Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P596
ISBN: 9780881467307
Price: $20.00
WHILE THERE WERE STILL WILD BIRDS is a personal history of Southern quail hunting as it was lived at three different South Carolina quail hunting clubs and by related dog trainers, hunting guides, and hunters. The author’s father, Richard E. Rankin, Sr., belonged to the first hunting club in Kline, South Carolina, and was a founding partner in the second hunting club, the Quail Roost Hunt Club, outside Manning, South Carolina. The third club featured was the Foreston Hunt Club, an adjoining neighbor of the Quail Roost Hunt Club. As both a family member, hunt club partner, and historian, Richard E. Rankin, Jr. tells this story as both a participant and as an objective observer.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1018
ISBN: 9780881468236
Price: $60.00
Middletown Baptist Church in Monmouth County ("Old First Church" since 1963) is the oldest Baptist congregation in New Jersey and one of the constituting churches of the Philadelphia Baptist Association in 1707. Church meeting minutes, membership rolls, congregational correspondence, and personal letters cover the period 1712 to 1811. The earliest years after the church's founding in 1688 are largely unknown due to discord and subsequent excision of records. Records for the years 1741 to 1785 are incomplete, but transcribed entries from "Elder Mott's Journal" provide a first-hand account of the church's life during that period.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1051
ISBN: 9780881469608
Price: $45.00
Joshua Hill served in the United States House of Representatives prior to the Civil War and strongly opposed secession. During the War he ran for governor as the so-called peace candidate and later met with William T. Sherman in peace negotiations that failed. In November 1864 when the March to the Sea reached his hometown, Hill interceded with the Union command and earned his legendary, if sometimes exaggerated, title as the man who saved Madison, the village "too pretty to burn." Bradley R. Rice's meticulous research has produced a long overdue account of the life and times of the man who was, as his gravestone reads, "a staunch southern friend of the Union."
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P678
ISBN: 9780881469066
Price: $20.00
Through the redemptive power of words, OLD GODS confronts personal battles of addiction, autism, heartbreak, otherness, anxiety, and escapism through journey poems.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P701
ISBN: 9780881469486
Price: $30.00
William Homestead takes readers inside the classroom, where lost students mingle with students who think they are "found." Most are following the dictates of market-model education--interwoven with the cult of consumerism, techno-addictions, and the understandable need to get a job--rather than exploring their inner lives and responding to our collective lostness in an age of climate crisis.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P668
ISBN: 9780881468878
Price: $35.00
Mercer University School of Law's "Inside the Legal Profession" series, a required part of the Mercer curriculum, consists of hour-long interviews with distinguished members of the bench and bar, with the entire first-year class in attendance. Presented here is a collection of eleven of the most memorable interviews in the series.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P737
ISBN: 9798897360147
Price: $20.00
This book is not what you think it is. Or rather, it is more than you think it is. Here you will find stories not just about living on a small farm in the Georgia Piedmont but about life on that small farm. This is a book about attention. It is a book about communion.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P743
ISBN: 9798897360260
Price: $27.00
Flannery O’Connor's WISE BLOOD is a text full of rich symbolism, a metaphoric landscape which is best understood using an integration of literary and depth psychological hermeneutics. Applying an anagogical framework to the novel, an interpretive approach meant to reveal spiritual meaning, makes it possible to see through the world of O'Connor's Taulkinham, the fictional setting for the novel, to that of the biblical.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P607
ISBN: 9780881467925
Price: $16.00
A beloved American classic, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE is reprinted by Mercer University Press with a new introduction by Scott C. Williamson, who presents the fugitive Douglass in 1845, seated at his desk in Lynn, Massachusetts and standing at the crossroads of the American ideal of liberty and the waking nightmare of American slavery.
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Product Code: P749
ISBN: 9798897360369
Price: $22.00
In this era of unprecedented division and distraction, we've lost the ability to recognize the goodness all around us. But it doesn't have to be that way. From the acclaimed author of THE CRACKER QUEEN comes a cheeky spiritual memoir with an audacious message of hope. In this collection of stories, Hannon shows that joy can arise from the deepest abyss; that everyone is designed with purpose and hardwired for restoration; and that love and peace are entirely warranted and possible. This is because grace abounds where we often miss it: in the grittiness of life.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P697
ISBN: 9780881469394
Price: $16.00
Join Mercer University's mascot, Toby, on a fun-filled tour around campus, stopping at all his favorite places on the way to the big game. This illustrated journey is sure to become a keepsake for generations of Mercerians to come.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P648
ISBN: 9780881468540
Price: $17.00
WHERE YOU COME FROM IS GONE examines the economic and racial violence of rural America, where whiteness is a fraught and often dysfunctional identity. It is a poetic attempt at a "blues line" or a bluegrass "breakdown" to embody a lush, dangerous, and often damaged American landscape as well as the resilience of the human spirit in the face of blunt labor and white supremacy.
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