University Of Akron Press: 70 books
Union and States’ Rights
A History and Interpretation of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 150 Years After Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The third book in the &LAW series addresses the perpetual issue of state sovereignty in the federal union-'states' rights.' From the 1770s, through the Confederate states' secession, and continuing until now, a central issue of governance is state power to object to, cancel, or be immune from...
True Tales from the Campaign Trail
Stories Only Political Consultants Can Tell
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
True Tales from the Campaign Trail finds Democratic and Republican political consultants putting aside their differences to offer entertaining and honest insights into the art of the political campaign. First-hand accounts from across the spectrum detail the trials and tribulations of primaries for...
Redefining Efficiency
Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Technological Change in the U.S. Petroleum Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Today, pollution control regulations define how complex technological systems interact with natural ecosystems and competing human uses of the environment. Redefining Efficiency examines the evolution of this industrial ecology in the United States by tracing numerous pollution concerns associated...
Murder Culture and Injustice
Four Sensational Cases in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Walter Hixson's pithy narrative account of four sensational murder cases---the Lizzie Borden, Lindbergh baby, Sam Sheppard, and O.J. Simpson trials---offers interesting observations into the greater cultural and political forces that shaped their verdicts. His step-by-step analysis of the details...
by Matthew Guenette
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Lee Ann Roripaugh called American Busboy a "wry anti-mythology" where an "anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indignities and poor pay of unskilled labor [and] the capricious deus ex machina of mean-spirited middle management."...
by Seth Abramson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Here is a book that is truly quietly deeply subtle. It appears to operate along the lines of here is how one thing follows another; it appears to rely on anticipated cause and effect to spring us forth from one fraction of a split second’s thought to the next. There are many and then actions in...
by Jennifer Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Jennifer Moore's debut collection takes its title from a bullfighting technique in which the matador draws the bull with his cape; in these poems, however, traditional moves are reconfigured and roles are subverted. In a broader sense, the word "veronica" (from the Latin vera, or "true"...
Pictures at an Exhibition
A Petersburg Album
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album is, at its core, an unrequited love song to St. Petersburg. The fever dream of Peter the Great, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Akhmatova, St. Petersburg is the occasion for a broader meditation...
by Emily Rosko
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Art is about something the way a cat is about the house," says Allen Grossman. This is abundantly true of Emily Rosko's poems in Prop Rockery, a condition she defines with a quote from King Lear: "a looped and windowed raggedness." And while this condition is "pretend," and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The poetic manifesto has a long, rich history that hasn't been updated until now. What does a poetic manifesto look like in a time of increased pluralism, relativism, and danger? How can a manifesto open a space for new and diverse voices? Forty-five poets at different stages of their careers contribute...
by Brittany Cavallaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The poems in Brittany Cavallaro’s Girl-King are whispered from behind a series of masks, those of victim and aggressor, nineteenth-century madame and reluctant magician’s girl, of truck-stop Persephone and frustrated Tudor scholar. This “expanse of girls, expanding still” chase each other...
by Emilia Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
The poems of Empty Clip bore into the cultures of violence in the United States while candidly cross-firing upon the poets' complicity and testifying on these cultures' effects upon female body image and mental health. From a meditation about a bullet hole-animated PowerPoint presentation on campus...
Sexual Politics
The Gay Person in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Contemporary and controversial, Shannon Gilreath's Sexual Politics is an important update to the continuing debate over the place of gay people in American law, politics, and religion. Gilreath incisively navigates a number of complex issues, including the delicate balance between sexual privacy and...
Political Communication & Strategy
Consequences of the 2014 Midterm Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Some aspects of the 2014 midterm elections would have been unimaginable a decade earlier. SuperPACs spent unlimited amounts of money, candidates used Twitter and other social media to communicate with voters, and Democrats found themselves all but entirely cast out of federal office in the South....