University Press of Florida Rights Catalog 2022

rights catalog 2022

INTERNATIONAL SUBAGENTS

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University Press of Florida 9780813056210

Pub Date: 3/26/2019 $95.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards 340 Pages 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 0.9 in T | 1.5 lb Wt

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. In addition, contributors describe the importance of grassroots efforts for expanding the global movement—the UNIA trained leaders to organize local centers of power, whose political activism outside the movement helped Garvey's message escape organizational boundaries.

Contributor Bio

Ronald J. Stephens, professor of interdisciplinary studies at Purdue University, is the author of Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town

Adam Ewing, assistant 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.

University Press of Florida 9780813066394

Date: 4/7/2020

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Black Panther in Exile

The Pete O'Neal Story Paul J. Magnarella

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Summary

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.

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 projects.

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

University Press of Florida 9780813068954

Pub Date: 12/13/2022 $30.00 Discount Code: short Trade Paperback

242 Pages Literary Criticism / American LIT004040 9 in H | 6 in W Status: FORTHCOMING

To Tell a Black Story of Miami

Tatiana D. McInnis

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Summary

How portrayals of anti-Blackness in literature and film challenge myths about South Florida history and culture

In this book, Tatiana McInnis examines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city's material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmopolitan paradise. McInnis discusses how this favorable "melting pot" narrative depends on the obfuscation of racialized violence against people of African descent.

Analyzing novels, short stories, and memoirs by Edwidge Danticat, M.J. Fievre, Carlos Moore, Carlos Eire, Patricia Stephens Due, and Tananarive Due, as well as films such as Dawg Fight and Moonlight, McInnis demonstrates how these creations push back against erasure by representing the experiences of Black Americans and immigrants from Caribbean nations. McInnis considers portrayals of state-sanctioned oppression, residential segregation, violent detention of emigres, and increasing wealth gaps to conclude that celebrations of Miami's diversity disguise the pervasive, adaptive nature of white supremacy and anti-Blackness.

Contributor Bio

Tatiana D. McInnis is instructor of American studies and humanities at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

University Press of Florida 9780813064314

Pub Date: 3/12/2019 $24.95 Discount Code: short Trade Paperback 206 Pages Social Science / Anthropology SOC002010 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 lb Wt

Edible Insects and Human Evolution

Julie J. Lesnik

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Summary

Researchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological record. In this volume, Julie Lesnik highlights a different food source, tracing evidence that humans and their hominin ancestors also consumed insects throughout the entire course of human evolution. Lesnik combines primatology, sociocultural anthropology, reproductive physiology, and paleoanthropology to examine the role of insects in the diets of huntergatherers and our nonhuman primate cousins. She posits that women would likely spend more time foraging for and eating insects than men, arguing that this pattern is important to note because women are too often ignored in reconstructions of ancient human behavior. Because of the abundance of insects and the low risk of acquiring them, insects were a reliable food source that mothers used to feed their families over the past five million years.

Contributor Bio

Julie J. Lesnik is assistant professor of anthropology at Wayne State 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

Summary

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), and how they shaped the development of national identities by creating clothing

Contributor Bio

Michèle Hayeur Smith is research associate at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University.

University Press of Florida 9780813066844

Pub Date: 6/22/2021 $80.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards 136 Pages Social Science / Archaeology SOC003000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0 4 in T | 0 8 lb Wt

Heritage and the Existential Need for History Maud

Webster

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Summary

In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites dating from a span of thousands of years and located across continents, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society.

In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites dating from a span of thousands of years and located across continents, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society.

Contributor Bio Maud Webster is an independent scholar based in Athens, Greece. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Punctuated Insularity: The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia.

University of Florida Press 9781683401841

Pub Date: 10/27/2020 $130.00

Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards

450 Pages

Social Science / Archaeology SOC003000 Series: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 1.2 in T | 2.2 lb Wt

Leprosy

Past and Present Charlotte A. Roberts

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Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic 7,000-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many longstanding myths about the disease.

Through an unprecedented multidisciplinary and global approach, this book documents the dramatic several-thousand-year history of leprosy using bioarchaeological, clinical, and historical information from a wide variety of contexts, dispelling many long-standing myths about the disease.

Drawing on her 30 years of research on the infection, Charlotte Roberts begins by outlining its bacterial causes, how it spreads, and how it affects the body. She then considers its diagnosis and treatment, both historically and in the present. She also looks at the methods and tools used by paleopathologists to identify signs of leprosy in skeletons. Examining evidence in human remains from many countries, particularly in Europe and including Britain, Hungary, and Sweden, Roberts demonstrates that those affected were usually buried in the same cemeteries as others in their communities, contrary to the popular belief that they were all ostracized or isolated from society into leprosy hospitals.

Contributor Bio

Charlotte A. Roberts is professor of archaeology at Durham University and a trained nurse. She is the author of Human Remains in Archaeology: A Handbook, and coauthor of The Bioarchaeology of Tuberculosis: A Global View on a Reemerging Disease and The Archaeology of Disease, among many other books.

University Press of Florida 9780813068909

Pub Date: 2/21/2023 $35.00 Discount Code: Short Trade Paperback

444 Pages Social Science / Anthropology SOC002010 9 in H | 6 in W Status: FORTHCOMING

Anthropological Perspectives on Aging

Britteny M. Howell, Ryan P. Harrod

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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.

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 9780813069494

Pub Date: 12/30/2022 $95.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards

448 Pages Social Science / Archaeology SOC003000

9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Status: FORTHCOMING

Ancient Foodways

Integrative Approaches to Understanding Subsistence and Society

C.Margaret Scarry, Dale L. Hutchinson, Benjamin S. Arbuckle

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Summary

How archaeology can shed light on past foodways and social worlds

Through various case studies, Ancient Foodways illustrates how archaeologists can use bioarchaeology, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, architecture, and other evidence to understand how food acquisition, preparation, and consumption intersect with economics, politics, and ritual. Spanning four continents and several millennia of human history, this volume is a comprehensive and contemporary survey of how archaeological data can be used to interpret past foodways and reconstruct past social worlds.

This volume is organized around four major themes: feasting and politics; sacrifice, ritual, and ancestors; diet, landscape, and health; and integrative methods. Contributors weave together multiple threads of evidence relating to plants, animals, craft production, and human health and reconnect the material remnants with behaviors, practices, and meanings. The case studies show the varied and creative ways that multiple sources of evidence can be used to shed light on past foodways.

Ancient Foodways demonstrates how environmental and cultural factors shaped past subsistence strategies and cooking practices and the role food played in shaping cultural identity and exchange networks, while also examining how food production methods can lead to environmental destruction and the detrimental role of dietary constraints on human health.

Contributor Bio

C. Margaret Scarry, professor of anthropology and director of Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the coeditor of Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland.

Dale L. Hutchinson, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of American Health and Wellness in Archaeology and History

Benjamin S. Arbuckle, professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is coeditor of Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World.

University Press of Florida 9780813069401

Pub Date: 10/11/2022 $90.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards

244 Pages

Social Science / Popular Culture SOC022000 Series: Cultural Heritage Studies 9 in H | 6 in W Status: FORTHCOMING

Baseball and Cultural Heritage

Gregory Ramshaw, Sean Gammon

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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 9780813064680

Pub Date: 7/10/2018 $24.95 Discount Code: short Paperback

224 Pages Performing Arts / Dance PER003000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 lb Wt

Dance and Gender

An Evidence-Based Approach

Wendy Oliver, Doug Risner

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Summary

Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses of data from institutional sources, and action research studies Dancers, dance artists, and dance scholars from the United States, Australia, and Canada discuss equity in three areas: concert dance, the studio, and higher education. The chapters provide evidence of bias, stereotyping, and other behaviors that are often invisible to those involved, as well as to audiences. The contributors answer incisive questions about the role of gender in various aspects of the field, including physical expression and body image, classroom experiences and pedagogy, and performance and funding opportunities. The findings reveal how inequitable practices combined with societal pressures can create hostile enironments.

Contributor Bio

Wendy Oliver, professor of dance at Providence College, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches.

Doug Risner, professor of dance at Wayne State University, is coeditor of Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader.

Finding Balanchine's Lost Ballets

Summary

In the first book to focus exclusively on George Balanchine’s early Russian ballets, most of which have been lost to history, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group ballet, Funeral March.

Ever since George Balanchine arrived on the American dance scene in 1933, his revolutionary, fleet-footed repertoire has been immortalized in the ballet canon. Yet most of the works he created in Russia as a budding choreographer have been lost to history—until now. In the first book to focus exclusively on Balanchine’s Russian ballets, Elizabeth Kattner offers new insights into the artistic evolution of a legend through her reconstruction of his first group ballet, Funeral March.

Drawing on more than a decade of research conducted in archives in the United States and Europe, Kattner synthesizes textual descriptions, photographs, musical scores, and the comparative study of other early Balanchine ballets in order to re-create this forgotten work. By interpreting and building upon these historical findings in the studio and in performance, this project enables dance history to be experienced kinesthetically.

Contributor Bio

Elizabeth Kattner is associate professor of dance at Oakland University.

Rooted

Jazz Dance

Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

Lindsay Guarino, Carlos R.A. Jones, Wendy Oliver

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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.

An African American art form, jazz dance has an inaccurate historical narrative that often sets Euro-American 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.

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 9780813068671

7/12/2022

A Guide to a Somatic Movement Practice The Anatomy of Center

Nancy Topf, Hetty King

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Summary

An introduction to embodied movement through the workof a dance education pioneer

In this introduction to the work of somatic dance education pioneer Nancy Topf (1942–1998),readers are ushered on a journey to explore the movement of the body through a close awareness of anatomical form and function. Making available the full text of Topf’s The Anatomy of Center for the first time in print, this guide helps professionals, teachers, and students of all levels integrate embodied, somatic practices within contexts of dance,physical education and therapy, health, and mental well-being.

Hetty King, a movement educator certified in theTopf Technique®, explains how the ideas in this work grew out of Topf’sinvolvement in developing Anatomical Release Technique—an important concept incontemporary dance—and the influence of earlier innovators Barbara Clark andMabel Elsworth Todd, founder of the approach to movement known as “ideokinesis.”

Contributor Bio

Nancy Topf (1942-1998) was a choreographer, dancer, and internationally known teacher who helped pioneer Anatomical Release Technique and developed her own approach known as the Topf Technique/Dynamic Anatomy®.

Hetty King, a dance teacher and movement educator based in New York City, is a certified practitioner of the Topf Technique®.

A Revolution in Movement Dancers,

Painters, and the Image of Modern Mexico

K.Mitchell Snow

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This book illuminates how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico’s postrevolutionary cultural identity, tracing this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities

University Press of Florida 9780813066554

Pub Date: 9/15/2020 $90.00 Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards 346 Pages Art / History

ART015100 Series: Dancers, Painters, and the Image of Modern Mexico 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 0.7 in T | 1.5 lb Wt

How collaborations between dancers and painters shaped cultural identity in Mexico

A Revolution in Movement is the first book to illuminate how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexico’s postrevolutionary cultural identity. K. Mitchell Snow traces this relationship throughout nearly half a century of developments in Mexican dance—the emulation of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the 1920s, the adoption of U.S.-style modern dance in the 1940s, and the creation of ballet-inspired folk dance in the 1960s.

Snow describes the appearances in Mexico by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and Spanish concert dancer Tortóla Valencia, who helped motivate Mexico to express its own national identity through dance.

Contributor Bio

K.Mitchell Snow, an independent scholar and arts writer based in Washington, D.C., is the author of Movimiento, ritmo y música: Una biografía de Gloria Contreras.

University Press of Florida 9780813066097

La Meri and Her Life in Dance Performing the World

Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter

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This intriguing biography details the life and work of world dance pioneer La Meri (1899–1988). An American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer, La Meri was ahead of her time in championing cross-cultural dance performances and education, yet she is almost totally forgotten today. In La Meri and Her Life in Dance, Nancy Ruyter introduces readers to a visionary artist who played a pivotal role in dance history. Born in Texas as Russell Meriwether Hughes, La Meri toured throughout Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific, and the United States in the 1920s and ’30s, immersing herself in different dance traditions at a time when few American dancers explored styles outside their own. She learned about Indian dance culture from the celebrated Uday Shankar, studied belly dancing with the Moroccan sultan’s top dancer, and took flamenco lessons in Spain. La Meri spread awareness and enjoyment of the world’s myriad forms of expression.

Contributor Bio

Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter, former professor of dance at the University of California, Irvine, studied with La Meri in the 1950s. She is the author of Reformers and Visionaries: The Americanization of the Art of Dance and The Cultivation of Body and Mind in Nineteenth-Century American Delsartism.

University Press of Florida 9780813064321

Pub Date: 3/19/2019 $26.95 Discount Code: short Trade Paperback 400 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts BIO005000

9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 0.7 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

Dancing in Blackness A Memoir

Halifu Osumare, Brenda Dixon Gottschild

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Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award

Dancing in Blackness is a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America. In this memoir, Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international career.

Osumare's story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement, black militancy, and hippie counterculture. It was there, she says, that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement. Osumare describes her experiences as a young black dancer in Europe teaching "jazz ballet" and establishing her own dance company in Copenhagen. Moving to New York City, she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company and took part in integrating the programs at the Lincoln Center.

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 9780813064857

Pub Date: 3/20/2019 $19.95 Discount Code: trade Trade Paperback 216 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts BIO005000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.7 in Wt

Dancing with Merce Cunningham

Marianne Preger-Simon

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Dancing with Merce Cunningham is a buoyant, captivating memoir of a talented dancer’s lifelong friendship with one of the choreographic geniuses of our time. Marianne Preger-Simon’s story opens amid the explosion of artistic creativity that followed World War II. While immersed in the vibrant arts scene of postwar Paris during a college year abroad, Preger-Simon was so struck by Merce Cunningham’s unconventional dance style that she joined his classes in New York. She soon became an important member of his brand new dance troupe—and a constant friend. Through her experiences in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Preger-Simon offers a rare account of exactly how Cunningham taught and interacted with his students. She describes the puzzled reactions of audiences to the novel non-narrative choreography of the company’s debut performances. She touches on Cunningham’s quicksilver temperament—lamenting his early frustrations with obscurity and the discomfort she suspects he endured.

Contributor Bio

Marianne Preger-Simon lives in Whately, Massachusetts. She danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in its founding years, from 1950 until 1958. She remained friends with Merce Cunningham until his death in 2009.

University Press of Florida 9780813056258

Pub Date: 3/19/2019 $19.95 Discount Code: trade Trade Paperback 192 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts BIO005000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0 6 in T | 0 7 lb Wt

Broadway, Balanchine, and Beyond A Memoir

Bettijane Sills, Elizabeth McPherson

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In this memoir of a roller-coaster career on the New York stage, former actor and dancer Bettijane Sills offers a highly personal look at the art and practice of George Balanchine, one of ballet’s greatest choreographers, and the inner workings of his world-renowned company during its golden years. Sills recounts her years as a child actor in television and on Broadway, a career choice largely driven by her mother, and describes her transition into pursuing her true passion: dance. She was a student in Balanchine’s School of American Ballet throughout her childhood and teen years, until her dream was achieved. She was invited to join New York City Ballet in 1961 as a member of the corps de ballet and worked her way up to the level of soloist. Winningly honest and intimate, Sills lets readers peek behind the curtains to see a world that most people have never experienced firsthand. She tells stories of taking classes with Balanchine and dancing in his original casts.

Contributor Bio

Bettijane Sills, is professor of dance at Purchase College, State University of New York. She danced with New York City Ballet from 1961 to 1972, first as a corps member and later as a soloist.

Elizabeth McPherson is associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance and coordinator of the BA and MFA in dance at Montclair State University. She is the editor of The Bennington School of the Dance: A History in Writings and Interviews.

University Press of Florida 9780813069548

Pub Date: 1/17/2023 $90.00

Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards

400 Pages Performing Arts / Dance PER003070

9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Status: FORTHCOMING

Research Methods in the Dance Sciences

Tom Welsh, Jatin P. Ambegaonkar, Lynda Mainwaring

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A comprehensive guide to conducting empirical research in dance

Research Methods in the Dance Sciences introduces concepts and practices that support effective, empirical research in the dance sciences, including medical science. A valuable new resource for this growing field, this book provides foundational knowledge for anyone who wants to understand, apply, and conduct research with dancers and proposes ways to facilitate more collaboration between the many disciplines that often overlap in this area.

Pioneers of dance medicine and science guide readers through the stages of the research process. They address topics such as choosing a research question, writing a literature review, developing a framework and methodology, influencing the field, and progressing in a research career. Offering dance-specific examples as illustrations, this volume provides clear and instructive strategies for developing a solid repertoire of research skills to examine dance and movement-centered activities

Contributor Bio

Tom Welsh is dance sciences professor and founding director of the Dance Conditioning Studio at Florida State University He is the author of Conditioning for Dancers.

Jatin P. Ambegaonkar is professor in the School of Kinesiology and founding operations director of the Sports Medicine Assessment, Research, and Testing (SMART) Laboratory at George Mason University

Lynda Mainwaring is associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto and a registered psychologist in Ontario, Canada. The three editors have served on the editorial board of the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science for many years and Ambegaonkar is currently the editor-in-chief of the journal.

University Press of Florida 9780813054599

Pub Date: 4/25/2017 $24.95 Discount Code: Trade Paperback 328 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Military BIO008000 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W

The Generalship of Muhammad Battles and Campaigns of the Prophet of Allah

Russ Rodgers

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In The Generalship of Muhammad, Russ Rodgers charts a new path by merging original sources with the latest in military theory to examine Muhammad's military strengths and weaknesses.

His campaigns, military thought, and insurgent strategy

There are many biographies of the Prophet, and they tend to fall into three categories: pious works that emphasize the virtues of the early Islamic community, general works for non-Muslim or non-specialist readers, and source-critical works that grapple with historiographical problems inherent in early Islamic history. In The Generalship of Muhammad, Russ Rodgers charts a new path by merging original sources with the latest in military theory to examine Muhammad's military strengths and weaknesses.

Incorporating military, political, and economic analyses, Rodgers focuses on Muhammad’s use of insurgency warfare in seventh-century Arabia to gain control of key cities such as Medina. Seeking to understand the operational aspects of these world-changing battles, he provides battlefield maps and explores the supply and logistic problems that would have plagued any military leader at the time.

Contributor Bio

Russ Rodgers is command historian with the U.S. Army and former adjunct professor of history. He is the author of Fundamentals of Islamic Asymmetric Warfare: A Documentary Analysis of the Principles of Muhammad.

Stalking the U-Boat

U.S. Naval Aviation in Europe during World War I Geoffrey L. Rossano

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"An exceptional piece of scholarship. Rossano clearly points out that military organizations in general, and a naval air force in particular, are built from the ground up and not the other way around. While we celebrate the exploits of the pilots, Rossano reminds us that there were myriad mechanics, constructors, paymasters, and even some ship drivers who played a vital role in naval aviation during WWI."--Craig C. Felker, U.S. Naval Academy

"A fine book that will stand for many years as the definitive study of U.S. naval aviation in Europe. Well-researched and written, the book ranges widely, from the high-level planning in Washington for a naval air war to moving thousands of men and hundreds of aircraft across the ocean to the routine but dangerous training, patrol, and bombing flights that constituted the navy’s air mission in World War I."--William F. Trimble, author of Attack from the Sea

Stalking the U-Boat is the first and only comprehensive study of U.S. naval aviation operations in Europe during WW1. The Navy's experiences in this conflict laid the foundations for the later emergence of aviation as a crucial element of fleet operations.

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Geoffrey L. Rossano is the editor of Price of Honor: The World War One Letters of Naval Aviator Kenneth MacLeish.

University Press of Florida 9780813064338

Pub Date: 4/9/2019 $24.95 Discount Code: short Trade Paperback

278 Pages History / United States HIS036000 9 in H | 6 in W Status: ACTIVE

Uncommonly Savage

Civil War and Remembrance in Spain and the United States Paul D. Escott

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Spain and the United States both experienced extremely bloody and divisive civil wars that left social and emotional wounds, many of which still endure today. In Uncommonly Savage, award-winning historian Paul Escott considers the impact of internecine violence on memory and ideology, politics, and process of reconciliation. He also examines debates over reparation or moral recognition, the rise of truth and reconciliation commissions, and the legal, psychological, and religious aspects of modern international law regarding amnesty.

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Paul D. Escott is the Reynolds Professor of History Emeritus at Wake Forest University and author of numerous books, including Slavery Remembered, Many Excellent People, "What Shall We Do With the Negro?" and The Confederacy.

University Press of Florida 9780813034270

Pub Date: 3/7/2010 $24.95 Discount Code: Trade Hardcover

208 Pages History / Wars & Conflicts HIS027100 Series: New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology

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Lucky 73

USS Pampanito's Unlikely Rescue of Allied POWs in WWII Aldona Sendzikas

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A harrowing true story of capture, torture, shipwreck, and survival

"Recounts one of the most heartrending stories of the U.S. Navy's submarine service."--William Thiesen, author of Industrializing American Shipbuilding

"We find ordeal and torment of a kind that afflicts the imagination. Unbelievably brave British and Australian POWs are its heroes. U.S. submarine crews are its angels. You and I are its beneficiaries."--Michael Gannon, author of Black May and Operation Drumbeat

Today USS Pampanito is a tourist destination. During WWII the submarine earned six battle stars, sank six Japanese ships, damaged four others, and rescued seventy-three British and Australian POWs from the South China Sea. Astonishingly, this rescue happened three days after she sank one of the transport ships on which the Allied prisoners were being ferried to Japan. While working as curator for Pampanito, Aldona Sendzikas discovered the stories of those rescued and began an odyssey of tracking down one of the most incredible rescue stories of the Pacific War.

Contributor Bio

Aldona Sendzikas, associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, is the former curator for the restored USS Pampanito, moored at Pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco.

University of Florida Press 9781683403197

Pub Date: 1/24/2023 $38.00 Discount Code: Short Trade Paperback

336 Pages History / Caribbean & West Indies HIS041010 9 in H | 6 in W Status: FORTHCOMING

Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela

One Hope, Two Realities

Silvia Pedraza, Carlos A. Romero

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Comparing two consequential movements that shed light on the nature of revolution

The text compares the sociopolitical processes behind two major revolutions-Cuba in 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power, and Venezuela in 1999, when Hugo Chávez won the presidential election. With special attention to the Cuba-Venezuela alliance, particularly in regards to foreign policy and the trade of doctors for oil, Silvia Pedraza and Carlos Romero show that the geopolitical theater where these events played out determined the dynamics and reach of the revolutions.

