Ohio University Press imprint: 440 books
The Locavore’s Kitchen
A Cook’s Guide to Seasonal Eating and Preserving
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
More and more Americans are becoming dedicated locavores, people who prefer to eat locally grown or produced foods and who enjoy the distinctive flavors only a local harvest can deliver. The Locavore’s Kitchen invites readers to savor homegrown foods that come from the garden, the farm stand down...
The Midwestern Native Garden
Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Midwestern gardeners and landscapers are becoming increasingly attracted to noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants over popular nonnative species. The Midwestern Native Garden offers viable alternatives to both amateurs and professionals, whether they are considering adding a few native...
Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone
Ethics, Pedagogy, and Effecting Change in Field-Based Courses
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2019
By taking students out of their comfort zone, field-based courses—which are increasingly popular in secondary and postsecondary education—have the potential to be deep, transformative learning experiences. But what happens when the field in question is a site of active or recent conflict? In Conflict...
The Plot Thickens
Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Originally published in 1995, Barns of the Midwest is a masterful example of material cultural history. It arrived at a critical moment for the agricultural landscape. The 1980s were marked by farm foreclosures, rural bank failures, the continued rise of industrialized agriculture, and severe floods...
The Ohio State University
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Raimund E. Goerler, acclaimed archivist and historian, has written the definitive guidebook to the history of The Ohio State University, one of the world's largest universities and a prominent land-grant institution. Using a topical strategy—ranging widely through critical events in OSU's history,...
by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This New York Times best seller by Helen Hooven Santmyer recounts the lives of a group of women who start a study club in a small town in southwestern Ohio in 1868. Over the years, the club evolves into an influential community service organization in the town. Numerous characters are introduced in...
Hip Sublime
Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into...
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics
Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain by Katarzyna Olga Beilin takes readers on a journey through the history of alternative thought that challenges mainstream understandings of the relations between the human and nonhuman...
Financial Basics
A Money-Management Guide for Students, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Students are confronted with major financial decisions as they enter college, and yet they have little experience with personal finance. Their decisions, if not well made, could adversely affect them throughout their lives. This book is meant to empower students at the beginning of their financial...
Language Files
Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics, 12th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics has become one of the most widely adopted, consulted, and authoritative introductory textbooks to linguistics ever written. The scope of the text makes it suitable for use in a wide range of courses, while its unique organization...
by Susanna Lee
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
The cynical but kind-hearted detective is the soul of the classic hard-boiled story, that chronicle of world-weary urban pessimism. In Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority, Susanna Lee argues that this fiction functions as a measure for individual responsibility in the modern...
Suture and Narrative
Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity in Fiction and Film by George Butte offers a new phenomenological understanding of how fiction and film narratives use particular techniques to create and represent the experience of community. Butte turns to the concept of suture from Lacanian film theory...
Permissible Narratives
The Promise of Latino/a Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In his groundbreaking new study, Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature, Christopher González examines the difficulties Latina/o writers face in writing beyond the narrow expectations of U.S. readership in the stories they tell. González argues that a constrained conception...