Ohio University Press: 522 books
Beep
Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In Beep, David Wanczyk illuminates the sport of blind baseball to show us a remarkable version of America’s pastime. With balls tricked out to squeal three times per second, and with bases that buzz, this game of baseball for the blind is both innovative and intense. And when the best beep baseball...
Taken In Faith
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2002
In 1967, Yvor Winters wrote of Helen Pinkerton, “she is a master of poetic style and of her material. No poet in English writes with more authority.” Unfortunately, in 1967 mastery of poetic style was not, by and large, considered a virtue, and Pinkerton's finely crafted poems were neglected in...
Row by Row
Talking with Kentucky Gardeners
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For two and a half years, Katherine J. Black crisscrossed Kentucky, interviewing home vegetable gardeners from a rich variety of backgrounds. Row by Row: Talking with Kentucky Gardeners is the result, a powerful compilation of testimonies on the connections between land, people, culture, and home.
The...
A Head in Cambodia
A Jenna Murphy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
When the alluring, eleventh-century Cambodian stone head of Radha, consort to Krishna, shows up at the Searles Museum, young curator Jenna Murphy doesn’t suspect that it will lead her to a murder. Asian art is her bailiwick, not criminal investigation, and her immediate concern is simply figuring...
ArtBreak
A Creative Guide to Joyful and Productive Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Play is the central, universally significant activity of childhood. Self-directed play in which adults have a supporting rather than directing role is critical to the development and well-being of children. Yet as children have their days and nights increasingly scripted and planned for them, opportunities...
Brides in the Sky
Stories and a Novella
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Each of the crystalline worlds Cary Holladay brings us in the short stories and novella that make up Brides in the Sky has sisterhood, in all its urgency and peril, at its heart. In the title story, two women in 1850s Virginia marry brothers who promptly uproot them to follow the Oregon Trail west,...
A Death in Bali
A Jenna Murphy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Intrepid young curator-turned-private eye Jenna Murphy—whom readers first met in A Head in Cambodia—goes to the tourist town of Ubud to study early twentieth-century Balinese painting. But her first discovery when she arrives in Indonesia is the speared body of expat artist Flip Hendricks. She...
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,...
The Ohio State University in the Sixties
The Unraveling of the Old Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
At 5:30 p.m. on May 6, 1970, an embattled Ohio State University President Novice G. Fawcett took the unprecedented step of closing down the university. Despite the presence of more than 1,500 armed highway patrol officers, Ohio National Guardsmen, deputy sheriffs, and Columbus city police, university...
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...
Columbus, Ohio
Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Columbus, Ohio: Two Centuries of Business and Environmental Change examines how a major midwestern city developed economically, spatially, and socially, and what the environmental consequences have been, from its founding in 1812 to near the present day. The book analyzes Columbus’s evolution from...
by Louis Stokes, David Chanoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Louis Stokes was a giant in Ohio politics and one of the most significant figures in the U.S. Congress in recent times. When he arrived in the House of Representatives as a freshman in 1969, there were only six African Americans serving. By the time he retired thirty years later, he had chaired the...
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...