imagination&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/music-and-the-paranormal\/\">Music and the Paranormal: An Encyclopedic Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/fantastic-serial-sites-of-california\/\">Fantastic Serial Sites of California: Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Locations, 1919\u20131955<\/a><\/em> (screen filming locations)<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/how-to-misunderstand-tolkien\/\">How to Misunderstand Tolkien: The Critics and the Fantasy Master<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/beowulf-in-comic-books-and-graphic-novels\/\">Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/the-writer-and-the-cross\/\">The Writer and the Cross: Interviews with Authors of Christian Historical Fiction<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/product\/the-knights-templar-in-popular-culture\/\">The Knights Templar in Popular Culture<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do publishers make it so difficult to find out about forthcoming books? For instance, the McFarland website has no &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/10\/10\/forthcoming-mcfarland-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56879,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56876\/revisions\/56879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}