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Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place
By author: Richard Rankin
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P691
ISBN: 9780881469240
Availability: In stock
Price: $20.00
LOCAL SIGNS AND WONDERS is an essay collection describing how attachment to a family homestead creates a sense of wellbeing, fulfillment, and belonging. Richard Rankin lives on family property settled in the mid 1760s and farmed until the 1970s. The Rankin home place sits in a shrinking countryside about twenty miles west of fast-growing Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite rural decline and environmental peril, these essays show how staying on family land benefits personal wholeness, rich relationships with family, neighbors and wildlife, and service to creation.

Above and Beyond: The Mason Family and the Transformation of Gwinnett County
By author: Catherine M. Lewis
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1048
ISBN: 9780881469455
Availability: In stock
Price: $27.00
Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, Georgia, has been one of the fastest growing counties in the nation since the 1980s. ABOVE AND BEYOND tells the story of that growth through one of its most significant families--the Masons.

Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis
By author: William Homestead
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P701
ISBN: 9780881469486
Availability: In stock
Price: $30.00
William Homestead takes readers inside the classroom, where lost students mingle with students who think they are "found." Most are following the dictates of market-model education--interwoven with the cult of consumerism, techno-addictions, and the understandable need to get a job--rather than exploring their inner lives and responding to our collective lostness in an age of climate crisis.

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