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A kaleidoscopic sequence of autofictional narratives about identity, grief, and narrative itself

Traces the life and career of an admirable and lesser-known civil rights figure who fought injustice on two continents. This account presents valuable new evidence about the civil rights movement in the United States as well as human rights and liberation issues in colonial Southern Rhodesia in the years leading up to independence and self-rule.

Collects Alan Golding's essays on the futures (past and present) of poetry and poetics. Throughout the 13 essays gathered in this collection, Golding skillfully joins literary critique with a concern for history and a sociological inquiry into the creation of poetry.

Explores how Rabbi Stephen S. Wise entirely changed the trajectory of American Reform Judaism over the course of the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first century.

Pottery analysis is a crucial component of excavating an archaeological site. Organic residues in pottery are made up of chemicals that absorb into pots over their lifetime. This book is a guide for mastering the technical specialty of organic residue analysis of pottery.

Explores the lives of wealthy plantation owners Betty and John Welch who lived on the southwestern edge of the Cherokee Nation. John was Cherokee and Betty was White. Lance Greene's study uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how and why the Welches reestablished their ways of life in the midst of a growing White population.

Offers the first book-length study of Jack London as a maritime writer.

The life and times of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro: political activist, clandestine operative, and prisoner of conscience.

Interspersed throughout with insights drawn from James Seay Brown's academic career and his work with a variety of Birmingham-area community organizations, this book traces a very personal, historically informed, and idiosyncratic profile of a region in transition in the mid to late twentieth century.

In this comprehensive critical study of the American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her work, Erickson demonstrates the poet's ability to combine close observation with a worldview presentation that is at once intuitive, kaleidoscopic, and optimistic.

Collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. The 75 reminiscences gathered here offer a much-needed account of Crane's life from a variety of viewpoints, as well as important information about the contributors themselves.

Chronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II - creatures intimately linked to damaged habitats that rise from the muck, not to destroy the world, but to save it. The book asks what happens to these landscapes after the madness and destruction. What monsters and magic surface then?

Presents a collection of essays that reassess history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice.

Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in this volume include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images, or symbols. These are rendered on pebbles, plaques, pendants, axes, pestles, and atlatl weights, and are of varying sizes, shapes and designs.

The life and times of Alabama folk potter Jerry Brown, as told in his own words.

A deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's home state of Alabama. This commemorative edition returns Windham's thrilling classic to its original 1982 keepsake quality and includes a new afterword by the author's children.

The remarkable and improbable story of the utopian single-tax social experiment that gave rise to one of the most unique and colorful communities in Gulf Coast south.

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the 99 known species of crayfishes inhabiting the state of Alabama

Examines a variety of texts - ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets - to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Paul Elliott Johnson focuses on key inflection points in the development of populist conservatism.

In this study of the role of ethics and moral responsibility in the field of public administration, Michael Harmon and O.C. McSwite posit that administrative ethics, as presently conceived and practiced, is largely a failure, incapable of delivering on its promise of effectively regulating official conduct in order to promote the public interest.

Defines and interprets the common persuasive devices that characterize fascist discourse to understand the nature of its enduring appeal, and which has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time.

Traces the life story of a nineteenth-century Hungarian obstetrician who was shunned and marginalized by the medical establishment for advancing a far-sighted but unorthodox solution to the appalling mortality rates that plagued new mothers of the day.

Identifies and describes 52 taxa (42 species and 10 additional subspecies) of tiger beetles that occur in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Stunning close-up photographs accompany current taxonomic and biological information.

Provides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition.

A hypnotic sojourn of planetary proportions through the terrestrial contingencies of bodies, health, poverty, and salvation.

A disturbed and sociopathic woman arrives unannounced and uninvited to an afternoon wedding, upending the lives of everyone present.

In her lush, lyrical, and unflinching short fiction debut, JoAnna Novak examines the restless throb of desire amid the rote work of jobs and obligations, from the walk-ins of a New York banquet kitchen to the pier of Venice Beach.

Offers a deeply researched epic family biography that reflects the complicated and evolving world inhabited by three generations of the extremely accomplished - if problematic - Bankhead family of northwest Alabama. Kari Frederickson's expertly crafted account traces the careers of five members of the family.

Provides an insider's perspective on the field of cardiovascular medicine told through vignettes and insights drawn from Gregory Chapman's three decades of experience. In twenty-six bite-sized chapters, Chapman provides an overview of cardiovascular diseases and treatments, illuminating the art and science of medical practice.