Over the past twenty years, DNA ancestry testing has morphed from a niche market into a booming international industry that encourages members of the public to answer difficult questions about their identity by looking to the genome. At a time of intensified interest in issues of race and racism, the burgeoning influence of corporations like ......
2022 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume covers a wide array of topics including commercial turf insects; chemical weed control; tolerance of established cool-season and warm-season turfgrasses to herbicides; controlling broadleaf weeds; ......
Sallie Stockard (1869-1963),the first female graduate of the University of North Carolina, published three county histories, 1900-1904. Thereafter, she lived an obscure, difficult, and revealing life. Encouraged by New South educational mentors, she countered restrictions on women with diligence and self-promotion. Carole Troxler discloses ......
The September issue of CrossCurrents is a special issue on the "Spirituality of Parenting". This issue brings together essays at the intersection of religious life and parenting. Essays are reflective, creative, and bring in the writers' own experiences of being a parent and how one brings religious or spiritual insights or practices into the ......
The True Story of the Scamsters, Politicians, and Preachers Behind the Nation's Greatest Electoral Fraud
In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of ......
Differential Geometry in Physics is a treatment of the mathematical foundations of the theory of general relativity and gauge theory of quantum fields. The material is intended to help bridge the gap that often exists between theoretical physics and applied mathematics. The approach is to carve an optimal path to learning this challenging field ......
This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features fiction from John Picard and Dana Shavin creative nonfiction from William Kelley Woolfitt poetry from Ron Houchin, Dan Leach, Maura Way, Sarah Grace Goolden and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features fiction from Devon Capizzi and Reshmi Hebbar creative nonfiction from Alison Condie Jaenicke and Randolph Thomas poetry from John Mark Ballenger, Elizabeth Estochen, Jose Enrique Medina, Frederick Wilbur and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the ......
CrossCurrents connects the wisdom of the heart with the life of the mind and the experiences of the body. The journal is operated through its parent organization, the Association for Public Religion and Intellectual Life (APRIL), an interreligious network of academics, activists, artists, and community leaders seeking to engage the many ways ......
