The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
Safirka
An American Envoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1996
Peter S. Bridges’s service as an American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers. Bridges...
Learning to Heal
Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again...
Not All Politics Is Local
Reflections of a Former County Chairman
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1998
This engaging narrative takes us behind the scenes and past the analyses and renders the inside story of the Allen County (Ohio) Democratic Party during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
More than just portraying the internal dynamics of a political party, Not All Politics Is Local affords the...
by Diane Gilliam Fisher, Carol Donley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Recipe for Blackberry Cake is a collection of poems about women’s lives—poems about girlhood, about mothers and daughters, about how relationships between women are distorted by violence in the home. The poems tell the stories of four generations of women, beginning in the coal camps of West Virginia...
Hemingway's Cuban Son
Reflections on the Writer by His Longtime Majordomo
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
“This is the story of a poor, young Cuban boy who grew into a man and gained the trust and respect of a famous American author, whom he loved like a father. A man he called ‘Papa.’’—from the Preface
In 1996 René Villarreal returned to Cuba to retrieve his memoir of his life with...
Congress from the Inside
Observations from the Majority and the Minority
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1999
Four decades of Democratic control of Congress abruptly came to an end with the 1994 elections, which propelled the Republican party to an unfamiliar role as the majority party in both houses of Congress. Second-term congressman from Ohio Sherrod Brown was thrust into this frenetic first 100 days...
Disqualified
Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the “World’s Fastest...
Conundrums for the Long Week-End
England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during “the long week-end” between the First and...
The Widows' Handbook
Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Widows convey their feelings and survival strategies in this compelling anthology
The Widows’ Handbook is the first anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir. This stirring...
The Battle of Lake Erie and Its Aftermath
A Reassessment
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Experts weigh in on a pivotal engagement in the War of 1812
Few naval battles in American history have left a more enduring impression on America’s national consciousness than the Battle of Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry’s battle flag emblazoned with...
Cleveland
A Metropolitan Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
After enjoying exceptional growth at the turn of the last century, Cleveland's fortunes, like that of many metropolitan centers, have sharply declined. How much of this change is due to characteristics of growth and development, the outmigration of population and investment' technological advances,...
Confronting the Odds
African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
The history of African American entrepreneurship has produced a number of studies of economic development on the national level, but very few have examined this growth at the local level. Confronting the Odds was written to bridge that gap, and Bessie House-Soremekun provides this historical analysis...
by Marcus Gleisser
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2001
Cyrus S. Eaton was born on December 27, 1883, in the quiet Nova Scotian village of Pugwash. He often visited Cleveland, Ohio, spending summer vacations from college with his uncle and was employed in 1905 by his first teacher, John D. Rockefeller Sr., as a clerk and troubleshooter for the East Ohio...
by Todd Savitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An examination of the medical experiences of African Americans
During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological...