University Press of Mississippi
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Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden
$28.00 Read moreIn Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden, Norman Winter shows how to design dazzling landscapes based on colors, how to select for harmony, and how to arrange stunning contrasts. He … [more below]
- Author: Winter, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 12 2009
- ISBN10: 1934110930
- Language: English
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Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
$66.67 Read moreBCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner
The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings,- Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora
- Author: Mitchell, Faith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1496843150
- Language: English
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I Am a Man: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
$40.00 Read moreIn the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of… [more below]
- Author: Ferris, William R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496831624
- Language: English
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
$19.95 Read moreWhat Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison’s writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 160473017X
- Language: English
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Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
$25.00 Read moreIn Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace t… [more below]
- Author: LeJeune, Keagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1496850335
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life
$58.33 Read moreWith Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life chronicles the fortunate life of a man born in the Cajun country of Louisiana and his interaction with the three distinct parts of his home state: … [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Fletcher, Joel Lafayette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844696
- Language: English
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Tide Lines: A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast
$40.00 Read moreIn Tide Lines: A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast, Ben Depp’s photographs capture the beauty, complexity, and rapid destruction of south Louisiana. Once formed by sediment deposit… [more below]
- Author: Depp, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: January 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1496843916
- Language: English
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A Slow, Calculated Lynching: The Story of Clyde Kennard
$35.00 Read moreIn the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their constitutional rights. One of those citizens, Clyde Kenn… [more below]
- Series: Race, Rhetoric, and Media
- Author: Anderson, Devery S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844041
- Language: English
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Mississippi Barking: Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs
$25.00 Read moreWinner of a 2023 Best Book Award in the category of Animals/Pets: Narrative Nonfiction from American Book Fest
On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devast- Author: McLaughlin, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1496835980
- Language: English
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Mississippi’s Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna
$50.00 Read moreMississippi’s Natural Heritage: Photographs of Flora and Fauna glories in the plants and animals of the state. Featuring four hundred beautiful color photographs and a complete index of included speci… [more below]
- Author: Shoop, Wesley L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 30 2023
- ISBN10: 149684680X
- Language: English
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
$25.00 Read moreBecoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpubli… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Butler, Virginia McGee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844742
- Language: English
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Starmaker: David O. Selznick and the Production of Stars in the Hollywood Studio System
$58.33 Read moreDavid O. Selznick (1902-1965) was one of the most prominent film producers of the Hollywood studio era, responsible for such artistic and commercial triumphs as King Kong, David Copperfield, Anna Kare… [more below]
- Author: Hain, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1496846052
- Language: English
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Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
$25.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize
The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Pa- Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
- Author: Smith, Ethel Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1496846419
- Language: English
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A Thousand Places Left Behind: One Soldier’s Account of Jungle Warfare in WWII Burma
$28.00 Read moreBorn and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920-2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the … [more below]
- Author: Lutken, Peter K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1496845145
- Language: English
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Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
$38.00 Read moreRobert Dance’s new evaluation of Joan Crawford looks at her entire career and–while not ignoring her early years and tempestuous personal life–focuses squarely on her achievements as an actress, and… [more below]
- Author: Dance, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1496846516
- Language: English
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Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History: From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids
$30.00 Read moreFeaturing the first extensive Hanna-Barbera discography ever published and over 140 photos and illustrations!
Whether it’s Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound- Author: Ehrbar, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1496851854
- Language: English
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Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader’s History
$18.00 Read moreCajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader’s History traces the four-hundred-year history of this distinct American ethnic group. While written in a format comprehensible to junior-high and hi… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Shane K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 1934110787
- Language: English
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Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat: The Making of Roger Rabbit
$30.00 Add to cartWho Framed Roger Rabbit emerged at a nexus of people, technology, and circumstances that is historically, culturally, and aesthetically momentous. By the 1980s, animation seemed a dying art. Not even
- Author: Anderson, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1496822331
- Language: English
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The Mississippi Gulf Coast
$40.00 Add to cartThrough more than two hundred stunning photographs, The Mississippi Gulf Coast illustrates what visitors and residents alike love about the region–the sunrises and sunsets; the distinctive character … [more below]
- Author: Isbell, Timothy T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1496818970
- Language: English
