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Enter to win a free copy of 'Showers Brothers Furniture Company'

In anticipation of our "Town and Gown" event at Bloomington's City Hall next week, we're giving away a free copy of Carrol Krause's new book Showers Brothers Furniture Company! To enter the contest, send an email to winiupress@gmail.com with your name and mailing address. Entries will be accepted through May 11 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Winners will be notified by email and books will ship via USPS.

Find out more information about the book and the event on our blog.

Book review: Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon

"Lucia Volk’s Memorials and Martyrs in Modern Lebanon sheds much needed light on the fraught politics of commemoration in a nation haunted by a history of inter-confessional violence." —International Journal of Islamic Architecture

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

Enjoy an evening of Bloomington history with author Carrol Krause

IU Press author Carrol Krause will be the keynote speaker for "Making Bloomington Modern: The Showers Family Legacy," a free lecture to be held in the Common Council Chambers of Bloomington's City Hall on Friday, February 3 at 7: 00 p.m. Krause will discuss her forthcoming book Showers Brothers Furniture Company and the importance of the Showers family to Bloomington's local history.

The Monroe County History Center has also planned a display of Showers artifacts in the city hall's atrium this month. For more information, please call (812) 349-3507.

Donald Pitzer to receive Hoosier Historian Award

Congratulations to IU Press author Donald Pitzer, who is this year's winner of the Dorothy Riker Hoosier Historian Award! 

Presented by the Indiana Historical Society (IHS), this award is made annually to a historian who has made significant contributions to either the field of historical scholarship or the affairs and activities of the IHS.

Pitzer will receive the award December 5 during the IHS's annual Founders Day Dinner held at The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. 

Pitzer will also appear at the IHS Holiday Author Fair with his new book, New Harmony Then and Now, at the Indiana History Center December 3.

For more Information on Donald Pitzer and the Hoosier Historian Award, read the IHS press release.

Panel to discuss Gender and Jewish History book

The Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan is hosting a panel on Gender and Jewish History Sept. 15 from 3-5 p.m. Panelists from the University of Michigan faculty will include Susan Juster (History), Kader Konuk (Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature), and Magdalena Zaborowska (American Culture and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies). Gender and Jewish History editor Deborah Dash Moore will provide background on her book during the panel. For more information, visit the institute's website.

Book review: Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora

"Kobrin's wide-ranging analysis draws on huge and impressive variety of sources and many of the scholarly debates that her work relates to are very well explained... [This book] is a rare contribution to contemporary debates about migration." —H-Judaic

Book review: Lives behind the Laws

"This is truly a fine book, as readable and engaging as it is insightful. ...[I]t should surely be on the shelves of every Roman social and legal historian." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Book review: The Atlantic World

"The editors of this volume are to be commended for organizing such an intelligent and well-integrated history of the Atlantic World. Indiana University Press, likewise, has the respect of Atlantic scholars for publishing so many excellent studies in its Blacks in the Diaspora series." —H-Soz-u-Kult

VIDEO: Nathan Citino gives lecture at the American University of Beirut

Nathan Citino, author of From Arab Nationalism to OPEC, presented the following lecture at the American University of Beirut: