Author: Sudye Cauthe
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: center, american, places, books, south, place, comforts, rooted, florida, southern
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2007-11-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1930066589
ISBN-13: 9781930066588

"The Florida I love is perishing," says Sudye Cauthen. In Southern Comforts, this fifth-generation Floridian blends memoir, oral history, and cultural geography to explore the tensions between community and environment in America today and her own ambivalence about Alachua, the place just north of Gainesville where she was born and reared. Cauthen raises a cry for all that is lost as Florida’s--and America’s--landscapes and traditions are replaced by interstates, condos, shopping malls, and the new way of life they represent.Part self-reflection, part meditation, and part social an

Authors:Jackson R. Bryer, Alan Margolies, Ruth Prigozy,
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: perspectives, new, fitzgerald, scott
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-01-07
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0820323756
ISBN-13: 9780820323756

Years after his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to captivate both the popular and the critical imagination. This collection of essays presents fresh insights into his writing, discussing neglected texts and approaching familiar works from new perspectives.Seventeen scholarly articles deal not only with Fitzgerald’s novels but with his stories and essays as well, considering such topics as the Roman Catholic background of The Beautiful and Damned and the influence of Mark Twain on Fitzgerald’s work and self-conception. The volume also features four personal essays by Fitzgerald

Author: Sue William Silverma
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: memoir, guide, writer, confessions, fearless
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 082033166X
ISBN-13: 9780820331669

Everyone has a story to tell. Fearless Confessions is a guidebook for people who want to take possession of their lives by putting their experiences down on paper--or in a Web site or e-book. Enhanced with illustrative examples from many different writers as well as writing exercises, this guide helps writers navigate a range of issues from craft to ethics to marketing and will be useful to both beginners and more accomplished writers.The rise of interest in memoir recognizes the power of the genre to move and affect not just individual readers but society at large. Sue William Silverman cover

Author: Gene Logsdo
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: lovers, pond
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0820329541
ISBN-13: 9780820329543

To his legions of readers, Gene Logsdon is best known as the Contrary Farmer. His writings, which blend commonsense advice, curmudgeonly wit, and respect for the earth, are manna to anyone who wants to live, as Logsdon puts it, "at nature’s pace."The Pond Lovers is Logsdon’s ode to the watery microcosms all around us, from the half-acre farm pond to the suburban garden pool. Readers looking for hands-on experience will find plenty of pond-keeping dos and don’ts. Logsdon’s higher purpose, however, is to proclaim the natural, spiritual, and recreational benefits of ponds.

Author: Bernard G. Wei
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: spirit, laws, islamic, law
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0820328278
ISBN-13: 9780820328270

This study focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science elaborates the theoretical and methodological foundations of the law.The Spirit of Islamic Law outlines the prominent features of Muslim juristic thought: espousal of divine sovereignty; a fixation on divine texts; an uncompromisingly intentionalist approach to the interpretation of those texts; a frank acknowledgment of the fallibility of human endeavor to capture divine intent; a toleration of legal diversity

Author: Thomas Conn Brya
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: georgia, confederate
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0820334995
ISBN-13: 9780820334998

Published in 1953, Confederate Georgia describes life in Georgia during the Civil War. T. Conn Bryan presents the political, military, economic, and social aspects of life, including secession, preparations for war, industry and transportation, wartime finance, desertion and disloyalty, women in the conflict, social life and diversions, the press and literary pursuits, education, and religion. Although Georgia’s relations with the Confederate government are fully treated, the main emphasis is on activities within the state. Numerous quotations from letters, diaries, and other source mate

Author: Cynthia Shearer
Publisher: University of Georgia Pre
Keywords: jukebox, celestial
Number of Pages: 431
Published: 2006-03-25
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0820328383
ISBN-13: 9780820328386

Set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, Cynthia Shearer’s The Celestial Jukebox depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism--gambling and other vices. Into this world comes Boubacar, a fifteen-year-old African boy joining friends from Mauritania already living in the area. They are new African blacks not especially noteworthy in a town filled with Chinese emigrants, African Americans within memory of slavery, and straggling members of the original white families of the area. Presiding over Madagascar is Angu