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Nurses see different things and experience patients and health care issues in different contexts. This anthology is a compilation of nurse-poets' work, which is accompanied by their commentaries about their poetry, their work, and their lives. This work aims to add significantly to the body of literature that connects medicine and the humanities.

Trying to Speak is the winner of the 2004 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.

Includes tales of Cleveland's mobsters, riots, murders, and corruption and delves into the murkiness of local, national, and global politics. This memoir provides a glimpse into the stories behind the headlines and into the Cleveland history.

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.

Drawing on primary-source material, this is an account of Francis Channing Barlow, one of the most successful combat officers in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. Although his youthful appearance earned him the nickname "" Boy General,"" his fighting capabilities resulted in frequent promotions and greater responsibilities.

"Maureen Passmore's poetry I can only liken to cut-and-polished jewels: structurally simple, innately priceless, sharp-edged, and brilliant.... With the jeweler's touch, she brings out just enough edge, elegant and lean, to intrigue us before offering the next edge, then the next. What makes her poetry more than just admirable is the genuine vision behind it: she is determined to recreate emotional experience through a vehicle other than herself.... In a time of highly decorative and self-serving artistry, here comes a poet with the strength of the ground." - Larissa Szporluk"

The dispatches from Lord Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Second Baron, British Envoy Extraordinary in Washington, during the Civil War offer insight into contemporaneous Anglo-American relations over three-and-a-half-years of Americas bitterest test of national unity.

The dispatches from Lord Richard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, Second Baron, British Envoy Extraordinary in Washington, during the Civil War offer insight into contemporaneous Anglo-American relations over three-and-a-half-years of Americas bitterest test of national unity.

This collection contains 113 of the 161 poems Wylie chose for the volumes published in her lifetime and 100 that appeared in Collected Poems and in Last Poems. Also included are the first chapters of her novels, and short stories, essays, reviews, and articles to define Wylie's place on the 1920s literary scene.

Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form. This book looks at Anderson's early fiction from contemporary interpretative methodologies, particularly from poststructuralist approaches.

Flieger attempts to illuminate the structure of The Silmarillion, allowing the reader to appreciate its broad, overarching design and its careful, painstaking construction.

Frank Mendez, a child of Mexican immigrants, recounts the Mendez family's experiences with the Depression; labor issues; racism; their lives in the barrio; and World War II. Mendez comments on the social and political issues of the twentieth century.

Son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Edward T. Packard sold his first model airplane in Cleveland in 1919 at the age of 13. During World War II, Packard manufactured the most complete line of American, Allied, and foreign model airplanes. This aviation history shows photos and plans that originally accompanied the kits and a illustrated-plans index.

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..

Originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1928, this is the autobiography of Frank Vlchek, a Czech immigrant who became a successful businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His narrative relates tales of labor issues, competitors, mergers and acquisitions, and the successes and travails of his operation

These poems are full of surprises: the gods talk; ancient authors talk; the dictionary talks; the bride over the Drina River, roughly between Bosnia and Serbia, speaks in two poems. The dead talk, wolves talk, a teacher talks, with a chorus. ""Rooms and Fields"" is history not simply documented and explored but also deeply felt.

Opening Day is sportswriter Jonathan Knight's inning-by-inning look at the opening game at Jacobs Field on April 4, 1994. New home to the Cleveland Indians, ""The Jake"" was for fans symbolic of the team's turnaround. For the regional community this new ballpark marked the beginning of Cleveland's long awaited renaissance.

Arguing that Catholic-Protestant relations took on a different tone in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the author focuses on western frontier territory to explore positive interaction and the internal dynamics of Catholicism. These stories are representative of the problems the Catholic Church faced in overcoming anti-catholic sentiment.

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.

Jim Robenalt transports the reader to 1937, for a magical road trip with his direct ancestor, a real-life magician and politician. His book is one part magic history, one part American history and one part family history. Here we meet presidents, candidates, conjurers and Civil War soldiers.

The first photographs of the D-day landing were taken by Signal Corps and delivered by carrier pigeons to command headquarters in England. One of the photographers was Frank Kessler, whose photographs presented here in this work follow the US Army's progress from the invasion of France on D-day to the surrender of Germany on May 8 1945.

"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"

"After reading Primer for Non-Native Speakers, I feel like I've just come back from a trip to Russia. Philip Metres's brilliantly compressed lyrical narratives capture the grandeur and the bleakness of an almost mythological country, where a bronze statue of the great poet Pushkin now gazes out on the golden arches, and the swear of a slammed door is more expressive than a mouthful of words. These are subtle, accomplished, shimmering poems that explore the nuances of being an outsider in a language." - Maura Stanton"

Those who teach the literature of medicine have questioned why there appears to be a lack of rich materials connecting nursing with the humanities. Tenderly Life Me is a compassionate and complex combination of biography, photography, and poetry that gives nurses a voice.

Created as a result of British colonialism, Nigeria emerged as a nation-state during the mid-20th century. Toyin Falola presents statistical data on Nigeria's economy that illustrate the nature of the changes made throughout the mid-20th century.

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.

Captain John Henry Otto was a keen observer; his memoirs paint a vivid picture of the life of a common soldier and of a line officer at the company level during the Civil War.

The Music Went 'Round and Around tells the story of this unique summer theater and of its ebullient founder John L. Price Jr. Price's venture was one of the last commercial legitimate theaters established in Cleveland.

"Paul Zimmer, long one of America's finest poets, turns out to be a comparable master of prose. In his wonderful book of memory and reflection he has written with exquisite elegance and tenderly brilliant observation about his past, and by his genius he evokes a reader's past as well. This book is as haunting and lovely as a late-night train whistle from the far horizon." - Robert Olen Butler; "Over the years Zimmer's poems have consistently been full of good sense and buoyant humor. Now he has kicked it up some notches and, using his poetic skills, made this sad, funny, quite serious book of prose about trains, childhood, war, education, drinking, jazz, wooden sheds, grass, elephants, the moon, blues, horses, sickness, and so many other things that come together as a satisfying whole. It is a great pleasure to turn these lyrical, finely-written pages." - Annie Dillard; "Here is an American life remembered faithfully, tellingly, and offered the reader in a compelling, affectingly lyrical voice that touches the mind and heart, both. Here is story after story become, in sum, a rendering through personal expression of a country's ongoing history. Here is, finally, an autobiography become a literature of social reflection." - Robert Coles; "This deftly written collection satisfies one of our deepest curiosities: 'What's it like being her? Or him?' Paul Zimmer's answer takes us there by way of steam engines, gray foxes, dray horses, Big Joe Turner, a French dentist tres sympathetique, tumbledown shacks, Duke Ellington's riffing to empty seats, and a fellow poet heroically obscure, except in Zimmer's moving homage. To know ourselves we people-watch lifelong, yet glean only vague suppositions. In contrast, these quietly impressive sketches - so much bigger than their pages - add up to a self portrait humane and intimate as kinship." - Reg Saner"

Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion.