Indiana University Press: 1129 books
by Eero Tarasti
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Existential semiotics involves an a priori state of signs and their fixation into objective entities. These essays define this new philosophical field.
Quick Hits for Teaching with Technology
Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
How should I use technology in my courses? What impact does technology have on student learning? Is distance learning effective? Should I give online tests and, if so, how can I be sure of the integrity of the students' work? These are some of the questions that instructors raise as technology becomes...
Phenomenal Gender
What Transgender Experience Discloses
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Just what is gender, and what can be expected of it when dealing with identity, justice, and equality? Ephraim Das Janssen uses a phenomenological approach to challenge and dismantle the way gender is currently understood. Janssen questions ideas that have formerly been taken for granted, as individuals...
Popobawa
Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Since the 1960s, people on the islands off the coast of Tanzania have talked about being attacked by a mysterious creature called Popobawa, a shapeshifter often described as having an enormous penis. Popobawa’s recurring attacks have become a popular subject for stories, conversation, gossip, and...
Outrage in Ohio
A Rural Murder, Lynching, and Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
- A true crime story of the horrific death of 13 year-old Mary Secaur and the lynching of the suspects by citizens of Mercer County.
- Release of this book coincides with our expansion of our list into new states.
- Very well written, the book takes a look at the crime, evidence and...
Media in Postapartheid South Africa
Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
This work highlights key dynamics of media politics in contemporary South Africa. It explores issues of globalization, cultural identities on social media, and media’s interrelationship with capitalism.
This book should have classroom appeal for students of postapartheid South Africa,...
Placing Names
Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Well before the innovation of maps, gazetteers served as the main geographic referencing system for hundreds of years. Consisting of a specialized index of place names, gazetteers traditionally linked descriptive elements with topographic features and coordinates. Placing Names is inspired by that...
General Jacob Devers
World War II's Forgotten Four Star
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
A “solid and informative” biography of one of the overlooked heroes of the Second World War (Wall Street Journal).
Of the leaders of the American Army in World War II, Jacob Devers is undoubtedly the “forgotten four-star.” Plucked from relative obscurity in the Canal Zone, Devers was...
Broken Wings
The Hungarian Air Force, 1918-45
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Drawing upon a wealth of previously untranslated documents, Broken Wings tells how a European nation built an entire air force in secret. Carved up and banned from having a military air service after World War I, Hungary became determined to rearm itself. In the early 1920s, Allied inspectors were...
Legacy of the Lash
Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Legacy of the Lash is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil. Focusing on non-elite, mostly black enlisted men and the oppressive labor regimes under which they struggled, the book is...
The Palestinian National Revival
In the Shadow of the Leadership Crisis, 1937–1967
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Former Israeli intelligence officer Moshe Shemesh offers a fresh understanding of the complex history and politics of the Middle East in this new analysis of the Palestinian national movement. Shemesh looks at the formative years of the movement that emerged following the 1948 War and traces the leaders,...
Written in Blood
The Battles for Fortress Przemyl in WWI
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The Tomlinson Prize–winning, “stimulating and informative” account of one of the most significant clashes on the Eastern Front of the Great War (Journal of Military History).
Bloodier than Verdun, the battles for Fortress Przemyl in present-day Poland were pivotal to victory on the Eastern...
A Prophetic Peace
Judaism, Religion, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Challenging deeply held convictions about Judaism, Zionism, war, and peace, Alick Isaacs's combat experience in the second Lebanon war provoked him to search for a way of reconciling the belligerence of religion with its messages of peace. In his insightful readings of the texts of Biblical prophecy...
Gardening in the Lower Midwest
A Practical Guide for the New Zones 5 and 6
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1994
"... a common-sense handbook for gardeners... It will help slacken the stress level that gardening was never meant to bring." —HortScience
"[Diane Heilenman] gets to the heart, the soul and the humor shared by all in the gardening world... both a practical reference and an...