Popular food writer Fred Sauceman searched Southern Appalachia for the tastes that define and sustain the region's people. What he found will delight readers who join him on this journey. This second
This volume traces Sherman's 1864 Atlanta campaign, through its routes and battle sites over a period of 120 days. Included with the descriptions of battles are brief excerpts from personal accounts o
Of all the defense forces raised in Confederate Georgia, the Georgia State Line-two regiments of conscription-age soldiers-stands alone as an organization unique in origin and service. This book, th
Williams presents readers with a collection of case studies that argue for the ability and responsibility of business leaders to use their business skills to solve problems of public policy in their r
While working in the human services and arts communities, Texas-based Brown writes books about Shakespeare's plays. Here he looks at the Bard's 1613 final play, suggesting that it may represent a kind
Looks at the life the sports journalist, who worked for the Nashville Banner for 69 years; became the voice of college football for the nationally renown Saturday Evening Post; and rubbed elbows with
The battle of Resaca, the opening battle of the Atlanta Campaign during the American Civil War, has received minimal attention from scholars and historians even though it had a profound impact on the
This volume brings together the most important elements of the genius of W. E. B. DuBois, Harvard's first African-American graduate and arguably the father of American sociology as well as the premier
Using original documents found in the Georgia Department of Archives and History, two Civil War historians have written not only the first history of the Georgia Militia during the Civil War, but have
William Ross Stilwell was wed to Mary Fletcher Speer (known as Molly) on 8 September 1859 in McDonough, Georgia, in Henry County. William was twenty and Molly was eighteen. Having moved to northwester
Roger Williams (1604-1683) was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and ordained in the Church of England. In 1630, he sailed for North America in search of religious liberty. Finding the same reli
Fresh hams cook slowly for eight hours over hickory wood as smoke drifts through Bullock's Hollow in Northeast Tennessee. It's a smell both ancient and alluring. The technique is as old as cooking its
"Poems of personal memories and images of the season. The poems in Decembers have been written, usually one a year, beginning in 1973 when the author moved from the South to New Wilmington, Pennsylvan
In Thinking Photography, Diane Ass o Griliches draws upon her knowledge as an experienced photographer to give readers an opportunity to learn and enjoy what can be accomplished with a camera. In an a
In 1897, the year Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. was born, the world was poised for a dramatic swing into a century that would see more changes in religion, politics, society, science, technology, and w
Kierkegaard wrote four reflections on his literary production: On My Work as an Author, The Point of View for My Work as an Author, "The Single Individual," and Armed Neutrality, but he published onl
Well-known preacher and literary scholar John Killinger has combined his talents to provide a revolutionary study of the Gospel of Mark. On the basis of textual patterns he discovered in a Gospel long
In introducing his intellectual biography of Maynard Adams (1919-2003), Blackburn (U. of Virginia) remarks: "It is rare to find a major philosopher who was born and reared on a working farm." He trace
Two things this book is not: a guide to handling snakes, and yet another academic account of exotic backwoods practices right here in the heart of the civilization. Morrow is a native Appalachian, pas
This book will appeal to anyone interested in the western theater of the Civil War, soldier life, or Indiana history. Durham's memoir is a well-written and detailed account of his experiences as both
The only survivor of an armed robbery, Burdy Luttrell fights for her life at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, and there's one thing that is keeping Burdy alive—she has to tell
Star-crossed lovers Cade Kincaid and Lyssa Rendel meet as children traveling with a pack train into Creek country. Both are of mixed blood. Ten years later Lyssa manipulates a wedding based on a child
"The ball was round, the equpiment was homemade, and the rules were uncertain, but that game the boys were playing on the lawn at Mercer University in 1892 was football..." Thus begins this colorful h
The Campfire Boys tells a story that's never really been told in fiction before - of Civil War camp entertainers. A book filled with high spirits and hilarity, it is also a book of extremely accurate
Within the tightly knit Cherokee community in the Smoky Mountains, a secret society of Snake Dancers is led by a group of elders who guard an ancient artifact of incredible power, and it is with this
H. Burke Nicholson was a Coca-Cola executive who started with the company as a truck driver in his teens and eventually became chairman of Coca-Cola Europe. In this memoir, he describes his early life
Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans to the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, Georgia: A Brief Histor
William Lawrence Stribling, Jr., known as "Young" Stribling, was born in a small southern Georgia town in 1904. The son of a store clerk and a farmer's daughter, he should have lived out his years in
When Asa Holbrook Staggs stepped into the cold-water spring that would later bear his name, he was drunk. The date was November 18, 1914. He pulled himself from the water, sober, cold and converted to
Alan Freed (a disc jockey who coined the term rock 'n roll) organized the Moondog Coronation ball in Cleveland, Ohio, where it was estimated 20,000 fans crashed the gates and caused the event to be ca
In May 1862, Richard Henry Brooks enlisted in the Confederate Army and served for the duration of the war. This volume contains the letters he wrote to his wife, Telitha, over the course of three year
This book is a must for fans of this movie. There are nearly 1,000 black-and-white photographs covering day-to-day activities of the classic film's making. One literally cannot pick it up without be
Jenkins provides a richly narrated and thorough study of the events that led to the fall of the Confederacy, focusing on the battle at Kennesaw Mountain in June of 1864 to the Battle of Peach Creek, i
The Imitation of Christ has appeared in more editions and in more languages than any other book except the Bible. Samuel Johnson once remarked to Bowell that it "must be a good book, as the world has
Father Mercer tells the story of the life and labors of Jesse Mercer, a leader in Georgia Baptist life during the first half of the nineteenth century. His influence was felt in many areas as he was p
Winner of the 2011 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry The House Began to Pitch is a collection of poems that begins by following the lives of a man and a woman who grow up in the rural South in the fiftie
