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Reducere. In the summer of 1959, A. J. Liebling, veteran writer for the New Yorker, came to Louisiana to cover a series of bizarre events that began with Gov...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanis...

In lush verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can result from destructive situations, encompassing ecological devastat...

Reducere. This study encompasses a complete history of Louisiana's isleno community from the Spanish era to the late 20th century.

Reducere. Located at the narrow end of the funnel-shaped Mississippi flyway zone, south Louisiana serves as a seasonal stopover for wintering birds from all ...

Reducere. A father and son shovel snow from a driveway; a boy accidentally sets himself on fire; two boys fish for bluegill; a young drag queen returns home ...

Reducere. A. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house. In a career that includes designing more than five hundred homes, he led architects, builders...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Craig W. MarksButterflies abound in every region of the Bayou State, and with this authoritative resource in hand, both the...

"Dying never / ends for us. It only slowly rearranges us, " writes Steve Scafidi in his poignant new collection. Inspired by his own work as a cabi...

Reducere. A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk im...

Reducere. A prominent Louisiana political scientist makes plain the reasons for the state's political peculiarities. In the popular American imagination, Lou...

Reducere. In this debut collection, Chanda Feldman's stunning poems unveil her childhood as well as that of her parents. Memories of desegregation, the days ...

Reducere. The percussive poems of Stripper in Wonderland move from birth to death, funk to hip-hop, and racism to religion as Derrick Harriell explores the l...

Reducere. In comical and complex poems, David Kirby examines our extraordinarily human condition through the lens of our ordinary daily lives. These keenly o...

Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical disc...

Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical disc...

Reducere. Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn K. Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidel...

DescriptionAlthough we remember John James Audubon's years in Louisiana primarily for the art he produced there, his writings reflect the profound ...

Reducere. Description"Slavery and American Economic Development is a small book with a big interpretative punch. It is one of those rare books about a famili...

Reducere. The core of the LSU campus is an example of what we can do when we set our sights high. It stands out today as one of the most successful and inspi...

As a work of documentary poetry, Naming the Leper demonstrates that a term like "leper", whether a stigma attached to patients suffering from illne...

Time and the Tilting Earth shows Miller Williams at his sharpest. When he tells us "it's hard to be understood and make that look easy, " he descri...

In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Kla...

In Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and why it remains a vital part of poetry with connections to...

"Splendid. . . . McAlexander's biography only makes it clearer than ever that Peter Taylor was our last great southern man of letters."--Chicago Tr...

A rare Sephardic Jew in the Old South and a favorite of Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin has been described as "the brains of the Confederacy." H...

Beads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman's trumpet. The first in a...

Reducere. Notes from a Divided Country, Kim's first collection of poetry, confronts a number of difficult subjects - colonialism, the Korean War, emigration,...

Reducere. New Orleans is a city of many storied streets, but only one conjures up as much unbridled passion as it does fervent hatred, simultaneously polariz...

Billy Cannon's name, his image, and his remarkable athletic career serve as emblems for Louisiana State University, the Southeastern Conference, an...

Reducere. Louisiana Young Readers' Choice AwardMolly the pony waits. She waits in her stall. She waits during the storm. She waits for her owner to return.So...

Traditional histories of the Civil War describe the conflict as a war between North and South. Kenneth Noe, following the lead of environmental his...

Explores the moral and ethical dilemmas that characters face inside themselves and in their interactions with others in the works of these two fame...

As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word 'tacky' has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called 't...

Reducere. Over the past thirty years, forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manhein has helped authorities to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Loui...

Neon Revelations tracks the groundbreaking career of comics innovator and iconoclastic auteur Howard Chaykin and the impact of his work on the tran...

Reducere. Nestled on the banks of the Cane River, Natchitoches (pronounced NAK-i-tush) is perhaps the most beautiful inland town in Louisiana. Founded in 171...

Examines blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of Gamerg...

Reducere. A quiet tour de force, Chris Bachelder's Abbott Awaits transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, startlingly depicting the intense and poigna...

Reducere. Universally and repeatedly praised ever since it first appeared in 1983, Modern Baptists is the book that launched novelist James Wilcox's career a...

Reducere. DescriptionLeaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny tr...

The compelling memoir of a single white mother searching to understand why her adopted biracial son grew from a happy child into a troubled young a...

The only comprehensive account of the Battle of Fort Fisher and the basis for the television documentary Confederate Goliath, Rod Gragg's award-win...

Reducere. In John Kennedy Toole's iconic novel, Ignatius J. Reilly is never short of opinions about food or far away from his next bite. Whether issuing gibe...

Reducere. When Generals in Gray was published in 1959, scholars and critics immediately hailed it as one of the few indispensable books on the American Civil...

Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn her debut poetry collection The Glacier s Wake, Katy Didden attends to the large-scale tectonics of the natural world as she cons...

Reducere. Taije Silverman's debut collection chronicles her family's devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured...

Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's bestselling comedy of England's newspaper business of the 1930s is the closest thing foreign correspondents have to a bible -...

Huey "Piano" Smith's musical legacy stands alongside that of fellow New Orleans legends Dr. John, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, and Allen Toussaint. Hi...

Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and Prej...

Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particula...

Reducere. Clementine Hunter (1887--1988) painted every day from the 1930s until several days before her death at age 101. As a cook and domestic servant at L...

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

Reducere. Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last ...

Chunyan Li is a course instructor with many years of experience in teaching about time series analysis. His book is essential for students and rese...

Drawing on his adulthood in academe, Richard Katrovas's memoir in essays chronicles a quest to locate surrogate fathers among older poets and other...

Gathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The book o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Susan V. DonaldsonFirst published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural...

Reducere. DescriptionNew Orleans: The Underground Guide shows visitors how to experience the Big Easy like a local, looking past staples like beignets and Bo...

Reducere. "A sensitive and forthright analysis of one of the most gruesome episodes in Florida history... McGovern has produced a richly detailed case study ...

Reducere. At nearly 1.4 million acres, the Atchafalaya Basin in south central Louisiana comprises America's largest swamp wilderness. Award-winning nature ph...

Reducere. Unsurpassed since their publication fifty years ago, Ezra J. Warner s Genderals in Blue and Generals in Gray provide a complete guide to the milita...

Argues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Evere...

Reducere. The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13, 000 Fe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Earl J. HessDuring the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transpor...

Reducere. M m re's Country Creole Cookbook showcases regional dishes and cooking styles associated with the "German Coast, " a part of southeastern Louisiana...

Explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. Lowell Gudmundson explores ...

Reducere. A native of western Flanders, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq served in several posts as diplomatic representative for the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I (Ki...

Investigates the mystery and unease surrounding the issue of women called before the Inquisition in Spain and its colonial territories in the Ameri...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...