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Parva Naturalia: with On the Motion of Animals
By author: Aristotle   Translated by: David Bolotin
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P622
ISBN: 9780881467840
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Price: $20.00
The title PARVA NATURALIA goes back to the Latin Middle Ages, and though the traditional grouping doesn't include the treatise ON THE MOTION OF ANIMALS, it is included here, since there is strong manuscript evidence, as well as solid substantive reasons, that it ought to be included. For those who wish to study the PARVA NATURALIA with care, it offers access that has hitherto been unavailable in English to the precise meaning of Aristotle's text.

The Birth of a New South: Sherman, Grady, and the Making of Atlanta
By author: E. Culpepper Clark
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1005
ISBN: 9780881467888
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Price: $35.00
Atlanta, Georgia, is the New South city. No two names are more associated with its emergence than William Tecumseh Sherman and Henry W. Grady: Sherman the destroyer and Grady the New South's principal architect. Henry Grady advocated for a more urban South but had a vision for improved farm life as well.

Baptists, Gospel, and Culture: Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Baptist Studies
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P625
ISBN: 9780881467895
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Price: $40.00
Baptists historically have shared common beliefs, including believer's baptism, congregational governance, and separation of church and state. This book addresses the question of why Baptists differ in various parts of the world. A central component of the answer lies in part in the variety of cultures where Baptists have planted churches. In order to document the diversities, this study has intentionally sought contributions from Baptist scholars across the world, including Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and eastern Europe as well as from western Europe and North America where Baptist presence is more common.

A White Liberal College President in the Jim Crow South: Guy Herbert Wells and the YWCA at Georgia State College for Women, 1934-1953
By author: Sandra E. Godwin   With: Helen Matthews Lewis
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1006
ISBN: 9780881467901
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Price: $35.00
Guy Herbert Wells, president of Georgia State College for (white) Women, learned to manage the tension between holding true to his own values, which more closely resembled those of students in the YWCA, while working for a state system that upheld white supremacy. A 1935 YWCA interracial event became the catalyst for his first lesson on how to manage this tension.

Something in the Water: A History of Music in Macon, Georgia, 1823-1980
By author: Ben Wynne
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1008
ISBN: 9780881468021
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Price: $35.00
The history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city's musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. For generations, talented musicians have been born in or passed through Macon's confines. Some lived and died in obscurity, while others achieved international stardom. From its pioneer origins to the modern era, the city has produced waves of talent with amazing consistency, representing a wide range of musical genres including country, classical, jazz, blues, big band, soul, and rock.

Reckless Misfortune: The Century We Inherited from the First World War
By author: Christopher Blake
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1009
ISBN: 9780881468045
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Price: $30.00
The First World War, or the Great War as known at the time, was fought over a century ago. Its pursuit by the European powers in 1914 was utterly reckless and its ending was of great consequential misfortune for humanity. Despite its enormity and global reach, four generations later it is neglected today in the United States.

Rightful Liberty: Slavery, Morality, and Thomas Jefferson's World
By author: Arthur Scherr
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1010
ISBN: 9780881468052
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Price: $39.00
At a time when speculations about Jefferson's personal and sexual life, often based on little evidence, prevail in monographs and the media, this volume examines him from a more wide-ranging perspective, discerning his moral, political, and religious thought in relation to his actions, particularly respecting human enslavement.

Dante's Golden Legend: Auto-hagiography in the Divine Comedy
By author: Mary Alexandra Watt
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1011
ISBN: 9780881468083
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Price: $35.00
DANTE'S GOLDEN LEGEND examines how the DIVINE COMEDY absorbs and reimagines Dante's early attempts at life-writing, as well as how Dante appropriates and revises various biographical and hagiographical models, using them as vehicles for his own auto-hagiographical project. The COMEDY, Watt contends, presents not only Dante's encyclopedic vision of sacred history but also his own purpose and place within that history.

The Technological University Reimagined: Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994-2008
By author: G. Wayne Clough
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1014
ISBN: 9780881468120
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Price: $29.00
In 1994 Georgia Tech was a good regional technological university, but the outgoing president left under a cloud of problems with financial systems, federal audits, deferred maintenance, threats to accreditation, and the looming commitment to serve as the Olympic Village for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. As the first alumnus of Georgia Tech to serve as president, G. Wayne Clough was determined to find the means to solve these problems and save the reputation of the university. Believing Georgia Tech had enormous untapped potential, Clough set out to use his experience at four comprehensive universities to change the course of the university for the future. It would come down to a set of key decisions, gaining support for them, and executing with persistence. When it was all said and done, Georgia Tech would be ranked among the top ten public universities in the country and among the top thirty in the world.

More Witnesses to the Baptist Heritage: Twenty-Four More Baptists Every Christian Should Know
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P632
ISBN: 9780881468069
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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.

The Significant Lawyer: The Pursuit of Purpose and Professionalism
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1016
ISBN: 9780881468205
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Price: $27.00
With more than forty years in practice, including fourteen years on the federal bench, and informed by hundreds of conversations with other lawyers, Judge Duffey has cultivated a deep interest in the culture and challenges within the legal profession. THE SIGNIFICANT LAWYER is the product of his experiences and conversations.

Like a Great Feudal Landlord: How Architecture and Slavery Created the World of the Upcountry Planter
Publisher: Mercer Universtiy Press
Product Code: HH1017
ISBN: 9780881468229
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Price: $40.00
Greek Revival architecture had a particular appeal to many Upcountry planters as it represented a renewal of the ideals embodied by the ancient Greeks, who firmly adhered to a division of society as well as the need for and use of slavery. With the prosperity generated from cotton, the Upcountry planters from Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina saw in their Greek Revival plantation house a lasting legacy to their power and societal status.