Indiana University Press: 1129 books
The Last Studebaker
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In this novel of a woman in search of the meaning of family, “Hemley draws a quirky, droll road map of the human heart, with all its foibles and dangers” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1963, when Lois Kulwicki’s father loses his job at Studebaker along with hundreds of other workers, he acts as...
What This River Keeps
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
The moving story of a Midwestern family fighting to preserve their ties to the land and to each other: “Bears comparison to the best work of Steinbeck” (Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong).
In the rolling hills of southern Indiana, an elderly couple copes with the fear that their river bottom...
Congress, Presidents, and American Politics
Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
“A treasure trove of insightful, real-time commentaries from a consummate legislator highly respected by members of both parties.” —US Senator Olympia Snowe
When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his...
by The Elves, Emily Weisner Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
For years, children and adults have stuffed their candid dreams, wishes, and promises into envelopes addressed to Santa Claus. Whether the envelopes come with stamps or without, are addressed to "The Big Red Guy at Jingle Bells Lane" or simply "To Santa," for over 100 years, millions of these letters...
My Life as a Silent Movie
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
After a tragic loss, an American woman investigates her birth family in Paris: “The novel’s twists and turns are wonderfully unexpected” (Emma Straub, author of Modern Lovers).
In her early forties, Emma has recently lost her husband and daughter to a tragic auto accident. When her elderly...
An Unreal Estate
Sustainability and Freedom in an Evolving Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
In An Unreal Estate, Lucinda Carspecken takes an in-depth look at Lothlorien, a Southern Indiana nature sanctuary, sustainable camping ground, festival site, collective residence, and experiment in ecological building, stewardship, and organization. Carspecken notes the way fiction and reality intertwine...
Framing Sukkot
Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The sukkah, the symbolic ritual home built during the annual Jewish holiday of Sukkot, commemorates the temporary structures that sheltered the Israelites as they journeyed across the desert after the exodus from Egypt. Despite the simple Biblical prescription for its design, the remarkable variety...
by Nathan Strange
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Whether you are looking for a weekend hike in the woods, a family outing, or great locations to study the local flora and fauna, Indiana state parks provide something for everyone. Visiting 24 state parks in Indiana, Nathan Strange and Matt Williams describe and photograph the features that make each...
Hoosiers, Third Edition
The Fabulous Basketball Life of Indiana
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Named by The New York Times as "a knowing, respectful and caring look at heartland America" and containing a new foreword by legendary player Bob Plump, this is a book every basketball lover should own. The best of Phillip Hoose’s classic writings are included here with a fresh look on Indiana’s...
Biotechnology and Culture
Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2001
Biotechnology and Culture
Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics
Edited by Paul Brodwin
Untangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies
"A timely and perceptive look from many acute angles, at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day." —Paul Rabinow, University of California,...
Modern Ladino Culture
Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Olga Borovaya explores the emergence and expansion of print culture in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), the mother tongue of the Sephardic Jews of the Ottoman Empire, in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She provides the first comprehensive study of the three major forms of Ladino literary...
Anne Frank Unbound
Media, Imagination, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
“A brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story.” —James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of California
As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the...
by Linda Dowling Almeida
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2001
Irish Immigrants in New York City,
1945-1995
Linda Dowling Almeida
The story of one of the most visible groups of immigrants in the major city of immigrants in the last half of the 20th century.
Almeida offers a dynamic portrait of Irish New York, one that keeps reinventing itself...
Faculty Development and Student Learning
Assessing the Connections
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Colleges and universities across the US have created special initiatives to promote faculty development, but to date there has been little research to determine whether such programs have an impact on students' learning. Faculty Development and Student Learning reports the results of a multi-year...