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The Atlas of Georgia/Book With Transparencies
Published in Hardcover by University of Georgia ICAD (1986)
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This book is a wonderful resource.
I work in a museum of history, in southwest Georgia. When recently completing a presentation on local history,I found this atlas to be invaluable. The historical maps showing the Indian trails, and Indian Cessions are excellent. The maps showing the state according to county development and transportation are informative. I would recommend this book to anyone researching Georgia. In fact, two of my colleagues want to purchase individual copies!
Away for the Weekend - Southeast: Great Getaways for Every Season in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (Away for the Weekend Series)
Published in Paperback by Crown Pub (1997)
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Away for the Weekend: Southeast
Anyone living in the Southeast (Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee) will find this travel book to be a practical and useful tool. The author, Eleanor Berman, pairs seasonal activities and local attractions with various locales. For me, this opened my eyes to the many enjoyable short trips my family and I can take without going too far from home. The book contains telephone numbers, driving directions and suggestions for accommodations and restaurants that I likely would never have discovered on my own. My family and I have stayed in several of the book's recommended bed and breakfasts and have been delighted. I keep this book handy to refer to for travel ideas. I reccommend it highly as a thorough and "user friendly" guide to travel in the Southeast.
Bacon's Eye: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon from the Barry Joule Archive
Published in Paperback by 21 Pub (15 August, 2001)
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Bacon's Eye-the closest focal point through his instincts
This soft cover book is the best collection to date of Bacon's instinct's on photo's as "a record" for motion and emotion, which led, as far as I am concerned, to his "violent colours and form's" that produce an "incredible, emotional charge which is "an impressive sort of violence".People often speak of Bacon's work's as violent, but Bacon said himself that he never saw any violence(in terms of a negative, painful meaning) in his work's.Bacon did see a violent execution in Picasso's work's through colour and form.
Bacon did state his work's were positively charged with incredible emotion's through his colours and forms which might be veiwed as violent ,but in the positive.I also feel, as Bacon did, that word's diminish an artist's work's, so that is why I am qouting him so often from the book "Francis Bacon In conversation with Michel Archimbaud".Bacon's Eye is full of photo's, some of his early unseen work's, and his use of colour and form after veiwing the photo's in the book.There is also an interview with Barry Joule, a close friend of Bacon, at the end of the book.
Bacon gave Joule a thousand never seen work's on paper before his death.This book has only some of them, and I would love to see the remainder if ever published some day, but you will get a much indepth look at Bacon's work from the one's supplied.This book is not to be passed by if you want something rare and intimate of the artist.If you were to compare this book to the one other book featuring Bacon's drawing's, which name I can not recall right now, Bacon's Eye is ten times better.It also has different textured paper for the plates and the interview section.
Bacon did state his work's were positively charged with incredible emotion's through his colours and forms which might be veiwed as violent ,but in the positive.I also feel, as Bacon did, that word's diminish an artist's work's, so that is why I am qouting him so often from the book "Francis Bacon In conversation with Michel Archimbaud".Bacon's Eye is full of photo's, some of his early unseen work's, and his use of colour and form after veiwing the photo's in the book.There is also an interview with Barry Joule, a close friend of Bacon, at the end of the book.
Bacon gave Joule a thousand never seen work's on paper before his death.This book has only some of them, and I would love to see the remainder if ever published some day, but you will get a much indepth look at Bacon's work from the one's supplied.This book is not to be passed by if you want something rare and intimate of the artist.If you were to compare this book to the one other book featuring Bacon's drawing's, which name I can not recall right now, Bacon's Eye is ten times better.It also has different textured paper for the plates and the interview section.
Balancing Act Nutrition & Weight Guide (1998 Edition)
Published in Paperback by Balancing Act (1998)
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Good all around book for healthy eating
Kostas does a good job of balancing exercise, diet, and behavior modification into one book.
Bansemer's Book of Carolina and Georgia Lighthouses
Published in Hardcover by Pineapple Pr (20 May, 2000)
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Highly recommended reading for all lighthouse enthusiasts!
Bansemer's Book Of Carolina And Georgia Lighthouse showcases the great lighthouses that served the maritime trade for generations along the Carolina and Georgia coastlines. Roger Bansemer's informative text is superbly enhanced by his wonderful paintings. Most of these grand structures are no longer in service, having been rendered obsolete by advances in maritime and communications technologies. But their legacy lives on as proud relics of a maritime history that continues to hold a fascination for each new generation. Superbly produced and presented, Bansemer's Book Of Carolina And Georgia Lighthouse is a very highly recommended addition to any light house enthusiast's collection.
