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Sapelo People And Place On A Georgia Sea Island, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Sapelo People and Place on a Georgia Sea Island. Buddy Sullivan; Photographs by Benjamin Galland. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8203-5016-5 (hardcover: alk.paper); 334 p. $34.95.

Democracy Abroad, Lynching At Home, Racial Violence In Florida, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home, Racial Violence in Florida. Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 2015. 978-0-8130-6104-7 (hardcover) $74.95; 978-0-8130-6239-6 (pbk.) $24.95. 288 p.

Writing The Legal Record: Law Reporters In Nineteenth-Century Kentucky, Peter R. Dean

The Southeastern Librarian

Writing the Legal Record: Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky. Kurt X. Metzmeier. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8131-6860-9. 211p. $50.

Internet Studies: Past, Present And Future Directions By Panayiota Tsatsou [Book Review], Marilyn Mitchell

Marilyn Mitchell

Book Review: Tsatsou Panayiota , Internet Studies: Past, Present and Future Directions. Farnham: Ashgate Pubishing, 2014; 279 pp. ISBN: 9781409446415, AUD$245.95.

Extract: Panayiota Tsatsou’s Internet Studies: Past, Present and Future Directions is an ambitious work that reviews two decades of research on the Internet. Tsatsou’s goals were to provide an improved understanding of the nature of the Internet, explain how researchers have historically approached and studied the Internet and consider how the Internet’s structures and functions relate to its use in individual and social settings. This is a large undertaking and while the author acknowledges the book inevitably represents a …

Fruit: A Savor Of The South, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Fruit: A Savor the South Cookbook. Nancie McDermott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3251-3 (cloth: alk.paper); 978-1-4696-3252-0 (ebook) 163 p. $12.78.

Stepdaughters Of History: Southern Women And The American Civil War, Kathelene Mccarty Smith

The Southeastern Librarian

Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War. Catherine Clinton. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8071-6457-0. 160 p. $27.50.

On Strawberry Hill: Transcendent Love Of Gifford Pinchot And Laura Houghteling, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling. Paula Ivaska Robbins Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8173-9094-5 (ebook); 978-0-8173-5894-5 (hard). 136 p. $19.95.

Conversations With Ron Rash, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Conversations with Ron Rash. Edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Rain Newcomb. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4968-0896-7. 212 p. $55.

North Carolina’S Barrier Islands: Wonders Of Sand, Sea And Sky, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

North Carolina’s Barrier Islands: Wonders of Sand, Sea, and Sky. David Blevins. Chapel Hill.: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-1-4696-3249-0 (cloth: alk. paper); 978-1-4696-3250-6 (ebook) 188 p. $24.29.

The Industrialist And The Mountaineer: The Eastham-Thompson Feud And The Struggle For West Virginia’S Timber Frontier, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Industrialist and the Mountaineer: The Eastham-Thompson Feud and the Struggle for West Virginia’s Timber Frontier. Ronald L. Lewis. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-9-943665-51-8 (pbk.) $26.99; 978-1-943665-50-1 (cloth) $79.99; 978-1-943665-52-5 (epub) $26.99; 978-1-943665-53-2 (pdf) $32.99. 312 p.

The Spark Of Learning: Emerging The College Classroom With The Science Of Emotion, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion. Sarah Rose Cavanagh. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-943665-33-4 (pbk.) $22.99; 978-1-943665-32-7 (cloth) $79.99; 978-1943665-34-1 (epub) $22.99; 978-1-943665-35-8 (pdf) $22.99. 256 p.

Schooling In The Antebellum South: The Rise Of Public And Private Education In Louisiana, Mississippi And Alabama, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Schooling in the Antebellum South: The Rise of Public and Private Education in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Sarah L. Hyde. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8071-6420-4. 240p. $42.50

Southern Religion And Christian Diversity In The Twentieth Century, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century. Wayne Flynt. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8173-1903-3 (Cloth); 978-0-8173-8971-0 (E book). 400 p. $39.95.

Technology And The Mind, Body And Soul, Kayt E. Frisch

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Both The Shallows and The Next Story do an excellent job of motivating the reader to consider their use of media, but it seems to me that the different approaches taken by these authors are rooted in fundamentally different pictures of what it means to be a human being."

