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In a career spanning nearly sixty years, Ruth Shellhorn (1909-2006) helped shape Southern California's iconic modernist aesthetic. This is the first full-length treatment of Shellhorn, who created close to four hundred landscape designs, collaborated with some of the region's most celebrated architects, and left her mark on awide array of places.

Reading On the Outskirts of Normal at times feels like driving through an unwieldy thunderstorm at night on the unlit country roads that snake their way to Debra Monroe's house in the woods; readers will feel her exhaustion but will be buoyed by her ever-present faith and fiery love.

Deeply moving and exquisitely written, Invisible Sisters is an extraordinary story of coming of age as the odd one out - as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to the South to participate in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, as the healthy sister among sick, and eventually, as the only sister left standing.

Illustrated throughout with color photographs and packed with 250 life-is-not-perfect recipes, Comfortable Entertaining is as friendly, inspiring, and down-to-earth as a cookbook can get.

In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption.

Seventeen essays, by both established and rising scholars, that showcase new directions in southern legal history across a wide range of topics, time periods, and locales. Taken together, the essays show us that understanding how law changes over time is essential to understanding the history of the South.

Explores the ways in which Appalachia served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew Swanson builds on recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region long considered a homogenous backwater.

A gripping account of natural disaster and turbulent social change in a city known as the cradle of secession. Weaving together the emotionally charged stories of Confederate veterans and former slaves, Williams and Hoffius portray a South where whites and blacks struggle to determine how they will coexist.

Founded at the University of Georgia in 1947 and published there ever since, The Georgia Review has become one of America's most highly regarded journals of arts and letters. The stories collected here-each one vivid, distinctive, and worthwhile-attest to the Review's decades of work to promote writing of exceptional quality.

Today, Atlanta's oldest public cemetery remains a must-see destination for anyone interested in the city's colorful story. With Ren and Helen Davis's engaging narrative, rich photography, archival images, and detailed maps, Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery is a versatile guide for touring the cemetery's landscape of remembrance.

This collection pushes a recollected past to an extreme, replacing memory with myth and lacing narratives of disfigurement, accident, wildness, and murder with a strange enchantment. Childhood here is no idyll, but rather the dreamlike entryway to the desires, doubts, and dismay of adulthood.

In his second collection, Casteen moves inward from the physical labor and vernacular culture that shaped his first book, Free Union, yet continues to focus on landscape and human relationships. These poems dwell in the music of language, the hard truths of those who are no longer young, and the pleasures of the reflective life.

With an attention to historical detail that brings the past powerfully to the present, Philip Lee Williams's novel reveals a journey of redemption from the Civil War's fields of fire to the slow steps of old age. Winner of the 2004 Michael Shaara Prize for the best Civil War novel.

Offers an overview of the role religion has played in Georgia's history, from precolonial days onwards. This work shows that colonial Georgia was a remarkably diverse place, populated by mainline colonial congregations that included Anglicans, Roman Catholics, German - and Spanish -speaking Jews, Salzburg Lutherans, and Scottish Presbyterians.

John Lane settled down in Spartanburg. He built a sustainable home in the woods near Lawson's Fork Creek. After settling in, Lane pinpointed his location on a topographical map. Centering a saucer over his home, he traced a circle 1 mile in radius and set out to explore the area. This book chronicles his knowledge of that place.

One of the rarest country songbooks, it contains 222 pieces, mostly folktune settings, dating from the time between the Revolution and the Civil War. This facsimile reprinting has appendices useful for the study of its sources and an introduction that throws light on the men who wrote for nineteenth-century American songsters.

Reformer Lily Hardy Hammond (1859-1925), who was in her time the South's most prolific female writer on the "race question," has been marginalized. This volume reprints In Black and White, the most important of Hammond's ten books, along with a sampling of the dozens of articles she published.

Using Florida as a case study, Down to the Waterline is an analysis of the boundary separating public waters from private uplands - the ordinary high water line (OWHL), its doctrine and its legal, technical, and cultural underpinnings. It covers the historical function, scientific advances and environmental attitudes.

These private writings by a prominent white southern lawyer offer insight into his state's embrace of massive white resistance following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. They offer an insider's view of Virginia's shift toward extremism in defiance of school desegregation.

The absorbing vintage photographs brought together in Vanishing Georgia recall life in the state from halfway through the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Pictured here are both great events and commonplace occurrences that offer a revealing look at Georgia history and culture.

This text juxtaposes the traditional image of Emerson the trancendentalist with the image of Emerson the reformer. It highlights the dilemma between his philosophical attraction to solitary contemplation and the demands of activism compelled by his own writings.

This guide is designed to enable readers to quickly and confidently identify any of the trees of the southeastern USA. It treats more than 300 species and features identification keys, common and scientific names, distribution maps, and a glossary of terms.

Multiculturalism in the South is more black than white, as these essays aim to show. They examine the often overlooked histories of various immigrants who settled in the South, their relations with each other, and their enormous impact on the region.

This biography presents an account of the political and social causes of Ann Yearsley's exclusion from the annals of literature. It argues that Yearsley has been misrepresented and misunderstood, by being celebrated for the qualities attributed to her by earlier critics.

The people in these eight interlaced stories are "bound together by the worst sort of grief", the kind that can devour you after someone close takes his or her own life. But if suicide has stolen these characters capacity to laugh, it has honed their sense of absurdity.

Originally published in 1969, the documentary evidence of poverty and malnutrition in the American South showcased in Still Hungry in America still resonates today. Robert Coles's powerful narrative, reinforced by heartbreaking interviews with impoverished people and accompanied by 101 photographs convey the plight of the millions of hungry citizens in the most affluent nation on earth.

This memoir distinguishes itself from others in its ""graphic"" elements - the appropriated diagrams, instructions, and ""exploded view"" inventory images - that Parsons has used. They help guide the reader's understanding of the piece, giving them a visual anchor for the story,and add a technical aspect to the lyric essays that they hold.

Most livestock in the United States currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents alternatives.

Drawing on the context in which the symbolic protection of the white female body is symbolically linked with guarding the US southern body politic, Harriet Pollack traces a pattern in Eudora Welty's fiction in which a sheltered middle-class daughter is disturbed or delighted by an other-class woman who takes pleasure in "making a spectacle" of her corporeal self.

Oysters are a narrative food: in each shuck and slurp, an eater tastes the place where the animal was raised. But that's just the beginning. Andre Joseph Gallant uses the bivalve as a jumping of point to tell the story of a changing southeastern coast, the bounty within its waters, and what the future may hold for the area and its fishers.