Kent Press: 598 books
Trolling Big-Water Walleyes
Secrets of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Experts reveal surefire methods for walleye trolling, equipment techniques, tactics, and more
On big, open water like the Great Lakes, sprawling Western reservoirs, and large North American rivers, trolling puts more walleyes in the boat—hour for hour—than any other fishing method. Why?...
Classic Cavs
The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Cavaliers History, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This brand-new edition of Classic Cavs counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Cavaliers games, from their 67-loss inaugural NBA season in 1970–71 through the franchise’s renaissance following the triumphant return of LeBron James. The rich, colorful history of the Cavs is woven into tales that...
Ohio Hill Country
A Rewoven Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from the flat or gently rolling portions of the state, differing in landscape, geologic history, ecology, and human history. It is the deeply dissected hill country that was formed over many millions of years by sediments eroded from four ancient mountain...
Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1999
The new standard edition of Edward Taylor's major works of poetry
Daniel Patterson's Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations: A Critical Edition reconsiders the texts of Taylor's two major works for the first time since Donald Stanford's 1960 edition. This volume also...
by Kate Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
“Kate Hancock’s poems combine intellectual rigor with emotional recklessness like oil and water under special dispensation. This rare ability is a tell-tale sign of a true poet, and the reader who lets these poems have their sure way with him or her will not forget them.”—William Matthews
by Will Toedtman
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 1999
“Will Toedtman approaches all his subjects—from street football to Orpheus—with nothing less than full attention. His voice is distinctive, and it clearly has something to say. A steady gaze, subtle pacing, and an ear for the rhythms of both speech and tradition shape these thoughtful poems....
Behind Bayonets
The Civil War in Northern Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
A valuable addition to the literature on Ohio and the Civil War
Eminent Cleveland historian David Van Tassel had undertaken the challenge of writing an illustrated history of the Cleveland homefront during the Civil War. Unfortunately, he died in 2000 before completing his manuscript. Historian...
Scars to Prove It
The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
“When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate...
Ohio's Craft Beers
Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Ohio's Craft Beers 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 color photographs, the book takes readers on a tour of more than 40 of Ohio's larger...
Blood and Ink
An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 1998
Albert Borowitz provides a guide to “fact-based crime literature” focusing on two principal groups of works: non-fictional accounts of crimes and criminal trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies and...
Savage Eye
Melville and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Mellville’s interest in the visual arts and the translation of that interest into his writings is at the center of this new interdisciplinary study of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Melville’s lifelong engagement with the visual arts has been noted in other works, but only Savage...
Finding Utopia
Another Journey Into Lost Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In Finding Utopia, Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio’s forgotten nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended—on roads less traveled—finding more ghost towns, battlefields-turned-cornfields, and old memories that beckon him like spectral hitchhikers. On the way, he meets...
Fort Laurens, 1778-1779
The Revolutionary War in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1976
While the main action of the Revolution swirled along the Atlantic seaboard. Ohio was a no man’s land between the Colonists’ Fort Pitt and the British Fort Detroit. A campaign to neutralize Detroit and win the allegiance of the Indians in Ohio was instigated by General Washington in 1778,...
The Boundaries Between Us
Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
New essays on the settlement of the Old Northwest
Although much has been written about the Old Northwest territory, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by examining lesser known forms of interaction between Euro-Americans and native peoples and their struggles...