Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P618
ISBN: 9780881467789
Price: $18.00
Based on a true story, beautiful, tenacious Annie Laura Brock, an immigrant in the rural South of the late 1880s fights for her dream: a home in America for herself and her young siblings. She is certain that in America, anything is possible for those who work hard and believe.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P696
ISBN: 9780881469301
Price: $35.00
How does psychoanalysis animate racial passing and how does racial passing inspire psychoanalysis? Despite long-held beliefs that the two have nothing in common, Donavan L. Ramon poses that psychoanalysis is relevant for understanding the reasons behind jumping the color line. The monograph concludes with a meditation on today's ineffective language of race, which hinders racial progress.
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Product Code: P757
ISBN: 9798897360505
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $20.00
Thirteen owners rotate through a beach house on Edisto Island, South Carolina, four weeks a year, one week each season. They share a kitchen, a pool, a view of the ocean, and a set of storage lockers that nobody can agree on. John Lane's INTERVAL OWNERSHIP gives each owner a story. The owners come and go, and somebody always leaves the Old Bay seasoning open.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P646
ISBN: 9780881468489
Price: $20.00
At the age of seventy-one, the recluse Amelia finally leaves her home in the North Carolina mountains to find the world grown strange and almost deserted. In her quest to unravel the mysteries of this apocalyptic landscape, she encounters a neighbor turned into an apple tree, children trapped in mica, and her doppelgänger. THE GOSPEL OF ROT is a creative intervention into the Appalachian imaginary, steeped in the Southern gothic. It explores lesser-known, idiosyncratic, and historically taboo subjects: Biblical apocrypha, heterodoxy, mysticism, queerness, Cherokee lore, and the weird and the fantastic. It strives to upend and complicate any static conception of the Appalachian experience
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
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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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1050
ISBN: 9780881460735
Price: $40.00
This collection of essays brings together a range of distinguished and exciting new Thoreau scholars from across the globe who address some of the implications of Thoreau's manifold explorations of the nature of time and their meaning for his world and ours--and show how sustained attention to a writer from our not-so-distant past can help us reimagine our future.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P636
ISBN: 9780881468274
Price: $24.00
Gathered here after decades, scattered individually throughout a dozen published books and many magazines, newspapers, and journals, are essays and poems about paddling and floating rivers all over the Southeast and beyond. Settings range from the Nantahala in North Carolina to the Tiburon in Mexico.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P717
ISBN: 9780881469660
Price: $25.00
From fostering a deep appreciation for other cultures and human experiences to becoming more empathetic, self-assured, generous, open-minded, reflective, adaptable, and analytical, while gaining a deeper understanding of one's identity and culture, studying abroad has left an indelible mark on Mercer University students.
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Product Code: HH1067
ISBN: 9798897360475
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Price: $28.00
STORIES CARRY is a personal memoir about faith, belonging, and the inherited stories that shape us. As the daughter of Chabad emissaries in 1970s Berkeley, California, and now a shlucha (emissary) herself in Atlanta, Georgia, Schusterman, a mother of eight, has spent her life straddling two worlds--deeply rooted in Hasidic tradition while fully engaged in modern society. Through warmth, honesty, and humor, this book extends a hand across perceived divides, welcoming readers into a world that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.
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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: P700
ISBN: 9780881469462
Price: $28.00
Edgar Allan Poe's legacy continues to thrive more than 175 years since his mysterious death. Poe's ubiquitous presence is evident not only in literature but also in film, television, music, visual arts, the tourism industry, and other fields. The essays collected here feature creators who have direct knowledge of his significance for contemporary U.S. culture.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P666
ISBN: 9780881468793
Price: $20.00
These seven river stories, written after the author canoed the Ocmulgee and its tributaries, draw on European American, Native, and African American traditions and relationships with the upper river between the confluence of the Yellow, Alcovy, and South Rivers under Jackson Lake and Macon, Georgia. Set from the 1810s to the present, the stories follow characters as their inherited or adopted perspectives on the river--and their ignorance of it--are altered by their personal experience of the watershed's danger, power, and life.
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