Holiday Catalog 2025

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Best-Loved Recipes from the Columbia Restaurant

Richard Gonzmart

Paperback $7.95

Postcards from Florida Cowboys

Carlton Ward Jr.

6 x 4 | 13 color postcards

Paperback $9.95

Postcards from Dream Houses

Joie Wilson and Penny Taylor

6 x 4 | 13 color postcards

Paperback $9.95

Postcards from The Highwaymen

Gary Monroe

6 x 4 | 13 color postcards

Paperback $9.95

Postcards from Journal of Light

John Moran

6 x 4 | 13 color postcards

Paperback $9.95

Proper Imposters

Four Novellas

Contents

Journalism & Literature 1

History 2–3

Nature 4–5

Gardening 6

Outdoor Recreation 7

Cooking 8–9

The Arts 10–11

Space 12

Order Form Inside back cover

To Order

See inside back cover or visit upress.ufl.edu for these and other great gift books.

Use discount code 31HOL25 at checkout for 40% off your order. Orders of $75.00 or more will receive FREE SHIPPING within the US.

Order by December 31, 2025.

Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, Jason Ockert, and Jeff Parker

Paperback $24.95

Four contemporary authors explore the vices and virtues of deception and how it manifests in ways personal, psychological, propulsive, and profound.

This Luminous

New and Selected Poems

Allan Peterson

Paperback $18.00

Spectacle

Lauren Goodwin Slaughter

Paperback $15.95

Knives, Forks, Scissors, Flames

Stefan Kiesbye

Paperback $19.95

After moving from Berlin to a picture-perfect village on the Baltic Coast, Benno finds a murdered woman in the woods and initiates an investigation.

Distributed on behalf of Panhandler Books, an imprint of the Department of English and World Languages at the University of West Florida

“Explores what we learn

and carry into adulthood about care, our bodies, silence, anger, fear, jealousy, death, and desire from watching and listening to our mothers, when, oftentimes, they do not realize we are paying attention.”

—JULIA KOETS

author of PINE and The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays

Other People’s Mothers

Julie Marie Wade

Paperback $28.00

Welcome to Florida

True Tales from America's Most Interesting State

Craig Pittman

Paperback $28.00

“Craig Pittman is not just a gifted writer; he is a superb historian with a quirky, insightful sense of humor that at times rivals Mark Twain.”—Randy Wayne White, New York Times bestselling author of the Doc Ford series

Home in Florida

Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness

Edited by Anjanette Delgado

INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR BEST FICTION (MULTI-AUTHOR)

Hardcover $26.95

“Delgado and the writers of this inventive anthology have cultivated a home of their own making—one that can go anywhere and never lose its roots.”—Aquifer: The Florida Review Online

The Thing about Florida

Exploring a Misunderstood State

Tyler Gillespie

Hardcover $24.95

Writing for the Public Good

Essays from David R. Colburn and Senator Bob Graham

Edited by Steven Noll

Hardcover $30.00

Dream State

Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife

Diane Roberts

with a new preface

Paperback $26.95

Getting Naked with Harry Crews

Interviews

Edited by Erik Bledsoe

Paperback $28.00

“The novelist pulls no punches in these 26 interviews.”—Publishers Weekly

“A great achievement. Atwood’s thorough research and documentation bring to light the pivotal role that the state of Florida played during World War II.” —CARLOS E. MARTÍNEZ

Brigadier General, USAF, Retired

State of War

A History of World War II in Florida

Anthony D. Atwood

Paperback

$28.00

Cow Creek Chronicles

The Rise and Fall of an Early Florida Cattle Ranch

Gregory Enns

Paperback

$28.00

“With sweeping landscapes full of surprising characters and thrilling adventures, Cow Creek Chronicles tells the fading stories of Florida cowboys.”—Robert Steele, president, Martin County Historical Society

Florida Spectacular

Extraordinary Places and Exceptional Lives

Cathy Salustri

Paperback

$26.95

“A wonderful, fun-to-read history of the events and issues that shaped America’s wackiest and most important state.”—Tamara Lush, author and journalist

Just Freedom

Inside Florida’s Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle

Daniel Rivero

Paperback

$28.00

“Just Freedom is a sweeping, magisterial history, a brilliantly reported story of a dream and a dream deferred.”—David Daley, author of Antidemocratic

A Town without Pity

AIDS, Race, and Resistance in Florida’s Deep South

Jason Vuic

Paperback

$28.00

“A page-turning examination of the machinations of a municipal mob under the nation’s microscope.”—Ben Montgomery, author of Grandma Gatewood’s Walk

Chambers v. Florida and the Criminal Justice Revolution

Richard Brust

Paperback

$35.00

“An engaging and accessible read. Brust brings renewed and deserved attention to this landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision.”—Rob Riser, author of Defying Disfranchisement: Black Voting Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1890–1908

Sunshine State Mafia

A History of Florida’s Mobsters, Hit Men, and Wise Guys

Doug Kelly

Paperback

$28.00

“Highlights the unique and often crazier-than-fiction story of organized crime in the Sunshine State.”—Scott M. Deitche, author of Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld

“This book takes us down North Florida’s backroads and rural paths into a fascinating world of small museums and collections tucked into unexpected nooks and crannies.”

—MALLORY M. O’CONNOR

coauthor of Florida’s American Heritage River

Cultural Sites of North Florida

A Backroads Guide to Small Museums and Other Local Treasures

Ronnie Lovler and Dixie Neilson

Paperback

$19.95

Al Burt’s Florida

Snowbirds, Sand Castles, and Self-Rising Crackers

Al Burt

Paperback

$24.95

This book takes readers on a tour of Florida through the writing of a roving reporter, exploring the charm, substance, and fantasy of a complex and fascinating state.

Fort Mose

Colonial America’s Black Fortress of Freedom

Kathleen Deagan, Darcie MacMahon, and Jane Landers

second edition

Paperback $26.95

Co-published with Florida Humanities

Alive in Their Garden

The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom

Dedé Mirabal

Translated and Edited by Ana E. Martínez and Heather Hennes

Paperback

$35.00

“This is the book I wish I’d had on hand as I was writing In the Time of the Butterflies.”—From the introduction by Julia Alvarez

Dreams and Nightmares

Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America

Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson

Paperback $24.95

“Both concise and informative . . . . Recommended.”—Choice

Havana Hardball

Spring Training, Jackie Robinson, and the Cuban League

César Brioso

Paperback

$24.95

“This book chronicles baseball history at its best, covering an important chapter in U.S.–Cuba social history.”—Library Journal

Seagull One

The Amazing True Story of Brothers to the Rescue

Lily Prellezo in collaboration with José Basulto

Paperback

$26.95

The story of Brothers to the Rescue and the Cuban refugees they flew to safety.

NATURE

NEW

“With this volume of witty and perceptive essays, Andrew Furman adds South Florida to the literary map, joining the lineage of placebased American writers ranging from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Terry Tempest Williams and Wendell Berry.”

—SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS

author of The Way of Imagination

Of Slash Pines and Manatees

A Highly Selective Field Guide to My Suburban Wilderness

Andrew Furman

Paperback $28.00

Co-published with Florida Humanities

Tampa Bay

The Story of an Estuary and Its People

Evan P. Bennett

FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY STETSON KENNEDY AWARD

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, SILVER MEDAL FOR FLORIDA NONFICTION

Paperback $26.95

Florida Springs

From Geography to Politics and Restoration

Christopher F. Meindl

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR FLORIDA NONFICTION

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHERS GLOBE BOOK AWARD

Hardcover $38.00

Forces of Nature

A History of Florida Land Conservation

Clay Henderson

FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY STETSON KENNEDY AWARD

Hardcover $38.00

The Wilder Heart of Florida

More Writers Inspired by Florida Nature

Edited by Jack E. Davis and Leslie K. Poole

Paperback $24.95

The Palmetto Book

Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm

Jono Miller

Paperback $26.95

Dry Tortugas

Stronghold of Nature

Ian Wilson-Navarro

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR VISUAL ARTS

9 1/2 x 9 | 190 color photos | Hardcover $34.95

Co-published with Florida Humanities

Tracing Florida Journeys

Explorers, Travelers, and Landscapes Then and Now

Leslie Kemp Poole

FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHARLTON TEBEAU AWARD

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, BRONZE MEDAL FOR FLORIDA NONFICTION

