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	The Ecocriticism Reader Landmarks in Literary Ecology Edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm	Recommended for courses in ecocriticism, literary studies, and environmental studies Used in courses at University of Wyoming, University of Montana, University of North Carolina, Arizona State University, Bennington College, Northern Arizona University, University of New Orleans, Furman University, Boston University, University of Texas, Brandeis University, Brown University, University of Calgary, University of Victoria, University of Arkansas, Northern Illinois University, University of Nevada, and Depaul University Additional information Contributors: Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Branch, Alison Byerly, SueEllen Campbell, Cynthia Deitering, Neil Evernden, Harold Fromm, William Howarth, Annette Kolodny, Ursula K. Le Guin, Glen A. Love, Thomas J. Lyon, Christopher Manes, David Mazel, Michael J. McDowell, Joseph W. Meeker, Vera K. Norwood, Dana Phillips, William Rueckert, Scott Russell Sanders, Don Scheese, Leslie Marmon Silko, Scott Slovic, Frederick Turner, Lynn White Jr.
	Southern Manhood Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South Edited by Craig Thompson Friend and Lorri Glover	Recommended for courses in gender & masculinity studies and southern history Used in courses at Rice University, Georgia State University, Florida International University, Bates College, Valdosta State University, and George Mason University Additional information Contributors: Edward E. Baptist, L. Diane Barnes, Craig Thompson Friend, Lorri Glover, Jennifer R. Green, Harry S. Laver, John Mayfield, Greg O'Brien, Heather Andrea Williams Also see companion volume: Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South since Reconstruction
	Hearing History A Reader Edited by Mark M. Smith	Recommended for courses in United States and European history Used in courses at Harvard University, New York University, University of California San Diego, University of California Santa Cruz, and Claremont College Additional information Jacques Attali, Peter Bailey, Charles Burnett, Steven Connor, Alain Corbin, Lisa Gitelman, Penelope Gouk, James H. Johnson, Douglas Kahn, Malcolm Nicolson, Richard Cullen Rath, Charles D. Ross, R. Murray Schafer, Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hillel Schwartz, Raymond W. Smilor, Bruce R. Smith, Jonathan Sterne, Emily Thompson, Graham White, Shane White, D. R. Woolf
	Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture John Storey Second Edition	Recommended for courses in cultural studies, popular culture, and media studies Used in courses at Kenyon College, University of California Davis, Temple University, Indiana University, University of Maryland, Vassar College, University of Arizona, Boston College University, University of North Carolina, University of Southern California, Oberlin College, University of Maryland, University of Maine Farmington, and Winona State University Additional information Also by John Storey: Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction and Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader
	The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory Edited by Renee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford	Recommended for courses in civil rights movement, American history, memory studies, and race relations Used in courses at Emory University, Brown University, Washington State University, California State University Fullerton, University of Kansas, Duke University, Albion College, Western Michigan University, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, University of Illinois, and Kent State University Additional information Contributors: Derek H. Alderman, Owen J. Dwyer, R. A. R. Edwards, Steve Estes, Jennifer Fuller, Glenn Eskew, Tim Libretti, David John Marley, Edward P. Morgan, Kathryn L. Nasstrom, Leigh Raiford, Renee Romano, Sarah Vowell
	Black Masculinity and the U.S. South From Uncle Tom to Gangsta Riché Richardson	Recommended for courses in gender & masculinity studies, popular culture, southern studies, African American studies, and media studies Used in courses at University of Missouri, St. Lawrence University, University of Illinois Chicago, Cornell University, Spelman College, University of Mississippi, Emory University, University of California Davis, and Florida A&M University
	New Studies in the History of American Slavery Edited by Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M. H. Camp	Recommended for courses in history of slavery, Atlantic history, and African American studies Used in courses at University of California Santa Barbara, Catholic University, George Mason University, Cornell University, University of Memphis, University of California Irvine, Troy University, Lewis and Clark College, Hampshire College, and University of Memphis
	Slavery in America A Reader and Guide Edited by Kenneth Morgan	Recommended for courses in history of slavery, Atlantic history, and African American studies Used in courses at College of Charleston, California Institute of Technology, SUNY at Fredonia, Connecticut College, Radford University, Georgia College and State Uinversity, St. Louis University, Youngstown State University, and College of Charleston
	Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement An Anthology Edited by Margaret Earley Whitt	Recommended for courses in civil rights, race relations, and American literature Used in courses at Pepperdine University, University of Chicago, University of Denver, Southwestern Illinois College, Washington State University, University of Missouri, University of Tennessee at Martin, and Spelman College Additional information Contributors: James Baldwin, Lerone Bennett Jr., Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown, Rosellen Brown, R.V. Cassill, Val Coleman, Henry Dumas, Junius Edwards, Anthony Grooms, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Lee Martin, Diane Oliver, ZZ Packer, Natalie L.M. Petesch, Mike Thelwell, James W. Thompson, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Joan Williams
	South Carolina Women Their Lives and Times—Volume 1 Edited by Marjorie J. Spruill, Valinda W. Littlefield, and Joan Marie Johnson	Recommended for courses in Used in courses at Additional information
	Black Nature Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Edited by Camille T. Dungy	Recommended for courses in poetry, literary studies, and ecocriticism Used in courses at University of Nebraska, University of California Los Angeles, and Northwestern University Additional information Includes work by such poets as: Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, Melvin B. Tolson, Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington
	The Transcendentalists Barbara L. Packer	Recommended for courses in nineteenth century American literature and philosophy Used in courses at University of Puget Sound, Oregon State University, University of California Davis, Le Moyne College, University of South Carolina, Carleton College, University of California Los Angeles, and Emory University Additional information "It is curious that in a field long distinguished for its historical scholarship, no satisfactory comprehensive history of the Transcendentalist movement has appeared since 1876. Packer's The Transcendentalists answers that need effectively in an engagingly written study grounded in fresh readings of primary sources and a synthetic command of the best recent scholarship."—David M. Robinson, American Literary Scholarship
	Other Souths Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present Edited by Pippa Holloway	Recommended for courses in southern history, southern women's history, and minority studies Used in courses at Marshall University, Emory University, University of Mississippi, Skidmore College, and Valdosta State University Additional information Contributors: Stacy Braukman, Jennifer E. Brooks, Susan Cahn, Scott H. Dewey, Andrew Doyle, Sarah Gualtieri, Lu Ann Jones, Jeanette Keith, Kevin M. Kruse, Alex Macaulay, Danielle L. McGuire, Raymond A. Mohl
	Uneven Development Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space Neil Smith With a new afterword Foreword by David Harvey Third Edition	Recommended for courses in critical geography, urban studies, and environmental politics Used in courses at Washington State University, Virginia Tech, University of Arizona, Clark University, University of Toronto, Florida International University, and Queens College
	Social Justice and the City David Harvey Revised Edition	Recommended for courses in geography and urban studies Used in courses at University of Chicago, Miami University, William Paterson University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Central Florida, University of Washington Seattle, Princeton University, and Penn State University