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Subject Index Asia, 41, Anthropology, 46, 47 Fiction, 12, 13, 17, 31 Film & Media, 48, 49, 50 History, 20 Latin American, 28, 29, 40 Literary Criticism, 33 International Affairs, 9,34 Middle East, 5, 16
Music, 21, 26, 44, 45 Paleontology, 27, 42 Philosophy, 32, 36, 37 Political Science, 8, 14, 35 Religion, 18, 19, 25, 30, 38, 39 Science, 6, 22, 23, 43 Social Science, 3, 7, 10, 11 War & Military, 4, 15, 24
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—Brenda Weber, author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity
“Roach’s attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike.” —Publishers Weekly
SOCIAL SCIENCE
“An innovative hybrid of both academic analysis and romantic fiction, offering scholarly and popular readers a fascinating account of what is at stake in stories we love about love.”
“...impressively smart...a lively and memorable read!” —Eric Murphy Selinger, Executive Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Happily Ever After
The Romance Story in Popular Culture CATHERINE M. ROACH
“Find your one true love and live happily ever after.” The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney’s princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/ female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.
CATHERINE ROACH is Professor of Gender and Culture Studies in New College at the University of
Alabama and author of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture. She publishes romance fiction as Catherine LaRoche.
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WAR & MILITARY
“Douglas A. Wissing is a powerful and courageous journalist worth reading on the war in Afghanistan. Wissing has been on the ground, and knows his topic well. Over the years, few have spoken truth to power about America’s endless wars better.” —Peter Van Buren, former US diplomat, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the War for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
“A scathing dispatch from an embedded journalist in Afghanistan. . . Pungent, embittered, eyeopening observations of a conflict involving lessons still unlearned.” —Kirkus Reviews
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Hopeless but Optimistic
Journeying through America’s Endless War in Afghanistan DOUGLAS A. WISSING
Award-winning journalist Douglas A. Wissing’s poignant and eye-opening journey across insurgency-wracked Afghanistan casts an unyielding spotlight on greed, dysfunction, and predictable disaster while celebrating the everyday courage and wisdom of frontline soldiers, idealistic humanitarians, and resilient Afghans. As Wissing hauls a hundred pounds of body armor and pack across the Afghan warzone in search of the ground truth, US officials frantically spin a spurious victory narrative, American soldiers try to keep their body parts together, and Afghans try to stay positive and strain to figure out their next move after the US eventually leaves. As one technocrat confided to Wissing, “I am hopeless—but optimistic.” Wissing is everywhere in Afghanistan, sharing an impressionistic view from little white taxis. It includes the perspectives of cynical military lifers and frightened short-timers; true believers and amoral grabbers; Americans and Afghans trying to make sense of two countries surreally contorted by war-birthed extractive commerce. Along with a deep inquiry into the 21st-century American way of war and an unforgettable glimpse of the enduring culture and legacy of Afghanistan, Hopeless but Optimistic includes the real stuff of life: the austere grandeur of Afghanistan and its remarkable people; warzone dining, defecation, and sex; as well as the remarkable shopping opportunities for men whose job is to kill.
DOUGLAS A. WISSING is author of eight books, including Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban and Pioneer in Tibet: The Life and Perils of Dr. Albert Shelton. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, Fox.com, Salon.com, and Time.com, among other publications.
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—Samieh Hezari to the Irish media
MIDDLE EAST
“We were climbing for hours. We had to go up over 3,000 feet, and Rojha was very sick. She was vomiting because it was so much for a child of her age. At one point, we came to a checkpoint with men who aimed their guns at us. We had no choice but to turn back.”
Trapped in Iran
A Mother’s Desperate Journey to Freedom SAMIEH HEZARI, WITH KAYLENE PETERSEN
In 2010, Samieh Hezari made a terrible mistake. She flew from her adopted home of Ireland to her birthplace in Iran so her 14-month-old daughter, Rojha, could be introduced to the child’s father. When the violent and unstable father refused to allow his daughter to leave and demanded that Samieh renew their relationship, a two-week holiday became a desperate five-year battle to get her daughter out of Iran. If Samieh could not do so before Rojha turned seven, the father could take sole custody—forever. The father’s harassment and threats intensified, eventually resulting in an allegation of adultery that was punishable by stoning, but Samieh—a single mother trapped in a country she saw as restricting the freedom and future of her daughter—never gave up, gaining inspiration from other Iranian women facing similar situations. As both the trial for adultery and her daughter’s seventh birthday loomed the Irish government refused to get involved, leaving Samieh to attempt multiple illegal escapes in an unforgettable, epic journey to freedom. Trapped in Iran is the harrowing and emotionally gripping story of how a mother defied a man and a country to win freedom for her daughter. Iranian-born SAMIEH HEZARI lives in Dublin, Ireland, with her two daughters, Saba and Rojha. Samieh is an accountant at a law firm and is currently studying for a degree in psychology. Trapped in Iran is her first book.
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SCIENCE & HEALTH
“Vividly told, the book captures the personalities of the protagonists, contains scientifically sophisticated explanations about the development of marketable insulin, and invokes the evolving environment–economic, medical, social, and familial–in which the story takes place.” —Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment
“This well-researched book celebrates the lives of George H. A. and Edith Clowes. GHA Clowes’ advanced research made Eli Lilly and Company a world leader in the development of insulin and played a critical role in Lilly’s development into a global pharmaceutical company.” —Michael Bliss, author of The Discovery of Insulin
“The Doc and the Duchess is a must-read for anyone interested in drug development, medical history, and diabetes.” —Thea Cooper, author of Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
The Doc and the Duchess
The Life and Legacy of George H. A. Clowes
ALEXANDER W. CLOWES, M.D.; FOREWORD BY JOHN LECHLEITER George Henry Alexander Clowes was a pivotal figure in the development of the insulin program at the Eli Lilly Company. Through his leadership, scientists and clinicians at Lilly and the University of Toronto created a unique, international team to develop and purify insulin and take the production of this life-saving agent to an industrial scale. This biography, written by his grandson, presents his scientific achievements, and also takes note of his social and philanthropic contributions, which he shared with his wife, Edith. It tells the story of Clowes from his childhood in late Victorian England to his death at Woods Hole on Cape Cod in 1958. Educated in England and Germany, Clowes came to America to join a startup laboratory in Buffalo, where he conducted basic research on cancer and applied research on other disease-related problems. Assuming the position of head of research at Lilly, Clowes was at the center of one of the great discoveries that changed the course of medical history and offered new life to millions of individuals with diabetes and other metabolic disorders. Clowes was also instrumental in the development of other commercial pharmaceutical advances. Devoted to a number of philanthropic causes, Clowes and Edith contributed greatly to the cultural life of his adopted country, a contribution that continues to this day.
ALEXANDER W. CLOWES (1946–2015) was V. Paul Gavora and Helen S. and John A. Schilling Endowed Chair of Vascular Surgery at University of Washington School of Medicine. Clowes was Director and President of the Clowes Fund.
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—Ron Scapp, coeditor of Fashion Statements: On Style, Appearance, and Reality
SOCIAL SCIENCE
“An eclectic anthology, it offers the readers more than one argument and perspective, which makes the volume itself lively and rich.”
American Shame
Stigma and the Body Politic EDITED BY MYRA MENDIBLE
On any given day in America’s news cycle, stories and images of disgraced politicians and celebrities solicit our moral indignation, their misdeeds fueling a lucrative economy of shame and scandal. Shame is one of the most coercive, painful, and intriguing of human emotions. Only in recent years has interest in shame extended beyond a focus on the subjective experience of this emotion and its psychological effects. The essays collected here consider the role of shame as cultural practice and examine ways that public shaming practices enforce conformity and group coherence. Addressing abortion, mental illness, suicide, immigration, and body image among other issues, this volume calls attention to the ways shaming practices create and police social boundaries; how shaming speech is endorsed, judged, or challenged by various groups; and the distinct ways that shame is encoded and embodied in a nation that prides itself on individualism, diversity, and exceptionalism. Examining shame through a prism of race, sexuality, ethnicity, and gender, these provocative essays offer a broader understanding of how America’s discourse of shame helps to define its people as citizens, spectators, consumers, and moral actors.
MYRA MENDIBLE is Professor in the Languages and Literature Department at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. She is editor of From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Culture and Race 2008: Critical Reflections on an Historic Campaign. Worldwide Rights Cultural Studies, Social Science 328 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
“The best comprehensive review of the Obama administration’s policies available, written by an individual who is both knowledgeable in the policy sense and savvy in the political sense. . . . [A] great reference source for information on Obama administration domestic policy and activities.” —Daniel P. Franklin, author of Pitiful Giants: Presidents in their Final Term
“An important contribution to scholarship on the American presidency and American politics . . . . [W]ill be of great interest to students and scholars, and likely will be a foundational text on understanding the Obama presidency.” —Meena Bose, Hofstra University
Obama on the Home Front
Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks JOHN D. GRAHAM
The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation’s 240-year history, is of special interest. Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political front, he would be challenged by the intense congressional polarization faced by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, exacerbated by the rise of the Tea Party movement. In this comprehensive assessment of domestic policymaking, John D. Graham considers what we may learn from the Obama presidency about how presidents can best implement their agendas when Congress is evenly divided. What did Obama pledge to do in domestic policy and what did he actually accomplish? Why did some initiatives succeed and others fail? Did Obama’s policies contribute to the losses experienced by the Democratic Party in 2010 and 2014? In carefully documented case studies of economic policy, health care reform, energy and environmental policy, and immigration reform, Graham asks whether Obama was effective at accomplishing his agenda. Counterfactuals are analyzed to suggest ways that Obama might have been even more effective than he was and at less political cost to his party.
JOHN D. GRAHAM is Dean of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He is author of Bush on the Home Front: Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks (IUP, 2010) and author (with Kristin S. Seefeldt) of America’s Poor and the Great Recession (IUP, 2013). From 2001 to 2006 he served as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, White House Office of Management and Budget.
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—Peter Kenez, author of A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End
INT. AFFAIRS
“In the voluminous secondary literature of the Cold War, Borhi has found important new ground. Borhi’s research in the American and Hungarian archives is thorough, [and] impressively, he has succeeded in placing Hungarian-American relations within the larger topic of Eastern Europe, correctly paying significant attention to economic issues.”
“There are rare books that define an era. Borhi’s Dealing with Dictators is second to none in helping us comprehend the difficult ups and downs of the U.S. – Hungarian bilateral relationship within the larger context of Cold War Central Europe. This is international history writing at its best” —Gunter Bischof, Marshall Plan Professor of History, University of New Orleans
Dealing with Dictators
The United States, Hungary, and East Central Europe, 1942–1989 LÁSZLÓ BORHI, TRANSLATED BY JASON VINCZ
Dealing with Dictators explores America’s Cold War efforts to make the dictatorships of Eastern Europe less tyrannical and more responsive to the country’s international interests. During this period, US policies were a mix of economic and psychological warfare, subversion, cultural and economic penetration, and coercive diplomacy. Through careful examination of American and Hungarian sources, László Borhi assesses why some policies toward Hungary achieved their goals while others were not successful. When George H. W. Bush exclaimed to Mikhail Gorbachev on the day the Soviet Union collapsed, “Together we liberated Eastern Europe and unified Germany,” he was hardly doing justice to the complicated history of the era. The story of the process by which the transition from Soviet satellite to independent state occurred in Hungary sheds light on the dynamics of systemic change in international politics at the end of the Cold War.
LÁSZLÓ BORHI is Scientific Counsellor of the Institute of History Center for Humanities of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences and formerly the holder of the Ránki György Hungarian Chair at Indiana University. He is the author of Hungary in the Cold War, 1945–1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union (2004) and the co-author and co-editor of Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary and Austria, 1944–1948 (forthcoming).
JASON VINCZ, a specialist in Anglo-American and Eastern European literature, holds degrees from Harvard College, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University. Worldwide Rights International Affairs, Political Science Russia and Eastern Europe 560 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
“This is a well-written, well-organized, thorough book. Sayre leads the reader to the conclusion that to avoid catastrophe, humankind must change its fixation on continued economic growth and learn to live sustainably. Sayre writes a short but excellent history of the modern environmental movement highlighting no-growth economics as a future alternative path for humankind.” —Choice
“With unerring logic and science, Kenneth Sayre dissects the origins of the ecological crisis and points to the necessary recalibration of industrial societies with the laws of thermodynamics and ecology. It is a radical book in that he gets to the heart of what ails us, and it charts a course toward a future grounded in authentic hope.” — David W. Orr, Oberlin College
Unearthed
The Economic Roots of Our Environmental Crisis KENNETH M. SAYRE
In Unearthed: The Economic Roots of Our Environmental Crisis, Kenneth M. Sayre argues that the only way to resolve our current environmental crisis is to reduce our energy consumption to a level where the entropy (degraded energy and organization) produced by that consumption no longer exceeds the biosphere’s ability to dispose of it. Tangible illustrations of this entropy buildup include global warming, ozone depletion, loss of species diversity, and unmanageable amounts of nonbiodegradable waste. Economic growth is motivated by social values. Key among them are the desire for wealth and consumer values including gratification, convenience, and acquisition of goods. Sayre maintains that economic growth can be reversed only by eliminating these social values in favor of others more conducive to environmental heath. Eliminating these values will involve major changes in lifestyle within industrial societies generally. Only with such changes in lifestyle, he argues, does human society as we know it have a chance of survival. Clearly written and thoroughly documented, this book provides a comprehensive overview of our complex environmental predicament.
KENNETH M. SAYRE is professor of philosophy and director of the Philosophic Institute at the University
of Notre Dame. He is the author of numerous books ranging in topic from Plato to cybernetics to public values. His books include Values in the Electric Power Industry (1977), Plato’s Literary Garden (1995), and Parmenides’ Lesson (1997), all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
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—Lisa H. Newton, Fairfield University
“This book offers critical insight into the role businesses must play in cooperation with governments, the United Nations, and civil society to develop more sustainable and healthy societies. Sustainable Development eloquently captures the unmistakable correlation between the private sector and the common good: where equality, human rights and ethics thrive, so too does business.”
SOCIAL SCIENCE
“The United Nations Global Compact is a major initiative in the worldwide effort to ensure the fair distribution of the enormous wealth generated by the globalization of corporate capitalism, an initiative of interest to all nations, corporations public and private, and the present and future citizens of the world. This volume comprises original contributions from the foremost scholars in the field. These papers are the state of the art in the scholarly examination of the international efforts on the part of private enterprise to assist in economic development and forging peace.”
—Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact
Sustainable Development
The UN Millennium Development Goals, the UN Global Compact, and the Common Good EDITED BY OLIVER F. WILLIAMS, C.S.C.
For business to flourish, society must flourish. In today’s global economy, business serves the common good not only by producing goods and services but also by reaching out to the many who are not even in the market because they lack marketable skills and the resources to acquire them. Sustainable Development: The UN Millennium Development Goals, the UN Global Compact, and the Common Good contains twenty-two essays that document the work of Western companies, working through the UN Global Compact and its Principles of Responsible Investment and the Principles for Responsible Management Education, to shape more peaceful and just societies. Seven case studies by leading businesses and private-public partnerships—including Microsoft, Merck, Sumitomo Chemical, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Novartis, and Levi Strauss—outline their projects, especially those advancing the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) designed to alleviate dire poverty. Twelve chapters reflect on some of the conceptual issues involved with the MDGs, and the three concluding essays examine the future of the UN Global Compact, of the Millennium Development Goals, and of the role of business enterprise in society.
OLIVER F. WILLIAMS, C.S.C., is director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business and associate professor of management at the University of Notre Dame.
CONTRIBUTORS: Bishop Kevin Dowling, C.Ss.R., Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., Daniel Bross, Themba L. Moeti,
Innocent Chingombe, Godfrey Musuka, Scott Mitchell, John Bee, Holly Hermes, York Lunau, Kirk O. Hanson, Georges Enderle, Douglass Cassel, Daniel Malan, Philip Parham, Hal Culbertson, James S. O’Rourke, IV, Deborah Rigling Gallagher, Mark R. Kennedy, Ante Glavas, Thomas J. Harvey, Gerald F. Cavanagh, S.J., Eric Hespenheide, Arvid C. Johnson, and Sandra Waddock.
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FICTION
“Although the stories in Scott Russell Sanders’s new collection, Dancing in Dreamtime, often portray futuristic worlds, they always hold a mirror to our contemporary society in a way that allows us to see ourselves and our present time more clearly. Wildly imaginative and haunting, these stories are the stuff of dreams, yes, but they also have much to show us about who we are in the here and now.” —Lee Martin, author of The Bright Forever
“As these enchanting stories examine how technologies and advancements disconnect us and create chaos, Sanders always shows that we will persevere with our own kind of hope, our own kind of love, and our own kind of heart.” —Lucas Southworth, author of Everyone Here Has a Gun
“The stories in Dancing in Dreamtime are familiar enough to make your heart ache and new enough to feel fresh and wondrous. Here you will find people connecting and falling apart as people have always connected and fallen apart, but beneath a fantastical and occasionally terrifying sky.” —Carmen Maria Machado
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Dancing in Dreamtime SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
Fans today may be surprised to learn Scott Russell Sanders was previously one of the brightest science-fiction newcomers of the 1980s. In Dancing in Dreamtime, he returns to his roots, exploring both inner and outer space in a speculative collection of short stories. At a time when humankind faces unprecedented, globalscale challenges from climate change, loss of biodiversity, dwindling vital resources, and widespread wars, this collection of planetary tales will strike a poignant chord with the reader. Sanders has created worlds where death tolls rise due to dream deprivation, where animals only exist in mechanical form, and where poisoned air forces people to live in biodomes. Never before has Sanders’s writing been so relevant and never before have the lessons in these stories been so important.
SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS is the author of 20 books of fiction and nonfiction. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University Bloomington.
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—Kirkus Reviews
“The ever-present, everyday magic in Stalcup’s debut collection overlays the mundane world like mist and blurs the lines between the prosaic and the fantastic, in stories that examine life and loss. . . Stalcup’s fabulist prose-poetry takes readers on tours of today’s dreams and Nikola Tesla’s memories, her writing surreal but solid enough for the reader to lean against.”
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“An engaging collection that takes on the love and loneliness lurking in the bright lights and shadowed corners of the everyday.”
—Publishers Weekly
“In Erin Stalcup’s And Yet It Moves, science, physics, and electricity (the reliably immutable phenomena that connect our universe) are the background for short stories of startling human disconnection and alienation . . . The beauty in each story is that, though alienation has become the default in each character’s life, the desire to connect is ever present, like a beating heart, no matter how bruised.” —ForeWord Reviews
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And Yet It Moves ERIN STALCUP
In this exquisite debut short story collection, people with unusual jobs and lives embark on extraordinary journeys. A taboo romance breaks the laws of gravity. Albert Einstein writes letters to the daughter he abandoned. A female physicist meets Stephen Hawking in a bar. . . . In the closing novella, All Those Stairs, an elevator operator with a genius IQ rides up and down all day enclosed in a metal box. Author Erin Stalcup explores these lives with remarkable compassion, depth, and insight examining loss and longing, and how our bodies and minds can be both weighted and freed. And Yet It Moves is a powerful combination of both absurdist and realist—stories that literally defy gravity.
ERIN STALCUP’s fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Sun, H_NGM_N, Hobart, [PANK], and elsewhere.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
“This book is a treasure trove of insightful, realtime commentaries from a consummate legislator highly respected by members of both parties. Hamilton’s observations could not be more relevant today, as they illustrate how the political process can, in fact, be made to work; and that thoughtful, principled compromise in both the legislative and executive branches is a lynchpin for producing solutions and the best possible policy for America’s future.” —Senator Olympia Snowe
“If you want an inside look at how the federal government really works, read this powerful book.” —David Ignatius, Columnist, The Washington Post
At once encouraging and enlightening, his writings stir hope, and what he says is still important all these years later. . . . The book—essentially an encapsulation of the author’s philosophy of politics and politicians—is a good choice for those who want to believe in government again.” —Kirkus Reviews
Congress, Presidents, and American Politics Fifty Years of Writings and Reflections LEE H. HAMILTON
When Lee H. Hamilton joined Congress in 1965 as a US Representative from southern Indiana, he began writing commentaries for his constituents describing his experiences, impressions, and developing views of what was right and wrong in American politics. He continued to write regularly throughout his 34 years in office and up to the present. Lively and full of his distinctive insights, Hamilton’s essays provide vivid accounts of national milestones over the past fifty years: from the protests of the Sixties, the Vietnam War, and the Great Society reforms, through the Watergate and Iran-Contra affairs, to the post-9/11 years. Hamilton offers frank and sometimes surprising reflections on Congress, the presidency, and presidential character from Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama. He argues that there are valuable lessons to be learned from past years, when Congress worked better than it does now. Offering history, politics, and personal reflections all at once, this book will appeal to everyone interested in understanding America of the 20th and 21st centuries.
LEE H. HAMILTON served Indiana in the US House of Representatives from 1965 to 1999. One of the nation’s
foremost experts on Congress, foreign policy, intelligence, and national security, he served as vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, co-chairman of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, and a member of the CIA External Advisory Board. He continues to play a leading role in public affairs and is currently a member of the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. Hamilton is Professor of Practice in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Distinguished Scholar in the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
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—John H. Morrow Jr., author of The Great War: An Imperial History
WAR & MILITARY
“An outstanding piece of research and writing . . . This study fills a critical gap in our understanding of the development of air arms during the first half of the 20th century.”
Broken Wings
The Hungarian Air Force, 1918–45 STEPHEN RENNER
Drawing upon a wealth of previously untranslated documents, Broken Wings tells how a European nation built an entire air force in secret. Carved up and banned from having a military air service after World War I, Hungary became determined to rearm itself. In the early 1920s, Allied inspectors were evaded and obstructed at every turn; great efforts were made to stockpile equipment from the Great War; and the Hungarian government promoted the development of commercial aviation, partly as a front for military flight operations. The clandestine rearmament program could not depend on manufacturing at home but instead secretly accepted whichever planes Italy and Germany would sell them. During the late 1930s, the Hungarian air force went from operating as a secret branch of the army to an independent modernizing force in its own right. Hungarian air power played a great role in a victorious border skirmish with Slovakia in 1939. The cost of the reemergence of the Hungarian air force, however, was heavy: growing Nazi influence over the country, as Germany increasingly supplied aircraft and training. Inevitably, Hungary entered the Second World War on the side of the Axis in 1941, with its air force soon dwindling in independence and effectively becoming a Luftwaffe auxiliary force. Called back home to defend Hungary from incessant Allied bombings, the Hungarian air force ended the Second World War much as they had the First—salvaging aircraft parts from downed invaders and fighting until they no longer had airfields from which to operate.
STEPHEN RENNER is Vice Commander, 355th Fighter Wing, United States Air Force and Professor of
Comparative Military Studies at the United States Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. He is a career A-10 pilot who commanded the 25th Fighter Squadron at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, and has deployed to Bosnia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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MIDDLE EAST
“A rare blast of cogent analysis, reliable information, and just good sense about an issue desperately in need of all three.” —Eric Alterman, The Nation
“Concise but encyclopedic, this superb reference guide is a book no one interested in what is one of our most central political issues today can afford to miss.” —Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita of English, Stanford University
“The book empowers readers to be informed participants in conversations and debates about developments that increasingly touch all of our lives. Its sixty concise but detailed essays give facts and arguments to assist all who seek justice for both Israelis and Palestinians and who believe the two-state solution can yet be realized.” —European Association for Jewish Studies
Dreams Deferred
A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel CARY NELSON
Dreams Deferred arrives as debates about the future of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensify under the extraordinary pressure of a region in chaos. The book empowers readers to be informed participants in conversations and debates about developments that increasingly touch all of our lives. Its sixty concise but detailed essays give facts and arguments to assist all who seek justice for both Israelis and Palestinians and who believe the two-state solution can yet be realized. Inspired both by the vision of a democratic Jewish state and by the need for Palestinian political self-determination, the book addresses the long history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its current status. It demonstrates that the division and suspicion promoted by the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment (BDS) movement will only undermine the cause of peace.
CARY NELSON, Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author or editor of 30 books. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
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“Shoup’s novel is most compelling in its historical portrayal of university life in the turbulent 1960s . . .”
“Fans of Jeffrey Eugenides or Tatiana de Rosnay will appreciate her ability to capture the spirit of a time and place while asking serious social questions. However politically minded, though, this poignant and stirring novel is at its root a moving and passionate love story.”
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—Library Journal
—Booklist
“Barbara Shoup has written a rich and timely story about one generation’s outrage and the long reverberations of secrets. Her plot has much to say about the tangle of responsibility and how an ill-advised war disrupts an intricate network of ordinary American lives. A striking and memorable novel warm, sage, and beautifully written.” —Joan Silber, novelist and National Book Award finalist for Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
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An American Tune BARBARA SHOUP
While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the ‘60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. An American Tune moves back and forth in time, telling the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who fled town after she was complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she became, a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An achingly poignant account of a family crushed under the weight of suppressed truths, now available as a Break Away Book Club Edition, An American Tune illuminates the irrevocability of our choices and how those choices come to compose the tune of our lives.
BARBARA SHOUP is author of seven novels and coauthor of two books about the creative process. Shoup is executive director of the Indiana Writers Center and in 2012 was the regional winner of the Indiana Authors Award.
Worldwide rights Fiction 328 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
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RELIGION
“With this work, Muhsin J. al-Musawi . . . has produced perhaps the ultimate expression of his long interest in medieval and premodern Islamic culture—a ground-breaking comprehensive and rigorous study of that period’s Arabic literary heritage and ‘cultural capital ,’ in which he unearths a dynamic and diverse ‘Republic of Letters’ . . . . This is a tremendously important work of scholarship that will enthrall many readers around the world, within and outside academia.” —Magazine of Modern Arab Literature
“The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters will be the starting point for a new generation of scholarship on this six-hundred-year ‘republic of letters’ that stretched from India to North Africa.” — Suzanne P. Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters Arabic Knowledge Construction MUHSIN J. AL-MUSAWI
In The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, Muhsin J. al-Musawi offers a groundbreaking study of literary heritage in the medieval and premodern Islamic period. Al-Musawi challenges the paradigm that considers the period from the fall of Baghdad in 1258 to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1919 as an “Age of Decay” followed by an “Awakening” . His sweeping synthesis debunks this view by carefully documenting a “republic of letters” in the Islamic Near East and South Asia that was vibrant and dynamic, one varying considerably from the generally accepted image of a centuries-long period of intellectual and literary stagnation. Al-Musawi argues that the massive cultural production of the period was not a random enterprise: instead, it arose due to an emerging and growing body of readers across Islamic lands who needed compendiums, lexicons, and commentaries to engage with scholars and writers. Scholars, too, developed their own networks to respond to each other and to their readers. Rather than addressing only the elite, this culture industry supported a common readership that enlarged the creative space and audience for prose and poetry in standard and colloquial Arabic. Works by craftsmen, artisans, and women appeared side by side with those by distinguished scholars and poets.
MUHSIN J. AL-MUSAWI is professor of Arabic and comparative studies at Columbia University.
Worldwide Rights Religion - Islam, Middle East 480 pages, 6 x 9
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—Library Journal
“Not a Muslim himself, Wagner respectfully and pedagogically brings Christians, Jews, and others to a careful selection of representative texts, to their contexts, and to their meaning and relevance. A better book for its important purpose is hard to imagine.”
RELIGION
“For non-Muslim, English-speaking readers of the Qur’an who become overwhelmed and perplexed, Wagner . . . comes to the rescue. . . . This is a wellresearched, thoughtful, and fair-minded treatment. Highly recommended.
—Review for Religious
“With clear, empathetic, religiously sensitive yet historical-critical commentary, Opening the Qur’an makes sense of Islam’s holy book. Wagner is a rare guide: a committed Christian who has listened carefully and sympathetically to Muslims, who understand the Quran as God’s word. This is more than a work of scholarship and pedagogy; it is an act of respect from one great tradition to another.” —Alan Mittleman, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Opening the Qur’an
Introducing Islam’s Holy Book WALTER H. WAGNER
Opening the Qur’an can be a bewildering experience to non-Muslim, English-speaking readers. Those who expect historical narratives, stories, or essays on morals are perplexed once they pass the beautiful first Surah, often shocked and then bogged down by Surah 2, and even offended by Surah 3’s strictures against nonbelievers. Walter H. Wagner “opens” the Qur’an by offering a comprehensive and extraordinarily readable, step-by-step introduction to the text, making it accessible to students, teachers, clergy, and general readers interested in Islam and Islam’s holy Book. Wagner first places the prophet Muhammad, the Qur’an, and the early Muslim community in their historical, geographical, and theological contexts. This background is a basis for interpreting the Qur’an and understanding its role in later Muslim developments as well as for relationships between Muslims, Jews, and Christians. He then looks in detail at specific passages, moving from cherished devotional texts to increasingly difficult and provocative subjects. The selected bibliography serves as a resource for further reading and study. Woven into the discussion are references to Islamic beliefs and practices. Wagner shows great sensitivity toward the risks and opportunities for non-Muslims who attempt to interpret the Qur’an, and sympathy in the long struggle to build bridges of mutual trust and honest appreciation between Muslims and non-Muslims.
WALTER H. WAGNER is adjunct professor of theology at Moravian College and Moravian Theological Seminary. Worldwide Rights Religion - Islam, Comparative Religion 568 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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HISTORY
“Historiographer Black generally attempts to avoid emotion, ‘an abstraction that means smashing living babies’ skulls against walls,’ in writing about ultimately incomprehensible genocide. . . A compact and cogent academic account of the Holocaust.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Black has produced a balanced and precise work that is true to the scholarship, comprehensive yet not overwhelming, clearly written and beneficial for the expert and informed public alike.” —Jewish Book Council
“Jeremy Black has a remarkable ability to present complex subjects concisely and perceptively. This work convincingly establishes the Holocaust in three contexts: the development of anti-Semitism in modern Europe, the large-scale cooperation of nonGermans in the processes of genocide, and above all the combination of vicious ideology and institutional dissonance that directly shaped the Third Reich’s implementation of the Final Solution.” —Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler’s Panzers
The Holocaust
History and Memory JEREMY BLACK
Brilliant and wrenching, The Holocaust: History and Memory tells the story of the brutal mass slaughter of Jews during World War II and how that genocide has been remembered and misremembered ever since. Taking issue with generations of scholars who separate the Holocaust from Germany’s military ambitions, historian Jeremy Black demonstrates persuasively that Germany’s war on the Allies was entwined with Hitler’s war on Jews. As more and more territory came under Hitler’s control, the extermination of Jews became a major war aim, particularly in the east, where many died and whole Jewish communities were exterminated in mass shootings carried out by the Germany army and collaborators long before the extermination camps were built. Rommel’s attack on Egypt was a stepping stone to a larger goal—the annihilation of 400,000 Jews living in Palestine. After Pearl Harbor, Hitler saw America’s initial focus on war with Germany rather than Japan as evidence of influential Jewish interests in American policy, thus justifying and escalating his war with Jewry through the Final Solution. And the German public knew. In chilling detail, Black unveils compelling evidence that many everyday Germans must have been aware of the genocide around them. In the final chapter, he incisively explains the various ways that the Holocaust has been remembered, downplayed, and even dismissed as it slips from horrific experience into collective consciousness and memory. Essential, concise, and highly readable, The Holocaust: History and Memory bears witness to those forever silenced and ensures that we will never forget their horrifying fate.
JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books including
Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance (IUP, 2015), Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures (IUP, 2015); and Clio’s Battles: Historiography in Practice (IUP, 2015).
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Worldwide Rights Holocaust, European History 224 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
MUSIC
“There has never been a book-length study of Strauss and Mahler, and the reasons are manifold and—now—mostly unnecessary. This book considers the parallel lives of the two greatest Austro-German composers of the late19th and early-20th century, and does so with great eloquence.” —Bryan Gilliam, author of Rounding Wagner’s Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera
Mahler and Strauss In Dialogue
CHARLES YOUMANS A rare and unique case among history’s great music contemporaries, Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) and Richard Strauss (1864–1949) enjoyed a close friendship until Mahler’s death in 1911. Unlike similar musical pairs (Bach and Handel, Haydn and Mozart, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), these two composers may have disagreed on the matters of musical taste and social comportment, but deeply respected one another’s artistic talents, freely exchanging advice from the earliest days of professional apprenticeship through the security and aggravations of artistic fame. Using a wealth of documentary material, this book reconstructs the 24-year relationship between Mahler and Strauss through collage—“a meaning that arises from fragments,” to borrow Adorno’s characterization of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Fourteen different topics, all of central importance to the life and work of the two composers, provide distinct vantage points from which to view both the professional and personal relationships. Some address musical concerns: Wagnerism, program music, intertextuality, and the craft of conducting. Others treat the connection of music to related disciplines (philosophy, literature), or to matters relevant to artists in general (autobiography, irony). And the most intimate dimensions of life—childhood, marriage, personal character—are the most extensively and colorfully documented, offering an abundance of comparative material. This integrated look at Mahler and Strauss discloses provocative revelations about the two greatest western composers at the turn of the 20th century.
CHARLES YOUMANS is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Penn State University and author of Richard Strauss’s Orchestral Music and the German Intellectual Tradition: The Philosophical Roots of Musical Modernism (IUP, 2005).
Worldwide Rights Music, Biography 256 pages, 10 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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SCIENCE
“Darwin in the Twenty-First Century aims to present ‘new reflections that anticipate the future of scientific and philosophical inquiry about evolution,’ rather than giving an overview of all issues discussed in the conference or beyond. The volume focuses on present and future developments within evolutionary science and the impact on, and relation to, the humanities. These are central and the most exciting questions, and the volume gives multiple answers to how the discourse could be shaped in the future, both scientifically and from the perspective of the humanities.” — Hille Haker, Loyola University Chicago
“This volume presents the best scholarship available on the present and future developments in evolutionary science and its implications for the humanities. It will reward careful study by evolutionary biologists and social scientists, but also philosophers and theologians—or indeed, by any reflective person seeking to be informed about up-to-date analysis of its three main topics: Nature, Humanity, and God. It is a must read for anyone who wishes to be informed about the interpretation of Darwin in the twenty-first century.” — Stephen J. Pope, Boston College
Darwin in the Twenty-First Century Nature, Humanity, and God
EDITED BY PHILLIP R. SLOAN, GERALD MCKENNY, AND KATHLEEN EGGLESON This collection of essays originated in conferences held at the Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of Notre Dame to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. These essays, by leading scholars, assess the continuing relevance of Darwin’s work from the perspectives of biological science, history, philosophy, and theology. The contributors focus on three primary areas: developments in evolutionary biology that open up new ground for interdisciplinary dialogue; reflections on human evolution, with a particular focus on evolution and ethics; and new reflections on theology and evolution, particularly from a Roman Catholic perspective, drawing both on traditional perspectives and on new currents in Catholic theology.
PHILLIP R. SLOAN is professor emeritus in the Program of Liberal Studies and the graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. GERALD MCKENNY is the Walter Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. KATHLEEN EGGLESON is a research scientist with the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) and concurrent assistant professor with the ESTEEM (Engineering, Science, and Technology Entrepreneurship Excellence Master’s) Program at the University of Notre Dame.
Worldwide Rights Biological Science 480 pages, 6 x 9
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—U.S. Catholic
“The Case of Galileo offers an accessible overview of the controversy in its time. . . . Fantoli’s overview of the evidence here will offer interested readers a useful point of entry into the early modern controversy.”
SCIENCE
“For readers with a desire to uncover more than the familiar, but inaccurate, narrative of the Galileo case as one of science versus faith, Fantoli thoroughly examines the exact issues Galileo, his allies, and his critics confronted.”
—Comitatus
“This sage, sensitive account of one of the most infamous trials in history brims with new insights. Annibale Fantoli, uniquely qualified to explore the intricacies and implications of the case, has a finger on Galileo’s pulse throughout the ordeal of his accusation and condemnation. Equally gripping is the author’s depiction of the ongoing conflict between science and faith—the very struggle Galileo tried to avert—and what it portends for the future.” —Dava Sobel, author of Galileo’s Daughter and A More Perfect Heaven
The Case of Galileo A Closed Question?
ANNIBALE FANTOLI, TRANSLATED BY GEORGE V. COYNE, S.J. The “Galileo Affair” has been the locus of various and opposing appraisals for centuries: some view it as an historical event emblematic of the obscurantism of the Catholic Church, opposed a priori to the progress of science; others consider it a tragic reciprocal misunderstanding between Galileo, an arrogant and troublesome defender of the Copernican theory, and his theologian adversaries, who were prisoners of a narrow interpretation of scripture. In The Case of Galileo: A Closed Question? Annibale Fantoli presents a wide range of scientific, philosophical, and theological factors that played an important role in Galileo’s trial, all set within the historical progression of Galileo’s writing and personal interactions with his contemporaries. Fantoli traces the growth in Galileo Galilei’s thought and actions as he embraced the new worldview presented in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, the epoch-making work of the great Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. Fantoli delivers a sophisticated analysis of the intellectual milieu of the day, describes the Catholic Church’s condemnation of Copernicanism (1616) and of Galileo (1633), and assesses the church’s slow acceptance of the Copernican worldview. Fantoli criticizes the 1992 treatment by Cardinal Poupard and Pope John Paul II of the reports of the Commission for the Study of the Galileo Case and concludes that the Galileo Affair, far from being a closed question, remains more than ever a challenge to the church as it confronts the wider and more complex intellectual and ethical problems posed by the contemporary progress of science and technology. In clear and accessible prose geared to a wide readership, Fantoli has distilled forty years of scholarly research into a fascinating recounting of one of the most famous cases in the history of science. An internationally known Galileo scholar, ANNIBALE FANTOLI is adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Victoria.
