University Of Florida Press imprint: 241 books
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.
Bravura!
Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
To many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades.
It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kirkland, and eventually Baryshnikov to ABT. Under her leadership, the company worked with such...
Ballroom!: Obsession and Passion inside the World of Competitive Dance
Obsession and Passion inside the World of Competitive Dance
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
An all-access pass to a glamorous and fascinating world
Key West on the Edge
Inventing the Conch Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Key West lies at the southernmost point of the continental Unites States, ninety miles from Cuba, at Mile Marker 0 on famed U.S. Highway 1. Famous for six-toed cats in the Hemingway House, Sloppy Joe’s and Captain Tony's, Jimmy Buffett songs, body paint parade "costumes," and a brief secession...
Fernando Alonso
The Father of Cuban Ballet
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Written records of Alonso’s work are scarce, yet Toba Singer’s quest to spotlight his seminal role in the development of the modern ballet canon yields key material: pre-blockade tapes from Lincoln Center, Spanish-language sources from the Museum of Dance in Havana, and interviews with the ballet...
Freedom's Pragmatist
Lyndon Johnson and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
History has labeled Lyndon B. Johnson "Lincoln's successor." But how did a southern president representing a predominately conservative state, with connections to some of the nation's leading segregationists, come to play such an influential role in civil rights history? In Freedom's Pragmatist,...
Selling War in a Media Age
The Presidency and Public Opinion in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2010
George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" banner in 2003 and the misleading linkages of Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 terrorist attacks awoke many Americans to the techniques used by the White House to put the country on a war footing. Yet Bush was simply following in the footsteps of his predecessors,...
Miami
City of the Future, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide...
Fútbol!
Why Soccer Matters in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Get ready for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics—both held in Brazil—with the story of Latin America’s most popular sport. Fútbol! explains why competitors and fans alike are so fiercely dedicated to soccer throughout the region.
From its origins in British boarding...
by Johnny Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Whether forging uncharted territory or slipping along marked canoe trails, get ready to experience more than 400 miles of creeks, bays, marshes, and the Gulf of Mexico. This indispensable guide for the ultimate adventure by canoe or kayak now includes GPS coordinates and twelve new paddle routes.
The Quarters and the Fields
Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
The Quarters and the Fields offers a unique approach to the examination of slavery. Rather than focusing on slave work and family life on cotton plantations, Damian Pargas compares the practice of slavery among the other major agricultural cultures in the nineteenth-century South: tobacco, mixed grain,...
by Barbara A. Purdy, Robert J. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
With more than 50 years of field experience between the two authors, this highly regarded volume reveals how responsible archaeologists locate, excavate, and analyze sites, middens, and remains. This second edition contains new, emended, and greatly expanded chapters about recently discovered sites...
by Dennis Broe
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2009
Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis Broe contends that the genre, with its emphasis on dark subject matter, paralleled the class conflict in labor and union movements that dominated the period.
By following the evolution...