July brought a lot of exciting buzz about UPF books! Here are some of our favorite reviews from the past month.
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We are thrilled that Authentic Florida has highlighted several of our books that are perfect for summer chilling: E.G Barnhill, A Pioneer Son at Sea: Fishing Tales of Old Florida, An Ecotourist’s Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys, The Art of Maintaining a Florida Native Landscape, and Florida’s Paved Bike Trails (Third Edition).
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More great reviews from July:
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Music Everywhere: The Rock and Roll Roots of a Southern Town
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by Marty Jourard
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“Explores the genesis of the music scene in this small college town that acted as a spawning ground for so many musical greats….You will find this story fascinating.”—Florida Times-Union
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Don’t miss Marty Jourard’s interview with the St. Augustine Record!
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Origins of the Dream
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by W. Jason Miller
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“Brilliant….Miller’s book will help correct the historical amnesia that has for too long blotted out recognition of the cultural continuity between Hughes and King. A masterpiece.”—CHOICE
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Fútbol!: Why Soccer Matters in Latin America
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by Joshua H. Nadel
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“One of the best English-language books on soccer in Latin America.”—Remezcla
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Also check out Joshua Nadel’s appearances on Latin Pulse and The Mixed Zone!
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Masculinity After Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature
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by Maja Horn
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“A well-researched and rigorously historicized contribution to the field of Dominican cultural studies, moving elegantly between cultural and literary analyses.”—Modern Language Review
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The Ecology of Finnegans Wake
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by Alison Lacivita
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“The range of topics addressed in The Ecology of Finnegans Wake is expansive: polar exploration, meteorology, climatology, urban and suburban planning, water management, conservation biology. Lacivita takes great care to locate these discourses within the cultural and intellectual history of the time—among the many advantages of her genetic approach is its insistence on rigorous historicism—but it is no accident that so many of these topics are of crucial relevance today….It is not only among the strongest monographs of Joyce scholarship in recent memory, but it is also one of the most innovative works of contemporary ecocriticism.”—ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
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Black Art in Brazil
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by Kimberly L. Cleveland
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“A terrific book….Cleveland’s writing style, attention to the historical contexts of the themes she engages, and most centrally, her engagement with expressions of blackness, make this book a welcome contribution to the field.”—Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe
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The Geopoetics of Modernism
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by Rebecca Walsh
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“Well-argued and crisply expounded, Walsh’s excellent book contributes generously not only to the ‘spatial turn’ in modernist studies but also to the burgeoning study of American modernism….A valuable contribution to the fundamental—but relatively unexplored—topic of geography and the production of space in American literary modernism.—Literary Geographies
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