Ohio University Press: 522 books
Home Front to Battlefront
An Ohio Teenager in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he enlisted, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of...
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie
A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics.
The essays in this book, written by eminent law professors,...
The Sage in the Cathedral of Books
The Distinguished Chinese American Library Professional Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The biography of Dr. Hwa-Wei Lee, who was awarded the highly prestigious Melvil Dewey Medal by the American Library Association in 2015, will be welcomed by readers interested in knowing not only more about Lee’s personal achievements and contributions in librarianship but also about the rapid changes...
Viet Nam
Tradition and Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
During his twenty-year tenure as a columnist for Việt Nam News, Hà Nội's English-language newspaper, Hữu Ngọc charmed and invigorated an international readership hungry for straightforward but elegant entrees into understanding Vietnamese culture. The essays were originally collected in the...
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus
Finding the Past in the Present in Ohio’s Capital City
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Ever look at a modern skyscraper or a vacant lot and wonder what was there before? Or maybe you have passed an old house and been curious about who lived there long ago. This richly illustrated new book celebrates Columbus, Ohio’s, two-hundred-year history and supplies intriguing stories about the...
Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
“After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,” Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.
Organized...
Follow the Blue Blazes
A Guide to Hiking Ohio’s Buckeye Trail
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Many changes have taken place in the decade since Follow the Blue Blazes was first published, changes in the trails themselves and in the way we hike them. The Buckeye Trail still wends its way around the state of Ohio, following the course marked out by the characteristic blue blazes on trees and...
The Children of Africa Confront AIDS
From Vulnerability to Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
AIDS is now the leading cause of death in Africa, where twenty-eight million people are HIV-positive, and where some twelve million children have lost one or both parents to AIDS. In Zimbabwe, 45 percent of children under the age of five are HIV-positive, and the epidemic has shortened life expectancy...
Amy Levy
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her...
The Radiology Handbook
A Pocket Guide to Medical Imaging
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Designed for busy medical students, The Radiology Handbook is a quick and easy reference for any practitioner who needs information on ordering or interpreting images.The book is divided into three parts:- Part I presents a table, organized from head to toe, with recommended imaging tests for common...
Prosperity Far Distant
The Journal of an American Farmer, 1933–1934
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell University in 1933, but unable to find work, Charles M. Wiltse joined his parents on the small farm they had recently purchased in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living selling eggs, corn, and other farm goods at prices that were barely...
by Roy Doron, Toyin Falola
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans’ struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation. Though he is rightly known for his human...
by Michelle Houts, Erica Magnus
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
It took her two tries, but in 1955, sixty-seven-year-old Emma “Grandma” Gatewood became the first woman to solo hike the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one thru-hike. Gatewood has become a legend for those who hike the trail, and in her home state of Ohio, where she helped found the...
Virginia Hamilton
America’s Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Long before she wrote The House of Dies Drear, M. C. Higgins, the Great, and many other children’s classics, Virginia Hamilton grew up among her extended family near Yellow Springs, Ohio, where her grandfather had been brought as a baby through the Underground Railroad. The family stories she heard...