A Handbook for the Modern Shepherd, Revised and Updated
Sheep raising is as popular today as it has been for thousands of years. Some raise sheep as a hobby or sideline, others as their sole source of income. No matter what the goal, successful sheep growing is a cooperation between sheep and shepherd, with each learning about the other in mutually productive ways. The Sheep Book is about the needs and ......
A Case Study of the Press and the Ciskei "Homeland"
Switzer looks at how South Africa's communications industry, the largest and most powerful on the continent, promotes dependency among the subject African populations. This study of the Ciskei "Homeland", which has long been a fountainhead of African nationalism and a zone of conflict between blacks and whites, focuses on the privately owned, ......
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 policies over the centuries. Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan's steeply mountainous woodland has remained biologically healthy despite centuries of ......
Written over a career that spans five decades, And Still Birds Sing is the masterwork of a major voice in American poetry. Bringing together his previously collected poems as well as the three books published since then, a sampling of his renowned translations of haiku, and a generous number of previously unpublished new poems, this latest ......
Beyond the Battlefield offers a critical reappraisal of Angola's nationalist history by centering the experiences and political agency of women during the country's transition from Portuguese colonial rule to independence. Challenging dominant masculinist narratives that equate anticolonial resistance with armed combat, this study introduces ......
In this short story collection, acclaimed author Natalie Petesch reaffirms for us our enduring debt to millions of immigrants who helped build America. Inspired by her own parents' journey at the turn of the century, Petesch spins these tales of immigration in a spare and lyrical prose that assures our involvement: a political fugitive threatened ......
Alice Walker's womanist theory about black feminist identity and practice also contains a critique of white liberal feminism. This is the first in-depth study to examine issues of identity and difference within feminism by drawing on Walker's notion of an essential black feminist consciousness. Allan defines womanism as a "(r)evolutionary ......
Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids Through Art
2019 National Parenting Products Award Winner Even the best talk-based practices in parenting can be limiting. How can art help parents temper storms of emotion, defuse sibling conflicts, get teeth brushed, and raise happy, successful kids? In The Innovative Parent, Erica Curtis and Ping Ho integrate cutting-edge research, years of clinical ......
The Literary Guide and Companion to Northern England is the third and final guide in Cooper's light-hearted and informative travel collection. As Cooper explains in the preface to the first volume: \u201cThis book was written for the person who unabashedly loves travel, loves England, and loves English literature. In short, for somebody ......
