University Of Illinois Press: 158 books
Women Have Always Worked
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and...
Noodle Soup
Recipes, Techniques, Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Every day, noodle shops around the globe ladle out quick meals that fuel our go-go lives. But Ken Albala has a mission: to get YOU in the kitchen making noodle soup. This primer offers the recipes and techniques for mastering quick-slurper staples and luxurious from-scratch feasts. Albala made a different...
Somalis Abroad
Clan and Everyday Life in Finland
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic detail, Stephanie Bjork offers the first study on the messy role of clan or tribe in the Somali diaspora, and the only study on the subject to include women's perspectives. Somalis Abroad illuminates the ways clan is contested alongside ideas of autonomy and gender...
Mere and Easy
Collage as a Critical Practice in Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Collage making offers everyone from small children to trained artists the ability to express themselves through images. In this new Common Threads collection, Jorge Lucero draws on the archive of the journal Visual Arts Research to present articles focused on the place of collage in fine art and education....
Bach Perspectives, Volume 7
J. S. Bach's Concerted Ensemble Music: The Concerto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Correspondence capturing Dreiser's own take on his long and eventful life
In addition to his novels, short stories, plays, poetry, and a flood of journalism, Theodore Dreiser is estimated to have written an astonishing 20,000 letters. A Picture and a Criticism of Life presents a selection...
Aesthetics and Technology in Building
The Twenty-First-Century Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2018
The UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The Pirelli skyscraper in Milan. The Palazetto dello Sport in Rome. The "soaring beauty" of Pier Luigi Nervi's visionary designs and buildings changed cityscapes in the twentieth century. His uncanny ingenuity with reinforced concrete, combined with a gift...
by Katherine Baber
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2019
Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and...
by Honey Meconi
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded and led a noted women's religious community, and wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history. Yet we know her best as Western music's most accomplished...
by Paul Kincaid
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The 1987 publication of Iain M. Banks's Consider Phlebas helped trigger the British renaissance of radical hard science fiction and influenced a generation of New Space Opera masters. The thirteen SF novels that followed inspired an avid fandom and intense intellectual engagement while Banks's mainstream...
Thunder from the Right
Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2019
Ezra Taft Benson's ultra-conservative vision made him one of the most polarizing leaders in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His willingness to mix religion with extreme right-wing politics troubled many. Yet his fierce defense of the traditional family, unabashed love...
Black Post-Blackness
The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues that we have misread the Black Arts Movement's...
The Labor of Care
Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
For generations, migration moved in one direction at a time: migrants to host countries, and money to families left behind. The Labor of Care argues that globalization has changed all that. Valerie Francisco-Menchavez spent five years alongside a group of working migrant mothers. Drawing on interviews...
Beauty's Rigor
Patterns of Production in the Work of Pier Luigi Nervi
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Born in Sondrio, Italy, in 1891, Per Luigi Nervi was a pioneer in the engineering and architecture of reinforced concrete. His buildings showed how the use of reinforced concrete expanded the possibilities of form and structure. His methods, meanwhile, ingrained his structures with patterns that came...
A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1
The Old Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of...