Indiana University Press: 1129 books
We Only Come Here to Struggle
Stories from Berida's Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
Here is the life history of Berida Ndambuki, a Kenyan woman trader born in 1936, who speaks movingly of her experiences under the turbulences of late British colonialism and independence. A poverty survivor, Berida overcame patriarchal constraints to reclaim the rights to her labor, her body, and...
Africans in Exile
Mobility, Law, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
The essays included within this book present the experiences of political exile as fundamental to an understanding of colonial and post-colonial oppression and the history of state power in Africa. They take a broad, global look at the complexity of the experience of exile and the lasting effects...
Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition
After Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of second...
Ghana on the Go
African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic agendas of a diverse array of local agents, including chiefs, farmers, traders, fishermen, and urban workers. Jennifer Hart's powerful narrative...
From Sufism to Ahmadiyya
A Muslim Minority Movement in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The Ahmadiyya Muslim community represents the followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835–1908), a charismatic leader whose claims of spiritual authority brought him into conflict with most other Muslim leaders of the time. The controversial movement originated in rural India in the latter part of the...
Threads of Empire
Loyalty and Tsarist Authority in Bashkiria, 1552–1917
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Threads of Empire examines how Russia’s imperial officials and intellectual elites made and maintained their authority among the changing intellectual and political currents in Eurasia from the mid-16th century to the revolution of 1917. The book focuses on a region 750 miles east of Moscow known...
Doing Physics, Second Edition
How Physicists Take Hold of the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology,...
Blockbuster History in the New Russia
Movies, Memory, and Patriotism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history. Unsettled by the government’s move toward market capitalism, Russians...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game Okami to the internationally popular The Legend of Zelda and Halo, many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the storyline....
by István Szente, István Fzy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
István Fozy and István Szente provide a comprehensive review of the fossil record of the Carpathian Basin. Fossils of the Carpathian Region describes and illustrates the region’s fossils, recounts their history, and tells the stories of key people involved in paleontological research in the area....
by Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
In Pursuit of Early Mammals presents the history of the mammals that lived during the Mesozoic era, the time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and describes their origins, anatomy, systematics, paleobiology, and distribution. It also tells the story of the author, a world-renowned specialist on these...
Turtles as Hopeful Monsters
Origins and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Where do turtles hail from? Why and how did they acquire shells? These questions have spurred heated debate and intense research for more than two hundred years. Brilliantly weaving evidence from the latest paleontological discoveries with an accessible, incisive look at different theories of biological...
Megafauna
Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these...
Forerunners of Mammals
Radiation • Histology • Biology
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
About 320 million years ago a group of reptiles known as the synapsids emerged and forever changed Earth’s ecological landscapes. This book discusses the origin and radiation of the synapsids from their sail-backed pelycosaur ancestor to their diverse descendants, the therapsids or mammal-like reptiles,...