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  A History of Physics at Otterbein University

  David G. Robertson, Professor, Physics Department

  This is an informal history of the Physics Department at Otterbein, including the story of the natural sciences prior to the founding of the department in 1908.

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  Sport, Gender and Development : Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories

  Lyndsay M C Hayhurst, Holly Thorpe, and Megan Chawansky Dr., Department of Health & Sport Sciences

  The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. In a context where striving for gender equity in relation to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals seems more pressing than ever before, Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories bring together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and local contexts. Including postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses by drawing upon fieldwork with organizations and individuals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Nicaragua, and India, Sport, Gender and Development reveals the complexities of development and gender discourses and how they operate on and through researchers, practitioners, and participants' bodies. Delving into a thoughtful engagement with the (dis)connections and comparisons across these diverging contexts, this book offers a critically reflexive account of what is transpiring in the transnational sport, gender, and development field, while remaining sensitive to the importance of community context and local iterations. Taking up emerging and contemporary feminist issues in sport-related international development, this book advances empirical, conceptual, and theoretical developments in the sport, gender, and development.

  Read the full book at https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781838678630.

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  The Sovereign Signifier: Agamben and the Nonhuman - Chapter

  Paul Eisenstein, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences/Professor, Department of English

  This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic – the nonhuman. The authors question where we situate the subject (as distinct from the human) in current critical investigations of a nonanthropoentric universe.

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  In the Kettle, the Shriek

  Hannah Stephenson

  "'I could care less,' Hannah Stephenson says with a faux shrug, feigning that tone of contemporary diffidence and cool, but everywhere in In the Kettle, the Shriek this fine new poet indicates that "instead, I care so much." Here is a poet of clarity and connective grace, full of good will and wily stories alike-funny, neighborly, amused, observant, she's a storyteller with an aphorist's flair for precision. And in In the Kettle, the Shriek she gives testimony to our lives together and our struggles alone, turning at the deepest moments to her highest virtues of sanity and acceptance: 'the things that are going to happen, / let me let them.' This is how Hannah Stephenson makes poetic testimony into a manner of lyric, laic testament." -David Baker// "In the Kettle, The Shriek is excellent: inquisitive, taut, ironic, tough, smart, sensitive, tensed, ready. Nothing is taken for granted in these poems, not the cosmic or the molecular. Stephenson explores how we hold ourselves together lately, what can be named or called into us, and our relations with the allegedly inanimate. The unpunctuated questions that comprise many of the poems are an essential part of what this poet is up to. Those queries become the glue of this universe, the building blocks of its matter and anti matter, and also a voice of the zeitgeist." -Amy Gerstler

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  USA -Chile: Otterbein University, Universidad San Sebastian, November 27-December 22, 2005

  Carmen J. Galarce, Professor, Modern Languages & Cultures

  Information is provided about the country of Chile in South America for a study-travel class (Spanish 390) that went from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio to visit the Universidad San Sebastian in Valdivia, Chile from November 27-December 22, 2005.

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  Pleasant Ohio: Songs of Ohio's History Accompanied by Mountain Dulcimer

  Elizabeth A. Salt, Cataloger/Metadata Librarian, Courtright Memorial Library

  "Pleasant Ohio" is a collection of fifteen songs covering both daily life and historical events related to the state of Ohio. Songs are in chronological order and span the time period from the historic Native Americans in Ohio through the end of the nineteenth century. Includes solo vocals with drum or mountain dulcimer accompaniment.

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  Buckeye Heritage: Ohio's History in Song

  Elizabeth A. Salt, Cataloger/Metadata Librarian, Courtright Memorial Library

  Buckeye Heritage: Ohio's History in Song provides a unique look at the history of the state of Ohio from the time of the Native American inhabitants through the end of the nineteenth century. Representative traditional songs about various events and aspects of Ohio history are presented along with text that places each song in its historical context. Appalachian dulcimer tablature and dulcimer and guitar chords for each song are included in an appendix.