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From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoning field of ecophenomenology. Informed by current debates in environmental philosophy, Bannon critiques the conception of nature as "substance" that he finds tacitly assumed by the major environmental theorists.

Reveals some of the ways that historical moments of the twentieth century affected the entire region.

Written in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering "boxes" girls and women are so often expected to live in.

Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776.

The African National Congress (ANC) is Africa's most famous liberation movement. It has recently celebrated its centenary, a milestone that has prompted partisans to detail a century of unparalleled achievement in the struggle against colonialism and racial discrimination.

Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework-primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States-made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America.The

A fascinating window into Wilbur and Orville Wright's legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.

The Brown Goose, the White Case Knife, Ora's Speckled Bean, Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter - these are just a few of the heirloom fruits and vegetables you'll encounter in Bill Best's remarkable history of seed saving and the people who preserve both unique flavors and the Appalachian culture associated with them.

Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem "Die kind" (The Child) at the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994.

San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art. There are as many as 15,000 known rock art sites, created over the course of thousands of years up until the nineteenth century. There are possibly just as many still awaiting discovery.Taking

Appalachia is a distinctive region with various cultural characteristics that can't be essentialized or summed up by a single text. This book offers chapters on teaching Appalachian poetry and fiction as well as discussions of nonfiction, films, and folklore.

Looks at the culture and terrain of Antarctica, as well as the people who choose to live and work there. This book presents life in Antarctica and the history of polar aviation as both a miracle of achievement yet also as a way to understand humanity's longing to be creatures of the heavens as well as the earth.

Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness.

A remarkable collection of photographs by an ex-Marine who worked as a lawyer in Lawrence County, Ohio, for around thirty-six years.

Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today - smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS, this book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms.

Christianity and Public Culture in Africa takes readers beyond familiar images of religious politicians and populations steeped in spirituality.

Invisible Agents shows how personal and deeply felt spiritual beliefs can inspire social movements and influence historical change. Conventional historiography concentrates on the secular, materialist, or moral sources of political agency.

Draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy's only flying "ace" of World War I to tell his unique story.

Explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. This title rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women's faith commitments tend to limit creativity.

Investigates Hollywood's colonial film legacy in the postapartheid era, and contemplates what has changed in the West's representations of Africa. This volume provides analyses by academics and activists in the fields of African studies, English, film and media studies, international relations, and sociology across continents.

Examines the vibrant engraving industry that helped fuel the growth of the "Queen City" and established its influence as the midwestern center for the print and engraving trade.

William McKnight was a member of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from September 1862 until his death in June of 1864. This book offers a collection of more than one hundred letters which provides accounts of several battles in Kentucky and Tennessee, such as the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville campaigns that were pivotal events in Western Theater.

On the eve of the Civil War and after, Illinois was one of the most significant states in the Union.

In the period from the 1870s to 1895, the author maintained a correspondence with family members and with Mead - his best friend at Oberlin College and brother-in-law - that reveals many of the intellectual, economic, and cultural forces that shaped American thought in that complex era. This title tells his story.

This first-ever collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith, one of the nation's leading African American playwrights, is a journey down the complex road of race and history.

Between the Brown and the Red captures the multifaceted nature of church-state relations in communist Poland, relations that oscillated between mutual confrontation, accommodation, and dialogue. Ironically, under communism the bond between religion and nation in Poland grew stronger.

Explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics. This book illustrates the range of cases and issues that have come before the court.