Product Code: P741
ISBN: 9798897360239
Price: $28.00
In his 1771 letter to Robert Skipwith, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "a lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear than by all the dry volumes of ethics and divinity that ever were written." It is in this spirit that the Thomas C. and Romona E. McDonald Center at Mercer University collected these twelve essays based on papers presented at the 2024 A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, the theme of which was Shakespeare's Politics.
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Product Code: P734
ISBN: 9798897360093
Price: $22.00
Sixteen-year-old Leontyne Skye yearns to escape Good Hope, the remote Georgia coastal barrier island where she resides. Leontyne's heritage is bleak. Leontyne soon realizes her birthright extends beyond the business of making Redemption, while the acceptance of her destiny as the Great Redeemer threatens her very existence. Her refusal: irrevocably shattering the fragile balance between the living and the dead.
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Product Code: P738
ISBN: 9798897360154
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Price: $20.00
Weaving essay, memoir, and natural history with biography, STARS AT NOON delivers a meditation on art and beauty, themes that have informed the author's visual artmaking for more than thirty years, and a paean to time and silence and what is found, and lost, in both.
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Product Code: HH1062
ISBN: 9798897360185
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Price: $32.00
THE BIOGRAPHER'S QUEST, based on fifty years of experience, explains how life-writers do archival research, find new sources, and experience the thrill of constant discoveries; it also discusses how to conduct interviews by establishing confidence, asking the right questions, and persuading people to reveal what they know. Meyers describes how to create a chronology, interpret often conflicting written and spoken evidence, organize material into a meaningful pattern, and show how the author's life illuminates his work.
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Product Code: P746
ISBN: 9798897360291
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Price: $35.00
In 2025, the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) reported that it was a fellowship of 266 Baptist conventions and unions from 134 countries and territories across the globe. These diverse Baptist groups included 51 million baptized believers in 176,000 churches. Readers may draw both inspiration and caution from the stories of the individuals who have led the BWA, lessons of history to better understand the past and shape the future.
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Product Code: P747
ISBN: 9798897360321
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The stories of W. Douglas Skelton's life are a testament to the power of hard work, thoughtfulness, and service. A physician, educator, and public health visionary, Skelton shaped institutions and inspired generations not through grand gestures but through steadfast commitment and quiet authority. This book traces his journey from early involvement in health and medicine to transformative leadership roles, including his tenure as director of the Georgia Department of Human Resources and dean of the Mercer University School of Medicine.
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Edited and translated by: Jarrett A. Carty
Product Code: P740
ISBN: 9798897360215
Price: $20.00
THE WORLD was one of the most ambitious treatises that René Descartes ever undertook; it was also brilliantly original, influential, and controversial. This new translation restores the text as a key part of Descartes's legacy. It includes a helpful introduction, a summary of the translated text, a chronology, a recommended bibliography, and two translated excerpts of the sister treatise to THE WORLD, the TREATISE ON MAN.
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Product Code: P744
ISBN: 9798897360277
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Price: $35.00
A great amount of ink has been spilled attempting to understand and make sense of Henry David Thoreau. Some people dismiss Thoreau as a mere Romantic nature poet or writer of travel narratives. The purpose of the essays in this anthology is to explore the multifaceted ways in which Thoreau's thought could be considered philosophical. He wanted to create a distinctive American identity that sought to venerate nature by trying to overcome our anthropocentric bias and place the value of wild spaces before the utilitarian needs of human civilization.
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Product Code: P733
ISBN: 9798897360079
Price: $20.00
This is the story of Everett Moon, a white man who returns to his hometown in north Georgia after a teaching career at a historically black college, which has dismissed him for cause after almost thirty years. This is a story of a solitary and troubled man, now unwell and living out his last days, who searches in a somewhat haphazard way for perspective and understanding, and for forgiveness.
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