Paperback $28.00

“This book awakens a sense of wonder. The true provenance of that wonder is natural Florida, elements of which we can appreciate today, as you will appreciate this book.”—Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

Co-published with Florida Humanities

The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles

Mighty Foresters of the Insect World

Jiri Hulcr and Marc Abrahams

Paperback

$26.95

“[A] spirited tour. . . . [Hulcr and Abrahams] do a stellar job of recasting their maligned subjects as being more worthy of study than scorn. Budding entomologists will find lots to appreciate.”—Publishers Weekly

Wild Florida

An Animal Odyssey

Kirsten Hines

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR VISUAL ARTS

FLORIDA AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, SUNSHINE STATE AWARD

NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN, INC., MARJORIE DAVIES ROLLER NONFICTION AWARD

Hardcover $42.00

Manatee Insanity

Inside the War over Florida’s Most Famous Endangered Species

Craig Pittman

Paperback $28.00

Florida Scrub-Jay

Field Notes on a Vanishing Bird

Mark Jerome Walters

FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY STETSON KENNEDY AWARD

Hardcover $24.95

Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida

An Identification Guide and Atlas

Robert H. Robins, Lawrence M. Page, James D. Williams, Zachary S. Randall, and Griffin E. Sheehy

Hardcover $60.00

“An authoritative, incredibly useful, and much needed compendium of the fishes of Florida.” American Currents

All Things Beautiful

Wonders from the Collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History

Florida Museum of Natural History

Text by Heather Dewar | Photographs by Kristen B. Grace

Edited by Beverly Sensbach | Design by Hollis H. Wooley

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR VISUAL ARTS

Hardcover $65.00

Lushly illustrated, this volume is a celebration of the beauty of natural history collections and the work of curators dedicated to understanding and conserving our natural world.

Distributed by University Press of Florida on behalf of the Florida Museum of Natural History

across time through writings from 500 years of history

GARDENING

NEW

“Takes the mystery out of transforming the common urban landscape into a true Florida paradise filled with wildlife activity and native colors and textures.”

—LISA ROBERTS

former executive director, Florida Wildflower Foundation

A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard

Ginny Stibolt and Marjorie Shropshire

Paperback

$21.95

The Nature of Plants

An Introduction to How Plants Work

Craig N. Huegel

CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, BRONZE MEDAL FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

Paperback

$28.00

“[A] superbly well-explained primer.”—Publishers Weekly

Living Shorelines for Florida

A Practical Guide for Building Coastal Resilience

Savanna Barry, Vincent Encomio, Marjorie Shropshire, and Ginny Stibolt

Hardcover

$70.00

“This book is essential for designers, practitioners, and homeowners committed to protecting and restoring Florida’s coastal landscapes.”—Jules Bruck, director of the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Florida

Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida

Ginny Stibolt and Melissa Contreras

second edition

Paperback

$29.95

“This book will help you create a garden that will produce food for yourself and your family, whether you live in Florida or not.”—Nell Newman, president of Newman’s Own Organics

100 Roses for the South Florida Garden

Victor Lazzari

Paperback

$24.95

“This book is full of research, first-hand knowledge, and a bit of humor. It’s a wonderful guide.”—Annee Nelson, Nelson’s Florida Roses

Your Florida Guide to Butterfly Gardening

A Guide for the Deep South

Jaret C. Daniels

second edition

Paperback

$24.95

Florida’s Edible Wild Plants

A Guide to Collecting and Cooking

Peggy Sias Lantz

Paperback

$17.95

“An excellent foraging starter handbook. In a delightful writing style, Lantz merges botany, colorful anecdotes, and simple recipes.”—American Herb Association

On a Rising Swell

Surf Stories from Florida’s Space Coast

Dan Reiter

Paperback $24.95

“Intimate and charged with life . . . Reiter’s conversations with and profiles of Florida surfers capture not just thrilling rides but ways of life and drifts of mind. . . . [A] rousing celebration of surfing Florida’s Space Coast over decades.”

Publishers Weekly, Editor’s Pick

“A surfing classic fit to sit beside John Long’s The Big Drop (1999) and William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days (2015).”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Florida’s Fishing Legends and Pioneers

Doug Kelly

Paperback

$26.95

“For a historical, in-depth look at numerous men and women who helped develop Florida into one of the world’s foremost fishing destinations, Kelly’s book fits the bill.”—Miami Herald

Backpacking Florida

Johnny Molloy

Paperback $24.95

“An excellent book. I’ve been backpacking for 50 years and learned a lot about backpacking the state. Molloy breaks down tips and tricks for having a fun and successful backpacking experience.”—Joe Cuhaj, author of Hiking the Gulf Coast: A Guide to the Area’s Greatest Hiking Adventures

Backcountry Trails of Florida

A Guide to Hiking Florida’s Water Management Districts

Terri Mashour

Paperback $19.95

“A revelation for hikers. Mashour knows the backcountry of Florida like few others.”—Robert Silk, author of An Ecotourist’s Guide to the Everglades and the Florida Keys

Florida Trail Hikes

Top Scenic Destinations on Florida's National Scenic Trail

Sandra Friend and John Keatley

third edition

Paperback $29.95

“The Florida National Scenic Trail is a one-of-a-kind hiking experience. Flat and semitropical, free of snow in the winter months, the trail provides nature’s response to development throughout the state, particularly our coasts: clear springs, thick forests, palmetto hammocks, marshy ponds, and remote lakes. Don’t forget to take Florida Trail Hikes by Sandra Friend and John Keatley when you pack your compass and water.”—Jim Kern, founder of the Florida Trail and the Florida Trail Association

Paddler’s Guide to the Sunshine State

Sandy Huff and Lars Andersen

second edition

Paperback $30.00

“A great all-in-one paddling guide—with everything from the state’s best water trails to nitty-gritty advice about weather, equipment and supplies.”—Lonely Planet Miami & the Keys

Florida’s Paved Bike Trails

Jeff Kunerth and Gretchen Kunerth

third edition

Paperback $26.95

“Whether on bike, foot, in-line skate, or even horse, this trail book can help you find the paths and know what to expect when you get there, and what you might find along the way.”—Tallahassee Democrat

RECREATION OUTDOOR NEW

A deep dive into the lore of a classic surfing destination

COOKING

“A beautiful book of traditional and delicious recipes.”

—GLORIA ESTEFAN

(From the foreword)

Modern Cuban

A Contemporary Approach to Classic Recipes

Ana Quincoces

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, SILVER MEDAL FOR COOKING

60 color photos | Hardcover $35.00

“Modern Cuban is a singular culinary achievement, a cookbook that honors a proud heritage and its traditions while respectfully, carefully, and—above all—creatively taking it into the modern era.”—Robert Irvine, host of Restaurant: Impossible and author of Overcoming Impossible: Learn to Lead, Build a Team, and Catapult Your Business to Success

The Cuban Sandwich A History in Layers

Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, and Jeff Houck

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR COOKING

CREATIVE LOAFING TAMPA BAY BEST OF THE BAY AWARDS, “BEST APPROACH TO PRESSING MATTERS”

Paperback

$24.95

“The book unpacks . . . layers of history like those of the sandwich itself . . . to understand where it came from and how it has evolved. It weaves together research and profiles of artisans who are making the sandwich in different parts of the world today.”—NPR

The Versailles Restaurant Cookbook

Ana Quincoces and Nicole Valls

Hardcover

$32.00

Versailles Restaurant has been at the heart of the Cuban-American community for decades, and this cookbook features some of the most beloved recipes from this Miami institution.

