SUMMER 2017
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Subject Index Africa, 22 Current Affairs, 19 Cultural Studies, 5 European History, 3 Gaming, 13 Literary Criticism, 25 Judicia, 28 Middle East, 18 Music, 11, 24 Nature, 16
Paranormal, 29 Paleontology, 17 Philosophy, 9, 12, 14, 20, 23, 26, 27 Philanthropy, 7 Political Science, 8 Religion, 15, 21 Science, 4 U.S. History, 10 War & Military,6
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—Michael Gove, MP, UK Secretary of State for Environment
EUROPEAN HISTORY
“Jeremy Black is a superlative guide to modern British history. He combines a wonderful narrative style with unimpeachable intellectual authority. if anyone wants to understand how our country has developed over the last seventy years there is no better volume than this.”
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A History of Britain 1945 to Brexit
JEREMY BLACK In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets reeling and global politicians and citizens in shock. But was Brexit really a surprise, or are there clues in Britain’s history that pointed to this moment? In A History of Britain: 1945 to the Brexit, award-winning historian Jeremy Black reexamines modern British history, considering the social changes, economic strains, and cultural and political upheavals that brought Britain to Brexit. This sweeping and engaging book traces Britain’s path through the destruction left behind by World War II, Thatcherism, the threats of the IRA, the Scottish referendum, and on to the impact of waves of immigration from the European Union. Black overturns many conventional interpretations of significant historical events, provides context for current developments, and encourages the reader to question why we think the way we do about Britain’s past.
JEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of many books, including Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures; War and Technology; and Fighting for America: The Struggle for Mastery in North America, 1519– 1871. Black is a recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History.
World (Except China) European History 312 pages, 1 map, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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SCIENCE
“UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens is a model of scientific reasoning, rational analysis, and elegant prose that reveals a phenomenon every bit as interesting as the possibility of alien life landing here on Earth or existing somewhere out there in the cosmos—the fact that we can conceive of such a concept, study it scientifically, and understand that we are part of the universe as evolved sentient beings capable of such sublime thought.” —Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine
UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens What Science Says
DONALD R. PROTHERO AND TIMOTHY D. CALLAHAN FOREWORD BY MICHAEL SHERMER
UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface in Peru. The amazing alignment of the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is alive and well in the American cultural landscape. In UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens, Donald R. Prothero and Tim Callahan explore why such demonstrably false beliefs thrive despite decades of education and scientific debunking. Employing the ground rules of science and the standards of scientific evidence, Prothero and Callahan discuss a wide range of topics including the reliability of eyewitness testimony, psychological research into why people want to believe in aliens and UFOs, and the role conspiratorial thinking plays in UFO culture. They examine a variety of UFO sightings and describe the standards of evidence used to determine whether UFOs are actual alien spacecraft. Finally, they consider our views of aliens and the strong cultural signals that provide the shapes and behaviors of these beings. While their approach is firmly based in science, Prothero and Callahan also share their personal experiences of Area 51, Roswell, and other legendary sites, creating a narrative that is sure to engross both skeptics and believers.
DONALD R. PROTHERO taught college geology and paleontology for 40 years. He is
the author of numerous books and scientific papers including Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future.
TIMOTHY D. CALLAHAN was trained as an artist and worked for more than 20 years in the animation industry. He is the religion editor for Skeptic Magazine.
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World Science, Popular Culture 448 pages, 96 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
CULTURAL STUDIES The Year’s Work in the Punk Bookshelf, Or, Lusty Scripts BRIAN JAMES SCHILL
This is the story of the books punks read and why they read them. The Year’s Work in the Punk Bookshelf challenges the stereotype that punk rock is a bastion of violent, drugaddicted, uneducated drop outs. Brian James Schill explores how, for decades, punk and postpunk subculture has absorbed, debated, and reintroduced into popular culture, philosophy, classic literature, poetry, and avant-garde theatre. Connecting punk to not only Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, but Dostoevsky, Rimbaud, Henry Miller, Kafka, and Philip K. Dick, this work documents and interprets the subculture’s literary history. In detailing the punk bookshelf, Schill contends that punk’s literary and intellectual interests can be traced to the sense of shame (whether physical, socioeconomic, cultural, or sexual) its advocates feel in the face of a shameless market economy that not only preoccupied many of punks’ favorite writers but generated the entire punk polemic.
BRIAN JAMES SCHILL is Undergraduate Research Coordinator for the Honors Program at the University of North Dakota. He teaches media theory, media criticism, and cultural studies, and is Founder and Editor of Agricouture.org.
World Cultural Studies 368 pages, 12 b&w illus., 6.125 x 7 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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WORLD WAR II
“World War II combat correspondent Robert Sherrod is as substantial a hero as the U.S. Marines he so faithfully followed and so convincingly covered during the war in the Pacific. And Ray Boomhower’s Dispatches from the Pacific is as fine a way to make sense of this immense battle tapestry as any book I’ve encountered. A spirited work—and fine reading!” —David Sears, author of Pacific Air: How Fearless Flyboys, Peerless Aircraft, and Fast Flattops Conquered the Skies in the War with Japan
Dispatches from the Pacific
The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod RAY E. BOOMHOWER
In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder with the marines, Sherrod chronicled combat and the marines’ day-to-day struggles as they leapfrogged across the Central Pacific, battling the Japanese on Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. While the marines courageously and doggedly confronted an enemy that at times seemed invincible, those left behind on the American home front desperately scanned Sherrod’s columns for news of their loved ones. Following his death in 1994, the Washington Post heralded Sherrod’s reporting as “some of the most vivid accounts of men at war ever produced by an American journalist.” Now, for the first time, author Ray E. Boomhower tells the story of the journalist in Dispatches from the Pacific: The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod, an intimate account of the war efforts on the Pacific front.
RAY E. BOOMHOWER is interim senior director of the Indiana Historical Society Press. He has written books on the lives of Ernie Pyle, Lew Wallace, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, May Wright Sewall, and John Bartlow Martin. In 2010 he was named winner of the Regional Award in the annual Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards.
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World WW II, Journalism 272 pages, 24 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
PHILANTHROPY
We Come to Life with Those We Serve RICHARD B. GUNDERMAN
What is the most meaningful and rewarding path in life? Many assume we enrich ourselves only by accumulating more wealth, power, and fame, or by finding new and greater forms of pleasure. In reality, we are most enriched not in taking from others but in sharing the best we have to offer through a life of service. The legendary, real-life individuals and the famous literary characters in this inspiring book show us the way: Vincent Van Gogh exemplified service through art, Benjamin Franklin dedicated his life to service of community, and the career of coach John Wooden is apt testimony to the rewards of service through education. Richard B. Gunderman persuasively argues that, far from draining away our vitality, service at its best actually brings us to life.
RICHARD B. GUNDERMAN is Chancellor’s Professor of Radiology, Pediatrics,
Medical Education, Philosophy, Liberal Arts, Philanthropy, and Medical Humanities and Health Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of We Make a Life by What We Give.
World Philanthropy, Sociology 128 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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POLITICAL SCIENCE
“Latinos in New York was the first volume to provide a comprehensive view of the wide range of histories, experiences, and conditions of the changing mix of nationalities of the city’s Latino/a population. This new edition captures the most significant continuities, discontinuities, and changes of the last two decades in the city’s Latino/a population as a whole and among the various national groups, and is as timely and relevant as was the first edition.” — Edna Acosta-Belén, University at Albany, SUNY
Latinos in New York
Communities in Transition, Second Edition
EDITED BY SHERRIE BAVER, ANGELO FALCÓN, AND GABRIEL HASLIPVIERA Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, second edition, is the most comprehensive reader available on the experience of New York City’s diverse Latino population. The essays in Part I examine the historical and sociocultural context of Latinos in New York. Part II looks at the diversity comprising Latino New York. Contributors focus on specific national origin groups, including Ecuadorians, Colombians, and Central Americans, and examine the factors that prompted emigration from the country of origin, the socioeconomic status of the emigrants, the extent of transnational ties with the home country, and the immigrants’ interaction with other Latino groups in New York. Essays in Part III focus on politics and policy issues affecting New York’s Latinos. The book brings together leading social analysts and community advocates on the Latino experience to address issues that have been largely neglected in the literature on New York City. These include the role of race, culture and identity, health, the criminal justice system, the media, and higher education, subjects that require greater attention both from academic as well as policy perspectives.
SHERRIE BAVER is professor of political science at City College of New York. She is
the author and editor of a number of books, including Beyond Sun and Sand: Caribbean Environmentalisms.
ANGELO FALCÓN is president and cofounder of the National Institute for Latino Policy. GABRIEL HASLIP-VIERA is professor of sociology at City College of New York. He
is the author and editor of a number of books, including Race, Identity and Indigenous Politics: Puerto Rican Neo Taínos in the Diaspora and the Island.
Political Science World 482 pages, 6 x 9
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PHILOSOPHY
“What is unique about The Christian Moral Life is that it at once offers a comprehensive treatment of moral theology with the necessary background in theological anthropology, takes an approach based in the virtues, beatitudes, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, and also treats the numerous elements of the law pertinent to the virtues.” — Christopher J. Malloy, University of Dallas
The Christian Moral Life
Directions for the Journey to Happiness JOHN RZIHA
To take a journey, travelers must know where they are, where they are going, and how to get there. Moral theology examines the same three truths. The Christian Moral Life is a handbook for moral theology that uses the theme of a journey to explain its key ethical concepts. First, humans begin with their creation in the image of God. Secondly, the goal of the journey is explained as a loving union with God, to achieve a share in his eternal happiness. Third and finally, the majority of the book examines how to attain this goal. Within the journey motif, the book covers the moral principles essential for attaining true happiness. Based on an examination of the moral methodology in the bible, the book discusses the importance of participating in divine nature through grace in order to attain eternal happiness. It further notes the role of law, virtue, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit in guiding and transforming humans into friends of God, who participate in his happiness. Following this section on moral theology in general, the book analyzes the individual virtues to give more concrete guidance. The entire project builds upon the insights of great Christian thinkers, such as Thomas Aquinas, Thérèse of Lisieux, and John Paul II, to uncover the moral wisdom in scripture and to show people how to be truly happy both in this life and the next. This book will be of great interest to undergraduate students of moral theology, priests and seminarians, parents and teachers seeking to raise and to form happy children, and anyone interested in discovering the meaning of true happiness.
JOHN RZIHA is professor of theology at Benedictine College and author of Perfecting Human Actions: St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Participation in Eternal Law.
Philosophy / Theology World 368 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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U.S. HISTORY
How the U.S. Cavalry Saved Our National Parks H. DUANE HAMPTON
Late in the evening of August 17, 1886, Troop M, First United States Cavalry, marched into Yellowstone National Park, relieved the Park Superintendent of his duties, and inaugurated a new era of national park administration. For 32 years, the cavalry protected the parks and laid the foundations of the National Park Service, saving the parks for the more than 307 million people who now visit each year
H. DUANE HAMPTON was A.B. Hammond Professor of Western History at the University of Montana.
World U.S. History 254 pages, 5.5 x 8.25
Meadow Lake Gold Town
PAUL FATOUT The inhabitants of Meadow Lake, California, dreamed as big as all the gold seekers of the far West, certain that their town, their mine was the "big bonanza." The dream took shape in 1865 when the Meadow Lake region of eastern California became the scene of one of the most feverish stampedes in the history of prospecting. Paul Fatout brings to life the colorful characters who figured in the history of Meadow Lake, telling the story at a sprightly pace and in fascinating detail.
PAUL FATOUT, Professor Emeritus of English at Purdue University, was the author of several books, including Mark Twain in Virginia City.
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World U.S. History 192 pages, 5.5 x 8.25 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
MUSIC
“Even cursory glances at the precursors of the present work show her lifetime odyssey and love affair with her instrument, and make interesting comparisons with one another.” —Notes
Harps and Harpists Revised Edition
ROSLYN RENSCH Revising her classic 1989 book, harp expert Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-andwhite images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition includes two new chapters; an extensive bibliography and index; personal anecdotes of the author’s studies under Alberto Salvi; and an appendix on the Roslyn Rensch Papers and Harp Collection, which are housed at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.
ROSLYN RENSCH, musician and art historian, studied harp with Alberto Salvi and Joseph Vito. She is author of The Harp; The Harp, Its History, Technique and Repertoire; and most recently, Three Centuries of Harpmaking.
World Music 384 pages, 24 color illus., 137 b&w illus., 7 x 10 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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PHILOSOPHY
“These essays offer many beautiful, eloquent, incisive, generative, and moving analyses of place, home, and world. They introduce some new and extremely useful terminologies: cosmopolitan hope, cosmopolitan ignorance, cosmopolitan dreaming, cosmopolitan publics, and cosmopolitan co-habitation.” —Eduardo Mendieta, author of Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory
“The essays in this rich volume challenge many of the standard cultural, moral, and political meanings of cosmopolitanism, especially those of universalism, world citizenship, and global justice.” —Emily Zakin, editor of Bound by the City: Greek Tragedy, Sexual Difference, and the Formation of the Polis
Cosmopolitanism and Place
EDITED BY JESSICA WAHMAN, JOSÉ M. MEDINA, AND JOHN J. STUHR Addressing perspectives about who “we” are, the importance of place and home, and the many differences that still separate individuals, this volume reimagines cosmopolitanism in light of our differences, including the different places we all inhabit and the many places where we do not feel at home. Beginning with the two-part recognition that the world is a smaller place and that it is indeed many worlds, Cosmopolitanism and Place critically explores what it means to assert that all people are citizens of the world, everywhere in the world, as well as persons bounded by a universal and shared morality.
JESSICA WAHMAN is Visiting Research Scholar at Cornell University. JOSÉ M. MEDINA is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. JOHN J. STUHR is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Emory University.
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World Philosophy 384 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
—Mia Consalvo, author of Players and their Pets: Gaming Communities from Beta to Sunset
“A new benchmark for the critical engagement of race, gender and sexuality in the study of video games and virtual representation.”
GAMING
“An important contribution to scholarship in the field of game studies.”
—Robert Alan Brookey, editor of Playing to Win: Sports, Video Games, and the Culture of Play
Gaming Representation
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games
EDITED BY JENNIFER MALKOWSKI AND TREAANDREA M. RUSSWORM Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers are responding to these critiques, but scholarly discussion of representation in games has lagged far behind. Gaming Representation examines portrayals of race, gender, and sexuality in a range of games, from casuals like Diner Dash, to indies like Journey and The Binding of Isaac, to mainstream games from the Grand Theft Auto, BioShock, Spec Ops, The Last of Us, and Max Payne franchises. Arguing that representation and identity function as systems in games that share a stronger connection to code and platforms than it may first appear, the contributors to this volume push gaming scholarship to new levels of inquiry, theorizing, and imagination.
JENNIFER MALKOWSKI is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Smith
College. Her research areas include digital media; documentary; race, gender, and sexuality in media; and death and dying. She is the author of Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary.
TREAANDREA M. RUSSWORM is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she teaches classes on digital media, race, and popular culture. She is coeditor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry and author of Blackness is Burning: Civil Rights, Popular Culture, and the Problem of Recognition.
World Film & Media, Gaming 336 pages, 27 color illus., 1 table, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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PHILOSOPHY
“Concise, fresh, and energetic, this kind of book can only be written by someone like Bernard Freydberg who displays deep perspective and mastery of the material, thinks quickly and efficiently, and writes with great clarity and wit.” —Jason M. Wirth, author of Schelling’s Practice of the Wild
“Bernard Freydberg’s purpose is to rewrite the history of modern philosophy focusing on the various ways each thinker is given to think in relation to darkness or the abyss. These dark sources throb beneath the surface of the contemporary Continental tradition.” —Robert D. Metcalf, University of Colorado at Denver.
A Dark History of Modern Philosophy BERNARD FREYDBERG
Delving beneath the principal discourses of philosophy from Descartes through Kant, Bernard Freydberg plumbs the previously concealed dark forces that ignite the inner power of modern thought. He contends that reason itself issues from an implicit and unconscious suppression of the nonrational. Even the modern philosophical concerns of nature and limits are undergirded by a dark side that dwells in them and makes them possible. Freydberg traces these dark sources to the poetry of Hesiod, the fragments of Heraclitus and Parmenides, and the Platonic dialogues and claims that they rear their heads again in the work of Spinoza, Schelling, and Nietzsche. Freydberg does not set forth a critique of modern philosophy but explores its intrinsic continuity with its ancient roots.
BERNARD FREYDBERG is Scholar in Residence at Duquesne University. He is author of Imagination in Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (IUP) and Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros (IUP).
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World Philosophy 152 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
RELIGION
Healing the Nation
Literature, Progress, and Christian Science L. ASHLEY SQUIRES
Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the 20th century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture. Mary Baker Eddy’s Church of Christ, Scientist was one of the fastest growing and most controversial religious movements in the United States, and it is no accident that its influence touched the lives and work of many American writers, including Frances Hodgson Burnett, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, and Mark Twain. Squires focuses on personal stories of sickness and healing—whether supportive or deeply critical of Christian Science’s recommendations— penned in a moment when the struggle between religion and science framed debates about how the United States was to become a modern nation. As outsized personalities and outlandish rhetoric took to the stage, Squires examines how the poorly understood Christian Science movement contributed to popular narratives about how to heal the nation and advance the cause of human progress.
L. ASHLEY SQUIRES teaches American Literature and Culture in a liberal arts program at the New Economic School in Moscow, Russia.
World Religion 232 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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NATURE
“Hollis Taylor has given us one of the most serious books ever written on animal music. Is Birdsong Music? is so engaging that all who care about humanity’s place on Earth should read it. We are certainly not the only musicians on this planet.” —David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing
“One of the best books ever on birdsong— perhaps the best.” —Dominique Lestel, author of L’animal est l’avenir de l’homme
Is Birdsong Music?
Outback Encounters with an Australian Songbird HOLLIS TAYLOR
How and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two? Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an outback road trip to meet the Australian pied butcherbird. Recognized for their distinct timbre, calls, and songs, both sexes of this songbird sing in duos, trios, and even larger choirs, transforming their flute-like songs annually. While birdsong has long inspired artists, writers, musicians, and philosophers, and enthralled listeners from all walks of life, researchers from the sciences have dominated its study. As a field musicologist, Taylor spends months each year in the Australian outback recording the songs of the pied butcherbird and chronicling their musical activities. She argues persuasively in these pages that their inventiveness in song surpasses biological necessity, compelling us to question the foundations of music and confront the remarkably entangled relationship between human and animal worlds. Equal parts nature essay, memoir, and scholarship, Is Birdsong Music? offers vivid portraits of the extreme locations where these avian choristers are found, quirky stories from the field, and an in-depth exploration of the vocalizations of the pied butcherbird.
HOLLIS TAYLOR is Research Fellow at Macquarie University. A violinist/composer,
ornithologist, and author, her work confronts and revises the study of birdsong, adding the novel reference point of a musician’s trained ear.
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World Nature, Music 360 pages, 13 b&w illus., 34 music exx., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
—Copeia, reviewing a previous edition
PALEONTOLOGY
“Oceans of Kansas remains the best and only book of its type currently available. Everhart’s treatment of extinct marine reptiles synthesizes source materials far more readably than any other recent, nontechnical book-length study of the subject.”
“Those who are interested in vertebrate paleontology or in the scientific history of the American mid-west should really get a copy. You will not be disappointed!” —PalArch’s Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, reviewing a previous edition
Oceans of Kansas
A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea Second Edition MICHAEL J. EVERHART
Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later. Michael J. Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived—above, within, and on the shores of America’s ancient inland sea.
MICHAEL J. EVERHART, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning “Oceans of Kansas” paleontology website at www.oceansofkansas.com. He lives in Derby, Kansas.
World Paleontology 704 pages, 220 color illus., 7 x 10 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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MIDDLE EAST
In an era when vitriol has replaced reasoned discourse in discussions of Israel, this volume – thoughtful, balanced and comprehensive – is cause for celebration. The wide array of essays by leading academics and scholars provides both an accessible introduction to newcomers to the field of Israel studies as well as a thought-provoking collection even for seasoned participants in the conversation.” —Daniel Gordis, Shalem College, Author of Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
“Essential Israel ought be required reading for everyone seeking to deepen their understanding of Israeli society in the 21st century.” —David Harris, American Jewish Committee, CEO
Essential Israel
Essays for the 21st Century
EDITED BY S. ILAN TROEN AND RACHEL FISH Most Americans are ill-prepared to engage thoughtfully in the increasingly serious debate about Israel, its place in the Middle East, and its relations with the United States. Essential Israel examines a wide variety of complex issues and current concerns in historical and contemporary contexts to provide readers with an intimate sense of the dynamic society and culture that is Israel today. The expert contributors to this volume address the ArabIsraeli conflict, the state of diplomatic efforts to bring about peace, Zionism and the impact of the Holocaust, the status of the Jewish state and Israeli democracy, foreign relations, immigration and Israeli identity, as well as literature, film, and the other arts. This unique and innovative volume provides solid grounding to understandings of Israel’s history, politics, culture, and possibilities for the future.
RACHEL FISH is Associate Director of the Schusterman Center of Israel Studies at Brandeis University.
S. ILAN TROEN is the Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies and founding
Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He is founding editor of Israel Studies. His publications include Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement and (with Jacob Lassner) Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined.
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World Middle East, History 424 pages, 4 b&w illus., 5 maps, 2 tables, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
CURRENT AFFAIRS
New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity Good Intentions on the Road to Help MICHAEL MASCARENHAS
Soaring poverty levels and 24-hour media coverage of global disasters have caused a surge in the number of international non-governmental organizations that address suffering on a massive scale. But how are these new global networks transforming the politics and power dynamics of humanitarian policy and practice? In New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity, Michael Mascarenhas considers that issue using water management projects in India and Rwanda as case studies. Mascarenhas analyzes the complex web of agreements —both formal and informal—that are made between businesses, governments, and aid organizations, as well as the contradictions that arise when capitalism meets humanitarianism.
MICHAEL MASCARENHAS is Associate Professor in the Science and Technology
Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is author of Where the Waters Divide: Neoliberalism, White Privilege, and Environmental Racism in Canada and a Framing the Global fellow.
