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Waveform - Twenty-First-Century Essays By Women

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 Waveform champions the diversity of womenâ€™s approaches to the structure ofthe essayâ€"today a site of invention and innovation, with experiments in col-lage, fragments, segmentation, braids, triptychs, and diptychs.
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Joseph Story And The Comity Of Errors - A Case Study In Conflict Of Laws

by Alan Watson

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 Joseph Story and the Comity of Errors examines the decisions of Supreme Court justice and Harvard law professor Joseph Story (1779â€"1845).
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Walker Percy'S Search For Community

by John F. Desmond

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 In the first undertaking of its kind in Percy criticism, John F. Desmond tracesâ€"through Walker Percy's six published novelsâ€"the writer's central and enduring concerns with community. These concerns, Desmond argues, were grounded in the realism of such Scholastics as Aquinas and Duns Scotus.
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Passions For Nature - Nineteenth-Century America'S Aesthetics Of Alienation

by Rochelle L. Johnson

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 By uncovering the roots of a cultural alienation from nature, Passions for Nature explains how the United States came to be a nation that simultaneously reveres the natural world and yet remains dangerously distant from it.
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Legal Transplants - An Approach To Comparative Law

by Alan Watson

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 One of the world's foremost authorities on legal history and comparative law puts forth a clear and concise statement of his controversial thesis: that the laws of one society are primarily borrowed from other societies; therefore, most law operates in a society very different from the one for which it was originally created.
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Jesus Of Nazareth: What He Wanted, Who H - What He Wanted, Who He Was

by Gerhard Lohfink

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Preaching Of Pope Francis: Missionary Di - Missionary Discipleship And The Ministry Of The Word

by Gregory Heille

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Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways - Travels In Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-Creole Authority

by Dr. Keith Cartwright

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 Drawing from Haitian and New Orleanian Vodou, Cuban and South Floridian Santeria, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounter with otherness, Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways places deep southern texts within the context of Afro-Atlantic modernity.
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Life On The Brink - Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation

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 A robust discussion of population issues among environmentalists, environmental studies scholars, policymakers, and the general public. Population growth is a major force behind many of our most serious ecological problems, including global climate change, habitat loss and species extinctions, air and water pollution, and food and water scarcity.
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Reading For The Body - The Recalcitrant Materiality Of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985

by Jay Watson

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 Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. South itself, ultimately happen.
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Righteous Violence - Revolution, Slavery, And The American Renaissance

by Larry J. Reynolds

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 Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writersâ€"Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
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Southern Civil Religions - Imagining The Good Society In The Post-Reconstruction Era

by Arthur Remillard

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 In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy. The civil religious perspectives of everyone else, meanwhile, have gone unnoticed. Arthur Remillard attempts to fill this void by focusing on the Wiregrass Gulf South region.
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Reconstructing The Native South - American Indian Literature And The Lost Cause

by Melanie Benson Taylor

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 In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South. In so doing Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S. South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity.
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Jim Crow, Literature, And The Legacy Of Sutton E. Griggs

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 This work examines the wide scope of Griggsâ€™s influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggsâ€™s five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers.
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The Prestige Of Violence - American Fiction, 1962-2007

by Sally Bachner

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 Bachner demonstrates how many of the most influential novels of the 1960s are united by the dramatic opposition they draw between a debased and untrustworthy conventional language, on the one hand, and a violence that appears to be prelinguistic and unquestionable, on the other.
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Atlanta And Environs - A Chronicle Of Its People And Events, 1940s-1970s

by Harold H. Martin

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 Atlanta and Environs is an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the Southâ€™s most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in more recent decades.
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Atlanta And Environs - A Chronicle Of Its People And Events, 1880s-1930s

by Franklin M. Garrett

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 Atlanta and Environs is an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volume II details Atlantaâ€™s development from 1880 through the 1930sâ€"including occurrences of such diversity as the development of the Coca-Cola Company and the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind.
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Atlanta And Environs - A Chronicle Of Its People And Events, 1820s-1870s

by Franklin M. Garrett

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 Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volume I covers the history of Atlanta and its people up to 1880â€"ranging from the cityâ€™s founding as â€œTerminusâ€ through its Civil War destruction and subsequent phoenixlike rebirth.
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Reconstructing The Native South - American Indian Literature And The Lost Cause

by Melanie Benson Taylor

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 In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South. In so doing Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S. South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity.
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An Education In Georgia - Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, And The Integration Of The University Of Georgia

by Calvin Trillin

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 In January 1961, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia. Trillin offers a sharply detailed portrait of how these two young people faced coldness, hostility, and occasional understanding on a southern campus in the midst of a great social change.
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The Making Of A Southerner

by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin

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 Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin was born into a prominent Georgia family and raised in a southern society intent on preserving the economic and racial status quo. Working with the poor in the sand hills of South Carolina, she questioned those values and through her compassion, adopted a more liberal outlook.
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African Americans In The South - Issues Of Race, Class, And Gender

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 Comprising nine papers and related commentary, this volume reflects a commitment by American anthropologists to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences.
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The Nature Of Copyright - A Law Of Users' Rights

by L. Ray Patterson e Stanley W. Lindberg

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 In The Nature of Copyright L. Ray Patterson and Stanley W. Lindberg present an extended analysis of the fair-use doctrine and articulate a new concept that they demonstrate is implicit in copyright law: the rule of personal use.
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Grounded Globalism - How The U.S. South Embraces The World

by James L. Peacock

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 Anthropologist James L. Peacock looks at the South of both the present and the past to develop the idea of "grounded globalism," in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways.
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