Emory School of Law
Advancing the Rule of Law is a celebration of an institution that helped elevate the legal profession through the ethics, insights, and achievements of its faculty, staff, alumni, and students. From its prescient founders, who declared that whatever the number of lawyers in the region, “the demand for properly trained lawyers continues [to be] under-supplied,” to […]
Emory Clinic
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Saint Joseph’s Hospital
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/st.-josephs-hospital-3d-1.png In 1880, four intrepid Sisters of Mercy traveled from Savannah to Atlanta, tasked with establishing a hospital committed to medical excellence and compassionate care in an era when hospitals were perceived as places to die. From its beginnings in a two-story house with ten beds to current research that turns groundbreaking initiatives into treatments […]
The American Cancer Society
Few people realize a diagnosis of cancer at the turn of the last century was more than just a disease—it was a stigma. It was considered contagious, families did not want it mentioned in obituaries of loved ones, and doctors treating cancer patients had their practice privileges suspended. The American Cancer Society changed that and […]
Simmons Mattress Company
A Classic Bedtime Story—125 Years of Innovation tells the story of a “classic” American business. In 1870 Zalmon Gilbert Simmons launched a small manufacturing operation making cheese boxes. Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, Simmons was always looking for new ventures. One day while reading a newspaper article, his eye caught an article about mass producing woven […]
Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority (GSCCCA)
The Georgia Superior Courts Clerks’ Cooperative Authority is one of the most unique state organizations in America. While other states provide some of the same services, Georgia was the first state to offer as many services through one online portal—property tax records, deeds, notary documents, and much more—and at no cost to the taxpayers. From […]
Workers Compensation
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/wc-jacket-and-spread-slider.png In the nearly one hundred years since the world began to acknowledge that both workers and employers needed protection, the law—and those practicing and overseeing it—has gone from the simple to the complicated, from the obvious to the inconceivable. Just & Noble Cause traces that history, telling the story of the struggles by attorneys on both […]
Candler School of Theology
Religion and Reason Joined, our centennial history of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, begins with a good, old-fashioned argument fueled by the money of a nineteenth-century robber baron. The argument was resolved, for the most part, by a hard-headed bishop and his brother, the most successful purveyor of carbonated, flavored water in […]
Jewish Federation of Atlanta
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Bookhouse-JewishFederation3.png For this history of what is now one of the largest Jewish populations in America, Bookhouse Group worked with a professor of Judaic studies at Emory University to tell a story that began in 1845 when two Jewish German immigrants settled in Atlanta. Through oral histories, exquisite photographs, and a compelling manuscript, L’Chaim explores the growth […]
Atlanta Athletic Club
https://bookhouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/acc-2-3d-jacket-slider.png Several Georgia golf clubs lay claim to being one of the golfing homes to the legendary Bobby Jones, but the fabled Atlanta Athletic Club is the only true heir. Named time and again as one of America’s top golf clubs, it is not only a sporting paradise, but is host to many PGA events […]