Ohio Books

Donald Duck is lost, and trying to read the Egyptian hieroglyphs in order to escape back to Duckberg. Orphan Annie and her dog, "in their bubble," happily pass by a line of long faced, skinny Okies in a growing soup kitchen line. One stamp of the Buddha, used one thousand times, never produces an identical image. Everything speaks its own language: "What we always are is a new vocabulary strangers need to learn, to be less strange, and fluency is a sign of one love or another." Goldbarth's language is incredibly original, formed around the myths and dreams of American regalia, space ships and angels. His language forces us to look again at the icons of popular culture and he redefines the symbolic representations by juxtaposing them shockingly against real life: the death of his father, a woman beaten deaf, a child seeing his parents having sex, war, and other powerfully convincing images and facts.

I loved it! Goldbarth is one contemporary poet who knows what he is doing, without wasting a word.

For a full review look up ...

This is a great book for the memories and also all the facts and whys of the Portage Lakes. It is a very good book to know and understand everything about the Portage Lakes Area. I enjoy this book and with many great pictures also it is wonderful book.

"Portrait of America" was a popular video documentary series in the mid-eighties, a product of collaboration between Superstation/Turner Broadcasting Corporation and Ambrose Home Video. Well-researched, each video is divided into 5 segments covering most unique historical, social, and cultural aspects of each state. Watching such an interesting documentary, each being roughly about 50 minutes long, without advertisements and other interruptions seems to be a privilege in these days!

This extraordinary collection of essays brings vividly to life the process of crafting the first constitution of post-apartheid South Africa. Writers include many participants in that careful process, as well as legal and constitutional scholars. What is described is a profoundly democratic process intended to capture the genuine will of a people who had been entirely disenfranchised, and now found their aspirations were to be reflected in a founding document. Strikingly, womens rights, economic security, and the protection of the environment receive the explicit protections missing in our own constitution. This book is essential reading for students of democracy, law, rights, and race.

Dr. Halperin's work on the East End of Cincinnati,Ohio is an easy read for everyone,you do not have to be a Phd.to appreciate this book.The author obviously lived this book and knew not only the neighborhood but the East Enders themselves on a very personal level,only then could she write about this community and the changes it has gone through in the last decade with such knowledge and insight.This should be a must read for anyone undergoing changes in their life or their community.Thank you Dr.Halperin for a book that everyone can understand and learn from.

A great book to help track down your Preble county family

a great book if you are trying to track down your family from preble county Ohio

The Fort Ancient culture thrived from 1000 A.D. to 1650 A.D.
in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. Villages were made up of a number of circular or rectangular houses surrounding an open plaza. The Fort Ancient people continued to build small burial mounds, but gradually shifted to burials in a cemetery area with no mounds.

The authors conclude that the descendants of these natives are the tribe known the Shawnee. Brief ethnohistorical and linguistic reviews are given as well as a great deal of physical evidence found in the villages, especially analysis of bones found in burial mounds. Includes charts, graphs, drawings of skulls found along with detailed measurements and description of facial structures as well as comparative analysis with bone evidence found in other areas. This 650 page book includes an area map or maps, charts, and drawings of various skulls analyzed.

This book, which demonstrates the morality and compassion of a writer who has been offhandedly dismissed as a "cynic" by many critics, made me realize why I have always been so attracted to Bierce.
Bierce's personal stoicism, coupled with his literary romanticism, resulted in some of the most memorable stories in the history of American literature.
This is the best piece of Bierce criticism since Cathy Davidson's book about Bierce's influence on the postmoderns.
Highly recommended.

Print, Manuscript, And Performance: The Changing Relations Of The Media In Early Modern England is explores the complex interactions in early modern England between a technologically advanced culture of the printed book and a still powerful traditional culture of the spoken word, spectacle, and manuscript. The contributors include Leah S. Marcus (From Oral Delivery to Print in the Speeches of Elizabeth I); Douglas Bruster (The Structural Transformation of Print in Late Elizabethan England); Alexandra Halasz (Pamphlet Surplus: John Taylor and Subscription Publication); Joseph Lowenstein (Wither and Professional Work); Randall Anderson ("The Merit of a Manuscript Poem": The Case for Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poet. 85); Arthur F. Marotti (Manuscript Transmission and the Catholic Martyrdom Account in Early Modern England); Harold Love (The Rapes of Lucina); Margaret J.M. Ezell (Ann Halkett's Morning Devotions); Steven Mullaney (Reforming Resistance); F.J. Levy (Staging the News); and Michael D. Bristol (Shamelessness in Arden: Early Modern Theater and the Obsolescence of Popular Theatricality). Also available in paperback, Print, Manuscript, And Performance is highly recommended reading for students of English literature, society, history, performing arts, printing, and popular culture.