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Paul Patton was reared in Rix Mills, Ohio, a small village in Muskingum County surrounded by family farms and criss-crossed by gravel roads. This work presents 100 of the more than 500 paintings of Rix Mills by Paul Patton. He describes the scenes he painted, recalling the mill, and blacksmith shop

Features essays on Cold War tensions within NATO and the Warsaw Pact. This title covers the various intrabloc tensions that plagued both alliances during the Cold War and about how those tensions affected the alliances' operation. It uses a wide range of case studies to explore these often-significant tensions.

Analyzes how early British immigrants shaped Ohio's politics and institutions. Using biographies from county archives and histories, Ohio and British census figures, and ship passenger lists to identify the immigrants, the author draws a portrait of their occupations, settlement patterns, experiences and underscores their role in Ohio history.

Investigating how Japan grew from an economically limited country to the threshold of industrial power, this study describes Japanese economic development in the 1950s as one of the major achievements of the Eisenhower administration. The book incorporates both Japanese and American sources.

A study of Finland's role in Soviet-American relations during the onset of the Cold War. It examines Finland's attempts to remain neutral after World War II and not join the people's democracies in 1945, and covers the ""Finnish Solution"", whereby Finland was allowed to coexist with the Soviets.

These letters to ""Michal"", Charles Williams's endearing name for his wife, from ""Serge"", a moniker by which his close friends addressed him, are more than just a collection of love letters. They throw light on the man himself, his work, and Williams in the context of his literary contemporaries.

This volume represents extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the ""press lords"" who influenced British politics and policy during World War I. It deals with Northcliffe and the inseparable quality of his public and political career from his journalism.

Born in Bavaria in 1906, Anna Marie brought shame to her pious family when, as a teenager, she gave birth to an illegitimate son. Nicknamed ""the Blonde Borgia,"" she was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine district in the 1930s. This work offers Anna Marie's story.

Contains letters from politician Salmon P Chase to his daughters, from his daughters to him and to each other - that span from when Kate, his older daughter, was a young child and Nettie not yet born to their father's death in 1873. This title provides insights into the personal lives and private thoughts of a prominent political family.

Samuel Shem's ""The House of God"" is widely regarded as one of the most influential novels about medical education in the twentieth century. This book explores the novel's impact on medical education, residency training, and the field of literature and medicine.

A reflection on the amusements and anxieties of growing older. It examines a variety of lifelong obsessions and frustrates various expectations that life's fogs dissipate as we age. It embodies midlife retrospection suitable for middle-aged population.

A study of Akron's Cascade Locks, canal historian, this book examines story of this lock system, including a look at early-nineteenth-century entrepreneurs who exploited the terrain to found one of the first industrial centers in American Midwest. It contains a guide for Canalway hikers and bikers on the towpath through Akron's Cascade Locks Park.

Economic ties with the United States were important to Colombia even in the early twentieth century, as the US was the major market for coffee, Colombia's source of revenue. Filling a gap in the literature on US relations with less developed countries, the author gives fresh research on the development of the US-Colombian alliance.

Created in 1972, the comic strip featuring Funky Winkerbean has evolved into a mature series of real-life stories. In 1999, Lisa Moore, one of Funky's friends, discovered she had breast cancer. This collection presents comic strips on Lisa's battle with cancer, examining her struggle with the disease and its outcome.

When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. She was identified as a Canadian mill worker named Berengera Caswell. This work features two accounts of her death, both fictional, and an introduction that places these accounts in a historical context.

Built by Daniel R Hanna as a tribute to his theater-loving father, Marcus Hanna, the Hanna Theatre opened its doors on March 28, 1921, with an adaptation of Mark Twain's ""The Prince and the Pauper"" starring William Faversham. This is an history of Cleveland's showcase for touring shows.

Seeks to address various problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans through time and transcontinental continuities. This book presents research from several Ohio caves and rockshelters, and is useful to those with interest in local or regional midwestern or midcontinental prehistory.

During the 19th century fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic location, and economic standing. These daguerreotypes are analyzed to clarify datable clothing and fashion components.

Arising out of the Cleveland Artists Foundation's Dialogue Series, a 22-hour-long collection of forums held in cultural institutions and broadcast on National Public Radio, ""Creative Essence"" examines regional culture through an exploration of the distinguished contributions Cleveland has made to the visual arts and architecture..

This study of literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era reviews science fiction, Korean War fiction, and The Manchurian Candidate film. It explores how views on brainwashing changed from an external threat to American values to an internal threat against individual American liberties by the US government.

"Inspired by the story of Secundus the Silent Philosopher and the twenty vital questions posed to him by Emperor Hadrian, J. Gabriel Scala's Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle moves swiftly and deftly into the essence of human existence - memory. Imbued with that ancient consideration, Robbie Dunkle emerges as a chance metaphor for the poet's own past, the dead past, which becomes our past, with all of its wonders and wastes, which only brilliant poetry can revive this powerfully." - Larissa Szporluk; "J. Gabriel Scala's series of unanswerable questions to seventh-grade companion Robbie Dunkle are singular as pebbles, marked with vivid details of a lost but living time and place. Scala throws them far into the water until they resonate, sending circles out into the abyss, captivating us in the endless human process of cycling through the past." - Annie Finch"

Offers a revealing glimpse of the author's experiences growing up in the segregated South, thsi title reveals his attitudes and approaches to the military as a cadet at the Virginia Military Institute and his years as a history teacher at York College in Pennsylvania.

In this second edition of the text, Sherrod Brown updates his insider's view of the workings of the American Congress with lively discussions of the Clinton impeachment, and the ""Battle in Seattle"" over the 1999 World Trade Organization conference.

A critical examination of the turbulent early political career and the controversial military service of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, an Illinois Whig, Republican politician, and Northern political general who rose to distinction as a member of the Union high command during the Civil War.

In this text, Jonathan Knight paints a portrait of the Cleveland Browns' storybook 1980 NFL season, describing its impact on the city of Cleveland. Taking readers from the year's beginning to its end, the author shows how everybody fell in love with the team.

Arthur d'Arazien's particular talent was to photograph American industry. This volume provides a chronicle of his work. D'Arazien accompanies each image with a detailed explanation of the techniques he used to create the photograph, discussing cameras, lenses, film, lighting and logistics.

This is a compilation of the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. It does not analyze the effects of an individual's medical problems on a battle or the war, but provides information about factors that may have contributed to the wound, injury, or illness, and the outcome.