Updating and enriching the current understanding of the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions, this study is unique in its focus on the massive exodus they generated

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Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is author of Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus.

Carlos A. Romero, professor emeritus in the Institute of Political Studies at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, is coauthor of U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s: Coping with Midlevel Security Threats

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

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 U.S. 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 co-director 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 9781683402107

Teaching Haiti Strategies for Creating New Narratives

Cécile Accilien, Valérie K. Orlando

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This volume provides guidance on teaching about Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective, offering ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture.

This volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti’s complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean, contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences.

Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and historical accounts. Instructors in diverse subject areas discuss ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture, and they advocate for including Haiti in American and Latin American studies courses.

Contributor Bio

Cécile Accilien, professor and chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department at Kennesaw State University, is the author of Rethinking Marriage in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures.

Valérie K. Orlando, professor of French and Francophone literatures at the University of Maryland, College Park, is the author of The Algerian New Novel: The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950-1979 and New African Cinema.

University of Florida Press 9781683403548

Pub Date: 1/24/2023 $28.00 Discount Code: trade Trade Paperback

298 Pages History / Latin America HIS033000 Series: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America 9 in H | 6 in W | 0 8 in T | 1 2 lb Wt

The Insubordination of Photography Documentary Practices under Chile's Dictatorship Ángeles Donoso Macaya

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The role of documentary photography in exposing and protesting the crimes of a dictatorship

Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Section Best Book Prize

Latin American Studies Association Historia Reciente y Memoria Section Best Book Prize

After Augusto Pinochet rose to power in Chile in 1973, his government abducted, abused, and executed thousands of his political opponents. The Insubordination of Photography is the first book to analyze how various collectives, organizations, and independent media used photography to expose and protest the crimes of Pinochet's authoritarian regime.

Ángeles Donoso Macaya discusses the ways human rights groups such as the Vicariate of Solidarity used portraits of missing persons in order to make forced disappearances visible. She also calls attention to forensic photographs that served as incriminating evidence of government killings in the landmark Lonquén case.

Contributor Bio

Ángeles Donoso Macaya is professor of Spanish at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY and professor of Latin American culture and visual studies at The Graduate Center/CUNY. She is coeditor of Latinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader.

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 9 in H | 6 in W | 1 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

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.

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Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky is associate professor of modern languages and literatures at Oakland University.

University Press of Florida 9780813068794

Pub Date: 5/31/2022 $26.95 Discount Code: Trade Trade Paperback 240 Pages 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 0.6 in T | 0.8 lb Wt

Creole Renegades

Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora Bénédicte Boisseron

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In Creole Renegades, Bénédicte Boisseron looks at exiled Caribbean authors—Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Maryse Condé, Dany Laferriére, and more—whose works have been well received in their adopted North American countries but who are often viewed by their home islands as sell-outs, opportunists, or traitors.

These expatriate and second-generation authors refuse to be simple bearers of Caribbean culture, often dramatically distancing themselves from the postcolonial archipelago. Their writing is frequently infused with an enticing sense of cultural, sexual, or racial emancipation, but their deviance is not defiant. Underscoring the typically ignored contentious relationship between modern diaspora authors and the Caribbean, Boisseron ultimately argues that displacement and creative autonomy are often manifest in guilt and betrayal.

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Bénédicte Boisseron is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the coeditor of Voix du monde: Nouvelles francophones.

University of Florida Press 9781683402541

Pub Date: 2/8/2022 $120.00 Discount Code: 06 Hardcover

268 Pages

Performing Arts / Film PER004100

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Neo-Authoritarian Masculinity in Brazilian Crime Film

Jeremy Lehnen

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An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twentyfirst-century sociopolitical issues.

An incisive analysis of contemporary crime film in Brazil, this book focuses on how movies in this genre represent masculinity and how their messages connect to twentyfirst-century sociopolitical issues. Jeremy Lehnen argues that these films promote an agenda in support of the nation's recent swing toward authoritarianism that culminated in the 2018 election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.Lehnen examines the integral role of masculinity in several archetypal crime films, most of which foreground urban violence, including Cidade de Deus, Quase Dois Irmãos, Tropa de Elite, O Homem do Ano, and O Doutrinador Within these films, Lehnen finds representations that criminalize the poor, marginalized male; emasculate the civilian middle-class male intellectual, casting him as unable to respond to crime; and portray state security as the only power able to stem increasing crime rates.

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Jeremy Lehnen is visiting associate professor of gender studies and Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University.

University of Florida Press 9781683403050

Pub Date: 2/8/2022 $35.00 Discount Code: Short Trade Paperback

256 Pages

Performing Arts / Film PER004030

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The Lost Cinema of Mexico

From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros

Olivia Cosentino, Brian Price

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This volume challenges the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the nation’s earlier Golden Age, examining the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films.

The Lost Cinema of Mexico is the first volume to challenge the dismissal of Mexican filmmaking during the 1960s through 1980s, an era long considered a low-budget departure from the artistic quality and international acclaim of the nation’s earlier Golden Age. This pivotal collection examines the critical implications of discovering, uncovering, and recovering forgotten or ignored films.

This largely unexamined era of film reveals shifts in Mexican culture, economics, and societal norms as state-sponsored revolutionary nationalism faltered. During this time, movies were widely embraced by the public as a way to make sense of the rapidly changing realities and values connected to Mexico’s modernization. These essays shine a light on many genres that thrived in these decades: rock churros, campy luchador movies, countercultural superocheros, Black melodramas, family films, and Chili Westerns.

Contributor Bio

Olivia Cosentino is Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

Brian Price is professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss and the editor of Asaltos a la historia: Reimaginando la ficción histórica hispanoamericana.

University of Florida Press 9781683401643

Pub Date: 12/1/2020 $85.00 Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards

352 Pages

Social Science / Media Studies SOC052000 Series: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America

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Univision, Telemundo, and the Rise of SpanishLanguage Television in the United States

Craig Allen

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In the first history of Spanish-language television in the United States, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication

In the most comprehensive history of Spanish-language television in the United States to date, Craig Allen traces the development of two prominent yet little-studied powerhouses, Univision and Telemundo. Allen tells the inside story of how these networks fought enormous odds to rise as giants of mass communication within an English-dominated society

The book begins in San Antonio, Texas, in 1961 with the launch of the first Spanishlanguage station in the country. From it rose the Spanish International Network (SIN), which would later become Univision. Conceived by Mexican broadcasting mogul Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta and created by unsung American television pioneers, Unvision grew to provide a vast amount of international programming, including popular telenovelas, and was the first U.S. network delivered by satellite. After Telemundo was founded in the 1980s by Saul Steinberg and Harry Silverman, the two networks battled over audiences and saw dramatic changes in leadership.

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Craig Allen is associate professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. A former TV news director and consultant, his books include Eisenhower and the Mass Media: Peace, Prosperity, and Prime-Time TV.

University of Florida Press 9780813069135

Pub Date: 2/22/2022 $127.50 Discount Code: 06 Hardcover

250 Pages

Literary Criticism / European LIT004120

Series: The Florida James Joyce Series 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 in T | 1 lb Wt

Joyce Writing Disability

Jeremy Colangelo

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In this book, the first to explore the role of disability in the writings of James Joyce, 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.

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.

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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 9780813066288

Pub Date: 2/25/2020 $80.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards

194 Pages Literary Criticism / European LIT004120 Series: The Florida James Joyce Series 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.6 in T | 1 lb Wt

Joyce and Geometry

Ciaran McMorran

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Joyce and Geometry reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry. Tracing Joyce’s obsession with measuring and mapping space throughout his works, Ciaran McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce’s work.

In a paradigm shift away from classical understandings of geometry, nineteenthcentury mathematicians developed new systems that featured surprising concepts such as the idea that parallel lines can curve and intersect. Providing evidence to confirm much that has largely been speculation, Joyce and Geometry reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry

Through close readings of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Joyce’s notebooks, Ciaran McMorran demonstrates that Joyce’s experiments with nonlinearity stem from a fascination with these new mathematical concepts. He highlights the maze-like patterns traced by Joyce’s characters as they wander Dublin’s streets; he explores recurring motifs such as the topography of the Earth’s curved surface and time as the fourth dimension of space; and he investigates in detail the enormous influence of Giordano Bruno, Henri Poincaré, and other writers.

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Ciaran McMorran is an independent scholar based in Scotland.

University Press of Florida 9780813066981

Pub Date: 8/3/2021 $85.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards

306 Pages Literary Criticism / Modern LIT024050 Series: The Florida James Joyce Series

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Rewriting Joyce's Europe

The Politics of Language and Visual Design

Tekla Mecsnóber

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This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce’s two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II.

Rewriting Joyce’s Europe sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce’s two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World Wars I and II. Looking beyond the commonly studied Irish historical context of these works, Tekla Mecsnóber calls for more attention to their place among broader cultural and political processes of the interwar era.

Published in 1922 and 1939, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake display Joyce’s keen interest in naming, language choice, and visual aspects of writing. Mecsnóber shows the connections between these literary explorations and the real-world remapping of national borders that was often accompanied by the imposition of new place-names, languages, and alphabets. In addition to drawing on extensive research in newspaper archives as well as genetic criticism, Mecsnóber provides the first comprehensive analysis of meanings suggested by the typographic design of early editions of Joyce’s texts.

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Tekla Mecsnóber, lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is coeditor of Publishing in Joyce's "Ulysses": Newspapers, Advertising and Printing.

University Press of Florida 9780813066370

Pub Date: 4/7/2020 $85.00 Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards

198 Pages Literary Criticism / Modern LIT024050 Series: The Florida James Joyce Series

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Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake

Colleen Jaurretche

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This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with intangible things in his dreamlike masterpiece Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce wrote this work to suggest exactly why it follows the order it does.

This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wake—the dreamlike masterpiece that critics have called his “book of the night.” Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about how Joyce composed this work to suggest why he wrote and arranged it as he did.

Jaurretche provides a sequential reading of the four chapters and corresponding themes of the Wake from the perspective of prayer. She examines image, manifested by the letters of the alphabet and the Book of Kells; magic, which Joyce equates with the workings of language; dreams, which he relates to poetry; and speech, glorified in the Wake for its potential to express emotions and ecstasy. Jaurretche bases her study on important thinkers from antiquity to the present, including Origen of Alexandria, Giambattista Vico, and Giordano Bruno. She demonstrates how these philosophers influenced Joyce’s view that prayer can imbue language with power.

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Colleen Jaurretche is continuing lecturer in the Department of English and Writing Programs at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Sensual Philosophy: Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism and the editor of Beckett, Joyce and the Art of the Negative.

University Press of Florida 9780813069555

Pub Date: 12/6/2022 $85.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards

288 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.

Neil R. Davison

Altman

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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' 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.

