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Coverage is growing for Carolyn Harstad's gardening books

Carolyn Harstad, master gardener and author of three IUP books (Got Sun?, Got Shade?, and Go Native!) has recently received some nice coverage for her books:

The Minneapolis Star Tribune interviewed Harstad about gardening and why she chose to focus on native plants for her newest book Got Sun?. The full story is available on the Tribune's website.

Harstad also received praise from two reviewers for writing user-friendly gardening books. Read Booked Solid with Virginia C's review of all three gardening books and the Chicago Botanic Garden's review of Got Sun?.

For more information on Harstad and her books, visit our website.

Book reviews: Masquerade and Postsocialism

"'Gerald W. Creed’s Masquerade and Postsocialism is a masterful analysis of key social themes as gender and sexuality, civil society and democracy, community and ethnicity. The book provides a vivid analysis of a ritual performance as a source of meaningful knowledge about people’s lives." —Journal of American Folklore

"[A]n empircally rich and theoretically sophisticated analysis of the postsocialist condition in rural Bulgaria. Using the Bulgarian ritual of mumming as a window onto the lived experiences of ordinary men and women, Creed masterfully employs a variety of of scholarly themes. ... [H]e uses the kukeri to explore the local impacts of the social, political, and economic upheavals of the collapse of the communist regime in 1989." —Aspasia

Choice reviews - July 2013

The following books were reviewed in the July issue of Choice (requires subscription):

African Migrations

 "The 14 engaging case studies assembled here add to understanding the social processes of voluntary and forced displacement within the continent and across the seas. ... Recommended."

Climate Change in the Midwest

"This volume is well organized, written, and edited ... Recommended."

Creation and the Sovereignty of God

"This is a first-rate work of analytic philosophical theology, interacting with the best scholarship in the field. ... Highly recommended."

Euro Horror

"[T]he volume effectively relocates the subgenres of popular horror films—cannibal, zombie, and S&M horror and giallo (or, thriller)—as experienced by Americans, and clearly demonstrates their subversive potential. ... Recommended."

Logic of Imagination

"Sallis remains ... the foremost Anglo-American Continental philosopher alive today. His work, though difficult and controversial, cannot be lightly dismissed. ... Recommended."

Book review: The House at Ujazdowskie 16

"This is an interesting and often moving tableau about the efforts of some wounded people to overcome their personal tragedies while redefining their communal loyalties." —Booklist

 

Book review: An Ode to Salonika

"[T]hose wanting insight into the world of Greek Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust are likely to find this unique work well worth their time." —Jewish Book Council

Book review: The Past Ahead

"The Past Ahead is a novel of blurred lines, the alternately healing and destructive power of memor and irrepressible nature of truth. If we can only truly understand genocide through the art it inspires, then Gatore's The Past Ahead, is as close a historical account of the atrocities of war and both the resilience and malleability of the human spirit as we can hope to receive." —Big Muddy

Book review: Kentucke's Frontiers

"In this rich, challenging, and enjoyable book, Friend examines the social, cultural, economic, political, and military histories of Kentucke (now Kentucky) from the 1720s to the War of 1812. ... The merits of this sweeping book are too numerous to chronicle sufficiently in this brief review. Nevertheless, Friend is at his strongest in his examination of the roles of memory and mythology in justifying white domination." —American Studies

Book review: A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry

"Not only does Miryam Segal’s A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry dare offer an answer to the perennial question posed by Hölderlin: What are poets for? It also reveals, in the language of Hebrew poetry, the subtle layers of ars poetica operative within the remarkable renaissance of Jewish peoplehood." —Nashim

Book reviews: Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue

"[T]his work is more than a biography of Marie-Benoit; it also informs us about a neglected area of Holocaust studies, the efforts to rescue Jews in the West. ... [It] is a welcome addition to our understanding of the rescue efforts in behalf of Jews by righteous Christians like Marie-Benoit and the Jewish rescue networks with which he worked." —Jewish Book Council

"With Père Marie-Benoît and Jewish Rescue, we have before us a book that, in marvelous detail, describes the righteous behavior of a French priest. ... Author Susan Zuccotti, skillfully and in fine detail, describes the Capuchin’s help in raising money from non-Jewish sources. ... How can one not recommend a well-researched and clearly written book that elevates us by illustrating the power of the human spirit in the face of evil and adversity?” —National Catholic Reporter

Book reviews: Resurgent Antisemitism

Alvin Rosenfeld's book Resurgent Antisemitism was recently reviewed in the following publications:

"In Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, editor Alvin H. Rosenfeld has compiled a fascinating, troubling collection of essays ... [T]he book’s many subjects and perspectives ensure it never ceases to be interesting, and it does an outstanding job of describing the chilling diversity of anti-Semitism today." —Foreword Magazine

"Across more than 500 pages, readers will encounter a drumbeat of anti-Semitic actions and thinking in many countries. ... [T]he essayists offer example after example of how traditional Jew-hatred has morphed into something more subtle. ... As Rosenfeld puts it in his careful introduction, it’s an animus that results in 'efforts to demonize and delegitimize Jewish national existence in the State of Israel.' He calls it a 'new version of Judeophobia.'" —National Catholic Reporter

"The authors make their case for paying closer attention to contemporary expressions of antisemitism. Interested academic and general readers will want to do so through this book." —Library Journal

Learn more about Resurgent Antisemitism in this excerpt or in this video: