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From ancient temples to modern churches, synagogues, and mosques, architects throughout history have invested their creative energies to design sacred spaces. This title explores sacredness in houses of worship and examines the critical question of what architectural elements contribute to make sacred space.

An anthology of fifty-five poets published in the ""Wick Poetry Series"" celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University. It illustrates the directions poets have been taking from the early 1990s onwards, in keeping with the Wick Poetry Center's mission of encouraging new voices.

Features memories of an Irish-American growing up log-shack poor in small-town Ohio. This autobiography digs into the soil of the author's native Ohio to show what life was like in the late nineteenth century for a poor Irish-American family.

Features nineteenth-century short stories of the early American frontier including ""The Indian Hater,"" that fictionalizes a real-life settler who, to avenge earlier attacks on his family, periodically hunted and murdered Indians at random.

Explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. This book examines what happens when translators translate and when writers treat issues of gender and race.

After World War II, Woodrow Wilson and his contemporaries engaged in a wide-ranging debate about the fundamental character of American national security in the modern world. This book examines that debate offering a detailed analysis of how US political leaders and opinion makers conceptualized and pursued national security from 1914 to 1920.

Provides factual information and interpretive guidance on Hemingway, for a wide variety of readers. This book guides readers toward understanding how Hemingway tested old ideas of family, gender, race, ethnicity, and manhood. It invites scholars, teachers, students, and general readers to take a careful look into Hemingway's prose.

A collection of images celebrating African American faith communities. It captures the spirit of the African American worship experience through images of congregants' facial expressions and body language, their colorful uniforms and dress, and the solemnity of their worship.

Presents a collection of nuanced and insightful essays on teaching from authors with varied backgrounds, including all levels of secondary and higher education. This work offers practical and creative classroom strategies, sample syllabi, and other teaching tools. It is suitable for teachers of Hemingway and the larger scholarly community as well.

Reminds readers that although the Amish dress in almost identical clothing, they have distinct personalities and convictions. Featuring vignettes and reflections, this work reveals the ways in which members of the Amish community live out their faith against the background of their communal culture, all the while emphasizing their individuality.

A study of the adjustment of nineteenth-century military organizations to the managerial, technological, and policy challenges of a new era. This story unfolds against a backdrop of massive industrial and technological changes, as the country moved from a traditional agricultural and market-based commercial system toward a modern organization.

Traces Bernie Kosar's winding path from Youngstown to Florida to Cleveland, explains why there was so much more to running back Earnest Byner than one unforgotten fumble, and reveals how cornerback Hanford Dixon created a canine phenomenon in the end-zone stands.

Treating Melville's poetry and prose and using a variety of theoretical approaches from the biographical to the ecocritical, these essays focus not only on Melville's female characters but also on gender roles, colonialism, intertextuality, legal issues, and concepts of the female and feminine.

Presents an ""essayistic"" memoir on being a soldier. The author records his ongoing relationship with war and soldiering, from growing up in late Cold War 1980s middle America to attending West Point, going to and returning from the first Gulf War, and watching, as a writer and academic, the coming of the second Iraq war.

Documents the influences and events that define the Civil War from the perspective of Northern soldiers and civilians, moving beyond the boundaries of the battle-field by exploring the civilian community, Cortland, New York, from which the ten units of the 23d New York Volunteers came.

Caleb Cushing, was a poet and politician, essayist and diplomat, general and lawyer. This work is his biography. It delivers a work to specialists in the areas of mid-nineteenth-century political, legal, and diplomatic history, and to those interested in New England history, antebellum gender relations, civil-military relations, and Mexican War.

An unpredictable financier and industrialist, Cyrus Eaton, earned millions, lost it all during the Depression, and regained his fortune after World War II. He earned a reputation as a ""steel-tough man of finance"" and was the target of abuse from those who claimed his manipulations had caused them financial damage. This is his story.

Ten-year-old Beverly Potts was last seen at 9:00 P.M. the evening of August 24, 1951. James Jessen Badal reexamines the events leading up to Beverly Potts's disappearance and the subsequent police investigation and over-the-top, sensational publicity in the Cleveland press.

"Under and out from under the shadow of death Joanne Lehman writes 'in the emptiness between one breath and the next.' Her rural Ohio land-scape is animated with rough and mild weather, red wing blackbirds, hayfields, woodlands, and the sweet and sometimes too-tight lips and rhythms of sectarian life. These poems speak simply, and their mourning, memory, and healing are a balm for times when a little bit of quiet would do us all a world of good. This is a fine first book - as meditative, wise, and joyful as it is bound to local life on our turning earth." - Julia Kasdorf"

An agricultural extension agent for twenty years, Randy James works closely with the Amish farmers of Geauga County, Ohio, the fourth largest Amish settlement in the world, and his narrative provides information on the art, science, and tradition of farming as well as an alternative business model for small traditional farms.

Includes essays ranging from Xenophon's memoir of his two-year march with the mercenaries of the Persian Prince Cyrus, through Canadian accounts of the Boer War and American civilian women's narratives of confinement in WWII Japanese internment camps, to Vietnam veterans' online testimonials and post - Persian Gulf War memoirs.

Chronicles the writing and performing career of Herbert W. Martin, focusing on the way his life has informed his art and situating his creative work within the context of the African American tradition in poetry. Author Ronald Primeau examines Martin's place in American literature with particular emphasis on his multidisciplinary talents.

Bender argues that Darwin's theories of sexual selection are essential elements in American fiction from the late 1800s through the 1950s. He contends that novelists with different social points of view explored ""the Sex Problem"", resulting in a diversity of American narratives aligned with either Darwinian or anti-Darwinian theories of evolution.

"In 'Love Poem to the Phrase Let's Get Coffee,' Catherine Pierce writes 'I adore / your elegant manner, / one hand on the car door, / the other on the ass.' She writes with her own tricky elegance, one that acknowledges yet adores language's self-serving grace. Pierce deftly blends repetition with sophisti-cated syntax, and a sinister wit glows inside the emotional wisdom of her vision. Animals of Habit is an exhilarating book." - Andrew Hudgins; "If I didn't know the poet personally, I'd think the name Catherine Pierce was a pseudonym, for these poems are not merely edgy, they are razor-sharp - they disembowel. What an extraordinary command of structure, persona, and humor this poet has! In one fell swoop, she has reinvented the 'love' poem and eschewed both pretentiousness and the anti-intellectual by being always smart and entertaining." - Kathy Fagan"

"These 'stone' poems by Karen Craigo are reminiscent of W. S. Merwin's deep image poems or Vasko Popa's surrealist 'pebble' poems. But Craigo does Merwin and Popa one better. She manages to create and sustain a complex and shifting personal mythos without sacrificing the mystery and evocative force of the focusing image. Popa's 'pebbles' chanted a mean, gutteral, one-syllable song, but Craigo's 'stones' belt out whole operas. A brilliant debut." - George Looney"