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Kick start your summer reading during our 40% off book sale!

Enjoy big savings on summer reading during our 40% off book sale* now through June 15! Customers within the US receive free domestic ground shipping with a purchase of $30 or more. Use sale code SUMMER at checkout. Shop now!

*Offer applies to regularly-priced items only. Journals subscriptions, ebooks, and sale items excluded.

Sale begins 6/1/12 at 12 a.m. and ends 6/15/12 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. You must enter code SUMMER at checkout to receive 40% discount and qualified free shipping. Offer is valid online only, and does not apply to orders placed via telephone or mail. No adjustments can be made on orders placed before 6/1/12. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery of 40% off sale orders.

National Train Day Sale!

Happy National Train Day! To celebrate this occasion, we're offering 35% off all railroad books now through May 19. Use code RAIL35 at checkout. Shop now!

40% off select field guides this month!

Now that spring is here, it's a great time to explore the outdoors (especially before the sticky summer weather sets in!). And we have several books to help you identify the natural world in Indiana! Now through May 31, 2012, we're offering 40% off select field guides. Use code GUIDES at checkout. Visit our sale page for more details.

Mother's Day recipe from 'Paradise Kitchen' + 40% off cookbooks!

Looking for a Mother's Day gift? The surest way to your mom's heart is through her stomach! But you can save yourself the headache of battling the Mother's Day crowds at a restaurant by creating a culinary delight in your own kitchen. Whip up a batch of these delicious Banana Waffles from Chef Daniel Orr's cookbook, Paradise Kitchen, and your mom will be wowed! We can't guarantee that they'll look as pretty as Daniel's picture, but they'll taste just as yummy. :)

If you like this recipe, then check out our 40% off cookbook sale! Order by May 6 to ensure delivery by Mother's Day. Use code MOTHER at checkout. Sale ends May 13. Shop now!

Banana Waffles with Passion Fruit Rum Syrup and Mango Butter
(Download PDF of recipe)

For 4–6 friends
1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. whole wheat flour
1/4 c. instant oatmeal
3 T brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1-1/4 c. buttermilk
2 bananas (1 very ripe, 1 medium-ripe), diced
1 T vegetable oil
2 T butter, melted additional butter as needed for cooking
2 fresh passion fruits, seeds and pulp
syrup of your choice

In blender, combine flours, sugar, and baking powder. Add egg, milk, ripe banana, oil, and butter; process until mixed. Fold in remaining banana.

Heat waffle iron until hot; add butter to lightly grease. Spoon batter evenly into waffle iron and cook until golden brown. Keep on a platter in the oven covered lightly with aluminum foil until all waffles are ready.

Serve with Mango Butter (see recipe below) and your favorite syrup. I like warm maple syrup with a little rum, butter, and fresh passion fruit stirred in.

Mango Butter

1 lb. butter (room temperature)
1 c. mango pulp
2 T sugar
1 pinch salt
juice of one lemon

Puree mango, lemon juice, sugar, and salt in a blender. Add butter and pulse to combine. With a piping bag, pipe butter in curls on parchment paper and freeze until hard. Remove to container and seal. Store in freezer or refrigerator until needed.

This is INDIANA on sale through April 23!

In a whirlwind of about three weeks, we contracted, designed, printed, and are today finally releasing copies of our highly-anticipated IU basketball book This Is INDIANA! To celebrate, we're offering 30% off the book. Use code IUBB30 at checkout. Hurry, offer expires April 23, 2012!

Shop now and GO HOOSIERS!!!

Happy 80th birthday, Richard Lugar!

Today is Richard Lugar's 80th birthday! In honor of this occasion, we're offering 40% off John Shaw's new book Richard Lugar, Statesman of the Senate. Use code BDAY40 at checkout. Hurry, offer ends April 11! Shop online

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

New IUP book coincides with 90th anniversary of first American bat mitzvah

On March 18, 1922, the first American bat mitzvah was celebrated in New York City. While the idea may have been slow to catch on at first, in the 21st century, Jewish girls in North America alone will celebrate some 40,000 bat mitzvahs each year, and the number is growing because every sub-group of Judaism, including Orthodox, recognizes some form of bat mitzvah ceremony.

Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World is an ideal gift book for Jewish girls to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the first American bat mitzvah and to discover different Jewish communities around the world. The book offers several fascinating stories that uncover how this milestone is celebrated on six different continents.

Narrations of the first bat mitzvah at the only synagogue in Indonesia, a moving bat mitzvah memory of World War II Italy, and an American bat mitzvah shared with girls in a Ukrainian orphanage are a few of the rich testimonies from both the past and present in this collection.

In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the bat mitzvah, you can save 40% off Today I Am a Woman. Use code BDAY40 at checkout. Hurry, offer valid today only! Shop now

Mark your calendars for our 50% off sale next week!

Celebrate the beginning of spring with 50% off all regularly-priced items* in our online store March 20–22, 2012!

Within the U.S., receive free domestic ground shipping with a purchase of $30.00 or more.

Enter code SAVE50 at checkout to receive discount and qualified free shipping.

Shop online: www.iupress.indiana.edu

*Journals subscriptions, electronic editions, and sale items excluded. Sale begins 3/20/12 at 12 a.m. and ends 3/22/12 at 11:59 p.m. EDT. Offer is valid online only, and does not apply to orders placed via telephone or mail. No adjustments can be made on orders placed before 3/20/12. Please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery of 50% off sale orders.

Exclusive offer for our Twitter & Facebook followers! #birthdaybooks

We are excited to announce a new promotion for our Twitter and Facebook followers! Starting Monday, January 30, we will celebrate the birthdays of subjects related to our books with an exclusive 40% discount for our Twitter and Facebook followers. For each birthday, we will post on our feeds the associated book that is eligible to receive a 40% discount. The offer is valid only on the date of the birthday. (Twitter users can follow the list of books with the #birthdaybooks hashtag).

If you're not a follower, connect with us today on Twitter or Facebook (or both)!