Alabama Books

Harper Lee was encouraged to write some of her childhood memories. What in the beginning seems like the story of three childhood friends in depression era Macomb, Alabama, turns out to be packed with insights to the makeup of human kind.

This story is intriguing on many levels from the history of the area to the stereotyping of people. Most of all every turn was a surprise as told in the first person from the view of Scout Finch. And instead of telling the story in a six year old vocabulary she uses an exceptionally large repertoire to describe the people and events. This story is not as slow passed as one may guess from first glance as every remark and every action will be needed for a future action.

A major controversial part of the story is the trial of Tom Robinson. Hoverer this is just a catalyst to help Scout understand the nature of people including her father Atticus and you will find that as important as it is it is just a part of the story with other major characters such as Arthur "Boo" Radley.

Even thought it appears that Scout is the recipient of the insights, I believe we the reader is the real recipient.

I can truly say that this book has changed my outlook in life.

Thank you Chad. America should know this "awful truth". By the way, we in Appalachia are still holding the same protest signs that these brave people held up in this book 30 years ago.
Help us America.

Arthur Green has done a monumental work of research here. He provides a real sense of the historical background, of the various Hasidic leaders, of the Bratslaver's effort to establish his place in the world. He also provides a fascinating view of one of the greatest of all Hasidic teachers inner lives, and his spiritual struggle.
All those who take interest in the Hasidic world, would do well to have this volume in their library.

This book provides excellent insight into the nature of the tourism industry as it relates to ecological awareness. Specifically, this book explores toxic tourism, or the traveling to areas that have been heavily polluted, as a form of advocacy tourism that also engages perspective, learning, and understanding about environmental pollution and its effect on various communities and the environment.

In addition, this book is grounded theoretically in understanding tourism through the visual, but also other senses: the feeling of presence through smell, touch, bodily movement, and emotion. Pezzullo explains that the toxic tour often provides the embodiment of counterexperience to our everyday lives, which shapes our process of becoming. However, as Pezzullo observes in the conclusion, we also must remember that tourism, and especially toxic tourism, provides a learning experience, but does not necessarily clean up communities, nor does one actually know the experience of everyday life in toxic areas.

In short, this book is insightful for not only those interested in environmental protection, but also those who are interested in tourism studies, advocacy tourism, environmental communication, and an understanding of how our experiences shape what we learn and know about the world.

This book is great for the true researcher.
It gives the years in which each County conatins what records which will save a lot of phone calls & trips.
It refers to other wonderful books that one can get to trace something inparticular. It also refers to finding Alabama research in other States which I found most helpful.

This is a good book for anyone interested in the anthology of Alabama pottery or the identification of it. It gives in great detail the potters of the past centuries, their histories and counties they lived and worked in. Joey Brackner is a renowed folklorist in the state of Alabama and any of his works are well researched and helpful to the collector, dealer or interested party.

A very good book,which every christian should read.Its enlightening and will make you think where your prioritys should be.

This book was very informative. At last I can have a good book to read about the Christian Right (my favorite subject). This is not something you should defenestrate.

This book has some of the best line drawings and descriptions. It is a must if you are trying to ID the many species of trees in the Coastal Plain.

This is a superb, well-crafted, and capacius collection of the post-Ashbery US poetics which pervades the very climate of Americanist thinking about poetic subjectivity, language, identity, the trauma of broken narcissism, the promise of the sublime after Wallace Stevens and Andre Breton and so on.

The range of poets who consider themselves in what she calls "the tribe of John" is quite amazing in itself, what you might congregate as "the other tradition" of dis-Americanizing, wild, and risk-taking poetics from Bernstein to Creeley, Walter Lew, and John Yau et al. Saludos, Susan, for your care and transnational vision of the future. This is a fine work of cultural poetics, that should move out beyond poetry enclaves as such into "cultural studies." of US selfhood and the mongrel banality/ of American language.