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New releases for June

Reply All
Stories
Robin Hemley

"In an exciting return to fiction, Hemley, touching and funny, creates sympathetic characters who are deeply flawed but just as deeply human." —Booklist

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Color and Form
The Geometric Sculptures of Morton C. Bradley, Jr.
Lynn Gamwell

A lavishly illustrated publication of Morton C. Bradley Jr.'s colorful geometric sculptures, many of which are displayed on the Indiana University campus, in a timeless integration of pure color and form.

Earth before the Dinosaurs
Sébastien Steyer
Illustrated by Alain Bénéteau
Translated by Chris Spence

"A fascinating exploration of past life forms, this book will appeal to anyone interested in paleontology and Earth's history." —Library Journal

New translation
Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event)
Martin Heidegger
Translated by Richard Rojcewicz and Daniela Vallega-Neu

"Written during the dark years 1936-1938, these Contributions help us to make the transition from Heidegger’s masterpiece, Being and Time, to his later thinking. Some of the darkest pages Heidegger wrote are here, and also some of the most brilliant. The translation by Richard Rojcewicz and Daniela Vallega-Neu is judicious and inspired." —David Farrell Krell, DePaul University

Saharan Frontiers
Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa
Edited by James McDougall and Judith Scheele

This volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel’s description of the Sahara as “the second face of the Mediterranean.” Contributors draw on extensive ethnographic and historical research to address topics such as trade and migration; local notions of place, territoriality, and movement; Saharan cities; and the links among ecological, regional, and world-historical approaches to understanding the Sahara.

Global Filipinos
Migrants' Lives in the Virtual Village
Deirdre McKay

"A unique and important study that adds a refreshing and necessary reminder that, on the most fundamental level, a village is part of the global world." —Nicole Constable, author of Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories of Migrant Workers

Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora
Dublin, New Orleans, Paris
Elisa Joy White

White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events–the deportations of Nigerians from Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the uprisings in the Paris suburbs–White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.

Creolizing the Metropole
Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film
H. Adlai Murdoch

"An outstanding contribution to scholarship. Theoretically grounded and meticulously researched, it examines the complexities inherent in constructing new diaspora identities that are at once ethnic, national, and fluid." —Renée Larrier, Rutgers University

Claiming Society for God
Religious Movements and Social Welfare
Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson

"Illuminating intersections of religion and public life in four different nations, this book is topical. Given that two of these nations are in the Middle East and one of them is Egypt, it is timely, even urgent." —R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois at Chicago

Demonizing the Jews
Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany
Christopher J. Probst

"A close look at specific ways in which Protestant theologians and pastors used and reacted to Luther in their teaching and preaching under Nazism. . . . In his treatment of the supposed disconnect between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, Probst shows how German Protestants during this period [following Luther] combined theological opposition to Jews with irrational, anti-Semitic stereotypes. . . . An important and useful book." —Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies, Pacific Lutheran University

New releases for May

Herman B Wells
The Promise of the American University
James H. Capshew

"This much-needed biography gives Herman B Wells his rightful place in the sun as an important university leader." —John R. Thelin, University Research Professor, University of Kentucky and author of A History of American Higher Education

Now in paperback
Being Lucky
Reminiscences and Reflections
Herman B Wells

Both lighthearted and serious, Wells’s reflections describe in welcome detail his approach to his presidency at Indiana University and other aspects of his life. Being Lucky is a nourishing brew of the memories, advice, wit, and wisdom of a remarkable man.

