Books published by University of Georgia Press

A discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literary consciousness relative to the larger process of cultural myth-making.

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times. This volume examines challenges faced by the international community and proposes directions for national and international policy making and lawmaking.

Includes poems which make a case that neither gentleness nor easiness is appropriate in the attempt to contend with the trauma and violence that are an inescapable part of human history and human experience.

Using Texas as a case study for understanding change in the American juvenile justice system over the past century, William Bush tells the story of three cycles of scandal, reform, and retrenchment, each of which played out in ways that tended to extend the privileges of a protected childhood to white middle- and upper-class youth.

Examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion.

Presents Transcendentalism as a living movement, evolving out of such origins as New England Unitarianism and finding inspiration in European Romanticism. This work conveys the movement's expectations that its radical spirituality would lead to personal perfection and also inspire solutions to national problems like slavery and disfranchisement.

A collection of natural-history essays, which looks at a series of expeditions into forests of the eastern United States. Each essay is a lesson in stewardship about the interwoven connections between a tree species and the animals and insects whose lives depend on it - and who, in turn, work to ensure the tree's survival.

In these lyrical meditations in prose and poetry, Agosin evokes the many places on four continents she has visited or called home. Recording personal and spiritual voyages, the author opens herself to follow the ambiguous, secret map of her memory, which ""does not betray."" Agosin writes of Diaspora, exile, and oppression.

Set in what remains the wildest country in the United States, this book recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. The text tells the story of Andrew Gennett, one of the most successful lumbermen in Carolina in the early 20th century.