Science fiction and speculative fiction : challenging genres by Thomas, P. L. (Paul Lee), 1961-

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Nursing theorists and their work

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Southern bound : a Gulf coast journalist on books, writers, and literary pilgrimages of the heart by Sledge, John S. (John Sturdivant), 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Famously, It Seems -- Mississippi's Victorian Treasures Get Their Due -- Alabama's Architecture Gets Some Overdue Respect -- William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha -- Matrana Shows Pride and Ruin of Plantations -- Historian Upends Ideas on American Architecture -- Scholar-Town Houses Have Many Tales to Tell -- Legacy Presents a Detailed Look at Rayfield's Work -- Fallingwater Study Cuts Myths, Affirms Merits -- The Architect of America -- New Orleans Takes Shape in an Architect's Memoir -- Stumbling on a Fossil of a Southern Dinosaur -- McMurtry's Hometown a Paradise for Collectors -- Drama of Story Comes Alive in Monroeville -- A Night in the Library -- Finding Cahaba: New Book Rekindles Fascination with Alabama's First Capital -- Looking Past Midnight -- A Literary Ramble through Old New Orleans -- Oxford, Mississippi: A Literary Profile -- A Small City of Literary Giants: Greenville, Mississippi -- Visit to Library Is a Return to Childhood -- Images from the Literary Side of Paris, with a Personal Touch -- Walter-Inspired Dream an Affirmation of Creativity -- A Tale Worthy of the Centuries: Looking into Chapman's Iliad -- Plato's Ancient Words Inspire the Modern Mind -- Old Story, New Life: Heaney Makes Epic Worth the Wait -- Decline and Fall Stands Test of Time -- Last of the Mohicans Was First of Its Kind -- Omoo a Showcase for Melville's Lighter Side -- Slowly, Beautifully: That's How the Cookie Crumbles -- Revisiting a Classic at the Water's Edge -- Joseph Conrad's Typhoon Shows Power of Storm -- One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Pleasure -- Pride and Prejudice Run Deep in Memoir -- Old Soldier Sahib a Rare Chronicle of Bygone Empire -- Cather's Look Westward Broke New Literary Ground -- Shane Stands as Classic of Western Genre -- Book behind Classic Wayne Film Still Holds Up -- Pacific Battleground Is More Than a Memory -- A Shadowed Friendship: Book Looks Back on Broken Bond between Two Powerful Writers -- Quirky Italian Novel Shines in Recent Reissue -- "Just an adventurer": An Aid Worker's Strange Path -- Cuba in Mind Brings Island Near Enough to Touch -- Events Make Brick Lane a Timely Volume -- Long Way Gone a Tribute to Human Spirit -- My Forbidden Face Drives Home Sufferings of Women under Taliban -- Márquez Classic Still Rewards Reader's Effort -- Istanbul, Not Constantinople, Gets the Works from a Nobel-Winning Native Son -- Iconic AK47 Assault Rifle Subject of Far-Ranging Biography -- Plagiarism Charges Pull Prize-Winner from Shelves -- Alexandria's Library Rises from the Ashes-but Fires Still Burn -- George and Lennie Feeling the Squeeze -- Proposed Book Ban Deserves Firm Rebuttal -- America Flap Puts Mississippi in Spotlight -- Writer Takes Clear-Eyed Look at Battle Flag's Past and Present -- Without Sanctuary Confronts an Ugly Past -- Poe Folks Perturbed by Graveyard Guest -- Breach of Faith Offers Incisive Critiques -- An Open Letter to Louisiana's Governor -- School's Switch Alarms Book Lovers -- Old Writings Preserve Sense of Beaches' Beauty -- My First Gun Became a Boy's Rite of Passage -- The Reader: A Quieter Side of Michael Jackson -- Politics Aside, Spanish Opens Rich Literary Terrain -- In Changing Times, It's Hard to Turn the Page -- Southern Writers Save the Style for the Page -- Oscar Wilde: One Fine Figure of a Writer -- Everybody Has a Story, but Who Wants to Read It? …”
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The letters of Agricola by Elliott, William, 1788-1863

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Ray Charles : man and music by Lydon, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Prologue; Greenville 1930 1937; St. …”
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Rethinking church, state, and modernity : Canada between Europe and America

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After slavery : race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction South

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Life and labor in the new New South

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After slavery : race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction South

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Hold like owls : poems by Koets, Julia

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Doing business in America : a Jewish history

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Conversations with Dorothy Allison by Allison, Dorothy, 1949-

