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This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.

The seismic social, economic, and cultural shifts that unfolded in the South in the twentieth century, as reflected through the history of SEC football fight songs

The summer when nonviolent resistance met state-sponsored abuse of power at its own doorstep in Nashville

Since the fall of 2014, 'The Advice King' has been one of the most widely read sections of alt-weekly the Nashville Scene. Three Chords and Condominium contains the best of those columns, with new 'In-the-Meantime' notes, a new introduction, and a foreword by Tracy Moore.

The Xhroll, an alien humanoid race whose infertility is bringing them near extinction, come into contact with a crew of fertile human astronauts. Their encounter on a remote space station will have significant consequences for both species when a human male winds up impregnated. Author Elia Barcelos setup is funny and feminist, and it raises questions of what it means to be male or femaleprescient, considering this novel was first published twenty-five years ago. The anniversary is being celebrated now with the first English-language edition, translated by veteran sci-fi translators Yolanda Molina-Gaviln and Andrea Bell, who also provide a critical introduction.

A manufactured and pre-programmed serial killer; a suicidalrobot; a romantic necrophiliac; and an archaeologist who feeds the perverse desires of aficionados of the apocalypseFrancisco Garca Gonzalezs stories map out literary and metafictional approaches to the sci-fi universe in ways that echo the humor and violence of Miguel de Cervantes,Mara de Zayas, Jorge Luis Borges, Rosa Montero, and Roberto Bolao. With ascholarly introduction by translator Bradley J. Nelson thatintroduces Garca Gonzlezs oeuvre to contemporary readers and scholars of Spanish-language literature, this science fiction collectionintroduces Anglophones to this unique author. Garca Gonzlezturns a black mirroron contemporary society and its relation both to history and to the future. His insightfulness and relevance draw comparisons with Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, and China Mieville, though his verbal economy and elegance are more akin to Cormac McCarthy, producing both disturbingly uncanny violence and unexpected comedy.

Blues Hall of Fame InducteeNamed a Classic of Blues Literature by the Blues Foundation, 2019 This remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta. In 1941 and '42 African American schol-ars from Fisk Universityamong them the noted composer and musicologist John W. Work III, sociologist Lewis Wade Jones, and graduate student Samuel C. Adams Jr.joined folklorist Alan Lomax of the Library of Congress on research trips to Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their mission was ';to document adequately the cultural and social backgrounds for music in the community.' Among the fruits of the project were the earliest recordings by the legendary blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. The hallmark of the study was to have been a joint publication of its findings by Fisk and the Library of Congress. While this publication was never completed, Lost Delta Found is composed of the writings, interviews, notes, and musical transcriptions produced by Work, Jones, and Adams in the Coahoma County study. Their work captures, with compelling immediacy, a place, a people, a way of life, and a set of rich musical traditions as they existed in the 1940s. Illustrated with photos and more than 160 musical transcriptions.

Unique in its breadth and profoundly humanitarian in its focus, Surviving the Peace situates digestible explanations of the region's bewilderingly complex recent history among interviews, conversations, and tableaus from the lives of everyday Bosnians attempting to make sense of what passes for normal in a postwar society.

Yasuoka Shtar (1920-2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Shwa period (1926-89). In Enduring Postwar, the first literary and biographical study of Yasuoka in English, Kendall Heitzman explores the element of memory in Yasuoka's work in the context of his life and evolving understanding of postwar Japan.