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The Georgia Capitol is a place where legislators have debated, governors have proclaimed, and courts have ruled. This is the history of the Georgia Capitol which not only pays tribute to a grand old edifice but also recounts the history that was made within and without its walls.

In the essays collected in Judgement and Grace in Dixie, Charles Reagan Wilson makes a lively appraisal of religion's influence on such expressions of regional life as literature, music, and folk art, as well as on such public spectacles as football games and beauty pageants. Wilson's focus is on popular religion - evangelical Protestantism as embraced at the grassroots level, where distinctions between the sacred and secular are blurred and b...

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The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes new forms of garden experience. Using a variety of critical perspectives, the authors demonstrate a renewal of garden design and new directions for garden aesthetics, analyzing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johans...

Essays in this volume deal with the historical, linguistic, and ideological legacy of the Spanish Empire and its language in the New World.

Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.

Explores romantic relationships between teenage boys as they were portrayed before, during, and immediately after World War II. This work takes the reader through a landscape of media - sci fi pulps, comics, adventure stories, tales of teen sleuths, boys' serial novels, wartime bestsellers, and movies populated by many types of male adolescents.

Essays in this volume deal with the historical, linguistic, and ideological legacy of the Spanish Empire and its language in the New World.

Anyone who wants to understand what militant Muslims think has to understand what they read-and they read Sayyid Qutb, the intellectual father of Islamic fundamentalism. Qutb, an Egyptian literary critic and philosopher who was appalled by American decadence, gained prominence in the Muslim Brotherhood, was imprisoned by Nasser, and hanged in 1966. Through his death and prolific writings he became a martyr for the cause of political Islam. His...

Examines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. This book proves that - in America - advertising, publicity, and the development of the modern economy cannot be understood apart from the question of race.

Essays that explore how comic books inspire film and create new realms of visual art

Essays that explore how comic books inspire film and create new realms of visual art

The literacy landscape of the rural South is peppered with great storytellers, but few are as endearing as James Aloysius ?Buster? Holcombe, Jr., observant narrator of the new novel by best-selling author Ferrol Sams. Buster Holcombe begins his tale immediately after the Civil War, as the patriarchs of his small Georgia town sow seeds that will sprout for more than a century. Generation after generation, we are introduced to the men and women ...

Examines British literary representations of Latin America from the 16th through the 20th centuries, with particular attention to travel writing and fiction published during and after Latin American independence. This work argues that British representations of Latin America reveal an authorial freedom to advance imperial and commercial projects.

Developing a theoretical and methodological approach to the archaeology of collective action, this book reviews some of the progress archaeologists have made in illuminating race-, gender-, and class-based forms of collective action in shaping the American experience.

Documenting the earliest years of contact between the resident Native Americans of the area and European colonists, Tatham Mound has provided archaeologists and bioarchaeologists with evidence from the early contact period. This book presents an analysis of Tatham Mound, one of the most important archaeological sites in Central Gulf Coast Florida.

Presents a record of the transformation in text, meaning, and language that Trieste worked upon Joyce. Based on presentations from the Trieste Symposium of 2002, this book includes: essays on manuscript genetics following Groden, a political set of essays following Norris, a set of essays on language following Bowen, and more.

Build strong bridges with new members of your community. With this insightful guide, you will learn how to assess your current library performance with immigrants, gather data, and use that information to gain support for library initiatives. You will also discover how to adapt library policies to better fit changing needs, overcome language barriers, develop public relations strategies that reach immigrants, and build culturally relevant coll...

A manual for identifying the butterflies of Iowa as well as 90 percent of the butterflies in the Plains states. This book begins by providing information on the natural communities of Iowa, paying special attention to butterfly habitat and distribution. It then covers the history of lepidopteran research in Iowa.