Tag: Weekly Reader
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Book explores impact of warming soils
As global temperatures rise, it is not only the air and water growing warmer: soils…
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Book details origins of Southern literature
The Classical Origins of Southern Literature explores the continuation of the classical literary tradition in…
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Book offers ways to explore Oconee River
In the Oconee River User’s Guide, both novice and experienced water sports enthusiasts will find…
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Book recounts stories of everyday miracles
There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is…
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Book details art, politics under Khmer Rouge
Published by the University of Georgia Press, The Nature of Revolution provides the first account…
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Book examines malnutrition in US South
Originally published in 1969, the documentary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South…
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Book details history of snakes in urban US
In this authoritative and entertaining book, first published in 1992, Thomas Palmer introduces readers to…
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Book details history of American education
Educational Foundations: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives offers a comprehensive overview of American education history and…
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Book sheds light on two literary luminaries
This collection of letters and other documents offers the most complete portrait of the relationship…
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Book celebrates 20 years of SFA symposia
Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and…
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Book explores health-based discrimination
Can an employer refuse to hire someone who tests positive for nicotine or alcohol? Can…
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Book examines race in US film industry
Maryann Erigha looks at the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of…
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Stories capture necessity of perseverance
The stories in What We Do with the Wreckage are about finding resilience in the…
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Book examines jazz critically and culturally
Gettin’ Around examines the global jazz aesthetic.
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Biography details farmer’s life in the Delta
Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in…
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Writers remember Conroy’s literary legacy
In Our Prince of Scribes, fellow writers of the late author Pat Conroy honor his…
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Alumnus pens novel about family secrets
UGA alumnus Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners and dark family secrets…
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Book details region’s role as nature’s ‘lab’
Published by the University of Georgia Press, Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which…
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Book details Georgia-grown success story
Published by the University of Georgia Press, Time to Get Tough recounts life and career…
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Book offers meditation on Thoreau’s thought
Learning from Thoreau is an intimate intellectual walk with America’s most edgy and original environmentalist.
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Book studies Sicilian flavor in Creole food
Creole Italian explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways.
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Book examines region’s oyster industry
Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place…
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Book explores North American villages
The emergence of village societies out of hunter-gatherer groups profoundly transformed social relations in every…
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Book details exploits of Caribbean pirates
Shrouded by myth and hidden by Hollywood, the real pirates of the Caribbean come to…
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