This is a student textbook featuring the author's own tried and tested teaching system which provides the right information and avoids the need for rote-learning. It provides medical students and junior doctors with a source of quick reference for study and revision covering general principles of treatment, the management of individual fractures and orthopaedics.

Traces the author's coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood.

"I've been asked all over America . . . why Mississippi is so distinctive. You know, we have our failings, but we're coming along all right. But as to why Mississippi is so artistic and athletic I always say there is something in the quality of two things: memory . . . and the sour-mash bourbon." During the three decades since the London Sunday Times trumpeted North Toward Home as "the finest evocation of an American boyhood since Mark Twain," southerner Willie Morris (1934-1999) wrote seventeen other books, including a second well-received volume of autobiography. Throughout his lengthy literary career, which began when he contributed his first sports column to a local newspaper at the age of twelve, he attained national prominence as a journalist, nonfiction writer, novelist, editor, and essayist. In Conversations with Willie Morris, the first collection of interviews and profiles devoted to this American author, Jack Bales compiles twenty-five fascinating and incisive conversations (some never before published) with a man who for over forty years confronted the turbulent issues of his generation. "I have no alternative to words," Morris occasionally replied when asked about his far-reaching career. And throughout his life he unceasingly spoke out on matters that concerned him, writing at various times with outrage, humor, sadness, and affection -- but always with passion and candor. The diverse topics covered in this collection reflect the scope of Morris's wide-ranging interests. As he speaks with journalists, public radio and television hosts, social historians, and even a professional comedian, he candidly discusses his own life and literary career, sports, other authors, the 1960s, politics, the Civil War, dogs, the complexities of race relations, and, of course, the South and his beloved Mississippi. After reviewing the author's Homecomings some ten years ago, a Boston Globe writer concluded, "There's damn fine life left in this man's prose." As is evident by Willie Morris's eighteen books, countless essays, and the insightful profiles and interviews gathered here, there is little doubt that this man's prose will be remembered as fresh, lively, and thought-provoking.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The author relates his life as an African American growing up in the South during the Jim Crow years.

A sixtieth anniversary edition of the American autobiographical classic traces the author's poignant coming of age in the Jim Crow-era South, a period during which he struggled to survive while journeying from innocence to adulthood. By the author of Native Son. 15,000 first printing.

In this collection of essays, the author of A Family's Affairs shows how observing personal and historical events is a writer's calling, remembering her youth, family, and friends, as well as her first-person account of violence on campus at Ole Miss.

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Product Description: Book by University Press of Mississippi (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In an eloquent and candid memoir, Richard Wright records his struggle against self-pity, social injustice, and ingrained racism as he grew to manhood in the Jim Crow South. Reprint. (view table of contents)

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