This book presents a valuable survey of Jewish and Christian textual references to an understudied Old Testament figure. Credited with predicting the flood and foretelling a second punishment but mentioned only briefly in the Hebrew Bible, Enoch is one of the most intriguing yet little-known characters of ancient Jewish and Christian literature. ......
A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography of Muhammad
The sacred biography of Muhammad has shaped Muslims' perceptions of the place of Islam in the religious history of the world and located the Islamic founder and prophet as the last of God's messengers. As Muslims established political control over ancient Jewish and Christian communities, they also claimed hegemony over the panorama of biblical ......
Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy provides the first full-scale scholarly assessment of McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris. While marked by McCarthy's unmistakable literary style, these novels deviate from his previous ......
Leading scholars take stock of McCarthy's final novels, illuminating the arc of his career, influence, and legacy New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy provides the first full-scale scholarly assessment of McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris. While marked by McCarthy's unmistakable literary style, these novels deviate from his previous ......
Lumbering, Commerce, and Conservation in South Carolina's Forests
Tracing South Carolina's hidden history of lumber, labor, and forest conservation across two centuries South Carolina's forests have long shaped the state's economy, landscapes, and labor practices, but its history has remained surprisingly understudied. Wood Basket of the World brings together essays that explore how lumbering, wood-product ......
Lumbering, Commerce, and Conservation in South Carolina's Forests
Tracing South Carolina's hidden history of lumber, labor, and forest conservation across two centuries South Carolina's forests have long shaped the state's economy, landscapes, and labor practices, but its history has remained surprisingly understudied. Wood Basket of the World brings together essays that explore how lumbering, wood-product ......
An expanded edition of Rutledge's stories on game-bird hunting and devoted canine companions Archibald Rutledge has long been recognized as one of the finest sporting scribes this country has ever produced. A prolific writer who specialized in stories on nature and hunting, over the course of a long and prolific career Rutledge produced more ......
Feminist Essays on Twenty-First-Century Academic Labor
How the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gendered inequities in academic labor-and how to overcome them Although the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020 proved universally challenging, women, especially, found themselves caught between professional and familial responsibilities as work and homelife boundaries converged and collapsed. These gendered ......
Coastal Carolina's 2016 Championship and the Rise of a Baseball Power
An improbable dream fulfilled in one unforgettable season In 2016, a mid-major team from Conway, South Carolina, shocked the college baseball world. Led by veteran head coach Gary Gilmore-who had spent two decades building a program that had once played on borrowed fields and traveled in hand-me-down vans into a national power-the Coastal ......
