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Staff recommendations for 50% off spring book sale

Today is the first day of spring, and we're celebrating with a 50% off book sale! It can be a daunting task to make a selection from our 2,000+ titles, so we surveyed our staff to see which books they recommend to jump-start your spring reading. We hope you find something you like from the list below, which includes a wide range of interests from American History to Women's Studies! Check out the IU Press website for a complete list of books. Our sale ends March 22, so don't delay purchasing your favorite titles at half off!

American History

• Defeating Lee
  Dave Hulsey, Director of Sales and Marketing
• The Darkest Dawn
  Rich Pierce, Systems Analyst/Programmer
• Somebody’s Darling
  Bernie Zoss, Production Director
• Dillinger: The Untold Story
  Rhonda Vander Dussen, Sales and Marketing Assistant
• A Life is More Than a Moment
  Mary Lou Shelly, Senior Customer Service Representative

Anthropology

• Connected in Cairo
  Angela Burton, Managing Editor
• The Art of Loving Krishna
  Marvin Keenan, Project Manager

Art & Photography

• Contemporary Quilt Art
  Linda Bannister, Journals Marketing Manager
• Saving the Big Cats
  Kate Matthen, Marketing and Sales Coordinator
• Real Stories of Big Cat Rescues
  Mary Beth Haas, Sales Manager

Education

• Searching for Hope
  Mandy Clarke, Trade Marketing and Publicity Manager
• Conversations with Great Teachers
  Rebecca Tolen, Sponsoring Editor

Film & Media

• The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies
  Dan Pyle, Production Coordinator and Vendor Liaison
• The Magazine Article
  Joy Andreakis, Electronic and Serials Publishing Manager

Literature & Essays

• Earth Works
  Laura Baich, Electronic Marketing Manager
• Rural Free
  Jennifer Witzke, Marketing Designer
• Petersburg
  Peter Froehlich, Rights Manager

Books from the Global African Voices series:

• Little Mother
  Dee Mortensen, Senior Sponsoring Editor
• Life and a Half
  June Silay, Project Manager
• Murambi, The Book of Bones
  Jennifer Coyle, Customer Service Representative

Book from the Break Away Books series:

• The Glimpse Traveler
  Sarah Jacobi, Assistant Sponsoring Editor

Book from the Library of Indiana Classics series:

• A Girl of the Limberlost
  Kathy Stout, Accounting Associate

Music

• Debussy Redux
  Raina Polivka, Sponsoring Editor
• Beethoven in America
  Pam Rude, Senior Book Designer

Nature

• Wildflowers and Ferns of Indiana Forests
  Linda Oblack, Sponsoring Editor
• 101 Trees of Indiana
  Nancy Lightfoot, Project Manager
• Fishes of Indiana
  Steve Carter, Warehouse Manager
• Mammals of Indiana
  Laura Hohman, Production Assistant
• Perennials Short and Tall
  Dan Nichols, Operations Director
• The Natural Heritage of Indiana
  Tony Brewer, Composition Coordinator

Politics

• Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate
  Janet Rabinowitch, Director

Railroads

• Moonlight in Duneland
  Mary Blizzard, Book Designer
• The Indiana Rail Road Company
  Jamison Cockerham, Book Designer

Science

• Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia
  Bob Sloan, Editorial Director
• Why You Can Never Get to the End of the Rainbow And Other Moments of Science
  Ted Boardman, Technology Director

Women’s Studies

• A Home of Her Own
  Judith Caldwell, Journals Production Manager
• To Write Like a Woman
  Darja Malcolm-Clarke, Project Manager

World History

• Last Folio
  Mollie Ables, Marketing Services Coordinator
• The Style of Paris
  Theresa Halter, Publicity Coordinator

Book review: Cinepaternity

"The eleven articles in this anthology provide insightful studies of the Oedipal dynamics dramatized in diverse films beginning in the immediate post-Stalin period." —Slavonic and East European Review

5 IU Press books named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2011

We are pleased to announce that five of our books have been chosen as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2011! This selective list includes just under 10 percent of the 7,000 titles that Choice reviewed in 2011. IU Press honorees are:

African American Actresses
Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East
Jane Campion
Tabloid Journalism in South Africa
West African Narratives of Slavery

For a complete lists of titles, visit Choice Reviews Online.

Book review: Ousmane Sembene

"Very well documented, this biography is of critical importance and unquestionable value to students, teachers, and researchers of African literature and cinema." —African Affairs

Author event: Selma Leydesdorff to discuss new book on Bosnian genocide at NYU

Selma Leydesdorff's new book Surviving the Bosnian Genocide will be the focus of a discussion at New York University's “Listening to the Women of Bosnia” event on October 17 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at the Cantor Film Center. In addition to the book presentation, Leydesdorff is also one of several speakers featured at the event. It is free and open to the public, but a reservation is required. To RSVP, email valerie.dubois@nyu.edu.

The event will also include a screening of "I Came to Testify", the story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law. The film, which premieres today, is part of PBS's new five-part series "Women, War & Peace".

Pamela Hogan, the producer of "I Came to Testify," recently recorded a podcast with Selma Leydesdorff. Listen to the interview here.

Book review: Italy in Early American Cinema

“Bertellini's sophisticated interdisciplinary study addresses questions of race moving between Italy and America in the prehistory and early history of film. ... [His] persuasive thesis that identity-formation works, among other things, through the picturesque, provides a further explanation for our persistent need for a local aura of realist 'authenticity' in our idea of what Italian cinema should give us.” —Times Literary Supplement

IUP author appears in Page One movie

Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times opens in Bloomington September 1 as part of the Ryder Film Series. The film will be shown in FARM's Rootcellar Lounge at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow.

Listen closely for the voice of Ugly War, Pretty Package author Deborah Jaramillo, who is interviewed by Brian Stelter in the documentary! She was interviewed for a New York Times piece on the media's coverage of the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq.

Book review: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema

"[A]n insightful survey of how Soviet and Russian cinema constructed the meanings of Soviet, Russian and foreign identities over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries ... It will be useful to graduate students and scholars working in the area of Russian and film studies." —Slavonic and East European Review

Book review: Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War

"This enjoyable volume is a welcome addition to the literature on popular culture in Italy. It is a comprehensive and informative book which will be of great interest to scholars and postgraduate students of Italian cultural and social studies, and to those working on Italian history and politics of the twentieth century." —The European Legacy

Author event: Charlene Regester on North Carolina Book Watch

Charlene Regester, author of African American Actresses, will be on North Carolina Bookwatch Friday, July 8 at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 10 at 5 p.m. (repeat episode). According to its website, North Carolina Bookwatch highlights "the best and brightest southern scribes," focusing on their work, their lives, and the impact North Carolina has had on these authors.