Vol. 4, No. 3 July 15, 1997
I cannot live without books.--Thomas Jefferson
75 Years of Publishing ExcellenceOur 75th anniversary celebrations continue throughout 1997. This fall, at least 40 bookstores in North Carolina will mount special displays in honor of the anniversary. Customers in those stores will be able to enter a drawing for a 75th-anniversary tote bag full of free UNC Press books. Watch this space for more details.Although the Wilson Library exhibit about UNC Press is now over, you can visit a virtual version of the exhibit at our special anniversary website. Read about UNC Press's history of important contributions to the Tar Heel state and to scholarship worldwide, and send your anniversary greetings in our electronic guestbook. |
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New to North Carolina? A Checklist of Must ReadingAs part of the state university system, UNC Press has long considered one of its missions to be service to the citizens of the Tar Heel state. Throughout its history, the Press has published books on the state's history and natural history, its literature, its flora and fauna, its arts and crafts traditions, architecture, and material culture. Click here for a checklist of must reading for newcomers and for long-timers who want to explore all things North Carolina.Every fall UNC Press publishes Southern Bookshelf, a catalog of general-interest books about the South. If you'd like to receive the next Southern Bookshelf, please email us your name and address. |
Happy Birthday, Mr. Faulkner!The South into which novelist William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, was Victorian and agrarian in nature. How the novelist attempted to liberate himself from this culture to embrace the avant-garde Modernist literary tradition is the subject of a new intellectual biography.William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist, by Daniel Joseph Singal, will be published on September 25, 1997--the centennial of Faulkner's birth. Read more about this book on its special website. |
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New Hurricane Quiz for Summer 1997Jay Barnes, author of North Carolina's Hurricane History has devised a new quiz about North Carolina hurricanes for summer 1998. Answer ten multiple-choice questions correctly, and you will have the chance to win a free copy of North Carolina's Hurricane History.Jay has also been busy writing a book on Florida hurricanes that we will publish in 1998, and revising North Carolina's Hurricane History to reflect Edward and Fran.
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Advice from the Stephen Coveys of Nineteenth-Century AmericaIf you think advice books like Seven Habits of Highly Successful People are a late twentieth-century phenomenon, think again. In Character is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America, historian Judy Hilkey charts the rise of "success manuals" like The Way to Win, Onward to Fame and Fortune, and of course Character is Capital.Some of the advice offered by these nineteenth-century precursors to Stephen Covey still seems fresh today:
But some of the "wisdom" in these books doesn't hold up in this era: In The Way to Win, for example, John T. Dale wrote, "Those women who long for public careers reap a bitter harvest." Hilkey's book will be available in September ($17.95 paperback). | ![]() |
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Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their BasketryWhat can we learn about a culture from its craft traditions? Plenty, according to Sarah H. Hill, who examined three centuries of Cherokee basketry for Weaving New Worlds: Southerastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry. This richly illustrated book shows that changes in basketry traditions signaled important transformations in Cherokee culture. While Cherokee women once made sturdy utilitarian baskets for their own use, the baskets they make now are more likely to be light and ornate, primarily for sale to collectors and tourists.Weaving New Worlds is available now for $22.50 (paperback) or $45 (hardcover). |
Living With Spina BifidaThe most common complex birth defect, spina bifida affects approximately 1 out of every 1,000 children born in the U.S. Accurate, accessible, and up-to-date, Living With Spina Bifida: A Guide for Parents and Professionals, by Adrian Sandler, M.D., offers a wealth of useful information on the medical, developmental, and psychological aspects of spina bifida. | ![]() |
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Two New Books for Gardening and Wildflower LoversGarden writer Elizabeth Lawrence was well known for her magazine and newsletter articles as well as her books and newspaper columns. Two gardening sleuths spent many years collecting Lawrence's short pieces, and they appear in A Garden of One's Own: Writings of Elizabeth Lawrence, edited by Barbara Scott and Bobby J. Ward. The book is available in hardcover ($24.95).For those who would rather look at plants than dig around in the backyard, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway is a handy guide. Hundreds of species of colorful wildflowers thrive among themisty glades, open fields, and marshy streambanks along the Parkway. J. Anthony Alderman tell how to identify them and where to find them. The field guide covers roughly 250 species, with color photographs and clearly written descriptions. In addition, Alderman includes a tour guide and map that identify 75 of the best, most easily accessible sites for viewing wildflowers along the Parkway. 205 color illus., $12.95 paperback. |
The Wilderness Campaign, edited by Gary W. Gallagher, is also a
selection of the History Book Club.
The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern
Appalachia, 1700-1860, by Wilma A. Dunaway, received the 1996 W. D.
Weatherford Award given by the Appalachian Center/Hutchins Library of
Berea College to the best book on the Appalachian South.
Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American
Civil War, by Drew Gilpin Faust, won the 1996 Jefferson Davis Award,
Museum of the Confederacy. This is the fourth prize the book has received.
Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860, by Thomas D. Morris, won
the 1996 SHEAR Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American
Republic.
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and
Power in Colonial Virginia, by Kathleen M. Brown, (published for the
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) received the
first ever Honorable Mention awarded in the Berkshire Conference Book
Prize competition.
Bookstores that carry UNC
Press books
Exhibits attended by UNC
Press
staff members
Book Club Adoptions
American Originals: Homemade Varieties of Christianity, by Paul K.
Conkin, is a selection of the History Book Club.
Award-winning books
Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity After
Hitler, by Heide Fehrenbach, was the co-winner of the 1996 Central
European History Conference Books Award.
Links to previous features and excerpts
In previous issues of News Bytes, we have featured excerpts
or detailed information about selected UNC Press books. We will maintain
those links with each new issue of the newsletter.
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