University of Arkansas Press
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The Daughter of Man
$19.95 Read more“This whip-smart collection is a playful celebration of feminine power.”
“What a beautiful book.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
–Ross Gay “With the verve of Alice Fulton and the panache of Gerald Stern, S- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Sysko, L. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262308
- Language: English
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From Blue to Red: The Rise of the GOP in Arkansas
$52.43 Read moreOn the morning of Election Day 2010, Democrats occupied three of the four Arkansas seats in the US House of Representatives, both US Senate seats, all state constitutional offices, and decisive majori… [more below]
- Author: Davis, John C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1682262448
- Language: English
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Self-Mythology: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartIn the search for a true home, what does it mean to be confronted instead by an insurmountable sense of otherness? This question dwells at the center of Saba Keramati’s Self-Mythology, which explores … [more below]
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Keramati, Saba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1682262529
- Language: English
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Broadcasting the Ozarks: Si Siman and Country Music at the Crossroads
$25.95 Add to cart“It’s good to see Si Siman and the Ozark Jubilee get their due in Broadcasting the Ozarks.”
–Willie NelsonBroadcasting the Ozarks explores the vibrant country music scene that emerged in Springfield
- Series: Ozarks Studies
- Author: Ledbetter, Kitty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1682262510
- Language: English
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Country Boy: The Roots of Johnny Cash
$26.95 Add to cartWinner, 2023 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association
Because Johnny Cash cut his classic singles at Sun Records in Memphis and reigned for years as country royalty from his- Author: Woodward, Colin Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: July 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1682262081
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Light
$19.95 Add to cartIn The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about belonging, survival, knowledge, and self-discovery in unflinching lyrical po… [more below]
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Clark, Jeremy Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1682262499
- Language: English
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Beer Places: The Microgeographies of Craft Beer
$29.95 Add to cartBeer Places is, most essentially, a road map for craft beer, taking readers to various locales to discover the beverage’s deep connections to place. At another level, Beer Places is an academic analys… [more below]
- Series: Food and Foodways
- Author: Harvey, Daina Cheyenne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262235
- Language: English
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The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes
$26.95 Add to cartThe Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmia
- Series: Sport, Culture, and Society
- Author: Lunt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1682262014
- Language: English
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Man on a Mission: James Meredith and the Battle of Ole Miss
$22.95 Add to cartIn 1962, James Meredith famously desegregated the University of Mississippi (a.k.a. Ole Miss). As the first Black American admitted to the school, he demonstrated great courage amidst the subsequent p
- Author: Goudsouzian, Aram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 06 2022
- ISBN10: 168226212X
- Language: English
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The Universal Sport: Two Years inside Boxing
$29.95 Add to cartReaders, writers, and critics alike look forward to each new collection of Thomas Hauser’s articles about today’s boxing scene. Reviewing these books, Booklist has proclaimed, “Many journalists have w… [more below]
- Author: Hauser, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262391
- Language: English
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Red Ocher
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2023 Miller Williams Poetry Prize
In Jessica Poli’s Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb runt dies in the night, a
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Poli, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262294
- Language: English
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Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History
$27.95 Add to cartIn Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous food history: that most Native communities did not … [more below]
- Series: Food and Foodways
- Author: Wise, Michael D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: June 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262383
- Language: English
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Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association
“I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft a- Author: Milson, Andrew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262324
- Language: English
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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women’s Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914-1965
$26.95 Add to cartThe first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodway
- Author: Jones-Branch, Cherisse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1682261670
- Language: English
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Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas
$26.95 Add to cartWinner, 2022 Ottis Lock Endowment “Best Book” Award from the East Texas Historical Association
In Lynching and Leisure, Terry Anne Scott examines how white Texans transformed lynching from a largely- Author: Scott, Terry Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1682262189
- Language: English
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The Measure of Distance: An Immigrant Novel
$24.95 Add to cartThey went to Cairo, leaving behind the adobe houses built along the edge of the Nile and the villagers who all knew each other and who had lived on this land for more centuries than their names could … [more below]
- Author: Kaldas, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262359
- Language: English
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Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods
$29.95 Add to cart“A memoir infused with both empathy and inquiry.”
–Wendy J. Fox, Electric Literature
Sarah Neidhardt grew up in the woods. When she was an infant, her parents left behind comfortable, urbane lives- Series: Ozarks Studies
- Author: Neidhardt, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262278
- Language: English
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Helping Yourself Help Others: A Book for Caregivers
$26.95 Add to cart“A practical, highly informative, and sympathetic guide.”
Most of us will become a caregiver at some point in our lives. And we will assume this role for the most personal reason
–The Washington Post- Author: Carter, Rosalynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262340
- Language: English
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Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol’ Boys Defined a State
$22.95 Add to cartWhat do Scott Joplin, John Grisham, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Maya Angelou, Brooks Robinson, Helen Gurley Brown, Johnny Cash, Alan Ladd, and Sonny Boy Williamson have in common? They’re all Arkansans. W… [more below]
- Author: Blevins, Brooks
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1557289522
- Language: English
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Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks: The Life and Times of Lucile Morris Upton
$27.95 Add to cartLucile Morris Upton landed her first newspaper job out West in the early 1920s, then returned home to spend half a century reporting on the Ozarks world she knew best. Having come of age just as wome
- Author: Kelly, Susan Croce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262367
- Language: English