World Current Affairs 216 pages, 13 b&w illus., 4 tables, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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PHILOSOPHY
“Knud Ejler Løgstrup’s The Ethical Demand should have been recognized long ago as, at least, a minor classic if not a landmark in twentieth-century moral philosophy. Hopefully Fink and Stern’s excellent collection of essays will help Løgstrup’s writings receive the reading and reception they deserve. The best of the essays in this volume are philosophically subtle and morally engaged in ways that reveal the significance and depth of Løgstrup’s demanding ethical thought.” —J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research
What Is Ethically Demanded?
K. E. Løgstrup’s Philosophy of Moral Life EDITED BY HANS FINK AND ROBERT STERN
This collection of essays by leading international philosophers considers central themes in the ethics of Danish philosopher Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905–1981). Løgstrup was a Lutheran theologian much influenced by phenomenology and by strong currents in Danish culture, to which he himself made important contributions. The essays in What Is Ethically Demanded? K. E. Løgstrup’s Philosophy of Moral Life are divided into four sections. The first section deals predominantly with Løgstrup’s relation to Kant and, through Kant, the system of morality in general. The second section focuses on how Løgstrup stands in connection with Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Levinas. The third section considers issues in the development of Løgstrup’s ethics and how it relates to other aspects of his thought. The final section covers certain central themes in Løgstrup’s position, particularly his claims about trust and the unfulfillability of the ethical demand. The volume includes a previously untranslated early essay by Løgstrup, “The Anthropology of Kant’s Ethics,” which defines some of his basic ethical ideas in opposition to Kant’s. The book will appeal to philosophers and theologians with an interest in ethics and the history of philosophy.
HANS FINK is professor emeritus of philosophy at Aarhus University. ROBERT STERN is professor of philosophy at the University of Sheffield.
Philopsophy World 380 pages, 6 x 9
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RELIGION
“One needn’t be a fan of liberal theory to value this superb collection of writings.... Editors Daniel Philpott and Ryan T. Anderson have created a resource of enduring importance; a compendium of the best defenders and critics of the liberal state’s compatibility with Catholic faith and life.”
—Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia
A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from The Review of Politics
EDITED BY DANIEL PHILPOTT AND RYAN T. ANDERSON A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? chronicles the relationship between the Catholic Church and American liberalism as told through twenty-seven essays selected from the history of the Review of Politics, dating back to the journal’s founding in 1939. The primary subject addressed in these essays is the development of a Catholic political liberalism in response to the democratic environment of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Works by Jacques Maritain, Heinrich Rommen, and Yves R. Simon forge the case for the compatibility of Catholicism and American liberal institutions, including the civic right of religious freedom. The conversation continues through recent decades, when a number of Catholic philosophers called into question the partnership between Christianity and American liberalism and were debated by others who rejoined with a strenuous defense of the partnership. The book also covers a wide range of other topics, including democracy, free market economics, the common good, human rights, international politics, and the thought of John Henry Newman, John Courtney Murray, and Alasdair MacIntyre, as well as some of the most prominent Catholic thinkers of the last century, among them John Finnis, Michael Novak, and William T. Cavanaugh. This book will be of special interest to students and scholars of political science, journalists and policymakers, church leaders, and everyday Catholics trying to make sense of Christianity in modern society.
DANIEL PHILPOTT is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and editor of The Politics of Past Evil (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). RYAN T. ANDERSON is senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and founder/ editor of the online journal Public Discourse.
Philopsophy / Theology World 594 pages, 6 x 9
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AFRICA
“This book is bound to change how we think about and perhaps how we study what it is to be Yoruba. More importantly, it opens new vistas for contestations, interpretations, characterizations, and idenitification of what being Yoruba means or entails.” —Olufemi Taiwo, author of Africa Must Be Modern
“Adeleke Adeeko articulates how people act Yoruba through the retention of traditional cultural practices, like naming ceremonies, kneeling down to greet, lineage praise poetry, and even in writing and art. All of these are part of the Yoruba ‘art of being,’ and thus, are a configuration of culture.” —Akintunde Akinyemi, author of Yoruba Orature and Riddles
Arts of Being Yoruba
Divination, Allegory, Tragedy, Proverb, Panegyric ADÉLÉKÈ ADÉÈKÓ
There is a culturally significant way of being Yorùbá that is expressed through dress, greetings, and celebrations—no matter where in the world they take place. Adélékè Adéèkó documents Yorùbá patterns of behavior and articulates a philosophy of how to be Yorùbá in this innovative study. As he focuses on historical writings, Ifá divination practices, the use of proverbs in contemporary speech, photography, gendered ideas of dressing well, and the formalities of ceremony and speech at celebratory occasions, Adéékó contends that being Yorùbá is indeed an art and Yorùbá-ness is a dynamic phenomenon that responds to cultural shifts as Yorùbá people inhabit an increasingly globalized world.
