News Bytes

Vol. 4, No. 1                                    January 15, 1997
          I cannot live without books.--Thomas Jefferson

News Bytes is UNC Press's quarterly online newsletter. Watch this space for announcements about newsworthy books (or books that ought to be newsworthy).

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Note: You can order any of the books mentioned in News Bytes by calling 1-800-848-6224, or you can print out an order form to fax, or order online.

Happy Birthday, UNC Press!

Founded in October 1922, UNC Press is the oldest university press in the South and one of the oldest state university presses in the nation. Throughout 1997, we will mark our 75th anniversary in a number of exciting ways.
Visit our birthday site.


The Genius of Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great continues to fascinate, and now a scholar who has spent a lifetime studying Alexander has produced an authoritative biography that will interest general readers as well as scholars. The Genius of Alexander the Great, by N.G.L. Hammond, portrays Alexander as a visionary statesman and general whose intellect and charismatic personality earned him the respect, admiration, and devotion of his followers.

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


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.

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



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.

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.


John Cody: The Audubon of Moths

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


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.

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.


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.

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.
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

Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940, by Brian McAllister Linn, is a selection of the History Book Club


Award-winning books

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


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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