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The New Deal And Beyond - Social Welfare In The South Since 1930

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 This collection of ten original studies covers a wide range of issues related to the regional distinctiveness of welfare provision in the South and the development of the larger federal welfare state. The studies examine New Deal and Great Society programs from the WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps to Social Security and Medicare.
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Eyesores

by Eric Shade

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 These 11 interrelated stories follow strands of hope and nostalgia that bind together, or fence off, the people of Windfall. Eric Shade's fictional western Pennsylvania community is a place bypassed by the interstate, its rail line clogged with coal cars that haven't moved an inch in years.
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A Difficult Grace - On Poets, Poetry, And Writing

by Michael Ryan

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 Informed by his own experience as a poet and writer, A Difficult Grace examines the lives and works of some of the great poets, deftly combining literary history, critical writing by the writers themselves, and Ryan's expert understanding of their work.
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The Logbooks - Connecticut'S Slave Ships And Human Memory

by Anne Farrow

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 Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting
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The Director Within - Storytellers Of Stage And Screen

by Rose Eichenbaum

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 Intimate portraits of famous directors of stage and screen
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Tashlinesque - The Hollywood Comedies Of Frank Tashlin

by Ethan De Seife

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 The long-overdue study of an important American filmmaker
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Educating For Eco-Justice And Community

by C. A. Bowers

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 Bowers outlines a strategy for educational reform that confronts the rapid degradation of our ecosystems by renewing the face-to-face, intergenerational traditions that can serve as alternatives to our hyper-consumerist, technology-driven worldview.
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A Fly Fisherman'S Blue Ridge

by Christopher Camuto

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 This new edition offers readers a chance to revisit a contemporary classic of fly fishing literature, a book that takes the reader through a year of fly fishing backcountry mountain streams from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Camutoâ€™s love of trout fishing is wedded to a keen awareness of both history and nature.
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Conversations With Cuba

by C. Peter Ripley

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 Here is a fresh story behind this passionate, struggling, frequently discouraged, but always proud country, told by ordinary Cuban citizensâ€"the people who still struggle with a revolution that is far from over. Ripley gives us an inside look at Cuba that reveals a moving portrait of a country and an uncommonly civil society.
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A Companion To V.

by J. Kerry Grant

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 Grantâ€™s Companion to â€œV.â€ takes us through the novel chapter by chapter, breaking through its daunting surface by summarizing events and clarifying Pynchonâ€™s many allusions. The Companion draws extensively from existing critical and explicative work on V. to suggest the range of interpretations that the novel can support.
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Poetry As Persuasion

by Carl Dennis

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 Focusing on the relation of the poet to the reader, Carl Dennis proposes that poems are acts of persuasion and that the strength of a poem's speaker is the key to winning the reader's sympathetic attention. Dennis identifies the qualities of passion, discrimination, and inclusiveness as essential in creating a compelling speaker.
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Neat Pieces - The Plain-Style Furniture Of Nineteenth-Century Georgia

by Atlanta History Center

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 An extensively illustrated survey of the major forms and makers of the "plain style" of furniture made and used by Georgians in the 1800s. Simply designed, solidly constructed of local woods, and usually unadorned, such pieces were used daily. Today, this furniture is read by historians, folklorists, and others for clues into a past way of life.
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Hey, Bug Doctor! - The Scoop On Insects In Georgia'S Homes And Gardens

by Jim Howell

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 Each insect's illustrated profile describes the bug's appearance, diet, behavior, and impact on the natural and built environments. Like Howell's widely read newspaper columns, the profiles offer unusual facts, popular myths, and stories of real-life encounters.
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The Muse In The Machine - Essays On Poetry And The Anatomy Of The Body Politic

by T.R. Hummer

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 Explains how, for the author, such concerns as music, race, politics, and conscience revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics. The author writes about the suicide of poet Vachel Lindsay, the culture wars at the National Endowment for the Arts, and more.
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Liberty'S Captives - Narratives Of Confinement In The Print Culture Of The Early Republic

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 A variety of captivity narratives emerged in the fifty years following the American Revolution. This book brings together various types of captivity narratives, and shows how the captivity narrative, in the nation-building years from 1770 to 1820, helped to shape national debates about American liberty and self-determination.
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Evangelism And Resistance In The Black Atlantic, 1760â€“1835

by Cedrick May

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 This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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The Muse In The Machine - Essays On Poetry And The Anatomy Of The Body Politic

by T. R. Hummer

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 Music, race, politics, and conscience. In these eight essays written over the span of a decade and a half, T. R. Hummer explains how, for him, such abiding concerns revolve around the practice of poetry and the evolution of a culturally responsible personal poetics.
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Two Cities - On Exile, History, And The Imagination

by Adam Zagajewski

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 In this varied collection of deeply personal, lyrical essays and short sketches, leading contemporary Polish poet Adam Zagajewski contends with the effects of coming of age, both artistically and intellectually, in a totalitarian regime.
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An Outdoor Guide To Bartram'S Travels

by Alan R. Cattier, Charles D. Spornick, Robert J. (All Of Emory University, Usa) Green e Robert J. Greene

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 From 1773 to 1777, naturalist William Bartram journeyed through the American South from the Carolinas to Florida to the Mississippi River. This guide reconstructs as closely as possible the original routes that Bartram took, supplemented with maps, photographs and sidebars.
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Charles W. Chesnutt And The Fictions Of Race

by Dean Mcwilliams

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 Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private writings and his well-known and recently rediscovered works, McWilliams explores Chesnutt's distinctive contribution to American culture: how his stories and novels challenge our dominant cultural narrativesâ€"particularly their underlying assumptions about race.
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Critical Fictions - Sentiment And The American Market, 1780-1870

by Joseph Fichtelberg

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 A crucial addition to American literary criticism on sentimental literature, Critical Fictions is a groundbreaking analysis of the relations between commercial and sentimental discourses in early American literature as well as a history of early American economics. It will appeal to specialists as well as to the general reader.
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Essays On Nature And Landscape

by Susan Fenimore Cooper

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 A collection of ten pieces by Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894) that represent her most accomplished nature writing and the fullest articulation of her environmental principles. The introduction analyses each essay in various cultural contexts. Brief notes supplement the essays.
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They Are Sleeping - Poems

by Joanna Klink

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 In They Are Sleeping, Joanna Klink tests the limits of solitude, setting her poems in places where our grip on â€œselfâ€ is loosened and blurredâ€"caves, coastlines, rooms in cities.
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A Crash Of Rhinos - Poems

by Paisley Rekdal

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 In these quizzically probing and provocative poems, atoms and torture, tattoos and laundromats, mug shots, the theory of light, and such personalities as Joe Louis and Bruce Lee join in shaping a simultaneously personal and historical narrative of love, family, and desire.
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