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Henry David Thoreau and the Nick of Time: Temporality and Agency in Thoreau’s Era and Ours
Product Code: HH1050
ISBN: 9780881460735
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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.

The Active Soul: Emerson and Thoreau on Reform and Civil Disobedience
Edited by: William Homestead
Product Code: P713
ISBN: 9780881468984
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Price: $20.00
Emerson and Thoreau are worth studying for their response to a burgeoning techno-industrial capitalist world, as well as the intolerable and seemingly intractable institution that fueled it: slavery. Their abolitionist work is the main focus of the essays and speeches in this volume.

As You Go, Remember: Selected Sermons of John Claypool
Edited by: J. Dwayne Howell
Product Code: P718
ISBN: 9780881469684
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In 2022 the symposium, "Glad Reunion: Celebrating the Ministry and Legacy of John R. Claypool," was held at the Cresent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Many attended the event, underlining the effect that the life and preaching of John Claypool still has on people. AS YOU GO, REMEMBER: SELECTED SERMONS OF JOHN CLAYPOOL emerged, in part, out of this symposium.

Wyche Fowler: A Political Life in Georgia, Congress, and Abroad
Product Code: HH1054
ISBN: 9780881469691
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Price: $45.00
R. William Johnstone examines Wyche Fowler's career in winning election to and serving in the U.S. House and Senate, including his pivotal role in the Nicaragua Contra war and the 1990 budget summit. The Georgian served as a coalition-builder and negotiator, playing important roles in passing such landmark bills as the Social Security Amendments of 1983, the Tax Reform Act of 1986, and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. Highlighted are examples of Fowler's well-known storytelling, which has been a major part of his efforts to reach out and bond with others, including constituents and colleagues.

Rough Rice and Sea Island Cotton: The Georgia Coasting Trade, 1800-1861
By author: Charles E. Pearson
Product Code: P719
ISBN: 9780881469615
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Price: $35.00
In the years prior to the Civil War, a small fleet of sailing vessels plied the waters of the southeastern coast between lower South Carolina and northeastern Florida, transporting cargoes between the port of Savannah and the small port towns and plantations of the region. This story of the little studied local coasting trade shows its vital role in the coastal plantation economy and its importance in Southern maritime history.