University Press Of Florida imprint: 241 books
The Politics of Race in Panama
Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention
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
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
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
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
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
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Bioarchaeology and Climate Change
A View from South Asian Prehistory
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
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
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
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
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
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
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation’s collective memory.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
An illuminating collection of quotes, offering new insights on Henry Ford’s sweeping achievements as one of America’s greatest industrialists.