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By linking Ohio's two major bodies of water - the Ohio River and Lake Erie - Ohio's canals, built in the early nineteenth century, caused unprecedented growth and wealth for the fledgling state. This book details the history of the canal system.

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.

All students of the Civil War are indebted to Frank Haskell for his classic description of the battle of Gettysburg. A lieutenant on the staff of John Gibbon, Haskell stood at the focus of the Confederate assault on July 3, 1863. He wrote of the battle in a letter to his brother. When it came to light after the war it became and remains probably the most read and repeated account of Civil War combat written by a participant. It captures wholly the terrible fascination that the Civil War--and Gettysburg--holds for all Americans. Haskell wrote other letters (thirty-one in this collection) and attained the rank of colonel before he was killed at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864.This 1989 paperback reprinting of the 1970 edition contains a new preface by Frank L. Byrne.

From its founding during an 1837 Canadian rebellion against Britain when Cleveland was close to the fighting, the Cleveland Grays military company served at home and in active wartime duty. This book takes a detailed look at the company's membership, service, travels and social activities.

A collection of essays that pays attention to a variety of British and American crimes from the 1820s to the 1980s, some high profile and others not.

"A thread runs through this wonderful gathering of poems, a thread connecting mythology and ancient places to the sometimes duller here and now. Upon that thread a timeless song is played, a song of longing and loss, and yet a song capable of transforming grief."-Maurice Manning

"Brian Brodeur's formal skill, his feel for the whole history beneath a sentence, a line, a syllable, is matched here only by his unsentimental compassion for the people he renders in his poems. I can think of few other poets who capture." -Peter Campion

In this fourth volume, award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk continues to chronicle the lives of the students and teachers at the fictitious Westview High School. By the 1980s Batiuk's talent for character- and story-driven work comes into its own.

Includes essays on the Northern home front. This title brings together essays on the economic, social, and domestic aspects of life in the North during the Civil War. It tackles a range of Civil War home front topics - from urban violence and Gettysburg's wartime history to entrepreneurial endeavors and the war's economic impact.

Major League Baseball occupies a special place in the hearts of Americans. The sound of the umpire yelling "play ball" is as familiar as the sight of the Stars and Stripes, and generations of sports fans spend summer nights staying up late to watch games. Author Matt Lupica offers baseball fans an unprecedented guide to the stadiums that are home to their favourite sport.

Few Major League Baseball teams have a history as glorious and as interesting as the Cincinnati Reds. From the earliest days of baseball's first professional team, skilful and colourful players have worn the Cincinnati uniform. From the Wright Brothers and Edd Roush to Barry Larkin and Joey Votto, they are all here in Cincinnati Reds Legends.

Invoking the sacred and the profane, Juliana Gray Vice speaks to the reader with a powerful voice in this collection. The aim of the poetry is to catechize the reader with the mundane and the extraordinary.

This work explores Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays as mythic prose poems, suggesting a new approach to the practical criticism of his works. It presents a balanced selection of works from Emerson's early and late career and provides insightful readings of ""Circles"" and the Divinity School ""Address"".

A revised edition of an annotated collection originally published more than 20 years ago, this work serves two functions: as an anthology of ribald, moralistic, sad, yet entertaining verse relating to specific crimes; and as a small encyclopaedia of select criminals and their wrongdoings.

Focuses on C S Lewis' nonfiction prose, identifying his unique style and explaining why his writing has remained popular while that of so many of his contemporaries has not.

Daniel Harvey Hill's diary recounts the Mexican War experiences of this proud young officer. He came of age in Mexico, and there he encountered firsthand a different culture and witnessed in horror helpless civilians and their treasures washed away in the stream of violence that was war.

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.

Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio s forgotten nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended on roads less travelled finding more ghost towns, battlefields-turned-cornfields, and old memories that beckon him like spectral hitchhikers. On the way, he meets another cast of quirky and determined people who struggle to keep their towns on the map.

Paintings and reflections that share a nurse's personal experience of illness In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of life-altering and life-threatening complications, resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a lengthy recovery. During twenty-six days in the hospital, Davis experienced how suddenly a caregiver can become a care receiver and what it's like to be "on the other side of the sickbed." As a nurse, she was accustomed to suffering and to the empathy such witnessing can evoke, but as a patient she learned new and transforming lessons in pain, fear, loneliness, abandonment, and dependency; in the fragility of health and life; in the necessity of family support; and, ultimately, in the importance of gratitude. Once at home, Davis wanted to respond to her illness creatively through her writing, but the details seemed too intense, too raw for words. As her recovery progressed, she found release in painting, discovering an immediate connection between heart and hand, between memory and canvas. In a series of twelve paintings, she reenvisioned episodes of her illness, moments that remained and replayed in her consciousness, ultimately providing an education in health care more resonant and more authentic than what she had found in nursing textbooks. Before, serving as a nurse in intensive care, oncology, and women's health, Davis believed that she understood what hospitalized patients might be experiencing and how they might be coping. Her own illness taught her how little she truly knew and how important it is that all caregivers--professionals and family members alike--become aware of the physical and the inner emotional needs of their seriously ill patients. After the twelve paintings were completed, Davis wrote brief commentaries for each image. She used her remembrances to clarify and expand on her artwork, thereby making her personal story accessible to others. While every patient's journey and every caregiver's challenges are unique, these intimate and revealing paintings and reflections offer a glimpse into the universal aspects of illness and recovery.

Counts down some of the fifty greatest Cleveland Browns games, from unexpected upsets to incredible comebacks to titanic championship battles. This title presents the rich, six-decade history of the Browns. It also covers the gritty All-American Football Conference games played in the shadow of World War II.

Presents a series of poems related to a home birth. This book aims to unite the personal and the universal, the masculine and the feminine, the gay and the non-gay.

The bicentennial edition of this publication has been revised and updated and includes an additional chapter which examines Ohio through to the end of the 20th century. George W. Knepper presents contemporary information on the national and state political arenas, the economy and the environment.

In this classic and coveted volume, artist Frank N. Wilcox tackles the difficult job of mapping the Indian trails of Ohio. Basing his work on the journals and records of early settlers and soldiers, his knowledge of Native American ways, and his intimacy with the Ohio landscape, he locates and documents the major Indian towns and trails that crisscross the state.

Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. James Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest misdemeanors to a daring rooftop escape, to his killing of police officer Joseph Zanella.

Educator, author, and naturalist Harriet L. Keeler (1844-1921) was a prominent figure in her time. This is a facsimile reprint of her first book written for a national audience, with a biographical introduction by Carol Poh Miller that illuminates Keeler's life and accomplishments.