Showers Brothers Furniture Company
The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a City, and a University
Carrol Krause

"Author Carrol Krause has chosen a very interesting subject and writes with an especially good eye for 'telling detail' and for imagining sounds, images, and smells of long ago. The illustrations combined with the engaging style will attract an enthusiastic local audience." —James H. Madison, author (with Will Counts and Scott Russell Sanders) of Bloomington Past and Present

A Guide to Caves and Karst of Indiana
Samuel S. Frushour in conjunction with the Indiana Geological Survey
With a contribution by Julian J. Lewis and Salisa L. Lewis

"A practical guidebook with something to offer both beginning and experienced spelunkers. Readers interested in the geology or topography of the region will also find it worth a look." —Library Journal

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
Volume II
Geoffrey P. Megargee, General Editor
Martin Dean, Volume Editor
Introduction by Christopher R. Browning

"[A] staggering achievement. . . . at around 2,000 pages it’s an even more impressive compendium of scholarly research and editorial enterprise than Volume I . . . Without the efforts of this consortium of international contributors, most of these places . . . might have disappeared from historical memory and slipped into oblivion." —The Jewish Daily Forward

Stoic Pragmatism
John Lachs

"A direct attack on fundamentalisms of all sorts and on aggressive fanaticisms. . . . Lachs's recommendations for philosophy and for life are rooted in a deeply thought-out individualism that is not individualistic . . . a program for philosophy and a program for life." —Robert E. Innis, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn
Dorothea E. Olkowski

"This book is beautifully written, engaging throughout and captivating. . . . Authoritative and intelligent without being arrogant." —Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University

Yearning for the New Age
Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality
Diane Sasson

This biography of an unconventional woman in late 19th-century America is a study of a search for individual autonomy and spiritual growth. Diane Sasson underscores the significant role played by cultural mediators like Holloway-Langford in bringing new religious ideas to the American public and contributing to a growing interest in eastern religions and alternative approaches to health and spirituality that would alter the cultural landscape of the nation.

Racial Imperatives
Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection
Nadine Ehlers

This in-depth analysis examines the constructions of blackness and whiteness cultivated in the U.S. imagination and explores how individuals become racial subjects.

Tambú
Curaçao's African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory
Nanette de Jong

"Examines the practice of Tambú that is associated with the syncretic religious tradition of Montamentu using memory as a framing device for understanding the African-derived cultural values, musical expressions, and socio-politically resistant behaviors against dominant European-based ideals of acceptability." —Michael Largey, Michigan State University

Rice Talks
Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
Nir Avieli

"Readers with an interest in Vietnamese, Southeast Asian, and Asian cuisines and/or the influences of colonialism on local foodways will find the work useful. . . . Filled with descriptions of meals and dishes likely to get the culinarily-minded reader drooling." —Robyn Eckhardt, author of EatingAsia

New releases for April

What This River Keeps
A Novel
Greg Schwipps

2010 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Emerging Author Award

"What This River Keeps bears comparison to the best work of Steinbeck—in this case we're given the vivid portrayal of the common working men and women of rural Indiana juxtaposed against great forces, without pity or hope, but without true defeat, though they may well lose all in the end." —Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong

The Last Studebaker
A Novel
Robin Hemley

"The Last Studebaker is never gimmicky, and offers hope beyond economic and personal despair. It's not only the Studebaker, but life itself, that evokes rueful glances and missed opportunities, along with tenderness and unpredictable charm." —Washington Post Book World

Behind the Smile
The Working Lives of Caribbean Tourism
Second Edition
George Gmelch

"Provides extraordinary insight into the personal views of tourism workers in Barbados. . . . [M]ake[s] interesting and sometimes surprising reading." —The Nation (Barbados)

Debussy Redux
The Impact of His Music on Popular Culture
Matthew Brown

"This is a model work of impeccable scholarship; it explores a vital topic with an original approach." —Walter T. Everett, Professor of Music, University of Michigan

Carlos Aldama's Life in Batá
Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum
Umi Vaughan and Carlos Aldama

"A solid ethnography, grounded in a rich and dramatic biography, reveals the creative power of the Yoruba drum to communicate sounds and words that are invested with rich secular and religious meanings about people and culture, identity and history, life and after-life. Only a scholar-performer with an uncommon imaginative talent could have written this extraordinary book." —Toyin Falola, editor of The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World

A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music
Second Edition
Edited by Stewart Carter
Revised and Expanded by Jeffery Kite-Powell

"This welcome new edition is bigger, better, and more up to date in both discussion and resources cited. It helps the seventeenth century to emerge—deservedly—as almost a separate era within the Baroque, and the chapters by so many outstanding scholar-performers make it altogether indispensible!" —Ross W. Duffin, Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University

