Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Classic Reds
The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Red History
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
The 50 most historically significant games of baseball's first all-professional team
Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make a list...
The Way It Was
Sex, Surgery, Treasure, & Travel, 1907-1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
George (“Barney”) Crile considers himself a lucky man, lucky to be born when and where he was, lucky to have had the parents he did, lucky in his career, and most of all, lucky in his wives. Barney Crile’s parents were of Cleveland’s elite during that city’s self-described golden age. His...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed principally to study the impact of Bradbury’s writings on American culture and is the chief publication of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies—the archive of Bradbury’s writings located at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Like its pioneering...
The Passion of Meter
A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Passion of Meter is the first extended critical study of Wordsworth's metrical theory and his practice in the art of versification. Until now, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between Wordsworth's attempt to incorporate into his poetry the language of "common...
by William Chrislock
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An engaging tale of life as an immigrant in Cleveland during the post–Civil War era and early twentieth century
The Story of My Life, originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1928, is the engaging and informative autobiography of Frank Vlchek, a Czech immigrant who became a successful businessman...
The New Ray Bradbury Review
Number 6
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
Ray Bradbury recognized as a master of horror fiction
Bradbury, though a celebrated author, is often shortchanged. He is valorized within one genre (science fiction) and marginalized in others (detective fiction, film scripts, poetry, and, yes, horror fiction). His importance and influence...
by W. A. Senior
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant examines Donaldson's first three novels in an attempt to define their place in the fantasy canon. The book begins with an extensive introduction to the fantasy genre in which W.A. Senior eloquently defends fantasy against charges of being mere escapism,...
Translating Slavery, Volume 1
Gender and Race in French Abolitionist Writing, 1780-1830
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
A new, revised, and expanded edition of a translation studies classic
Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. Now in a two-volume...
Moods of the Ohio Moons
An Outdoorsman's Almanac
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
For almost thirty years, Merrill Gilfillan has written outdoor columns devoted primarily to describing and creating moods about the world of nature. These columns are informed by a rural background and field notes from more than sixty years of outdoor experience. In Gilfillan’s words, “Observation...
Arthur Machen and Montgomery Evans
Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit. Montgomery Evans II, a wealthy book collector...
Creatures of Change
An Album of Ohio Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Ohio was once covered by a thick forest and populated by a great variety of animals, but the first blows of settlers axes heralded cataclysmic changes. By 1900 only about 15 percent of the state remained tree-covered. The effects of settlement upon native animal species varied widely, and the fortunes...
Ida McKinley
The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library
This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847– 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from...
Above and Beyond
Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
“Above and Beyond is a treat. Livingston’s knowledge and love of the sport shines through.”—David Maraniss, author of Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
Two Olympic medalists were recognized at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, days before Christmas 2004. One was the...
by Hannah Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.
Cadence captures the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling...