The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
A Guide to Cyanobacteria
Identification and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Blue-green algae (also known as cyanobacteria) and the toxins they can produce pose serious economic, environmental, and public health problems worldwide. Much of the scientific and public interest in these microorganisms arises from their tendency to undergo explosive population growth and form harmful...
The Man Who Loved Birds
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Having taken great risks -- to immigrate to America, to take monastic vows -- Bengali physician Meena Chatterjee and Brother Flavian are each seeking safety and security when they encounter Johnny Faye, a Vietnam vet, free spirit, and expert marijuana farmer. Amid the fields and forests of a Trappist...
Jarmila Novotná
My Life in Song
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
A legendary beauty, hailed as one of the greatest singing actors of her time, Jarmila Novotná (1907--1994) was an internationally known opera soprano from the former Czechoslovakia. Best known for her performances in Der Rosenkavalier, The Marriage of Figaro, and La Traviata, she was a celebrated...
Sylvia Rafael
The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
"There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.... She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities." -- From the Mossad's psychological evaluation of Sylvia Rafael
When Moti Kfir, head of the Academy for Special Operations of the Mossad,...
My Life as a Mankiewicz
An Insider's Journey through Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
The son of famed director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve [1950], Guys and Dolls [1955], Cleopatra [1963]) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Tom Mankiewicz was genuine Hollywood royalty. He grew up in Beverly Hills and New York, spent summers on his...
John Gilbert
The Last of the Silent Film Stars
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary...
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Winner of the 2001 The Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement A History Book Club Selection The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usually told as a tale of a lone deranged actor who struck from a twisted lust for revenge. This is not only too simple an explanation; Blood on the Moon reveals...
by Crystal Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes...
by Vandana Shiva
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity." -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Motivated...
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the...
3-D Revolution
The History of Modern Stereoscopic Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
In 2009, Avatar, a 3-D movie directed by James Cameron, became the most successful motion picture of all time, a technological breakthrough that has grossed more than $2.5 billion worldwide. Its seamless computer-generated imagery and live action stereo photography effectively defined the importance...
by Joseph McBride
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2006
At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far ahead of its time that...
Sidney J. Furie
Life and Films
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Known for his visual style as well as for his experimentation in virtually every genre of narrative cinema, award-winning director Sidney J. Furie also has the distinction of having made Canada's first ever feature-length fictional film in English, A Dangerous Age (1957). With a body of work that...
Beyond Biotechnology
The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
In 2001 the Human Genome Project announced that it had successfully mapped the entire genetic content of human DNA. Scientists, politicians, theologians, and pundits speculated about what would follow, conjuring everything from nightmare scenarios of state-controlled eugenics to the hope of engineering...