The University Of North Carolina: 2383 books
Too Much to Ask
Black Women in the Era of Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States. Too Much to Ask focuses on the women of this pioneering generation, examining their educational strategies and experiences and exploring how...
The Mismeasure of Minds
Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America's schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multidecade debate over race, class, and IQ. In this innovative book, Michael E. Staub investigates neuropsychological studies published between Brown and the controversial...
The Complete Guide to Soccer Fitness and Injury Prevention
A Handbook for Players, Parents, and Coaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
What are the best fuel foods for soccer players? What training regimen will best prepare young soccer players and improve their resistance to injuries? This comprehensive guide to health and fitness for soccer players offers expert advice for soccer teams at all levels.
With decades of combined...
Learn to Cook 25 Southern Classics 3 Ways
Traditional, Contemporary, International
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Jennifer Brule is on a mission, southern style, to teach people to cook. Her method: master twenty-five classic southern dishes, and then--using similar ingredients or cooking techniques or both--make two variations, one contemporary and one inspired by international tastes. Brule's line-up of beloved...
Remembering Bill Neal
Favorite Recipes from a Life in Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
A gifted chef, restaurateur, and writer working at a time when Americans were beginning to take a new interest in their culinary heritage, Bill Neal (1950-1991) helped raise Southern food to national prominence.
Having rescued spattered and faded recipe cards from the Chapel Hill restaurant...
The Happy Table of Eugene Walter
Southern Spirits in Food and Drink
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
A southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (1921-1998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary personality among food lovers. The Happy Table of Eugene Walter, which introduces a new generation of readers to Walter's culinary legacy, is a revelation...
If That Ever Happens to Me
Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Schiavo
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions...
Caught in the Middle East
U.S. Policy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
American postwar efforts to ameliorate Arab-Israeli relations entangled the United States in the Arab-Israeli conflict in complex ways. Peter L. Hahn explores the diplomatic and cultural factors that influenced the policies of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower as they faced the escalation of one of...
Reforming Chile
Cultural Politics, Nationalism, and the Rise of the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
Highlighting the crucial yet largely overlooked role played by society's middle layers in the historical development of Latin America, Patrick Barr-Melej provides the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of Chile's middle-class reform movement and its profound impact on that country's cultural...
Response to Imperialism
The United States and the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This is a study of the impact of the Filipino Insurrection on American society and politics. It is the first work to evaluate in detail the response of public opinion to that war and to analyze official and popular response in the light of the values and anxieties of the American people. Although...
Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I
The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom.
"In a series of sketches touching on everything from the lust for honor to the suspicion of commerce and philosophy, from the role of homoerotic...
Federalizing the Muse
United States Arts Policy and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1965-1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government. In Federalizing the Muse, Donna Binkiewicz assesses the leadership and goals of Presidents Kennedy through Carter, as well as Congress and the National Council on the Arts, drawing a...
Language Variety in the New South
Contemporary Perspectives on Change and Variation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess the use and meaning of language in the South, a region rich in dialects and variants, this comprehensive edited collection reflects the cutting-edge research presented at the fourth decennial meeting of Language Variety in the South...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies...