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Vol. 2, No. 3                                    	7/15/95

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Contents:


Come Go Home With Me

by Sheila Kay Adams

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 .


When Nature Calls

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.


Trading American Interests: Is Free Trade Such A Good Thing?

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.


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.

The new edition has a foreword by Dr. John Dower of MIT. Coming in July.


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.

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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