Murder Made in Italy
Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture
Ellen Nerenberg

"A fantastic array of literary, cinematic, and oral narratives." —Stefania Lucamante, Catholic University of America

Migrants and Strangers in an African City
Exile, Dignity, Belonging
Bruce Whitehouse

"A worthy contribution to the growing fields of immigration studies, transnationalism, and globalization and a very readable analysis of the dynamics of contemporary life in an African city." —Phyllis M. Martin, Indiana University

New releases for March

Searching for Hope
Life at a Failing School in the Heart of America
Matthew Tully

"A gritty, wonderfully honest investigation of life in an urban American high school in the 21st century. The despair, the apathy, the misplaced anger, the frustrations and fights for something better are all there. The school in Indianapolis where Tully spent so much time is close to what I have found in many big cities, but few reporters have gone as deep as Tully has." —Jay Mathews, Washington Post education columnist and author of Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America

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Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate
Crafting Foreign Policy from Capitol Hill
John T. Shaw

"[A] well-researched account. . . . [Shaw] points out weaknesses in Lugar's career. . . [and] gives a convincing description of Lugar's 'considerable legislative legacy.'" —Publishers Weekly

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Robert Bresson (Revised)
Revised and Expanded Edition
Edited by James Quandt

Drawing together more than 30 articles by leading critics and scholars, interviews and commentaries by important contemporary filmmakers, and a recent symposium on the director, Robert Bresson (Revised) is an invaluable resource for better understanding the beauty of Bresson’s singular body of work.

Keeping Faith with the Party
Communist Believers Return from the Gulag
Nanci Adler

"In a compelling narrative that presents new information and important interdisciplinary insights, Nanci Adler takes readers through the traumatic aftermath of a long mass terror whose survivors struggle to cope with their shattered lives and sustain their Communist beliefs. For anyone interested in the Soviet Stalinist experience but also crimes against humanity elsewhere, this is an essential book." —Stephen F. Cohen, author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War

Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology
Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers
Edited by Robin K. Morgan and Kimberly T. Olivares
Marcia D. Dixson, Andrew D. Gavrin, Michael C. Morrone, Joan Esterline Lafuze, and Anastasia S. Morrone, Contributing Editors
Foreword by Michael A. McRobbie

In this book, award-winning instructors representing a wide range of academic disciplines describe their strategies for employing technology to achieve learning objectives. They include tips on using just-in-time teaching, wikis, clickers, YouTube, blogging, and GIS, to name just a few. An accompanying interactive website enhances the value of this innovative tool.

Hypersexuality and Headscarves
Race, Sex, and Citizenship in the New Germany
Damani J. Partridge

"Partridge shows how being included in the body politic can be a form of social control and exclusion. . . . Provides a case study for how one can look at identity politics in connection with the debates about human or national rights for citizens." —Sander L. Gilman, Emory University

Kant and the Subject of Critique
On the Regulative Role of the Psychological Idea
Avery Goldman

"Kant is strict about the limits of self-knowledge: our inner sense give us only appearances—never the reality—of ourselves. Avery Goldman shows lucidly and brilliantly how the regulative use of a psychological idea—the idea of a critical, thinking self—can resolve this paradox." —David Farrell Krell, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität


Encounters Audio CD-ROM
A Cognitive Approach to Advanced Chinese
Jennifer Li-chia Liu
with Yan Li

Encounters Audio CD-ROM accompanies the lessons in the bestselling textbooks Encounters I and II: A Cognitive Approach to Advanced Chinese. Chapters include sections on vocabulary; texts, stories, and dialogues; grammar; listening comprehension; and songs. The MP3 format makes this a convenient tool for individualized study alongside the texts.

