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The Gentleman from Ohio

“He was an outsider who became an ultimate insider, but one who never ceased fighting for the poor, the hard-pressed, the exploited, not just in Ohio but nationwide, and not just for African Americans but for all those in need of a champion. Louis Stokes’ unique personality and character shine through in this book. Full of humor, graciousness, anger, and glowing optimism, The Gentleman from Ohio is an essential read.” —Vernon Jordan

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Language Files, 12th Edition

Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics has become one of the most widely adopted, consulted, and authoritative introductory textbooks to linguistics ever written. The scope of the text makes it suitable for use in a wide range of courses, while its unique organization into student-friendly, self-contained sections allows for tremendous flexibility in course design.

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Financial Basics: A Money-Management Guide for Students, 2nd Edition

“Financial Basics has the potential to make an enormous difference in the lives of college students. Knox has written a very helpful and accessible guide; it should be required reading for everyone headed off to college. Or for that matter, for anyone who’s finding that money problems are tripping them up in their efforts to live effective lives.”—Martha Garland, former Dean of Academic Affairs, The Ohio State University

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The Ohio State University in the Sixties

“This is the best account of OSU in the 1960s that I’ve ever seen. Bill Shkurti has presented a thorough account of the issues and events of the period. These were controversial times, and this book respects different points of view. His experiences as a former student and later as a vice president has enabled him to present a very balanced and accurate work. . . Check the pictures. You may see someone you know!” —Raimund E. Goerler, author of The Ohio State University: An Illustrated History

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Lustron Stories

“Charles Mintz’s Lustron Stories is a compelling work on many levels. Mintz’s work reminds us of the complexities of these spaces. The Lustron prefabricated house also provides a consistency of field and common reference to space that draws our eye naturally to the people and the relationships depicted in the photographs. The subjects are, indeed, home.” —Douglas Knerr, author of Suburban Steel: The Magnificent Failure of the Lustron Corporation, 1945–1951

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Columbus, Ohio

“In this beautifully written and carefully researched book, distinguished historian Mansel Blackford focuses on the politics of water and land use in Columbus during the twentieth century. ‘Politics,’ Blackford reminds us, ‘always mattered.’ Here is an eminently readable volume that merits the attention of urban and political historians, policy makers, and every Buckeye.” —Mark H. Rose, Florida Atlantic University

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Inks: The Journal of the Comic Studies Society

Inks, the new journal of the Comics Studies Society, features scholarly research on sequential art, graphic narrative, and cartooning. The journal seeks to bring together scholarly essays, archival materials, and insights and discoveries from leading comics professionals.

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The Ohio State University Press was established in 1957 and currently publishes 50 new books a year. We specialize in literary and culture studies, including narrative theory, Victorian studies, critical ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, medieval studies, and classics. We also acquire books in regional studies, creative works, rhetoric, linguistics, and publish the annual winners of our short fiction and poetry prizes.

In addition to its books, the Press publishes a distinguished group of journals including the Journal of Higher Education, the leading scholarly journal on the institution of higher education. We also publish American Periodicals and Narrative

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The North American Journal of Celtic Studies

Fall 2016 Catalog

Spring 2016 Catalog

Fall 2015 Catalog

The Gentleman from Ohio

Language Files, 12th Edition

Financial Basics: A Money-Management Guide for Students, 2nd Edition

The Ohio State University in the Sixties

Lustron Stories

Columbus, Ohio

Inks: The Journal of the Comic Studies Society

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The Ohio State University in the Sixties

Language Files 12

Columbus, Ohio

Style and the Single Girl

Landfall

The Medieval Risk-Reward Society

The Immigrant Kitchen

Summers with Juliet

Narrating Space/Spatializing Narrative

Literature, Law, and Rhetorical Performance in the Anticolonial Atlantic

Narrative Sequence in Contemporary Narratology

The Submerged Plot and the Mother's Pleasure

Wild, Wild Erie: Poems Inspired by Paintings and Sculpture in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

La Verdad: An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades

Mama’s Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

A Passion for Specificity: Confronting Inner Experience in Literature and Science

The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature

Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority

Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative

Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction

Victorians Reading the Romantics: Essays by U. C. Knoepflmacher

The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism

Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence, and Adapting the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention

Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism

Alliterative Proverbs in Medieval England: Language Choice and Literary Meaning

Don’t Kill Your Baby: Public Health and the Decline of Breastfeeding in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Making Midwives Legal: Childbirth, Medicine and the Law, 2nd Edition

Lake Effects: A History of Urban Policy Making in Cleveland, 1825–1929

Thomas Worthington: Father of Ohio Statehood

Making Iron and Steel: Independent Mills in Pittsburgh, 1820–1920

Senates: Bicameralism in the Contemporary World

International Relations and Scientific Progress: Structural Realism Reconsidered

Challenging Parties, Changing Parliaments: Women and Elected Office in Contemporary Western Europe

The British Conservative Party in the Age of Universal Suffrage: Popular Conservatism, 1918–1929

Race, Labor, and Punishment in the New South

Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and Ameria

Desire in the Canterbury Tales

Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media

Ancient Sex: New Essays

Antiquarian Voices: The Roman Academy and the Commentary Tradition on Ovid’s Fasti

Tarpeia: Workings of a Roman Myth

Varro the Agronomist: Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in the Late Republic

Prophetic Visions of the Past: Pan-Caribbean Representations of the Haitian Revolution

Neoliberal Bonds: Undoing Memory in Chilean Art and Literature

In Search of an Alternative Biopolitics: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain

Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante

Puritanism and Modernist Novels: From Moral Character to the Ethical Self

Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print

Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature

Redrawing French Empire in Comics

Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X

Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature

Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction

Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture

Ordinary Pleasures: Couples, Conversation, and Comedy

Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever

Centennial Buckeye Cook Book

When Kids Go to College: A Parent’s Guide to Changing Relationships

Welcome to Heights High: The Crippling Politics of Restructuring America’s Public Schools

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