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The political geographies of pregnancy by Woliver, Laura R., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Feminist praxis, reproductive powers, medical models -- Praxis, approach, method / shifting powers in women's -- Reproduction / reproductive frames / unmet needs taken out of -- Context / feminist analysis of modern reproduction / women's -- Struggles for reproductive agency / controversial, heartfelt, -- Reproductive politics / additional voices and experiences / -- Defiant women / the plan of the book -- New reproductive technologies: medicalizations of pregnancy, -- Birth, reproduction, and infertility -- Standards of care / peripheral women / prenatal screening / -- International "choices" / sex selection reproductive -- Technologies' impact on abortion politics / cultural shifts / -- Conclusions -- The human genome project: designer genes -- A conceptual shift / geneticization, topographies of -- Reproductive power / increasing medicalization / eugenic -- Concerns / race, class, genome power / abilities, diversities -- / the "gay gene" quest / enhancements and improvements / the -- Mixed blessing of knowing / family impact / diseased futures / -- Reproduction, parenting, abortion / impact on mothers / -- Economic and market exchanges / human diversity genome project -- / social impact / breast cancer heartbreaks / ownership and -- Patenting / genetic, intentional, enhanced babies / elsi / -- Gender, power, and bioethics / conclusion -- Abortion politics: discourses on lives -- Revealed history, political action / subversive behaviors / -- Telling women's stories / telling fetuses stories / roe's -- Progress and limitations / abortion, women's praxis of the -- Ethic of care / abortion politics in local communities / -- Social movements, abortion, and culture wars / the context for -- Urban abortion battles / greenville and columbia, south -- Carolina / the grass-roots issue context / partial-birth, -- Late-term abortion ban / a national conflagration negotiated -- Locally one day at a time / interest group representations of -- Reproductive politics / abortion politics / conclusions -- Adoption and surrogacy: children as commodities, wombs for -- Rent -- Adoption markets / surrogacy / fragile power of mothers / full -- Surrogacy / surrogacy policy recommendations / the -- Patriarchal, nuclear family paradigm / voices silenced / -- Conclusion -- Social controls and reproductive politics: punitive monitoring -- Of pregnant women -- Framing / legal and illegal drugs and pregnant women / -- Framing/reframing / criminalizing prenatal care / coerced and -- Punitive contraception / punitive monitoring and control / -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: the changing political geographies of motherhood and -- Reproduction -- Feminist praxis: political challenge / feminist praxis: -- Imperfect individuals and connected communities / feminist -- Justice / conclusion.…”
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The political geographies of pregnancy by Woliver, Laura R., 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Feminist praxis, reproductive powers, medical models -- Praxis, approach, method / shifting powers in women's -- Reproduction / reproductive frames / unmet needs taken out of -- Context / feminist analysis of modern reproduction / women's -- Struggles for reproductive agency / controversial, heartfelt, -- Reproductive politics / additional voices and experiences / -- Defiant women / the plan of the book -- New reproductive technologies: medicalizations of pregnancy, -- Birth, reproduction, and infertility -- Standards of care / peripheral women / prenatal screening / -- International "choices" / sex selection reproductive -- Technologies' impact on abortion politics / cultural shifts / -- Conclusions -- The human genome project: designer genes -- A conceptual shift / geneticization, topographies of -- Reproductive power / increasing medicalization / eugenic -- Concerns / race, class, genome power / abilities, diversities -- / the "gay gene" quest / enhancements and improvements / the -- Mixed blessing of knowing / family impact / diseased futures / -- Reproduction, parenting, abortion / impact on mothers / -- Economic and market exchanges / human diversity genome project -- / social impact / breast cancer heartbreaks / ownership and -- Patenting / genetic, intentional, enhanced babies / elsi / -- Gender, power, and bioethics / conclusion -- Abortion politics: discourses on lives -- Revealed history, political action / subversive behaviors / -- Telling women's stories / telling fetuses stories / roe's -- Progress and limitations / abortion, women's praxis of the -- Ethic of care / abortion politics in local communities / -- Social movements, abortion, and culture wars / the context for -- Urban abortion battles / greenville and columbia, south -- Carolina / the grass-roots issue context / partial-birth, -- Late-term abortion ban / a national conflagration negotiated -- Locally one day at a time / interest group representations of -- Reproductive politics / abortion politics / conclusions -- Adoption and surrogacy: children as commodities, wombs for -- Rent -- Adoption markets / surrogacy / fragile power of mothers / full -- Surrogacy / surrogacy policy recommendations / the -- Patriarchal, nuclear family paradigm / voices silenced / -- Conclusion -- Social controls and reproductive politics: punitive monitoring -- Of pregnant women -- Framing / legal and illegal drugs and pregnant women / -- Framing/reframing / criminalizing prenatal care / coerced and -- Punitive contraception / punitive monitoring and control / -- Conclusions -- Conclusion: the changing political geographies of motherhood and -- Reproduction -- Feminist praxis: political challenge / feminist praxis: -- Imperfect individuals and connected communities / feminist -- Justice / conclusion.…”
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