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Midwest Modern
The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit
Edited by Jane Glaubinger
Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit is the first book showcasing the work of an important modernist printmaker.An Ohio artist, Hewit (1903-1984), who came of age in the 1920s, was well aware of European modernism and other contemporary trends and worked in both representational and abstract styles.…
Nature and History in Modern Italy
Edited by Marco Armiero and Marcus Hall
Is Italy il bel paese—the beautiful country—where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity’s greed and nature’s cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator’s vision of Italy.…
Out of the Mountains
Appalachian Stories
Meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.…
Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music
By Anne Grimes
Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music is a treasury of American traditional music and Ohio’s folklife heritage. Traveling along the highways and byways of Ohio in the 1950s as a folksinger and collector of traditional music, Anne Grimes encountered people from many different backgrounds who opened up their homes to her to share their most precious family heirlooms—their songs.…
The Tiki King
Stories
A Lebanese housewife, a former horror-film maker, and a cantankerous Russian librarian are among the inhabitants of the offbeat world found in this impressive debut collection. Stacy Tintocalis’s stories take us from a defunct women’s shelter off a Missouri country road to the streets of low-income Hollywood, where her characters yearn for the love that is always just out of reach.…
Trustee for the Human Community
Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa
Edited by Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller
Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department.…
The Uncoiling Python
South African Storytellers and Resistance
There are many collections of African oral traditions, but few as carefully organized as The Uncoiling Python. Harold Scheub, one of the world’s leading scholars of African oral traditions and folklore, explores the ways in which oral traditions have served to combat and subvert colonial domination in South Africa.…
- Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic
- Absent Man
The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt - Access with Attitude
An Advocate’s Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio - Africa Writes Back
The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature - The African AIDS Epidemic
A History - An African American in South Africa
The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche 28 September 1937–1 January 1938 - African Apocalypse
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet - African Entrepreneurship
Muslim Fula Merchants in Sierra Leone - The African Experience with Higher Education
- The African Genius
New Paperback Edition - African Gifts of the Spirit
Pentecostalism & the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement - African Islam and Islam in Africa
Encounters between Sufis and Islamists - African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine
- African Sacred Groves
Ecological Dynamics and Social Change - African Soccerscapes
How a Continent Changed the World’s Game - African Underclass
Urbanisation, Crime, & Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam - African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–1950
- After the Grapes of Wrath
Essays on John Steinbeck in Honor of Tetsumaro Hayashi - After the TRC
Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation - The AIA Guide to Columbus
- Alberta Alone
- Alberta and Freedom
- Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley
- Alexander the Great
A Novel Tr. from the Greek by Theodora Vasils - Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits
War in Northern Uganda, 1985-97 - All Flesh is Grass
The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming - All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing
An Explanation of Meter and Versification - Ambiguous Dancers of Fame
Collected Poems: 1945-1986 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1925-1978 - American and British Poetry
A Guide to the Criticism, 1979-1990 - An American Colony
Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture - American Coverlets and Their Weavers
Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl - American Fantasies
Collected Poems, 1945-1981 - American Moralist
On Law, Ethics, and Government - American Pantheon
Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol - American Pogrom
The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics - An American Vein
Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature - America’s Collectible Cookbooks
The History, the Politics, the Recipes - America’s Sketchbook
The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre - An Amulet of Greek Earth
Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture - Amy Levy
Her Life and Letters - Amy Levy
Critical Essays - Ancient Sisterhood
The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah - And Still Birds Sing
New and Collected Poems - Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs
Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel - Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India, 1780–1913
A Critical Anthology - Annotated Bibliography of Jane Austen Studies, 1984-94
- Anthropology and Historiography of Science
- Antonin Artaud
Man of Vision - Apartheid’s Genesis
- The Apple Falls from the Apple Tree
Stories - Aquamarine Blue 5
Personal Stories of College Students with Autism - An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley
- Architecture in Cincinnati
An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City - Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977–1984
- The Armillary Sphere
Poems - Arrows of Longing
The Correspondence between Anais Nin and Felix Pollak, 1952-1976 - Art and Empire
The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815–1860 - Art and Science of Book Publishing
- Art and the Reformation in Germany
- Art As Image
Prints and Promotion in Cincinnati, Ohio - Art in Context
Understanding Aesthetic Value - At the Palaces of Knossos
- Athens, Ohio
The Village Years - Aurora Leigh
- Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979
- Awakening
- Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast
Pitting the Imaginary Worlds against the Actual - Azores
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