University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books

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by Daisy Fried
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2001

"The poems successfully maintain a delicate balance, a unique and distinct interior logic." --Philadelphia City Paper "The poems in Daisy Fried's first collection of poetry read like tough, urban fables. Formally innovative and thematically challenging, these poems traverse the geography...
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by Jan Beatty
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008

“Red Sugar is tantalizing and forbidden, but it is no peepshow. The poems are raw, brash, and full of pluck, yet there is tenderness and honest emotion at the core. Jan Beatty reminds us that there is 'nothing / between us and death but one inch.' She takes us to the edge of being and shows us our...
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by Martin Aurand
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1994

Frederick G. Scheibler, Jr. (1872–1958) was the rare turn-of-the-century American architect who looked to progressive movements such as Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts for inspiration, rather than conventional styles. His fresh house designs and plans for apartment buildings and multifamily “group...
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Robert Qualters

Autobiographical Mythologies

by Vicky A. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

Teeming with convulsive energy, raw brush strokes, and Fauvist colors, the paintings of Robert Qualters reflect the multifaceted and kinetic spirit of the artist himself. In these pages, the art historian Vicky A. Clark presents the first in-depth study of the art and life of this iconic Pittsburgh...
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by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1998

"You have to admire a poet who can take an onion, the flu, houseguests, migraines, and a nurse's coat and turn them in to poetry. Of course, Kasdorf is using the concrete to get a deeper things: there's an amazement at life in these poems, and a hard-headed determination to make it work."...
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by Kathleen George
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Ellen Emerson may be the last living survivor of the Johnstown flood. She was only four years old on May 31, 1889, when twenty million tons of water decimated her hometown of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Thousands perished in what was the worst natural disaster in U.S. history at the time. As we witness...
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An Uncommon Passage

Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009

The Great Allegheny Passage Trail forms a hiking and biking route stretching approximately 150 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland, where it connects with the C&O Canal Towpath to reach Washington, DC. The trail is the culmination of many years of work by the Allegheny...
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by Walter O'Meara
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005

Guns at the Forks is a special reissue commemorating the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War.  In a spirited, intelligent, and informative history, O’Meara tells the story of five successive forts, particularly Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt, and the dramatic part they played in the war...
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Big Steel

The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001

by Kenneth Warren
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2001

At its formation in 1901, the United States Steel Corporation was the earth’s biggest industrial corporation, a wonder of the manufacturing world. Immediately it produced two thirds of America’s raw steel and thirty percent of the steel made worldwide. The behemoth company would go on to support...
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The Spencers of Amberson Ave

A Turn-of-the-Century Memoir

by Ethel Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1983

This appealing memoir introduces the family of Charles Hart Spencer and his wife Mary Acheson: seven children born between 1884 and 1895. It also introduces a large Victorian house in Shadyside (a Pittsburgh neighborhood) and a middle-class way of life at the turn of the century. Mr. Spencer,...
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Books Are Weapons

The Polish Opposition Press and the Overthrow of Communism

by Siobhan Doucette
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

Much attention has been given to the role of intellectual dissidents, labor, and religion in the historic overthrow of communism in Poland during the 1980s. Books Are Weapons presents the first English-language study of that which connected them—the press. Siobhan Doucette provides a comprehensive...
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by Ted Kooser
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1994

"Will one day rank alongside of Edgar Lee Masters, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams." --Minneapolis Tribune "Kooser ranges over familiar territory, but maturity and full command of his craft now allow him to risk a wider scope, both in subject matter and form. . . . Weather...
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The Mother/Child Papers

With a new preface by the author

by Alicia Ostriker
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2009

In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker’s  personal tumult  as she considered the world she had brought her son into.
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Producing Good Citizens

Literacy Training in Anxious Times

by Amy J. Wan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014

Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon,...
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