Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers
Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct instructors face particular challenges at US colleges, including heavy teaching loads, lack of office space, little control over the selection of course topics or textbooks, and long commutes between jobs at two or more schools. Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty...
Selling Local
Why Local Food Movements Matter
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
In an era bustling with international trade and people on the move, why has local food become increasingly important? How does a community benefit from growing and buying its own produce, rather than eating food sown and harvested by outsiders? Selling Local is an indispensable guide to community-based...
The Scholar's Survival Manual
A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The product of a lifetime of experience in American universities, The Scholar’s Survival Manual offers advice for students, professors, and administrators on how to get work done, the path to becoming a professor, getting tenured, and making visible contributions to scholarship, as well as serving...
Power Struggles
Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Wind energy is often portrayed as a panacea for the environmental and political ills brought on by an overreliance on fossil fuels, but this characterization may ignore the impact wind farms have on the regions that host them. Power Struggles investigates the uneven allocation of risks and benefits...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
If you want to catch up on some of the best articles written about globalisation since the topic became fashionable several years ago, this reader is the place to start." —The Economist
A blue ribbon collection of major articles and position papers on the concept of globalization. By bringing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Hadrosaurs—also known as duck-billed dinosaurs—are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned...
At the Top of the Grand Staircase
The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids,...
Slave Owners of West Africa
Decision Making in the Age of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial...
Life in the Time of Oil
A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project—a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the...
Materializing the Nation
Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Foster shows us how seemingly banal activities like making a phone call, chewing betel nut, watching a Coke commercial may give important insights into the ways in which the nation is constructed, materialized or contested."—Orvar Löfgren, author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing
Why,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1999
The book illustrates how community-based actions, programs, and organizations that allow women to determine their lives and participate in decision making contribute to the creation of a civil society and thus enhance democracy. The case studies show how participation in grassroots movements promotes...
Creatures of Politics
Media, Message, and the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
It’s a common complaint that a presidential candidate's style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate’s every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality...
Medical Education in East Asia
Past and Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Pivotal to Asia’s future will be the robustness of its medical universities. Lessons learned in the past and the challenges facing these schools in the future are outlined in this collection, which offers valuable insights for other medical education systems as well. The populations in these rapidly...