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First published by Indiana University in 1982, this illustrated book places emphasis on ecology with descriptions of Indiana's habitats, climate, and vegetation and detailed species accounts. It summarizes knowledge about Indiana's mammal species.

Akinwumi Ogundiran is Chair of the Africana Studies Department and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology and History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is author of Archaeology and History in the Ilare District, 1200-1900.Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is editor (with Matt D. Childs) of The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2005).

Examines the authority of saints in Islam and their ability to build communities among Muslims in North Africa. This book analyzes the power generated in religious communities through their allegiance to saints, a power usually identified with the term "Sufism."

Offering a comprehensive description and analysis of women and religion in North America, this encyclopaedia focuses on institutions, movements, and ideas. It demonstrates that neither the story of women nor the story of religion in North America can be accurately told unless the religious experience of women is integrated into religious history.

Showcases the dramatic natural beauty of the Hoosier state.

The Jewett Car Company was born in the heyday of the electric railway boom in the 1890s. The company gained an excellent reputation for its elegant, well-built wooden cars for street railway companies, interurban lines, and rapid transit service. Cities large and small used Jewett cars, including New York, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco.

The political context in which historians of India find themselves is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism. This title offers a view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this conjuncture.

Presents a variety of primary sources on the lives of Russian women from the reign of Peter the Great to the Bolshevik revolution. This is a guide to the social, economic, political, and cultural history of women in Imperial Russia. It includes illustrations, a chronology, a glossary of Russian terms, a map, and a guide to further reading.

A comprehensive biography of the rise of the famous railroad barons who developed Shaker Heights, Ohio.Invisible Giants is the Horatio Alger-esque tale of a pair of reclusive Cleveland brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, who rose from poverty to become two of the most powerful men in America. They controlled the country's largest railroad system-a network of track reaching from the Atlantic to Salt Lake City and from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico. On the eve of the Great Depression they were close to controlling the country's first coast-to-coast rail system-a goal that still eludes us. They created the model upper-class suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, with its unique rapid transit access. They built Cleveland's landmark Terminal Tower and its innovative "e;city within a city"e; complex. Indisputably, they created modern Cleveland.Yet beyond a small, closely knit circle, the bachelor Van Sweringen brothers were enigmas. Their actions were aggressive, creative, and bold, but their manner was modest, mild, and retiring. Dismissed by many as mere shoestring financial manipulators, they created enduring works, which remain strong today. The Van Sweringen story begins in early-twentieth-century Cleveland suburban real estate and reaches its zenith in the heady late 1920s, amid the turmoil of national transportation power politics and unprecedented empire-building. As the Great Depression destroyed many of their fellow financiers, the "e;Vans"e; survived through imaginative stubbornness-until tragedy ended their careers almost simultaneously. Invisible Giants is the first comprehensive biography of these two remarkable if mysterious men.

For several generations Indiana shippers and travellers enjoyed an excellent network of railroad services, in large part thanks to the Monon Railroad. This title celebrates the history of this railroad, from its inception in 1847 as the New Albany & Salem Rail Road and then the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago to its merger in 1970 with the L&N.

A collection of photographs of children taken during the Great Depression by some of the most famous photographers of the Farm Security Administration. Spanning the period from 1930-1945, the images represent children of diverse social strata and ethnicity from all regions of America.

A comprehensive history of North American railroad electrification.

Spectacular photographs of Indiana's impressive 19th and early 20th century courthouses

Ethnological show business has a long history in Europe, and it became increasingly common after advances in navigational technology put Europeans in touch with human communities. This book discusses about how 3 groups - players, promoters and spectators - individually and in concert helped to shape European and American perceptions of Africans.

Includes works for the tuba alone, tuba and piano, and tuba with other types of accompaniment - woodwind quartet, string quartet, and orchestra. Each entry gives complete publication data, a history of the piece, its instrumentation and movements, and a description of its musical structure and characteristics.

A pocket guide to Indiana's wildflowers and plants

Analyzes the piano music of Czech composers from the late-18th through the early-20th centuries. Ranging from composers - Janacek, Smetana, and Martinu - to more obscure composers - Benda, Stepan, and Suk, this collection contains essays that can be useful for liner and program notes, and for pedagogical and performance insights.

Why haven't development programs sponsored by local NGOs been moreeffective in Africa? In this careful study of NGOs in three African countries --Zimbabwe, Tanzania, and Senegal -- Sarah Michael exposes reasons why successful, well-run, and powerful development programs are infrequent in Africa. Michael'sargument focuses on issues of power. NGOs in Africa do not command the financialresources, employ the professional staff, or have the same access to donors thatNGOs in other parts of the world enjoy. Main topics covered in this probing bookinclude: What does a powerful NGO look like? How does power affect sustainabledevelopment? What circumstances prevent local NGOs in Africa from wielding power?How can African NGOs remedy their absence of power? What relationship with donorsand international NGOs should be cultivated? This book will interest readersconcerned with issues pertaining to the organization, mission, and implementation ofdevelopment NGOs in Africa and beyond.

