By Anne Webster

ISBN: 978-1-933483-17-7

The poems in A History of Nursing combine the professional life of a woman in the healing arts with the other aspects of her life. Just as she can never stop being the child of her parents, an adult woman, or a mother, a life in nursing colors everything she does and feels. When the nurse becomes a critically ill patient, all of those elements fuse, making her understand the impact she, as a nurse, has had on others.

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By Margaret Bennett Walters

ISBN: 978-1-933483-18-4 (Published: Fall 2011)

A. L. Burruss was an extraordinary, compassionate, self-effacing, and personable man. He was the eldest of eleven children and son of a painter and carpenter whose family moved to Smyrna, Georgia in the 1930s. After high school, the Navy trained him as a refrigeration machinist and the imaginative and hard-working Burruss used his skills to start a refrigeration business. Eventually Burruss bought out one of his clients—a partner with Tip Top Poultry in Marietta, Georgia—and helped the company to become immensely successful.

Despite his prosperity, Burruss ran for political office as “a way to help others” and achieved political prominence in Cobb County and the Georgia House doing so. This book, filled with images and stories, celebrates A. L. Burruss: A man who referred to himself as a “simple chicken plucker,” his life, and his 22-year career in public service.

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By Don Russ

ISBN: 978-1-933483-08-5

In Don Russ's collection of poetry, Dream Driving, life is a journey. It has dream-like stages, apparitions, visions, and revelations. The journey itself is in some ways a dream, a sleep-wandering among the labyrinths of the mind, of the imagined world, of even the "real" world. What can we finally know for sure? Do we not at least partly create what we see in the act of seeing it?

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By Linda Anderson

ISBN: 978-1-933483-12-2

This beautifully crafted book celebrates the passion, life, and work of Georgia folk artist Linda Anderson.

Linda Anderson is a visual storyteller whose paintings evoke the realities of her childhood growing up in the rural mountains of North Georgia. Triggered by her memories, her works depict scenes of family celebration, agricultural serenity, working in the fields, and activities of her parents, such as her father making moonshine and her mother's sewing and embroidering. A self-taught artist, Anderson is one of America's foremost memory painters and has been captivating others for nearly three decades as part of a fading breed of folk artist.

By James Kautz

ISBN: 978-1-933483-07-8

In Footprints Across the South: Bartram’s Trail Revisited author James Kautz travels the path of William Bartram, a botanist from Philadelphia who explored the American Southeast in the 1770s. Beginning in Charleston, SC, and ending in Baton Rouge, LA, Kautz compares the conditions at the time of the nation’s founding with the current social and natural environment of today.

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Fulfilling Our Obligation: Perspectives on Teaching Business Ethics
By Sheb L. True, Linda Ferrell, O.C. Ferrell

ISBN: 978-1-933483-01-6
Before the courts began handing down sentences to the miscreants of Enron, WorldCom, and other now-notorious companies, many observers were wondering aloud if the nation’s business schools should share a measure of blame for the crisis that caused a staggering loss of public confidence in corporate America. Fulfilling Our Obligation is a collection of essays that address practical, experience-based insight for those seeking information on ethics in business education.

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By F. Erik Brooks

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Georgia Southern University is a powerhouse in Division I-AA football; with six national titles to its credit, the university’s football program has captured more titles than any other Division I football program in the nation. It should be no shock that this winning tradition was built on the work of several coaches and players and a legacy as deeply rooted and as strong as an old oak tree planted in Sweetheart Circle in the heart of the GSU campus. Although many believe that football began at the school in the 1980s, the history of this illustrious program actually stretches back to the early 1900s. A discussion of Georgia Southern’s football program recalls the names of coaches from the old football era such as Doc Quattlebaum, E.G. Cromartie, and H.A. Woodle. Reminiscing about the Eagles conjures up images of coaches Erk Russell, Tim Stowers, and Paul Johnson each accepting the national championship trophy and notable players such as Tracy Ham, Adrian Peterson, and Jayson Foster. But, aside from the trophies and cheering crowds, little is known about the struggles the football program faced or the constant fight to keep it alive and nurture it into what it is today—a program synonymous with championships and athletic excellence. Guts, Glory, and the Gridiron: A History of Georgia Southern University Football chronicles the guts and glory that built the legendary football program at Georgia Southern University.

Poems by Jim Murphy

ISBN: 978-1-933483-20-7

While some singularity or egotism may be unavoidable in poetry, not every poet chooses, as Jim Murphy does, to temper subjectivity with sensitivity to the world around him. Murphy's choice-or his compulsion-to attend to his community, its geographies and histories, is a gift to all readers: this poetry concerns us as much as anything else. Over the last fifty years, American's most visible poetry has been a poetry of ego and personality, in which the writer's self serves as a primary subject-so much so the most readers seem to expect every poem to be a confession or autobiography. But the poetry of community-of environment, of city, of nation-the poetry of concern has also abided, albeit less visibly, as a counterpoise. Heaven Overland draws from both traditions. As it turns outward, this collection extends the ethical tradition, and as it turns inward, marries the subjective to the receptive, recalling Whitman's work more perfectly. This is to say that this book is important, that its commitments and accomplishments are rare and always to be kept in mind.

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By Eugen Schoenfeld

ISBN: 978-1-933483-11-5

In My Reconstructed Life Eugen Schoenfeld tells the improbable story of his life. Born in a small shtetl in the Carpathian Mountains, Schoenfeld became a professor of Sociology at Georgia State University. The fact that a small boy from this background would become a professor is noteworthy in and of itself. What makes it remarkable, however, is that between one axis of his life—his youth in a small Jewish community in Hungary’s mountains—and the other—his distinguished career at a state university—he endured and survived the Holocaust. Though each life is uniquely valuable, the course of Schoenfeld’s life reminds us of the tremendous intellectual and professional losses perpetrated by the Holocaust.

Foreword by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta,

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By Neil Wilkinson

ISBN: 978-1-933483-23-8

Of the many terms used to describe Ruth and Ruby Crawford: Pioneering, courageous, honest, ambitious, generous, funny, witty, energetic, reverent, spiritual, faithful, altruistic, kind, sweet, and any number of other superlatives, these two extraordinary women thought themselves really pretty ordinary.

They grew up in Temple, Georgia, a small town forty-five miles west of Atlanta. In 1943, Ruth and Ruby moved to Atlanta, which they ultimately called home. Running on Full: The Story of Ruth & Ruby Crawford is an account of their interesting, challenging, and fulfilled lives, told from their unique point of view. These women were not eccentrics, but women of substance, feminists without the rhetoric, pioneers as lawyers in a time when there were few women in the profession, and as bankers, where they were among the first women bank officers in the country in the 1960s.

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