Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Baseball Goes West
The Dodgers, the Giants, and the Shaping of the Major Leagues
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Following the 1957 season, two of baseball's most famous teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants,left the city they had called home since the 19th century and headed west. The Dodgers went to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco. Those events have entered baseball lore, and indeed...
In the Kitchen with Cleveland's Favorite Chefs
35 Fabulous Meals in About an Hour
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
A rare behind-the-scenes look at how Cleveland’s top toques entertain at home
Have you ever wondered what your favorite local chefs cook at home? What they prepare for their own family and friends? What they whip up when truly pressed for time? The secret’s finally out as In the Kitchen...
The Birth of Development
How the World Bank, Food And Agriculture Organization, And World Health Organization Have Changed the World, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
A comprehensive examination of economic globalization
Focused on the creation and evolution of post-1945 internationalist ideology, The Birth of Development highlights efforts to diffuse the destructive role of the nation-state in world affairs by constructing truly international organizations...
by Carol C. Chin
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
A unique analysis that deepens our understanding of U.S.–East Asian relations
In the period between the Sino-Japanese War in the mid-1890s and the end of World War I, the United States, China, and Japan found themselves, in different ways, seeking to redefine their national identities. By...
Arrow Talk
Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Arrow Talk makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Melanesian culture and contemporary sociopolitical issues in Papua New Guinea. In a post modern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this book makes a cogent argument for cultural holism...
As Ohio Goes
Life in the Post-Recession Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we rarely hear the voices of regular people living the transformation.
As Ohio Goes is a journey...
by Daniel L. Rice, Gary Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Ohio’s original heavily forested landscape included glacial lakes, large rivers, and streams that teemed with an abundant variety of fish, most of which remain resident today. Native Fishes of Ohio documents the more than 130 species originally found in the state and describes how their aquatic...
Proud Servant
The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“These memoirs, by a seasoned and highly competent career diplomatist, covering his various involvements with Latin America and his frequent tiffs with his own government, give an authoritative and amusing picture of the trials of foreign service life and work around the period of the Second World...
by Jim Tully, Mark Dawidziak
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
A picture of life in the boxing ring
“Few novelists captured the contradictions of his country so simply or so honestly in the metaphor of the pure, fatalistic, and merciless community of bruising.”—from the Foreword
When The Bruiser was first published in 1936, almost every reviewer...
Landmarks
Reflections on Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Landmarks addresses a wide range of questions relevant to the recent history of anthropology and its importance to contemporary issues. These questions include the significance of anthropology for Third World studies; the debate on whether anthropology is a scientific or a humanistic subject; anthropology...
by Juliana Vice
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
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...
The Bright Streets of Surfside
The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Bright Streets of Surfside chronicles 10 years in the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer, as witnessed and shared by a fellow writer close to him at the time. In 1978, with a mixture of hero worship and academic responsibility as director of creative writing at the University of Miami, Lester Goran...
by Jason Gray
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
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
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...