New releases for August

Defending the Filibuster
The Soul of the Senate
Richard A. Arenberg and Robert B. Dove
Foreword by Senator Mark Udall and Senator Ted Kaufman

"An historically grounded and eloquent defense of the Senate's tradition of protecting minority views by allowing extended debate until sixty Senators vote to end it." —Senator Carl Levin

Once We All Had Gills
Growing Up Evolutionist in an Evolving World
Rudolf A. Raff

"This biography-history-travelogue-defense-of-science-and-the-scientific-method should appeal to readers of Sean Carroll and Stephen J. Gould—to anyone who is fascinated by scientific exploration. . . . An engaging story told with verve and style." —Brian K. Hall, author of Evolution: Principles and Processes

Valor
The American Odyssey of Roy Dominguez
Rogelio "Roy" Dominguez as told to James B. Lane
Foreword by Evan Bayh

"An engaging and inspirational story . . . [with a] universal message of the importance of family and overcoming adversity." —Stephen G. McShane, author of Steel Giants: Historical Images from the Calumet Regional Archives

Habitats and Ecological Communities of Indiana
Presettlement to Present
Edited by John O. Whitaker, Jr., and Charles J. Amlaner, Jr.
Marion T. Jackson, George R. Parker, and Peter E. Scott, Associate Editors

In this groundbreaking reference, leading experts assess the health and diversity of Indiana’s eight wildlife habitats, providing detailed analysis, data-generated maps, color photographs, and complete lists of flora and fauna.

From Text to Txting
New Media in the Classroom
Edited by Paul Budra and Clint Burnham

"[T]he editors and contributors to From Text to Txting deeply understand the necessity for humanities teachers and scholars to stand firmly in the 21st century and look ahead to where teaching and scholarship ought to go—toward reading and writing the videogame as much as the play, parsing tweets as much as poems, making sense of the comic book as much as the novel." —Lori Emerson, Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado at Boulder

Before the Chinrest
A Violinist's Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style
Stanley Ritchie

"Useful and elegantly written, Stanley Ritchie's book will be a most valuable resource to accomplished modern violinists wishing to learn to play the baroque violin." —Marc Destrubé, violinist

Expressive Intersections in Brahms
Essays in Analysis and Meaning
Edited by Heather Platt and Peter H. Smith

"In the work of these authors we encounter the productive intersection of the best analytical tools that contemporary music theory has to offer . . . and cultural criticism of the highest order. These scholars are musically sensitive and culturally savvy, and what they have to offer, both in broad strokes and in the nuance of the tiniest detail, is not to be missed." —Patrick McCreless, Professor of Music, Yale University

Logic of Imagination
The Expanse of the Elemental
John Sallis

"A profound book that adds to the best of Sallis' many wonderful books. It should have great impact upon the sensibility and direction of philosophy in our times." —Dennis J. Schmidt, The Pennsylvania State University

The Life of Understanding
A Contemporary Hermeneutics
James Risser

"More than enriching or clarifying issues in current debates, James Risser's work pushes hermeneutics toward a genuinely new stage of development." —Theodore George, Texas A&M University

Creation and the Sovereignty of God
Hugh J. McCann

"Offers an elaborate, rigorous development and defense of the medieval Christian view that God as creator is sovereign, free, and simple." —Paul K. Moser, Loyola University Chicago

American Religious Liberalism
Edited by Leigh E. Schmidt and Sally M. Promey

This book pushes beyond familiar tropes and boundaries to interrogate religious liberalism’s dense cultural leanings by looking at spirituality in the arts, the politics and piety of religious cosmopolitanism, and the interaction between liberal religion and liberal secularism. Readers will find a kaleidoscopic view of many of the progressive strands of America’s religious past and present in this richly provocative volume.

Jewish Masculinities
German Jews, Gender, and History
Edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner

Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel.

Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf Collection at the Indiana University Art Museum
15th to 20th Centuries
Arne R. Flaten

"A truly superb piece of diligent and meticulous scholarship that significantly advances the knowledge and discourse about its famous field." —Douglas Lewis, Curator Emeritus of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Art