Collection preserves books by current and former faculty and staff.
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Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John O’Malley, S.J.
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University and Hilmar M. Pabel, Simon Fraser University
12-22-2002
Book Summary: The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith. John O'Malley, a distinguished scholar of the Renaissance and Reformation, has decisively challenged this interpretation, emphasizing the variety, vitality, and complexity of Catholicism in the early modern era. The essays in Early Modern Catholicism, written in O'Malley's honour, present new research on subjects ranging from art in China to popular religion, from new religious orders to colonial architecture, and suggest new interpretations of the accepted picture of various societies, institutions, and individuals which together constituted the Catholic Church in the period from the fifteenth through ... Read more
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The Kind of Things Saints Do
Laura E. Valeri, Georgia Southern University
8-21-2002
Book Summary: “I believe that what people yearn for in love is to have their lives made numinous by the immortal vision of their gods,” writes Laura Valeri, winner of the 2002 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. The yearning desires, stifling limitations, and hard consequences of human affection are all realities explored in The Kind of Things Saints Do, Valeri's chronicle of men and women overwhelmed in their loneliness and isolation.
From the Anglo-American woman who makes a spectacle of herself trying to be Cuban in Miami to the estranged son leading his father on a hostile hike in New ... Read more
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Ordaining the Catholic Reformation: Priests and Seminary Pedagogy in Fiesole, 1575-1675
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University
2001
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Communicating in Public: Key Concepts and Application Activities (2nd Edition)
Chris B. Geyerman, Georgia Southern University and Beverly L. Graham, Georgia Southern University
1998
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Samuel Medary and the Crisis: Testing the Limits of Press Freedom
Reed W. Smith, Georgia Southern University
1-1-1995
Book Summary: This political biography tells the story of Samuel Medary, a controversial journalist and political activist who published a Peace Democrat (Copperhead) newspaper - the Crisis - in Columbus, Ohio, during the Civil War. Medary, a staunch supporter of states' rights and civil liberties, opposed the Union war effort and fought against government attempts to suppress the peace movement. In his editorials he repeatedly encouraged civilian resistance to President Lincoln's policies, including conscription, martial law, and heavy taxation.
Samuel Medary and the "Crisis" is engaging reading for scholars and students of the history of journalism, the Civil War, Ohio ... Read more
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Communicating in Public: Key Concepts and Application Activities
Chris B. Geyerman, Georgia Southern University and Beverly L. Graham, Georgia Southern University
1993
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The Interpretation of Waking Life
Eric R. Nelson, Georgia Southern University
1-1-1991
Georgia Southern Professor Emeritus of Writing and Linguistics Eric R. Nelson authored The Interpretation of Waking Life a book of poems.
