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Explores the many pieces that support our natural environment. Whether describing caterpillar disguises, fish that produce antifreeze, the mutual reliance of rhinoceroses and Trewia trees, or the origins of tumbleweed, hit affirms the delicate and intricate biological relationships between species and encourages a deeper knowledge of our natural world.

Drawing on the judicial opinions and private correspondence of six chief justices whose careers spanned both the region and the century, the author analyzes their conceptions of their roles and the substance of their opinions related to cases involving homicide, economic development, federalism, and race.

Presents foundational texts in American wine making. This volume collects important writings on viticulture by Nicholas Herbemont (1771-1839), who is widely considered the finest practicing winemaker of the early United States.

Looks at masculinity and markets in the urban South. This work examines secret fraternal organizations in Antebellum Virginia to offer fresh insight into masculinity and the redefinition of social and political roles of white men in the South. It also looks at how dominant groups craft collective identities.

Tells the story of Georgia's rich folk pottery tradition - the historical forces that shaped it and the families and individual artisans who continue to keep it alive. This book provides discussions of the folk potters' contributions to Georgia life and their place in southern society.

Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the ""2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics"", the ""1986 Harper Perennial Library"", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.

Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is grounded in the lived experience of Finnish immigrants Anna and Abe Malm.

Re-creates the life of Varina Anne (Winnie) Davis, the youngest child of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America. This book measures the massive weight of memory on individuals caught up in the sweep of history.

Challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. This book sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and develops it in the context of the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.

Examines the broader history of commemoration in the United States by focusing on the George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Virginia's Northern Neck, where contests of public memory have unfolded with particular vigor for nearly eighty years. This book looks at patriotism and collective memory.

Includes one of the best works done on the concept of wilderness, underappreciated essays from the early twentieth century that offer an alternative vision of the concept and importance of wilderness, and writings meant to clarify or rethink the concept of wilderness.

Suitable for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper - or in a Web site or e-book, this title helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing. It is an atlas that contains maps to the remarkable places in each person's life that have yet to be explored.

Explores some caves on earth: from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. This book details the natural history and spiritual territory of these caves.

A collection of poems which navigate the course of the male experience, and particularly young fatherhood. It places the poet midway between the lives of his parents and the lives of his children and celebrates the simultaneity of experience that allows him to be, all at once, father, son, and boy.

Contains poems which examine American identity through the latent possibilities of language.

A collection of poems which meditate on the natural world.

A collection of essays, which explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, and England.

A collection of poems which explores the emotional landscape of childhood without confession and without straightforward narrative. It focuses on the psychological tenor of experience: the underpinnings of identity and the role of nature in both constructing and erasing a self.

A guide to Georgia's diverse herpetofauna, which provides information about 170 species of frogs, salamanders, crocodilians, lizards, snakes, and turtles. It stresses on conservation, documenting declines in individual species as well as losses of local and regional populations.

Argues that barbecue is an invented tradition, much like Thanksgiving - one long associated with frontier mythologies of ruggedness and relaxation. This book shows how the perception of barbecue evolved from Spanish colonists' first fateful encounter with natives roasting iguanas and fish over fires on the beaches of Cuba.

Reviews the key aspects of the creation-evolution debate in the United States. This book discusses the response to Darwinism, the US controversy over teaching evolution in public schools, and the religious views of American scientists. It looks at the 2006 Dover, Pennsylvania, court decision on teaching Intelligent Design and other such cases.

Spanning fourteen years, these interrelated stories are connected by the pasts of childhood friends Orion McClenahan and Helen Jowalski. A freak accident changes their lives forever; the stories are about the people Orion and Helen grow up to be, the people they love, and the people they lose along the way.

From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges. This title looks at how such educations, influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in social reforms of the Progressive Era South.

Includes poems that create a call and response across six generations of family of the fictional Silas Wright, a black man born in 1907. This title takes on the voices and experiences of diverse characters in or connected to the Wright family.

Presents a collection of fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them.

Offers a new frame of analysis for historians to understand how novel assertions of legal spatiality and extraterritoriality were deployed in US foreign relations during an era of increased national ambitions and global connectedness.

A collection of essays, which argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America's moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and human rights.