The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
The Gulf
The Bush Presidencies and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush both led the United States through watershed events in foreign relations: the end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Many high-level cabinet members and advisers played important foreign policy roles in both administrations,...
On the Edge of Earth
The Future of American Space Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The United States has long exploited Earth's orbits to enhance security, generate wealth, and solidify its position as a world leader. America's ambivalence toward military activities in space, however, has the potential to undermine our future security. Many in Washington possess a peculiar regard...
Religion and Resistance in Appalachia
Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has forced local citizens to redefine their identities, their connections to global economic forces, their...
The Political Career of W. Kerr Scott
The Squire from Haw River
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
When W. Kerr Scott (1896--1958) began his campaign for the North Carolina gubernatorial seat in 1948, his opponents derided his candidacy as a farce. However, the plainspoken dairy farmer quickly gathered loyal supporters and mobilized a grassroots attack on the entrenched interests that had long...
Frog Pond Philosophy
Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The philanthropist and philosopher Strachan Donnelley (1942--2008) devoted his life to studying the complex relationship between humans and nature. Founder and first president of the Center for Humans and Nature, Donnelley was a pioneer in the exploration and promotion of the idea that human beings...
China Looks at the West
Identity, Global Ambitions, and the Future of Sino-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Chinese leaders have long been fascinated by the United States, but have often chosen to demonize America for perceived cultural and military imperialism. Especially under Communist rule, Chinese leaders have crafted and re-crafted portrayals of the United States according to the needs of their own...
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture
World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Distinct practices of eating are at the heart of many of the world's faith traditions -- from the Christian Eucharist to Muslim customs of fasting during Ramadan to the vegetarianism and asceticism practiced by some followers of Hinduism and Buddhism. What we eat, how we eat, and whom we eat with...
Native Americans on Film
Conversations, Teaching, and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The film industry and mainstream popular culture are notorious for promoting stereotypical images of Native Americans: the noble and ignoble savage, the pronoun-challenged sidekick, the ruthless warrior, the female drudge, the princess, the sexualized maiden, the drunk, and others. Over the years,...
by Peter J. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
For five decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) to Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013), Allen has produced an average of one film a year; yet in many of these movies Allen reveals a progressively skeptical...
Stoner's Boy
A Seckatary Hawkins Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Mr. Stoner is bad, and it seems his son is turning out just the same. Masked and dressed all in gray, Stoner's Boy moves like a ghost up and down the river, stealing and causing mischief. Seckatary Hawkins and his club have crossed this dangerous lad, and (to make matters worse) Briggen and the Pelham...
Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities
Freud and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysis has yet to disentangle...
North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa
Enabling Violence and Instability
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval...
Make Way for Her
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
A girl afflicted with pyrokinesis tries to control her fire-starting long enough to go to a dance with a boy she likes. A woman trapped in a stalled marriage is excited by an alluring ex-con who enrolls in her YMCA cooking class. A teen accompanies her mother, a prestigious poet, to a writing conference...
The Missile Defense Controversy
Technology in Search of a Mission
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
This revised and updated edition identifies the cultural factors and specific administrative agendas that have shaped the way we view ballistic missile technology. Three new sections connect our recent, sudden shifts in foreign policy to ongoing historical patterns. Whether cautioning against the...