ADÉLÉKÈ ADÉÈKÓ is Humanities Distinguished Professor in the English and African American and African Studies departments at Ohio State University. He is the author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature and The Slave’s Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (IUP).
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World Africa 256 pages, 13 b&w illus., 3 tables, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
PHILSOPHY
Sites of Exposure
Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience JOHN RUSSON
John Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives. In Sites of Exposure, Russon grapples with how personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death combine with broader issues such as political oppression, economic exploitation, and the destruction of the natural environment to make life meaningful. His is cutting-edge philosophical work, illuminated by original and rigorous thinking that relies on cross-cultural communication and engagement with the richness of human cultural history. These probing interpretations of the nature of phenomenology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics, are appropriate for students and scholars of philosophy at all levels.
JOHN RUSSON is author of Human Experience: Philosophy Neurosis and the Elements of Everyday Life and Bearing Witness to Epiphany: Persons, Things, and the Nature of Erotic Life. He teaches philosophy at the University of Guelph and directs the Toronto Summer Seminar in philosophy.
World Philosophy 184 pages, 15 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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MUSIC Ferruccio Busoni and His Legacy ERINN E. KNYT
Many students of renowned composer, conductor, and teacher Ferruccio Busoni had illustrious careers of their own, yet the extent to which their mentor’s influence helped shape their success was largely unexplored until now. Through rich archival research including correspondence, essays, and scores, Erinn E. Knyt presents an evocative account of Busoni’s idiosyncratic pedagogy—focused on aesthetic ideals rather than methodologies or techniques—and how this teaching style and philosophy can be seen and heard in the Nordic-inspired musical works of Sibelius, the unusual soundscapes of Varèse, the polystylistic meldings of music and technology in Louis Gruenberg’s radio operas and film scores, the electronic music of Otto Luening, and the experimentalism of Philip Jarnach. Equal parts critical biography and interpretive analysis, Knyt’s work compels a reconsideration of Busoni’s legacy and puts forth the notion of a “Busoni School” as one that shaped the trajectory of twentieth-century music.
ERINN E. KNYT is Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Knyt specializes in 19th- and 20th-century music, aesthetics, and performance studies and has written extensively about Ferruccio Busoni. She has articles in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, the Journal of Musicological Research, American Music, the Journal of Musicology, the Journal of Music History Pedagogy, and Twentieth Century Music.
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World Music 384 pages, 21 b&w illus., 30 music exx., 9 tables, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
LIT. CRITICISM
Translation and the Arts in Modern France EDITED BY SONYA STEPHENS
Translation and the Arts in Modern France sits at the intersection of transposition, translation, and ekphrasis, finding resonances in these areas across periods, places, and forms. Within these contributions, questions of colonization, subjugation, migration, and exile connect Benin to Brittany, and political philosophy to the sentimental novel and to film. Focusing on cultural production from 1830 to the present and privileging French culture, the contributors explore interactions with other cultures, countries, and continents, often explicitly equating intercultural permeability with representational exchange. In doing so, the book exposes the extent to which moving between media and codes—the very process of translation and transposition—is a defining aspect of creativity across time, space, and disciplines.
SONYA STEPHENS is Professor of French and Acting President at Mount Holyoke College having taught previously at Indiana University, Bloomington and Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published widely on nineteenth-century French poetry and its relation to visual culture, and is currently working on questions of process and on iconicity in modern France, as well as on a study of illustrated editions of Les Fleurs du Mal. She is author of Baudelaire’s Prose Poetry: The Practice and Politics of Irony; editor of A History of Women’s Writing in France, Ebauches/Esquisses: Projects and Pre-Texts in Nineteenth-Century France; and coeditor of Birth and Death in NineteenthCentury French Culture.
World Literary Criticism & Theory 304 pages, 21 b&w illus., 2 tables, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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PHILOSOPHY The World on Edge EDWARD S. CASEY
From one of continental philosophy’s most distinctive voices comes a creative contribution to spatial studies, environmental philosophy, and phenomenology. Edward S. Casey identifies how important edges are to us, not only in terms of how we perceive our world, but in our cognitive, artistic, and sociopolitical attentions to it. We live in a world that is constantly on edge, yet edges as such are rarely explored. Casey systematically describes the major and minor edges that configure the human and other-than-human realms, including our everyday experience. He also explores edges in high-stakes situations, such as those that emerge in natural disasters, moments of political and economic upheaval, and encroaching climate change. Casey’s work enables a more lucid understanding of the edge-world that is a necessary part of living in a shared global environment.
