Indiana University Press: 1129 books
UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens
What Science Says
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
A wide-ranging survey offers “entertainment as well as wisdom for everyone who’s ever wondered what’s behind so many conspiracy theories and paranormal phenomena” (Publishers Weekly).
UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of...
The Great Fossil Enigma
The Search for the Conodont Animal
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology’s greatest mysteries: “Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed” (Priscum).
Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in...
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka
The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1987
... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution.... Mr. Arad’s book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."—New York Times Book Review
... some of the most gripping chapters I have ever read.... the authentic, exhaustive,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
The essays collected in this volume take a new look at the role of language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its significance for contemporary philosophy. They consider such topics as Heidegger’s engagement with the Greeks, expression in language, poetry, the language of art and politics,...
Transfinite Life
Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Oskar Goldberg was an important and controversial figure in Weimar Germany. He challenged the rising racial conception of the state and claimed that the Jewish people were on a metaphysical mission to defeat race-based statism. He attracted the attention of his contemporaries--Walter Benjamin, Gershom...
Remembering, Second Edition
A Phenomenological Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Remembering
A Phenomenological Study
Second Edition
Edward S. Casey
A pioneering investigation of the multiple ways of remembering and the difference that memory makes in our daily lives.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
An excellent book that provides an in-depth phenomenological...
Africa Must Be Modern
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Africa must be modern. Let me say it again: Africa must be modern. And it must be modern NOW; not tomorrow; not in the near future; not in the far future.... Put simply, Africa must embrace individualism as a principle of social ordering; make reason central in its relation to, activity upon, understanding...
Gaining Ground, Second Edition
The Origin and Evolution of Tetrapods
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure—emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
How can education become a transformative experience for all learners and teachers? The contributors to this volume contend that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) can provide a strong foundation for the role of education in promoting social justice. The collection features contributions...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German...
by Mauricio Antón
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What’s more, there were other sabertooths that were not cats, animals with exotic names like...
After the Dinosaurs
The Age of Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
A fascinating study of the thousands of new animal species that walked in the footsteps of the dinosaurs—and the climate changes that brought them forth.
The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In...
Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition
A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs,...
A Sea without Fish
Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago—some 250 million years before the dinosaurs lived. In...