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University of Florida Press
9781683402602
Pub Date: 5/24/2022
$35.00
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392 Pages Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics TEC002000
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Life in Space
NASA Life Sciences Research during the Late Twentieth Century
Maura Phillips Mackowski
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A little-known yet critical part of NASA history
Life in Space explores the many aspects and outcomes of NASA’s research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor that has often been overlooked in histories of the space agency.
Maura Mackowski details NASA’s work in this field from spectacular promises made during the Reagan era to the major new directions set by George W Bush’s Vision for Space Exploration in the early twenty-first century.
At the first flight of NASA’s space shuttle in 1981, hopes ran high for the shuttle program to achieve its potential of regularly transporting humans, cargo, and scientific experiments between Earth and the International Space Station. Mackowski describes different programs, projects, and policies initiated across NASA centers and headquarters in the following decades to advance research into human safety and habitation, plant and animal biology, and commercial biomaterials.
Contributor Bio
Maura Phillips Mackowski, a research historian based in Arizona, is the author of Testing the Limits: Aviation Medicine and the Origins of Manned Space Flight.
University Press of Florida
9780813066547
Pub Date: 9/1/2020
$28.00
Discount Code: trade
Hardcover with printed dust jacket
296 Pages
True Crime TRU000000
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Star Crossed
The Story of Astronaut Lisa Nowak
Kimberly C. Moore
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This book is a behind-the-scenes look at the bizarre crime of astronaut Lisa Nowak, who drove 900 miles to intercept and confront her romantic rival in an airport parking lot—allegedly using diapers on the trip so she wouldn’t have to stop.
The astronaut crime that shocked the world Star Crossed transports readers to the moment the news broke that one of America’s heroes, an astronaut who had flown aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery just months before, had been arrested for a very bizarre crime.
Lisa Nowak had driven 900 miles from Houston to Orlando to intercept and confront her romantic rival in an airport parking lot—allegedly using diapers on the trip so she wouldn’t have to stop. Nowak had been dating astronaut William “Billy” Oefelein when she learned that Oefelein was seeing a new girlfriend—U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman. The “astronaut love triangle” scandal quickly made headlines. The world watched as Nowak was dismissed from NASA, pleaded guilty to a felony, and received an “other than honorable” military discharge.
An award-winning investigative reporter who covered Nowak’s criminal case, Kimberly Moore offers behind-the-scenes insights into Nowak’s childhood, her rigorous training, and her mission to space.
Contributor Bio
Kimberly C. Moore is an award-winning investigative reporter based in central Florida who covered Lisa Nowak's criminal case for Florida Today She also served as an anchor and reporter in Israel during the first Gulf War, covered the United States Congress and White House, and reported on multiple space shuttle launches.
University of Florida Press
9781683404064
Pub Date: 4/30/2024
$60.00
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344 Pages Political Science / Public Policy POL063000
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Space Policy for the Twenty-First Century
Wendy N. Whitman Cobb, Derrick V. Frazier
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Summary
A foundational resource for both students and professionals, this book provides a comprehensive, accessible overview of major space policies in the United States and a framework through which to analyze them.
It examines all facets of space policy—civilian, military, and commercial—and presents this material accessibly for use by readers at multiple levels, from undergraduate courses to government practitioners making and implementing policy.
The book concludes with chapters on the different sectors of space policy, as well as questions this field will face in the future.
As policymakers and business leaders become increasingly aware of the everyday systems that depend on space technologies, such as communications, mapping, and weather monitoring, and as space becomes a more visible arena for commercial competition, potential humanitarian gain, and military threats, Space Policy for the Twenty-First Century helps students and professionals navigate the complexity of space as a policy area.
Contributor Bio
Wendy N. Whitman Cobb, professor of strategy and security studies atthe School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, is the author of Privatizing Peace: How Commerce Can ReduceConflict in Space.
Derrick V. Frazier, professor of strategy and security studies anddeputy commandant at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, is coauthorof Regional Powers and Security Orders: ATheoretical Framework.
University Press of Florida 9780813080345
Pub Date: 2/14/2024
$35.00
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336 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs BIO026000
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Dancing the Afrofuture
Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy
Halifu Osumare
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A Black dancer chronicles her career as a scholar writing the stories of global hip-hop and Black culture
Dancing the Afrofuture is the story of a dancer with a long career of artistry and activism who transitioned from performing Black dance to writing it into history as a Black studies scholar Following the personal journey of her artistic development told in Dancing in Blackness, Halifu Osumare now reflects on how that first career-which began during the 1960s Black Arts Movement-has influenced her growth as an academic, tracing her teaching and research against a political and cultural backdrop that extends to the twenty-first century with Black Lives Matter and a potent speculative Afrofuture.
Osumare describes her decision to step away from full-time involvement in dance and community activism to earn a doctorate in American studies from the University of Hawai'i. She emulated the model of her mentor Katherine Dunham by studying and performing hula, and her research on hip-hop youth culture took her from Hawai‘i to Africa, Europe, and South America as a professor at the University of California, Davis. Throughout her scholarly career, Osumare has illuminated the resilience of African-descendant peoples through a focus on performance and the lens of Afrofuturism.
Contributor Bio
Halifu Osumare is professor emerita of African American and African studies at the University of California, Davis. She has been a dancer, choreographer, educator, cultural activist, and scholar for over fifty years. Osumare is the author of the award-winning Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
University Press of Florida
9780813064321
Pub Date: 3/19/2019
$26.95
Discount Code: short Trade Paperback
352 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts BIO005000
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Dancing in Blackness
A Memoir
Halifu Osumare, Brenda Dixon Gottschild
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American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics
Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award
Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer’s personal journey over four decades, across three continents and twenty-three countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. With a story spanning the 1960’s San Francisco Black Arts Movement, teaching “jazz ballet” in Europe, establishing a dance company in Copenhagen, dance fieldwork in Ghana, dancing with the Rod Rodgers dance company in New York City, and helping develop Oakland’s black dance scene, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life. Now a black studies scholar, Osumare uses her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition, justice, and self-empowerment.
Contributor
Bio
Halifu Osumare, professor emerita of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, is the author of The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop.
University Press of Florida
9780813069111
Pub Date: 2/1/2022
$38.00
Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards
336 Pages
Performing Arts / Dance
PER003030
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Rooted Jazz Dance
Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century
Lindsay Guarino, Carlos R.A. Jones, Wendy Oliver
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National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education
An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets EuroAmerican aesthetics and values at the inception of the jazz dance genealogy. The roots were systemically erased and remain widely marginalized and untaught, and the devaluation of its Africanist origins and lineage has largely gone unchallenged. Decolonizing contemporary jazz dance practice, this book examines the state of jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography in the twenty-first century, recovering and affirming the lifeblood of jazz in Africanist aesthetics and Black American culture.
Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance scholars, practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across the United States and Canada with the goal of changing the course of practice in future generations. Contributors delve into the Africanist elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of Whiteness, including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in marginalizing African American vernacular dance, which has resulted in the prominence of Eurocentric jazz styles and the systemic erosion of the roots.
Contributor Bio
Lindsay Guarino, associate professor of dance and chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance at Salve Regina University, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches.
Carlos R. A. Jones, associate dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and professor of musical theatre and dance at the State University of New York College at Buffalo, is a performer and choreographer whose works have appeared on television, film, and regional theatre.
Wendy Oliver, professor of dance and chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Film at Providence College, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches.
University Press of Florida
9780813066899
Pub Date: 4/27/2021
$26.95
Discount Code: Trade Trade Paperback
272 Pages
Performing Arts / Dance
PER003010
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Being a Ballerina
The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life
Gavin Larsen
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Finalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize
A look inside a dancer’s world
Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a professional ballet dancer. Through episodes from her own career, Gavin Larsen describes the forces that drive a person to study dance; the daily balance that dancers navigate between hardship and joy; and the dancer’s continual quest to discover who they are as a person and as an artist.
Starting with her arrival as a young beginner at a class too advanced for her, Larsen tells how the embarrassing mistake ended up helping her learn quickly and advance rapidly In other stories of her early teachers, training, and auditions, she explains how she gradually came to understand and achieve what she and her body were capable of.
Larsen then re-creates scenes from her experiences in dance companies, from unglamorous roles to exhilarating performances.
Contributor Bio
Gavin Larsen was a professional ballet dancer for 18 years before retiring in 2010. A principal dancer with the Oregon Ballet Theatre, she also danced with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and Alberta Ballet and as a guest artist with Ballet Victoria. She has written for Pointe, Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit, Dancing Times, Oregon ArtsWatch, Dance/USA's From the Green Room, the Maine Review, and The Threepenny Review, among others. She writes and teaches in Asheville, North Carolina.
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
University Press of Florida 9780813068930
Pub Date: 3/7/2023
$28.00
Discount Code: trade Paperback
256 Pages Music / History & Criticism
MUS020000
Series: Co-published with Florida Humanities
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Good Day Sunshine State
How the Beatles Rocked Florida Bob Kealing
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In 1964, Beatlemania flooded the United States. The Beatles appeared live on the Ed Sullivan Show and embarked on their first tour of North America—and they spent more time in Florida than anywhere else. Good Day Sunshine State dives into this momentous time and place, exploring the band’s seismic influence on the people and culture of the state.
Bob Kealing sets the historical stage for the band’s arrival—a nation dazed after the assassination of John F Kennedy and on the precipice of the Vietnam War; a heavily segregated, conservative South; and in Florida, recent events that included the Cuban Missile Crisis and the arrest and imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in St. Augustine. Kealing documents the culture clashes and unexpected affinities that emerged as the British rockers drew crowds, grew from fluff story to the subject of continual news coverage, and basked in the devotion of a young and idealistic generation.
Kealing highlights the hopeful futures that the Beatles helped inspire, including stories of iconic rock-androllers such as Tom Petty who followed the band’s lead in their own paths to stardom. This book offers a close look at an important part of the musical and cultural revolution that helped make the Fab Four a worldwide phenomenon.
Contributor Bio
Bob Kealing is a retired broadcast journalist based in Orlando. During his thirty-year career, he received six Emmy awards and was a two-time recipient of the Edward R.Murrow award. His many books include Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock and Elvis Ignited: The Rise of an Icon in Florida
University of Florida Press
9781683403586
Pub Date: 10/17/2023
$70.00
Discount Code: Short Hardcover with printed dust jacket
336 Pages Art / Asian ART019000
Series: David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series
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Women across Asian Art
Selected Essays in Art and Material Culture
Ling-en Lu, Allysa B. Peyton
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Filled with exquisite color illustrations, this volume examines an underserved aspect of Asian art history by discussing women artists, collectors, archaeologists, and architects whose efforts have largely been left out of scholarship.
Filled with exquisite color illustrations, this volume examines an underserved aspect of Asian art history by discussing women artists, collectors, archaeologists, and architects whose efforts have largely been left out of scholarship.
Contributor Bio
Ling-en Lu is curator of Chinese art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Allysa B. Peyton, former assistant curator of Asian art at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, is coeditor of Great Waves and Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan; Arts of South Asia: Cultures of Collecting; and Arts of Korea: Histories, Challenges, and Perspectives.
University Press of Florida
9780813079264
Pub Date: 2/25/2025
$90.00
Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards
336 Pages
Performing Arts / Dance
PER003100
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Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Articulate Body
Lynn Matluck Brooks, Sariel Golomb, Garth Grimball
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This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other’s development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion. Bringing together dance and science, two paradigms that explore the nature and possibilities of the body, this volume illuminates the meanings and articulations of dance in nineteenth-century societies. This global collection of studies reveals how the two fields informed each other’s development and engaged with dominant European worldviews in a time of unprecedented colonial expansion.
The chapters in Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century examine how trends and developments in the performing arts reflected scientific thinking of this era, including the categorization of “types” of bodies and the ranking of cultural and religious beliefs, as well as how dance served as an active site of inquiry where the workings and limits of the human body could be studied. Researchers discuss topics including the influence of plant biology on the aesthetics of ballet, technological advancements in the staging and recording of performances, arguments for the use of Eurhythmics in promoting a stronger “race,” and European fascination with Indian dance and yoga.
Contributor Bio
Lynn Matluck Brooks, the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Humanities Professor Emerita at Franklin & Marshall College, is the author or editor of many books, including John Durang: Man of the American Stage
Sariel Golomb is a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program.
Garth Grimball is the editor of ODC Dance Stories.
University Press of Florida
9780813080956
Pub Date: 3/4/2025
$28.00
Discount Code: Trade Trade Paperback
224 Pages
Performing Arts / Dance
PER003000
Series: Essential Lessons of Dance
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Moving through Life
Essential Lessons of Dance
Naomi Goldberg Haas, Mikhaela Mahony
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A story of resilience, joyful creativity, and the empowering potential of dance
Moving through Life traces the journey of influential dancer, teacher, and choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas. Sharing her lifelong love of movement, her experiences as a dancer with chronic health conditions, and accessible exercises from her work with dancers of all ages and abilities, Goldberg Haas encourages readers to integrate dance into their lives and to move with awareness, creativity, and joy. Goldberg Haas describes her early years as an emerging dancer at the School of American Ballet and how she explored and reveled in many dance forms throughout her career. She takes readers from a focus on fundamentals such as balance, strength, and flexibility to a deeper understanding of dance as a transformational community practice. With a unique perspective informed by navigating a degenerative neuromuscular disease, Goldberg Haas conveys a positive message: dance is an opportunity for renewal and growth at all stages of life.
Alongside Goldberg Haas’s story, this book provides insights and step-by-step instructions from the MOVEMENT SPEAKS® curriculum developed by Goldberg Haas for her nonprofit Dances for a Variable Population, a program that brings dance to older adults in New York City.
In a memoir of personal struggle, resilience, and celebration, Goldberg Haas portrays many of the changes that can come with aging and embraces the empowering potential of dance. From childhood memories to moments of epiphany later in life, this account from a leading figure in the dance community shows how movement can enrich and improve the lives of everyone.
Naomi Goldberg Haas is the founder and artistic director of Dances for a Variable Population, which received the 2024 Outstanding Dance Organization Award from the National Dance Education Organization. In a career that has spanned concert dance, theater, opera, and film, Goldberg Haas danced with the Pacific Northwest Ballet and founded the intergenerational/mixed ability dance company Los Angeles Modern Dance & Ballet. A leader in the field of creative aging, she also received the 2023 Lifetime Impact in Dance Education award from the New York State Dance Education Association.
Mikhaela Mahony is a Brooklyn-based director of theater, opera, and film as well as a faculty member at the Mannes School of Music at The New School.
University Press of Florida
9780813061269
Pub Date: 4/7/2015
$22.50
Discount Code: Short Trade Paperback
240 Pages
Art / History
ART015000
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Modern Arab Art
Formation of Arab Aesthetics
Nada M. Shabout
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Modern Arab Art provides a historical and theoretical overview of the subject from the 1940s through today. Author Nada Shabout recognizes the important distinction between Arabic art and Islamic art and views them as overlapping rather than synonymous subjects.
Based on extensive interviews with Arab artists, reviews of Arabic resources, and visits to numerous sites and galleries in the Arab world, Shabout provides a much-needed introduction to a field that has been long neglected. With particular emphasis on production, reception, and the intersection between art and politics in Iraq and Palestine, she reveals the fallacy in Western fascination with Arab art as a timeless and exotic "other."
Central in her investigation are questions of colonialism, Orientalism, class, and the duality of tradition and modernity. Shabout also offers a penetrating analysis of the use of the Arabic letter, a major trend in modern Arab art.
Contributor Bio
Nada M. Shabout is associate professor of art education and art history at the University of North Texas and author of Arab Express—The Latest Art from the Arab World.
University of Florida Press
9781683402527
Pub Date: 11/9/2021
$45.00
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386 Pages Nature / Ecology
NAT010000
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Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners
Gail Hansen, Joseli Macedo
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Summary
This volume offers a wealth of information and examples for those looking to help bring urban environments into harmony with the natural world and make cities more sustainable.
Ideal for city residents, developers, designers, and officials looking for ways to bring urban environments into harmony with the natural world and make cities more sustainable, Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners offers a wealth of information and examples that will answer fundamental scientific questions, guide green initiatives, and inform environmental policies and decision-making processes.
This book provides an overview of the synergistic relationships between humans and nature that shape the ecology of urban green spaces. It also emphasizes the social and cultural value of nature in cities for human health and well-being. Chapters describe the basic science of natural components and ecosystems in urban areas and explore the idea of biophilic urbanism, the philosophy of building nature into the framework of cities. To illustrate these topics, chapters include projects, case studies, expert insights, and successful citizen science programs from urban areas around the world.
Contributor Bio
Gail Hansen is associate professor in the Department of Environmental Horticulture at the University of Florida.
Joseli Macedo is professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary.
PAPERBACK
ORIGINAL The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles
University of Florida Press
9781683402633
Pub Date: 9/13/2022
$26.95
Discount Code: trade Trade Paperback
128 Pages Nature / Animals
NAT017000
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Mighty Foresters of the Insect World
Jiri Hulcr, Marc Abrahams
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A loving look at one of the world's most maligned, misunderstood, and fascinating insects
Famous foe of forestry professionals and despised spreader of Dutch elm disease, bark beetles have a bad reputation: the World's Worst Forest Pests. They chew through timber profits and kill healthy trees, turning forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. But entomologist Jiri Hulcr sees more to these evil weevils than meets the eye, and offers you a closer look-literally. With science journalist Marc Abrahams, Hulcr offers a funny and informative introduction to these under-studied and underappreciated insects.
This lively book turns cutting-edge research into an enjoyable tour through the miniature world of a charming critter. Vivid macrophotography captures every aspect of bark beetle life in stunning detail, from their dramatic family stories and curiously endearing looks to their mating strategies, and the secret fungus farms where they cultivate their own "ambrosia." You’ll learn how much we don’t know about bark beetles—and what that means for science’s attempts to control them as climate change alters their habitats. But be warned: at the end of this read you may be filled with affection for these adorable and astonishing beetles.
Contributor Bio
Jiri Hulcr is associate professor of forest entomology at the University of Florida and a founding member of ProForest, a forest health research group.
Marc Abrahams is a science writer, the editor of Annals of Improbable Research, and the founder of the Ig Nobel Prize.
University of Florida Press
9781683401674
Pub Date: 1/5/2021
$40.00
Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards
230 Pages Science / Natural History
SCI100000
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Chocolate Crisis
Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao
Dale Walters
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Chocolate is the center of a massive global industry worth billions of dollars annually, yet its future in our modern world is currently under threat. In Chocolate Crisis, Dale Walters discusses the problems posed by plant diseases, pests, and climate change, looking at what these mean for the survival of the cacao tree.
Walters takes readers to the origins of the cacao tree in the Amazon basin of South America, describing how ancient cultures used the beans produced by the plant, and follows the rise of chocolate as an international commodity over many centuries. He explains that most cacao is now grown on small family farms in Latin America, West Africa, and Indonesia, and that the crop is not easy to make a living from.
Providing an up-to-date picture of the state of the cacao bean today, this book also includes a look at complex issues such as farmer poverty and child labor, and examines options for sustainable production amid a changing climate. Walters shows that the industry must tackle these problems in order to save this global cultural staple and to protect the people who make their livelihoods from producing it.
Contributor Bio
Dale Walters is emeritus professor of plant pathology at Scotland's Rural College. He is the author of many books, including Fortress Plant: How to Survive When Everything Wants to Eat You.
University of Florida Press
9781683402497
Pub Date: 10/12/2021
$28.00
Discount Code: Trade Hardcover with printed dust jacket
304 Pages
Nature / Ecosystems & Habitats
NAT025000
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Imperiled Reef
The Fascinating, Fragile Life of a Caribbean Wonder
Sandy Sheehy
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The beauty and drama of a world beneath the surface of the waves
This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. Stretching 625 miles through the Caribbean Sea along the coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras, this reef is the second largest coral structure on the planet. Imperiled Reef searches out the breathtaking intricacies of this endangered ecological treasure.