The Battle of Peachtree Creek: An Audio Driving Tour
Published in Audio Cassette by Ghost Tours (06 June, 1994)
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A great way to learn about the Civil War
This is a genuinely fun way to learn about the Civil War while touring a beautiful section of Atlanta. It's especially nice on a Sunday morning when there is little traffic and you have time to really stop and listen to certain stories or look at certain places. The contrast between the sometimes gory narrative and the peaceful beauty of contemporary Atlanta is fascinating and makes you think about how it must have been over a hundred years ago when war ravaged the city and the country. Very strange and very stimulating. Also, the last stop is a great place for a picnic and a chance to walk around and stretch and think about everything the author of the tape has told you. Really great and definitely recommend it for yourself and your family.
Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press (1999)
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Reactionarism and the Ku Klux Klan
Utilizing the mind frame of Paul Fussell and his contemporaries that the Great War catalyzed the transformation of European and the western world from traditional to modernity. Nancy McLean advances the paradigm that a countermovement to resist the new values and norms such feminism, corporatism, unionism, and globalization. This movement developed under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan, which contained motifs of populism, emphasis of race, gender, and age (biological) antagonisms over class and national sovereignty. The fervor populism sponsored by the conservative forces in Athens, Georgia was similar in context to the fascist organizations that occurred in Italy and Germany in an attempt to turn back the clock on ethic morals. Yet unlike its German or Italian counterparts failed to firmly take root in politics due to the brevity of the depression and boom. These characteristics manifested themselves into morality crusades to reinforce traditional norms over modern ones, but moreover the patriarchal, social, hierarchy. These inspired the reinforcement of the prohibition of liquor consumption; reconstitute the obedience to one's parents. It caused a heightened proliferation of spying and becoming turncoats on one's neighbors. Along with other fascist organizations held contradictory beliefs suggesting the development of chain stores and national/international companies were exclaimed as instruments of Catholics and Jews to dominate the U.S. economy, and yet were Bolsheviks. To exterminate this external threat from abroad, citizens joined together to boycott these conglomerates and support locally owned shops. The Klan projected powerful images of Black men raping white women in an attempt to outrage their targeted constituents to gain members and consolidate man's power over their subordinates namely women. The other catalyst regarding this movement regarded the economic depression that occurred in 1924 thus sparked a growing animosity towards people's perceived class enemies-Catholics, Jews, and Eastern European immigrants. Which had largely been absent during one of the largest immigration period in 1880. The primary purpose was to insure the independence and propriety of the middle class. Thus attempted to prevent any further declining down the socio-economic status ladder from the upper class and utilize force when necessary when workers movements occurred in threatening their livelihood
Beloved Bethesda : A History of George Whitefield's Home for Boys
Published in Hardcover by Mercer University Press (2001)
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What A Grand Historical Surprise!
I am impressed with Beloved Bethesda. It is well crafted and painstakingly researched. It should be of interest to anyone who is a fan of early Georgia History. I hope it is being offered for purchase at historic sites,parks,etc. It would certainly fascinate anyone who is a Georgia history buff as it is a history continuum of this region.
Best of the Best from Georgia: Selected Recipes from Georgias Favorite Cookbooks
Published in Ring-bound by Quail Ridge Pr (01 October, 1989)
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The greatest cookbook series for collectors and enthusiasts.
This book is from a series of cookbooks from each State. Everyone that I own is "the Best". Anyone that loves to cook and enjoys perusing recipes will love this book. You should own one from each state!
Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
Published in Paperback by University of Georgia Press (2003)
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Compulsive extraordinary history
Imagine a history book which deals with one of the hardest and most riveting periods of world history. Imagine it written in an accessible and entertaining style. Imagine that it brings home the hopes, fears, sufferings and achievements of real people, that it be sensitive and analytical of their predicaments and responses, that it rests on hundreds of hours of interviews, thousands of reading and more of careful preperation. Imagine all this and you will be ready for Beyond Atlanta.
Stephen Tuck has written fantastic book accessible to the scholar and student and a must for any Georgian (indeed American) interested in their past. The quality of his research and writing sets new standards for historians. The scope of a work which covers a state, in urban and rural, in its detail and its broader implications deserves to be imitated.
But perhaps the crowning achievement of this book is that it is so interesting. There are hundreds of thousands of scholalry peices attracting dust on library shelves which are not really missed. Here is a book on a vital topic which both needs to be read and is so eminently readable. This is history brought home, a story that must be told, told superbly well.
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