Kent Press: 598 books
Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden
The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Detente
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
How the Cold War came to Africa—and everybody lost
When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed that “SALT lies buried in the sands of...
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...
Seeing Drugs
Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem
Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
Faced with rising heroin use in the United States and the fear of drug-addicted...
by Jay Baruch
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Short stories about the complex maze of health care
Conventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting reality of the contemporary healthcare experience, where mystery, absurdity, and even cruelty are disguised as logic, reason, and compassion....
A Lost King
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Raymond DeCapite’s second published novel, A Lost King, has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a “small masterpiece, so unique in spirit and style.” If the mood of The Coming of Fabrizze is joyous, that of A Lost King is somber. Each of DeCapite’s novels is original in its own way, perhaps...
Arda Inhabited
Environmental Relationships in the Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
With the box office successes of movies based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, familiarity with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is growing. Unfortunately, scholarship dealing with Middle-Earth itself is comparatively rare in Tolkien studies, and students and scholars seeking greater insight...
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...
The Coming of Fabrizze
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
First published in 1960, The Coming of Fabrizze has been called by the New York Herald Tribune a “comic folklore festival about an Italian American colony in Cleveland, Ohio, back in the 1920s when all the land was a little slaphappy—and no one more so than these transplanted countrymen of the...
The Whirligig of Time
A Memoir of Civilian Life in America During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Nora Percival's third memoir completes a trilogy about a woman's life during three significant spans of her long lifetime. It recaptures the arduous days of World War II, when civilians in America were focused on defending our way of life against the brutal tyranny of Nazism. As she delineates her...
Silver Pages on the Lawn
A Student Love Story of the Depression Years of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Silver Pages on the Lawn is the true story of student lovers and their star-crossed romance that endures parental disapproval as well as the want of time, money, and privacy. To bridge long separations, they make love by words alone. Their passionate, eloquent letters, poignant and poetic, are the...