Research shows that the future of the reef is at risk, Sheehy explains. Looking closely at threats ranging from global warming to overfishing to irresponsible development, Sheehy draws attention to the inspiring efforts of nongovernmental agencies, scientists, and local communities who are working together to address these challenges. She includes practical actions individuals can take to protect this reef—as well as marine ecosystems everywhere.
Celebrating a vast, submerged landscape that has too often been undervalued, Imperiled Reef is both a strong case for protecting an international marvel and a powerful message of hope for the world’s oceans.
Contributor Bio
Sandy Sheehy is a journalist who has dived the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef for four decades. She is the author of Texas Big Rich: Exploits, Eccentricities, and Fabulous Fortunes Won and Lost and Connecting: The Enduring Power of Female Friendship.
University Press of Florida
9780813062402
Pub Date: 9/20/2016
$18.95
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208 Pages History / United States HIS036010
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The Silencing of Ruby McCollum
Race, Class, and Gender in the South
Tammy D. Evans
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The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous biracial murders in American history.
On August 3, 1952, African American housewife Ruby McCollum drove to the office of Dr. C. LeRoy Adams, beloved white physician in the segregated small town of Live Oak, Florida. With her two young children in tow, McCollum calmly gunned down the doctor during (according to public sentiment) "an argument over a medical bill." Soon, a very different motive emerged, with McCollum alleging horrific mental and physical abuse at Adams's hand. In reaction to these allegations and an increasingly intrusive media presence, the town quickly cobbled together what would become the public facade of Adams's murder--a more "acceptable" motive for McCollum's actions. To ensure this would become the official version of events, McCollum's trial prosecutors voiced multiple objections during her testimony to limit what she was allowed to say.
Contributor Bio
Tammy Evans is the founder of Expressions Writing Service, which provides coaching and support for dissertation and thesis students, writing for web-based platforms, and workshops focusing on all aspects of composition and rhetoric.
University Press of Florida 9780813066394
Pub Date: 4/7/2020
$35.00
Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards
282 Pages
Social Science / Ethnic Studies
SOC001000
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Black Panther in Exile
The Pete O'Neal Story
Paul J. Magnarella
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This book tells the story of Pete O’Neal, one of the most influential members of the Black Panther Party, who now lives in exile in Tanzania—unable to return to the United States but refusing to renounce his past.
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for General Nonfiction
In the tumultuous year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, 29-year-old Pete O’Neal became inspired by reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X and founded the Kansas City branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The same year, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declared the BPP was the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” Black Panther in Exile is the gripping story of O’Neal, one of the influential members of the movement, who now lives in Africa—unable to return to the United States but refusing to renounce his past.
Arrested in 1969 and convicted for transporting a shotgun across state lines, O’Neal was free on bail pending his appeal when Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the BPP, was assassinated by the police. O’Neal and his wife fled the United States for Algiers. Eventually they settled in Tanzania, where the O’Neals continue the social justice work of the Panthers through community and agricultural programs.
Contributor Bio
Paul J. Magnarella is emeritus professor of criminology, law, and society at the University of Florida. He has served as an expert on mission with the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and as a legal researcher for the United Nations Tribunal for Rwanda. Magnarella is the author of many titles, including Human Rights in Our Time and Justice in Africa: Rwanda's Genocide, Its Courts, and the UN Criminal Tribunal
University Press of Florida 9780813068923
Pub Date: 5/16/2023
$35.00
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216 Pages History / African American & Black HIS056000
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Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
Ashley Robertson Preston
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Highlighting Bethune's global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora
This book examines the Pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women's organizations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora. Broadening the familiar view of Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, Ashley Preston argues that Bethune consistently sought to unify African descendants around the world with her writings, through travel, and as an advisor.
Bethune founded and led the National Council of Negro Women, which strengthened coalitions with women across the diaspora to address issues in their local communities. Bethune served as director of the Division of Negro Affairs for the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and later as associate consultant for the United Nations. Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist provides a fuller, more accurate understanding of Bethune’s work, illustrating the perspective and activism behind Bethune’s much-quoted words: “For I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.”
Contributor Bio
Ashley Robertson Preston is assistant professor of history at Howard University. She is the former director of the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation National Historic Landmark in Daytona Beach and has worked at the National Archives for Black Women's History at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site in Washington, DC. Preston is the author of Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State.
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University Press of Florida 9780813080871
Pub Date: 10/15/2024
$28.00
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340 Pages Social Science / Black Studies (Global) SOC056000
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Global Garveyism
Ronald J. Stephens, Adam Ewing
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Arguing that the accomplishments of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and his followers have been marginalized in narratives of the Black freedom struggle, this volume builds on decades of overlooked research to reveal the profound impact of Garvey’s post–World War I Black nationalist philosophy around the globe and across the twentieth century.
These essays point to the breadth of Garveyism’s spread and its reception in communities across the African diaspora, examining the influence of Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Africa, Australia, North America, and the Caribbean. They highlight the underrecognized work of many Garveyite women and show how the UNIA played a key role in shaping labor unions, political organizations, churches, and schools. They trace the imprint of the movement on long-term developments such as decolonization in Africa and the Caribbean, the pan-Aboriginal fight for land rights in Australia, the civil rights and Black Power movements in the United States, and the radical pan-African movement.
Rejecting the idea that Garveyism was a brief and misguided phenomenon, this volume exposes its scope, significance, and endurance. Together, contributors assert that Garvey initiated the most important mass movement in the history of the African diaspora, and they urge readers to rethink the emergence of modern Black politics with Garveyism at the center.
Contributor Bio
Ronald J. Stephens, professor of African American studies at Purdue University, is the author of Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town and editor of Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History
Adam Ewing, associate professor of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, is the author of The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics and editor of The Essential Writings of Robert A. Hill.
University Press of Florida 9780813068695
Pub Date: 6/21/2022
$35.00
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400 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional BIO002010
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Bertha Maxwell-Roddey
A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
Sonya Y. Ramsey
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Finalist, Hooks National Book Award
The life and accomplishments of an influential leader in the desegregated South
This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey modernizes the nineteenth-century term “race woman” to describe how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist milestones into tangible accomplishments in North Carolina and nationwide from the late 1960s to the 1990s.
Maxwell-Roddey founded the National Council for Black Studies, helping institutionalize the field with what is still its premier professional organization, and served as the 20th National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., one of the most influential Black women’s organizations in the United States.
Using oral histories and primary sources that include private records from numerous Black women’s home archives, Ramsey illuminates the intersectional leadership strategies used by Maxwell-Roddey and other modern race women to dismantle discriminatory barriers in the classroom and the boardroom. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey offers new insights into desegregation, urban renewal, and the rise of the Black middle class through the lens of a powerful leader’s life story.
Contributor Bio
Sonya Y. Ramsey is associate professor of history and women's and gender studies and the director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville.
