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Book review: Life and a Half

"... vivid and inventive ... Life and a Half remains more than merely a work of literary-historical significance." —Complete Review

Book review: Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Vol. 8

"The editors have made wise choices, delivered a clean and clear text, and in the back matter have provided excellent background material for the serious scholar of Peirce’s work and the history of philosophy ... In short, it is at once a good book for anyone wanting simply to learn more about the life and thought of Charles Peirce and is also an outstanding critical edition that any serious Peirce scholar will need to consult." —Pluralist

Book review: Defeating Lee

"The author has an easy to read informative style that made the pages fly. His word portraits make lesser-known names into real people. The battles descriptions are excellent... This is a well-written book with all the items that are expected in a serious history." —TOCWOC - A Civil War Blog

Book review: Satire and Dissent

"In this compelling new book, Day manages to not only persuasively argue why political satire has gained such a foothold in our popular culture, but also convincingly argues why it matters." —Liminalities

Book reviews: The End of the Holocaust

"... an important and deeply sobering book ..." —Human Rights Service

"Alvin H. Rosenfeld has written an important book that deserves a wide audience, not only to help us maintain a clear picture of our troubled past, in order to come to terms with its historical reality—but indeed to help us avoid a future that will bring back the darkness and the fog." —New Compass

Tune in to an interview with Bruce Ledewitz

Bruce Ledewitz, author of Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism, will be interviewed about his book on Culture Shocks. The program airs this Thursday, July 21 at 4 p.m. (EDT). Visit Culture Shocks' website to find stations that air the program or to listen online.

Book review: Emerson and Thoreau

"Emerson & Thoreau rises above the rest in that it sheds light not only on ideas but on the human interests that imbue them sometimes with beauty, occasionally with virtue, and too often with tragedy." —Pluralist

Six IU Press books recommended for public and secondary libraries

We are pleased to announce that six of our books were selected for this year's University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries. A popular and trusted acquisitions resource, the university press bibliography is the product of a longstanding and successful collaboration between the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), and the Public Library Association (PLA). The IUP titles are among 350 books by AAUP members included in this bibliography. Featuring many diverse subjects, the bibliography provides librarians with valuable scholarship to match any interest. Three of the IUP titles featured were given an "outstanding" rating, including:

Conversations with Great Teachers

“[A]n important reminder that all people have something to teach and everyone still has something to learn.” —Hilary Albert (PLA)

“This wonderful title is full of surprises for any reader interested in education in the broadest sense of the term.” —Judith Repman (AASL)

Life Lessons Through Storytelling

“I found [this book] very engaging. The basic idea of drawing children’s ideas out through storytelling may not be new, but discussing their ethics, getting them to think about right and wrong in the context of stories and their own communities can have such a lasting impact on how they grow as citizens.”—Hilary Albert (PLA)

Extraordinary Circumstances

“This was not only thoroughly researched but it was well written. The text actually reads more like a story than the chronicle of a war. ... This book is a great asset to any collection.”—Elizabeth Willoughby (AASL)

Other books listed in the bibliography are Wreck of the Carl D., Guard Wars, and Bush on the Home Front.

Author event: Bonnie Blanchard to speak at World Harp Congress

Bonnie Blanchard, author of Making Music and Enriching Lives and Making Music and Having a Blast, will be speaking at the World Harp Congress in Vancouver, Canada on July 25. To learn more about the conference, visit the website. 

Norbert Krapf's poetry to be featured on The Writer’s Almanac

Norbert Krapf's poem "Boy Scouts Camping Out" will be featured on The Writer's Almanac this Saturday, July 23. The program is available on these stations or as a podcast.

Krapf is author of Invisible Presence and Bloodroot. His upcoming poetry collection Songs in Sepia and Black and White will be published next spring.