Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P747
ISBN: 9798897360321
Price: $20.00
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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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P728
ISBN: 9780881469912
Price: $30.00
America's first appointed woman missionary kept a journal recording her experiences in a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, religiously pluralistic world. Charlotte Atlee White Rowe's 1815-1822 journal recounts her cross-cultural work among Hindus, Muslims, Eurasians, and Europeans in British India. Most of her entries come from her first years and reveal a ministry being shaped by experience and reflection. An introduction and conclusion sketch her life before and after India. It is a remarkable addition to mission, women's, and Baptist studies.
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Product Code: HH1067
ISBN: 9798897360475
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
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: P724
ISBN: 9780881469844
Price: $25.00
DECEPTIVE SPEED vividly tells the compelling, inspiring story of Eddie Lee Ivery's journey from a tiny ramshackle home with no plumbing, to a prestigious engineering university, to an NFL storied franchise--where he played for the team's venerated former superstar Bart Starr, who struggled to field a winning team as head coach. After two devastating injuries to the same knee, how did Ivery will his way to a 9-year NFL career? How did he become homeless? How did he climb out of his self-destructive drug addiction?
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P632
ISBN: 9780881468069
Price: $28.00
MORE WITNESSES TO THE BAPTIST HERITAGE continues telling the story of the rich and often overlooked diversity of Baptist life. Highlighted in this volume are Obadiah Holmes, Thomas Grantham, Anne Steele, Ann Hasseltine Judson, William Knibb, John Mason Peck, Emily Chubbuck Judson, William J. Simmons, Fannie Exile Scudder Heck, Henry L. Morehouse, Hannah Marie Norris Armstrong, Augustus H. Strong, John Clifford, Virginia Broughton, Leslie Lee Gwaltney, Clarence Leonard Jordan, Joseph Martin Dawson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eric Charles Rust, Prathia Hall, Cora Anne Davis, Addie Davis, William J. Reynolds, and Glen Harold Stassen.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1040
ISBN: 9780881469110
Price: $50.00
Through the intimacy of personal letters, this primary-source exploration of the Civil War era tells the compelling story of the young men and women of a North Georgia farming family of modest means as they seek places in their quiet communities in the 1850s, live the trauma of the Civil War on the battlefield and at home, and for those who survive, strive to regain peace in a changed world and begin life anew. Their writing concerns Baptist camp meetings, courting rituals, war-rousing speeches, dashes across battlefields, Tories on the home front, and night riders of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P674
ISBN: 9780881468991
Price: $28.00
Based on hundreds of handwritten letters during and after WWII, this nonfiction historical romance explores how, with God's help, one couple's love, commitment, faith, and trust was sustained and grew across an ocean of separation.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1054
ISBN: 9780881469691
Price: $45.00
R. William Johnstone examines Wyche Fowler's career in winning election to and serving in the U.S. House and Senate, including his pivotal role in the Nicaragua Contra war and the 1990 budget summit. The Georgian served as a coalition-builder and negotiator, playing important roles in passing such landmark bills as the Social Security Amendments of 1983, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Highlighted are examples of Fowler's well-known storytelling, which has been a major part of his efforts to reach out and bond with others, including constituents and colleagues.
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Product Code: HH1064
ISBN: 9798897360345
Availability: Not currently available. ( Backorder policy)
Price: $25.00
Born into humble circumstances in rural Georgia during the depths of the Great Depression, John Reginald "Reg" Murphy would go on to lead a long life of success, achievement, and acclaim of which most could only dream. Blessed with curiosity, drive, and natural intelligence tempered by common sense and the modesty of a Southern gentleman, during his career Murphy became a noted journalist and media executive, a staunch advocate for progress and civil rights in the South, a successful businessman, and with his wife, Diana, a generous supporter of worthy causes, the latter recognized by a lengthy list of honors and accolades received over the course of a long and productive life.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P675
ISBN: 9780881469004
Price: $26.00
A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Bill Connell began drumming as a teenager, and worked his way through the burgeoning Tuscaloosa music scene. A passing encounter with the brothers Allman in 1966 led to Connell being offered the drummer's chair in The Allman Joys. The day after high school graduation at age seventeen, he found himself headed to New York City's Greenwich Village to join the band.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P645
ISBN: 9780881468465
Price: $25.00
DIARY OF A ROCK AND ROLL TOUR MANAGER chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the day-to-day touring of The Allman Brothers Band from 1970 to 1976, detailing their rise from obscurity to the absolute pinnacle of rock super stardom. Perkins shepherded the band from their lowly beginnings in smoke-filled bars to six figure payoffs before hundreds of thousands of fans in outdoor venues.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1060
ISBN: 9798897360055
Price: $35.00
Known as a Renaissance man, Thomas Jefferson across the span of his life excelled in a variety of fields, from politics to architecture to historical linguistics. Here he is depicted in his domestic role as the father of six White children (two of whom lived to adulthood); the grandfather of twelve White grandchildren; and the father of five Black children by Sally Hemings (four of whom lived to adulthood).
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