Worldwide Rights History of Science 288 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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WAR & MILITARY
“A valuable and unique contribution to the history of both WWI and European fortress war. This work will be cited long after ones on more glamorous subjects have been relegated to library shelves, and in my professional judgment, Tunstall is the only scholar who could have done it.” —Dennis Showalter, author of Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk
Written in Blood
The Battles for Fortress Przemyśl in WWI GRAYDON A. TUNSTALL
Bloodier than Verdun, the battles for Fortress Przemyśl were pivotal to victory on the Eastern Front during the early years of World War I. Control of the fortress changed hands three times during the fall of 1914. In 1915, the Austro-Hungarian armies launched three major offensives to penetrate the Russian encirclement and relieve the 120,000 trapped in the besieged fortress. Drawing on myriad sources, historian Graydon A. Tunstall tells of the impossible conditions facing the garrison: starvation, “horse-meat” diets, deplorable medical care, prostitution, alcoholism, dismal morale, and a failed breakout attempt. By the time the fortress finally fell to the Russians on March 22, 1915, the Hapsburg Army had sustained 800,000 casualties; the Russians, over a million. The fortress, however, had served its purpose. Tunstall argues that the besieged garrison kept the Russian army from advancing farther and obliterating the already weakening Austro-Hungarian forces at the outset of the War to End All Wars.
GRAYDON A. TUNSTALL is Senior Research Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of South Florida and author of Blood in the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915.
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Worldwide Rights War & Military, WW I 376 pages, 11 b&w illus., 9 maps, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
RELIGION
Shari‘a Law and Modern Muslim Ethics EDITED BY ROBERT W. HEFNER Many Muslim societies are in the throes of tumultuous political transitions, and common to all has been heightened debate over the place of shari`a law in modern politics and ethical life. Bringing together leading scholars of Islamic politics, ethics, and law, this book examines the varied meanings and uses of Islamic law, so as to assess the prospects for democratic, plural, and gender-equitable Islamic ethics today. These essays show that, contrary to the claims of some radicals, Muslim understandings of Islamic law and ethics have always been varied and emerge, not from unchanging texts but from real and active engagement with Islamic traditions and everyday life. The ethical debates that rage in contemporary Muslim societies reveal much about the prospects for democratic societies and a pluralist Islamic ethics in the future. They also suggest that despite the tragic violence wrought in recent years by Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq, we may yet see an age of ethical renewal across the Muslim world.
ROBERT W. HEFNER is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and
World Affairs at Boston University. He is editor of Shari‘a Politics: Law and Society in the Modern Muslim World (IUP, 2011).
Worldwide Rights Middle East, Religion 376 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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MUSIC
“Better than anyone else in the field, Allsup explores what a more open, less top-down and hierarchical approach to music teaching and learning (and musical meaning) might look like.” —Paul Woodford, author of Democracy and Music Education
“Writing carefully and compassionately, Allsup’s argument is exquisitely nuanced, playing out slowly, lightly, in a Turneresque pastel watercolor of light and inference. This book is unequivocally an important and essential contribution to music education scholarship.” —Elizabeth Gould, author of Exploring Social Justice: How Music Education Might Matter
Remixing the Classroom
Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education RANDALL EVERETT ALLSUP
In a delightfully self-conscious philosophical “mash-up,” Randall Everett Allsup provides alternatives for the traditional master-apprentice teaching model that has characterized music education. By providing examples across the arts and humanities, Allsup promotes a vision of education that is open, changing, and adventurous at heart. He contends that the imperative of growth at the core of all teaching and learning relationships is made richer, though less certain, when it is fused with a student’s self-initiated quest. In this way, the formal study of music turns from an education in teacher-directed craft and moves into much larger and more complicated fields of exploration. Through vivid stories and evocative prose, Randall Everett Allsup advocates for an open, quest-driven teaching model that has repercussions for music education and the humanities more generally.
RANDALL EVERETT ALLSUP is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at Teachers College Columbia University. He is past chair of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME) and the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) of the Music Education Research Council.
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—Richard Fariña, co-author Megafauna: Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America
PALEONTOLOGY
“Well-written and easy for the non-specialist to understand, this is also a most needed updating of this subject, much in the line of classic works such as Simpson’s The Beginning of the Age of Mammals in South America and Patterson and Pascual’s The Fossil Mammal Fauna of South America.”
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys
The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America DARIN A. CROFT, ILLUSTRATED BY VELIZAR SIMEONOVSKI
South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world’s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that have no close living relatives: armored mammals with tail clubs, saber-toothed marsupials, and even a swimming sloth. We know of the existence of these peculiar species thanks to South America’s rich fossil record, which provides many glimpses of prehistoric mammals and their ecosystems in which they lived. Organized as a “walk through time” and featuring species from 15 important fossil sites, this book is the most extensive and richly illustrated volume devoted exclusively to the Cenozoic mammals of South America. The text is supported by 75 life reconstructions of extinct species in their native habitats, as well as photographs of fossil specimens and the sites highlighted in the book. An annotated bibliography is included for those interested in delving into the scientific literature.
DARIN A. CROFT is Associate Professor of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University and a research
associate at several museums including the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He is an authority on the extinct mammals of South America and has active field programs in the Andes of Chile and Bolivia.
VELIZAR SIMEONOVSKI is an artist based in Chicago who specializes in life reconstructions of extinct
species and visualizations of ancient landscapes. His works have been featured in scientific journals and magazines, in the book Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the Island’s Past, and in museum exhibits in the US and in his home country of Bulgaria.
Worldwide Rights (except China) Natural History 384 pages, 197 color illus., 7 x 10 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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LATIN AMERICAN
“This book makes an important and original contribution to the fields of religion and politics and to the study of human rights and violence in contemporary Latin America. Religion is treated seriously, by authors who really understand it. The book also brings fresh research and a long view to bear on its examination of civil violence and rights. Scholars and students in a range of disciplines—history, anthropology, sociology, political science, and religion—will find this book of great value.” —Frances Hagopian, Harvard University
Religious Responses to Violence
Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present EDITED BY ALEXANDER WILDE
During the past half century, Latin America has evolved from a region of political instability and frequent dictatorships into one of elected governments. Although its societies and economies have undergone sweeping changes, high levels of violence have remained a persistent problem. Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present offers rich resources to understand how religion has perceived and addressed different forms of violence, from the political and state violence of the 1970s and 1980s to the drug traffickers and youth gangs of today. The contributors offer many fresh insights into contemporary criminal violence and reconsider past interpretations of political violence, liberation theology, and human rights in light of new questions and evidence.
ALEXANDER WILDE is research scholar in residence at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, American University. He is co-editor (with Scott Mainwaring) of The Progressive Church in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 1989). CONTRIBUTORS: Alexander Wilde, Daniel H. Levine, Robert Albro, Patrick William Kelly, Virginia Garrard-
Burnett, María Soledad Catoggio, Gustavo Morello, S.J., Rafael Mafei Rabelo Queiroz, Elyssa Pachico, Javier Arellano-Yanguas, Winifred Tate, Robert Brenneman, Andrew Johnson, Amelia Frank-Vitale, and Kimberly Theidon.
Worldwide Rights (excluding Spanish) Political Science, Latin America Studies 480 pages, 6 x 9
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LATIN AMERICAN
“Tracy Beck Fenwick makes a compelling argument about the conditions that either facilitate or retard one of the most important social policy innovations of the contemporary period, which is the turn toward the use of conditional cash transfers to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Her core interest in how different levels of government interact in the provision of social services has become a question of great import. With respect to the recent literatures on decentralization, federalism, and subnational governments in Latin America more generally, Avoiding Governors is by far the most sophisticated attempt yet to integrate municipal governments more directly into the theoretical frameworks we use to study intergovernmental relations.” —Kent Eaton, professor of politics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Avoiding Governors
Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina TRACY BECK FENWICK
With the goal of showing the effect of domestic factors on the performance of poverty alleviation strategies in Latin America, Tracy Beck Fenwick explores the origins and rise of conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) in the region, and then traces the politics and evolution of specific programs in Brazil and Argentina. Utilizing extensive field research and empirical analysis, Fenwick analyzes how federalism affects the ability of a national government to deliver CCTs. One of Fenwick’s key findings is that broad institutional, structural, and political variables are more important in the success or failure of CCTs than the technical design of programs. Contrary to the mainstream interpretations of Brazilian federalism, her analysis shows that municipalities have contributed to the relative success of Bolsa Familia and its ability to be implemented territory-wide. Avoiding Governors probes the contrast with Argentina, where the structural, political, and fiscal incentives for national-local policy cooperation have not been adequate, at least this far, to sustain a CCT program that is conditional on human capital investments. She thus challenges the virtue of what is considered to be a mainly majoritarian democratic system.
TRACY BECK FENWICK is director of the Australian Centre for Federalism and lecturer in political science at the School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University.
Worldwide Rights Political Science, Latin America Studies 296 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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RELIGION
“An important study that provides a good overview of some of the problems and growing pains inherent to modern Jewish philosophizing. Taken as a whole, the book provides an excellent introduction to modern Jewish philosophy.” —Aaron Hughes, author of The Invention of Jewish Identity
“A veritable tour de force and will certainly be greeted as a seminal contribution to the study of modern Jewish thought.” —Paul Mendes-Flohr, author of The Promises and Limitations of Interfaith Dialogue
Judaism and the West
From Hermann Cohen to Joseph Soloveitchik ROBERT ERLEWINE
Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers—Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik—to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically contextualizes Jewish philosophy as part of the West. He teases out the antagonistic and overlapping attempts of Jewish thinkers to elucidate the philosophical and cultural meaning of Judaism when others sought to deny and even expel Jewish influences. By reading the canon of Jewish philosophy in this new light, Erlewine offers insight into how Jewish thinkers used religion to assert their individuality and modernity.
ROBERT ERLEWINE is Associate Professor of Religion at Illinois Wesleyan University. He is author of Monotheism and Tolerance: Recovering a Religion of Reason (IUP, 2009).
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FICTION
The Tortoise in Asia TONY GREY
Based on a popular legend in Gansu, the far western province of China, The Tortoise in Asia recounts the exploits of Marcus, a young Roman centurion schooled in the Greek classics who, after a devastating loss in a battle with the Parthians, is taken prisoner, marched along the Silk Road, and pressed into service as a border guard on the eastern frontier. After a daring escape, Marcus has many adventures working with the Hun army as a mercenary. Throughout this harrowing journey, Marcus learns about Chinese philosophies, uncovering the startling similarities between these philosophies and those of Greece.
TONY GREY is a Canadian actor who studied classics, history, and law. He was an actor in several television dramas on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and was the lead in one of Canada’s first feature films.
Worldwide rights Fiction 280 pages, 2 maps, 6 x 9
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PHILOSOPHY
“A lucidly written, cogent argument for a bold and original thesis well worth the reader’s serious consideration—a proposal not responsibly ignored. Highly recommended.” —David Baggett, co-author of God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning
“This is a terrific work, in many respects. It is ambitious, clear, engaging, and energetic. The better part of the second half of the book makes some original, positive moves in thinking about values from the standpoint of Christian theism. The material is nuanced, well illustrated with analogies and thought experiments.” —Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College
A Framework for the Good KEVIN KINGHORN
This book provides an ethical framework for understanding the good and how we can experience it in increasing measure. In Part 1, Kevin Kinghorn offers a formal analysis of the meaning of the term “good,” the nature of goodness, and why we are motivated to pursue it. Setting this analysis within a larger ethical framework, Kinghorn proposes a way of understanding where noninstrumental value lies, the source of normativity, and the relationship between the good and the right. Kinghorn defends a welfarist conception of the good along with the view that mental states alone directly affect a person’s well-being. He endorses a Humean account of motivation—in which desires alone motivate us, not moral beliefs —to explain the source of the normative pressure we feel to do the good and the right. Turning to the place of objectivity within ethics, he concludes that the concept of “objective wrongness” is a misguided one, although a robust account of “objective goodness” is still possible. In Part 2, Kinghorn shifts to a substantive, Christian account of what the good life consists in as well as how we can achieve it. Hume’s emphasis of desire over reason is not challenged but rather endorsed as a way of understanding both the human capacity for choice and the means by which God prompts us to pursue relationships of benevolence, in which our ultimate flourishing consists. This original, carefully argued book will interest scholars and graduate students in moral philosophy and philosophy of religion.
KEVIN KINGHORN is professor of philosophy and religion at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is author of The Decision of Faith: Can Christian Beliefs Be Freely Chosen?
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—Jason David Hall, University of Exeter
LITERARY CRITICISM
“The scope and remit of ‘The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances’ position it to make a welcome and timely contribution to scholarship on Seamus Heaney, whose death in 2013 brought to an end over five decades of creative output. Eugene O’Brien’s decision to devote a collection of essays to the later poetry thus promises to fill a gap in ‘Heaney Studies,’ extending coverage and suggesting some new directions in critical methodology.”
“The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances” The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney EDITED BY EUGENE O’BRIEN
“The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances” brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner’s later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaney’s early and middle poems—the Bog Poems in particular—this book focuses on the poetry collected in Heaney’s Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1996), Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010) as a thematically connected set of writings. The starting point of the essays in this collection is that these later poems can be grouped in terms of style, theme, approach, and intertextuality. They develop themes that were apparent in Heaney’s earlier work, but they also break with these themes and address issues that are radically different from those of the earlier collections. This remarkable collection will appeal to scholars and literary critics, undergraduates as well as graduate students, and to the many general readers of Heaney’s poetry.
EUGENE O’BRIEN is senior lecturer in the English Department and director of the Institute for Irish Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose and Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind. CONTRIBUTORS: Eugene O’Brien, Andrew J. Auge, Magdalena Kay, Helen Vendler, Michael Molino, Neil Corcoran, Meg Tyler, Michael Parker, Elmer Kennedy-Andrews, Bernard O’Donoghue, Henry Hart, Richard Rankin Russell, Stephen Regan, Moynagh Sullivan, Daniel Tobin, and Rand Brandes. Worldwide Rights Literary Criticism, History 394 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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“A strong, multi-regional analysis of global liberal governance, its practice, and outcomes. By adopting a critical discursive approach to these questions, these essays challenge conventional narratives about recent operations, both the most turbulent and the most successful.” —Kenneth Omeje, editor of Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region
International Security and Peacebuilding Africa, the Middle East, and Europe EDITED BY ABU BAKARR BAH
The end of the Cold War was to usher in an era of peace based on flourishing democracies and free market economies worldwide. Instead, new wars, including the war on terrorism, have threatened international, regional, and individual security and sparked a major refugee crisis. This volume of essays on international humanitarian interventions focuses on what interests are promoted through these interventions and how efforts to build liberal democracies are carried out in failing states. Focusing on Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, an international group of contributors shows that best practices of protection and international statebuilding have not been applied uniformly. Together the essays provide a theoretical and empirical critique of global liberal governance and, as they note challenges to regional and international cooperation, they reveal that global liberal governance may threaten fragile governments and endanger human security at all levels.
ABU BAKARR BAH is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University. He is author of Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the National-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria and editor-in-chief of African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review.
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—Kirkus Reviews
“The Snowden Reader is a must-read volume for every citizen who cares about protecting our fundamental right to privacy, and ensuring that our nation’s legitimate security needs are kept within the letter and spirit of our Constitution.”
POLITICAL SCIENCE
“An intense examination of whistleblower Edward Snowden that successfully wades through both partisan rhetoric and ideological constraints . . . Fidler’s work is significant because, while events are still playing out, it is actively helping to make sense of this pressing particular American crisis a lot more quickly. An indispensable resource for understanding the Snowden leaks.”
—Bob Barr, former Member, U.S. House of Representatives
The Snowden Reader
EDITED BY DAVID P. FIDLER FOREWORD BY SUMIT GANGULY When Edward Snowden began leaking NSA documents in June 2013, his actions sparked intense debates about electronic surveillance, national security, and privacy in the digital age. The Snowden Reader looks at Snowden’s disclosures and their aftermath. Critical analyses by experts discuss the historical, political, legal, and ethical issues raised by the disclosures. Over forty key documents related to the case are included with introductory notes explaining their significance. Brought together in an accessible format, these include documents leaked by Snowden; responses from the NSA, the Obama administration, and Congress; statements by foreign leaders, their governments, and international organizations; judicial rulings; findings of review committees; and statements by Snowden as the controversies unfolded. This volume provides a valuable introduction and overview for anyone who wants to go beyond the headlines to understand this case.
DAVID P. FIDLER is James Louis Calamaras Professor in the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University. He is author or editor of twelve books, including (with Arturo J. Marcano Guevara) Stealing Lives: The Globalization of Baseball and the Tragic Story of Alexis Quiroz (IUP, 2002).
Contemporary Issues, Political Science Worldwide Rights (except China) 312 pages, 28 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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PHILOSOPHY
“Philosophers and theologians have debated the existence of God for centuries. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews is a truly remarkable book that tries to reshape the debate in a refreshingly new way. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in exploring distinct worldviews and their relations to the existence of God.” —Yujin Nagasawa, University of Birmingham
“There is really no book to compare with God at the Crossroads of Worldviews. There are good books in the different areas of specialization that are involved in the discussion, but no book, to my knowledge, provides a comprehensive, systematic application of the new shift in theories of rationality to the debate on the existence of God between theists and scientific naturalists, and a new way of approaching the Five Ways as a result, which is precisely the original and significant contribution Paul Chung makes in this book.” —Anselm Min, Maguire Distinguished Professor of Religion, Claremont Graduate University
God at the Crossroads of Worldviews
Toward a Different Debate about the Existence of God PAUL SEUNGOH CHUNG
Debates about the existence of God persist but remain at an impasse between opposing answers. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews reframes the debate from a new perspective, characterizing the way these positions have been defined and defended not as wrong, per se, but rather as odd or awkward. Paul Chung begins with a general survey of the philosophical debate regarding the existence of God, particularly as the first cause, and how this involves a bewildering array of often-incommensurable positions that differ on the meaning of key concepts, criteria of justification, and even on where to start the discussion. According to Chung, these positions are in fact arguments both from and against larger, more comprehensive intellectual positions, which in turn comprise a set of rival “worldviews.” Moreover, there is no neutral rationality completely independent of these worldviews and capable of resolving complex intellectual questions, such as that of the existence of God. Building from Alasdair MacIntyre’s writings on rival intellectual traditions, Chung proposes that to argue about God, we must first stand at the “crossroads” of the different intellectual journeys of the particular rival worldviews in the debate, and that the “discovery” of such a crossroad itself constitutes an argument about the existence of God. Chung argues that this is what Thomas Aquinas accomplished in his Five Ways, which are often misunderstood as simple “proofs.” From such crossroads, the debate may proceed toward a more fruitful exploration of the question of God’s existence. Chung sketches out one such crossroad by suggesting ways in which Christianity and scientific naturalism can begin a mutual dialogue from a different direction. God at the Crossroads of Worldviews will be read by philosophers of religion, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and theologians and general readers interested in the new atheism debates.
PAUL SEUNGOH CHUNG is a sessional lecturer at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Worldwide Rights Philosophy 300 pages, 6 x 9
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“Editors Fuentes and Visala have led their contributors in producing a benchmark collection of essays on the contemporary understanding of human nature. Their work engages very different fields of study, from biology and anthropology to theology and philosophy, yet the authors clearly convey the idea that they are dealing with a shared set of questions while making the case for this transdisciplinary approach to the problem. Engaging and accessible, the volume opens up many opportunities for further exploration.” —Robin W. Lovin, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus, Southern Methodist University
Verbs, Bones, and Brains
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature EDITED BY AGUSTÍN FUENTES AND AKU VISALA
The last few decades have seen an unprecedented surge of empirical and philosophical research into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, the origins of the mind/brain, and human culture. This research and its popular interpretations have sparked heated debates about the nature of human beings and how knowledge about humans from the sciences and humanities should be properly understood. The goal of Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature is to engage these themes and present current debates, discussions, and discourse for a range of readers. The contributors bring the discussion to life with key experts outlining major concepts paired with cross-disciplinary commentaries in order to create a novel approach to thinking about, and with, human natures.
AGUSTÍN FUENTES is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. AKU VISALA is a university researcher in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. CONTRIBUTORS: Neil Arner, Susan Blum, Warren Brown, James Calcagno, Kelly James Clark, Celia DeaneDrummond, Agustín Fuentes, Carl Gillett, Douglas Hedley, Tim Ingold, Ian Kuijt, Jonathan Marks, Markus Mühling, Darcia Narvaez, Lluis Oviedo, Grant Ramsey, Phillip R. Sloan, Richard Sosis, Brad D. Straw, Linda Sussman, Robert Sussman, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Aku Visala
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RELIGION
“The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton is an important historic record of the emergence and development of one of the great spiritual writers of the twentieth century and of his long friendship and working relationship with one of the great editors of the time. In these letters, carefully and unobtrusively edited and annotated by Patrick Samway, S.J., we see the ups and downs of Merton’s literary affairs against the background of the rapid changes taking place both in the church and in the world during these years. With the advent of email and the demise of the art of letter writing, this book is a testament to a fast disappearing era and the immense value to be found in the literary and historical records contained in such exchanges.” —Paul M. Pearson, director, Thomas Merton Center
“The Seven Storey Mountain remains a classic that has never been out of print. . . . Fr. Samway’s introduction, footnotes and epilogue enrich the book beautifully.” —The Compass
The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton
EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY PATRICK SAMWAY, S.J.; FOREWORD BY JONATHAN MONTALDO From the time they first met as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the mid-1930s, the noted editor Robert Giroux (1914–2008) and the Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton (1915–1968) became friends. The Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton capture their personal and professional relationship, extending from the time of the publication of Merton’s 1948 best-selling spiritual autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain, until a few months before Merton’s untimely death in December 1968. As editorin-chief at Harcourt, Brace & Company and then at Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Giroux not only edited twenty-six of Merton’s books but served as an adviser to Merton as he dealt with unexpected problems with his religious superiors at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, as well as those in France and Italy. These letters, arranged chronologically, offer invaluable insights into the publishing process that brought some of Merton’s most important writings to his readers. Patrick Samway, S.J., had unparalleled access not only to the materials assembled here but to Giroux’s unpublished talks about Merton, which he uses to his advantage, especially in his beautifully crafted introduction that interweaves the stories of both men with a chronicle of their personal and collaborative relationship. The result is a rich and rewarding volume, which shows how Giroux helped Merton to become one of the greatest spiritual writers of the twentieth century.
PATRICK SAMWAY, S.J., professor emeritus of English at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, is the author or editor/coeditor of twelve books, including Walker Percy: A Life, selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of 1997. Worldwide Rights Religion & Theology, Catholic Studies 408 pages, 6 x 9
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—Samer M. Ali, University of Michigan
RELIGION
“In The Hunt in Arabic Poetry, Jaroslav Stetkevych argues for creative evolution and adaption of a little known and little understood genre. He demonstrates how Arabic poets took a pre-Islamic theme found in the rahil (quest) section of the Arabic ode and transformed it into a powerful rhetoric about wanting and pursuing, evoking the lyricism of yearning, and beyond that to metalanguage. The translations are consistently elegant, mood sensitive, and works of literature in their own right.”
“Jaroslav Stetkevych’s The Hunt in Arabic Poetry is an astounding achievement. Not only does he map the genealogy of the hunt as a poetic preoccupation with a number of thematic and semiotic markers and mechanisms; he also draws a history of cultural complexity through significant temporal signposts that happen to reflect on Arab political and social life. In the end, reading his book is no less than studying Arab cultural history through one significant poetic endeavor that distinguishes it among other cultures.” —Muhsin al-Musawi, Columbia University
The Hunt in Arabic Poetry
From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic JAROSLAV STETKEVYCH
Among the world’s major literary traditions, Arabic poetry is perhaps unique in that the theme of the hunt runs in a continuous, if uneven, current from the pre-Islamic, oral tradition, dating as far back as the fifth century CE, through the coming of Islam in the seventh century and the Umayyad and ’Abbāsid caliphates, ultimately serving as a classical substrate for the radical Modernism of the twentieth century. This striking continuity of theme and motif of the pursuer—the hunter, companions, his steed, hounds, or falcon—and the pursued, whether the prey be oryx, onager, gazelle, hare, quail, or fox, is subject to dramatic transformations of poetic genre, structure, and sensibility throughout the arc of Arab cultural history. Through elegant translations and compelling interpretations, Jaroslav Stetkevych brings this dynamic Arabic tradition fully into the purview of contemporary cultural and humanistic studies. In the chapters of Part I of The Hunt in Arabic Poetry, Stetkevych explores the divergent themes of the heroic and the anti-heroic hunter within the grand genre of archaic Arabic odes and its transformation with the transition to Islam to a poetics of sacrifice and redemption. Part II traces the emergent aesthetics of the free-standing hunt lyric within the courtly culture of the Umayyad and ‘Abbāsid caliphates and the transition from description to imagism, concluding with the appearance of the long narrative hunt poem. Part III moves to the high Modernism of twentieth-century Arab free-verse poets and with it the reemergence of the classical theme of the hunt, now as a metaphor for the Modernist poet’s metapoetic pursuit of the poem itself.
JAROSLAV STETKEVYCH is professor emeritus of Arabic literature at the University of Chicago.
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LATIN AMERICAN
“This crucial book by Wampler sets [Brazil’s practices of participatory democracy] in a necessary broader context not just for Brazil, but for new democracies generally. Wampler’s detailed and clear analysis is based on extensive field research including many interviews with key actors and original survey data.” —Choice
“As inspiring books normally do, Activating Democracy in Brazil offers new insights and raises new questions. It also offers directions on how to reinforce democracy through participation. Its framework should pave the way for cross-regional and country comparisons.” —Latin American Politics and Society
Activating Democracy in Brazil
Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions BRIAN WAMPLER
In 1988, Brazil’s Constitution marked the formal establishment of a new democratic regime. In the ensuing two and a half decades, Brazilian citizens, civil society organizations, and public officials have undertaken the slow, arduous task of building new institutions to ensure that Brazilian citizens have access to rights that improve their quality of life, expand their voice and vote, change the distribution of public goods, and deepen the quality of democracy. Civil society activists and ordinary citizens now participate in a multitude of state-sanctioned institutions, including public policy management councils, public policy conferences, participatory budgeting programs, and legislative hearings. Activating Democracy in Brazil examines how the proliferation of democratic institutions in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has transformed the way in which citizens, CSOs, and political parties work together to change the existing state. According to Wampler, the 1988 Constitution marks the formal start of the participatory citizenship regime, but there has been tremendous variation in how citizens and public officials have carried it out. This book demonstrates that the variation results from the interplay of five factors: state formation, the development of civil society, government support for citizens’ use of their voice and vote, the degree of public resources available for spending on services and public goods, and the rules that regulate forms of participation, representation, and deliberation within participatory venues. By focusing on multiple democratic institutions over a twenty-year period, this book illustrates how the participatory citizenship regime generates political and social change.
BRIAN WAMPLER is professor of political science at Boise State University. He is the author of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability. Worldwide Rights (excluding Spanish) Political Science, Latin America Studies 312 pages, 6 x 9
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—Daniel Vukovich, author of China and Orientation: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC
ASIA
“An original, interdisciplinary, superbly well researched analysis of the PRC under the gun of the global, modern, and Eurocentric ‘IPR regime’ and offers an alternative and to me very compelling way to do cultural studies, bringing the question of culture into relation with the state and nation under globalization.”
“Yang offers a ‘best set of practices’ for cultural studies of global processes and artifacts. Here, particular case studies, examples, and contexts of nation-branding and counterfeit culture are closely and carefully described and then expertly analyzed and critiqued. Yang shows that it is in the realm of culture and cultural production that the workings, problems, and contestations of globalization are most clearly enacted.” —Stephanie DeBoer, Indiana University, author of Coproducing Asia
Faked in China
Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization FAN YANG
Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation branding and counterfeit culture, two manifestations of the globalizing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime that give rise to competing visions for the nation. Nation branding is a state-sanctioned policy, captured by the slogan “From Made in China to Created in China,” which aims to transform China from a manufacturer of foreign goods into a nation that creates its own IPR-eligible brands. Counterfeit culture is the transnational making, selling, and buying of unauthorized products. This cultural dilemma of the postsocialist state demonstrates the unequal relations of power that persist in contemporary globalization.
FAN YANG is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Asia, Cultural Studies Worldwide Rights 256 pages, 7 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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PALEONTOLOGY
“A gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts” —Science
“An excellent encyclopedia that serves as a nice bridge between popular and scholarly dinosaur literature.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Copiously illustrated and scrupulously upto-date . . . the book reveals dinos through the fractious fields that make a study of them.” —Publishers Weekly
“Stimulating armchair company for cold winter evenings. . . . Best of all, the book treats dinosaurs as intellectual fun.” —New Scientist
The Complete Dinosaur Second Edition
EDITED BY M. K. BRETT-SURMAN, THOMAS R. HOLTZ, JR., AND JAMES O. FARLOW What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of dinosaurs tell us about the process of evolution? And why did typical dinosaurs become extinct? All of these questions, and more, are addressed in the new, expanded, second edition of The Complete Dinosaur. Written by many of the world’s leading experts on the “fearfully great” reptiles, the book’s 45 chapters cover what we have learned about dinosaurs, from the earliest discoveries of dinosaurs to the most recent controversies. Where scientific contention exists, the editors have let the experts agree to disagree. Copiously illustrated and accessible to all readers from the enthusiastic amateur to the most learned professional paleontologist, The Complete Dinosaur is a feast for serious dinosaur lovers everywhere.
M. K. BRETT-SURMAN is Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian
Institution.
THOMAS R. HOLTZ, JR., is Senior Lecturer and Director, Earth, Life and Time Program, Department of Geology, University of Maryland.
JAMES O. FARLOW is Professor of Geology at Indiana University–Purdue University at Ft. Wayne.
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—Publishers Weekly
“A clear, largely jargon-free retelling of one of the greatest stories in evolution—the rise of vertebrates—that should have broad appeal. It integrates the facts and principles that underlie evolutionary theory by taking a common-sense approach that doesn’t talk down to the reader.”
SCIENCE
“Bonnan combines wit and passion with the sensibilities of a talented instructor in this encyclopedic tour of the vertebrate skeleton . . . accessible even for those without a background in anatomy.”
—Nicholas Geist, Sonoma State University
“No bones about it, a text like The Bare Bones was sorely needed in the popular literature of vertebrate paleontology. Matthew Bonnan’s tome on the evolution, form, and function of the vertebrate skeleton may seem daunting in size, but it is written in an enjoyable and readable fashion that will absolutely delight all sorts of readers from expert to soon-to-be-expert.” —Palaeontologia Electronica
The Bare Bones
An Unconventional Evolutionary History of the Skeleton MATTHEW F. BONNAN
What can we learn about the evolution of jaws from a pair of scissors? How does the flight of a tennis ball help explain how fish overcome drag? What do a spacesuit and a chicken egg have in common? Highlighting the fascinating twists and turns of evolution across more than 540 million years, paleobiologist Matthew Bonnan uses everyday objects to explain the emergence and adaptation of the vertebrate skeleton. What can camera lenses tell us about the eyes of marine reptiles? How does understanding what prevents a coffee mug from spilling help us understand the posture of dinosaurs? The answers to these and other intriguing questions illustrate how scientists have pieced together the history of vertebrates from their bare bones. With its engaging and informative text, plus more than 200 illustrative diagrams created by the author, The Bare Bones is an unconventional and reader-friendly introduction to the skeleton as an evolving machine.
MATTHEW F. BONNAN is a Vertebrate Paleontologist and Associate Professor of Biology at Stockton University. Bonnan’s research focuses on the evolution of locomotion in sauropod dinosaurs and the functional morphology of forelimb posture in reptiles, birds, and mammals using traditional anatomy and computer-aided modeling.
Science, Paleontology Worldwide Rights (expect Korea and China) 223 b&w illus., 7 x 10 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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MUSIC
“This book puts forth a beautiful account of what it’s like to listen to music.” —Elizabeth Margulis, author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind
“One of the best studies on the role of conceptual metaphor in music comprehension and theory I’ve ever read.” —Mark Johnson, author (with George Lakoff) of Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
Music and Embodied Cognition
Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking ARNIE COX
Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as one that moves us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws upon neuroscience and music theory, phenomenology and cognitive science, Cox advances his theory of the “mimetic hypothesis,” the notion that a large part of our experience and understanding of music involves an embodied imitation in the listener of bodily motions and exertions that are involved in producing music. Through an often unconscious imitation of action and sound, we feel the music as it moves and grows. With applications to tonal and post-tonal Western classical music, to Western vernacular music, and to nonWestern music, Cox’s work stands to expand the range of phenomena that can be explained by the role of sensory, motor, and affective aspects of human experience and cognition.
ARNIE COX is Associate Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. His writings and teaching focus on the relationship between embodiment, affect, metaphor, and musical experience. He has published essays on music and gesture, the role of embodiment in music analysis, and the nature of musical subjectivities. He has been an invited speaker at numerous universities and other venues.
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Schumann’s Virtuosity
Criticism, Composition, and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Germany ALEXANDER STEFANIAK
Considered one of the greatest composers—and music critics—of the Romantic era, Robert Schumann (1818– 1856) played an important role in shaping 19th-century German ideas about virtuosity. Forging his career in the decades that saw a surplus of public fascination with the feats and creations of virtuosos (Liszt, Paganini, and Chopin among others), Schumann engaged with instrumental virtuosity not only through his compositions and performances but also through his music reviews and writings about his contemporaries. Ultimately, virtuosity discourse influenced the culture of Western “art music” well beyond the 19th century and into the present day. By examining previously unexplored archival sources, Alexander Stefaniak looks at the diverse approaches to virtuosity Schumann developed over the course of his career, revealing several distinct currents in 19th-century German virtuosity and the enduring flexibility of virtuosity discourse.
ALEXANDER STEFANIAK is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Washington University in Saint Louis.
Music Worldwide Rights 304 pages, 4 b&w illus., 31 music exx., 6.125 x 9.125 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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ANTHROPOLOGY Impulse to Act
A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice EDITED BY OTHON ALEXANDRAKIS
What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, examining a wide range of activist movements from the December 2008 protests in Greece to the recent chto delat in Russia. Contributors in the first section of this volume highlight the affective dimensions of political movements, charting the various ways in which participants coalesce around and belong to collectives of resistance. The potent agency of movements is highlighted in the second section, where scholars show how the emerging actions and critiques of protesters help disrupt authoritative political structures. Responding to the demands of the field today, the novel approaches to protest movements in Impulse to Act offer new ways to reengage with the traditional cornerstones of political anthropology.
OTHON ALEXANDRAKIS is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at York University. He held the Hannah Seeger Davis Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Hellenic Studies at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, between 2010 and 2011. His recently published works explore resistance, precarity, and political possibility in Athens, Greece.
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Anthropology, History Worldwide Rights 328 pages, 3 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
ANTHROPOLOGY
Humble Theory
Folklore’s Grasp on Social Life DOROTHY NOYES
Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity. It bears the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in; it is necessary but embarrassing. It is not easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been marginal and precarious but also foundational and persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of the people whose practices they study. They attend to local economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the “humble theory” of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on social life in the modern Western world.
DOROTHY NOYES is Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Studies, a faculty
associate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, and past director of the Center for Folklore Studies, all at the Ohio State University. Her books include Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco and the forthcoming Sustainable Interdisciplinarity: Social Research as Social Process, coauthored with Regina Bendix and Kilian Bizer. A Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she teaches courses in folklore and performance theory, American regional cultures, fairy tale, poetry and politics, the cultural history of trash, and cultural diplomacy.
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FILM & MEDIA
“Alternative Projections provides a useful corollary and often a corrective to what has become a somewhat unilateral approach to experimental cinema in the period taken up here.” —Millennium Film Journal
“[T]here are enough examples of ingenuity and achievement contained in this volume to unite a new generation of independent artists, exhibitors, and audiences in maintaining a viable outlet for cinematic creativity in Los Angeles.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Alternative Projections
Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 EDITED BY DAVID E. JAMES AND ADAM HYMAN
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 is a groundbreaking anthology that features papers from a conference and series of film screenings on postwar avant-garde filmmaking in Los Angeles sponsored by Filmforum, the Getty Foundation, and the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, together with newly-commissioned essays, an account of the screening series, reprints of historical documents by and about experimental filmmakers in the region, and other rare photographs and ephemera. The resulting diverse and multi-voiced collection is of great importance, not simply for its relevance to Los Angeles, but also for its general discoveries and projections about alternative cinemas.
DAVID E. JAMES is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. His books include The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. ADAM HYMAN has been Executive Director and Programmer for Los Angeles Filmforum since 2003. A documentary filmmaker, he has produced and/or written a variety of historical and archeological films that have aired on PBS, the History Channel, the Learning Channel, and others.
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FILM & MEDIA
“The book has (an) important overlap with what some of the brightest people in computational neuroscience are saying - that there is a ‘third way’ for brains to work that is not connectionist or language symbol manipulation but something more pictorial that we should all have known about but has been missed. (Wyeth may have to be) content that just a few people may find it rather exciting, (but) what I particularly like about the book is that it points us in a direction with huge scope.” —Journal of Consciousness Studies
The Matter of Vision
Affective Neurobiology & Cinema PETER WYETH
Cinematic analysis has often supported the notion that cinema can be understood by drawing parallels with language. Peter Wyeth contends that this analytical framework often fails to consider the fundamental fact of cinema’s visual nature. In The Matter of Vision, Wyeth seeks to redress this oversight by grounding his analysis in neuroscience and evolutionary biology, finding herein the potential for a qualitatively superior understanding of the cinematic medium.
PETER WYETH is a filmmaker with over 40 years of experience and is recognized internationally for his documentaries.
Worldwide Rights Film and Media 226 pages, 6 x 9
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“A pleasure to read, cover to cover. This book is smartly conceived, and written with elegant and persuasive prose.” —David A. Gerstner, author of Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic
Descended from Hercules
Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen ROBERT A. RUSHING
Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and stopped time, these films instill the hero’s vitality with timelessness admiration and immerse the hero’s body in a world that is lavishly eroticized but without sexual desire. These “sword and sandal” films represent a centurylong cinematic biopolitical intervention that offers the spectator an imagined form of the male body—one free of illness, degeneracy, and the burdens of poverty—that defends goodness with brute strength and perseverance, and serves as a model of ideal citizenry. Robert A. Rushing traces these epic heroes from Maciste in Cabiria in the early silent era to contemporary transnational figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian, and to films such as Zach Snyder’s 300. Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre’s ideological grip on the viewer.
ROBERT A. RUSHING is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he also holds affiliate appointments in Media and Cinema Studies and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. He is author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture and co-editor of Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s.
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Worldwide Rights Film and Media, Gender 248 pages, 20 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu