University Press of Florida
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The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
$19.95 Add to cartWas Cyrus Teed a visionary or villain, savior or two-bit charlatan? In The Allure of Immortality, Lyn Millner weaves the many bizarre strands of Teed’s life and those of his followers, the Koreshans, … [more below]
- Author: Millner, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0813064406
- Language: English
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Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
$19.95 Add to cartOn the morning of May 9, 1980, harbor pilot John Lerro was guiding a 600-foot freighter, the Summit Venture, into Tampa Bay. Directly in the ship’s path was the Sunshine Skyway Bridge–two ribbons of
- Author: DeYoung, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062977
- Language: English
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Florida Cow Hunter: The Life and Times of Bone Mizell
$19.95 Add to cart“Recounts a time when range wars, cattle drives, rustling, street brawls, and rum running were commonplace in Florida. Though the focus is on Mizell, Tinsley also gives an engaging history of Florida … [more below]
- Author: Tinsley, Jim Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0813009855
- Language: English
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Manatee Insanity: Inside the War over Florida’s Most Famous Endangered Species
$28.00 Add to cartThe quiet manatee has long been a flash point of frequent environmental debates. It is Florida’s most famous endangered species, as well as its most controversial. Manatees appear on hundreds of licen
- Series: Florida History and Culture
- Author: Pittman, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0813068843
- Language: English
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Bravura!: Lucia Chase and the American Ballet Theatre
$26.95 Add to cartTo many people, Lucia Chase (1897-1986) was the American Ballet Theatre, and her reign as the queen of American ballet lasted for more than four decades. It was Chase who brought Nureyev, Bujones, Kir… [more below]
- Author: Ewing, Alex C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0813068088
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
$21.95 Add to cartThomas Jefferson once called his plantation Poplar Forest, “the most valuable of my possessions.” For Jefferson, Poplar Forest was a private retreat for him to escape the hordes of visitors and everyd
- Author: Heath, Barbara J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0813062993
- Language: English
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100 Roses for the South Florida Garden
$24.95 Add to cartTried and true varieties for tropical Florida
Contrary
to common belief, many varieties of roses can
flourish in Florida’s heat and humidity. A much-needed guide for both home
gardeners and landscape prof… [more below]- Author: Lazzari, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0813068878
- Language: English
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Yamato Colony: The Pioneers Who Brought Japan to Florida
$19.95 Add to cartOpening a window onto the little-known Japanese-American heritage of Florida, Yamato Colony is the true tale of a daring immigrant venture that left behind an important legacy. Ryusuke Kawai tells how… [more below]
- Author: Kawai, Ryusuke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 081306810X
- Language: English
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An American Beach for African Americans
$19.95 Add to cart“I am excited by this book. It is a great addition to the woefully scant scholarly materials that deal with the African American contribution to Florida history and culture. . . . Original and signifi
- Author: Phelts, Marsha Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0813035082
- Language: English
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The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt
$21.95 Add to cart“Clearly the definitive book of Eleanor Roosevelt quotes. Albion does excellent work weeding out all the apocryphal quotes so often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, giving us only the real thing.”–Ch… [more below]
- Author: Albion, Michele Wehrwein
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0813068835
- Language: English
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The History of Florida
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the heralded “definitive history” of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 year… [more below]
- Author: Gannon, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0813064015
- Language: English
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The State You’re In: Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife
$24.95 Add to cartJump into the wacky, wild world of Florida
For more than 30 years, investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author Craig Pittman has chronicled the wildest stories Florida has to offer
- Author: Pittman, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 081306886X
- Language: English
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Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life
$26.95 Add to cartFinalist, the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize
A look inside a dancer’s world
Inspiring, revealing, and deeply relatable, Being a Ballerina is a firsthand look at the realities of life as a profe
- Author: Larsen, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0813066891
- Language: English
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Balanchine Variations
$24.95 Add to cartThe literature on Balanchine is vast, but it is primarily biographical. Balanchine Variations is the first book to concentrate on the ballets themselves, providing critical analysis and detailed descr… [more below]
- Author: Goldner, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0813032261
- Language: English
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Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
$26.95 Add to cartThe enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movement
Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction
The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind of southern music
- Author: Fitzgerald, Michael Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0813080355
- Language: English
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A Step-By-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard
$21.95 Add to cartMore and more Florida residents are deciding to replace highly fertilized, over-watered, pesticide-dependent lawns with native plants. They want to reduce their carbon footprints; save time, water, an
- Author: Stibolt, Ginny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0813064635
- Language: English
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
$32.00 Add to cartWhat they didn’t want you to know
“We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. Probably no one felt more disappointment and regret than Allan McDonald, who had warned us not to laun
- Author: McDonald, Allan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0813041937
- Language: English
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Totch: A Life in the Everglades
$21.95 Add to cart“Totch Brown’s memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades–the last real frontier in Florida, and even today the greatest roadless wilderness in the United States–are inv
- Author: Brown, Loren G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 20 1993
- ISBN10: 0813012287
- Language: English
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Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians
$19.95 Add to cartThe first published record of Florida Seminole herbal medicine and ancient healing practices, Healing Plants is a colorfully illustrated compendium of knowledge and practices passed down orally to Ali… [more below]
- Author: Snow, Alice Micco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0813061725
- Language: English
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Key West: History of an Island of Dreams
$24.95 Add to cartParrotheads, Hemingway aficionados, and sun worshipers view Key West as a tropical paradise, and scores of writers have set tales of mystery and romance on the island. The city’s real story–told by M… [more below]
- Author: Ogle, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0813029937
- Language: English
