University of Georgia Press

Both the story of Monroe's steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. Funny, poignant, wise, "My...

After reading J. A. Baker's fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg,...

There's a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish and asks, "How's the water?" The younger fish are puzzled. "What's water?" they ask. Many of us today might ask a similar...

Nuggets of Gold offers a new interpretation of the place of industrial food production, consumption, and conceptions of eating and health within the contemporary American died by explaining the...

Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings...

Despite peace agreements, demobilization, and reintegration processes, the end of war does not automatically or necessarily make combatants abandon their wartime rebel networks. In Liberia such...

Rewriting Citizenship provides an interdisciplinary approach to antebellum citizenship. Interpreting citizenship, particularly how citizenship intersects with race and gender, is fundamental to...

Asheville, NC has all the elements that make for superb road biking--a year-round riding climate, varied terrain, scenic backroads that see light automotive use, and a cycling-friendly population...

Just over fifty years ago on January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade assured millions of women that abortion was a protected constitutional right due to a woman's...

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that is one of only a handful of places that can truly be said to...

Rosa Parks: In Her Own WordsAuthor: Susan ReyburnPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: December 15, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Describing more than 120 species of salamanders occurring in the eastern United States, ecologists Whit Gibbons, Larry Wilson, and Joe Mitchell, provide us with the most comprehensive and...

Author: Chekwube DanladiPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 082035810XISBN-13: 9780820358109

Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known,...

Social Roots is a militantly interdisciplinary volume that draws on contributions from inside and outside the academy to explore the relationships between nature and culture as expressed in the...

SOFT APOCALYPSE pirouettes in the anemic glow" of late capitalism and its induced chronicities, its lyrics performing in the civic pocket, in the offbeat, and by arrhythmias that offer an...

Author: Jasmine Elizabeth SmithPublisher: University of Georgia PressPublication Date: Feb 15, 2022Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0820360902ISBN-13:...

Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis...

Of all the Heartbreakers tracks available to come through her headphones as Megan Volpert stood over train tracks preparing to surrender to the psychedelic blindness of simple human misery, Straight...

Essays and musings considering the elusive and evocative idea of perfection that traverse topics that are at once ordinary and elemental: the house she and her husband once thought was "perfect,"...

A universal look at how we as human beings handle our greatest losses--Author: Christopher SalernoPublisher: University Of Georgia PressPublication Date: Feb 15, 2017Number of Pages: 80...

Survival Strategies is a love story wrapped in a reckoning. Arranged in three parts, this collection of poems follows a narrative arc.The speaker, who is returning to the Sonoran of her birth after...

Thaw delves into the issues at the core of a resilient family: kin ship, poverty, violence, death, abuse, and grief. The poems follow the speaker, as both mother and daughter, as she travels through...

Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy,...

Beginning in an era before traffic jams, air-conditioning, and Atlanta's ascension to international fame, Tim Darnell chronicles the emergence of amateur and minor-league baseball in various forms in...

?I am learning the alchemy of grief--how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted--but I have not yet mastered this art,? writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly...

This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails...

The Decade of Letting Things Go is a book of linked essays containing still-relevant experiences that take place after the age of becoming socially and/or professionally invisible, as the author...

Lydia Paar joined the American workforce at age 14, holding a wide variety of jobs (27, at last count) between then and now, across 25 different homes in eight states. The essays in this collection...

Georgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not...