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
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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: P633
ISBN: 9780881468076
Price: $35.00
EXCEPTIONALLY COMMON COURAGE provides an extended, close reading of FEAR AND TREMBLING, Kierkegaard's pseudonymous book about Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. It then fits this (in)famous work into the broader and puzzling corpus that includes both other pseudonymous works and signed discourses by this same mercurial author.
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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: HH1009
ISBN: 9780881468045
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.
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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: 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: P703
ISBN: 9780881469523
Price: $30.00
THE THEOLOGY OF PAUL TILLICH examines Tillich's main theological work, the three-volume Systematic Theology, against the background of Tillich's developing theological thought since his studies around 1900.
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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: HH1063
ISBN: 9798897360307
Price: $45.00
First Baptist Church, Waco, Texas, which celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2026, is a moderate congregation of diverse social, economic, educational, and religious backgrounds. This book narrates key themes in the rich history of the church, which has been deeply affected by successive cultural contexts, including slavery, wars, the Depression, the Civil Rights movement, denominational conflicts, and secularization. Organized in 1851, the church has offered weekly worship in central Texas since that time.
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