Vanderbilt University Press
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Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America
$27.95 Add to cartWhy is there no metric system in the United States? Why is it that a country known for its openness to the future, its scientific innovations, and its preference for practicality has not adopted the m… [more below]
- Author: Vera, Hector
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0826507832
- Language: English
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Printer’s Fist: Poems
$23.95 Read moreMelissa Range’s Printer’s Fist, awarded the 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection that tells the story of a political movement–its strides and setbacks, its unity and fractures–
- Series: Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
- Author: Range, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0826500099
- Language: English
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Nashville’s New Americans: Tracing the Journeys of Our Immigrant Neighbors
$27.95 Read moreWhether it’s building skyscrapers, running successful restaurants, researching diseases, performing music, cleaning hotel rooms, or holding public office, immigrants are changing Nashville from a mid-… [more below]
- Author: Sellmeyer, Sheri Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0826508448
- Language: English
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Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, and the End of the World
$24.95 Add to cartEveryday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative nonviolence that often go unseen may be brou… [more below]
- Author: Dark, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0826507956
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home
$19.95 Add to cartAs Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last message he wanted to leave his family, friends, and com… [more below]
- Author: Strobel, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0826508251
- Language: English
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From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land: Stories of a Tennessee Reconstruction Community
$29.95 Add to cartThe Promise Land community, a small village west of Nashville, Tennessee was founded after the Civil War by people who had been enslaved at the Cumberland Iron Furnace. These early settlers, who inclu… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Serina K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0826508103
- Language: English
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Nowville: The Untold History of Nashville’s Contemporary Art Scene
$24.95 Add to cartThis is the origin story of Nashville’s surging contemporary art scene told by the ones who were there before anyone else. Not a story about commercial spaces or official institutions–this is the sto… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826507395
- Language: English
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I Would Define the Sun: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartStephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun, awarded the 2024 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, is a collection of poems that declare the impossibility of defining something as immense as the sun while… [more below]
- Series: Vanderbilt University Literary Prize
- Author: Niu, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0826507719
- Language: English
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Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story
$19.95 Add to cartThese days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people atte… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Rachel Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0826501761
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of the Poor: My Journey Home
$35.00 Add to cartAs Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last message he wanted to leave his family, friends, and com… [more below]
- Author: Strobel, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0826507360
- Language: English
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The Outbreak Atlas
$24.95 Add to cartThe public has taken a new level of interest in outbreak response since 2020, learning epidemiological terms and seeking information about how to stay prepared in a pandemic. Public health professiona… [more below]
- Author: Katz, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: April 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826506615
- Language: English
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The Gallant Spaniard
$24.95 Add to cartThere are surprising omissions in the translated body of Spanish Golden Age literature, including in the corpus of Miguel de Cervantes. We have many highly competent translations of Don Quixote, but u… [more below]
- Author: Cervantes, Miguel De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 082650602X
- Language: English
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Everyday Justice: A Legal Aid Story
$29.95 Add to cartThe Legal Aid Society’s mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Everyday Ju… [more below]
- Author: Wiltshire, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826505104
- Language: English
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Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders
$29.95 Read moreBreach of Peace is a photo-history told in images old and new. The book includes the mug shots of all 329 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, along with contemporary portraits of 99 Rider… [more below]
- Author: Etheridge, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0826521908
- Language: English
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From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football
$34.95 Add to cartListen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify.
The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top- Author: Tipton, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826506399
- Language: English
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Wizards: David Duke, America’s Wildest Election, and the Rise of the Far Right
$24.95 Add to cartA corrupt old Democrat.
A surging Republican populist. The Democrat, hounded by corruption allegations; the Republican, dogged by business failures and ties to white supremacists. The Republican turne- Author: Fairbanks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0826505015
- Language: English
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Malicious Intent: Murder and the Perpetuation of Jim Crow Health Care
$27.95 Add to cart“Do we want to perpetuate a Jim Crow health system?” A brilliant, idealistic physician named Jean Cowsert asked that question in Alabama in 1966. Her answer was no–and soon after, she died under susp… [more below]
- Author: Smith, David Barton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826506135
- Language: English
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American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty Stuart
$35.00 Add to cartAlthough known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first went on tour with bluegrass performer Lester Flatt at… [more below]
- Series: Frist Art Museum Title
- Author: Delmez, Kathryn E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: July 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0826520170
- Language: English
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The Advice King Anthology: The Advice King Anthology
$21.95 Add to cartSince the fall of 2014, The Advice King has been one of the most widely read sections of alt-weekly the Nashville Scene. The Advice King Anthology contains the best of those columns, with new In-the-M… [more below]
- Author: Crofton, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0826504639
- Language: English
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Journey Without End: Migration from the Global South Through the Americas
$24.95 Add to cartJourney without End chronicles the years-long journey of “extracontinentales”–African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborat… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 082650485X
- Language: English
