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Lucy Audubon: A Biography (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Intelligent, adaptable, and strong-willed, Lucy Bakewell Audubon was, DeLatte shows, the partner Audubon needed for his life and for his work. As noted Audubon expert Christoph... Læs mere
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The Burden of Southern History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of... Læs mere
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If the Heart Is Lean: Stories (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The sixteen stories in Margaret Luongo's If the Heart Is Lean etch sharp portraits of people in odd and sometimes surreal situations who thus have the opportunity to view their lives from a unique perspective.
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Moroccan Households in the World Economy: Labor and Inequality in a Berber Village (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides a detailed study of the rhythms of highland Berber life, from the daily routines of making a living in such a demanding environment to the relationships between individuals, the community, and the national economy.
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Emancipating New York: The Politics of Slavery and Freedom, 1777-1827 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An innovative blend of cultural and political history, this is the most complete study to date of the abolition of slavery in New York... Læs mere
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Myself Painting: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to recreate for readers the inexpressible feeling that comes from creating art, with poems that speak not of painting itself but of its underlying process.
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Figure Studies: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Poet Claudia Emerson begins Figure Studies with a twenty-five-poem lyric sequence called “All Girls School”, offering intricate views of a richly imagined boarding school for girls.... Læs mere
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Whirl Is King: Poems from a Life List (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ranging in tone from the elegaic to the comic, Whirl Is King collects 43 of Brendan Galvin's poems about human encounters with birds. Written over the past five... Læs mere
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Conjure in African American Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Traces the origins and evolution of conjuring practices across the centuries. Though some may see the study of conjure as a perpetuation of old stereotypes that depict blacks as bound to superstition, the truth, Jeffrey Anderson reveals, is far more complex.
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The Earl of Louisiana (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 Governor Earl K. Long's commitment to... Læs mere
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Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so... Læs mere
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Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and pageantry among... Læs mere
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