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Inside an original modern musical mind

The life and music of a bluegrass pioneer, in his own words

Far from being strictly a men's sport, baseball has long been enjoyed and played by Americans of all genders and classes since it became popular in the 1830s. This work questions the forces that have kept girls who want to play baseball away from the game. It offers a look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime.

Documents the efforts of the Prison Communication, Activism, Research, and Education collective (PCARE) to put democracy into practice by merging prison education and activism.

Exploring the cultural impact of a northern band's southern music

In X=, Stephen Berg winds through the wreck of longing and loss, navigating the strains of curious beauty with flashes of electrifying clarity. Stripping bare the burdens of gnawing, unknowing fear, Berg has found his way into a voice of great energy and spontaneity, into a form of overwhelming urgency and detail.

Includes the work of more than seventy-five poets, both those closely associated with Illinois (Gwendolyn Brooks, Carl Sandburg, Kenneth Fearing, and John Knoepfle) and those, such as Oak Park-born Ernest Hemingway, whose connection with the state may surprise.

Bringing together the latest and most innovative scholarship on the history of the emotions.

Attempts to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology.

A new edition of the classic study of slave life in the American South

Investigating how gender affects voting

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus offers vistas rich with memories and splendor. This collection of over thirty classic images gives YOU, the Coloring Illini, a chance to conjure multihued masterworks from one hundred and fifty years of school history. The whole UIUC experience is here. The Union. The Quad. The Idea Garden. Whether you like brush pens or color pencils, the high quality paper will hold the whole Pantone spectrum of colors. Whether you seek fun or inspiration, the pictures will stoke your creative fires. Orange, Blue, and U is the perfect invitation for students, alums, and the worldwide university community to see UIUC as its canvas.

A treasury of Christmas memories and images from the Land of Lincoln

"One of our very finest         poets in full stride." -- HarvardReview, on Adjusting         to the Light       A 1995 recipient of the Academy         Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Miller         Williams is one of America's best known and loved poets. He also has won         the prestigious Poets' Prize; the Amy Lowell Award in Poetry, presented         by Harvard University; the Prix de Rome for Literature from the American         Academy of Arts and Letters, and many others.       Williams's newest collection         is built of the idiom of ordinary speech. Mostly narrative and dramatic,         these indelible poems are populated by individuals who go about their         lives much as all of us do; in fear of pain and loneliness, in hope of         something like love. The breath of Williams's talent gives them life,         his honesty and precision make them unforgettable.

A surefire guarantee for the headaches and stomach upsets of the late twentieth century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in a small town at the turn of the century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns, bountiful summer picnics, and shady front porches, the tale is set when the day's toughest decision might have been what to serve for dinner or which suit or dress to wear.In this new Prairie State Books edition, an introduction by longtime Millikin University faculty member and Findlay resident Dan Guillory situates the book and its charming tale firmly in the Central Illinois of 1900.