Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Framing Sukkot
Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Israelites as they journeyed across the desert after the exodus from Egypt. Despite the simple Biblical prescription for its design, the remarkable variety...
Biotechnology and Culture
Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2001
Biotechnology and Culture
Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics
Edited by Paul Brodwin
Untangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies
"A timely and perceptive look from many acute angles, at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day." —Paul Rabinow, University of California,...
Modern Ladino Culture
Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary...
Anne Frank Unbound
Media, Imagination, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
“A brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story.” —James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of California
As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the...
by Linda Dowling Almeida
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Irish Immigrants in New York City,
1945-1995
Linda Dowling Almeida
The story of one of the most visible groups of immigrants in the major city of immigrants in the last half of the 20th century.
Almeida offers a dynamic portrait of Irish New York, one that keeps reinventing itself...
Faculty Development and Student Learning
Assessing the Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Colleges and universities across the US have created special initiatives to promote faculty development, but to date there has been little research to determine whether such programs have an impact on students' learning. Faculty Development and Student Learning reports the results of a multi-year...
Germany 1945
Views of War and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2008
“Packed with carefully chosen photos . . . this book is a moving reminder of the material and moral devastation left behind by Nazi Germany.” ―Rudy Koshar, University of Wisconsin–Madison
The Allied forces that entered Germany at the close of World War II were looking for remorse and...
The Beginning of Western Philosophy
Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Volume 35 of Heidegger’s Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text....
Between Word and Image
Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: “Probing and lucid” (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).
Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato....
by Roslyn Rensch
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition...
Women and Music
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2001
This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars,...
Balkan Breakthrough
The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
“An important account of a very overlooked aspect of the Great War.” —Strategy Page
With the transfer of German units to the western front in the spring of 1918, the position of the Central Powers on the Macedonian front worsened. Materiel became scarce and morale among the Bulgarian forces...
by Andrei Bely
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding...
by Martin Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel. First published in German in 2001, these two...