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A photographic art book featuring 110 colour renderings of watermills still standing on the landscape in North America, with brief captions (location, year built, type of mill, etc). It is in an oversized coffee-table format with introductory front matter on history of mills and closing back matter on mill interiors and functions.

Across a host of issues such as the advent of fake news, climate-science denial, and Bernie Madoff's appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. This book provides a scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods.

Meditations on the ways grief is felt and harvested--the funny, the sorrowful, the surreal, and the unmentionable

"The second volume of American Examples presents nine new essays with fresh multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the place of faith, broadly understood, in America, broadly understood"--

Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda

Compares the faith and politics of former Confederate chaplains during the Reconstruction period, and argues for some counterintuitive understandings of their beliefs and practices in the post-war period

A richly researched account of the social, racial, and political history of a major Deep South infantry division at home and in the Pacific

Winner of FC2's Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize A universal story of exile, of the refugee and emigrant, and of all those displaced who can reconstruct a sense of home only by weaving a new fabric of the imagination

A visually stunning narrative of three eras in humankind's vexed relationship with nature

The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs that helped them create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation

An illustrated account of the life and work of the pioneering photographer. The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston draws on original papers and photographs from the Library of Congress to document the extraordinary life and nearly seventy-year career of this pioneering photographer.

Presents letters to a sister who perished in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, and in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised.

The literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition.

Provides a study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England.