A young Wyatt Harrison grows dissatisfied with the drudgery of working on the family farm in northern Alabama and contending with an unpredictable father during the early 1870's. His decision to leave home and find a life more to his liking is soon immersed in trouble. Following a series of conformations with a co-worker, he is attacked one night with deadly intentions. The resulting fight is brutal, leaving two seriously injured and another fatally wounded. This time Wyatt runs from the l...

An essential resource for ceramicists, studios or schools looking for inspiration to reclaim, reuse and recycle in their studio or work.Producing work that is not only beautifully designed and produced, but is also environmentally friendly and socially responsible is now more important than ever. In Sustainable Ceramics, pioneer Robert Harrison draws on more than four decades of making, and a wealth of experience shared by other artists to...

Macbeth is one of the greatest plays ever written, but Shakespeare's depiction of Macbeth bears little resemblance to the truth. The real Macbeth lived in a time of constant battle between those Scots who followed the Celtic system of electing the King, and those who followed the English system of Inheriting the crown in the direct line of succession. Macbeth and Duncan were both grandsons of King Malcolm, but when the King named Duncan as his successor, it caused great resentment, resulti...

In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal...

Happy in Intensive CareBy: Robert Harrison BlackThe Author was practicing what he taught at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute at the University of North Florida when the series of medical events came upon him. The complications included fluid on the lung, pneumonia, hernia surgery to repair the stomach cancer incision and anemia. This all happened in the first three months of 2017.After surviving the problems, he found it interesting how easily he was able to st...

"A meditation on the human condition in an age when the old aspire to be young" from the author of Forests: The Shadow of Civilization ( Children's Literature).How old are you? The more thought you bring to bear on the question, the harder it is to answer. For we age simultaneously in different ways: biologically, psychologically, socially. And we age within the larger framework of a culture, in the midst of a history that predates us and will outl...

Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but in their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation, gardens stand as restorative, nourishing, necessary havens.With Gardens, Robert Pogue Harrison graces readers with a thoughtful, wide-ranging examinati...

In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth." Forests is one of the...

What if God is not something you find-but something you remember?The divine presence you seek lives within consciousness itself-closer than breath. Creating God is not about inventing the sacred but uncovering what has always been here: love, awareness, and unity obscured by fear and illusion.In Creating God: Reclaiming Love, Truth, and Moral Clarity in an Age of Confusion, Robert W. Harrison guides readers beyond belief and doctrine to di...

New edition of a comprehensive text: an ideal resource for the occupational health professional!A Doody's Core Title for 2023, 2024 & 2026!An updated and comprehensive guide to occupational and environmental injuries and illnesses, their diagnosis and treatment, and preventive measures in the workplace and community.Complete and concise, this clinically focused book is the go-to reference for health care professionals in al...

A thorough, concise, up-to-date guide to the diagnosis and treatment of common occupational and environmental injuries and diseasesA Doody's Core Title for 2019!Coverage includes:Chapters on how to conduct an occupational and environmental medical history, examine the patient, evaluate exposures, and prevent further injury and illnessNew methods of disability management and the important role that physicia...

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator.Winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry.Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the mi...