Vol. 4, No. 1 January 15, 1997
I cannot live without books.--Thomas Jefferson
The book, which is a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club, is available from UNC Press for $29.95 in hardcover.
Order The Genius of
Alexander the Great
Bishir is well known to North Carolina readers as the author of the
magisterial North Carolina Architecture, published by UNC
Press in 1990.
The guidebook, a project of the North Carolina State Historic Preservation
Office, is available in paperback ($19.95) and hardcover ($35).
Order A
Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North
Carolina
The book will be published in paperback at $21.95. If you want to receive
ordering information when the book is published, email us your address.
Wings of Paradise: The Great Saturniid Moths, by John Cody, which UNC Press published in September 1996, was featured on Gene Shalit's annual gift book roundup on The Today Show. Shalit called Cody's work "breathtaking." It has also received
glowing reviews in the Christian Science Monitor, the Houston Post, and the Gainesville Sun, among others, and was named "Book of the Day" on Amazon.com, the online bookseller.
Cody has spent a lifetime studying and painting the Great Saturniid Moths, also known as silkmoths. A psychiatrist who also trained as a medical illustrator, he travels frequently to distant and exotic locales to study and paint these majestic insects. Re
cently, a newly discovered species was named Saturnia codyi in his honor.
The lavish, oversized book includes Cody's commentary on the moths' life cycles, habitats, and geographical range and on the circumstances of his finding and painting each moth. $60.00 hardcover.
Order John Cody's
Wings of Paradise: The Great Saturniid Moths
If you are interested in talking to Barnes about your experiences with
these storms, you can email a brief summary of your experiences to UNC Press. Please include your address
and phone number so that Barnes can contact you, and indicate the
availability of photographs. For more information about the book, visit
our special website devoted to North
Carolina's Hurricane History. It includes sample chapters and
photographs, a Q&A with the author, and a contest in which you can test
your knowledge of hurricanes and possibly win a free book.
Now Roy's back with his fifth book, The Woodwright's Apprentice:
Twenty Favorite Projects from The Woodwright's Shop. Following the
apprenticeship theme, each successive project builds new skills for the
apprentice woodworker--from frame construction to dovetailing, turning,
steam-bending, and carving.
Learn more about Roy's books and television series at The Woodwright's Website.
Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific,
1902-1940, by Brian McAllister Linn, is a selection of the History
Book Club
Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community, by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, won the 1996 Wesley-Logan Prize for African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association.
In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts, by David W. Conroy, won the 1996 Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association.
Cinema in Democratizing Germany: Reconstructing National Identity
after Hitler, by Heide Fehrenbach, co-winner of the 1996 Conference
Group on Central European History Book Award
Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789, by Cornelia Hughes Dayton, won the 1996 Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award from the Association for the Study of Connecticut History.
Hillbillyland: What the Movies Did to the Mountains and What the Mountains Did to the Movies, by J. W. Williamson, won the 1995 Thomas Wolfe Literary Award.
Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self, and Society in North Carolina, 1880-1920, by James L. Leloudis, won the 1995 Mayflower Cup for Nonfiction from the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of North Carolina.
And the following books were named Choice Outstanding Academic Books by Choice magazine:
Women Before the Bar: Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789, by Cornelia Hughes Dayton
The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta, by Nigel M. Kennell
Germans to the Front: West German Rearmament in the Adenauer Era, by David Clay Large
Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community, by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, by Mary E. Odem
Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua, by David Whisnant
Bookstores
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Exhibits
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Eastern North Carolina Architecture - A Handy Guide
Newspaper columnists all over North Carolina are raving about A
Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina, by
Catherine W. Bishir and Michael T. Southern. From colonial churches and
antebellum plantation houses to small farmsteads and tobacco farms, this
illustrated guidebook introduces readers to more than 1,700 buildings in
41 eastern counties.

Coming This
Spring - Georgia Bonesteel's Latest Quilting Book
Fans of the PBS
series "Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel," mark your calendars. The
popular show's ninth season will premiere in April, and shortly
afterwards, UNC Press will publish Bonesteel's seventh book, Georgia
Bonesteel's Patchwork Potpourri.
The book includes directions for many exciting new quilting projects, from
a holiday-inspired woolen wreath to a sophisticated Greek Shepherd's coat.
John Cody: The Audubon of Moths
Wanted: Your Bertha, Edouard, and Fran Stories
Jay Barnes, author of North Carolina's Hurricane History, is gathering information to use in a revision of the book that will include new material on the 1996 hurricanes.
The Woodwright's Website
Long before Tim Allen made Tool Time famous, Roy Underhill was
teaching the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered
tools. With his books and his popular PBS series The Woodwright's
Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take
up chisel and plane.
Order a Roy Underhill classic
Book Club Adoptions
The Darkest Days of the War: The Battles of Iuka and
Corinth, by Peter Cozzens, is a selection of the History Book Club
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