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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 9780813056302

Pub Date: 5/21/2019 $85.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards 314 Pages Literary Criticism / European LIT004200 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

Mina Loy's Critical Modernism

Laura Scuriatti

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This book provides a fresh assessment of the works of British-born poet and painter Mina Loy. Laura Scuriatti shows how Loy’s “eccentric” writing and art celebrate ideas and aesthetics central to the modernist movement while simultaneously critiquing them, resulting in a continually self-reflexive and detached stance that Scuriatti terms “critical modernism.” Drawing on archival material, Scuriatti illuminates the oftenoverlooked influence of Loy’s time spent amid Italian avant-garde culture In particular, she considers Loy’s assessment of the nature of genius and sexual identity as defined by philosopher Otto Weininger and in Lacerba, a magazine founded by Giovanni Papini. She also investigates Loy’s reflections on the artistic masterpiece in relation to the world of commodities; explores the dialogic nature of the self in Loy’s autobiographical projects; and shows how Loy used her “eccentric” stance as a political position, especially in her later career in the United States.

Contributor Bio

Laura Scuriatti, associate professor of English and comparative literature at Bard College Berlin, is coeditor of The Exhibit in the Text: Museological Practices of Literature.

University Press of Florida 9780813068756

Pub Date: 6/28/2022 $29.95 Discount Code: Trade Trade Paperback

296 Pages Literary Criticism / Jewish LIT004210 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.9 lb Wt

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. She reveals the never-before-discussed influence of Matthew Arnold as well as a hidden Jewish framework in Stein's epic novel The Making of Americans. 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.

Contributor Bio

Amy Feinstein teaches English in the New York City public schools.

University Press of Florida 9780813066516

Pub Date: 7/21/2020 $90.00

Discount Code: short Hardcover Paper over boards

230 Pages Literary Criticism / Medieval LIT011000 Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions

8.5 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.8 in T | 0.9 lb Wt

An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders

Carl Phelpstead

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Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history.

Combining an accessible approach with innovative scholarship, An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders provides up-to-date perspectives on a unique medieval literary genre that has fascinated the English-speaking world for more than two centuries. Carl Phelpstead draws on historical context, contemporary theory, and close reading to deepen our understanding of Icelandic saga narratives about the island’s early history. Phelpstead explores the origins and cultural setting of the genre, demonstrating the rich variety of oral and written source traditions that writers drew on to produce the sagas. He provides fresh, theoretically informed discussions of major themes such as national identity, gender and sexuality, and nature and the supernatural, relating the Old Norse-Icelandic texts to questions addressed by postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and ecocriticism.

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Carl Phelpstead, professor of English literature at Cardiff University in Wales, is the author of Holy Vikings: Saints' Lives in the Old Icelandic Kings' Sagas.

Imperiled Reef

The Fascinating, Fragile Life of a Caribbean Wonder Sandy Sheehy

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This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

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 a strong case for protecting an international marvel.

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.

Chocolate Crisis

Climate Change and Other Threats to the Future of Cacao Dale Walters

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Addressing the threatened future of chocolate in our modern world, 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.

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. Diseases such as frosty pod rot, witches’ broom, and swollen shoot, along with pests such as sap-sucking capsids, cocoa pod borers, and termites, cause substantial losses every year.

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.

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles

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.

University of Florida Press 9781683402633

Pub Date: 9/13/2022 $26.95 Discount Code: trade Trade Paperback

128 Pages 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.5 lb Wt

Status: ACTIVE

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. Whether you’re a scientist seeking up-to-date pest management strategies or you’re just wondering if your backyard trees are at risk, this book will help you better understand the latest discoveries in beetle symbioses, molecular biology, and ecology. But be warned: at the end of this read you may be filled with affection for these adorable and astonishing beetles.

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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 Press of Florida 9780813069418

Pub Date: 10/18/2022 $90.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards

360 Pages 9 in H | 6 in W

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Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology

Methods, Applications, and Advances

Ashley E. Sharpe, John Krigbaum

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New techniques for understanding animal and human interactions in the past

Through case studies of faunal remains from Roman Britain, prehistoric Southeast Asia, ancient African pastoral cultures, and beyond, this volume illustrates some of the ways stable isotope analysis of ancient animals can address key questions in human prehistory

Contributors use a diverse set of isotopic techniques to investigate social and biological topics, including human paleodiets and foodways, hunting and procurement strategies, exchange patterns, animal husbandry and the genetic consequences of domestication, and short- and long-term environmental change. They demonstrate how different isotopes can be used alone or in conjunction to address questions of animal diet, movement, ecology, and management. Studies also examine how sampling strategies, statistical techniques, and regional and temporal considerations can influence isotopic results and interpretations.

By applying these new methods in concert with traditional zooarchaeological analyses, archaeologists can explore questions about human ecology and environmental archaeology that were previously deemed inaccessible.

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Ashley E. Sharpe is research archaeologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archaeology.

John Krigbaum is professor of anthropology at the University of Florida.

University of Florida Press 9781683402053

Pub Date: 9/7/2021 $45.00 Discount Code: Trade Hardcover Paper over boards

288 Pages History / United States HIS036060 11 in H | 8.5 in W | 0.6 in T

Picturing the Space Shuttle

The Early Years

John Bisney, J. L. Pickering, Robert L. Crippen

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Rare views of the beginnings of the historic space program, selected and presented by

two

leading space flight authorities

After the excitement of the first Moon landing, the U.S. space program took an ambitious new direction closer to home: NASA’s Space Shuttle program promised frequent access to Earth orbit for medical and scientific breakthroughs; deploying, repairing, and maintaining satellites; and assembling a space station. Picturing the Space Shuttle is the first photographic history of the program’s early years as the world's first spaceplane debuted.

Showcasing over 450 unpublished and lesser-known images, this book traces the growth of the Space Shuttle from 1965 to 1982, from initial concept through its first four space flights. The photographs offer windows into designing the first reusable space vehicle as well as the construction and testing of the prototype shuttle Enterprise. They also show the factory assembly and delivery of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Contributor Bio

John Bisney is a journalist who has covered the space program for CNN, the Discovery Science Channel, and SiriusXM Radio.

