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Religion and Resistance in Appalachia
Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
ISBN: 9780813179100
PUB DATE: 02/05/2020
Price $30.00
In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has...
Literacy in the Mountains
Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia
ISBN: 9780813178851
PUB DATE: 02/07/2020
Price $50.00
After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as "Trump Country," decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s,...
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
ISBN: 9780813179131
PUB DATE: 02/22/2020
Price $30.00
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies -- a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together...
The Arthurdale Community School
Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia
ISBN: 9780813179124
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $30.00
The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement...
Sacred Mountains
A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal
ISBN: 9780813179117
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $30.00
On a misty morning in eastern Kentucky, cross-bearing Christians gather for a service on a surface-mined mountain. They pray for the health and renewal of the land and for their communities, lamenting...
Wendell Berry and Higher Education
Cultivating Virtues of Place
ISBN: 9780813179148
PUB DATE: 01/22/2020
Price $30.00
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention....
Changing the Game
My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing
ISBN: 9780813179551
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $34.95
Many Kentuckians and fans of intercollegiate athletics are familiar with the name Jim Host. As founder and CEO of Host Communications, he was the pioneer in college sports marketing. Host's prevailing...
Thoughts on War
ISBN: 9780813178899
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $60.00
War is changing. Unlike when modern military doctrine was forged, the United States no longer mobilizes massive land forces for direct political gain. Instead, the US fights small, overseas wars...
Virtues of Renewal
Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms
ISBN: 9780813179421
PUB DATE: 01/22/2020
Price $30.00
For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence -- a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the...
Making Bourbon
A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813178752
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $60.00
While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Distillers enshrine local history in their branding...
Religion and Resistance in Appalachia
Faith and the Fight against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
ISBN: 9780813179100
PUB DATE: 02/05/2020
Price $30.00
In the last fifty years, the Appalachian Mountains have suffered permanent and profound change due to the expansion of surface coal mining. The irrevocable devastation caused by this practice has...
Literacy in the Mountains
Community, Newspapers, and Writing in Appalachia
ISBN: 9780813178851
PUB DATE: 02/07/2020
Price $50.00
After the 2016 presidential election, popular media branded Appalachia as "Trump Country," decrying its inhabitants as ignorant fearmongers voting against their own interests. And since the 1880s,...
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
ISBN: 9780813179131
PUB DATE: 02/22/2020
Price $30.00
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies -- a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together...
The Arthurdale Community School
Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia
ISBN: 9780813179124
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $30.00
The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement...
Sacred Mountains
A Christian Ethical Approach to Mountaintop Removal
ISBN: 9780813179117
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $30.00
On a misty morning in eastern Kentucky, cross-bearing Christians gather for a service on a surface-mined mountain. They pray for the health and renewal of the land and for their communities, lamenting...
Wendell Berry and Higher Education
Cultivating Virtues of Place
ISBN: 9780813179148
PUB DATE: 01/22/2020
Price $30.00
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention....
Changing the Game
My Career in Collegiate Sports Marketing
ISBN: 9780813179551
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $34.95
Many Kentuckians and fans of intercollegiate athletics are familiar with the name Jim Host. As founder and CEO of Host Communications, he was the pioneer in college sports marketing. Host's prevailing...
Thoughts on War
ISBN: 9780813178899
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $60.00
War is changing. Unlike when modern military doctrine was forged, the United States no longer mobilizes massive land forces for direct political gain. Instead, the US fights small, overseas wars...
Virtues of Renewal
Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms
ISBN: 9780813179421
PUB DATE: 01/22/2020
Price $30.00
For over fifty years, Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence -- a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the...
Making Bourbon
A Geographical History of Distilling in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813178752
PUB DATE: 02/24/2020
Price $60.00
While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Distillers enshrine local history in their branding...