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'I loved Jon's book. It's even better than the real thing because you can't hear his voice.' Michael McIntyreA control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply).'I haven't woken up with a cup of tea by the ...

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A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). 'I haven't woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such a small thing but it's one of a thousand things I miss about having someo...

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I loved Jons book. Its even better than the real thing because you cant hear his voice. Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). I havent woken up with a cup of tea by the bed f...

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Two of the major parallel challenges facing businesses today are how to adapt to the changes of fast-paced, fragmenting markets and how to grow a business whilst engaging in recognisably sustainable practices. It is not enough to just be sustainab...

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Two of the major parallel challenges facing businesses today are how to adapt to the changes of fast-paced, fragmenting markets and how to grow a business whilst engaging in recognisably sustainable practices. It is not enough to just be sustainab...

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Two of the major parallel challenges facing businesses today are how to adapt to the changes of fast-paced, fragmenting markets and how to grow a business whilst engaging in recognisably sustainable practices. It is not enough to just be sustainab...

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This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the Souths influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Many negative stereotypes of black menoften contradictory oneshave emerged from the ...

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In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this power...

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The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalisms impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and oppo...

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Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. Southliterature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their sou...

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Were seeing people that we didnt know exist, the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of Americas institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged ...

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Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the ...

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With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names Latinities. Milians innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meanin...

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The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally ...

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Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or ...

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Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Ro de la Plata region of South AmericaUruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and...

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Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken somet...

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Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argue...

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Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (19001938) was one of the most influential southern writers, widely considered to rival his contemporary, William Faulknerwho believed Wolfe to be one of the greatest talents of their generation. His...

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A cracking collection of comic monologues, written and read by leading comediansRecorded in front of a live audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this fantastic anthology features a host of diverse short stories, composed and performed by a v...

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'Warning: so funny, even the strongest pelvic floors will be tested' - Net Mums'A very funny, honest look at the ups and downs of parenting. I absolutely loved it.' - Emily Dean, host of Walking the Dog'Lucy, a favourite comic of mine, manages to ...

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