J. L. Pickering is a spaceflight historian and authority who has been archiving rare space images for 50 years. Together, they have coauthored many books, including Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments.

University Press of Florida 9780813056173

Pub Date: 4/2/2019 $45.00 Discount Code: trade Hardcover Paper over boards 272 Pages History / United States HIS036060 11 in H | 8.5 in W | 0.9 in T | 2.7 lb Wt

Picturing Apollo 11

Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments

J.L. Pickering, John Bisney

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Through a wealth of unpublished and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely seen views of the people, places, and events involved in planning, accomplishing, and commemorating the first Moon landing.

July 16, 1969. Nearly one million spectators flock to Cape Canaveral to witness the largest rocket ever built send three Americans to the Moon. Four days later, two step onto the lunar surface. The extraordinary achievement is celebrated around the world. Images capturing these incredible moments fill the pages of Picturing Apollo 11, an unprecedented photo¬graphic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublished and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely seen views of the people, places, and events involved in planning, accomplishing, and commemorating the first Moon landing. Starting with the extensive preparations for the mission, these photographs show astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins training for the flight and their spacecraft and stages of the massive Saturn V rocket arriving at the Kennedy Space Center for assembly.

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J. L. Pickering is a spaceflight historian and authority who has been archiving rare space images for more than 40 years.

John Bisney is a journalist who has covered the space program for CNN, the Discovery Science Channel, and SiriusXM Radio. Together, they have coauthored Space-shots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini: A Rare Photographic History, Moonshots and Snapshots of Project Apollo: A Rare Photographic History, and The Space-Age Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A Rare Photographic History.

University Press of Florida 9780813064741

Pub Date: 4/10/2018 $24.95 Discount Code: short Trade Paperback 256 Pages Social Science / Archaeology SOC003000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.8 lb Wt

The Final Mission

Preserving NASA's Apollo Sites

Lisa Westwood, Beth O'Leary, Milford Wayne Donaldson

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The world will always remember Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for their first steps on the moon, yet few today hold in respect the sites that made these and other astronauts' journeys possible. Across the American landscape and on the lunar surface, many facilities and landing sites linked to the Apollo program remain unprotected. Some have already crumbled to ruins--silent and abandoned The Final Mission explores these key locations, reframes the footprints and items left on the moon as cultural resources, and calls for the urgent preservation of this space heritage.

Beginning with the initiation of the space race, the authors trace the history of research, training, and manufacturing centers that contributed to lunar exploration. From the early rocket test stands of Robert H. Goddard, to astronaut instruction at Meteor Crater, to human and primate experiments at Holloman Air Force Base.

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Lisa Westwood is director of cultural resources at ECORP Consulting, Inc., and a professional archaeologist.

Beth Laura O'Leary, professor emerita of anthropology at New Mexico State University, is coeditor of Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage.

Milford Wayne Donaldson is president of the firm Architect Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA. He is chairman of the national Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the former state historic preservation officer for the state of California.

University of Florida Press 9781683402602

Pub Date: 5/24/2022 $35.00 Discount Code: Short Hardcover Paper over boards 392 Pages Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics TEC002000 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 2 lb Wt

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 thefirst 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.

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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 9780813054278

Pub Date: 3/21/2017 $39.95 Discount Code: trade Hardcover Paper over boards 648 Pages Technology & Engineering / History TEC056000 6.1 in H | 9.3 in W | 1.5 in T | 2.2 lb Wt

The History of Human Space Flight

Ted Spitzmiller

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Highlighting men and women across the globe who have dedicated themselves to pushing the limits of space exploration, this book surveys the programs, technological advancements, medical equipment, and automated systems that have made space travel possible. Beginning with the invention of balloons that lifted early explorers into the stratosphere, Ted Spitzmiller describes how humans first came to employ lifting gases such as hydrogen and helium. He traces the influence of science fiction writers on the development of rocket science, looks at the role of rocket societies in the early twentieth century, and discusses the use of rockets in World War II warfare. Spitzmiller considers the engineering and space medicine advances that finally enabled humans to fly beyond the earth's atmosphere during the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Ted Spitzmiller, retired from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is a pilot and flight instructor. He is the author of many books, including the two-volume work Astronautics.

"Exploration is not a choice, really; it's an imperative."-Michael Collins, Gemini and Apollo astronaut

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. This is a riveting journey inside the high-pressure world of one of America's most elite agencies.

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.

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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 Press of Florida 9780813049335

Pub Date: 9/10/2013 $28.00 Discount Code: Trade Trade Paperback 424 Pages Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology BIO015000

9.3 in H | 6.1 in W | 0.9 in T | 1.3 lb Wt

Forever Young A Life of Adventure in Air and Space

John W. Young, James R. Hansen

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He walked on the Moon. He flew six space missions in three different programs--more than any other human. He served with NASA for more than four decades. His peers called him the "astronaut's astronaut."

Enthusiasts of space exploration have long waited for John Young to tell the story of his two Gemini flights, his two Apollo missions, the first-ever Space Shuttle flight, and the first Spacelab mission. Forever Young delivers all that and more: Young's personal journey from engineering graduate to fighter pilot, to test pilot, to astronaut, to high NASA official, to clear-headed predictor of the fate of Planet Earth.

Young, with the assistance of internationally distinguished aerospace historian James Hansen, recounts the great episodes of his amazing flying career in fascinating detail and with wry humor. He portrays astronauts as ordinary human beings and NASA as an institution with the same ups and downs as other major bureaucracies.

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John W. Young (1930-2018) was an astronaut and NASA executive. He received more than eighty major awards for his career in aerospace, including six honorary doctorates.

James R. Hansen is professor of history and former director of the Honors College at Auburn University. He has been associated with the NASA History Program for the past thirty-one years, and is the author of First Man: The Life of Neil Armstrong.