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
University Press of Florida 9780813069388
Pub Date: 9/2/2022
$24.95
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180 Pages
Social Science / Popular Culture
SOC022000
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The Cuban Sandwich
A
History in Layers
Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, Jeff Houck
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A delicious, multilayered tale of a legendary sandwich
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Cooking
How did the Cuban sandwich become a symbol for a displaced people, win the hearts and bellies of America, and claim a spot on menus around the world? The odyssey of the Cubano begins with its hazy origins in the midnight cafés of Havana, from where it evolved into a dainty high-class hors d’oeuvre and eventually became a hearty street snack devoured by cigar factory workers. In The Cuban Sandwich, three devoted fans—Andrew Huse, Bárbara Cruz, and Jeff Houck—sort through improbable vintage recipes, sift gossip from Florida old-timers, and wade into the fearsome Tampa vs. Miami sandwich debate (is adding salami necessary or heresy?) to reveal the social history behind how this delicacy became a lunch-counter staple in the US and beyond.
The authors also interview artisans who’ve perfected the high arts of creating and combining expertly baked Cuban bread, sweet ham, savory roast pork, perfectly melted Swiss cheese, and tangy, crunchy pickles. Tips and expert insight for making Cuban sandwiches at home will have readers savoring the history behind each perfect bite.
Contributor Bio
Andrew T. Huse is curator of Florida Studies at University of South Florida Libraries and the author of From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa
Bárbara C. Cruz is professor of social science education and codirector of the InsideART project at the University of South Florida.
Jeff Houck is vice president of marketing for the Columbia Restaurant Group and previously worked as food editor, writer, and blogger for the Tampa Tribune.
University of Florida Press
9781683401513
Pub Date: 4/21/2020
$85.00
Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards
306 Pages
Series: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
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In this exploration of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how Escobar’s legacy inspired the development of narcocultura—television, music, literature, and fashion representing the drug-trafficking lifestyle—in Colombia and around the world.
In the years since his death in 1993, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has become a globally recognized symbol of crime, wealth, power, and masculinity. In this long-overdue exploration of Escobar’s impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how his legacy inspired the development of narcoculture—television, music, literature, and fashion representing the drug-trafficking lifestyle—in Colombia and around the world. Pobutsky looks at the ways the “Escobar brand” surfaces in bars, restaurants, and clothing lines; in Colombia’s tourist industry; and in telenovelas, documentaries, and narco memoirs about his life, which in turn have generated popular interest in other drug traffickers such as Griselda Blanco and Miami’s “cocaine cowboys.” Pobutsky illustrates how the Colombian state strives to erase his memory while Escobar’s notoriety only continues to increase in popular culture through the transnational media.
Contributor Bio
Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky is associate professor of modern languages and literatures at Oakland University
NOW IN PAPERBACK Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance
University of Florida Press
9781683403531
Pub Date: 2/14/2023
$28.00
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296 Pages Social Science / Anthropology SOC002010
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Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa
Jill Flanders Crosby, JT Torres
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Using storytelling and performance to explore shared religious expression across continents
Through a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge, Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arará of Cuba, who were brought to the island in the transatlantic slave trade.
The volume draws on two decades of research in four communities: Dzodze, Ghana; Adjodogou, Togo; and Perico and Agramonte, Cuba. In the ceremonies, oral narratives, and daily lives of individuals at each fieldsite, the authors not only identify shared attributes in religious expression across continents, but also reveal lasting emotional, spiritual, and personal impacts in the communities whose ancestors were ripped from their homeland and enslaved. The authors layer historiographic data, interviews, and fieldnotes with artistic modes such as true fiction, memoir, and choreographed narrative, challenging the conventional nature of scholarship with insights gained from sensorial experience.
Contributor Bio
Jill Flanders Crosby is professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
JT Torres directs the Center for Teaching and Learning and is assistant teaching professor of English and interdisciplinary studies at Quinnipiac University.
University Press of Florida 9780813054858
Pub Date: 4/11/2017
$26.95
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352 Pages History / United States
HIS036000
Series: New Perspectives on Maritime History and 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1.1 lb Wt
Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy
From American Slave to Arctic Hero
Dennis L. Noble, Truman R. Strobridge
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In the late 1880s, many lives in northern and western maritime Alaska rested in the capable hands of Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), through his service to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. Captain Healy's dramatic feats in the far north were so widely reported that a New York newspaper once declared him the "most famous man in America." But Healy hid a secret that contributed to his legacy as a lonely, tragic figure.
Brought to trial for endangerment of his vessel for reason of intoxication and and stripped of his command in 1896, Healy would rise once more to reattain his former high position by the time of his death in 1904.Sixty-seven years later, in 1971, the U.S. Coast Guard learned that Healy was born a slave in Georgia who ran away to sea at age fifteen and spent the rest of his life passing for white.
This is the rare biography that encompasses both sea adventure and the height of human achievement against all odds.
Contributor Bio
Dennis L. Noble retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a senior chief petty officer and is the author of Rescue of the Gale Runner.
Truman R. Strobridge's many positions in the federal government included command historian of the joint-service Alaska Command and also the U.S. Army, Alaska, and he has coauthored two books with Noble.
University Press of Florida
9780813035062
Pub Date: 5/22/2010
$24.95
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288 Pages
History / United States
HIS036000
1 lb Wt
Jackie Cochran Pilot in the Fastest Lane
Doris L. Rich
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Born in 1906 in Muskogee, Florida, Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran was America's greatest woman pilot: the first to break the sound barrier, first to fly a bomber across the Atlantic, possessor of more than 200 aviation records and the commander of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II.
Drawing upon previously unpublished information about Cochran's early years and her first marriage, and on her extensive correspondence with U.S. presidents, Air Force generals, aircraft designers, test pilots, and business tycoons, Rich brings clarity, detail, and objectivity to a life story that had until now remained vague, contrived from hearsay and controversy. This first extensive critical biography puts Cochran's great talents and achievements in the context of her turbulent personal life to create a portrait of a remarkable, complicated woman.
Contributor Bio
Doris Rich was the author of Amelia Earhart: A Biography, Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator, and The Magnificent Moisants: Champions of Early Flight.
University Press of Florida
9780813034782
Pub Date: 9/19/2010
$39.95
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448 Pages
1.8 lb Wt
Emma Darwin A Victorian Life
James D. Loy, Kent M. Loy
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A glimpse into the private home life of the Darwins
In this charming volume, the wife, companion, and confidante of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, comes into full focus. Drawing upon Emma’s personal correspondence as well as the abundant literature about her husband, authors James Loy and Kent Loy reveal the fascinating story of an exceptional woman who remained true to herself despite hardship and who, in the process, humanized her work-obsessed husband and held her family together.
Informed by her strong Christian faith as well as her quick, inquiring mind, Emma learned to coexist with Darwin's radical scientific theories, though she worried about the fate of Charles's soul. Although the high spirits of her youth were somewhat dampened by the cares of life, she managed family and household affairs--including the difficult circumstances surrounding the death of three children--with courage, gravity, and a sense of humor.
Contributor Bio
James D. Loy is professor of anthropology at the University of Rhode Island. Kent M. Loy is a freelance writer.
University Press of Florida 9780813068756
Pub Date: 6/28/2022
$29.95
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296 Pages Literary Criticism / Jewish LIT004210
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Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism
Amy Feinstein
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Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein’s constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career. Amy Feinstein argues that Judaism was central to Stein’s ideas about modernity, showing how Stein connects the modernist era to the Jewish experience.
Combing through Stein’s scholastic writings, drafting notebooks, and literary works, Feinstein analyzes references to Judaism that have puzzled scholars. In Stein’s experimental “voices” poems, Feinstein identifies an explicitly Jewish vocabulary that expresses themes of marriage, nationalism, and Zionism. She also shows how Wars I Have Seen, written in Vichy France during World War II, compares the experience of wartime occupation with the historic persecution of Jews.
Affirming the importance of Jewish identity and modernist style to Gertrude Stein’s legacy as a writer, this book radically changes the way we read and appreciate Stein’s work.
Contributor Bio
Amy Feinstein teaches English at a public high school in New York City.
University Press of Florida 9780813069555
Pub Date: 12/6/2022
$85.00
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294 Pages
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes
LIT025010
Series: The Florida James Joyce Series
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An Irish-Jewish Politician, Joyce’s Dublin, and Ulysses
The Life and Times of Albert L. Altman
Neil R. Davison
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A forgotten historical figure and his influence on the writing of James Joyce
In this book, Neil Davison argues that Albert Altman (1853-1903), a Dublin-based businessman and Irish nationalist, influenced James Joyce's creation of the character of Leopold Bloom, as well as Ulysses's broader themes surrounding race, nationalism, and empire. Using extensive archival research, Davison reveals parallels between the lives of Altman and Bloom, including how the experience of double marginalization-which Altman felt as both a Jew in Ireland and an Irishman in the British Empire-is a major idea explored in Joyce's work.
Altman, a successful salt and coal merchant, was involved in municipal politics over issues of Home Rule and labor, and frequently appeared in the press over the two decades of Joyce's youth. His prominence, Davison shows, made him a familiar name in the Home Rule circles with which Joyce and his father most identified. The book concludes by tracing the influence of Altman's career on the Dubliners story “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” as well as throughout the whole of Ulysses. Through Altman’s biography, Davison recovers a forgotten life story that illuminates Irish and Jewish identity and culture in Joyce’s Dublin.
Contributor Bio
Neil R. Davison, professor of modernism, Irish studies, and Jewish cultural studies at Oregon State University, is the author of Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern and James Joyce, "Ulysses," and the Construction of Jewish Identity: Culture, Biography, and "the Jew" in Modernist Europe.
University Press of Florida 9780813069135
Pub Date: 2/22/2022
$85.00
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250 Pages
Literary Criticism / European LIT004120
Series: The Florida James Joyce Series
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Joyce Writing Disability
Jeremy Colangelo Contact
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In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, contributors approach the subject both on a figurative level, as a symbol or metaphor in Joyce’s work, and also as a physical reality for many of Joyce’s characters. Contributors examine the varying ways in which Joyce’s texts represent disability and the environmental conditions of his time that stigmatized, isolated, and othered individuals with disabilities.
The collection demonstrates the centrality of the body and embodiment in Joyce’s writings, from Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Essays address Joyce’s engagement with paralysis, masculinity, childhood violence, trauma, disordered eating, blindness, nineteenth-century theories of degeneration, and the concept of “madness.”
Together, the essays offer examples of Joyce’s interest in the complexities of human existence and in challenging assumptions about bodily and mental norms. Complete with an introduction that summarizes key disability studies concepts and the current state of research on the subject in Joyce studies, this volume is a valuable resource for disability scholars interested in modernist literature and an ideal starting point for any Joycean new to the study of disability.
Contributor Bio
Jeremy Colangelo is a postdoctoral fellow at SUNY Buffalo and lecturer at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature.
University Press of Florida 9780813068633
Pub Date: 4/26/2022
$35.00
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334 Pages Literary Criticism / European LIT004120
Series: The Florida James Joyce Series
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Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas
Fran O'Rourke
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A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce
In this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creatively with questions of diversity and unity, identity, permanence and change, and the reliability of knowledge.
Aristotle and Aquinas equipped Joyce with fundamental principles regarding reality, knowledge, and the soul, which allowed him to shape his literary characters. Joyce appropriated Thomistic concepts to elaborate an original and personal aesthetic theory
The first book to comprehensively illuminate the profound impact of both the ancient and medieval thinker on the modernist writer, Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas offers readers a rich understanding of the intellectual background and philosophical underpinnings of Joyce’s work.
Contributor Bio
Fran O'Rourke, emeritus professor of philosophy at University College Dublin, is the author of PseudoDionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas and Aristotelian Interpretations.
University Press of Florida 9780813069715
Pub Date: 5/30/2023
$85.00
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234 Pages
Literary Criticism / Modern LIT024050
Series: The Florida James Joyce Series
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Genetic Joyce Manuscripts and the
Dynamics of Creation
Daniel Ferrer
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Using genetic criticism, an approach focused on the materiality of the writing process, this book shows how the creative process of modernist writer James Joyce can be reconstructed from his manuscripts. Daniel Ferrer offers a practical demonstration of the theory of genetic criticism, the study of the manuscript and textual development of a literary text. Using a concrete approach focused on the materiality of Joyce’s writing process, Ferrer demonstrates how to recover the process of invention and its internal dynamics.
Using specific, detailed examples, Ferrer analyzes the part played by chance in Joyce’s creative process, the spatial dimension of writing, the genesis of the “Sirens” episode, and the transition from Ulysses to Finnegans Wake. The book includes a study of Joyce’s mysterious Finnegans Wake notebooks, examining their strange form of intertextuality in light of Joyce’s earlier forms of note-taking. Moving beyond the single author perspective, Ferrer contrasts Joyce’s notes alluding to Virginia Woolf’s criticism of Ulysses with Woolf’s own notes on the novel’s first episodes.
Throughout this book, Ferrer describes the logic of the creative process as seen in the record left by Joyce in notebooks, drafts, typescripts, proofs, correspondence, early printed versions, and other available documents.
Contributor Bio
Daniel Ferrer, director of research emeritus at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes in Paris, is the author or editor of many books, from Poststructuralist Joyce: Essays from the French and Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language to Renascent Joyce
University Press of Florida 9780813079288
Pub Date: 2/18/2025
$90.00
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224 Pages
Literary Criticism / Modern LIT024050
Series: The Florida James Joyce Series
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Guilt and Finnegans Wake
From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body
Talia Abu
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James Joyce’s last novel, Finnegans Wake, is notorious for its complex structure and considered by many to be unreadable. Approaching this complicated book with attention to the theme of guilt, an important concept that has been underexplored in studies of the Wake, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation that helps illuminate the book for even the most novice Joyce readers.