EDWARD S. CASEY is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is author of several books, including Getting Back into Place, Imagining, and Remembering (all IUP). The World on Edge is a sequel to his book The World at a Glance (IUP).
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Philosophy World 456 pages, 20 b&w illus., 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
—Robert E. Innis, author of Suzanne Langer in Focus
“There is something fresh and hence refreshing in the manner in which John T. Lysaker takes up familiar topics. He shows, with both arresting details and an evolving design, how the conduct of life (to use Emerson’s expression) demands a form of thought frequently at odds with contemporary fashions and preoccupations, with institutionally entrenched approaches and all too rigidly policed discourses.”
PHILOSOPHY
“An original and stimulating book, manifesting a level of reflection and existential concern of the highest order. It is intellectually and personally honest.”
—Vincent Colapietro, author of Experience, Interpretation, and Community
After Emerson JOHN T. LYSAKER
John T. Lysaker works between and weaves together questions and replies in philosophical psychology, Emerson studies, ethics, and the formal-pragmatic tradition of the essay in this book of deep existential questioning. Each essay in this atypical philosophical book is built around recurring terms, phrases, and questions that characterize our contemporary age. Setting out from the idea of where we are in the most literal sense, Lysaker takes readers on an intellectual journey into the thematic concerns and commitments of broad interest, such as the nature of self and self-experience, ethical life, poetry and philosophy, and history and race. In the manner of Emerson, Cavell, and Rorty, Lysaker’s vibrant writing is certain to have a transformative effect on American philosophy today.
JOHN T. LYSAKER is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is author of Emerson and Self-Culture (IUP).
Philosophy World 224 pages, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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JUDAICA
“This important contribution to our understanding of the evolution of ritual murder charges in Eastern Europe brings together a number of innovative studies on the topic, several of which could become standard reading on the subject.” —Glenn Dynner, Sarah Lawrence College
Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond New Histories of an Old Accusation
EDITED BY EUGENE M. AVRUTIN, JONATHAN DEKEL-CHEN, AND ROBERT WEINBERG This innovative reassessment of ritual murder accusations brings together scholars working in history, folklore, ethnography, and literature. Favoring dynamic explanations of the mechanisms, evolution, popular appeal, and responses to the blood libel, the essays rigorously engage with the larger social and cultural worlds that made these phenomena possible. In doing so, the book helps to explain why blood libel accusations continued to spread in Europe even after modernization seemingly made them obsolete. Drawing on untapped and unconventional historical sources, the collection explores a range of intriguing topics: popular belief and scientific knowledge; the connections between antisemitism, prejudice, and violence; the rule of law versus the power of rumors; the politics of memory; and humanitarian intervention on a global scale.
EUGENE M. AVRUTIN is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois. JONATHAN DEKEL-CHEN is Professor of History at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
ROBERT WEINBERG is Professor of History at Swarthmore College.
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Judaica World 360 pages, 11 b&w illus., 1 map, 6 x 9 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
—Paul Koudounaris, author of Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
PARANORMAL
“A fun primer on California’s macabre and eccentric history. These little known stories provide a window not into an alternate California, but into what many of us who were born and bred here consider to be the real state under the modern glitz and glamour.”
Creepy California
Strange and Gothic Tales from the Golden State KEVEN MCQUEEN
Beneath California’s scenic landscape lies a strange and dark side, full of spine-tingling tales and frightful imagery. Creepy California: Strange and Gothic Tales from the Golden State explores the disturbing and macabre stories of unexplained deaths, intentional live burials, true crimes, and ghosts who haunt the Pacific Coast. This spooky collection includes the extraordinarily odd, like the account of a coroner, who “borrowed” the stylish clothes of one dead man and even sold the corpse’s head to a doctor for scientific research, and the paranormal, like the tale of a haunted, two-story house in San Francisco that was moved across town in an effort to dislodge its ghostly tenants. The attempt failed, and the San Francisco Chronicle commented that “the neighborhood has been kept in a constant dread and torment by unearthly groans, mysterious lights, and agonized shrieks emanating from their dread habitation.” An intriguing and frightful look at the disturbing side of the state, Creepy California promises to send chills down your spine and keep you looking over your shoulder.
KEVEN MCQUEEN is an instructor in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Kentucky Book of the Dead, Murder and Mayhem in Indiana, and The Axman Came from Hell and Other True Crime Stories.
World Paranormal 136 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 Review Copies Available on Request | Contact Stephen Williams | smw9@indiana.edu
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