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Vol. 2, No. 3 7/15/95Watch this space for announcements about newsworthy books (or books that ought to be newsworthy)
Contents:
Something big is coming from UNC Press in September! Sheila Kay Adams had
been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for more than 20
years when she attended a writing workshop conducted by the novelist Lee
Smith. Smith was captivated by Adams's stories--and you will be too.
You'll meet Bertha and the snake handlers, local preacher Manassey
Fender (who "looked like a pencil with a burr haircut, in a suit"),
Adams's beloved grandfather Breaddaddy, and her great aunt "Granny," the
well-known balladeer Dellie Chandler Norton, w hom Adams calls "the most
exciting person I have ever known and the best teacher I would ever have."
UNC Press has made available "It's a Sign,"
the first story in the book, for reading over the World Wide Web. Tell us what you think!
Send comments to uncpress@unc.edu .
Fifty of Jim Dean's best outdoor essays appear in Dogs That Point, Fish
That Bite. These witty, sometimes poignant pieces are arranged into a
loose chronicle of the sporting year, with a generous allowance for
digression: the first is set in April,
on the opening day of trout season, and the last tells of a New Year's
Day spent alone in a mountain cabin.
Seasoned readers of Wildlife in North Carolina, the
award-winning magazine of the state Wildlife Resources Commission, always
turn first to the inside front cover for editor Dean's "Our Natural
Heritage" column, from which the essays in this book are drawn.
You don't have to be a Tar Heel to appreciate Dean's easy writing
style and pointed observations about the outdoor life. And the essays are
just long enough for . . . when nature calls. Coming in September.
"A Kinship in Stone", an excerpt
from Dogs that
Point, Fish that Bite, has been made available to readers on the World
Wide Web by UNC Press. Feel free to send
us comments.
In Opening America's Market: U.S. Foreign Trade Policy since 1776,
former U.S. International Trade Commissioner Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., warns
that despite the passage of NAFTA and other free trade victories in the
United States, these developments ha ve a darker side. Anyone concerned
with international trade--in government, in business, or in the
media--will want to consider Eckes's argument that foreign discrimination
against American goods has caused a casualty pool of low-skilled American
workers.
Coming in September.
The new edition has a foreword by Dr. John Dower of MIT. Coming in July.
UNC Press also has a catalog of recent Civil War books, from
tactical studies of Gettysburg and Fredericksburg to portraits of such
figures as Joshua Chamberlain and Ambrose Burnside.
Request
The Southern Bookshelf or
the Civil War
catalog by calling 1-800-848-6224 or
sending email to uncpress@unc.edu.
Award-Winning Books
1995 Malcolm and Muriel Barrow Bell Award,
Georgia Historical Society, Andersonville: The Last Depot, by
William Marvel
1995 Stuart L. Bernath Prize, Cowinner, Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations, Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural
Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War, by
Reinhold Wagnleitner
1995 Award for Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society,
The Transformation of Rural Life: Southern Illinois, 1890-1990, by
Jane Adams
1995 Book Award of Merit, State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
Protectors of the Land and Water: Environmentalism in Wisconsin,
1961-1968, by Thomas R. Huffman
1994 Macmillan-SABR Baseball Research Award, Society for American Baseball
Research, Never Just a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball to
1920, by Robert F. Burk
Recent Book Club Adoptions
The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final
Solution, by Henry Friedlander, an alternate selection of the History
Book Club.
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Come Go Home With Me
by Sheila Kay Adams
When Nature Calls
Trading American Interests: Is Free Trade Such A Good Thing?
Fifty Years Later: Hiroshima Diary
Fifty years after the first atomic bomb was dropped, the compelling diary
of a Japanese physician who survived and helped to hold Hiroshima together
is available in a new edition. First published by UNC Press in 1955,
Hiroshima Diary is a firsthand chronicle of the immediate aftermath
of the bombing, written by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya and translated by Dr.
Warner Wells. After its publication, the book was praised by Dr. Robert
Oppenheimer, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Norman Cousins, and
Pearl Buck, and reviewed positively in Newsweek the New York
Times, Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Review, and many daily
newspapers. More than 35,000 copies of the UNC Press edition have been
sold, and it has been translated into fourteen languages.
North Carolina's Hurricane History
Every summer when hurricane season strikes, North Carolina is the most
vulnerable state because its coastline extends far out into the Atlantic.
In North Carolina's Hurricane History, Jay Barnes, director of the
North Carolina Aquarium in Atlantic Beach has compiled a chronology of the
great hurricanes to strike the state since the days of the first European
explorers, and including such memorable storms as Hazel in 1954 and Hugo
in 1989. Filled with photos and storm track maps, the book also includes
valuable information on how hurricanes form and how to prepare for them.
Summer Reading
Gardening? Going to the beach? Bird-watching? Heading for the mountains?
Woodworking? Reenacting a Civil War battle? Whatever your hobby or
wherever your summer vacation takes you, be sure to plan for your summer
reading.
The Southern Bookshelf is UNC Press's catalog of general
interest books. It includes seven gardening books, including the witty
Passalong
Plants and the widely regarded Growing and Propagating
Wild Flowers. There is a bird-finding guide for the Blue Ridge
mountains and one for the North Carolina coast. Speaking of the coast,
The Southern Bookshelf includes a wide number of guides and
histories, including North Carolina Beaches: A Guide to Coastal
Access (don't try to find parking or a rest room at the coast without
it), A Guide To Ocean Dune Plants, and Ocracokers, a loving
look at the people and traditions of that remote island.
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