University of Georgia Press

From Empire to Revolution is the first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716-1785). Greg Brooking uses Wright's life as a means to...

Author: Marylyn TanPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0820362425ISBN-13: 9780820362427

A seventy-year-old Northwestern journalism professor, Loren Ghiglione, and two twenty-something Northwestern journalism students, Alyssa Karas and Dan Tham, climbed into a minivan and embarked on a...

By state law, graduates of public colleges and universities in Georgia must demonstrate proficiency with both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions. This widely used textbook helps students to satisfy...

Green City Rising is an ethnographic account of collective organizing for environmental justice in an era of growing concern about environmental and climate challenges. The conventional...

Beginning in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a new generation of LGBT students in California began to organize publicly on college and university campuses, inspired by contemporaneous social...

Author: Jim ParhamPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: April 01, 2016Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1889596345ISBN-13: 9781889596341

Author: Jonah McDonaldPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: April 01, 2014Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1889596299ISBN-13: 9781889596297

Hiking South Carolina's Foothills TrailAuthor: Scott LynchPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: April 01, 2015Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

In this his fourth collection, award-winning poet Kyle Dargan examines the mechanics of the heart and mind as they are weathered by loss. Following a spate of deaths among family and friends, Dargan...

Brian Doyle himself explains it best: ?A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and...

Originally published in 1992, this is Diann Blakely's first volume of poetry. With this collection, Blakely artfully mines the empathic center of each poem, fearlessly crafting an achingly personal...

Susan Cerulean's memoir trains a naturalist's eye and a daughter's heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist's lifelong search to...

Author: Patrick Earl RyanPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 082035807XISBN-13: 9780820358079

The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These...

All across the world, irreplaceable habitats are under threat. Unique ecosystems of plants and animals are being destroyed by human intervention. From the tiny to the vast, from marshland to meadow,...

Debra Monroe has always written about the source of trouble, "that one incident you zero down to and everything bad that happens afterward happens because of it." The illusion that every problem has...

As an installment of UGA Press's 'History in the Headlines' series, this book offers a rich discussion between highly respected scholars on the historical backdrop and context for contemporary...

These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor...

About a week after the [Montgomery Bus Boycott] started a white woman who understood and sympathized with the Negroes' efforts wrote a letter to the editor . . . comparing the bus protest with the...

The allure of the Appalachian Trail has drawn hikers from all around the world to walk its 2,193 miles from Georgia to Maine. In Killing the Buddha on the Appalachian Trail John Turner hikes those...

At the Dreamland, women and girls flicker from the shadows to take their proper place in the spotlight. In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and...

Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to...

Despite the increasing volume of scholarship that shows children as political actors, prior to this book, a cohesive framework was lacking that would more fully examine and express children's...

In this scary, funny, and slyly political short story collection, Kate McIntyre conjures a fever dream of contemporary Kansas. Boundaries between fantasy and reality blur, and grotesque acts birth...

This book explores the significant contributions of African American women radical activists from 1955 to 1995. It examines the 1961 case of African American working-class self-defense advocate Mae...

In Mapping Conquest, Kathryn H. Braund offers a unique collection of twelve manuscript maps of the Horseshoe Bend battleground, drawn by soldiers in the aftermath of the March 27, 1814 battle. A...

Written in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to the explosive as it dissects the...

At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not tough enough for her job managing a...

Author: Hawk HagebakPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2015Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1889596310ISBN-13: 9781889596310