University Of Georgia Press: 447 books
Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds
Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In Containing Russia’s Nuclear Firebirds, Glenn E. Schweitzer explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. He makes the case that the center’s unique programs can serve as models for promoting responsible science in many countries of the world.
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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home
African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers...
Big Bend
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Through quirky plots, one-of-kind characters, and more than a few twists, the stories in Big Bend examine gentle-hearted men and their relationships. From made-in-heaven meetings to troublesome liaisons, Roorbach's characters experience romance in unexpected, sometimes disastrous ways.
In "Fog,"...
by Will Baker, Annie Dillard
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West. Will Baker’s tales range from Nebraska to Peru and tell of a boy’s first trout, a bar brawl over...
The Outcast Majority
War, Development, and Youth in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Outcast Majority invites policymakers, practitioners, academics, students, and others to think about three commanding contemporary issues—war, development, and youth—in new ways. The starting point is the following irony: while African youth are demographically dominant, most see themselves...
Pain, Pride, and Politics
Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil...
by David Arnold, Sharad Chari, David Featherstone
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Subaltern Geographies is the first book-length discussion addressing the relationship between the historical innovations of subaltern studies and the critical intellectual practices and methodologies of cultural, urban, historical, and political geography. This edited volume explores this relationship...
Stuck
Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human population today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Devastated by genocide, hailed as a spectacular success, and critiqued for its human rights record, the...
Remaking Home Economics
Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women’s studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field’s history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to “bring back home economics” miss the...
Beyond Walls and Cages
Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The crisis of borders and prisons can be seen starkly in statistics. In 2011 some 1,500 migrants died trying to enter Europe, and the United States deported nearly 400,000 and imprisoned some 2.3 million people—more than at any other time in history. International borders are increasingly militarized...
Farewell, My Lovelies
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Paying homage to the hardboiled crime-noir writing of Raymond Chandler, Diann Blakely’s second collection of poetry plays on the dark desires and lusty appetites that motivate and move us. Originally published in 2000, Farewell, My Lovelies delivers unflinching truths harnessed in musical eloquence....
Large Animals in Everyday Life
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane,...
Borges's Poe
The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America—Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges’s Poe, Emron Esplin...
Monograph
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Written in narrow sections that blur the distinction between flash fiction and prose poetry, between memoir and meditation, Monograph veers from the elliptical to the explosive as it dissects the Gordian knot of a marriage’s intellectual, sexual, and domestic lives. Invoking Raymond Chandler, Pythagoras,...