Bøger udgivet af Kent State University Press

When school children from Kent, Ohio and Florence, Italy, were invited to express their thoughts about "Where I'm From" in poetry, the connections that emerged were remarkable. Their responses to this prompt demonstrate the underlying importance of home, families, the natural world, and the creative identities that children harbour within them.

Working as a photographer for the Kent State University student newspaper and yearbook, Howard Ruffner was a college sophomore when the tragic shootings of May 4, 1970, occurred. This book presents his photographic memoir of events surrounding the shootings - a tragedy that left four students dead and nine others wounded.

An in-depth look at a highly successful era in the Cleveland Browns' history, which presents the narrative of the team along with personal profiles of players like Hall of Famers Paul Warfield, Leroy Kelly, Gene Hickerson, and Lou Groza.

Traces the Zoar Separatists' beginnings in Wurttemberg, Germany, and their disputes with authorities over religious differences, their immigration to America, and their establishment of the communal Society of Separatists of Zoar.

The firsthand account of Captain Brady, a US Naval aviator who participated in some of the world's most significant events from the twentieth century, including the Great Depression, Pearl Harbour, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Korean War.

Discusses both natural and human histories as it focuses on the Allegheny Plateau and hill country in Ohio's eastern counties. Formed of fourteen interrelated essays, Resurrection of the Wild blends lived experience with both scientific and literary research, and makes a compelling argument for the importance of ecological preservation in Ohio.

Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make a list of their own.

Classic Bengals: The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Bengals History includes a list of the 50 greatest games by opponent, 'near misses' that almost made the list, stats on each game, and an insightful foreword from 'Mr. Bengal', Dave Lapham, who has played or broadcast games for the team in 42 of its 50 seasons.

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. Lincoln A. Mitchell argues that the moves to California, second only to Jackie Robinson's debut in 1947, forged Major League Baseball as we know it today.

A small area of western Pennsylvania around Pittsburgh has produced almost 25 percent of the modern era quarterbacks enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Their stories, feats, and statistics are brought to life in America's Football Factory through riveting anecdotes, extensive research, and exclusive interviews with their coaches, friends, family, and peers.

Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during "the long week-end" between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world.In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explore how Sayers used her fictional hero to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time: world wars, the crumbling of the privileged aristocracy, the rise of democracy, and the expanding struggle of women for equality.

Celebrates the variety of craft brewing in Ohio, offers appreciations of its quality, and reports on the renaissance of the brewer's art throughout the Buckeye State. Beautifully illustrated with colour photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's larger and more influential breweries and provides detailed descriptions of most of the others.

Winner of the 2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Mark Doty, Judge "It's a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the complex project of transforming their own gender... Oliver Bendorf writes from a paradoxical, new-world position: the adult voice of a man who has just appeared in the world. A man emergent, a man in love, alive in the fluid instability of any category." --Mark Doty, from the Foreword "Bendorf's collection indeed opens the door to a spectral wilderness, an otherworldly pastoral, a queer ecology endlessly transformed by possibility, grief, and the unruly wanting of our names and bodies. Stunningly lyrical and beautifully theoretical, The Spectral Wilderness is an invitation one cannot turn down; the book calls us to travel with Bendorf, to study the topography of becoming because "what we used to be matters" in the way that language matters--however fleeting, however mistaken, however contradictory it might be." --Stacey Waite, author of Butch Geography "What gorgeous and ravenous rackets Oliver Bendorf's poems are made of; what a yearning and beautiful heart. 'Lift a geode from the ground and crack me open, ' he writes, which is more or less what these poems do for me: break me open to what might sparkle and blaze, what might glisten and burn inside. The Spectral Wilderness is a wonderful book." --Ross Gay, author of Against Which and Bringing the Shovel Down

Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and cocreator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faerie, a world they both create and inhabit, and with the elements that make that world the special place it is.

Tells the story of R.T. Stewart's career as an undercover wildlife law enforcement officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife. Poachers Were My Prey chronicles his many exciting undercover adventures, detailing the techniques he used in putting poachers behind bars.

Beautifully illustrated by James A. Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford - and a seat at their table at The Eagle and Child pub. It shows how encouragement and criticism made all the difference in The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other books written by the members of this literary circle.

Follow award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk as he chronicles the lives of the students and teachers at the fictitious Westview High School. Fans will enjoy the progression of Funky's subtle evolution from gags to situational humour to behavioural humour.

In Classic Pens, author David Finoli's tour of the best moments in the Pittsburgh Penguins' long history will evoke special memories from long time fans and delight those who currently follow the team.

Counts down some of the fifty greatest Cleveland Browns games, from unexpected upsets to incredible comebacks to titanic championship battles. This title presents the rich, six-decade history of the Browns. It also covers the gritty All-American Football Conference games played in the shadow of World War II.

In this classic and coveted volume, artist Frank N. Wilcox tackles the difficult job of mapping the Indian trails of Ohio. Basing his work on the journals and records of early settlers and soldiers, his knowledge of Native American ways, and his intimacy with the Ohio landscape, he locates and documents the major Indian towns and trails that crisscross the state.

In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders--the first book to examine the horrific series of unsolved dismemberment murders that terrorized the Kingsbury Run neighborhood from 1934 to 1938. Through his access to a wealth of previously unavailable material, Badal was able to present a far more detailed and accurate picture of the battle between Cleveland safety director Eliot Ness and the unidentified killer who avoided both detection and apprehension. In his groundbreaking historical study, Badal established beyond any doubt the truth of the legend that Ness had a secret suspect whom he had subjected to a series of interrogation sessions, complete with lie detector tests, in a secluded room in a downtown hotel. Badal also disclosed recently unearthed evidence that identified exactly who that mysterious suspect was. But was he the infamous Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run? Badal presented all the evidence available at the time and invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Now, armed with conclusive new information, Badal returns to the absorbing tale of those terrible murders in an expanded edition of In the Wake of the Butcher. For the very first time in the history of research into the Kingsbury Run murders, he presents compelling evidence that establishes exactly where the killer incapacitated his victims, as well as the location of the long-fabled "secret laboratory" where he committed murder and performed both dismemberment and decapitation. Was Eliot Ness's secret suspect the Mad Butcher? Thanks to this new information, Badal is finally able to answer that question with certainty.

Presenting an examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, this work argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. It is aimed at those interested in early American literary studies and historiography as well as women's and gender studies.

In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up. Hauptmann's Ladder is a testament to the truth that counters the revisionist histories all too common in the true crime genre.

Have you ever wondered what your favourite 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 with Cleveland's Favorite Chefs takes you into the private kitchens of 35 local culinary greats to discover what's really cooking.

Counts down some of the greatest Cleveland Indians games, from wild ninth-inning comebacks to dazzling pitching performances to spellbinding playoff encounters. This book features the history of Cleveland's endearing baseball franchise, from weekday matinees at cozy League Park at the dawn of the twentieth century to autumn nights at Jacobs Field.

Presents the history of the Phillies. This book chronicles the Phillies franchise's turbulent past - from its frustrating early decades, through its heartbreaking loss to the Boston Red Sox in the 1915 World Series, to its exciting 'Whiz Kids' pennant of 1950.

Offers a photographic documentation of outstanding natural habitats in Ohio. This book features approximately forty sites, encompassing nearly various types of habitats found in the state and representing different regions of Ohio. It is suitable for those with an interest in Ohio's natural history and landscape.