Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
by Thomas Stubblefield
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The day the towers fell, indelible images of plummeting rubble, fire, and falling bodies were imprinted in the memories of people around the world. Images that were caught in the media loop after the disaster and coverage of the attack, its aftermath, and the wars that followed reflected a pervasive...
Across the Ussuri Kray
Travels in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In Russia’s Far East sits the wild Ussuri Kray, a region known for its remote highlands and rugged mountain passes where tigers and bears roam the cliffs, and salmon and lenok navigate the rivers. In this collection of travel writing by famed Russian explorer and naturalist Vladimir K. Arsenyev...
The Limits of the Land
How the Struggle for the West Bank Shaped the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Was Israel’s occupation of the West Bank inevitable? From 1949-1967, the West Bank was the center of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Many Israelis hoped to conquer it and widen their narrow borders, while many Arabs hoped that it would serve as the core of a future Palestinian state. In The Limits of...
African Literature and Social Change
Tribe, Nation, Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Alert to the ways in which critical theory and imaginative literature can enrich each other, African Literature and Social Change reframes the ongoing project of African literature. Concentrating on texts that are not usually considered together--writings by little-known black missionaries, so called...
Black Lives Matter and Music
Protest, Intervention, Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Music has always been integral to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with songs such as Kendrick Lamar’s "Alright," J. Cole’s "Be Free," D’Angelo and the Vanguard's "The Charade," The Game’s "Don’t Shoot," Janelle Monae’s "Hell You Talmbout," Usher’s "Chains," and...
Global Mountain Regions
Conversations toward the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the...
Franchthi Neolithic Pottery, Volume 1
Classification and Ceramic Phases 1 and 2, Fascicle 8
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
This is the first of two detailed reports on the more than one million pieces of pottery (and three complete vessels) recovered from Franchthi Cave and Paralia. These accounts significantly increase our understanding of Neolithic pottery and society in southern Greece. The enormous amount of pottery...
Franchthi Neolithic Pottery, Volume 2, vol. 2
The Later Neolithic Ceramic Phases 3 to 5, Fascicle 10
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
This is the second of two detailed reports on the more than one million pieces of pottery (and three complete vessels) recovered from Franchthi Cave and Paralia. These accounts significantly increase our understanding of Neolithic pottery and society in southern Greece. As in her study of the earlier...
Remembering Absence
The Sense of Life in Island Greece
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
This book looks to citizens of the Greek island of Chios and how they reshape memories of a traumatic past to form new ways of coping. Author Nicolas Argenti’s writing style is incredibly fluid and engaging, and in each chapter he focuses on the stories of particular local people.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2004
The large and impressive monitor lizard (genus Varanus) has attracted a great deal of interest. Despite being wary and difficult to observe, monitors have received an extraordinary amount of attention from devoted students. Varanoid Lizards of the World is a comprehensive account of virtually everything...
Namibia's Rainbow Project
Gay Rights in an African Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
What are the consequences when international actors step in to protect LGBT people from discrimination with programs that treat their sexualities in isolation from the "facts on the ground"? Robert Lorway tells the story of the unexpected effects of The Rainbow Project (TRP), a LGBT rights program...
by Brian C. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Purveyors of spiritualized medicine have been legion in American religious history, but few have achieved the superstar status of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his Battle Creek Sanitarium. In its heyday, the "San" was a combination spa and Mayo Clinic. Founded in 1866 under the auspices of the Seventh-day...
When Europe Was a Prison Camp
Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In a compelling approach to storytelling, When Europe Was a Prison Camp weaves together two accounts of a family’s eventual escape from Occupied Europe. One, a memoir written by the father in 1941; the other, begun by the son in the 1980s, fills in the story of himself and his mother, supplemented...
by David Barnouw
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
“Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages.” —Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third Reich
While Anne Frank was in hiding during the German Occupation...