Indiana University Press: 1129 books
by Rebekah Klein-Pejšová
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
In the aftermath of World War I, the largely Hungarian-speaking Jews in Slovakia faced the challenge of reorienting their political loyalties from defeated Hungary to newly established Czechoslovakia. Rebekah Klein-Pejšová examines the challenges Slovak Jews faced as government officials, demographers,...
Irish Travellers
The Unsettled Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had known decades...
by Karin Barber, John Collins, Alain Ricard
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1997
"... a ground-breaking contribution to the field of African literature... " —Research in African Literatures
"Anyone with the slightest interest in West African cultures, performance or theatre should immediately rush out and buy this book." —Leeds African Studies Bulletin
"A seminal...
Building a New South Africa
One Conversation at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Once a thriving, multiracial community, the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg was home to many famous artists, musicians, and poets. It was also a place where residential apartheid was first put into practice with forced removals, buildings bulldozed, and the construction of new, cheap housing for...
Imagining Autism
Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Freeman Loftis’s groundbreaking study examines literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what...
Partnerships the Nonprofit Way
What Matters, What Doesn't
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Collaboration and partnership are well-known characteristics of the nonprofit sector, as well as important tools of public policy and for creating public value. But how do nonprofits form successful partnerships? From the perspective of nonprofit practice, the conditions leading to collaboration and...
Connected Science
Strategies for Integrative Learning in College
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), Connected Science presents a new approach to college science education for the 21st century. This interdisciplinary approach stresses integrative learning and pedagogies that engage students through open-ended inquiry, compelling real-world...
by J. Parker Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
The diesel locomotive sent shock waves through rigid corporate cultures and staid government regulators. For some, the new technology promised to be a source of enormous profits; for others, the railroad industry seemed a threat to their very livelihoods. Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive...
Nation of Cowards
Black Activism in Barack Obama’s Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title, Attorney General Eric Holder argued forcefully that Americans today need to talk more—not less—about racism. This appeal for candid talk about race exposes the paradox of Barack Obama’s historic rise to the US presidency and the ever-increasing...
Arts of Being Yoruba
Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations—no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adéèkó documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yorùbá in this innovative study....
Entrepreneurship in Africa
A Historical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explore the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities....
The National Environmental Policy Act
An Agenda for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 1999
The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College
What has been...
Syria's Democratic Years
Citizens, Experts, and Media in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The years 1954–1958 in Syria are popularly known as "The Democratic Years," a brief period of civilian government before the consolidation of authoritarian rule. Kevin W. Martin provides a cultural history of the period and argues that the authoritarian outcome was anything but inevitable. Examining...
Pink and Blue
Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
“An insightful analysis of the origins, transformations and consequences of gender distinctions in children’s dress over the last 125 years.” —Daniel Thomas Cook, author of The Commodification of Childhood
Jo B. Paoletti’s journey through the history of children’s clothing began...