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Reducere. This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one...

Reducere. DescriptionAn up-to-date and comprehensive herpetological guide to Alabama Lizards and Snakes of Alabama is the most comprehensive taxonomy gathere...

Reducere. Southern Wonder explores Alabama s amazing biological diversity, the reasons for the large number of species in the state, and the importance of th...

Memoir of a writer's growing disenchantment with his evangelical upbringing Goodbye, My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus is Vic Sizemore's personal chr...

DescriptionA landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice Rhetorical Machines addresses new appr...

Reducere. Robins's writing on behalf of women's rights issues in the first quarter of the twentieth century represents an important contribution to feminist ...

Reducere. 112 full-color artistic photographs of watermills still standing on the North American landscape The scenic beauty of the watermill is undeniable. ...

Reducere. These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, a...

DescriptionCherokee identity as revealed in fishing methods and materials. In Eastern Cherokee Fishing, life histories, folktales, and reminiscence...

Reducere. A seasoned cardiologist shares his experiences, opinions, and recommendations about heart disease and other cardiac problems A Strong and Steady Pu...

Reducere. The sweeping story of an ambitious and once-powerful southern family From Reconstruction through the end of World War II, the Bankheads served as t...

Reducere. Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to...

DescriptionRiley propelled entomology from a collector's parlor hobby of the nineteenth century to the serious study of insects in the Modern Age T...

Reducere. The fascinating story of Ignaz Semmelweis, a nineteenth-century obstetrician ostracized for his strident advocacy of disinfection as a way to preve...

DescriptionA probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment Writing tends to be characterized as a positive aspect o...

DescriptionA definitive analysis of the most successful tribute system in the Americas as applied to Afromexicans During the eighteenth century, hu...

Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk, covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War Captain Alfred Scott Mc...

This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misc...

An in-depth political study of Alabama's government during the Civil War Alabama's military forces were fierce and dedicated combatants for the Con...

Reducere. Thirteen Tennessee Ghosts and Jeffrey is a deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduct...

An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), En...

Reducere. For as long as Mississippi has existed (and then some), flocks of phantoms have haunted the mortal inhabitants of the Magnolia State. In Thirteen M...

A visually rich survey of two hundred years of Alabama fine arts and artists Alabama artists have been an integral part of the story of the state, ...

Reducere. Jeffrey's Latest Thirteen: More Alabama Ghosts is a deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern au...

DescriptionAn exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies Many of the ethical issues raised by new technologies have n...

Reducere. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 19...

DescriptionA personal account of Commodore Perry's landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy George B. Gideon Jr. served as seco...

Reducere. When Ronald Sukenick's first novel, UP, came out in 1968, post-modernism, avant-pop and autofiction hadn't been invented yet. UP invented them. Ron...

Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. This memoir i...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Brings to life Gertrude Stein's surrealist sensibilities and personal values borne from her WWII anxieties, not least of which originated in a drea...

Explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art....

Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen a...

A manga artist who is afraid that she herself is slipping into a cartoon version of life, a lab technician who makes art with the cloning technolog...

Publisher: The University of Alabama PressAuthor(s): Kristin JohnsonNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 31Cover type:...

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the '50s and '60s and the Language poets in the '70s and '80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an import...

This deeply moving story chronicles the tenacity and vision that carried Carl Elliott from the hills of northwest Alabama to eight distinguished te...

Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950 is a look at the quilts of the state from before Alabama was part of the Mississippi Ter...

Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

Reducere. In the first chronological and gripping narrative of the events that crippled Phenix City, Alabama, Margaret Anne Barnes tells the true story of ho...

Analyses landmark US Supreme Court cases involving children's free speech and due process rights and argues that our ideas about civic and legal ju...

Reducere. Provides a narrative history of the American communist movement in the South during the 1930s. Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPU...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Takes a new approach to the question of how female regionalist fictions represent "the economic" by situating them within traditions of classical p...

Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Thi...

Investigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie del...

Expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by B...

Offers a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip ...

Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the ...

Describes naval tactics and weaponry precisely, and provides information gleaned from translations of the orders from the Japanese high command to ...

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

Pivots away from commonplace accounts of the origins of Jewish politics and focuses on the ongoing activities of actors instrumental in the theolog...

The first major anthology of writing that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives in the early decades of the 21st century. ...

Chronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II - creatures intimately linked to ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe weather patterns and topography of America's Gulf Coast create favorable growing conditions for thousands of species of mushrooms, b...

The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmer...

"The Poisoned Chalice" examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal...

Analyses how Indigenous women's migration contributes to women's empowerment in their home communities in Guatemala. This decolonial ethnographic a...

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 admi...

Tells the story of the greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands. The story has been passed through generations for over two...

Reducere. The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1920s and ea...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera traces the development of the Florida-Alabama coast as a tourist destination from the late 1...

Offers an uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors. In 2013 Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters e...

Examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the cultur...

Reducere. America's most populous region is also home to some of the nation's most serenely beautiful country. Tracing a gentle, thousand-mile curve from New...

Reducere. In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose ...