Ohio University Press: 522 books
An Abundance of Flowers
More Great Flower Breeders of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Walk into any nursery, florist, or supermarket, and you’ll encounter displays of dozens of gorgeous flowers, from chrysanthemums to orchids. At one time these fanciful blooms were the rare trophies of the rich and influential—even the carnation, today thought of as one of the humblest cut flowers....
by Janet Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
This is the first digital version of Cases of Circumstantial Evidence, a collection of three historical novels by noted American writer Janet Lewis. For the first time, these works have been brought together in a single edition, each with a new introduction by Kevin Haworth:The Wife of Martin GuerreBased...
Landscaping with Trees in the Midwest
A Guide for Residential and Commercial Properties
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Trees not only add beauty and value to property but also enhance the physical environment by providing shade, reflecting heat, and blocking wind. Choosing the right trees for the right location and conditions, however, is not always easy: each species has its own requirements for sunlight, water,...
The Memoir and the Memoirist
Reading and Writing Personal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
The memoir is the most popular and expressive literary form of our time. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it, propelling many memoirs by relative unknowns to the top of the best-seller list. Writing programs challenge authors to disclose themselves in personal narrative. Memoir and personal...
The Constant Listener
Henry James and Theodora Bosanquet—An Imagined Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In 1907, in a quiet English village, Theodora Bosanquet answered Henry James’s call for someone to transcribe his edits and additions to his formidable body of work. The aging James had agreed to revise his novels and tales into the twenty-four-volume New York Edition. Enter Bosanquet, a budding...
Terminal Diagrams
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Garrick Davis’s Terminal Diagrams may have been inspired by the illustrated maps in airport lounges, or perhaps they are the blueprints of the Apocalypse, with their subjects and objects representing the bitter fruits of either some future nightmare or the present world. Regardless, their vision...
Prophetic Politics
Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas’s mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier Totality and Infinity and that...
Fire Is Your Water
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Sacred chants are Ada Franklin’s power and her medicine. By saying them, she can remove warts, stanch bleeding, and draw the fire from burns. At age twenty, her reputation as a faith healer defines her in her rural Pennsylvania community. But on the day in 1953 that her family’s barn is consumed...
Upcycling Sheltered Workshops
A Revolutionary Approach to Transforming Workshops into Creative Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
At a time when the traditional sheltered workshop model has fallen under rightful criticism, and a new paradigm for disability programming is not yet in place, Upcycling Sheltered Workshops offers a revolutionary alternative. As many push to dismantle sheltered workshops, Susan Dlouhy and Patty Mitchell...
Belonging
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
There are worlds within our own in which even the smallest victories are hard won, the tender moment is almost unbearable, and the understated rings like a bell. Belonging, a new collection by British poet Dick Davis, is an extended visit to these worlds.
Deepened by his dry wit and the formal...
In the Shade of the Shady Tree
Stories of Wheatbelt Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
In the Shade of the Shady Tree is a collection of stories set in the Western Australian wheatbelt, a vast grain-growing area that ranges across the southwestern end of the immense Australian interior. Kinsella’s stories offer glimpses into the lives of the people who call this area home, as the...
Ministers of Fire
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Kabul, Afghanistan, 1979: CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation’s intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador. Burling’s reaction to the murder, and his desire to understand its larger meaning, propel him on...
The Quick-Change Artist
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2006
In these stories of magic and memory, clustered around a resort hotel in a small Virginia community, Cary Holladay takes the reader on an excursion through the changes wrought by time on the community and its visitors. From the quiet of a rural forest to the rhythms of rock and roll, The Quick-Change...
Mirages
The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1939–1947
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Mirages opens at the dawn of World War II, when Anaïs Nin fled Paris, where she lived for fifteen years with her husband, banker Hugh Guiler, and ends in 1947 when she meets the man who would be “the One,” the lover who would satisfy her insatiable hunger for connection. In the middle looms a...