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Based on a collection of interviews conducted in the late 1930s, Homeless, Friendless, and Penniless is an invaluable record of the lives and thoughts of former slaves who moved to Indiana after the Civil War and made significant contributions to the evolving patchwork of Hoosier culture.The Indiana slave narratives provide a glimpse of slavery as remembered by those who experienced it, preserving insiders' views of a tragic chapter in America...

Best known for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, written with Cornelia OtisSkinner, Emily Kimbrough was one of the most popular writers of this century. HowDear to My Heart, first published in 1944, is her tribute to a happy childhood spentin Muncie, Indiana, a humorous glance over her shoulder at the way things used tobe."This is more than a funny book, a period piece. Dignity andlove are never quaint. They were the essence of this civilization....

It is comfortable to believe that incest and child sexual abuse need not concern us because we have institutions to deal with these problems. This book disallows that complacency and shows that the systems has failed, and worse - that it has generated a dangerous atmosphere of denial and cover-up. Focusing on five case studies, Rosen and Etlin expose a systemic breakdown so fundamental, so irrational, and so shocking that the necessity of radi...

..". an excellent translation of an extremely important book."-- The Modern SchoolmanThis early version of Being and Time(1927) offers a unique glimpse into the motivations that prompted the writing ofthis great philosopher's master work and the presuppositions that gave shape to it.Theodore Kisiel's outstanding translation permits English readers to appreciate thecentral importance of this text for the development of Heidegger'sthought.

Through close readings of the most significant film of Gosho Heinosuke and descriptions of their historical, social, and industrial context, Arthur Nolletti illuminates the work of this important director. The careful attention Gosho gave to even the smallest gestures and nuances of character and emotion is matched by the breadth of Nolletti's research and the depth of his understanding. His analysis illustrates the important influence of Gosh...

..". a fascinating overall impression of the day-to-day concerns andworking environment of a professional musician of the late 17th century." --American Recorder This volume presents Muffat's texts along withvariants from his own editions in other languages. Wilson's highly readablesupplementary materials make this a useful work for theorists, historians, andperformers. The book is particularly enlightening on differences between French andGer...

..". (Will) have an impact on two important fields of scholarship: social movement theory and the study of Islamic activist movements." -- JohnVoll, Georgetown UniversityThis volume represents the firstcomprehensive attempt to incorporate the study of Islamic activism into socialmovement theory. It argues that the dynamics, processes, and organization of Islamicactivism can be understood as important elements of contention that transcend thesp...

Before buying even one more plant--be it tree, shrub, perennial, or annual--you need this book

Everyone who has been associated with Indiana University and Herman Wells has a favorite story or two about this great man. This is a collection of such stories in honor of his 90th birthday.

Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute in 1986 for "outstanding scholarship and for promoting the values of Yugoslav film art internationally." This new edition has been revised and updated throughout. It has been expanded to complete the story of the new Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and to address major film developments that have take...

In Yoruba culture, morality and moral values are intimately linked to aesthetics. The purest expression of beauty, at least for human beings, is to possess good moral character. But how is moral character judged? In this original and intimate look at Yoruba culture, Barry Hallen asks the Yoruba onisegun -- the wisest and most accomplished herbalists or traditional healers, individuals justly reputed to be well versed in Yoruba thought and expr...

If you want to catch up on some of the best articles written aboutglobalisation since the topic became fashionable several years ago, this reader isthe place to start." -- The Economist A blue ribbon collection ofmajor articles and position papers on the concept of globalization. By bringingtogether a number of major thinkers and different perspectives, this book provides abroad introduction to the topic and lays the groundwork for an interdis...

Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi'scollection a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "The essays provideinsight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religiousingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." -- LibraryJournal "At last, a major dissection of the great mystery inmodern Americanlife -- how religion and spirituality prospered amidstindustrialization, urbanization, and rampant ...

Praise for the first edition: "By far the best general bookon its subject.... Moving Europeans will remain a standard reference for some timeto come." --Charles Tilly "Moch has reconceived thesocial history of Europe." -- David Levine Moving Europeanstells the story of the vast movements of people throughout Europe and examines thelinks between human mobility and the fundamental changes that transformed Europeanlife. This update of a classic ...

Willi Apel's classic study of Gregorian chant is now in paperback. Thisextensive survey describes the evolutionary processes of its long history as well asits definition and terminology, the structure of the liturgy, the texts, thenotation, the rhythm, the tonality, and the methods and forms of psalmody.

This book is a memoir and a history of Berkeley in the early Sixties. Asa young undergraduate, Jo Freeman was a key participant in the growth of socialactivism at the University of California, Berkeley. The story is told with the "youare there" immediacy of Freeman the undergraduate but is put into historical andpolitical context by Freeman the scholar, 35 years later. It draws heavily ondocuments created at the time -- letters, reports, inter...

This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France'srevolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection.Examining the period from the early 1860s through that century's end, Carolyn J.Eichner investigates how radical women developed critiques of gender, class, andreligious hierarchies in the immediate pre-Commune ...

Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills offers a comparative history of Europeangirlhood from 1750 to 1960, with a focus on Britain, France, and Germany. It coversdiverse issues in the lives of girls, from sexuality and leisure to social roles inthe family and the economy. A corrective to historians' traditionally maleorientation toward youth, the volume brings girls to the center of European history, emphasizing their importance in European economics a...

ELIZABETH BELL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the Unviersity of South Florida.LYNDA HAAS is Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at Ithaca College.LAURA SELLS is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida.

At the heart of the current surge of interest in religion among contemporary Continental philosophers stands Augustine's Confessions. With Derrida' Circumfession constantly in the background, this volume takes up the provocative readings of Augustine by Heidegger, Lyotard, Arendt, and Ricoeur. Derrida himself presides over and comments on essays by major Continental philosophers and internationally recognized Augustine scholars. While studies ...