Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
The Materiality of Language
Gender, Politics, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material...
The Doc and the Duchess
The Life and Legacy of George H. A. Clowes
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
George Henry Alexander Clowes was a pivotal figure in the development of the insulin program at the Eli Lilly Company. Through his leadership, scientists and clinicians at Lilly and the University of Toronto created a unique, international team to develop and purify insulin and take the production...
Today I Am a Woman
Stories of Bat Mitzvah Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
“The amazing tales of Jewish girls on six different continents who celebrate the Jewish ritual of becoming a woman.” —The Jewish Journal
Winner, Spirituality Category, New England Festival Best Books of the Holiday Season
Divided into nine regions—Africa; Asia; Australia and New Zealand;...
Pioneers
A Tale of Russian-Jewish Life in the 1880s
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
“A unique work of art” that captures “the experiences of an important generation of Russian Jews. . . . and an important document of its time.” —Gabriella Safran, author of Wandering Soul: The Dybbuk’s Creator, S. An-Sky
S. An-Sky’s novel dramatizes the dilemmas of Jewish young...
Ponderings II–VI
Black Notebooks 1931–1938
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Ponderings II–VI begins the much-anticipated English translation of Martin Heidegger's "Black Notebooks." In a series of small notebooks with black covers, Heidegger confided sundry personal observations and ideas over the course of 40 years. The five notebooks in this volume were written between...
Eve and Adam
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Readings on Genesis and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1999
The editors have performed a great service in making widely available a documentary history of the interpretation of the Eve and Adam story." —Publishers Weekly
This fascinating volume examines Genesis 1-3 and the different ways that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters have used these...
by Anne Kelly Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
“[A] pioneering work . . . Shed[s] light on the historic events surrounding the Holocaust from place, space, and environment-oriented perspectives.” —Rudi Hartmann, PhD, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado
This book explores the geographies of the Holocaust at...
History of the Concept of Time
Prolegomena
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the summer of 1925, an early version of Being and Time (1927), offers a unique glimpse into the motivations that prompted the writing of this great philosopher's master work and the presuppositions that gave shape to it. The book embarks upon...
Unsettling Scores
German Film, Music, and Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
"Hillman’s groundbreaking study enables both serious and casual film students to approach these works with sharpened vision and improved hearing." —Klaus Phillips, Hollins University
Unsettling Scores: German Film, Music, and Ideology examines the use of classical music in film,...
In Search of the Hebrew People
Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book considers the image of the Israelite in 18th century Germany. This was important at the time because new concepts of ethnicity, government, civil society, and nation were being articulated. Germans were looking to the Israelites as a basis for remodeling German culture.
The author...
Pilgrims of Love
The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
"... will be of interest not only to those concerned with Pakistan and the new Muslim presence in Europe, but also to those interested in an anthropological study of religion." —Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
Pnina Werbner traces the development of a Sufi Naqshbandi...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
This is the first book to explore the history of the creation of documentary cinema in and about the global Arctic region from Nanook of the North to the present day. It addresses key issues facing the study of Arctic documentary moving images, both those made in the Global North and those that,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology,...
by Estelle R. Jorgensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2008
The Art of Teaching Music takes up important aspects of the art of music teaching ranging from organization to serving as conductor to dealing with the disconnect between the ideal of university teaching and the reality in the classroom. Writing for both established teachers and instructors on the...