Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P745
ISBN: 9798897360284
Price: $45.00
This collection of essays is a representative sample of the research of Robert K. Faulkner (1934-2023), who taught political philosophy at Boston College for more than four decades. Comprising seventeen studies from every period of Faulkner's long and distinguished career, this volume ranges widely through the history of moral, legal, and political thought, from Aristotle to Machiavelli, Plato to Francis Bacon, Xenophon to John Locke, John Marshall to Alexander Bickel
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Product Code: P750
ISBN: 9798897360383
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Price: $30.00
It did not take long to see that Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" would have an enduring impact on American culture. Instantly ubiquitous, it was widely reprinted, celebrated, criticized, and mocked during the years between its January 29, 1845, publication in New York and Poe's death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849. In QUOTHING "THE RAVEN," Paul Lewis follows America's most famous poem during these years from the literary salons where it was discussed, to the newspapers where it was reviewed, to the twenty-nine parodies that made fun of both the poem and its controversial author.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P723
ISBN: 9780881469837
Price: $22.00
Sam Pickering has spent decades writing about things that go bump in the night and in the day: forgotten books and corn fields, rescue dogs, islands in and out of the stream, flat moments and thoughts gravelly with worry--the miscellaneous common things that compose the well-lived life. His essays are curiosity shops, their pages stocked with observations and anecdotes that startle and awaken.
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Product Code: P502
ISBN: 9780881465211
Price: $24.00
A unique blend of memoir, literary appreciation, and travel narrative, Reading Life is a series of interrelated essays tracking the relationship between books and experience, dramatizing and reflecting on how stories lead us into the world, and how we transform that engagement with the world back into personal narrative.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P689
ISBN: 9780881469202
Price: $24.00
Elizabeth Cox writes about her own experiences, sometimes imprudent, sometimes profound: weeks spent living in a homeless shelter in New York City, a trip to the Mid-East where she visited Yasser Arafat in his compound, an unexpectedly impacting Alaskan adventure, working with abused/neglected children, and the explorations of the mind through reading. Each experience reflected and gave insight into what this author lacked, while deepening a sympathy learned from those around her, always trying to cross that bridge of understanding.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P710
ISBN: 9780881460414
Price: $22.00
Cathryn Hankla's RETURN TO A CERTAIN REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS gathers recent poems with those culled from eleven previous volumes to reveal a mature poet and her journey through more than four decades of subjects, places, selves, and the challenging art of poetry.
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Product Code: HH1066
ISBN: 9798897360598
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Price: $27.00
ROMANCING THE MYSTERY weaves together personal narrative, philosophical inquiry, and theological reflection to explore life's most profound questions: What is the nature of reality? What can we know of God? How should we live? R. Kirby Godsey invites readers into a lifelong journey of thought and belief shaped by family, mentors, and five decades of leadership in higher education. From his grandmother Janie's embodiment of grace on an Alabama farm to his transformative presidency at Mercer University, Godsey traces how lived experience and rigorous thinking have shaped his understanding of our interconnected existence.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P628
ISBN: 9780881467987
Price: $20.00
The essays collected in SAID-SONGS range from the personal to the scholarly and explore the hybrid territory in between, where a creative writer considers literary craft and how it influences the generative imagination. Jesse Graves examines the writings of the people and about the places that have most shaped his own poetry. Every writer's journey is also the journey of a reader and Graves invites us to join his ongoing exploration of books, music, and the literary imagination.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1037
ISBN: 9780881468960
Price: $27.00
Stella Bankwell has suddenly found herself in a "heap of trouble" in the words of her mountain people. Ten years ago, the charming redhead was a sports marketing executive when she married unforeseen trouble, Asher Bankwell, who is descended from old Atlanta money and prestige. After public humiliation in front of Atlanta's snootiest at a black-tie gala, Stella is banished from high society. Simply trying to escape her scandalous embarrassment and an unhappy marriage, she's now facing real trouble.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1046
ISBN: 9780881469363
Price: $26.00
Stella Bankwell and the gang are back, and this time there's a murder. It couldn't have happened in a more beautiful place than the historical Georgia barrier island of Sapelo, where wildlife flourishes and the ocean vistas are both breathtaking and calming.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1002
ISBN: 9780881467802
Price: $20.00
"I hoped to use these letters to make a book, in which they would retain their character as individual utterances, although they would become parts of a larger whole." So writes Clovis Mendling, professor of history at a Southern university, bequeathing his letters as an unfinished project to a friend shortly before he mysteriously disappears. Much is at stake in these letters for Mendling, as they reflect on a personal crisis in which he discovers philosophical, political, musical, and literary significance.
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Product Code: P493
ISBN: 9780881465013
Price: $15.00
Blessed with an innate optimism and a magical childhood, Elisabeth Belle Sterling discovers that the path to happily-ever-after love is not as easily obtained as she had always imagined.
The Camelot-like love she longs for seems like only a dream until she meets the handsome Kincaid Patterson, a West Point graduate who carries a dark secret from his past.
Theirs is a passionate and unconditional love that has to confront a painful past, heart-searing separation, and the greatest of all tragedies. But the biggest obstacle is the loss of faith that threatens to undermine all that they have.
Set in the South during the 1960s and 70s against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, Save My Place is a beautifully written love story of two people who search deep within their souls to save each other.
This book also available in e-book format through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo.
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