The American Beach Cookbook

Marsha Dean Phelts

Paperback

$21.95

“Phelts’ culinary scrapbook is a delightful slice of Americana.” Publishers Weekly

“Nearly 300 recipes passed down through generations of visitors who frolicked and picnicked at American Beach.”—Tallahassee Democrat

Key Lime Cookin’

Joyce LaFray

Paperback

$8.95

The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook

Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco

anniversary edition

Hardcover

$26.95

In this narrated cookbook, Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco memorialize their passion for the Columbia, the nation’s largest Spanish restaurant and Florida’s oldest restaurant. This special 115th anniversary edition features a touching foreword by Andrea Gonzmart Williams, granddaughter of Adela.

The Florida Vegetarian Cookbook

Dalia Colón

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR COOKING

50 color photos | Hardcover $32.00

“The Florida Vegetarian Cookbook is a great addition to the Sunshine State bookshelf.”

—CHEF ART SMITH

two-time James Beard Foundation Award winner

“Colón makes her recipes seamlessly easy to follow, fun, and delightfully sunny. She’s captured our tastes and flavors.”

Chef Michelle Bernstein, James Beard Foundation Award winner

Good Catch

Recipes and Stories Celebrating the Best of Florida’s Waters

Pam Brandon, Katie Farmand, and Heather McPherson

150 color photos | Hardcover $30.00

Field to Feast

Recipes Celebrating Florida Farmers, Chefs, and Artisans

Pam Brandon, Katie Farmand, and Heather McPherson

155 color photos | Hardcover $28.00

Sallie Ann Robinson’s Kitchen

Food and Family Lore from the Lowcountry

Sallie Ann Robinson

75 color photos | Hardcover $30.00

“Part personal narrative, part culinary and cultural archive, [Robinson’s] newest cookbook . . . documents the variety of dishes passed down through Gullah families for generations.”—Southern Living

Taste the Islands

Culinary Adventures in a Caribbean Kitchen

Hugh Sinclair, Cynthia Verna, and Calibe Thompson

100 color photos | Hardcover $28.00

“[A] flavor-packed collection of zesty island favorites. . . . Will easily appeal to fans of Caribbean cuisine as well as those yearning for island life.” Publishers Weekly

Coconuts and Collards

Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South Von Diaz

FINALIST, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CULINARY PROFESSIONALS COOKBOOK AWARDS, LITERARY OR HISTORICAL FOOD WRITING CATEGORY

61 color photos | Hardcover $28.00

“Diaz shares her deeply personal story of family and food, resulting in one of the best-ever memoirs with recipes.” Food & Wine

THE ARTS

“Elisa Turner paints a vivid portrait of a city transformed by creativity and resilience. She captures the essence of a community that rose from local roots to international acclaim.”

—RICHARD BLANCO

2013 Presidential Inaugural Poet

Former Poet Laureate of Miami Dade County

Miami’s Art Boom

From Local Vision to International Presence

Elisa Turner

Paperback $26.95

Celebrating Florida

Works of Art from the Vickers Collection

Gary R. Libby

9 x 11 | 66 color illus. | Paperback $40.00

The Highwaymen

Florida’s African-American Landscape Painters

Gary Monroe

10 x 8 | 63 color photos | Hardcover $34.95

Cuba

A History in Art

Gary R. Libby with Juan A. Martínez

revised edition

9 x 11 | Hardcover $34.95

William Morgan

Evolution of an Architect

Richard Shieldhouse

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS RICHARD E. RICE GOLD MEDAL FOR VISUAL ARTS

10 x 7 | 134 color illus. | Hardcover $49.95

Picturing Black New Orleans

A Creole Photographer’s View of the Early Twentieth Century

Arthé A. Anthony

7 x 10 | 10 color and 59 b/w photos | Paperback $34.95

Sunset Colonies

A Visual Elegy to South Florida’s Mobile Home Communities

Diego Alejandro Waisman

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, SILVER MEDAL FOR VISUAL ARTS

9 x 9 | 52 color photos | Paperback $34.95

“Waisman’s photographic collection offers a firm and impassioned grip on that frailest of dwellings—the ‘mobile home’ on the shifting South Florida landscape. Consider it a window onto a Miami too often overlooked.”—N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

“A compelling read that inspires and uplifts. Goldberg Haas reminds us that ANY BODY can dance . . . that bodies MUST dance!”

