Explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky, and coon hunting all over, to the noodling for flatheads of the title. This book is also a celebration of the survival of local folk culture in the era of the global triumph of Nike, Barbie and Coca Cola.

Product Description: Burkhard Bilger vividly captures a world that lies outside the familiar images of life in the United States in the twenty-first century in eight superbly crafted essays about little-known corners of the South. It is a world in which grown men catch catfish with their bare hands, crowds of people cheer on chickens as they fight to the death, and a woman moves into a trailer home when her house burns down just so she can continue hunting 350 nights a year...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Eight essays explore the history and practices of the old South, offering tales of moonshining, cockfighting, catfish fishing, and guitar picking.

The first in a new annual anthology of the finest science writing to be published in 1999 features such works as Richard Preston's 'The Demon in the Freezer,' John McPhee's 'Farewell to the Nineteenth Century,' 'Brilliant Light' by Oliver Sacks, and other essays by Wendell Berry, Anne Fadiman, David Guterson, Peter Matthiessen, and other notable authors. Simultaneous. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Examines the phenomenon of global warming, discussing the greenhouse effect in its positive, life-giving configuration, and again as this mechanism is knocked out of balance by increased levels of carbon gases

Examines the phenomenon of global warming, discussing the greenhouse effect in its positive, life-giving configuration, and again as this mechanism is knocked out of balance by increased levels of carbon gases