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MSL Academic Endeavors eBooks

MSL Academic Endeavors eBooks

 

MSL Academic Endeavors is the publishing imprint of the Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University. The eBooks we make available here are open textbooks and other open education resources created by CSU faculty. Other eBooks found here are written by local authors about the culture and history of Cleveland Northeast Ohio.

If you are interested in publishing your manuscript with MSL Academic Endeavors, email an EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University Administrator at library.es@csuohio.edu or review our EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University eBooks Research Guide.

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  • From Across the Pond: A Love Letter to Cleveland: The Memoirs of a Brit Journalist with the Cleveland Press 1970-82 by Peter Almond

    From Across the Pond: A Love Letter to Cleveland: The Memoirs of a Brit Journalist with the Cleveland Press 1970-82

    Peter Almond
    2022

    “From Across the Pond ” is the intimate story of Peter Almond, a young British journalist who immigrated to Cleveland in January, 1970, and worked at The Cleveland Press newspaper until its death in June, 1982.

    It is a... (read more)

  • Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for Resurgence by Thomas E. Bier

    Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for Resurgence

    Thomas E. Bier
    2017

    The book presents an overview of regional housing dynamics and consequent impacts in Northeast Ohio since the 1940s. Focus is on the city of Cleveland and its host county. Dynamics are examined in terms of supply and demand, population... (read more)

  • The Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland: A Senior Thesis on the Van Sweringens by Joseph G. Blake

    The Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland: A Senior Thesis on the Van Sweringens

    Joseph G. Blake
    2015

    The Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland: A Senior Thesis was submitted by Joseph G. Blake in May 1968 to the History Department of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana in partial fulfillment for a Bachelor of Arts Degree. It... (read more)

  • "Until Victory is Achieved:" The Cleveland May Day Riots of 1919 by Emerson Bodde

    "Until Victory is Achieved:" The Cleveland May Day Riots of 1919

    Emerson Bodde
    2022

    This work recounts and analyses the socio-political conditions leading up to the event known as the 'Cleveland May Day Riots of 1919', as well as the political fallout of the riot. This event is analyzed through four distinct thematic... (read more)

  • Interactuando: Libro de Texto Para el Estudiante by Ana Capanegra

    Interactuando: Libro de Texto Para el Estudiante

    Ana Capanegra
    2022

    Libro de recursos de actividades prácticas y dinámicas de conversación para estudiantes de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) de nivel intermedio alto a avanzado

    Language: Spanish

    ... (read more)
  • The History of the Cleveland Nazis: 1933 - 1945 by Michael Cikraji

    The History of the Cleveland Nazis: 1933 - 1945

    Michael Cikraji
    2016

    During Cleveland’s Great Depression grew the first seeds of American Nazism. The city fostered an explicitly Nazi German-American Bund, a covert Silvershirt Legion detachment and prominent diplomatic agents from the Third Reich. Festooned with photos and meticulously documented, this... (read more)

  • The Bright Continent: African Art History (Second Edition) by Kathy Curnow

    The Bright Continent: African Art History (Second Edition)

    Kathy Curnow
    2021

    Significant original research is included in this textbook. Through nearly 1000 images, it explores both "traditional" and "contemporary" African art through general discussion and specifics. The first chapter discusses materials, gender, training, and patronage. Chapter Two covers the elements... (read more)

  • The Bright Continent: African Art History (Web Version) by Kathy Curnow

    The Bright Continent: African Art History (Web Version)

    Kathy Curnow
    2021

    Significant original research is included in this textbook. Through nearly 1000 images, it explores both "traditional" and "contemporary" African art through general discussion and specifics. The first chapter discusses materials, gender, training, and patronage. Chapter Two covers the elements... (read more)

  • Plain Dealing: Cleveland Journalists Tell Their Stories by Dave Davis and Joan Mazzolini

    Plain Dealing: Cleveland Journalists Tell Their Stories

    Dave Davis and Joan Mazzolini
    2018

    “Plain Dealing” is a book of essays by 25 accomplished Cleveland-area journalists. It’ a book of stories, many never told before. It’s a first-person account of journalism in Cleveland, life in the newsroom, the issues and events these journalists... (read more)

  • Introduction to Writing in College by Melanie Gagich

    Introduction to Writing in College

    Melanie Gagich
    2017

    This book was created not only to help students entering Cleveland State University’s College Writing sequence save money on textbooks, but also to introduce my course, university resources, and common college writing genres.

    ... (read more)
  • A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing by Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel

    A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing

    Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel
    2018

    This book combines the Introduction to Writing in College by Melanie Gagich and ENG 102: Reading, Writing and Research by Emilie Zickel, which were both supported by Cleveland State University's 2017 Textbook Affordability Small Grant.