—JODY GOTTFRIED ARNHOLD

founder, Dance Education Laboratory, 92Y

Moving through Life

Essential Lessons of Dance

Naomi Goldberg Haas with Mikhaela Mahony

Paperback

$28.00

Making Caribbean Dance

Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures

Edited by Susanna Sloat

Paperback

$29.95

“An indispensable resource that belongs on the bookshelf . . . of any serious student of Caribbean music, dance, and general culture.”—Dance Chronicle

Dancing the Afrofuture

Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy

Halifu Osumare

Paperback

$35.00

“Osumare gives readers a deeply personal look into her world as a dancer, choreographer, scholar, professor, activist, and all-around powerhouse.” Library Journal

Motion Picture Paradise

A History of Florida’s Film and Television Industry

David Morton

Paperback

$26.95

“Exactly what a localized and geographically specific history should be. . . . A phenomenal history. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice

The First Hollywood

Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking

Shawn C. Bean

FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS, SILVER MEDAL FOR VISUAL ARTS

Paperback

$24.95

“Explores the burst of Florida film production that occurred at the dawn of the cinema, much of it in the Jacksonville area.”—Orlando Magazine

Good Day Sunshine State

How the Beatles Rocked Florida

Bob Kealing

Paperback

$28.00

Co-published with Florida Humanities

“A well-researched book detailing every move the Beatles made in Florida in 1964. . . . Kealing reveals all kinds of inside information.”—Goldmine

Play All Night!

Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East

Bob Beatty

Paperback

$28.00

“This book examines the importance of guitarist Duane Allman as a musician, his leadership of the Allman Brothers band, and the power of the ABB's seminal 1971 album At Fillmore East.”—Vintage Guitar

SPACE NEW

“At every level, Mission has an ‘I was there’ quality about it and is entertaining and insightful.”

—ROGER LAUNIUS

former associate director for collections and curatorial affairs, National Air and Space Museum

Mission

An American Congressman’s Voyage to Space

Bill Nelson with a new preface

Paperback $30.00

In January 1986, US congressman and future NASA leader Bill Nelson flew on the mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia Mission is Nelson’s account of his journey, now available in this paperback edition with a new preface.

Lunar Outfitters

Making the Apollo Space Suit

Bill Ayrey

Paperback

$29.95

“A space suit: a miniature space craft, so well designed for Apollo missions as described in this book. Excellent throughout, so comprehensive, so enjoyable.”—Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut

Picturing Apollo 11

Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments

J. L. Pickering and John Bisney

325 color and 147 b/w photos | Hardcover $45.00

“Pickering and Bisney present a host of never-before-seen photographs of the mission, including images of the three astronauts, the Kennedy Space Center and spectators gathered to watch history being made before their eyes.”—Los Angeles Times

Picturing the Space Shuttle

The Early Years

John Bisney and J. L. Pickering

398 color and 89 b/w photos | Hardcover

$45.00

“Offers a unique view into the early development of the shuttle. . . . The sense of anticipation surrounding the shuttle program . . . is palpable in many of the images.”—CNN

Florida’s Space Coast

The Impact of NASA on the Sunshine State

William Barnaby Faherty, S.J.

Paperback

$26.95

Florida’s Space Coast tells the compelling story of America’s half century in space exploration from the successful launch of the first two-stage rocket in 1950 through the space shuttle missions of 2000.

The History of Human Space Flight

Ted Spitzmiller

MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA AWARDS, GOLD MEDAL FOR HISTORY

Hardcover $39.95

“An ambitious and thorough history, extending back to the earliest risk takers and innovators who laid the groundwork for the astronauts and cosmonauts who would break the bonds of Earth.”—George Leopold, author of Calculated Risk

Ian WilsonNavarro, author of Dry Tortugas (p. 4) Dalia Colón, author of The Florida Vegetarian Cookbook (p. 9)
Kirsten Hines, author of Wild Florida (p. 5)
Anjanette Delgado, editor of Home in Florida (p. 1) Craig Pittman, author of The State You're In and Welcome to Florida (p. 1) Halifu Osumare, author of Dancing the Afrofuture (p. 11)

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