Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Showers Brothers Furniture Company
The Shared Fortunes of a Family, a City, and a University
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
When the Showers family arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, the railroad had only recently come to town and a modest university was struggling to survive. Having spent the prior 18 years moving from place to place, the family decided to settle down and invest its modest resources to start a furniture...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1998
"It is a delight to seen an anthology on nonprofit history done so well."—Barry Karl, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
"This is a volume that everyone concerned about nonprofits—scholar, practitioner, and citizen—will find useful and illuminating."—Peter...
The Death of Character
Perspectives on Theater after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1996
Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call...
The Bill Cook Story
Ready, Fire, Aim!
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Bill Cook epitomizes the American success story. His business ventures in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, genetics, real estate, retail management, and travel services have made him a billionaire. Yet, Cook continues to lead a modest life, involving himself in a variety of philanthropic activities...
Shade of the Raintree, Centennial Edition
The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of Raintree County
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Raintree County, the first novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., was the publishing event of 1948. Excerpted in Life magazine, it was a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, won MGM's Novel Award and a movie deal, and stood at the top of the nation's bestseller lists. Unfortunately, Lockridge's first novel...
by Marsha Williamson Mohr
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
A symbol of Indiana's past, the covered bridge still evokes feelings of nostalgia, romance, and even mystery. During the 19th century, over 500 of these handsome structures spanned the streams, rivers, and ravines of Indiana. Plagued by floods, fire, storms, neglect, and arson, today fewer than 100...
Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy
Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
“A lively and anecdotal history” of the tiny family-run studio where jazz greats from Jelly Roll Morton to Louis Armstrong made their first recordings (Jazz Times).
From 1917 to 1932, in a primitive studio next to the railroad tracks, the Gennett family of Richmond, Indiana, recorded some of...
by Scott Russell Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
“Eloquent . . . a must-read for anyone committed to taking care of the natural world and passing it along to future generations” (ForeWord).
As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation...
by Matt Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
From the birds who wake us in the morning with their cheerful chorus to those who flock to our feeders and brighten a gloomy winter day, birds fascinate us with their lively and interesting behavior and provide essential services from controlling pest populations to pollinating crops. And yet for...
by Jeffrey Darbee
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
In an era dominated by huge railroad corporations, Indianapolis Union and Belt Railroads reveals the important role two small railroad companies had on development and progress in the Hoosier State. After Indianapolis was founded in 1821, early settlers struggled to move people and goods to and from...
Winesburg, Indiana
A Fork River Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
In the mythical town of Winesburg, Indiana, there lives a cleaning lady who can conjure up the ghost of Billy Sunday, a lascivious holy man with an unusual fetish and a burgeoning flock, a park custodian who collects the scat left by aliens, and a night janitor learning to live with life’s mysteries,...
by James Whitcomb Riley
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
First published in 1883, this charming book includes many of James Whitcomb Riley's signature poems, including "Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Also graced by noted Brown County artist Will Vawter's folksy illustrations of farm scenes from our past, this...
Undeniably Indiana
Hoosiers Tell the Story of Their Wacky and Wonderful State
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
In this first crowdsourced book about Indiana, ordinary Hoosiers from all corners of the state share the eclectic, wonderful, and sometimes wacky stories that are undeniably Indiana. These true tales highlight the variety of Hoosier life—fond recollections of hometowns, legendary anecdotes of the...
Anti-Zionism on Campus
The University, Free Speech, and BDS
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This book is an exposition of the actual and personal consequences of the BDS assault on university campuses.
Its authors include a senior scholar in American history and a senior scholar in philosophy. Both are strong followers of the BDS movement on American college and university campus....