In Guilt and “Finnegans Wake,” Talia Abu examines how Joyce portrays the evolution of cultural beliefs about morality, from the concept of a moral code set in place by a transcendental authority to an embodied morality that originates in material existence. Through close readings of the novel, Abu demonstrates that Joyce engages with guilt as it relates to the Catholic doctrine of original sin, the institution of the marriage contract, the theories of Nietzsche, and the views of Freud—including Freud’s emphasis on the physical experience as the primary aspect of being.
Delving into Joyce’s representation of historical events while also analyzing Joyce’s wordplay and linguistic techniques and drawing from multiple disciplines to understand different conceptions of guilt, this book shows the importance of the theme to the form of Finnegans Wake and Joyce’s craft more broadly. Pursuing the questions and ideas that Joyce raises about guilt and morality, Talia Abu makes a case for the enduring relevance of Joyce’s work today.
Contributor Bio
Talia Abu is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
University Press of Florida
9780813064949
Pub Date: 11/20/2018
$19.95
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262 Pages
Literary Criticism / Women
Authors LIT004290
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Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts
Anna Roberts
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This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages.
This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward women during the Middle Ages. The essays range from Old English literature to the Spanish Inquisition and encompass such genres as romance, chronicles, hagiography, and legal documents.
Contributor Bio
Anna Roberts is associate professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She is the author of Queer Love in the Middle Ages.
NOW IN PAPERBACK Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes
University Press of Florida 9780813080093
Pub Date: 11/29/2022
$26.95
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170 Pages
Social Science / Archaeology
SOC003000
Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
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Melissa F. Baird
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This book explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes and the many issues that emerge when different interest groups attempt to gain control over them. Based on career-spanning case studies undertaken by the author, this book looks at sites with deep indigenous histories.
Melissa Baird pays special attention to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and the Burrup Peninsula along the Pilbara Coast in Australia, the Altai Mountains of northwestern Mongolia, and Prince William Sound in Alaska. For many communities, landscapes such as these have long been associated with cultural identity and memories of important and difficult events, as well as with political struggles related to nation-state boundaries, sovereignty, and knowledge claims.
Drawing on the emerging field of critical heritage theory and the concept of "resource frontiers," Baird shows how these landscapes are sites of power and control and are increasingly used to promote development and extractive agendas. As a resul...
Contributor Bio
Melissa F. Baird is associate professor of anthropology at Michigan Technological University.
University Press of Florida
9780813066622
Pub Date: 11/3/2020
$90.00
Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards
236 Pages
Social Science / Anthropology
SOC002010
Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
9 in H | 6 in W | 0.6 in T | 1.3 lb Wt
The Valkyries’ Loom
The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic
Michèle Hayeur Smith
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Using textiles to understand gender and economy in Norse societies
In The Valkyries’ Loom, Michèle Hayeur Smith examines Viking textiles as evidence of the little-known work of women in the Norse colonies that expanded from Scandinavia across the North Atlantic in the ninth century AD. While previous researchers have overlooked textiles as insignificant artifacts, Hayeur Smith is the first to use them to understand gender and economy in Norse societies of the North Atlantic.
This groundbreaking study is based on the author’s systematic comparative analysis of the vast textile collections in Iceland, Greenland, Denmark, Scotland, and the Faroe Islands, materials that are largely unknown even to archaeologists and span 1,000 years. Through these garments and fragments, Hayeur Smith provides new insights into how the women of these island nations influenced international trade by producing cloth (vaðmál); how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing; and how they helped their communities survive climate change by reengineering clothes during the Little Ice Age. She supplements her analysis by revealing societal attitudes about weaving through the poem “Darraðarljoð” from Njál’s Saga, in which the Valkyries—Óðin’s female warrior spirits—produce the cloth of history and decide the fates of men and nations.
Contributor Bio
Michèle Hayeur Smith is an archaeologist and research associate at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University.
University Press of Florida 9780813069746
Pub Date: 9/19/2023
$45.00
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276 Pages History / Maritime History & Piracy HIS057000
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Dead Man's Chest
Exploring the Archaeology of Piracy
Russell K. Skowronek, Charles R. Ewen
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Summary
A global approach to better understanding piracy through archaeology
Featuring discussions of newly discovered evidence from South America, England, New England, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, the Caribbean Sea, and the Indian Ocean, Dead Man’s Chest presents diverse approaches to better understanding piracy through archaeological investigations, landscape studies, material culture analyses, and documentary and cartographic evidence.
The case studies in this volume include medieval and post-medieval piracy in the Bristol Channel, illicit trade in seventeenth-century fishing stations in Maine, and the guerrilla tactics of nineteenth-century privateers and coastal bandits off the Gulf of Mexico Coast. Contributors reveal the story of a Dutch privateer who saved a ship from a storm only to take control of it, partnerships between pirates and Indigenous inhabitants along the Miskito coast, and new findings on the Speaker—one of the first pirate ships to be archaeologically investigated—in Madagascar.
As well as covering shipwrecks and other topics traditionally associated with piracy, several chapters look at pirate facilities on land and cultural interactions with nearby communities as reflected through archival documentation. As a whole, the volume highlights various ways to identify piracy and smuggling in the archaeological record, while encouraging readers to question what they think they know about pirates.
Contributor Bio
Russell K. Skowronek is professor of anthropology and history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and coeditor of X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy and Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy
Charles R. Ewen is professor of anthropology at East Carolina University. He is coeditor of X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy and Pieces of Eight: More Archaeology of Piracy.
University Press of Florida 9780813069401
Pub Date: 10/11/2022
$90.00
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278 Pages
Social Science / Popular Culture
SOC022000
Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
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Baseball and Cultural Heritage
Gregory Ramshaw, Sean Gammon
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Summary
The
influence of baseball heritage in society and culture
Baseball’s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today.
These essays reveal how baseball’s heritage can be a source of great enjoyment and inspiration, tracing its influence on constructed environments, such as stadiums and monuments, and food and popular culture. The contributors discuss how its heritage can be used to address social, political, and economic aims and agendas and can reveal tensions about whose past is remembered and whose is laid aside. Contributors address race and racism in the sport, representations of women in baseball, ballparks as repositories for baseball’s heritage, and the role of museums in generating the game’s heritage narrative.
Providing perspectives on the social impact and influence of baseball in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom, Baseball and Cultural Heritage shows how the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture and heritage of a nation.
Contributor Bio
Gregory Ramshaw, professor of parks, recreation, and tourism management at Clemson University, is the author of Heritage and Sport: An Introduction.
