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Philosophy of Technology by Frederick Ferre
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.95An introductory survey that explains the fundamental concerns and methods of philosophy and then guides readers through a philosophical inquiry into some of the major issues surrounding technology's... -
Practical Research Methods for Media and Cultural Studies: Making People Count by Maire Messenger Davies
Booksplease Price: £37.05Many very intelligent people don't like dealing with numbers. Similarly, many gifted scientists are not especially interested in studying people and their cultural behavior. In this book, we argue... -
Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics and Identity by Lisa J. Lefler
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £20.08Ranging in setting from a children's summer school program to a museum of history and culture to a fatherhood project, these eleven papers document some of the many ways in which anthropologists and... -
Historic Rural Churches of Georgia by George Hart
RRP: £56.95Booksplease Price: £37.61Aspects of Georgia's unique history can only be told through its extant rural churches. As the Georgia backcountry rapidly expanded in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the churches... -
Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: People of John's Island, South Carolina - Their Faces, Their Words and Their Songs by Guy Carawan
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £35.42This volume presents an oral, musical and photographic record of the Gullah culture. With their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders of South Carolina, and their folk traditions, are a link between... -
Hotel Imperium: Poems by Rachel Loden 9780820331706
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.02Grounded in deep and thoughtful awareness, this complex collection of poems combines history, sexuality, pop culture, and political experience with edgy, wry, often absurd humor and an underlying... -
Life's Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World by Arne Naess 9780820332529
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £26.41Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess' meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to preserve the environment and biodiversity. Now in his nineties, Naess offers a bright and bold perspective on... -
Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and Golden Sharks: Travels of a Water-bound Adventurer by Bill Belleville 9780820325927
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £30.25In Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes, and Golden Sharks nature and travel writer Bill Belleville takes us through Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America in quest of the distinctive, the wondrous, the... -
Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 by Karen L. Kilcup 9780820345000
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £51.73In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainability, resource wars, globalization,... -
Whisperin' Bill Anderson: An Unprecedented Life in Country Music by Bill Anderson 9780820349664
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £23.36Bill Anderson is one of the most successful songwriters, performers, and personalities in country music history. Known as "Whisperin' Bill" to generations of fans, Anderson's soft vocalisations and... -
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms by Charles Hudson 9780820320625
Booksplease Price: £34.78Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration across the Southeast. His path has been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With ""Knights of... -
Common Birds of Greater Atlanta by Jim Wilson 9780820338255
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £20.37Designed for beginning birders and nature enthusiasts alike, this easy-to-use guide presents sixty-one of the most common species of birds in the greater Atlanta area.The guide features large color... -
Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier 9780820321554
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £21.69The poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape and the romantic spirit of the Old South, his... -
Common Birds of Coastal Georgia by Jim Wilson 9780820338286
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £21.00Ideal for amateur birders, nature enthusiasts, and visitors to the Atlantic coast, this guide presents 103 species of birds commonly seen on the beaches and in the marsh and inland areas of Georgia's... -
Cornbread Nation 6: The Best of Southern Food Writing by Brett Anderson 9780820342610
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £19.32The hungrily awaited sixth volume in the Cornbread Nation series tells the story of the American South-circa now-through the prism of its food and the people who grow, make, serve, and eat it. The... -
Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right by Robin M. Morris 9780820360690
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £21.73Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women is a statewide study of women's part in the history of conservatism, the New Right, and the Republican Party in the state of Georgia. Robin M. Morris examines how the... -
City: An Essay by Brian Lennon 9780820341033
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.23How do we come to know a place, and in seeking to know it do we make it foreign from ourselves? Do we tackle it from other perspectives-the excavator, the traveler, the observant witness? Can we know... -
Thieves I've Known: Stories by Tom Kealey 9780820351445
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.75In these wondrously strange and revealing stories, Tom Kealey chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the young and marginalized as they discover many ways of growing up. Their names are Merrill,... -
Creating Flannery O'Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers by Daniel Moran 9780820352930
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.98Flannery O'Connor may now be acknowledged as the "Great American Catholic Author," but this was not always the case. With Creating Flannery O'Connor Daniel Moran explains how O'Connor attained that... -
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman 9780820323381