    ... (read more)
  • The Robert E. Gard Reader : To Change the Face of America, From Writings by Robert E. Gard by Robert E. Gard, Maryo Gard Gard Ewell, and LaMoine MacLaughlin

    The Robert E. Gard Reader : To Change the Face of America, From Writings by Robert E. Gard

    Robert E. Gard, Maryo Gard Gard Ewell, and LaMoine MacLaughlin
    2010

    This Reader draws from the works of Robert E. Gard, professor at the University of Wisconsin, Extension. His chief areas of activity were in the theatre arts and in creative writing, with a strong side activity in collecting and... (read more)

  • Charles Chesnutt in the Classroom by Adrienne Gosselin

    Charles Chesnutt in the Classroom

    Adrienne Gosselin
    2018

    Charles Chesnutt in the Classroom is designed to introduce students, teachers, and interested readers to historical connections between Groveland, Ohio, the location for most of Chesnutt’s northern fiction, and Cleveland, Ohio, where Chesnutt was born in 1858 and died... (read more)

  • Between Spires and Stacks by Charles Hendry and Margaret T. Svendsen

    Between Spires and Stacks

    Charles Hendry and Margaret T. Svendsen
    2019

    Between Spires and Stacks is a hard-to-find 1936 classic examination of juvenile welfare in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. Written by Charles E. Hendry and Margaret T. Svendsen, and published by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, it is presented here with... (read more)

  • Right to Vote: The 15th and 19th Amendments by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz, Shelley Rose, and Robert S. Shelton

    Right to Vote: The 15th and 19th Amendments

    Stephanie D. Hinnershitz, Shelley Rose, and Robert S. Shelton
    2019

    The 15th and 19th Amendments to the US Constitution. The year 2020 will mark the anniversaries of two amendments to the US Constitution that expanded the nation’s ideas about citizenship and extended the right to vote to African American... (read more)

  • Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk: Strong Leadership During Troubled Times by Richard Klein

    Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk: Strong Leadership During Troubled Times

    Richard Klein
    2013

    This book is a tribute to one of Cleveland’s greatest leaders. Ralph J. Perk embodied the quintessential 20th century politician. A dedicated administrator with both insight and foresight, he dedicated nearly fifty years to public service. During his six-year... (read more)

  • Fast-Food Restaurant Industry: A Cleveland Perspective 1930-2016 by Richard Klein

    Fast-Food Restaurant Industry: A Cleveland Perspective 1930-2016

    Richard Klein
    2016

    This writing will focus on some the major fast-food establishments that served Greater Cleveland and how they evolved over time. Emphasizes will also be placed on some of the smaller as well as larger restaurants. To lend additional clarity,... (read more)

  • KYW Radio: The Cleveland Years by Richard Klein

    KYW Radio: The Cleveland Years

    Richard Klein
    2022

    Did you ever wonder what happened to the great Top 40 radio stations of the 1950s and 1960s? Those fun lovin’ AM outlets with their fast-talking DJs and upbeat rock and roll music played a foremost role in the... (read more)

  • "Let's Go Shopping at the Square" Cleveland's Leading Downtown Department Stores: A Business Legacy by Richard Klein

    "Let's Go Shopping at the Square" Cleveland's Leading Downtown Department Stores: A Business Legacy

    Richard Klein
    2014

    This book is a tribute to the eight major downtown Cleveland department stores and their many loyal customers. For over 150 years, these large stores dominated the local retail scene. They represented exciting places that not only provided a... (read more)

  • The Changing Fortunes of American Business: Cleveland's Fortune 500 Companies by Richard Klein

    The Changing Fortunes of American Business: Cleveland's Fortune 500 Companies

    Richard Klein
    2021

    Some frustrated business heads starting in the 1970s insinuated that older Rustbelt centers including Cleveland, Ohio were finding themselves losing their once decided economic advantage to other, more mindful Sunbelt communities. The fire on the Cuyahoga River in 1969... (read more)

  • The Evolution of Local Dealerships: The Backbone of the U.S. Automobile Industry by Richard Klein

    The Evolution of Local Dealerships: The Backbone of the U.S. Automobile Industry

    Richard Klein
    2019

    The numerous business contributions made by some of the major Cleveland, OH auto dealerships over the past 130-years will be recognized in this book and how their innovative approaches towards both marketing and selling vehicles influenced the automotive industry... (read more)

  • The Legacy of the Pharmacy Industry: Cleveland, Ohio by Richard Klein

    The Legacy of the Pharmacy Industry: Cleveland, Ohio

    Richard Klein
    2017

    This book recognizes the many business contributions made by the major Cleveland, Ohio-based drugstore chains over the past two hundred years and how their highly resourceful approaches towards marketing and retailing affected the national pharmacy industry over that same... (read more)

  • "No Water for Niggers": The Hough Riots and the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement by Olivia Lapeyrolerie

    "No Water for Niggers": The Hough Riots and the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement

    Olivia Lapeyrolerie
    2015

    The author, Olivia Lapeyrolerie, graduated from the University of St Andrews, located in Scotland, where she received a Master of Arts in Modern History. This publication is the thesis she submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree in January... (read more)

  • Chinese Calligraphy and Culture: An Easy-to-Use Guide for Learners of all Ages by Huiwen Li, Han Lifen, and George Becker

    Chinese Calligraphy and Culture: An Easy-to-Use Guide for Learners of all Ages

    Huiwen Li, Han Lifen, and George Becker
    2018

    Chinese Calligraphy and Culture is a concise introduction to the dazzling art form known as calligraphy. A series of step-by-step exercises enable students to become aware of calligraphy’s different styles. In particular, they will learn proper technique that leads... (read more)

  • Chinese Language Teaching Plan: Designs and Analysis by Huiwen Li, Hui Pang, and Esther Seday

    Chinese Language Teaching Plan: Designs and Analysis

    Huiwen Li, Hui Pang, and Esther Seday
    2019

    This book collects twelve Chinese language teaching plans written by experienced K-12 American school teachers. The teaching plans cover the elementary through advanced language proficiency levels. Modules in each of the plans include content and topic, student status, standards,... (read more)

 
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