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Africa Writes Back
The African Writers Series & the Launch of African Literature
By James Currey
June 17, 2008, is the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This publication provided the impetus for the foundation of the African Writers Series in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the editorial adviser.…
American Pogrom
The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics
On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the eve of the post–World War II civil rights movement.…
Bead International 2008 & Beyond Basketry
Edited by Andrea R. Lewis
This unique book combines two catalogs in one. Bead International 2008 & Beyond Basketry represents the best of two juried exhibitions held at the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio. Beads have long been worn as jewelry, but in Bead International 2008 contemporary bead artists are shaking things up.…
Come Buy, Come Buy
Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing
From the 1860s through the early twentieth century, Great Britain saw the rise of the department store and the institutionalization of a gendered sphere of consumption. Come Buy, Come Buy considers representations of the female shopper in British women’s writing and demonstrates how women’s shopping practices are materialized as forms of narrative, poetic, and cultural inscription, showing how women writers emphasize consumerism as productive of pleasure rather than the condition of seduction or loss.…
Heterosexual Africa?
The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS
Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDSbuilds from Marc Epprecht’s previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed—by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic.…
In the Balance of Power
Independent Black Politics and Third-Party Movements in the United States
By Omar H. Ali
Historically, most black voters in the United States have aligned themselves with one of the two major parties: the Republican Party from the time of the Civil War to the New Deal and, since the New Deal—and especially since the height of the modern civil rights movement—the Democratic Party.…
Separate from the World
An Ohio Amish Mystery
By P. L. Gaus
As another college year draws to an end, Professor Michael Branden is weary after nearly thirty years of teaching. Sitting in his office on a warm spring day, he receives an unexpected visit from an Amish man who claims his brother, a dwarf like himself, has been murdered.…
- Absent Man
The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt - 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
On Sale - African Apocalypse
The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, a Twentieth-Century South African Prophet - African Entrepreneurship
Muslim Fula Merchants in Sierra Leone
On Sale - The African Experience with Higher Education
On Sale - 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 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
On Sale - 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
On Sale - 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
On Sale - An Amulet of Greek Earth
Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture - Amy Levy
Her Life and Letters
On Sale - Ancient Sisterhood
The Lost Traditions of Hagar and Sarah - And Still Birds Sing
New and Collected Poems
On Sale - Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs
Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel
On Sale - 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
On Sale - 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
On Sale - The Armillary Sphere
Poems - Arrows of Longing
The Correspondence between Anais Nin and Felix Pollak, 1952-1976
On Sale - 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
On Sale - Art in Context
Understanding Aesthetic Value - At the Palaces of Knossos
- Athens, Ohio
The Village Years
On Sale - Aurora Leigh
- Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945–1979
On Sale - Awakening
- Ayi Kwei Armah, Radical Iconoclast
Pitting the Imaginary Worlds against the Actual
On Sale - Azores
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