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The Green Archipelago
This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental …
Paul Klee, Poet/Painter
First scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry illuminates the reciprocity of poetry and painting in Klee's creative world and in early modernism. It is no coincidence that …
Proving Up
Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.On July 9, 1920, William Krall, a coal miner in …
Reading Lucan's Civil War
Born in 39 C.E., the Roman poet Lucan lived during the turbulent reign of the emperor Nero. Prior to his death in 65 C.E., Lucan wrote prolifically, yet beyond some fragments, only …
Spiritual Sonnets
Born into a wealthy family in Toulouse, Gabrielle de Coignard (ca. 1550-86) married a prominent statesman in 1570. Widowed three years later, with two young daughters to raise, …
Inheritance of Resistance to Anthracnose in Watermelon
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …
Managing the Mountains
Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich …
Environment, Knowledge, and Injustice in Lesotho
Shows that a fraught historical process was at work in which Basotho drew on local and global sources of knowledge and how this small nation surrounded by South Africa can serve as …
Asia's Financial Crisis and the Role of Real Estate
This book by a distinguished academic and a professional economist from the World Bank clearly demonstrates the significant role played by the real estate sector in inducing the …
You Teach Me Light
These poems are not muscular, literary, or award-winning. Instead they are slightly dangerous, filled with banana peels, sharp objects, reflex hammers, and various items you could …
Canso d'Antioca
The Canso d'Antioca is a fascinating text which deserves more attention than it has received. It is a fragment of a much larger epic describing the events of the First Crusade, …
Visiting Rites
From an award-winning poet, a poignant collection that wrestles with anxiety, boredom, fear, and griefVisiting Rites was published to critical acclaim in 1982 and was a finalist …