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(1958)
| 9780804001489 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 72pp
AUD 21.95 (inc. GST), AUD 19.95 (ex. GST),
“The genesis of House of Incest was in the dream. The keeping of dreamswas an important part of that exploration of the unconscious. But I discovereddreams in themselves, isolated, were not always interesting. Very few of themhad the complete imagery and tension to arouse others’ interest....
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(1959)
| 9780804000390 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 111pp
AUD 25.95 (inc. GST), AUD 23.59 (ex. GST),
Children of the Albatross is divided into two sections: “The SealedRoom” focuses on the dancer Djuna and a set of characters, chiefly male, whosurround her; “The Café” brings together a cast of characters alreadyfamiliar to Nin's readers, but it is their meeting place that is the focal...
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(2014)
| 9780804011556 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 190pp | Availability last checked: 1/10/2019
AUD 31.95 (inc. GST), AUD 29.05 (ex. GST),
Anaïs Nin’s Ladders to Fire interweaves the stories of several women, eachemotionally inhibited in her own way: through self-doubt, fear, guilt, moraldrift, and distrust. The novel follows their inner struggles to overcome thesebarriers to happiness and wholeness. The author’s own experiences,...
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(2013)
| 9780804011488 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 152pp
AUD 25.95 (inc. GST), AUD 23.59 (ex. GST),
Although Anaïs Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation andconfession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiencesduring her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories andnovels became artistic “distillations” of her secret diaries. A Spy in...
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(2014)
| 9780804011495 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 156pp
AUD 28.95 (inc. GST), AUD 26.32 (ex. GST),
“Some voyages have their inception in the blueprint of a dream, some inthe urgency of contradicting a dream. Lillian’s recurrent dream of a shipthat could not reach the water, that sailed laboriously, pushed by her withgreat effort, through city streets, had determined her course toward...
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Longert, Scott H.
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(2020)
| 9780821424186 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 152pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 53.95 (inc. GST), AUD 49.05 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2020
Cy Young was one of the hardest-throwing pitchers of all time. He recorded threeno-hitters—including a perfect game—and accumulated more than 2,800strikeouts on his way to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Scott H. Longertuses Young’s life story to introduce middle-grade readers to the game,explaining...
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Longert, Scott H.
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(2020)
| 9780821424193 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 152pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 27.95 (inc. GST), AUD 25.41 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2020
Cy Young was one of the hardest-throwing pitchers of all time. He recorded threeno-hitters—including a perfect game—and accumulated more than 2,800strikeouts on his way to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Scott H. Longertuses Young’s life story to introduce middle-grade readers to the game,explaining...
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Muhonja, Besi Brillian.
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(2020)
| 9780896803268 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 170pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 55.95 (inc. GST), AUD 50.86 (ex. GST),
Coming in June 2020
Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding the Green BeltMovement, an environmental campaign that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize. Whilemany studies of Maathai highlight her activism, few examine Maathai as a scholarwhose contributions to various disciplines and causes spanned more...
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Achebe, Nwando.
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(2020)
| 9780821424070 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 224pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 27.95 (inc. GST), AUD 25.41 (ex. GST),
Coming in May 2020
In this unapologetically African-centered monograph, Nwando Achebe considers thediverse forms and systems of female leadership in both the physical andspiritual worlds, as well as the complexities of female power in a multiplicityof distinct African societies. From Amma to the goddess inkosazana, Sobekneferuto...
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Langston, Ben.
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(2020)
| 9780804012256 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 240pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 46.95 (inc. GST), AUD 42.68 (ex. GST),
Coming in May 2020
“Call me what you want—corrections officer, C.O., guard, jailcop,turnkey—I helped keep people there against their will. For this, the jailrewarded me with food.”When Ben Langston took a job at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview,it was because there were few other options. At his...
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Edgar, Robert R.
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(2020)
| 9780821424100 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 232pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 27.95 (inc. GST), AUD 25.41 (ex. GST),
Coming in May 2020
While African National Congress narratives dominate much of the scholarship onSouth Africa’s freedom struggle, Josie Mpama/Palmer’s political life offersa different perspective. Highly critical of the patriarchal attitudes thathindered black women from actively participating in politics, Mpama/Palmer...
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Zimmerman, Sarah J.
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(2020)
| 9780821424223 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 312pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 148.95 (inc. GST), AUD 135.41 (ex. GST),
Coming in May 2020
Following tirailleurs sénégalais’ deployments in West Africa, Congo,Madagascar, North Africa, Syria-Lebanon, Vietnam, and Algeria from the 1880s to1962, Militarizing Marriage historicizes how African servicemen advancedconjugal strategies with women at home and abroad. Sarah J. Zimmerman examinesthe...
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Leduc-Grimaldi, Mathilde. Newman, James L.
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(2020)
| 9780821423660 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 560pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 157.95 (inc. GST), AUD 143.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
In 1871, American writer Henry M. Stanley traveled from Zanzibar to Tanganyikain search of the missing explorer Dr. David Livingstone at the behest of the NewYork Herald’s impresario editor. In 1872, Stanley emerged from central Africato announce that he had met with Livingstone on Tanganyika Lake,...
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Byfield, Judith A.
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(2020)
| 9780821423981 | Ohio University Press | pbk. | book | 276pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 61.95 (inc. GST), AUD 56.32 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged asuccessful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’sUnion and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, theNigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became ground zero...
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Byfield, Judith A.
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(2020)
| 9780821423974 | Ohio University Press | hbk. | book | 276pp | Availability last checked: 21/2/2020
AUD 148.95 (inc. GST), AUD 135.41 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged asuccessful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’sUnion and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, theNigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became ground zero...
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