A collection of personal essays related with compassion and wit about growing up and settling in the Midwest, including photographs of the region and some of its inhabitants.

This book examines the subject from different perspectives, taking into consideration the important transnational character of such movements and their tendency to foster identities which transcend the national and cultural context in which they begin.

In the 1920s, drawn by spectacular vistas and colorful fall foliage, photojournalist Frank Hohenberger (1876-1962) traveled to the hills of Brown County. This book reveals volume about Hohenberger's encounter with the people of Brown County.

Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white 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.

Christoph Irmscher is Provost Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington and GeorgeF. Getz Jr. Professor in the Wells Scholars Program, which he also directs. Among his booksare The Poetics of Natural History, Longfellow Redux, Private Poet, Public Man, and LouisAgassiz: Creator of American Science. He is the editor of the Library of America edition of JohnJames Audubon's Writings and Drawings and of a new biography of Max Eastman, forthcomingfrom Yale University Press.Rosamond Purcell is a photographer known for her work in natural history collections and forthe recreation of the seventeenth century Danish museum of Ole Worm. Her books include Egg& Nest, Bookworm, and Dice: Deception, Fate and Rotten Luck with Ricky Jay. She is the authorof Owls Head: On the Nature of Lost Things, a biography of a junkyard.

Framing Beauty: Intimate Visions catalogues the recent exhibit curated by Willis at the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University.

The story of how the Holocaust decimated Jewish life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe is well known. Still, thousands of Jews in these small towns survived the war and returned afterward to rebuild their communities. The recollections of some 400 returnees in Ukraine provide the basis for Jeffrey Veidlinger's reappraisal of the traditional narrative of 20th-century Jewish history. These elderly Yiddish speakers relate their memories of Jewish life in the prewar shtetl, their stories of survival during the Holocaust, and their experiences living as Jews under Communism. Despite Stalinist repressions, the Holocaust, and official antisemitism, their individual remembrances of family life, religious observance, education, and work testify to the survival of Jewish life in the shadow of the shtetl to this day.

Published three times per year by Indiana University Press for the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. In issue 117, Transition presents new short fiction from writers with Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Liberia-and the diaspora-in their veins. Also in this issue are: selections from Transition's online forum, "e;I Can't Breathe,"e; a venue for discussing the recent murders by police of unarmed black Americans; selections of poetry; and an interview with the architect and curator of the opening exhibit at Harvard University's new Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art.

December 2014 marked a year since the passing of Nelson Mandela-a man who was as much myth as flesh and blood. Transition pays tribute to Mandela's worldly attainments and to his otherworldly sainthood. Featuring remembrances from Wole Soyinka, Xolela Mangcu, Pierre de Vos, and Adam Habib, this issue assembles Mandela's staunchest allies-for whom he approached saintliness-as well as his most entrenched critics.Other contributors consider the iconicity of Mandela-including his representations in films; the importance of boxing to his political career; his time studying with the revolutionary army in Algeria; his stance on children's rights; and even his ill-fated trip to Miami. Whoever you think Mandela was-or wasn't-this issue is the new required reading.Published three times per year by Indiana University Press for the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. Transition is edited by Alejandro de la Fuente.

Working from the spare bedroom of his Bloomington, Indiana, apartment in 1963 with a $1,500 investment, Bill Cook began to construct the wire guides, needles, and catheters that would become the foundation of the global multi-billion-dollar Cook Group. This story has been eloquently told in Bob Hammel's The Bill Cook Story: Ready, Fire, Aim. The sequel to this story explores Cook's final years, when the restoration work he championed, epitomized by the spectacular West Baden Hotel, became a driving force in his life and a source of great satisfaction and pleasure. Hammel takes us behind the scenes on the important restorations of Beck's Mill, a Methodist Church that is now Indiana Landmarks Center, and the remarkable commitment of Cook toward reviving his home town, Canton, Illinois. At the heart of the book are the events of Bill Cook's final days and his death in April, 2011, but this solemn chronicle soon gives way to fond recollections of Cook's extraordinary life and legacy, and to the continuing saga of the company he founded as it looks toward a bright future.

Marsha Williamson Mohr, a freelance photographer, is author of Indiana Barns (IUP, 2010) and Indiana Covered Bridges (IUP, 2012).