New releases for February

Pink and Blue
Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
Jo B. Paoletti

"Pink and Blue is an interdisciplinary tour de force. Readers will never again take gendered children’s fashion for granted." —Susan B. Kaiser, author of The Social Psychology of Clothing: Symbolic Appearances in Context

Earth Works
Selected Essays
Scott Russell Sanders

"Like the building stones of his beloved limestone country, Scott Russell Sanders’s enduring essays are beautifully carved from the material of the Earth and its layered lives. ... This collection of Sanders’s finest work will become a classic of American thought." —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature

Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars
Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier
Nguyen Cong Luan

"Of all the many books I have read about the Vietnam War, this one pays the ultimate tribute to the incredible sacrifices made by the courageous soldiers and people of South Vietnam.  ... This book is a must read for those who want the complete picture and whole truth about a tragic war that consumed the world for over two decades." —Lawson W. Magruder III , Lieutenant General, US Army Retired. Vietnam '70-'71

Sharing Sacred Spaces in the Mediterranean
Christians, Muslims, and Jews at Shrines and Sanctuaries
Edited by Dionigi Albera and Maria Couroucli

"Promises to ignite new discussions and understandings of Islam in relation to the other great religious traditions of the West. ... Allows the opening of larger questions and the beginning of a quest to regain a world that we wish we still had." —Charles Stewart, University College London

Muslim Families in Global Senegal
Money Takes Care of Shame
Beth Buggenhagen

"A lively, insightful, and important study of exchange practices between Senegal and a circuit of global trade. The innovative focus is on the meanings, not the social and economic functions, of exchange." —Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University

Women's Voices from West Africa
An Anthology of Songs from the Sahel
Edited by Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale

"A valuable contribution to the corpus of literature on African women's verbal art." —Fiona Mc Laughlin, University of Florida

Musical Forces
Motion, Metaphor, and Meaning in Music
Steve Larson
Foreword by Robert S. Hatten

"Musical Forces presents an original and important theory of melody, centered on the idea that we experience musical motion metaphorically through our experience of physical motion. The study sheds new light on musical expectation, compositional practice, and the role of metaphor in musical experience and discourse. Musical Forces is a major contribution to musical scholarship." —David Temperley, Eastman School of Music

New releases for January

The Badia of Florence
Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery
Anne Leader

"The most comprehensive and holistic approach to the important, yet much neglected, Florentine monastery ever undertaken." —Adelheid M. Gealt, Indiana University Bloomington

Early Cinema Today
The Art of Programming and Live Performance
Edited by Martin Loiperdinger

Invented in the 1890s and premiered in Paris by the Lumière brothers, the cinematograph along with Louis Le Prince's single-lens camera projector are considered by film historians to be the precursors to modern-day motion picture devices. Within the last decade, film archives and film festivals have unearthed this lost art and have featured outstanding examples of the culture of early cinema reconfigured for today's audiences.

The Dragon and the Dazzle
Models, Strategies, and Identities of Japanese Imagination: A European Perspective
Marco Pellitteri
Preface by Kiyomitsu Yui
With an essay by Jean-Marie Bouissou

Marco Pellitteri examines the growing influence of Japanese pop culture in European contexts in this comprehensive study of manga, anime, and video games. Looking at the period from 1975 to today, Pellitteri discusses Super Mario, Pokémon, kawaii, Sonic, robots and cyborgs, Astro Boy, and Gundam, among other examples of these popular forms.

Now in paperback
Defeating Lee
A History of the Second Corps, Army of the Potomac
Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.

"A handful of black-and-white photographs as well as extensive appendices and notes round out this excellent contribution to Civil War history shelves." —Midwest Book Review

Now in paperback
McClellan's War
The Failure of Moderation in the Struggle for the Union
Ethan S. Rafuse

"Exhaustively researched and lucidly written, Rafuse has done an excellent job in giving us a different perspective on 'Little Mac.'" —Civil War History

New releases for December

Antoni Tàpies
Collected Essays
Complete Writings - Volume II
Translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer
Introduction by Serge Guilbaut

"Tàpies's essays are of great importance in understanding his own work, but also in the broad philosophical questions he addresses. . . . His use of humble materials—clay, straw, simple objects—relates to [his] search for answers to universal questions." —Kathleen McNerney, coeditor of Visions and Revisions: Women's Narrative in Twentieth-Century Spain

Wildflowers and Ferns of Indiana Forests
A Field Guide
Michael A. Homoya
Foreword by Marion T. Jackson

This beautifully illustrated guide identifies nearly 300 common plants, arranged by flower color or growth form, providing a convenient way to distinguish a great majority of plants in any given woodland.

