Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Hunger and War
Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food; feeding the Red army; the medicalization...
by John Sallis
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
[Sallis’s] ideas are presented in a singular, scholarly, remarkable, captivating, conceptually rigorous, dense, and deep manner.... Highly recommended." —Choice
This fascinating book by one of the more original voices writing philosophy in English poses questions about the nature of the...
by Roy Armes
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
New Voices in Arab Cinema focuses on contemporary filmmaking since the 1980s, but also considers the longer history of Arab cinema. Taking into consideration film from the Middle East and North Africa and giving a special nod to films produced since the Arab Spring and the Syrian crisis, Roy Armes...
African Appropriations
Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own...
by Paul MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The sacrifice of the "Glorious Glosters" in defense of the Imjin River line and the hilltop fights of Australian and Canadian battalions in the Kapyong Valley have achieved greater renown in those nations than any other military action since World War II. This book is the first to compare in depth...
The Logos of the Sensible World
Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
John Sallis is one of the most important philosophical voices working in Continental traditions in our time. He has his own following of readers.
This is the next book in his collected writings series.
Sallis’s lectures in this book focus on the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty,...
by John Sallis
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Author John Sallis is one of the most important philosophical voices working in Continental traditions in our time.
IUP offers writings from John Sallis that encompass the full scope of his philosophical career.
IUPs philosophy offerings have traditionally been a strong source...
Roland Hayes
The Legacy of an American Tenor
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
A “gripping, sensitive” biography of the trailblazing singer who carved a path for African American artists including Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson (The Atlanta Voice).
Performing in a country rife with racism and segregation, the tenor Roland Hayes was the first African American man...
Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria
Firearms, Culture, and Public Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Guns are an enduring symbol of imperialism, whether they are used to impose social order, create ceremonial spectacle, incite panic, or to inspire confidence. In Guns and Society, Saheed Aderinto considers the social, political, and economic history of these weapons in colonial Nigeria. As he transcends...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the...
Birth of Democratic Citizenship
Women and Power in Modern Romania
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
What is it like to be a woman living through the transition from communism to democracy? What effect does this have on a woman’s daily life, on her concept of herself, her family, and her community? Birth of Democratic Citizenship presents the stories of women in Romania as they describe their experiences...
by Wilfried N'Sondé
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
- Battered by her father, a young woman evolves before being devoured by family and her current situation.
- The theme of hope among the immigrant populations who lived in the Paris projects.
- N’Sondé is an award-winning novelist and recognized by the Prix de Cinq Continents de la Francophonie for creative literature.
The Obligated Self
Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Mara H. Benjamin contends that the physical and psychological work of caring for children presents theologically fruitful but largely unexplored terrain for feminists. Attending to the constant, concrete, and urgent needs of children, she argues, necessitates engaging with profound questions concerning...
Noah's Ravens
Interpreting the Makers of Tridactyl Dinosaur Footprints
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues...