Authors:Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard,
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd)
Keywords: nonfiction, selected, margin, moves
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 160473017X
ISBN-13: 9781604730173

What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison’s writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison (b. 1931) was a new editor at Random House and a beginning novelist, to 2002 when she was a professor at Princeton University and Nobel Laureate. Even in the early days of her career, in between editing other writers, writing her own novels, and raising two children, she found time to speak out on subjects that mattered to her. From the reviews and essays written for major publications to h

Author: Norman Winter
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
Keywords: garden, style, color, combinations, captivating
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1934110922
ISBN-13: 9781934110928

In Captivating Combinations: Color and Style in the Garden, Norman Winter shows how tocreate dazzling landscapes based on colors, how to select for harmony, and how to create stunning contrasts. He takes the gardener through combinations of flowers, foliage, grasses, and herbs. He also guides acolytes to companion plantings for special theme gardens,such as cottage, tropical, butterfly and hummingbird, herb and edible, container, and even the new patriotic Victory Garden.Featuring over 200 color photographs, Captivating Combinations: Color and Style inthe Garden is filled with cutting-edge ide

Authors:Samuel J. Wells, Roseanna Tubby,
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt)
Keywords: mississippi, choctaw, removal
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1986-06
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0878052895
ISBN-13: 9780878052899

This informative study helps to complete the saga of the Choctaw by documenting the life and culture of those who escaped removal. It is an account that until now has been left largely untold. The Choctaw Indians, once one of the largest and most advanced tribes in North America, have mainly been studied as the first victims of removal during the Jacksonian era. After signing the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek in 1830, the great mass of the tribe--about 20,000 of perhaps 25,000--was resettled in what is present-day Oklahoma. What became of the thousands that remained? The h

Authors:Eudora Welty, Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney, Pearl
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd)
Keywords: writings, selected, occasions
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1604732644
ISBN-13: 9781604732641

Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America’s most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty’s birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney has collected more than sixty pieces by Welty that are largely unknown and have not been reprinted since their first appearances in magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers. The gathering includes one of Welty’s earliest stories, Acrobats in the Park; a self-analysis of her art printed in the Twenty Photographs portfolio; a recipe for Aunt Beck’s Chicken Pie served up in the novel Losing Battles; and a par

Authors:Raphael Shargel, Raphael Shargel,
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd)
Keywords: filmmakers, series, conversations, interviews, bergman, ingmar
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2007-08-03
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1578062187
ISBN-13: 9781578062188

Although Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) holds an undisputed place in the pantheon of major filmmakers, mention of his name unjustly evokes images of monolithic gloom and despair. All of his pictures, including his comedies, deal seriously with faith, morality, and mortality, but audiences and critics too often neglect the extraordinary wit and vitality that can be found in Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, Fanny and Alexander, and many others. In Ingmar Bergman: Interviews, the director discusses various stages of his career and the many facets of his work. The man and his

Author: Jo Kellum
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd)
Keywords: guide, selection, plant, shade, southern
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1934110485
ISBN-13: 9781934110485

Figuring out what to grow in the shade is challenge enough. Throw in factors that affect southern gardeners, and the topic becomes as thorny as wild blackberry. Shade varies at different times of day, and gardeners need to take this into account. Shade changes from season to season, too, even within the same yard. In Southern Shade: A Plant Selection Guide, landscape expert Jo Kellum takes the mystery out of the murky parts of the yard.Some plants desire rich, moist soil, decaying leaves, and just a bit of sunlight that filters through leafy tree canopies. Others need shade all day long. Still

Authors:Carl Lindahl, Carolyn Ware,
Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt)
Keywords: art, artists, series, folk, masks, mardi, gras, cajun
Published: 1997-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0878059695
ISBN-13: 9780878059690

Every winter a handful of Cajun Louisiana folk artists assembles unlikely mixtures of material to shape masks for their Cajun Mardi Gras celebrations. They use window screens, chicken feathers, yarn, hair, Magic Markers, and hot glue as they create fanciful, even bizarre masks that will be worn just one day in the year. Such creations transform their wearers into wild revelers who move through the countryside singing, dancing, and begging for money and food. As they generate merriment, they climb trees, chase chickens, and create a general and playful havoc. Cajun Mardi Gras celebrants are un