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A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History

A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History

A Jew’s Best Friend? The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History

Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman and Rakefet Zalashik
Sussex Academic Press
240 pages
$34.95

“Brilliantly documents the way Jews have imagined dogs and in so doing imagined what it means to be a human, a Jew, and an Israeli. A substantial contribution to both Jewish studies and animal studies, the text will be valuable both to research scholars and as an engaging resource for teaching undergraduates about the diverse experience of Jews throughout history.”

–Aaron Gross, University of San Diego

In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers and the Roots of American Music

In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers and the Roots of American Music

In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers and the Roots of American Music

Ben Wynne
Louisiana State Univ Pr
270 pages
$38

“A gripping examination of how the work of Patton, Rodgers and others of the era would come to define so much of popular music in the decades to come.”

–Memphis Commercial Appeal

Images of America: Franklin

Images of America: Franklin

Images of America: Franklin

Joe Johnston
Arcadia Publishing
128 pages
$21.99

” Franklin has been a center for agriculture and manufacturing. It is a place where families can enjoy small-town life on the interstate. It is home to a college. It has always been the seat of Williamson County. Franklins small businesses have a habit of sticking around for decades, often passing through generations of the same family. Franklin is as quaint and picturesque as it is exciting and progressive, because it continues to attract the kind of people who have always made it that way.”

–From the Publisher

Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge

The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton

The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton

The Forgotten Adventures of Richard Halliburton

R. Scott Williams
The History Press
192 pages
$19.99

“Richard Halliburton ran away from his hometown in Memphis at the age of nineteen to lead an extraordinary and dramatic life of adventure. Against the backdrop of the Golden Age, the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression, Halliburton’s exploits around the globe made him an internationally known celebrity and the most famous travel writer of his time.”

–From the Publisher

Much More than Tea and Sympathy

November 20, 2014 “A Story in Every Cup”—that’s the motto of Nashville’s Thistle Stop Café. In The Way of Tea and Justice, Becca Stevens, Episcopal priest and founder of Thistle Farms, tells the story of the Thistle Stop Café, where, in Stevens’ words, “we recognize the dignity of each person” while providing additional employment opportunities for former prostitutes in recovery.

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