Environmental Relationships in the Lord of the Rings
With the box office successes of movies based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, familiarity with J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth is growing. Unfortunately, scholarship dealing with Middle-Earth itself is comparatively rare in Tolkien studies, and students and scholars seeking greater insight have few resources. Similarly, although public ......
Demonstrating the unity of Tolkien's created world across Middle-earth's Ages An in-depth examination of the role of divine beings in Tolkien's work, Tolkien's Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth brings together Tolkien's many references to such beings and analyzes their involvement within his created world. Unlike many other commentators, ......
Detailing the life of Warren Hamilton Lewis, author Don W. King gives us new insights into the life and mind of Warrens famous brother, C. S. Lewis, and also demonstrates how Warrens experiences provide an illuminating window into the events, personalities, and culture of 20th-century England.
The Turn-of-the-Century First Lady Through War, Assassination, and Secret Disability
Published in cooperation with The National First Ladies Library This is the first full-length biography of Ida Saxton McKinley (1847- 1907), the wife of William McKinley, president of the United States from 1897 to his assassination in 1901. Long demeaned by history because she suffered from epilepsy-which the society of her era mistakenly ......
How do we wrestle with unimaginable loss? How does love open us to new worlds and even new versions of ourselves? In The First 649 Days, Eric LeMay explores the everyday moments and momentous events that make and unmake our lives, from the birth of a child to mass death in a global pandemic to finding a home and comfort among the fields and ......
When the Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gymnastics team competes in the Ohio High School Athletic Association state gymnastics meet, they're expected to win. That's because they've won each year-since 2004. And as the streak builds, there's more pressure each year on the public school's team to continue that tradition. No year was more ......
A Senior Journalist's Story of Covering the President-and Why It Matters
Going behind the scenes with a veteran member of the White House press corps Steven L Herman, chief national correspondent for the nonpartisan, government-funded Voice of America (VOA), weaves together memoir and history to pull back the curtain on the inner workings of the White House press corps, giving readers a rare glimpse into the historic ......
Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transition While Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds"), its transition away from steel has in fact been uneven and contested. Christopher P. Briem grew up in the city's Bloomfield and South Side ......
Sanitation and Military Effectiveness in the Union Army
The Civil War was a watershed in public awareness of the many challenges to soldier health posed by camp life. Sanitarians among civilians and regular army officers attempted to meet those challenges by addressing a range of topics associated with preventive health care in the volunteer army. The U.S. Sanitary Commission, a non-governmental agency ......
