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May events with Scott Russell Sanders

Scott Russell Sanders. Photo by Ruth Sanders.

Scott Russell Sanders, author of Earth Works and A Conservationist Manifesto, has the following events scheduled for this month: 

May 17-19

Sanders, along with IUP author Rebecca McClanahan, will be a featured guest speaker at the River Teeth Nonfiction Conference held at Ashland University in Ashand, OH. For more information, contact Sarah M. Wells at swells@ashland.edu or call 419-289-5957.

May 23

Sanders will speak at "Minnesota Made," sponsored by the Minnesota Land Trust. The talk takes place at 6:00 p.m. in New Century Theater in Minneapolis. Tickets are required and can be purchased online.

May 24

Sanders will give a talk at 7 p.m. at the Wood Lake Nature Center in Richfield, MN. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the Minnesota Land Trust website.

See a complete list of upcoming events for Scott Russell Sanders on his website.

Author Jeffrey Belth to present Gardening for Butterflies workshop

The Area 10 Agency on Aging in Bloomington will host a workshop on Gardening for Butterflies with Sandy Belth and Jeffrey Belth, author of Butterflies of Indiana. The presentation will take place May 15 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Endwright Center.

The Belths will discuss how to make yards and gardens more inviting to butterflies, and will also cover butterfly biology, larval host plants, and butterfly identification in their talk.

A limited supply of Butterflies of Indiana will be available for purchase and signing by the author at the event.

For more information, contact Jaime Sweany, Endwright Center Director, at 812-876-3383 or jsweany@area10agency.org. More information is also available on the Area 10 Agency website.

Book reviews: Connected in Cairo

"Connected in Cairo provides an accessible and instructive reading of the everyday construction and negotiation of what is oftentimes glossed as globalization, and will be of value to students and academics interested in the importance of social imagination in the making of local worlds in global times." —Journal of African History

"This book is thus a valuable contribution for scholars in a variety of social sciences who have taken the wave of revolutions in the Arab world as their subject matter, and for those who will be paying close attention to how these elites in Cairo and elsewhere respond to existential threats to their structural privileges." —Anthropological Quarterly

Book review: Music and the Language of Love

"[Gordon-Seifert] has presented readers with an elegant, insightful study on a critical turning point in French baroque composition just before the premiere of Lully’s groundbreaking Cadmus et Hermione in 1673. Scholars of seventeenth-century music, as well as singers interested in integrating these airs into their repertory, will find in it an approachable, valuable resource, as well as an engaging account of the social and cultural mores of the time." —Notes

Tweet to win a book during our 5-year Twitterversary celebration!

It's hard to believe, but I've been Twittering away for five years now! The traditonal fifth anniversary gift is wood, so to celebrate we're doing a Twitter book giveaway (because books are made of paper, and paper is made from wood...close enough, right?). The best part: you get to choose the book you want to win! All you have to do is:

1. Select ONE book from our website (multiple entries will not be accepted)
2. Tweet the name of the book you want to win and tag @iupress
3. Send your tweet by 11:59 p.m. EDT tonight!

I will tweet the name of the winner on Friday, May 10. Thanks to each of our 4,752 followers for their support of the Press!

Book review: A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes

"[McGerr's] study, scholarly and intuitive in equal measure, demonstrates that what may appear to be an inert status symbol, is actually a highly charged, and exquisitely wrought, political document." —Renaissance Quarterly

Manoogian Museum to host book launch for A Legacy of Armenian Treasures

The Manoogian Museum in Southfield, MI, will host a book launch party for A Legacy of Armenian Treasures Thursday, May 16 at 6:30 p.m. Fr. Garabed Kochakian of St. John Armenian Church will give a traditional book blessing. Following the blessing, A Legacy of Armenian Treasures's executive editor Edmond Y. Azadian and editorial coordinator Sylvie L. Merian will give a presentation. A reception will conclude the evening. Copies of the book will also be available for purchase at a special price during the event.

The book launch is open to the public, but please RSVP by May 13 to 248-569-3405 or 248-557-5977.

For more information about A Legacy of Armenian Treasures visit our website or look inside the book. 

Book review: The Fighting Pattons

"Sobel's updated version of the acclaimed history of the remarkable military family focuses on the legendary World War II battlefield genius General George S. Patton Jr. (1880-1945) and his son Major General George Smith Patton (1923-2004) who forged his own distinguished military history in the Korean and Vietnam Wars." —Armchair General

Book reviews: Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity

"Leigh H. Edwards's Johnny Cash the Paradox of American Identity offers a wideranging study of a compelling figure in American popular culture, and will be of interest to both fans of Johnny Cash and scholars in the fields of popular music studies, gender studies, and American studies." —Journal of American Studies

"One book representing the new wave of country music studies is Leigh H. Edwards’s Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity. Edwards takes an American icon of country music and places him solidly in the field of American cultural history, dealing with such timeless subjects as class, masculinity, and religion." —History Compass

Book review: The Glimpse Traveler

"Boruch is a poet, and that fact is made evident in her svelte, impressionistic prose ... The book clips along at an addictive pace and in what seems like no time at all reaches its staggering climax and then concludes with an equally stunning finale." —Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction