Lyme Disease Rhetoric and Contested Health Literacies
How chronic Lyme sheds new light on the rhetorical problem of patient empowerment Modern medicine expects patients to be informed and empowered partners in their own care. However, when this care system fails to provide answers, many individuals with chronic and contested illnesses take matters into their own hands. These patients often seek ......
Lyme Disease Rhetoric and Contested Health Literacies
How chronic Lyme sheds new light on the rhetorical problem of patient empowerment Modern medicine expects patients to be informed and empowered partners in their own care. However, when this care system fails to provide answers, many individuals with chronic and contested illnesses take matters into their own hands. These patients often seek ......
My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond
Memories and insights of a lifetime fighting for Black freedom and social justice Millicent E. Brown's family home at 270 Ashley Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina, was a center of civil rights activity. There Brown gained intimate knowledge of the struggle for racial justice, and those experiences set her on a life course dedicated to the ......
Women Writers in Conversation and Community Across the Sea Islands, 1838-1902
The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers' life writing Paper Heroines studies the ways women represented their own and one another's lives in their personal diaries and their biographies of their contemporaries. Author Mollie Barnes urges us to read the life writing that emerged from among the relief-work networks of ......
Lieutenant General Richard H. Anderson at War and Peace
Military biography of Lt. Gen. Richard H. Anderson, whose career led him from West Point to Mexico, Charleston to Appomattox Soldier of the South is the first comprehensive examination of Anderson's life, providing a view of an officer's experiences on the frontier, in Mexico, and during the American Civil War. Anderson led Confederate soldiers ......
The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980, Jorie Graham has challenged readers with her bold, innovative, and capacious poetry. In the collections that followed, she expanded the scope of the lyric form through her maximalist poetics, her provocative ethical imagination, and, ......
The first comprehensive study of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham Since her first book appeared in 1980, Jorie Graham has challenged readers with her bold, innovative, and capacious poetry. In the collections that followed, she expanded the scope of the lyric form through her maximalist poetics, her provocative ethical imagination, and, ......
An insider's guide to the government of the Palmetto State In The Concise Guide to South Carolina State Government, former state senator Vincent Sheheen provides an engaging and accessible overview of the structures of the state's government and how they came to be. Sheheen covers the history of South Carolina's government, the legislative ......
An insider's guide to the government of the Palmetto State In The Concise Guide to South Carolina State Government, former state senator Vincent Sheheen provides an engaging and accessible overview of the structures of the state's government and how they came to be. Sheheen covers the history of South Carolina's government, the legislative ......
