University Of Akron Press: 70 books
by Emilia Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Signaletics pits the measured against the immeasurable, the body against identity, and the political against the personal. With a defunct 19th-century body measurement system of criminal identification as a foundation, the poems move in and out of history, only to arrive at the immediate voice of...
Blazes, Posts & Stones
A History of Ohio’s Original Land Subdivisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
A culmination of decades of research on field notes, plats, correspondence, legislation, and observations of surveyors, cartographers, government officials, military commanders, Native Americans, early settlers, and land speculators, this volume is the first of its kind in nearly a century. Interweaving...
European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream
The Story of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
The Atlantic & Great Western Railroad was one of the earliest and largest east-west railroad projects in the United States. It was the dream of American builders William Reynolds of Pennsylvania and Marvin Kent of Ohio. By using the non-standard six-foot gauge, these men helped construct a trunk...
A Poet Drives a Truck
Poems by and about Lowell a. Levant
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Lowell A. Levant had the twin vocations of poet and truck driver. He rose to prominence in Berkeley in the ‘60’s as a member of the Artists, Musicians, Poets, and Sympathizers Local of the I.W.W., whose work was collected in Poems Read in the Spirit of Peace and Gladness. Readers will notice four...
Towns and Communication
Communication in Towns
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The advent of email and texting has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In essence, we have lost "touch" in our dealings with each other. This change may have been speeded by newer technologies, but telegraphs and telephones had a great impact in our perceptions of time and place....
by Steve Kistulentz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Steve Kistulentz's second book of poems, Little Black Daydream, is a chronicle of post-capitalist America. With a precise ear for the American patois, it addresses the uncertainty of the future at the exact moment when those questions are at the forefront of our culture. The book teems with the dazzling...
From Séance to Science
A History of the Profession of Psychology in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
This book is intended to round out the picture of American psychology’s past, adding the history of psychological practice to the story of psychological science. Written by two well-recognized authorities in the field, this book covers the profession and practice of psychology in America from the...
The Sunday Game
At the Dawn of Professional Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
In the most complete and compelling account of the origins of professional football, The Sunday Game tells the stories of all the teams that played independent football in the small towns and industrial cities of the Midwest, from early in the twentieth century to the beginning of the National Football...
Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment
The Story of the First Interpreters of the Fourteenth Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Infinite Hope and Finite Disappointment details the hopes and promises of the 14th Amendment in the historical, legal and sociological context within which it was framed. Part of the Reconstruction Amendments collectively known as "The Second Founding," the 14th Amendment fundamentally altered...
Lake Erie Rehabilitated
Controlling Cultural Eutrophication 1960s-1990s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
During the 1960s, inland bodies of water in North America and Europe experienced a dangerous transformation. Nutrients were dumped into the lakes, causing chain reactions which severely impacted on lake environments. The excessive increase into inland waters through human activity, known as cultural...
by Emily Rosko
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
“First marvel; then record.” This tempered revision of Wordsworth's famous definition of poetry as a spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion recollected in tranquility serves as a useful guide to Emily Rosko's Weather Inventions. The poems in Rosko's third collection capture an enduring sense...
Races, Reforms, & Policy
Implications of the 2014 Midterm Elections
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The midterm elections of 2014 saw the culmination of long-term trends in American politics and laid the groundwork for Republicans' successes in 2016. To what extent were the results the product of shifting partisan and demographic trends, and to what extent did policy questions drive the results?...
Mysteries of the Hopewell
Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Buried beneath today's Midwestern towns, under several layers of earth and the accumulated debris of two thousand years, are the clues to an ancient mystery. A Native American people, now known as the Hopewell, lived and worked these lands, building earthworks which in some instances dwarf the ruins...
by Matthew Guenette
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
In American Busboy, a wry anti-mythology, the anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indignities and poor pay of unskilled labor, the capricious deus ex machina of mean-spirited middle management, the zombified consumption of summer tourists,...