books by Ohio State University Press     books:     Ohio State Univers...      DEATH OF CONTRACT: SECOND EDITION GRANT GILMORE Ohio State University Press, 1995 Saved my neck in law school--and I enjoyed it, too When I took Contracts as a first-year law student, I read the cases, went to class, and didn't have the faintest idea what it all meant. It seemed to be a mind-numbing mix of similar facts with different conclusions. Then I read this book and--voila--it all seemed to ...             101 CHAMBERS: CONGRESS, STATE LEGISLATURES, & THE FUTU OF LEGISLATIVE STUDIES (PARLIAMENTS & LEGISLATURES) PEVERILL SQUIRE, KEITH E HAMM Ohio State University Press, 2005             LANGUAGE FILES 10TH EDITION: MATERIALS FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAG OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY OSU DEPT LINGUISTICS Ohio State University Press, 2007 my first linguistic book This is a awesome book to get a grasp of understanding languages and to start you off on a good foot if you are learning, or want to learn to be a linguist or teach english as a second laguage. If you are just wanting to see what languages and linguistics is all about, ...             LANGUAGE FILES 9TH EDITION: MATERIALS FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAG AND LINGUISTICS OHIO STATE UNIV OSU DEPT LINGUISTICS Ohio State University Press, 2004 A Good Reference! This book gave excellent explanations for learning linguistics. I enjoyed reading this book and working on the helpful exercises at the end of each section. I ended up learning about linguistics without an instructor as a result of this smartly designed textbook.             ACADEMIC SELF: AN OWNER'S MANUAL DONALD HALL Ohio State University Press, 2002 Excellent resource for junior university faculty This book is an excellent primer for junior university faculty in institutions with a teaching focus. Chapter 4 is especially helpful in understanding a young professor's place in the institution and among colleagues and how this relates to advancing one's career. ...             FINANCIAL BASICS: MONEY-MANAGEMENT GUIDE FOR STUDENTS SUSAN KNOX Ohio State University Press, 2004 Practical solutions to common money problems Also available in a hardcover edition (0814290785, $39.95), Financial Basics: A Money-Management Guide For Students by certified public account, financial planner, and former university administrator and teacher Susan Knox shares hard-learned lessons about managing ...             The Academic Community: A Manual for Change DONALD HALL Ohio State University Press, 2007 In The Academic Community: A Manual for Change, Donald E. Hall builds on his earlier The Academic Self: An Owner’s Manual (2002) and confronts the most pressing issues in higher education today: the coherence of undergraduate instruction, priorities in graduate training, public perceptions of colleges and universities, and collegiality ...             WOODY PLANTS OF OHIO: TREES, SHRUBS AND WOODY CLIMBERS NATIVE, E. LUCY BRAUN Ohio State University Press, 1989 An essential reference This book is an essential reference for anyone from Ohio or nearby states with interests in botany, horticulture, or ecology. The descriptions of the plant species and the line drawings are exceptionally clear. The range maps by county are also very useful. As a ...             Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Theory and Interpretation of Narrative) Lisa Zunshine Ohio State University Press, 2006 A Remarkable, Exciting Approach to Literature I purchased WHY WE READ FICTION after reading a number of strong books on evolutionary psychology written for non experts, including Dennett's CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED, Wright's THE MORAL ANIMAL, and Pinker's THE BLANK SLATE. After reading these works and finding myself ...             ENGLISH COMMON READER: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MASS READING PUB RICHARD D. ALTICK Ohio State University Press, 1998             LISTEN TO ME GOOD: THE STORY OF AN ALABAMA MIDWIFE (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE) MARGARET CHARLES SMITH Ohio State University Press, 1996 Birthing the way it used to be I loved the raw honesty of Margaret Charles Smith's story. She tells about catching babies in a time when birth was not considered a medical crisis. As one of the last granny midwives, Margaret has much to tell us about how African-American midwifery was stamped out ...             Empire Burlesque (OSU JOURNAL AWARD POETRY) Mark Svenvold Ohio State University Press, 2007 Empire Burlesque begins with a romp through the Journals of Lewis and Clark and ends with cameo appearances by Ambrose Bierce, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound (in drag), Andy Warhol, and even King Kong. Mark Svenvold was inspired to this approach, which he describes as that of a “clown lost in the Library of Babel,” by the letters of ...             Ohio: The History of a People Andrew R. L. Cayton Ohio State University Press, 2002 Quite Well Done Cayton does a splendid job of tracking the development of Ohio and Ohioans and, very much to his credit, he exhibits a wide range of personal profiles rather than just rehash the notables like astronauts and Presidents. Also to his credit he brings to light the nature ...             Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film (Black Performance and Cultural ... Peter Caster Ohio State University Press, 2008 In Prisons, Race, and Masculinity, Peter Caster demonstrates the centrality of imprisonment in American culture, illustrating how incarceration, an institution inseparable from race, has shaped and continues to shape U.S. history and literature in the starkest expression of what W. E. B. DuBois famously termed “the problem of the color ...             Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other ... Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis Ohio State University Press, 2007 In Adventures of the Spirit, Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis brings together eleven American and Canadian “literary gerontologists” to examine a new kind of adventure for the older woman in literature. This volume of critical essays analyzes recent works by contemporary women writers whose characters’ midlife and later life changes ...          products you might be interested in search for books contemporary, interpretation, introduction, legislatures, money-management, twentieth-century      toavi.com    web we recommend Practical solutions to common money problems randomly chosen book: Oh No! I've Become My Mother