The Indiana Rail Road Company
America's New Regional Railroad
Revised and Expanded Edition
Christopher Rund, Fred W. Frailey, and Eric Powell

This compelling account chronicles the development of Indiana's thriving regional railroad from its origin as part of America’s first land grant railroad to its recent rebirth as a robust, model profitable carrier.

Warfare in Woods and Forests
Anthony Clayton
Foreword by General Charles Guthrie

"An important contribution to military history. It brings together and synthesizes in a concise and well-written text information from a very large array of sources. The book will be extremely valuable to military historians, professional soldiers, and others." —Maj. Gen. David T. Zabecki, U. S. Army, Retired

Tel-Aviv, the First Century
Visions, Designs, Actualities
Edited by Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen

"A serious yet accessible look at the many facets that have come to constitute the complex personality of a very complicated city and society." —Kenneth E. Foote, University of Colorado at Boulder

Modern Ladino Culture
Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Olga Borovaya

"Olga Borovaya's brilliant path-breaking book transforms our understanding of modern secular Ladino cultural production at its apogee. . . .This extraordinary work, the result of prodigious research and analysis, will become the ultimate book of reference for future scholarship on the subject." —Aron Rodrigue, Stanford University

Jewish Life in Twenty-First-Century Turkey
The Other Side of Tolerance
Marcy Brink-Danan

"Succeeds in applying anthropology to an urbanized and diverse community while deftly unraveling the dilemmas faced by Jews in Istanbul as they balance cosmopolitanism with maintaining a sense of who they are." —Harvey E. Goldberg, Hebrew University

The Anthropology of Extinction
Essays on Culture and Species Death
Edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff

"The Anthropology of Extinction provides compelling evidence for deep connections between cultural, linguistic, and bio-diversity, and exposes the common threats they now face. This book will serve as a timely call to action for anthropologists, linguists, biologists, and activists." —K. David Harrison, Swarthmore College and National Geographic Society

Returns to the Field
Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology
Edited by Signe Howell and Aud Talle
Afterword by Bruce Knauft

"This book demonstrates the extraordinarily powerful bonds that can grow between long-term ethnographers and the people they study. In doing so, it offers a penetrating vision of the resilience and vulnerability inherent in people’s creative efforts to remain true to their core cultural values." —Sharon Hutchinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Labor Disorders in Neoliberal Italy
Mobbing, Well-Being, and the Workplace
Noelle J. Molé

"An important and path-breaking work . . . provocative and nuanced, theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich." —David G. Horn, Ohio State University

Secularism Soviet Style
Teaching Atheism and Religion in a Volga Republic
Sonja Luehrmann

"Well conceived from start to finish and likely to become a benchmark in its field. . . . This deeply thoughtful book should appeal to a wide range of readers." —Bruce Grant, New York University

Muslims and New Media in West Africa
Pathways to God
Dorothea E. Schulz

"Promises to make a major contribution not only to the study of women's involvement in 'political Islam' in West Africa, but also to comparative studies of commodification, mass entertainment, the global emergence of new religious cultures, masculinity, and the personal effects of neoliberalism." —Sean Hanretta, Stanford University

Live from Dar es Salaam
Popular Music and Tanzania's Music Economy
Alex Perullo

"[A]n ethnographic tour de force that offers an insider's trip to the sweaty heart of an African capital's music scene, without having to go there. . . . Perullo's achievement will set the standard for studies of popular culture in urban East Africa for decades to come." —David B. Coplan, University of the Witwatersrand

View accompanying audiovisual materials for the book at Ethnomusicology Multimedia

Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz
A Study of Dance-Music Relations in 3/4 Time
Eric McKee

Much music was written for the two most important dances of the 18th and 19th centuries, the minuet and the waltz. McKee considers dance music within a larger system of signifiers and points-of-view that opens new avenues of interpretation.

Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Leonard Lawlor

"Well conceived and well argued . . . eminently useful and important." —Michael Naas, DePaul University

Walden x 40
Essays on Thoreau
Robert B. Ray

"[Ray] opens conversation with the reader. . . . This is a book which beginner and expert will enjoy alike." —Daniel Herwitz, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

New releases for November

CD included
David Baker
A Legacy in Music
Monika Herzig. With contributions by Nathan Davis, JB Dyas, John Edward Hasse, Willard Jenkins, Lissa May, Brent Wallarab, and David Ward-Steinman
Foreword by Quincy Jones

"David Baker is a musical institution and one of the most giving, brilliant, sensitive, funny and energetic forces among us. In the world of American jazz education and pedagogy, there is no higher tower." —Bill Banfield, musician, composer, writer, and educator

Listen to a podcast with Monika Herzig and David Baker

CD included
Keystone Korner
Portrait of a Jazz Club
Photographs and Interviews by Kathy Sloane
Edited by Sascha Feinstein and Kathy Sloane

"Open Kathy Sloane's new book, Keystone Korner, and you can smell the cigarette smoke. Put on the accompanying CD, and you can hear Bill Evans or Stan Getz playing this cramped room in North Beach 30 or 40 years ago." —San Francisco Chronicle

Today I Am a Woman
Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World
Edited by Barbara Vinick and Shulamit Reinharz

"Americans undoubtedly think they know what a bat mitzvah is. Today I Am a Woman will surprise them with its fascinating array of compelling accounts of what it meant for Jewish girls to come of age. The editors scoured the globe to find powerful, varied, and moving depictions of bat mitzvah in the contemporary Jewish world. This is a rich resource for anyone interested in understanding religious diversity, folk practices, and cultural creativity through the lens of gender." —Deborah Dash Moore, co-editor of Women and Gender in Jewish History

Starring Madame Modjeska
On Tour in Poland and America
Beth Holmgren

"Through extensive research on two continents, Holmgren offers a richly contextualized account of how the Polish Modrzejewska successfully negotiated late nineteenth century ethnic, class, and gender hierarchies to become the American Modjeska, luminous star and self-styled aristocrat. This beautifully written biography contributes to the histories of both theatre and immigration with nuanced insight into a compelling case of binational cultural arbitration." —Kim Marra, author of Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914

City of Rogues and Schnorrers
Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
Jarrod Tanny

"Traces the emergence, development, and persistence of the myth of Odessa as both Garden of Eden and Gomorrah, a unique Russian/Soviet city that promised its residents easy money and all pleasures of the flesh. . . . A joy to read—well crafted, cogently argued, and compellingly written." —Robert Weinberg, Swarthmore College

New Harmony Then and Now
Text by Donald E. Pitzer
Photographs by Darryl D. Jones
Foreword by Jane Blaffer Owen and Connie Weinzapfel

This photographic and historic celebration of New Harmony, Indiana explores the exciting history of two great American Utopian communities: the Harmonists and the Owenites. Intellectuals as well as artisans are drawn to this place of science and spirit.

Ligonier
A Photographic Essay
Jeff Moerchen
Introduction by Melissa Dinverno

With clarity and attention to detail, a Moerchen captures the life of the Hispanic community of Ligonier. More than a narrow study of an immigrant population, this evocative photo essay explores a small Indiana town as it struggles to survive.

Listen to a podcast with the author

Back in Print
Speak to the Earth
Pages from a Farmwife's Journal
Rachel Peden
Foreword by Scott Russell Sanders
Drawings by Sidonie Coryn

A farmwife of 45 years looks at life—domestic and wild, human and critter—through the eyes of someone who witnesses nine seasons of the year rather than four. Her observations reveal the simple and profound pleasures in life.

