Georgia Books

These poems speak from a place both ours and our parents, and their parents; Mrs. Halme has exploded onto the literary scene with an historical grace unlike any other contemporary poet today. Her lines preform true magic, and allow the present to speak with the past in all its misery, confusion, and brilliance. Combining the fabulous with the tragic, the beautiful and the mysterious, Kathleen Halme makes us aware of our current selves, forces our personal moments into the glory of the communal experience, and allows us to believe in ourselves, and our direction. These poems must endure us, must absolve the broken heart in all of us.

I have never before found Workers' Compensation Discussions to be discussed in such detail and still remain awake. I found this book to be of high calibre

It is a classic. It does give you a good look at Arachaeological work in the 20's. Tell's you what was found before development destroyed most of it.

I read the book beginning to end.I found it fascinating to see the heritage and roots of my family. I don't know how interesting someone other than a historian or a descendant of Lt. Fortson would find the book, but I loved reading of their survival in the original colonies.

This book was absolutely fabulous. Towle really captures the legends of Georgia and does a great job telling them through his drawings. This is a must have for anyone who has visited Georgia!

In seeing the barn-burning scene in "As I Lay Dying" as representing "the impulse toward revolution" and a section of Jason's narrative in "The Sound and the Fury" as indicating capitalism standing triumphant after a period beginning about 1890 "when the expanding mercantile economy with an industrial base substantially redefined America's socioeconomic order," Atkinson discloses how Faulkner can be read as a "Depression writer who, in keeping with the times, found his own means of radical and revolutionary expression." Overall, "Faulkner gave to Depression readers an order of things in which totalizing concepts of unity, organic wholeness, and harmony exist not as achievable ends but rather as tenuous constructs" always vulnerable to the natural human desire to pursue individual liberty in multifarious ways. This reading of Faulkner is not an alternative to the generally accepted one of Faulkner as dealing mainly with the rural culture, class and personal relationships, and the psychodynamics peculiar to the latter 1800's and early 1900's South, but it expands it considerably. Rather than seen only as regional inhabitants suffering from their incapacity to accept defeat and in often half-crazed ways trying to maintain a semblance of the traditional social structure, Faulkner's Southern characters can be seen as well as representative Americans dealing with economic hardships and uncertainties of the Depression and struggling with political questions and temptations relating to an authoritarian regime, forms of socialism, and the budding new order offered by Roosevelt. Faulkner's place in the literary politics of his time, a topic often passed by in critical work to unravel the complexities of his characters and his style, is also dealt with in developing how his work reflects the conditions and mentality of his time. Atkinson--who teaches at Augusta State U. in Georgia--sheds light on this broader view of this major American author active in the mid 1900s by focusing on individual characters, incidents, and circumstances in his novels.

An excellent product. One of the most helpful wildflower books I have ever purchased. Thorough descriptions and beautiful pictures.

Twenty years ago there didn't seem to be a rush to get the book out, or indeed the follow up as soon as a chef did a television appearance. Consequently you'll find this book carefully measured and thoroughly thought through, barely a superflous word in the entire book.
The result is a road map of exquisite taste for life and I will never be without mine even though at 20 years old, it's falling apart from constant reference.
Yes some of the recipe's are complex, it's not an everyday cookbook but the sublime results are worth it. Having said that, it is also a very simple book of irrefutable cooking truths. It's a joy to be educated by the master, now sadly retired, who not only tells you how but why.
You couldn't do yourself a greater culinary service than to get a copy of this book and find the font that many a celebrity chef sprang from!

I am happy theese kind of books still exist on the Earth! If not this book, nobody will have a chance to realise the Georgian injustice to Abkhazia and the fact of commiting genocide to the nation, that now has only about 300 people left worldwide.

Georgia Witkin, Ph.D., is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, associate director of the Menopause Treatment Program, and director of the Stress Program at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She also hosts "Beyond the News" on the Fox News Channel and is the weekly lifestyle contributor to its "Fox and Friends" morning program. She is the author of six books on stress and has a private practice in New York City.

This 303-page book has an index, a bibliography and a list of useful websites pertaining to stress.

Dr. Witkin begins by explaining what stress is in general, discusses in detail the Four D's of the Female Stress Syndrome (disorganization, decision-making difficulties, dependency fantasies, and depression), then provides an excellent overview of the results of the female stress syndrome in these areas of women's lives: (1) Fatigue and weight gain. Long-term stress can cause higher insulin levels, which can lead to fatigue, a craving for caffeine and sugar, and greater storage of body fat. (2) PMS. Premenstrual syndrome symptoms are made worse by stress and PMS can also cause stress. (3) Childbearing. Pregnancy affects the predictability of your life, no matter how wanted the baby is. This can cause stress, as can "fear and unrealistic expectations." (4) New mothers. Lack of an adequate support system to help with a newborn, postpartum depression, and the "loss of freedom, mobility and choice" all can "cause mixed feelings about parenting and its responsibilities," which leads to a lot of stress. (5) Menopause. This major physical transition often intersects with equally major life changes, such as children leaving home, aging parents losing their health, and so forth; all of which can lead to stress. (6) Anorexia nervosa, bulimia and irritable bowel syndrome. These syndromes are much more common in women than men and are strongly stress-related. (7) Depression. This mood disorder is a helpless-hopeless state and is twice as common in women as men. Many women respond to stress by becoming depressed. This may be because women are socialized to be helpless, which makes them less likely than men to take charge and change the things in their lives that are causing the stress which has triggered depression. (8) Smoking. Ironically, while many people perceive smoking as lessening anxiety, it actually causes stress due to mini-withdrawal symptoms that happen between cigarettes. (9) Headaches. Women more frequently respond to stress with headaches than men. Many women find that unexpressed anger, sexual needs and dependency issues can create conflicts that activate headaches. (10) Amenorrhea. Stress is one of the most frequent causes of delayed onset of menstruation in young women. (11) Sexual Dysfunction. Female sexual problems are often brought on or made worse by stress. (12) Anxiety. Stress can trigger anxiety and panic attacks.

The last part of the book covers recommended aids for reducing stress, including: giving yourself permission to try and reduce the stress in your life; learning to say no; giving yourself freedom to change your mind; laughter; expecting the best; exercise; relaxation; bibliotherapy (reading self-help books for insight); nurturing yourself; prioritizing the demands on your time; avoiding recreating old, dysfunctional scenarios again and again in your life.

The information in this book on female stress is invaluable for women of all ages. In addition, its sections on the effects of stress on children and men can help women understand how stress harms their loved ones. I highly recommend this book to women who are just starting to educate themselves on stress, as well as to those who have already read a lot about stress in general but are not familiar with how stress specifically affects women's health.