Posting about two books that discuss the effects of technology on our lives from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/technology-and-the-mind-body-and-soul/

Book Review: The Successful Internship: Personal, Professional, And Civic Development In Experiential Learning, Donald W. Spears

Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences

Book review of The Successful Internship: Personal, Professional, and Civic Development in Experiential Learning Belmont, CA: Brooks Cole (2014, 4th ed.) by H. Frederick Sweitzer and Mary A. King

Essay Review Of Family Communication, Kristen Cvancara

Kristen Cvancara, Ph. D.

Book review of Family Communication by Chris Segrin and Jean Flora (2005).

Creating Citizens: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, And The Land-Grant Tradition, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Creating Citizens: Liberal Arts, Civic Engagement, and the Land-Grant Tradition, edited by Brigitta R. Brunner. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-8173-1907-6 (cloth); 978-0-8173-8960-4 (ebook). $49.95. 192 p.

Mark Twain At Home: How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Mark Twain at Home How Family Shaped Twain’s Fiction by Michael J. Kiskis. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8173-1915-1 (cloth); 978-0-8173-8990-1 (ebook). $44.95. 128 p.

From Revolution To Reunion: The Reintegration Of The South Carolina Loyalists, Rita Spisak

The Southeastern Librarian

From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists by Rebecca Brannon. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61117-668-1 (hard); 978-1-61117-669-8 (epub). $49. 99. 232 p.

Southern Religion And Christian Diversity In The Twentieth Century, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Southern Religion and Christian Diversity in the Twentieth Century by Wayne Flynt. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8173-1908-3 (cloth); 978-0-1873-8971-0 (ebook). $39.95. 400 p.

Field Guide To The Wildflowers Of Georgia And Surrounding States, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia and Surrounding States by Chafin, Linda G. Hugh and Carol Nourse, Photographers. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8203-4868-1. $32.95 paperback. 488 p.

South Carolina In The Civil War And Reconstruction Eras: Essays From The Proceedings Of The South Carolina Historical Association, Tim Dodge

The Southeastern Librarian

South Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras: Essays from the Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association by Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer, editors. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-61117-664-3 (cloth); 978-61117-665-0 (paperback); and 978-61117-666-7 (ebook). $49.99 (hard); $29.99 (pbk); $29.99 (ebook). 177p.

Family Of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood, Melanie J. Dunn

The Southeastern Librarian

Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood by Wilma Dykeman. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-46962-914-8. $75.00 (hard), $18.00 (pbk.). 177p.

The Ides Of War: George Washington And The Newburgh Crisis, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Ides of War : George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis by Stephen Howard Brown Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61117-659-9 (hard); 978-1-61117-660-5 (ebook). $44.99. 168 p.

The Egret's Plumes, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

The Egret’s Plumes by Archibald Rutledge ; introduction by Jim Casada ; afterword by Jacob F. Rivers III and illustrations by Stephen Chesley. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-61117-672-8 (hard); 978-1-61117-673-5 (ebook). $24.99. 56 p.

North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide To Local Restaurants, Diners, And Barbecue Joints, Melinda F. Matthews

The Southeastern Librarian

North Carolina’s Roadside Eateries: A Traveler’s Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints by D.G. Martin. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. ISBN: 9781469630144 (pbk.alk. paper) $11.85. 176 p.

Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles Of Cynthiana And Harrison County, Carol Walker Jordan

The Southeastern Librarian

Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County by William A. Penn. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. ISBN 978-0-8131-6771-8 (cloth); 978-0-8131-6772-5 (epub). $45.00. 400 p.

Review Of The Book German Census Records 1816-1916: The When, Where, And How Of A Valuable Genealogical Resource, John A. Drobnicki

Publications and Research

Review of the book German census records 1816-1916: The when, where, and how of a valuable genealogical resource.

Teaching Google Scholar: A Practical Guide For Librarians, Siobhan K. Mccarthy

Sprague Library Scholarship and Creative Works

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Bunch, Mads. Isak Dinesen Reading Søren Kierkegaard: On Christianity, Seduction, Gender, And Repetition., Troy Wellington Smith

The Bridge

In the inter-and post-war periods, the Danish baroness Karen Blixen published, in English, several story collections and the autobiographical novel Out of Africa in the United States under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen. These same works appeared soon aft er under her legal name in her own Danish translations in Denmark. During the same period, works by Dinesen’s deceased countryman Søren Kierkegaard were being translated into English and published in the United States by Princeton University Press. No longer merely “world-famous in Denmark” (as the saying goes), Kierkegaard became a shibboleth for anxious intellectuals on both sides of the …