The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books

by Juliana Vice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002

Invoking the sacred and the profane, Juliana Gray Vice speaks to the reader with a powerful voice. From spotting geese at a Krispy Kreme to an imagined meeting of Tituba and John Dee, the poetry of History in Bones catechizes the reader with the mundane and the extraordinary.“Juliana Vice writes...
by Jason Gray
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014

“Jason Gray’s How to Paint the Savior Dead rethinks the complex traditional connections among women’s bodies, spirituality, and art. Gray is not afraid of hard work, hard thought, and big vision just because the subject of his fascination has been both exalted and besmirched by tradition, both...
by Lesley Jenike
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017

“In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike’s new collection, she writes, ‘It’s our language: what can we call a thing that is and is not.’ These poems are haunted by a ‘non-child,’ a child who was not to be born, and with it, a life the speaker was not to live. Absence itself becomes a nearly tangible...
by Jack D. Welsh M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013

From official records, personal letters, and postwar memoirs, Jack D. Welsh, M.D., has compiled the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. The generals' early military experience, at West Point and in Florida, Mexico, or on the western frontier, meant that hundreds of them were exposed to...

Collaborative Form

Studies in the Relations of the Arts

by Thomas Jensen Hines
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

Collaborative Form attempts to show the nature and limits of works of art that are made up of two or more artistic forms. The first task of this book is to analyze and interpret a set of such combinations. Each chapter treats one collaborative work and attempts to show that the principles of collaboration...

Charles Williams

Alchemy and Integration

by Gavin Ashenden
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

An examination of the tumultuous inner life of this poet and writer He was a close friend of T. S. Eliot, deeply admired by C. S. Lewis, inspirational for W. H. Auden in his journey to faith, and a literary sparring partner for J. R. R. Tolkien. Yet half a century after his death, much of Charles...

The Great Tower of Elfland

The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald

by Zachary A. Rhone
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017

Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a unified group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity. Scholars and a few Inklings themselves supported the premise until 1978, when Humphrey Carpenter wrote the first major biography of the group, disputing a...

Russia in War and Revolution

General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918

by Neil V. Salzman
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

General William V. Judson was Military Attache and Chief of the American Military Mission in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. His letters, memoranda, and reports constitute one of the most informed eye-witness accounts of war and revolutionary conditions under the Provisional and Bolshevik...

Pen of Fire

John Moncure Daniel

by Peter Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1998

During his short and stormy life, John Moncure Daniel served as U.S. diplomat, journalist, Confederate officer, and conscience of the Confederacy. Strongly pro-slavery, fiercely loyal to the Confederacy, and an outspoken opponent of Jefferson Davis, Daniel made many enemies and fought as many as nine...

Crossing the Deadlines

Civil War Prisons Reconsidered

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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018

The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on bold initiatives with...

Silk and Bamboo Music in Shanghai

The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition

by J. Lawrence Witzleben
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

"Of all the world's major musical cultures, that of China may well be the least thoroughly understood and most often misunderstood by Western scholars and music lovers, "writes J. Lawrence Witzleben. Witzleben adds to the understanding of this musical culture with the first book-length study...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014

In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critical period in American history. Following a decade of prosperity, the Great Depression brought unemployment, economic ruin, poverty, and a sense of hopelessness...

Colombia and the United States

The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960

by Bradley Lynn Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014

This book will also be available in the following formats: e-book, audio book, and large-print paperback. Visit www.caravanbooks.org for details. A valuable addition to the New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series World War II and the Cold War transformed U.S.-Colombian security...
by Robert Simons, Gary DeWine, Larry Ledebur
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016

Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well located, attractive, eligible for tax credits, and available for redevelopment. In this practical and...
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