Review of Jones, R. L. & Wofford. B. E (2013). Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee: The Complete Winter Guide to Their Identification and Use. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky. 224 pages. ISBN: 9780813142500

Review of Byerly, D. W. (2013). The Last Billion Years: A Geologic History of Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 212 pages. ISBN: 9781572339743

Review of Camp Redemption, by Raymond l. Atkins].

Review of Lambert, L. C., Jr. & Lambert, M. (2011). Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 197 pages. ISBN 978-0-8032-3536-6.

Book Review of Wood, A. L. (Ed.). (2011). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Volume 19: Violence. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 368 pages. ISBN: 9780807872161

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Book Summary:Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society brings important issues in today's world to students' attention, highlighting the complete historical background, contemporary status, and global view of each. It provides students authoritative context, diverse expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources for truly understanding the issues that currently affect much of our global society, and for developing informed positions on those engendering controversy.

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Book Summary: Developed to meet the needs of modern world history courses, this text covers the Renaissance to the present day.

During this session, participants will reflect on the pivotal points in their own educational process and select moments of clarity or misunderstanding which shaped the course of their academic or professional career. Whether positive or negative, these teachable moments made us who we are, and remain relevant to understanding how and what we teach. As a group, we will share some of our personal stories and discuss how to incorporate them into specific courses, how they demonstrate empathy in a relatable way, and what we hope to evoke in our students through this exchange. The handout for this session will serve as a template for participants to refer to, and build upon. This presentation relates directly to the conference theme of validating emotion as an intrinsic component of the educational process and specifically, to the concept of self-disclosure in Chapter 3 of Dr. Cavanagh’s book, The Spark of Learning.