Tag: Weekly Reader

Alumna’s novel goes back to the garden

Those Pearly Gates Julie Cannon SImon and Schuster $13 Local author and UGA alumna Julie…
Anthropologist studies college freshmen

My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student Rebekah Nathan Cornell University…
Alumnus pens book from Civil War letters

Hell’s Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment Scott Walker University of…
Textbook probes conservation problems

Principles of Conservation Biology By C. Ronald Carroll, Martha J. Groom and Gary K. Meffe…
Essays take fresh look at Civil War

Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas Edited by Lesley J.…
New book explores democracy in Europe

Development on the Periphery: Democratic Transitions in Southern and Eastern Europe By Howard J. Wiarda…
Book examines America’s racial hierarchy

Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family By Claudio Saunt…
New book explores ‘watershed’ event

The Brown Decision, Jim Crow & Southern Identity By James C. Cobb University of Georgia…
Book looks at African-American yard work

No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African-American Yard Work By Grey Gundaker and Judith McWillie…
Book examines trial of English ‘crusader’

The Times & Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided By Michael P. Winship University Press…
Book explores urban celebrations in South

Defining Moments: African-American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 By Kathleen Ann Clark…
Book examines democracy dilemmas

Dilemmas of Democracy in Latin America By Howard J. Wiarda Rowman and Littlefield $27.95 Democracy…
New book details role of ‘seed savers’

Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers By Virginia D. Nazarea University of Arizona Press $35 Farmers…
Book explores state’s ‘amazing’ coast

Georgia’s Amazing Coast By David Bryant and George Davidson; Illustrated by Charlotte Ingram University of…
Book takes readers on walking tour

A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia By F.N. Boney University of Georgia Press…
Book analyzes changes in education

Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South By Ann Chirhart…
Novel describes one soldier’s battles

A Distant Flame By Phillip Lee Williams Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 Most Civil War novels…
Alumna details ‘moving’ experiences

Cartographies: Meditations on Travel By Marjorie Agosín University of Georgia Press $22.95 In Cartographies, UGA…
Book examines modern-age Americas

The Americas in the Modern Age By Lester D. Langley Yale University Press $20 In…
Books cover comparative politics

Comparative Politics: Critical Concepts in Political Science Edited by Howard J. Wiarda Taylor and Francis…
Emeritus prof edits book of speeches

Representative American Speeches 2003-2004 Edited by Calvin M. Logue, Lynn M. Messina and Jean DeHart…
Book explores science under Stalin

Stalin’s Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists By Alexei B. Kojevnikov Imperial…
A sobering look at binge drinking

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood By Koren Zailckas Viking Penguin $21.95 In Smashed: Story of…
Essays examine ‘globalized’ South

Globalization and the American South Edited by James C. Cobb and William Stueck Jr. University…