Sean Gammon, a reader in leisure and tourism management at the University of Central Lancashire, is the coeditor of Heritage and the Olympics: People, Place and Performance
University Press of Florida 9780813069920
Pub Date: 2/27/2024
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480 Pages
Social Science / Archaeology
SOC003000
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Decoding the Codex Borgia
Visual Symbols of Time and Space in Ancient Mexico
Susan Milbrath
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Exploring the meanings in the intricate symbolism of a rare Pre-Columbian manuscript
This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Pre-Columbian art dating to the fifteenth century, one of the few surviving books from before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Susan Milbrath uses information from the fields of art history, anthropology, ethnohistory, natural history, and cultural astronomy to show how the manuscript's intricate and colorful imagery conveys complex ideas related to Mesoamerican myths and religion.
Milbrath sets the work in historical context, establishing its provenance in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of Central Mexico and pinpointing the date it was painted based on rain almanacs found in its pages. She offers a new interpretation of a unique narrative section that has long intrigued scholars, arguing that the ceremonial variations depicted in it are related to the solar cycle. Decoding the Codex Borgia is an illuminating journey into the culture and cosmology of the Aztecs and their neighboring communities.
Contributor Bio
Susan Milbrath, emeritus curator of Latin American art and archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, is coeditor of Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica and the author of Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars.
University Press of Florida
9780813069807
Pub Date: 12/12/2023
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690 Pages
Social Science / Archaeology
SOC003000
Series: Maya Studies
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The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World Mythic History
and Ritual Order
David A. Freidel, Arlen F. Chase, Anne S. Dowd, Jerry Murdock
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New understandings of how Maya people expressed timekeeping in daily life
This book discusses the range of ways the ancient Maya people made time tangible through their architecture, arts, writing, beliefs, and practices. These chapters show how the Maya incorporated cyclicality and expanded dimensionality into the built environment, embedding notions of time in shared political and economic institutions, religious and philosophical traditions, and mythology.
Beginning several millennia ago, the Maya observed and calculated the solar year cycle and scheduled collective activities that integrated cities, towns, and villages over great distances. Their timekeeping approaches evolved from commemorative ceremonial architectural complexes starting around 1000 BCE to the formal public inscription of calendar jubilees on stone monuments, the use of calendar almanacs, written prophetic and historical accounts, and the customs of modern priest shamans.
This comprehensive volume includes analyses of groundbreaking recent discoveries, such as the early center of Aguada Fénix and the connections it shows between Maya and Olmec timekeeping. By sharing how the Maya crafted a cosmological sense of time into their daily lives, The Materialization of Time in the Ancient Maya World addresses and rethinks the most famous intellectual feature of this civilization.
Contributor Bio
David A. Freidel is professor of anthropology emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis.
Arlen F. Chase is professor of comparative cultural studies at the University of Houston.
Anne S. Dowd is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Santa Fe Institute and the Aspen Institute.
Together, they are also the editors of Maya E Groups: Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands.
University Press of Florida 9780813080246
Pub Date: 9/12/2023
$35.00
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318 Pages
Social Science / Anthropology
SOC002010
Series: Maya Studies
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Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century
Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest
James D. Nations
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From the ancient traditions of the Lacandón Maya comes an Indigenous model for a sustainable future
Having lived for centuries isolated within Mexico’s largest remaining tropical rainforest, the Indigenous Lacandón Maya now live at the nexus of two worlds—ancient and modern. While previous research has focused on documenting Lacandón oral traditions and religious practices in order to preserve them, this book tells the story of how Lacandón families have adapted to the contemporary world while applying their ancestral knowledge to create an ecologically sustainable future.
Drawing on his 49 years of studying and learning from the Lacandón Maya, James Nations discusses how in the midst of external pressures such as technological changes, missionary influences, and logging ventures, Lacandón communities are building an economic system of agroforestry and ecotourism that produces income for their families while protecting biodiversity and cultural resources.
The story of the Lacandón Maya serves as a model for Indigenous-controlled environmental conservation, and it will inform anyone interested in supporting sustainable Indigenous futures.
Contributor Bio
James D. Nations is an ecological anthropologist who has spent four decades workingto protect Indigenousterritories, national parks, and biosphere reserves in Latin America and theUnited States. He is the author of TheMaya Tropical Forest: People, Parks, and Ancient Cities.
University Press of Florida
9780813068909
Pub Date: 2/21/2023
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350 Pages
Social Science / Anthropology SOC002010
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Anthropological Perspectives on Aging
Britteny M. Howell, Ryan P. Harrod
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Summary
An in-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in society
Taking a holistic approach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological, medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functioned in societies around the globe and throughout human history As the world’s population over 65 years of age continues to increase, this wide-ranging approach fills a growing need for both academics and service professionals in gerontology, geriatrics, and related fields.
Case studies from the United States, Tibet, Turkey, China, Nigeria, and Mexico provide examples of the ways age-related changes are influenced by environmental, genetic, sociocultural, and political-economic variables. Taken together, they help explain how the experience of aging varies across time and space. These contributions from noted anthropological scholars examine evolutionary and biological understandings of human aging, the roles of elders in various societies, issues of gender and ageism, and the role of chronic illness and “successful aging” among older adults.
This volume highlights how an anthropology of aging can illustrate how older adults adapt to shifting life circumstances and environments, including changes to the ways in which individuals and families care for them. The research in Anthropological Perspectives on Aging can also help researchers, students, and practitioners reach across disciplines to address age discrimination and help improve health outcomes throughout the life course.
Contributor Bio
Britteny M. Howell is assistant professor in the Division of Population Health Sciences, affiliate faculty for the National Resource Center for Alaska Native Elders, and founding director of the Healthy Aging Research Laboratory at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
Ryan P. Harrod, dean of academic affairs and chief academic officer at Garrett College, is coeditor of The Bioarchaeology of Violence.
University Press of Florida
9780813069845
Pub Date: 12/19/2023
$90.00
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350 Pages
Social Science / Archaeology
SOC003000
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The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian Ocean
Mark William Hauser, Julia Jong Haines
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Case studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization
This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites. Contributors use a historical archaeological approach, which bridges everyday life in the recent past with large-scale processes of globalization, to examine topics related to colonialism, labor, race, ethnicity, diaspora, humanenvironment relationships, and heritage.
Case studies from Zanzibar, Mauritius and the Mascarene islands, India, Indonesia, Java, and other locations emphasize networks and connections across the Indian Ocean. Contributors apply a variety of disciplinary methods, including bioanthropology, analysis of medieval illustrations and colonial documents, architectural history, and anthropology of built space. They discuss the material history of domestic areas, religious structures, and colonial outposts; the structure of the slave trade; and the everyday implications of disease and health management within laboring populations.
This volume decenters European narratives and actors to show the important ways this region shaped the modern world.
Contributor Bio
Mark William Hauser, professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, is coeditor of Archaeology in Dominica: Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate.
Julia Jong Haines is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Society for the Humanities and Department of Anthropology at Cornell University