Indiana University Press: 1129 books
by Félix Pérez-Lorente
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the area is known for its wine and for the dozens of sites where footprints and trackways of dinosaurs, amphibians, and even pterosaurs can be seen. The...
Dinosaur Tracks
The Next Steps
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches and techniques, such as experimental...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus...
Seasoned Socialism
Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Seasoned Socialism considers the relationship between gender and food in late Soviet daily life. Political and economic conditions heavily influenced Soviet life and foodways during this period and an exploration of Soviet women’s central role in the daily sustenance for their families as well as...
The White River Badlands
Geology and Paleontology
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb:...
Entrusted
The Moral Responsibilities of Trusteeship
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1995
Entrusted provides a much needed contribution to the literature on ethics in the healthcare arena." —Health Progress
A splendid and invaluable book, one every trustee with an active conscience would want to read and one every trustee with a dormant conscience ought to read." —Richard Chait,...
The Culture of Colonialism
The Cultural Subjection of Ukaguru
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
What did it mean to be an African subject living in remote areas of Tanganyika at the end of the colonial era? For the Kaguru of Tanganyika, it meant daily confrontation with the black and white governmental officials tasked with bringing this rural people into the mainstream of colonial African life....
Mesozoic Sea Dragons
Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
The site of Monte San Giorgio is the most famous marine life fossil bed in the world.
The story of the marine life from the Middle Triassic Period at Monte San Giorgio has never been told in book form before.
Olivier Rieppel is a curator at the Field Museum in Chicago and is a returning IUP author whose previous book, Turtles as Hopeful Monsters, had strong sales.
The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm
Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond...
Topophrenia
Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides...
The Terrorist Trap, Second Edition
America’s Experience with Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2001
The bombings of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and of the World Trade Center in New York City have joined a long history of terrorists acts against the United States. In this newly updated edition of his book, Jeffrey Simon reaches back to the founding days of the Republic to tell a...
Boomer
Railroad Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
This classic account of self discovery and railroad life describes Linda Grant Niemann’s travels as an itinerant brakeman on the Southern Pacific. Boomer combines travelogue, Wild West adventure, sexual memoir, and closely observed ethnography. A Berkeley Ph.D., Niemann turned her back on academia...
Troubled Geographies
A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Ireland’s landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history by detailing the patterns of change in Ireland from 16th century attempts to "plant" areas of Ireland with loyal English Protestants...
Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews
The Story of an Image
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Motivated by Woody Allen’s brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography. Although these depictions could easily be dismissed...