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"All the World Is Here!": The Black Presence at Wh...
$24.57
Review"In 1893 Ida Wells, Frederick Douglass, et al. wrote a pamphlet entitled The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, a text that formed the basis for the subsequent view of African American history. In fact, as Reed so successfully shows, there was considera..
99 Historic Homes of Indiana: A Look Inside
$17.69
"Prior to this book project I wrote for the Indianapolis Star. I traveled throughout Indiana writing about people and situations I found interesting. On my long drives through the state, I’d pass old homes along country roads or around courthouse squares and wonder who lived in them, and why Who has..
A Conservationist Manifesto
$9.01
As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more durable and responsible way of life What changes i..
A Girl of the Limberlost (Library of Indiana Class...
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Of all the books written by Hoosier writers, Gene Stratton-Porter’s A Girl of the Limberlost is unquestionably the most cherished: the timeless story of an impoverished young girl, Elnora Comstock, growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp. Elnora Comstock has served as a role model for success..
A Guide to North American Waterfowl
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Dust jacket notes: "This conveniently designed, compact book addresses the needs of waterfowl enthusiasts who want a source of ready identification of all the ducks, geese, and swans that breed in North America as well as some basic biological data not usually found in field guides. Johnsgard discus..
A History of Hungary
$11.13
From Library JournalTwenty eminent and sober historians (14 Hungarian, four American, one Canadian, one Austrian) have contributed their scholarship to this weighty, erudite, but readily accessible general history of Hungary. The volume has been carefully edited "in accordance with specified uniform..
A Home in the Woods: Pioneer Life in Indiana
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"It's hard to picture this part of the country as I first remember it. Here and there was a cabin home with a little spot of clearin close by. The rest of the country was jist one great big woods and miles and miles in most every direction. From your cabin you could see no farther than the wall of t..
A Leonard Bloomfield anthology (Indiana University...
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Lacks Dj, Green cloth, Black title label on spine, White stain on rear board. embossed blind stamp from the library of previous owner on ffep and title page, else unmarked text Author: Bloomfield, Leonard Publisher: Indiana University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 025333327X IS..
A Life is More Than a Moment: The Desegregation of...
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From Library JournalThe world has often heard about the desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School in 1957-58, and many have wondered how such a conflict could have exploded in that small Southern city, which heretofore had been noted for moderation. The author reveals that only five da..
A Mosaic of Believers: Diversity and Innovation in...
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Mosaic in southern California is one of the largest and most innovative multiethnic congregations in America. Gerardo Marti shows us how this unusual church has achieved multiethnicity, not by targeting specific groups, but by providing multiple havens of inclusion that play down ethnic differences...
A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction i...
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"[F]illed with rare encounters with Syria's oldest, most elite families. Critics of anthropology's taste for exoticism and marginality will savor this study of upper-class Damascus, a world that is urbane and cosmopolitan, yet in many ways as remote as the settings in which the best ethnography has ..
A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology a...
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In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender, and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She then considers wh..
A Question of Manhood: A Reader in U.S. Black Men'...
$21.78
Each of these essays illuminates an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders. The essays describe the expectations and demands to struggle, to resist, and facilitate the survival of African American culture and community. Black man..
A Wild Country Out in the Garden: The Spiritual Jo...
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Madre Maria de San Jose (1656 - 1719) mystic, chronicler, and co-founder of an Augustinian convent inscribed her life story within the model of spiritual autobiography set by St. Augustine and Teresa of Avila, but at the same time included her individual story as a seventeenth-century woman of the l..
Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with D...
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"[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." The New England Journal of Medicine"Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment . . . " Ethics"A thoughtful, informative and sensitive t..
Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (Af...
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How do political systems in Africa work Is the "real" business of politics taking place outside the scope of standard political analysis, in an "informal" or more personalised setting How are the prospects for reform and renewal in African societies affected by the emerging elites Is "modernisati..
African Christianity: Its Public Role
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"This is by far the most informative book about contemporary African Christianity around; nobody could have written a study as richly detailed and as informed by real insider knowledge as he has done. . . . It will be the most significant study of African Christianity to appear at a time when its im..
African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent
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In African Film: Re-imagining a Continent, Josef Gugler provides an introduction to African cinema through an analysis of 15 films made by African filmmakers. These directors set out to re-image Africa; their films offer Western viewers the opportunity to re-imagine the continent and its people. As ..
African Folktales in the New World (Folkloristics)
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Product Description"These essays . . . are of immense importance to anyone interested in the issues of origins and folklore texts." Choice" . . . this is Bascom at his best. . . . an attractive and full-bodied book." FabulaThese essays, devoted to traditional narratives found in Africa and in the ..
African Furniture and Household Objects
$603.90
softcover Author: Sieber, Roy Publisher: Indiana University Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 025328242X ISBN-13: 9780253282422..
African music and oral data: A catalog of field re...
$24.86
African music and oral data: A catalog of field recordings, 1902-1975 Author: Stone, Ruth M Publisher: Indiana University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0253302625 ISBN-13: 9780253302625..
After the Black Death: A Social History of Early M...
$7.69
Praise for the first edition:"To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." History"Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." Renaissance QuarterlyA work of genuine social history, After the Black Death lead..
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, P...
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"One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo . . . " Village Voice Literary Supplement" . . . his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." ..
Air Power in the Age of Total War
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A fascinating study of the changing military role of air power in the twentieth century, this book examines the sensational impact of the Great War, the pioneering work of air power theorists and visionaries in the interwar period, the air arms race, the SecondWorld War in Europe and the Far East, a..
Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation...
$10.83
Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public debate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism. In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, ..