Kent press 1996 (34 risultati)

Paper Back. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. An excellent copy in a very nice dust jacket.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Kent State University Press, c.1996, 1st., 8vo., cloth, 186pp., VG-/VG- $.

Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket First Printing hardbound Eraser scar on front fly.

Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 195pp. Illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

ISBN 0-87338-651-5. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy Two.

ISBN 0-87338-651-5. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy One.

ISBN 0-87338-611-6. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy Two.

ISBN 0-87338-611-6. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy Three.

ISBN 0-87338-611-6. Trade Paperback. Second Printing. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. Copy One.

green full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). b&w frontis. photo portrait. xvi+449p.+ colophon. b&w photo illustrations & maps. notes. glossary. bibliography. index. biography. american history. american civil war. naval history. nautical history. military history. ~ Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior officer in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest. Phelps, a native of Chardon, Ohio, was a prolific and observant correspondent. His private letters, to his wife, his father, and to political patrons and other naval officers, are among the most compelling and descriptive extant. The heart of Ironclad Captain are these letters, which Jay Slagle has set in context through the judicious use of published documents, memoirs, and scholarly histories of the navy. The result is a small history of the navy and its officer corps for the middle third of the nineteenth century. Phelps's self~confidence fueled a driving ambition. He was one of the severest critics of the navy's seniority system, which seemed to thwart those ambitions. After long and often heroic service on the Western rivers, he left the navy in 1864 to pursue a less exciting career in commerce and diplomacy. Unfortunately for historians, his correspondence ends at that time as well. Notwithstanding his bitter leave~taking Seth Phelps loved his country and his service. His letters are a permanent and invaluable legacy to both.…

8vo. xvi, 449, [3] pp. Frntsp., numerous photos, illusts. Green cloth, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. NF/Nf copy. First edition.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 340 pages, paperback, small library sticker taped to the bottom of the spine, covers show some very light scuffing at edges and slight creasing, otherwise contents are clean, bright and complete. Very Good.

Near fine with near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket is very lightly bumped at top back edge. 362 pages with photographs and charts. Tall 8vo size.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - ''Everywhere we have been since beginning/Is Mapped in the memory somewhere, ' writes Susan Neale at the outset of this ambitiously conceived and enormously satisfying collection of poems. Here is a poet who wants nothing less than to know the past. Her fields of study are the history of light and darkness, of language and other ways of saying, of reality and dream, and, especially, of women and men as they move toward one another and away in their seismic, often cataclysmic dancing, a continental rift and drift originating in a long-ago state of innocence and wholeness Neal calls 'the heart's Pangaea.' In this debut collection sure to attract wide attention, Susan Neale gives us richly detailed maps leading to discoveries about where we human beings have been, where we are, and where in the world, together and apart, we're bound.'--David Citino.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Something spiritual, as well as actual, is broken in the world Joe Bonomo offers us, in this his first sustained collection. His response to what he is left with is to remake what he can in figures of comprehension and compassion. The size of his world is local and familiar, but that hardly prevents him from reaching into the silence or achieving, in finely-tuned language, his epiphanies. This is honest and lovely writing.'--Stanley Plumly.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Tales from the Irish Club contains 11 wry accounts of an enclave of Irish Americans in Pittsburgh during and after World War II. In this first collection of short stories by Lester Goran are the often comic, sometimes tragic tales of Jack Lanahan, the transcendental artist who carves nothing but wooden roosters; Long Conall O'Brien, haunted by the ghosts of prostitutes he has known world-wide; Mrs. Pauline Conlon, famous as the woman who outlives three husbands--until she meets Sailor Kiernan; and the night an image of the Madonna appears on the wall of Local No. 9 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Ranging from the grimly realistic to the fantastic, Goran's stories examine lives so unheralded that only the Irish Club, Forbes Field--where the Pirates break their hearts, and St. Agnes Church--where they attend school and prepare for eternity--know their joys and sorrows. 'Tales from the Irish Club presents a group of stories so well imagined that one can hardly tell them apart from life.They are meant to overheard, not heard, as if the reader were a child at a wedding eavesdropping on someone's loquacious, slightly drunken aunt.I abandoned the Hibernian world of Lester Goran's Pittsburgh with a sense of loss. Closing his book felt like driving away from my own boyhood city after a large Thanksgiving dinner, with improbable stories still echoing in my head. Tales from the Irish Club is a memorable work.'--New York Times Book Review.…

Paperback, 14x21cm, 438pp. Very good condition, in very good dustwrapper. Light wear and creasing. ISBN: 1862543771. Pictures available on request.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Sounding the Whale is Christopher Sten s comprehensive account of his own close encounter with Moby-Dick. Originally a long, self-contained chapter in The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel, just published by Kent State University Press, this chapter-by-chapter study of Moby-Dick evolved as a book within a book. Sten argues that Melville not only was familiar with the traditional forms of narrative but that he refined them and appropriated them to his own original purposes. For Moby-Dick, he fused the heroic qualities of the ancient Homeric epic with the spiritual qualities of the early modern form found in Dante and Milton, then cast the whole enterprise in an unprecedented poetic prose form. Thus he formulated the first prose epic of its kind, and the only religious epic on the subject of whaling anyone is likely to write. As Melville's most ambitious novel, Moby-Dick requires careful and responsive reading. For a clear understanding of the intricacy and depth of Melville s story, of the subtleties of the quest, one is likely to need a guide. This book is that guide.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There is no doubt that this book will appeal to specialists, including conductors, recording enthusiasts, musicologists, and performers. It provides unique information about conductors' views regarding the artistic, procedural and commercial aspects of recording. Of greatest importance is the inclusion of 16 conductors who, while expressing varying viewpoints, are among the most important conductors of the past 15 years. James Badal's interview technique successfully leads the conversation into many important areas, but allows each conductor to engage in some exploration of issues unique to the individual's background, career, and areas of specialization.' Wayne Gorder, Conductor and Associate Professor of Music, Kent State UniversityIn this collection of interviews with major orchestra conductors, James Badal explores the impact of recording technology on contemporary musical culture. Spanning more than a decade with masters such a Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Christopher Hogwood, these discussions offer valuable commentary on the digital revolution and subsequent compact disc explosion.One issue addressed in Recording the Classics is how recordings have significantly raised the general public's level of musical knowledge. Classical music discs provide both entertainment and educationthe traditional, ideal vehicles for increasing the appreciation of great music among those who lack access to recital halls and opera houses. However, listening to music in private affords an essentially different experience that that of attending a live concert; both the public and the musicians are absent from the home listening environment.Badal and maestros Pierre Boulez, Ricardo Chailly, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Antal Doráti, Charles Dutoit, Neeme Järvi, Erich Kunzel, Erich Leinsdorf, Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, Simon Rattle, and Leonard Slatkin as well as Ashkenazy, Dohnányi, and Hogwood examine the effect of technology no only in the listening public's perception of music, but also on the matter in which music is made.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On July 22, 1796, General Moses Cleaveland established the mouth of the Cuyahoga River as the port of entry for the Ohio frontier. He could not have foretold the developments that would turn this hostile marsh into Thriving economic and community center. With its 200th anniversary, the port, now governed by the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, is home to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the future Great Waters of the World Aquarium, and the Great Lakes Science Museum, as well as a Foreign Free-Trade Zone. Cleveland's Harbor chronicles the challenges, struggles, and politics of establishing and maintaining this major port - from General Cleveland to Mayor Michael White. Among those whose dedication and ingenuity fostered the port were Lorenzo Carter, who cultivated the first settlement; Levi Johnson and the Turhooven brothers, builders of The Enterprise - Cleveland's first commercial vessel; Alfred Kelley, Governor Ethan Allen Brown, and Micajah Williams, who were instrumental in getting the canal built connecting Lake Erie to the Ohio River; John Malvin, a freedman, who became the first black vessel owner, a captain, and minister for the First Baptist Congregation; Eli Peck, designer of the forerunner of the classic ore boat; Alexander McDougall, who fashioned the innovative shaleback hull; and George Hulett, who, with the support of Andrew Carnegie and Charles Schwab, revolutionized harbor operations with his invention of the unloader. In 1958, the St. Lawrence Seaway was completed and Congress officially classified the Great Lakes as the Fourth U.S. coastline. The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority, consisting of appointed civic leaders from various backgrounds, was created a decade after the opening of the Seaway to direct the economic development of the lakefront and increase commerce. Today, the Port Authority faces new challenges in its continued commitment to enrich the Cleveland-Cuyahoga County region.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Lisa Coffman is a major poet in the making. Imagine a voice that combines hear-of-American brooding like James Wright's with a shaded elegance like Elizabeth Bishop's. Imagine Whitman's spirit somewhere in the vicinity. Imagine a love of small towns ringed by mountains, a shrewd ear for lonely folks' dialogue, and a music that seems to pour out of your own life as you read these poems. Likely is a book brimming with surprises and beauty; some of the poems--'Rapture, ' 'The Products of Hog, ' 'The Graveyard'--left me breathless.'--Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Judge.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that dissidents had a constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. During the Bush Administration, Congress passed the Flag Protection Act (FPA), and so doing reflected the broad spectrum of opinion that saw the flag as a sacred symbol of American freedoms. Robert Justin Goldstein's Burning the Flag thoughtfully draws on the disciplines of law, political science and history to analyze the controversy in all its dimensions.'-- London Review of Books'Goldstein has written a wonderfully comprehensive and highly readable history and analysis of the flag desecration debate in the US.'--Choice.…

, Hardcover/Pappeinband. Condizione: Gut. Auflage: Illustrated. 274 Seiten Fresh and clean hardcover copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents: Introduction: Framing Elizabethan Fictions - Constance C. Relihan - The Intersection of Poor Laws and Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Fictional and Factual Categories - Kathleen Pories - The Ladx Frances Did Watch: Gasciognes Voyeuristic Narrative - Susan C. Staub - Making Men: Visions of Social Mobility in A Petite Pallace of Pettie His Pleasure - Sharon Stockton - The Humanist in the Market: Gendering Exchange and Authorship in Lylys Euphues Romances - Joan Pong Linton - ISBN 9780873385510 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 597.…

First edition. XV, (3), 425, (1) pp. Publisher's boards, dust jacket. A well-kept copy, condition Near Fine.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ohio can be a land of weather extremes. There are droughts followed by flood, arctic cold and soaring heat in one year, a Christmas warmed to 70 degrees and a Christmas white with thirty inches of snow. Ice jams on the Sandusky River and tornadoes across its southern counties, wind storms in Cleveland and floods in the Ohio River Valley inspire Ohioans to 'remember when.' Thomas and Jeanne Schmidlin, native Ohioans, have brought together data from government records, scientific studies, memoirs, diaries, and newspapers in the first comprehensive book on Ohio weather. They highlight 200 weather events from 1790 to the present; extremes of rain, snow, storms, and temperature. Anecdotal, often first person, accounts are enhanced by statistics, photographs, and maps. They describe the place of weather in popular history and folklore and how forces of nature compelled the construction of extensive flood control and weather warning systems in Ohio. Thunder in the Heartland will be of interest to climatologist, cultural historians, and all who live the weather of the Oho Country.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Melville has long been regarded as an author of raw genius who knew, or cared, little about the art of the novel, and even harbored hostility toward its conventions. In The Weaver-God, He Weaves, Christopher Sten sets out to correct this widespread view, showing not only what Melville knew about the novelist's craft but how he appropriated and transformed a whole series of distinct genres: Typee is presented in the context of the popular romance, with its paired themes of sex and violence; Omoo is viewed in the framework of early Spanish and later French examples of the picaresque novel; and Mardi is seen as an instance of the once widely popular genre of the imaginary voyage. Sten also reveals how Melville radically transformed certain existing genres--the epic novel in Moby-Dick and the historical novel in Israel Potter--or forged profound new directions for genres still in their early stages--the psychological novel in Pierre and the experimental novel in the Confidence-Man. Sten speculates that it is because Melville was so idiosyncratic and inventive that so few critics have understood his close relationship tot eh various novelistic forms. While individual chapters provide discussions of the genre principles Melville employed, Sten's introduction offers valuable theoretical isnight into the importance of genre study (encompassing recent work by Todorov, Hirsch, Hernadi, Jauss, Culler, Scholes, Fowler, Rosmarin, and others), both in the evaluation of literary texts and in the still more fundamental enterprise of determining their meaning. The Weaver-God, He Weaves thus exposes for the first time the extent of Melville's contribution to the novel. This work will be of interest to readers of Melville, 19th-century American literature, literature of the sea, experimental fiction, and to those who work in the field of genre studies.…

Condizione: Near Fine. Publisher's original colour illustrated laminated card covers. Quarto 10½'' x 8¼'' 64 pp ISBN 0855326727. Colour and monochrome illustrations throughout. In near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. DRAWING & CRAFTSMANSHIP.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The third volume of The Salmon P. Chase Papers documents Chase's career from early 1868--the beginning of his second terms as the governor of Ohio--through the pivotal election of 1860 and the first two years of his service as secretary of the Treasury in Abraham Lincoln's wartime cabinet. Now for the first time there is ready access to a crucial record of the nation's descent into civil war. The National Historical Publications and Records Commission provides financial support for the publication of The Salmon P. Chase Papers.…

Condizione: Fine. First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 152 printed pages of text. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. SIGNED by the author to the front free end paper 'For Andrea - Ian Barclay'. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 185219071X DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…