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A dog in an art museum? Maybe not most dogs, but Friday goes to the museum every Tuesday to visit his friends. One day Friday must say goodbye for the winter. Join the fun as Friday trots through the galleries, taking selfies and saying goodbye to all of his friends - Maman the spider, Rosie the Riveter, George Washington, and many others.

Nikki Haley has been widely hailed as an emerging force in American politics, her star power burnished over a decade that has seen her move to the global stage. Jason Kirk analyses her ascendance in the Republican party to her elevated profile as Donald Trump's representative to the United Nations.

Presents a timely collection of essays analysing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives, the role of cooking in Sor Juana's poetics, and the centrality of desire in twentieth-century cooking writing by women.

Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak. In her elegiac and formally inventive debut, Badra carries on talking with the sister and father she has lost, often setting her words alongside theirs and others' in polyphonic poems that can be read in multiple directions.

Examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the role of food in shaping prewar political debates and postwar realities.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Broken Dreams presents coverage of 2020's most important fighters and fights, outside-the-ring controversies, regulatory missteps, and other issues that defined the year's boxing scene.

Traces the explosion of white nationalism in Arkansas in the 1920s and its impact on the state's development. In documenting this history, Kenneth Barnes shows how the Klan's early success still casts a long shadow on the state to this day.

With their cameras and notebooks in hand, photographers Sabine Schmidt and Don House embarked on an ambitious project to document the libraries committed to serving Arkansas's smallest communities. Remote Access is the culmination of this fascinating three-year effort.

Makes the Truman Scholarship application process transparent to applicants and their advisors. These essays teach readers how to gain the most from the application process, how to connect past involvement and successes to future academic and career goals, how to approach interviews, and how to embrace the opportunity if selected for an award.

The catalogue of an exhibition co-organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, and Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The exhibition and this associated catalogue invite visitors to discover the sea as an expansive way to reflect on American culture and environment.

Madeleine Wattenberg's debut collection alternates between epistolary poems to the mythical figure Io and lyrical interrogations of science, myth, and the historical record. Wattenberg casts Io - the priestess of Hera who was turned into a heifer - as a woman struggling to navigate the terrain between choice and coercion.

Published just days before America's entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn's love letter to his adopted region. Rayburn's colourful tour takes readers from the fictional village of Woodville into the backcountry of a region teeming with storytellers, ballad singers, superstitions, and home remedies.

Craig Blais's Moon News deploys the sonnet form to treat subjects as diverse as Gregor Samsa, SpongeBob SquarePants, and the cosmos. Here the form's capaciousness is engaged to full effect.

More than a retelling of the origin story of a democracy born from an intimate connection with the land, this book wagers that socially responsible agrarian mythmaking should be a vital part of a food ethic of resistance if we are to rectify the destructive tendencies in our contemporary food system.

Haunted as much by place and people, landscapes and distant figures, as by the possibilities of image-making itself, Eternal Sentences is a song for the hidden depots of rural America.

Offers a detailed history of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program, which has served as a powerful component of US nuclear strategies for over half a century. David Stumpf examines technological breakthroughs, and places the Minuteman program in context with world events.

For nearly a century, British expatriate Charles Joseph Finger (1867-1941) was best known as an award-winning author of children's literature. In Shared Secrets, Elizabeth Findley Shores relates Finger's untold story, exploring the secrets that connected the author to an international community of twentieth-century queer literati.

Craft is a diverse, democratic art form practiced by Americans of every gender, age, ethnicity, and class. Crafting America traces this expansive range of skilled making in a variety of forms, from ceramics and wood to performance costume and community-based practice.

In this latest collection from Laurence Gonzales, we go from the top of Mount Washington to 12,000 feet beneath the ocean, where a Naval Intelligence Officer discovers the Titanic using the government's own spy equipment. We experience night assaults with the 82nd Airborne Division, a trip to the International Space Station, and more.

Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser's newest collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. Staredown offers inside reporting from the dressing room before some of last year's biggest fights, in-depth investigations into corruption in boxing, and more.

"Glances back to generational narratives of immigration, moving from south to north exploring seasonal field work and factory labour. By looking to ancestral narratives of Mexican American immigrants, the poems examine spatial and geographic boundaries and linguistic and mental intersections." - from the Preface

"...celebrates the body - its rise and fall, ebb and flow, in a carnival of parties-restlessly, shamelessly, searching for a way out. Even as Abughattas claims that 'I can't believe sometimes I have a body', her poems teem with an awareness of the body's unavoidable centrality in our lives" - from the Preface

Offers a fresh perspective on the German speakers who settled in a modernizing Arkansas. Mining a valuable newspaper archive, Condray sheds light on how these immigrants navigated their new identity as southern Americans.

Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume set portraying the work of a multitude of artisan cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and more working in communities all over Arkansas.

The first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by Arkansas writer Donald Harington (1935-2009). Featuring the long-lost suspense novel of the title and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories, this volume adds new chapters to the fictional Ozarks village that serves as the setting for more than a dozen Harington novels.

Decades of meticulous research have resulted in this exciting two-volume set portraying the work of a multitude of artisan cabinetmakers, silversmiths, potters, fine artists, quilters, and more working in communities all over Arkansas.

From national championships to intra-communal play and the elimination of racial, ethnic, and gender barriers, the essays in Seattle Sports explore the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in, and reinforced by, play.