Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolinas inner coast.
Wechseljahre-Kochbuch: Mit gesunden, abwechslungsreichen und köstlichen Schlemmereien vital, schlank und genussvoll durch die Menopause kommenHaben Sie bereits mit den ersten Hitzewallungen zu kämpfen oder erwarten Sie den Eintritt in die Wechseljahre?
Every Sales Person and Entrepreneur knows that selling is the key to success, but most never achieve their potential even after attending numerous trainings and reading dozens of books.
In the Spring 2012 issue of Southern CulturesGuest editor Marcie Cohen Ferris brings together some of the best new writing on Southern food for the Summer 2012 issue of Southern Cultures , which features an interview with TREME writer Lolis Elie and Ferriss own retrospective on Southern sociology, the WPA, and Food in the New South.
This comprehensive guide to floor loom weaving begins with the basicsparts of the loom, how to wind your warp and dress your loom; how to read and weave draftsbut then goes so much farther, explaining the different types of weaves and how to read and weave from charts, and exploring a variety of weaves in depth.
In the Fall 2012 issue of Southern CulturesGuest Editor Ferrel Guillorys special election-year Politics issue features:Five Big Things You Need to Know About the South for this ElectionThe Past, Present, and Future of Southern PoliticsJack Bass on Citizens United, Strom Thurmond, the Southern Strategy, and Jackie OControl of Public Schools and the Politics of DesegregationThe South in the Shadow of NazismDocumenting the Political Immigrant Debate TodayBill Clinton on .
The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious, The 2011 Photography IssueTom Rankin, Guest EditorOur second Photography issue features full-color photographs by William Eggleston, William Christenberry, and much more.
After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull homeonly to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence.
During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in Englands North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals.
Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more,UNC A to Zis a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nations first public university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This beautiful and informative volume illustrates the vitality and importance of North Carolina's contemporary art scene, showcasing the creation, collection, and celebration of art in all its richness and diversity.
In this sweeping chronicle of guarana glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.
Viola Franziska Mller examines runaways who camouflaged themselves among the free Black populations in Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond.
Before 1850, all legal executions in the South were performed before crowds that could number in the thousands; the last legal public execution was in 1936.
Gardeners across the nation are seeing clear signs of trouble in their home gardens, no matter the sizelike many aspects of life on our warming planet, gardening practices need updates.
The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is an 1,175-mile destination trail that crosses North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Jockeys Ridge State Park on the Outer Banks.
North Carolinas state parks reflect the natural abundance and variety in the Tar Heel State, with preserves located in each of the major regions from mountains to coast.
In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Covering 40 of the best trips the state of Virginia has to offer, Backpacking Virginia provides all the information necessary for beginner and experienced backpackers alike to enjoy hiking destinations from Cumberland Gap in southwest Virginia to the New River Valley, the heart of the Blue Ridge, and Shenandoah National Park, and all the way out to the Atlantic coast.
Self-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like boomtown on the map.
This guide provides everything you need to know to discover the Souths best-kept secrets of winter recreation: snow-covered mountains, remote yet accessible trails, high-quality downhill and cross-country skiing, sparkling resorts and peaceful cabins, and of course, southern hospitality.
From springhouse to smokehouse, from hearth to garden, Southern Appalachian foodways are celebrated afresh in this newly revised edition of The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery.
This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
Standing along the coast of todays Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wilbur and Orville Wright when they first arrived in 1900 to begin their famous experiments leading to the worlds first powered flight three years later.
For generations, enterprising people in the southern Appalachians have turned the regions extensive network of caves into a strange, fascinating genre of tourist attraction.
While the hindquarters of swine have been preserved in salt the world over for thousands of years, there are only a few places on earth where ham is as celebrated or integral to the cuisine as it is in the American South.
For years, North Carolina has been one of the nations fastest-growing states, bringing tremendous change to the states people, industries, jobs, places, environment, and government.
This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflowing meals.
The California Current part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico.
