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In this latest collection from Laurence Gonzales, we go from the top of Mount Washington to 12,000 feet beneath the ocean, where a Naval Intelligence Officer discovers the Titanic using the government's own spy equipment. We experience night assaults with the 82nd Airborne Division, a trip to the International Space Station, and more.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Staredown offers inside reporting from the dressing room before some of last year's biggest fights, in-depth investigations into corruption in boxing, and more.

"Glances back to generational narratives of immigration, moving from south to north exploring seasonal field work and factory labour. By looking to ancestral narratives of Mexican American immigrants, the poems examine spatial and geographic boundaries and linguistic and mental intersections." - from the Preface

"...celebrates the body - its rise and fall, ebb and flow, in a carnival of parties-restlessly, shamelessly, searching for a way out. Even as Abughattas claims that 'I can't believe sometimes I have a body', her poems teem with an awareness of the body's unavoidable centrality in our lives" - from the Preface

Offers a fresh perspective on the German speakers who settled in a modernizing Arkansas. Mining a valuable newspaper archive, Condray sheds light on how these immigrants navigated their new identity as southern Americans.

Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume set portraying the work of a multitude of artisan cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and more working in communities all over Arkansas.

The first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by Arkansas writer Donald Harington (1935-2009). Featuring the long-lost suspense novel of the title and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories, this volume adds new chapters to the fictional Ozarks village that serves as the setting for more than a dozen Harington novels.

Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume set portraying the work of a multitude of artisan cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and more working in communities all over Arkansas.

From national championships to intra-communal play and the elimination of racial, ethnic, and gender barriers, the essays in Seattle Sports explore the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in, and reinforced by, play.

Explores the Oprah's Book Club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the story of the OBC phenomenon. This book reveals the club's far-reaching cultural impact and its role as crucible for the clash between ""high"" and ""low"" literary taste.

Brings together the voices of both new and established Arab American writers in a compilation of creative nonfiction that reveals the stories of the Arab diaspora in styles that range from the traditional to the experimental.

The job of regional literature is twofold: to explore and confront the culture from within, and to help define that culture for outsiders. Taken together, the two centuries of Ozarks literature collected in this ambitious anthology do just that.

Counterculture flourished across the US in the 1960s and 1970s. Off the beaten path in the Arkansas Ozarks a faction of back to the landers were quietly creating their own counterculture haven. Jared Phillips collects oral histories and delves into archival resources to provide a fresh scholarly discussion of this group.

Traces the history of the coffee bean, beginning with its cultivation and brewing as a private pleasure in the highlands of Ethiopia and Yemen before its emergence as a common comfort.

Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance.

The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. In Defending the American Way of Life, leading sport historians present new perspectives on high-profile issues in this era of sport history to highlight the ways that sports influenced and were influenced by Cold War politics.

J. William Fulbright (1905-1995) was a prominent member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, where he called for participation in an organisation that became the UN. Fulbright drew on his extensive experience in international relations to write The Arrogance of Power, a sweeping critique of American foreign policy.

Explores the importance of the cultivation, provision, trade, and exchange of foods and beverages to technological advancement, conquest, and maritime exploration. These essays show how the sharing of food and drink forged social, religious, and community bonds, and how ceremonial feasts strengthened ties and solidified ethnoreligious identity.

Examines the rhetorical power of storytelling in cookbooks to fortify notions of southernness. Carrie Helms Tippen brings to the table her ongoing hunt for recipe cards and evaluates a wealth of cookbooks with titles like Y'all Come Over and Bless Your Heart and famous cookbooks such as Sean Brock's Heritage.

Finalist, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeYa Te Veo takes as its title the name of a mythical tree that eats people. Like the branches of that tree, the poems in this book seem to capture and nourish themselves on a diverse cast of would-be passers-by, drawing their life-force from the resulting synthesis of characters. Among the seized are poets and painters alongside musicians from Garth Brooks to Wu-Tang Clan to the composer Morton Feldman, whose mysterious personality serves as a backdrop in many poems for meditations on intimacy, ethics, and anxiety.As the phrase "e;ya te veo"e; ("e;I see you"e;) implies, this is a book interested in revealing what we think is hidden, in questioning the gap inside all of us, a gap between what we feel and what we say and do, making space for our many contradictions.Like the works of Feldman, these poems focus and recede, experimenting with form in order to accomplish a state of deep concentration. They impersonate sonnets, ghazals, terza rima, monologues, translations, and freestyles, but inexactly, embracing failed imitation as an opportunity to remix the familiar.

Details how the 2016 presidential election developed in the eleven states that make up the South. Preeminent scholars of Southern politics analyse this momentous election, including the issues that drove southern voters, the nomination process in early 2016, and where the region may be headed politically in the Trump era.

Provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity. So much more than a commodity study, Meanings of Maple frames a new approach for evaluating the broader implications of iconic foodways, and it will animate conversations in food studies for years to come.

President Clinton enjoyed the support of African Americans during his political career, but the man from Hope also had a complex and tenuous relationship with this faction of his political base. Brother Bill examines President Clinton's political relationship with African Americans and illuminates the nuances of race and class at the end of the twentieth century.

In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall's long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet's signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language; surprising metaphor; humour; irony; idiomatic speech; and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom.

Portrays the Black Panther Party in New Orleans in 1970, a year that included a shootout with the police on Piety Street, the creation of survival programs, and the daylong standoff between the Panthers and the police in the Desire housing development. This title tells a story that unfolds amid guns, tear gas, desperate poverty, and oppression.

Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. This is a biography Siki.

Brings together the stories of twelve young people, all vastly different but all American, and all Muslim. These individuals, whether they were born to the religion or came to it on their own, have made their own decisions about how observant they'll be, whether or not to fast, how often to pray, and what to wear.