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights
Sylvia D. Hoffert

"A major contribution to our understanding of the women's rights movement in America and to feminist biography and historiography." —Ruth Crocker, author of Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America

John Coates
The Man Who Built the Snowman
Marie Beardmore
Foreword by Raymond Briggs

This intimate biography takes the reader on a journey through the producer's early life, his years as an army officer in World War II, and his eventual and legendary entry into TV cartoons. This abundantly illustrated work also includes a DVD.

Human Rights and African Airwaves
Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio
Harri Englund

This fresh look at African-language media reveals broadcasters' everyday struggles with state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear.

An Unreal Estate
Sustainability and Freedom in an Evolving Community
Lucinda Carspecken

"Readers of An Unreal Estate will benefit greatly from the insights of community participants in their revealing interviews about opportunities, struggles, surprises, and the wide range of meaningful events that can occur in a small intentional community. This is a book that is very worthwhile for scholars as well as citizens to buy, read, and think hard about." —Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

Music and Globalization
Critical Encounters
Edited by Bob W. White

Through the metaphor of encounters, this collection explores the dynamics that enable or hinder cross-cultural communication through music and what, if anything, we as consumers have to do with it.

Forerunners of Mammals
Radiation • Histology • Biology
Edited by Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan

This remarkable book on the radiation, histology, and biology of the synapsids documents the bone microstructure of these forerunners of mammals, provides insights into their biology, and highlights areas for future research.

Kierkegaard and Death
Edited by Patrick Stokes and Adam Buben

"Starting from living death and the thought of death, and then moving through dying, recollecting the death of another, and finally future life, this volume brings together in a coherent way Kierkegaard's view on death and dying." —Andrew J. Burgess, University of New Mexico

A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes
The Yale Law School New Statutes of England
Rosemarie McGerr

"The study presents an original and a highly important reading of the imagery of this distinctively illustrated copy of the 'New Statutes.' . . . Professor McGerr skillfully interweaves the study of codicology, iconography, history and literature offering fresh and expansive interpretations of the interaction of its visual and verbal discourses." —James H. Marrow, Professor Emeritus of Art History Princeton University

Now in Paperback
Landmarks on the Iron Road
Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering
William D. Middleton

"It's [Middleton's] ability to clearly explain the intricacies of civil engineering to a general-interest audience that really makes Landmarks on the Iron Road soar. . . . a must-read for anyone touched by the greatness of railroading." —Trains

Now in Paperback
The CSX Clinchfield Route in the 21st Century
Jerry Taylor and Ray Poteat

"The text is well-written, easy to read, and thoroughly researched, and is accompanied by several detailed maps and a good variety of b&w photography." —Railfan and Railroad

New releases for October

A Home of Her Own
Nancy R. Hiller
Photographs by Kendall Reeves
Foreword by Patricia Poore

Illustrated with more than 100 color photographs, this book showcases women whose homes reflect their strong bond to a place.

Surviving the Bosnian Genocide
The Women of Srebrenica Speak
Selma Leydesdorff
Translated by Kay Richardson

"With sensitivity and compassion, Leydesdorff . . . interviews about 50 female survivors of the Srebrenica massacre . . . in this valuable oral history." —Publishers Weekly

Beethoven in America
Michael Broyles

"This book fills a great gap in our understanding both of Beethoven and of American culture. The panorama of this narrative encompasses antebellum rice plantations in South Carolina and the film studios of Hollywood, music critic John Dwight and rock star Chuck Berry, Theosophy and Black Power, Beethoven's sketches, and YouTube videos." —Christopher Reynolds, University of California, Davis

Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia
Edited by Àngel Galobart, Maite Suñer, and Begoña Poza
Translated by Albert Prieto-Márquez

"A beautifully illustrated book that covers . . . spectacular sites, and very interesting specimens. . . . I am unaware of any comparable treatment. I suspect that many will buy the book for the artwork alone!" —James O. Farlow, co-editor, The Complete Dinosaur

Feminist Disability Studies
Edited by Kim Q. Hall

"Puts feminist theory and disability studies into conversation with one another, not simply to make for an 'additive' approach, but to transform both fields of inquiry." —Diane Herndl, Iowa State University

Screens and Veils
Maghrebi Women's Cinema
Florence Martin

Examining the intersections of nation and gender in seven films by women Maghrebi filmmakers, the author reveals how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen).

Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics
Akin Adesokan

Drawing on a range of writers and filmmakers from Africa and elsewhere, this distinctive study examines the forces at work in the production and circulation of culture in a globalized world.

The Individual and Tradition
Folkloristic Perspectives
Edited by Ray Cashman, Tom Mould, and Pravina Shukla

Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition.

Now in Paperback
Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border
Characters and Community
Ray Cashman

Winner, Chicago Folklore Prize
Winner, Donald Murphy Award for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies

"[P]rovides a powerful demonstration of the social role and function of folklore . . . [and] deserves a much wider readership among those involved in the study of conflict resolution or of Irish history more generally." —Folklore

The Depression Comes to the South Side
Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933
Christopher Robert Reed

"Touches on themes that are compelling for their relevance nearly a century later. The story of economic downturn and its effects—homelessness, joblessness, corruption—are clearly issues of great interest today." —Kim Butler, Rutgers University

New releases for September

A Prophetic Peace
Judaism, Religion, and Politics
Alick Isaacs

"A timely, highly original, and important work. . . . What renders this book quite unique is its powerful and truly engaging autobiographical setting that lends Isaacs's argument a compelling first person urgency." —Menachem Fisch, author of Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic Culture

The Swan
A Novel
Jim Cohee

"Alternately funny, entertaining, and heartbreaking, The Swan is a fictional memoir about love, death and what a family can—and cannot—endure." —Publishers Weekly

Read an excerpt from the book
Listen to a podcast with the author

Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings
Remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
Jennifer Petersen

In 1998, intense media coverage of the horrific hate crime murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. played a large role in cultivating, shaping, and directing the public and political response. Tracing the emotional exchange from news stories to the creation of law, the author calls for an approach to media and democratic politics that takes into account the role of affect in the political and legal life of the nation.

FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
David M. Jordan

"David Jordan has produced a lucid, highly engrossing account of a fateful but little chronicled episode in American presidential politics. His narrative of the 1944 election campaign—written with savvy and encyclopedic range and featuring a large cast of personalities rendered in deft cameos—deserves a place alongside Theodore White's histories of how high and low character, fierce ambition, and dumb luck play their part in the nation’s choice of its chief executive." —Richard Kluger, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

Fighting for America
The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519-1871
Jeremy Black

"A refreshing take on Manifest Destiny. . . . American (and Canadian) readers will learn a lot of new things and be led into new ways of viewing old ones. An important contribution." —Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People

Indiana Railroad Lines
Graydon M. Meints

"This is a very useful addition to the research tools for railroad authors and aficionados with an interest in Indiana railroads." —Francis Parker, author (with Richard S. Simmons) of Railroads of Indiana

Political Crime and the Memory of Loss
John Borneman

"The juxtaposition of the German and Lebanese examples brings a unique perspective, one that is highly relevant in the contemporary world as we seek understanding of Europe’s relationship to the Middle East. Borneman provides insights on the ways these societies are working out the residues of war and violence. . . . The notion of 'political crime' is ground-breaking in its attention to not only state-sponsored violence but that aimed toward the state." —Deborah Reed-Danahay, University at Buffalo, SUNY

The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics
Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein
Burt C. Hopkins

"A striking, original study . . . for the history of mathematics, our understanding of Husserlian phenomenology, and the concepts of formality and formalization." —Robert B. Pippin, University of Chicago

Literary Learning
Teaching the English Major
Sherry Lee Linkon

"Provides a model for thoughtful, reflexive, and well-designed teaching in any field, at any level, and at any institution." —Mariolina Salvatori, University of Pittsburgh

Reflections on Musical Meaning and Its Representations
Leo Treitler

"Treitler brings to his work the deep experience of a seasoned musician and music historian who is at the same time a thoughtful philosopher, and the benefits of both kinds of experience play through all of his writings in a very palpable way." —Lewis Lockwood, Harvard University