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This is the closest I'll ever get to Johnny Depp

I was elated this morning when I discovered photos of Johnny Depp holding our Dillinger book. Thanks to Craig Fehrman for linking to one of the pictures in his excellent review of our book! I might not have seen them otherwise!

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Four IU Press authors selected for Indiana Authors Award

Congratulations to the following authors who are winners or finalists for the Indiana Authors Award in two of the three categories (National, Regional, and Emerging Authors):

James Alexander Thom

Winner, National Author category

Author of The Spirit of the Place

Scott Russell Sanders

Finalist, National Author category

Author of A Conservationist Manifesto

James H. Madison

Finalist, Regional Author category

Author of Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys

Susan Neville

Finalist, Regional Author category

Author of Sailing the Inland Sea

The winners of the Regional and Emerging Author categories will be announced September 26, 2009 at an award dinner held at Central Library in Indianapolis. James Alexander Thom will be the keynote speaker for the ceremony, which will honor all winners and finalists. For more information, visit the Indiana Authors Award website.

Author interview: Jonathan Pieslak (Sound Targets)

Jonathan Pieslak, author of Sound Targets, was recently interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio's Word of Mouth program. Listen to the interview here.

"Public Enemies" opens today

I'm excited for today's opening of Public Enemies! Although the movie has received mixed reviews, I'll watch almost anything featuring Johnny Depp (except Willy Wonka because his make up and hair just creep me out!). To celebrate the movie's release, I'm giving away our anniversary edition of Dillinger: The Untold Story. Visit the IU Press Twitter page for details.

New releases for July

Travels with Mae

Eileen M. Julien

With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American woman growing up in middle-class New Orleans in the 1950s and 1960s. Julien's narratives focus on her relationship with her mother, family, community, and the city itself, while touching upon life after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Colonial Blackness

Herman L. Bennett

"Bennett challenges his readers to rethink the black experience in colonial Mexico. ...He persuasively argues that exploitative labor systems, violence, and social hierarchy cannot, by themselves, define Afro-Mexican history..." —Robert Douglas Cope, Brown University

T. C. Steele and the Society of Western Artists, 1896–1914
Rachel Berenson Perry

"...the illustrations in this book are splendid. The span of this organization, 1896–1914, coincides pretty precisely with the best years for our artists—those in which they were bound most closely and collegially together to the benefit of their art." —Martin Krause, Indianapolis Museum of Art

Indiana's Weather and Climate

John E. Oliver

"John Oliver has produced a record of distinguished scholarship during his career and there is tremendous need and value in this particular book for Hoosiers." —John Harrington, Jr., Kansas State University

Maclure of New Harmony

Leonard Warren

"In these pages, Maclure comes alive in all his energy, genius, generosity, and glaring idiosyncrasies. ...The merits of Warren's work promise to make [this book] the standard biography." —Donald Pitzer, author of America's Communal Utopias

Giving Circles

Angela M. Eikenberry

Giving circles have been seen as the most democratic of philanthropic mechanisms, working to meet social needs and solve community problems, while enhancing the civic education and participation of their members. Eikenberry examines this new phenomenon and considers what role voluntary associations and philanthropy can or should play in a democratic society.

Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society

Edited by David C. Hammack and Steven Heydemann

"Hammack and Heydemann are filling an important gap in the literature on philanthropy, with a book that goes beyond the usual generalizations about the imposition of Western models backed by economic power or the celebration of global activism and its seamless—and disincarnated—networks of activists." —Nicolas Guilhot, London School of Economics

The UN and Development

Olav Stokke

In the first comprehensive overview of the development policies and activities of the United Nations system from the late 1940s to the present, Stokke demonstrates the UN's essential role and its future challenges in aiding the least developed countries and the globe's billion poorest inhabitants.

Walking Together, Walking Far

Fran Quigley

A remarkable partnership between the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya has built one of the most comprehensive and successful programs in the world to control HIV/AIDS.

Red Sea Citizens
Jonathan Miran

In the late 19th century, the port of Massawa, in Eritrea on the Red Sea, was a thriving, vibrant, multiethnic commercial hub. This book tells the story of how Massawa rose to prominence as one of Northeast Africa's most important shipping centers.

Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora
Edited by Joel E. Tishken, Toyin Falola, and Akintunde Akinyemi

This volume considers the spread of polytheistic religious traditions from West Africa, the mythic Sango, the historical Sango, and syncretic traditions of Sango worship. Readers with an interest in the Yoruba and their religious cultures will find a diverse, complex, and comprehensive portrait of Sango worship in Africa and the African world.

Hyperanimation
Robert Russett

A readable collection of artist interviews accompanied by historical backgrounds, biographical profiles, and lavish illustrations, this volume explores a broad spectrum of groundbreaking animation projects ranging from interactive installations and virtual environments to digital theater and telematic imaging.

Censorship in South Asia
Edited by Raminder Kaur and William Mazzarella

This book offers an expansive and comparative exploration of cultural regulation in contemporary and colonial South Asia. The contributors investigate a wide range of public cultural phenomena, from the cinema to advertising, from street politics to political communication, and from the adjudication of blasphemy to the management of obscenity.

Aging and the Indian Diaspora
Sarah Lamb

"Sarah Lamb's compassionate voice and reflexive insights weave around the moving narratives of Bengali elders in this beautifully written, theoretically sophisticated ethnography. A classic in the anthropology of India, comparative modernities, and aging." —Kirin Narayan, author of My Family and Other Saints

Ignaz Friedman

Allan Evans

"Nothing is harder to bring back to life than a dead pianist, no matter how effervescent or influential. The art dies with the fingers. What Allan Evans has done—not once but three times—is to make the late artist seem absolutely relevant to our times." —Norman Lebrecht

The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers

Jocelyn R. Neal

"Neal combines thoughtful, meticulous, razor-sharp analyses of songs and performances with an encyclopedic knowledge of country music history and of the connections between songs and performers." —Peter LaChapelle, author of Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California

Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy

Martin Heidegger. Translated by Robert D. Metcalf and Mark B. Tanzer

"With a deep sensitivity to the nuances of Heidegger's German, this translation retains a liveliness and readability that captures something of the urgency and creativity of Heidegger's original presentation." —Christopher P. Long, Pennsylvania State University

Bonhoeffer and Continental Thought

Edited by Brian Gregor and Jens Zimmermann

"Long before the authors of the Radical Orthodoxy movement sought to move beyond the hegemony of secular reason and the false humility of theology, Bonhoeffer was pressing these very same issues." —Barry Harvey, Baylor University

Getting Back into Place

Edward S. Casey

Since its publication in 1993, Getting Back into Place has been recognized as a pioneering study of the importance of place in people's lives. This edition includes new material that reflects on the development of the field of environmental philosophy and presents Casey's current thinking on place and home in our increasingly troubled world.

St. Paul among the Philosophers

Edited by John D. Caputo and Linda Martín Alcoff

In this volume, eminent New Testament scholars, historians, and philosophers debate whether Paul's promise can be fulfilled. Is the proper work of reading Paul to reconstruct what he said to his audiences? Is it crucial to retrieve the sense of history from the text? What are the philosophical undercurrents of Paul's message? This scholarly dialogue ushers in a new generation of Pauline studies.

The Speed of Light

David A. Grandy

In this mind-expanding exploration of light, Grandy moves from the scientific to the existential, from Einstein to Merleau-Ponty, from light as a phenomenon to light as that which is constitutive of reality.

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Book review: British Animation

"Clare Kitson has written a characteristically engaging, pertinently-detailed and wrily-amusing study of the heydays of animated film in Britain . . . The book should appeal to anyone at all drawn to animation, as a casual spectator, serious student,or professional practitioner." —Phillip Bergson, Fest21.com

Author Jonathan Pieslak focus of New Yorker piece

Jonathan Pieslak, author of Sound Targets, was recently interviewed about his book for The New Yorker: 

BLAM
by Lauren Collins

In the winter of 2004, Jonathan Pieslak, a composer and an associate professor of music at City College, was researching a paper on heavy metal when he stumbled on a Web site devoted to the death-metal band Slayer. (Their songs include “The Antichrist,” “Mandatory Suicide,” and one, written from the perspective of a terrorist, called “Jihad” Continue reading...

Book review: The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History

"...a fascinating read about the social structure of the early kitchen and its women. ...Very recommended." —Jerry Sampson, Antiques Reference Books Reviews

Watch a webcast with Michael Pearlman

Michael Pearlman, author of Truman and MacArthur, will give a presentation about his book at the Pritzker Military Library June 24 at 6:00 p.m., CST. You can access a live webcast of Pearlman's talk on the library's website (about 30 minutes before the event begins, there will be a button in the upper-right area of the website that enables you to view the live webcast).