Featured Titles
West Pointers and the Civil War
The Old Army in War and Peace
Ushering in the transformation from militia to professional standing army
The Life of Septima Clark
A life that epitomizes the power of education and women's activism in the long civil rights movement
A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West
More than 800 species from these fresh, brackish, and salty waters
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Check out our new site dedicated to the
Mississippi Blues -- and William Ferris's new book
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, just published. Go to www.GiveMyPoorHeartEase.com.
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Available Now! The official book on the Tar Heels' 2009 championship season!
It's here --
One Fantastic Ride: The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season. Check out our photo gallery for a sneak peek.
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| Take a closer look at our outstanding list in Native American Studies
including the newly published The Land Has Memory, We Have a Religion, and Legalizing Identities; new paperbacks; and classroom favorites. Or download our latest Native American & Indigenous Studies brochure!
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 | Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., author of Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society, tells you why that trip to the doctor might not be so necessary.
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 | William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, sings the praises of Mississippi blues musicians.
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 | As another football season kicks off, Michael Oriard, author of Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era, offers an insider's perspective on the evolution of the college game.
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 | A conversation with John Shelton Reed, Dale Volberg Reed, and William McKinney, authors of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue, on barbecue as a badge of identity.
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 | Marianne Gingher, editor of Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-five of North Carolina's Finest Writers, explains why short is beautiful. |
 | Here's a "tweet" for you! John Yow, author of The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds, takes flight with his tales of the fascinating everyday birds in his own backyard. |
 | Foy Allen Edelman, author of Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State, satisfies sweet tooths everywhere with her collection of North Carolina desserts.
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- Check out our site dedicated to Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue. Sample some tasty recipes, watch some video of true NC Pitmasters at work, and a whole lot more.
- For newcomers to North Carolina, or for long-time Tar Heels, the Essential North Carolina Bookshelf
will be an oft-referenced guide to the people, places, sights and sounds of North Carolina. It's an incredible bargain at 50% off the retail price for ten must-have books about our great state.
- Check out the latest volumes of the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
- UNC Press is excited to be part of "Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement." To learn more visit the LCRM website.
- Now's the time to get your copy of the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.
- Visit the North Carolina Birding Trail.
- Browse our great selection of Cookbooks.
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