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £17.95Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim O'Brien, and their friends are altar... -
In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness by Donna Seaman 9780820324579
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.91Fourteen unforgettable short stories provoke, illuminate, and startle as they explore our perception of nature and the conflict between wildness and civilization within each of us. As we are... -
In Search of Bisco by Erskine Caldwell 9780820317847
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £17.96In 1965, more than five decades after his forced estrangement from his black boyhood friend Bisco, Erskine Caldwell set out across the South to find him. On the journey, which took him from South... -
Call it Experience: The Years of Learning How to Write by Erskine Caldwell 9780820318493
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £18.60This memoir presents an engaging self-portrait of Erskine Caldwell's first thirty years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most... -
The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from the South by John Lane 9780820320885
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £17.62The Woods Stretched for Miles gathers essays about southern landscape and nature from nineteen writers with geographic or ancestral ties to the region. This remarkable group encompasses not only such... -
We're Heaven Bound!: Portrait of a Black Sacred Drama by Gregory D. Coleman 9780820321127
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £18.35More than one million people from all walks of life have been uplifted and entertained by Heaven Bound, the folk drama that follows, through song and verse, the struggles between Satan and a band of... -
The Listening by Kyle Dargan 9780820326610
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £14.31Kyle Dargan's debut collection of poetry, The Listening searches through the cluttered surface of contemporary life to tune into the elemental sounds within the marrow of living/life. Throughout the... -
Low Flying Aircraft by T.M. McNally 9780820330983
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.77Low Flying Aircraft is a collection of interrelated stories in which one life is equally capable of influencing another "under a sky the size of history." Spanning a period of fourteen years, the... -
The People I Know by Nancy Zafris 9780820334202
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.73The People I Know is a collection of nine stories, told by characters who hover at the edge of life. Whether it's Lorne, perched on a sofa as a wedding party swirls around him, or the elderly Mrs. R... -
A Brief History of Male Nudes in America by Dianne Nelson 9780820339979
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.10In these stories, Dianne Nelson illuminates that vast territory of pleasure and pain created within modern families. Whether it is a father trying to kidnap his young son from his estranged ex-wife... -
No Lie Like Love by Paul Rawlins 9780820339986
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.77A shady financier visits his small hometown, a middle-aged divorce emerges from a life of drastic austerity and self-denial, a sick and dying professor discovers the healing touch of a former student... -
No Sign by Sydney Lea 9780820341606
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.33In Sydney Lea's poems, purest joy and woe flash amid the mundane, and beauty knows the full range of nature - from the plumed tension of a newborn child twisting away from the ready breast to bright... -
Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays by Megan Harlan 9780820357928
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.45Uprooting ourselves and putting down roots elsewhere has become second nature. Americans are among the most mobile people on the planet, moving house an average of nine times in adulthood. Mobile... -
Across the Layers: Poems Old and New by Albert Goldbarth 9780820315485
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £18.06When Albert Goldbarth's Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, the citation called it "a dazzling, delirious book as full of zest and joy as it is... -
We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone: Poems by Kerri Webster 9780820327730
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £13.97What desire doesn't seem as of the distance across a sea? asks the voice in Kerri Webster's debut collection of poetry, even as the poems attempt the transformation of that liminal space wherein word... -
Devotion: A Memoir by Miriam Levine 9780820339863
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £17.76To Miriam Levine, "devotion" implies love and self-creation; to her mother's generation, it meant martyrdom and self-denial. The domain of this memoir is the interval between those attitudes... -
Spirit Seizures by Melissa Pritchard 9780820341057
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.29In these stories by Melissa Pritchard, the past brushes up against the present, the voices of both the sane and the obsessed are heard, and the spirits speaking unbidden through the mouths of some... -
Tell Borges If You See Him: Tales of Contemporary Somnambulism by Peter LaSalle 9780820342160
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £18.73To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalking-that's what life can be like for the people in these eleven stories by Peter LaSalle, known to readers of... -
White Girl: A Story of School Desegregation by Clara Silverstein 9780820345093
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.57This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered bussing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social... -
Mcafee County: A Chronicle by Mark Steadman 9780820320144
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £19.32Welcome to McAfee County, Georgia, home to a large gathering of characters whose stories are as intertwined as kudzu. From Brother Fisco, who vows to part the waters of Kallisaw Sound, to Maggie... -
Chattahoochee River User's Guide by Joe Cook 9780820346793
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £17.57The Chattahoochee River is one of the premier waterways of Georgia and the Southeast. It is a mecca for summer recreation, a priceless natural resource that provides water and power for a great...