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Roger L Hammer

Exploring Everglades National Park and the Surrounding Area

This is the ultimate guide to discovering the vast "River of Grass" ecoregion of the southern Florida mainland. Packed with photographs, maps, and informative text, this guide will help outdoor …

Where Southern Soul Began (Limited Indie Edition)

Das Goldene Zeitalter des Southern Soul dauerte von etwa 1962 bis 1975, als die Disco ihm das Herz aus dem Leib riss. Und auch wenn es den Anschein hat, dass die Mischung aus Country, Gospel und R & B, di…

Matt Atkinson

Confederate Gibraltar

Disasters threatened Vicksburg on both ends of the Mississippi River early in the war. South of the mighty bastion, New Orleans--one of the Confederacy's most important cities--fell in April 1862. Memphis…

L Patrick Burrows

Theology in Place

A pathbreaking study of the role space and place play in theological thoughtWhat does Christian theology have to do with place? How does theology influence the spaces and places in which we live? How does…

John M Dunn

Climate Crossroads

How communities across the US South are fighting to save their home from the effects of environmental changeRising seas, extreme heat, fragile infrastructure, and longstanding social inequities make the A…

Counting Our Blessings

Counting Our Blessings is a journey through the lives of forty-one New Orleanians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Their experiences and reflections offer a clarifying view of the assistance, promis…

Florida's Lost Galleon

The history and groundbreaking discovery of a 1559 shipwreck and an ill-fated early Florida colonyHonorable Mention, North American Society for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Marit…

Counting Our Blessings

Counting Our Blessings is a journey through the lives of forty-one New Orleanians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Their experiences and reflections offer a clarifying view of the assistance, promis…

Roberta Brandes Gratz

Fearless Philanthropy

In Fearless Philanthropy, Roberta Brandes Gratz tells the story of Edith Rosenwald Stern---rich, progressive, and Jewish---who arrived in New Orleans in 1921, the wife of successful cotton broker Edgar Bl…

Bob H Lee

Bad Guys, Bullets, and Boat Chases

The dangerous lives of wildlife officers in backcountry FloridaImagine yourself alone in the wilderness holding two lawbreaking suspects at gunpoint. No onlookers, no backup. Just you in the dark, in the …

Sebastian Edwards

The Chile Project

How Chile became home to the world's most radical free-market experiment-and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the re…

Mississippi, Conflict and Change

Written by James W. Loewen, Charles Sallis, Byron D'Andra Orey, Jeanne M. Middleton, R. Bruce Adams, James A. Brown, Olivia Jones Love, Stephen C. Immer, and Maryellen Hains ClampitOriginally published in…

Jere Nash

Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877

Throughout the ten-year period following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the national and international economy, and to congressional …

Shakil Rabbi

The Language Movement in Bangladesh

The Language Movement in Bangladesh charts the Bangla Language Movement from a rhetorical perspective. Following Partition in 1947, major conflicts over land, religion, power, and language characterized t…

Deepti Anand, Sanghamitra Chatterjee

India Through Iconic Maps

A collector's edition measuring a prodigious 11.5 x 15.5 inches, India Through Iconic Maps is a sight to behold -- an unprecedented display of the scale, story and beauty of mapmaking in India.A collector…

Stephen J Gordin, Carl E McArn

Mississippi Conviction

Mississippi Conviction: Betrayal, Brotherhood, and the Fall of the Klan recounts a remarkable and underreported story of conscience, courage, and moral reckoning at the height of the civil rights era in M…

Where Southern Soul Began Vol.2: 1955 - 1962

Jay Watson

Ruinate Green

The Lost Cause legend has been a stumbling block for artists and progressives in the U.S. South for more than a century and half, but lost causes of an ecological cast have also been a major problem for A…

Wright Thompson

The Barn

The instant New York Times bestseller • Named the #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year by TIME , A Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post , Slate , Vanity Fair , Buzzfeed , Smithsonian , BookPage , KCUR ,…