University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

Born to one of the wealthiest families in New York City, Eleanor Roosevelt seemed destined for a sedate and comfortable life. Instead, she fell in love with her fifth cousin and was flung into the highest levels of American politics, culminating in Franklin's unprecedented four-term presidency. Before...
by Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017

"Provocative . . . articulates the importance of embodied, erotic spirituality to black female subjectivity and empowerment."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature "Sets out to reclaim the right of black women to their sexual and erotic expression untainted by the stereotypes and disparagements...

The Politics of Race in Panama

Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention

by Sonja S. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016

"Delves into the historical convergence of peoples and cultural traditions that both enrich and problematize notions of national belonging, identity, culture, and citizenship."--Antonio D. Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature "With rich detail and...
by Sinan Koont
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016

"Pushed by necessity but enabled by its existing social and educational policies, Cuba in the 1990s launched the most extensive program of urban sustainable agriculture in the world. This study is to date the only book-length investigation in either English or Spanish of this important national...
by Anne Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

"Essential reading for those who increasingly appreciate the enormous importance of Martí as one of the nineteenth century's most influential and most original thinkers."--John Kirk, coeditor of Redefining Cuban Foreign Policy "Fountain's wide-ranging, keen-eyed, and meticulously researched...

Counterfeit Gentlemen

Manhood and Humor in the Old South

by John Mayfield
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2009

What does it mean to be a man in the pre–Civil War South? And how can we answer the question from the perspective of the early twenty-first century? John Mayfield does so by revealing how early nineteenth-century Southern humorists addressed the anxieties felt by men seeking to chart a new path...

Fertile Bonds

Bedouin Class, Kinship, and Gender in the Bekaa Valley

by Suzanne E. Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

"Provides rich new ethnographic material on a little-known population, the Bedouin of the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. It positions such marginal populations in the broader theoretical context of modernization and health and demographic transitions."--Allan G. Hill, Harvard University With...

Bioarchaeology and Climate Change

A View from South Asian Prehistory

by Gwen Robbins Schug
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017

"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C....
by Jon L. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015

Balancing personal dignity and first amendment concerns has become increasingly challenging in the new media age, when, for example, bloggers have no editors and perhaps no moral restraints. Unlimited and unrestricted internet speech has left thousands of victims in its wake, most of them silenced...

Dance and Gender

An Evidence-Based Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018

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...
by Robert K. Weninger
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016

"The first comprehensive account of the enormous impact of Joyce on German modernist and postmodern writers. An indispensable book on Joyce's 'German' face."—Gerald Gillespie, Stanford University In August 1919, a production of James Joyce's Exiles was mounted at the Munich Schauspielhaus...

Waiting for Contact

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

by Lawrence Squeri
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

"A cogent, engaging history of humanity's most ambitious quest--seeking outward for other minds."--David Brin, author of Existence "A fascinating perspective on humankind's obsession for knowing if there is anyone else out there."--Gerrit L. Verschuur, author of The Invisible Universe: The Story of...
by Harris, John R
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

At winter's end in 1947, driven by the devastating loss of a son killed in World War II, naturalist Edwin Way Teale followed the dawning spring season northward in an amazing 17,000-mile odyssey from the Everglades to Maine. He wrote about the adventure in North with the Spring. Its sequel Wandering...

Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen

Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen

by Hiaasen, Carl
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011

Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
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