Landscape Paintings, 1988-2012
Rachel Berenson Perry
Foreword by Kathleen A. Foster
"Atmospheric and appealing to the imagination, [Gealt's] paintings are also sensationally tactile, sculptural in their sense of modeled paint. . . . Thrilling and dramatic, they . . . remind us of the sublime and the ancient abiding in the landscape of rural Indiana and France. . . . The passion of the artist reveals the power of place; place, depicted, reflects the spirit of the artist." —Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
A Natural History
Jolyon C. Parish
"The Dodo and the Solitaire . . . meticulously traces human encounters with these ill-fated large flightless birds . . . Parish's book is rich with contemporary images, evocative descriptions, and later anatomical studies." —Library Journal
A History of Travel in Victorian America
John H. White Jr.
Providing a fascinating glimpse into a time when travel was a true adventure, this book takes the reader on a trip to 1880s America, by exploring canal boats, oceangoing vessels, passenger trains, and crossing paths with the people who made the systems run.
David M. Jordan
2012 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection
"David M. Jordan tells the story of the 1944 presidential election, and he tells it very well. In a clearly written, well-researched narrative he describes the various contenders for the Republican nomination, which eventually went to Thomas E. Dewey." —Journal of American History
Read an IU Press blog interview with the author
Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife
William J. Helmer
With Georgette Winkeler's one-of-a-kind record of her life with the Chicago mob
Silver Medal, True Crime category, 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards
2012 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection
"Al Capone and his American Boys is highly recommended for those interested in an insider's view of the major criminal events of the Gangster Era." —Informer
Edited by Peg Zeglin Brand
Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume.
Claire Elise Katz
"Claire Elise Katz makes great strides in resolving our current cultural war over the role of religion in the public sphere. By turning to Levinas's writings on education, she shows how religion as a cultural form can engender ethical agents in a way that standard philosophical accounts fail to do." —Martin Kavka, Florida State University
Alanna E. Cooper
"Innovative and thought provoking, this well researched and well constructed book . . . provides a valuable contribution to the understanding of the dynamics of Jewish identities." —Hagar Salamon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edited by Michael L. Klein and Nicholas Reyland
"A triumphant demonstration of structuralism as a living force in contemporary music studies, this volume assembles some of the brightest and best to illuminate the narrative in music and the music in narrative. Klein & Reyland's rich and varied collection marks an important step for music theory’s narrative turn." —Michael Spitzer, author of Music as Philosophy: Adorno and Beethoven's Late Style
The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877-1917
Brent Ruswick
Ruswick examines a prominent national organization for scientific social reform and poor relief in Indianapolis in order to understand how these new theories of poverty gave birth to new programs to assist the poor.
Language, Power, Identity
Katrina Daly Thompson
"A nuanced and convincing approach to evaluating the role of media in shaping African identities." —James Burns, Clemson University
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