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The Kent State University Press

The Kent State University Press is the publishing arm of Kent State University. Our imprint is controlled by an editorial board composed of Kent faculty scholars. As a member of the Association of University Presses, the Press is included in the select group of more than 100 university-sponsored scholarly presses, whose outstanding programs make them an important segment of the academic and publishing communities.

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Cleveland's Cultural Gardens: A Landscape of Diversity
Sister Tongue
Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic
Red, White, and Blue on the Runway: The 1968 White House Fashion Show and the Politics of American Style
Medspeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration
Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll
Witnessing the American Century: Via Berlin, Pearl Harbor, Vietnam, and the Straits of Florida
Conservation Concerns in Fashion Collections: Caring for Problematic Twentieth-Century Textiles, Apparel, and Accessories
The Brilliance of Charles Whittlesey: Geologist, Surveyor, Military Engineer, Civil War Strategist
Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter
Peatlands of Ohio and the Southern Great Lakes Region
Malabar Farm: Louis Bromfield, Friends of the Land, and the Rise of Sustainable Agriculture
A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas
Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 11, 2002-2004
Best Sellers
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Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic
Hemingway in Comics
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio's Natural Landscape
The House That Rock Built: How It Took Time, Money, Music Moguls, Corporate Types, Politicians, Media, Artists, and Fans to Bring the Rock Hall t
The Giants and Their City: Major League Baseball in San Francisco, 1976-1992
Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Nature and the Environment
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Peatlands of Ohio and the Southern Great Lakes Region
Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio's Natural Landscape
Creatures of Change: An Album of Ohio Animals
Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage
Problem Plants of Ohio
The Prairie Peninsula
Cuyahoga Valley National Park Handbook: Revised and Updated (Revised, Updated)
Diverse Voices in Poetry
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Sister Tongue
The Many Names for Mother
On This Side of the Desert
Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic
The Spectral Wilderness
I Hear the World Sing (Sento Cantare Il Mondo): Italian and American Children Joined in Poetry (Bambini Italiani E Americani Uniti in Poesia)
Inscribing My Name: Selected Poems: New, Used, and Repossessed
Discover Black History
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The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
Disqualified: Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics
For Their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops
Slavery: Interpreting American History
Interpreting American History: Reconstruction
True Crime History
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Queen of the Con: From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter
The East River Ripper: The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare
Cold War Secrets: A Vanished Professor, a Suspected Killer, and Hoover's FBI
The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake: Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott
The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband
Bigamy and Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham
A Woman Condemned: The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio
Six Capsules: The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-Of-The-Century New York
The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights: Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby
The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial
Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
The Killing of Julia Wallace
The Lincoln Assassination Riddle: Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century
May 4 resources for understanding the 1970 Kent State shootings
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Cambodia and Kent State: In the Aftermath of Nixon's Expansion of the Vietnam War
The Cost of Freedom: Voicing a Movement After Kent State 1970
Moments of Truth: A Photographer's Experience of Kent State 1970
May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970
A Teacher's Resource Book for May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970
Kent State and May 4th: A Social Science Perspective (Revised and Expanded)
This We Know: A Chronology of the Shootings at Kent State, May 1970
Democratic Narrative, History, and Memory
Kent State/May 4: Echoes Through a Decade (Revised) (Revised) (Revised)
Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings
Our Ohio
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Ohio's Craft Beers: Discovering the Variety, Enjoying the Quality, Relishing the Experience
Ohio's Historic Haunts: Investigating the Paranormal in the Buckeye State
Unforgettable Ohioans: Thirteen Mavericks Who Made History on Their Own Terms
Ohio Politics
Buckeye Presidents: Ohioans in the White House
Ohio and Its People: Bicentennial Edition
Medicine & Health
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What We Bring to the Practice of Medicine: Perspectives from Women Physicians
Medspeak Illuminated: The Art and Practice of Medical Illustration
Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose
From Reading to Healing: Teaching Medical Professionalism Through Literature
So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding Migraine Through Literature
Pinkerton True Detective Stories
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A Double Life and the Detectives
Bank Robbers and the Detectives
The Railroad Forger and the Detectives
The Murderer and the Fortune Teller
The Detective and the Somnambulist
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