Georgia Books

French scholar Hubert's classic history, Rise Of The Celts, traces the rise of the Celts and their influence on Indo-European peoples. Archaeological evidence support Hubert's investigation into the migration of Celtics into Europe and the British Isles, with black and white drawings and maps peppering a classic account recommended for high school levels on up.

It's very technical, but it was written under notherns volleys and rams, so the author expected to write a post mortem of the awful institution for which he himself died, as a General of the Confederation.
Everything can be explained, even such an awful thing as slavery.
The key idea of the book is, slavery is not for a man on the other man, unless the other is inferior.
Black aren't suitable for freedom.
Such a way of thinking was commonly accepted, and many surprised themselves because of the civil war.
All men are equal- that is surprisingly enough an under product of civil war, but men died in the south to hold their institution, they ware so fond of.
An invaluable juridical historic source.

Goldstone has not only made a valuable contribution to scholarship. She is a lively personality whose writing is always a delight to read. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the Civil Rights movement and recent American history.

This memoir of a young English man who volunteers to fight on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War describes in detail much of the squalor of that war. He departs from France and crosses into the Republican areas of Spain illegally with no preparation and no plan. He just walks across the border with a violin in his backpack and his actual passport. Once he arrives, the Republican forces assume that he is a spy, as his passport stamps prove that he was in Spanish Morocco shortly before the insurrection began.
He barely escapes from being shot and he becomes one more motley man in a motley crew of international volunteers. They have come from England, Belgium, Sweden, Russia and France, thinking that the Republican cause was a great crusade against fascism. However, disillusionment sets in very quickly as his adventure can be summed up with the phrase, `cold, ragged, dirty and hungry."
Lee captures the despair and pathetic destruction of the Spanish countryside during the war. The war has transformed the Spanish people into a ragged bad, on the brink of starvation and subject to death from artillery or aerial bombardment at any time. Eventually, he is put into battle and kills at least one member of the Franco forces. It gives him no joy and it is clear to all that he is such a poor soldier that not even the Republican forces, so desperate for fighting men, has a use for him. In a conclusion typical of this man's try for glory, he is arrested when he tries to go back to France, only to be rescued from prison by another British man.
The Republican forces in the Spanish Civil war accepted many idealistic young men and turned them into cynical men struggling to survive or a pile of rotting flesh. Lee captures many aspects of the conflict and unlike other authors such as Hemingway, who portrayed it as a great cause, describes it as a simple destroyer of men.

It is rare to see such fantastic work from undergraduate and graduate students be so appreciated. David Krell's writing is thoughtful and responsive. This an incredible book.

This book is a very well researched and accurate reporting of the events that occured at Koinonia Farm from its founding in 1942 and the three decades that followed. As someone deeply interested in the history of Koinonia Farm, I use the book often as a reference, and a starting point to discovering new aspects of the community.

Though things have quieted down at Koinonia in recent years, community members try to keep the spirit of Clarence and Florence Jordan and the other founders alive. This book goes a long way in helping with this desire.

If you are new Koinonia Farm, I highly recommend this book to inspire the desire to learn more, and become more involved in the issues that still face Koinonia, and the country as a whole. If you are already familiar, this book will provide the details that make Koinonia's history an inspiring topic.

This book is something like the description of bare life that informs one of Giorgio Agamben's recent books. Consisting of fragments that will never end up whole, much like the fabulous sherds from the broken vessel of the Lurianic Kabbalah that disperse throughout the darkness of space during the world's creation, this text flickers with meaning and insight, and accomplishes something very rare: it does not flinch from placing the barest facts of life on display. It is an ethnography of the everyday, a meditative reflection on states of being, tuning in to the author's many years of patient elaboration of difficult texts as a professor of literature, and produces at certain times a space that succeeds in approaching Blanchot's. This is highly unusual. This unpretentious book serves keen insights to a patient reader, in a simple, unadorned language informed by a life that has been thought as well as lived, and has soaked up pieces of the world. The section on love and breaking up is very special and and an extraordinarily honest description of the experience. It is probably the high point of the book's many excursions into fragmentary life. The entire book is a testament to the remainders in life that aren't appropriable but that stay with us anyway and even motivate our future choices. In the end the purpose of the book may be to be something like the ornament of this task of thinking the remainders of life, which "together" form an arabesque line of lived thought. As for the translation, it is quietly exquisite in its evocation of the simple style - and its rendering into English of the occasional difficult word play - of the original German.

Other recent ethnographic works of everyday life have tried and failed to capture what this little book does. I am thinking of the French ethnographer Marc Auge's forays into airport waiting rooms, or riding the Paris metro at night, where he encounters others and attempts to produce a theory of his relations to them, but ultimately one concludes that all this is really only the fiction of his own imagination, rather than a reflective pause such as Frey takes that opens outward to live and think the experiences that are specific to our relations with others. Frey suggests in this little zen book, or manifesto, how our so-called "relations" to ourselves and to others are really ungrounded, and will always remain non-relations, broken off experiences, interrupted.

Exquisite book - captured my daughter's heart (10 yrs old) when we were waiting for dinner to be served at a B&B in Galisteo N.M. While not O'Keeffe's most famous works, this is an intimate book, with poems. Would love to find one for her.

Everyone has those days - where life spirals downwards and all in all just seems to have it out for you. Sometimes you need some indulgence to keep yourself sane. "Isabella's Appetite" follows one woman's dive into a particularly horrible day where the only hand hold she can find to avoid plummeting into the abyss is food. Memories call themselves up, about her husband, her children, mother, sister, and many others - and food to keep her stable as she sorts her mind through all this chaos. Deftly written with a greatly realistic character, "Isabella's Appetite" is highly recommended for community library fiction collections with a focus on chick lit.