Win Free Books! Every three months UNC Press will randomly select a winner; all you have to do to enter is send us your name and email address and select the book package you would like to receive.

Hurricane season is upon us. Take a look at our website Hurricanes: Read All About Them! and find out more about our hurricane history with newly available books by Jay Barnes.

Visit the website for our new CD-ROM, Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina and learn about this valuable scholarly reference and dynamic teaching tool.

Come and visit a virtual exhibit of the UNC Press and its books, curated by the Wilson Library at UNC-CH in honor of 75 years of publishing excellence.

Georgia Bonesteel, creator and host of "Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel," has a new book available from UNC Press.

In September 1997, on the centennial of his birth, UNC Press will publish a major new intellectual biography of William Faulkner.

Find out more about the George Moses Horton, the black bard of North Carolina, and his poetry.

For those who care for children, adolescents, and adults with spina bifida, here is a comprehensive new book.

Look at the Woodwright's Website, featuring Roy Underhill.

Try out your knowledge of hurricanes with the online hurricane quiz!

Take the online quiz and Test Your Southern I.Q.

Hello and welcome to the University of North Carolina Press Online. Our home page has been designed to guide you to useful and interesting information about the books and journals published by UNC Press and about the Press itself.

By selecting About UNC Press you can retrieve vital statistics like phone numbers and addresses; read guidelines on submitting a maunscript; get an updated staff listing with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses; and read a brief but informative history of UNC Press, which celebrates its 75th anniversary in 1997.

A new section called Featured Books highlights special home pages for some specific books.

Our electronic projects, including the Internet Poetry Archive, North Carolina Bookshelf, and the Excavating Occaneechi Town CD-ROM, are accessible from Electronic Publications. We welcome your comments about these projects.

If you are in search of a specific book or author or books in a particular field, choose Books & Journals to take you to our complete online catalog of books in print. You will be able to search by author, title, or ISBN. You will also find a listing of the journals published by UNC Press, recent seasonal catalogs, the latest subject brochures, advance book information, and a copy of our Southern Bookshelf of regional books.

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