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Presents a farmer's ode to the watery microcosms all around us, from the half-acre farm pond to the suburban garden pool. This work includes lessons and opportunities for good work and good play; and is suitable for backyard naturalists, do-it-yourselfers, and armchair gardeners.

A collection of 19 essays by David Rothenberg, observer of the interplay between nature, culture and technology. In settings that range from wildest Norway to his own front porch in New York, he discusses the Hudson River School of painters, ecoterrorism, suburbia, the World Wide Web, and more.

In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four continents she has visited or called home. Recording personal and spiritual voyages, the author opens herself to follow the ambiguous, secret map of her memory, which ""does not betray."" Agosin writes of Diaspora, exile, and oppression.

Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers fresh perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times.

Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers fresh perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times.

Offering a look at the work of Paul Zimmer, this work contains twenty-three poems.

Set in what remains the wildest country in the United States, this book recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. The text tells the story of Andrew Gennett, one of the most successful lumbermen in Carolina in the early 20th century.

Poses a simple question: What makes a cultural phenomenon truly great? Exploring a variety of ""king-sized cultural monuments,"" this title argues that one qualification for greatness is that a phenomenon be embraced by both the elite and the general public, and that it must be embraced repeatedly over time.

Georgia politics is an interesting - and sometimes volatile - mix of tradition and change. This book uses a comparative framework to examine four major topics: the foundations of contemporary Georgia politics, political participation, major political institutions, and selected public policies.

Covering forty-five species of turtles, this guide provides descriptions of each species and its habitat. It includes information about the importance of turtle conservation and the biology, diversity, and life history of turtles. It also discusses distinguishing turtle characteristics; and differences among turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.

Spartanburg is a home away from home for BMW, Michelin, Ciba-Geigy, and numerous other European corporations. Enriching our understanding of what globalization means to millions of small-town, blue-collar Americans, this title looks at Spartanburg as a model of how determined communities can shape and influence globalization to their benefit.

Covers the long period from the colonial era into the twenty-first century, providing an interpretive introduction to the history of US relations with Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. This book provides an informed account of the role and place of the United States in the hemisphere.

Includes diaries that address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how males of different ages and regions resisted, modified, or flouted those ideals; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and more.

Set during the infamous Atlanta race riot of 1906, in which dozens of African Americans were killed or injured, this novel explores the tensions that exploded into three days of deadly mob violence through the intertwined stories of a white journalist, a black college professor, and the woman they both love.

An important figure in early American science and letters, William Bartram (1739-1823) has been known almost exclusively for his classic book, ""Travels"". This title presents material in the form of art, letters, and manuscripts that expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic.

Focuses on international law as the means of regulating and influencing international behavior. This work shows it to be a system unique in its nature - nonterritorial but secular, cosmopolitan, and traditional. It ranges across the series of cyclical processes and dialectics in international law to assess its prospects as a viable legal system.

Weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country - St Paul and Dante. This book offers an account of persistence, resourcefulness, and eclectic redefinition of success and community revival, with ramifications well beyond Appalachia.

For 350 years, Protestantism was the dominant religion in America - and its influence spilled over in many directions into the wider culture. Religious historian Martin E. Marty looks at the factors behind both the long period of Protestant ascendancy in America and the comparatively recent diffusion and diminution of its authority.

A study of the law and culture of slavery in the antebellum Deep South that takes readers into local courtrooms where people settled their civil disputes over property. This work sheds light on the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, and advances critical historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South.

As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. This work examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. It looks at novels as paradigms of feminist activism.

Expands the reach of ecocriticism by analyzing the ecological experiences, conceptions, and desires seen in African American writing. It identifies a theory of "ecological burden and beauty" in which African American authors underscore the ecological burdens of living within human hierarchies in the social order just as they explore the ecological beauty of being a part of the natural order.

Showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used in the state since the nineteenth century. This book also reveals how quilts serve as conduits of history and culture. It contains chapters that follow various threads of the craft, including Civil War - era quilts, the cotton economy, quilting groups, and more.

During the civil rights era, masses of people marched in the streets, boycotted stores, and registered to vote. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life changing. This work contains twenty-three stories that give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed.

Contrasts the author's Ivy League education to the experiences of his students at a small public college in a faded, gritty New England city. In this book, a teacher ponders the nature of meaningful learning, both in and beyond the classroom. It features essays that offer accounts of the trials of learning.

Presents 5 walks from each of Georgia's 4 geographic regions: Cumberland Plateau/Ridge and Valley (northwestern Georgia); Blue Ridge (northeastern Georgia); Piedmont (Georgia foothills and fall line); and Coastal Plain. Coverage of each walk includes directions and a trail map and information about: flowering season, flower habitats, and more.

A Spanish-language edition of ""The Latin Deli"", Judith Cofer's prizewinning collection of short stories, personal essays, and poems. This work opens a door into the lives of the Puerto Rican immigrants who live in or near an urban New Jersey tenement known as the ""El Building"".

Set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, this book depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism - gambling and other vices. It presents a novel which is filled with music, wisdom, and spontaneous joy.

Arranged in sections discussing southern agricultural history, Edmund Ruffin's observations on nature, his ideas about land reform, and his plans for soil rejuvenation. This volume offers his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. It presents a portrait of a progressive agronomist and pioneering conservationist.

Moving back and forth through the colonial and postcolonial eras of the American South and the Caribbean, the six essays in this volume take a fresh look at the regions' transnational linkages. These essays aim to challenge our notions about the cultural and economic trajectories of the African diaspora.

After he was handed an old, broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. This enterprise became the central metaphor and the theme for the essays presented in this book. It contains full color paintaings by the Alaskan artist, Kesler Woodward.