Does humanity have enough reverence for life to cope with the atom? Poet Marilou Awiakta poses this question in this book, which was first published in 1978, shortly before the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. Fusing her Cherokee/Appalachian heritage with the experience of growing up on the atomic frontier in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Awiakta explores humanity's dilemma -- and hope -- through the legendary Awi Usdi, Little Deer, a Cherokee spirit-teacher of reverence. She follows his trail as he circles through the saga of Tsali and the Cherokee removal, then into the thoughts of early pioneers and the vision of John Hendrix, who foretold the coming of Oak Ridge with such accuracy. Winding through the poet's childhood, when the atom was split in secret, the trail leads to the retired Graphic Reactor and, finally, into the heart of the atom itself -- and into our hearts, where we must ultimately resolve the question of reverence for life.

Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet

Literature & Fiction

Awiakta, Marilou

Poetry

Pocahontas Press

Blessed Beyond Measure The Life and Times of Kenneth Edward Dawson

Kenneth Edward Dawson

This book presents contributions to the understanding of turbulence centered around the development and application of a family of Reynolds stress models or incompressible rotating flows. A goal of this work is the development of practical models of the Reynolds stress equations, which may be implemented in CFD codes, for example as used in the aerospace industry. Reynolds stress models offer the advantage of naturally including the effects of rotation, curvature and developing flow on the turbulence.

Functional Reynolds Stress Modeling

Science & Math

Moore, Joan G.

MOORE. John

Astronomy & Space Science

In the spring of 1651, nearly half a century before the infamous witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts, a woman known as Goody Bassett was hanged for witchcraft in Stratford, Connecticut. Few facts are known about this woman and the events surrounding her persecution. 
 This haunting and moving novel, crafted from those few facts as well as detailed accounts of Stratford's early history, tells the tale of young Ruth Paine -- later Goodwife Basset -- and how her singular experience beyond the confines of her Puritan world ultimately leads to her demise. 
 Rich in historical insight, The Stratford Devil gives a touching look into the painfully isolated world of an independent woman as she struggles to survive in circumstances beyond her control. With its focus on religion and terror, The Stratford Devil is a parable for our times.

The Stratford Devil

Claude Clayton Smith

Contemporary

Illustrations by internationally renowned artist Joni Pienkowski grace this delightful book showing a father at play with his children.

Climbing Daddy Mountain

Children's Books

J. D. Stahl

Action & Adventure

Authored by turfgrass researchers and managers from Virginia Tech, this book is intended to serve as a user-friendly guide to sports turf management. It features programs and concepts that have been developed based on turfgrass research as well as field experience by qualified sports turf managers. It is intended to meet the needs of sports turf managers of any level of expertise and experience in the development and maintenance of sports fields that meet public demand and expectations for safe, high quality playing surfaces.

Sports Turf Management in the Transition Zone

Michael Goatley

Shawn Askew

Erik Ervin

David McCall

Bob Studholme

Pete Schultz

Brandon Horvath

Between Two Spaces: Reflections on the Spiritual in Art

Halide Salam

Arts & Photography

The seeming simplicity of the Japanese haiku form of poetry - three lines of five, seven, five syllables - expresses depth of meaning and creates sensory impressions with no extraneous use of words. The brevity of the poem is like the lens of a camera visually capturing a single momemt in time. Kate W. Garland has written has written about traditional themes of nature, time, and season, but also taken license to use more modern themes of the cultural order in which she's lived. Therefore you will encounter such subjects as a train, a bus, a carousel, the human condition, and even some nonsense in the poetry she's written.

Through a Haiku Lens

Garland, Kate W

A fresh, well informed and fascinating perspective on early immigration from Ireland to Virginia.

The Irish in Early Virginia 1600-1860

History

Donleavy, Kevin

Americas

It's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather the hard times. As an adult, she describes her art: It is about the rituals of our lives, we who live in the tribes of Appalachia, and the spook in the hollow, the voodoo of the mountains. In Smoke from Small Fires, happily off-tilt characters, bizarre events, and the gamut of human emotions stack up like a collage layered thick with compelling details. Rendered in visually rich prose, courageous Anna Grace and her quirky band of kin and friends rise above poignant trials that will color your mind's eye for a long time.

Smoke from Small Fires

Powers, Anne

Literary

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