Regional Studies
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Affrilachia: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartA milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature. In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, ar… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Frank X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0967542405
- Language: English
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The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
$19.99 Add to cartThe path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding for themselves.
“A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —New York Times Book ReviewDay… [more below]
- Author: Olopade, Dayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0544483995
- Language: English
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
$18.99 Add to cartA journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show
Professional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremli- Author: Pomerantsev, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1610396006
- Language: English
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The Soul of Central New York: Syracuse Stories
$15.95 Add to cartA group of strangers risk death along the New York State Thruway to save a soldier from a burning truck. The true story, as told by football legend Jim Brown, of how the number 44 rose to prominence a
- Author: Kirst, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0815610831
- Language: English
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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West
$16.95 Add to cartThe Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southe
- Author: Branch, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 039335699X
- Language: English
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Deep Dish Conversations: Voices of Social Change in Nashville
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer, an ally, an elected official, an agent for change? Deep Dish Conversations is a r… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505775
- Language: English
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Brazil: A Biography
$30.99 Add to cartA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extrao- Author: Schwarcz, Lilia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538484
- Language: English
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Speaking American: How Y’All, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language.
Did you know that … [more below]
- Author: Katz, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0358359937
- Language: English
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The Lobster Gangs of Maine
$19.95 Add to cartJames Acheson’s detailed account of lobstering in Maine quickly dispels notions that the lobstermen is the eastern version of the cowboy, struggling alone for survival against the elements. In reality… [more below]
- Author: Acheson, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: June 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0874514517
- Language: English
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Bees and Spiders: Applied Cultural Awareness and the Art of Cross-Cultural Influence
$15.50 Add to cartDeclining budgets and withdrawing military forces seem to spell a period of diminishing influence for U.S. business and government officials overseas.Not so!Bees and Spiders provides answers on how to
- Author: Steed, Brian L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: April 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1628575921
- Language: English
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Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Creative Nonfiction
$24.99 Add to cartNew creative nonfiction by some of Michigan’s most well-known and highly acclaimed authors.
- Author: Oomen, Anne-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0814345670
- Language: English
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We Hold Our Breath: A Journey to Texas Between Storms
$27.95 Add to cart“Houston spread like a glass of milk spilled on the wobbling table of Texan plains,” Micah Fields writes in this unique and poetic blend of reportage, history, and memoir. Developed as the commercial
- Author: Fields, Micah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1324003790
- Language: English
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Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJapan is arguably today’s most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products–from animated m… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Goto-Jones, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199235694
- Language: English
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Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town
$24.99 Add to cartIn this work of creative nonfiction, author Kate Benz provides an intimate look at the present-day residents of Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agri
- Author: Benz, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0700633456
- Language: English
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We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World
$18.95 Read moreA brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota
In this significant collection, Indigenou
- Author: Holbrook, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1517912210
- Language: English
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Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943
$24.95 Add to cart“There wasn’t that many people, but they were good people.”–Madeline Gilles
“First time I ever tasted cherries or even seen a cherry tree was [in White Bluffs]. Or ever ate an apricot or seen an apric
- Series: Hanford Histories #1
- Author: Bauman, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0874223601
- Language: English
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Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
$25.99 Add to cart2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award
In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine,- Author: Blumenthal, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 1568589514
- Language: English
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Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
$21.00 Add to cartShort-listed for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award
In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, and why it matters. He begins with the earliest Europe- Author: Stoll, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0809080192
- Language: English
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What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
$18.95 Add to cart“The most damning critique of Hillbilly Elegy.”―The New York Review of Books
“A spiky polemic.”–Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
In recent years and in countless ways, Appalachia has been
- Author: Catte, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0998904147
- Language: English
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Turn Your Life Into Art: Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground
$21.99 Add to cartOver 30 years, San Francisco’s underground art scene developed techniques to create magical, impossible, life-changing experiences. Today big corporations are trying to figure out how to spend million
- Author: Magister, Caveat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 5, 2021
- ISBN10: 1734965924
- Language: English
