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Globalization and the Challenges of the New Century: A Reader
Indiana University Press, 2000
Great Primer
The Economist described the book this way and I agree completely, "If you want to catch up on some of the best articles written about globalisation since the topic became fashionable several years ago, this reader is the place to start."
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Introduction to Documentary:
Bill Nichols
Indiana University Press, 2001
A fine introduction.
I don't think I've written a review on Amazon.com in almost ten years, but when I saw that this fine book had one review -- for one star -- I wanted to offer something of a corrective.
As its title states, this is an introduction to the critical study of ...
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Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin
Indiana University Press, 1984
The Roots of Our Bittersweet Laughter
Take your time with this academic book and you will be rewarded. It rediscovers the spirit of the Medieval carnival. The tradition stemmed from ancient Greek and Rome and its function was to give a vent to people's death fear and anger over social injustice. ...
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Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
John Scott, Stephen Kotkin
Indiana University Press, 1989
Fascinating
This book is a first-person account of work life in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Disenchanted with opportunities in Depression America in 1931, Scott takes off for the Workers' Paradise. He finds a job as a welder building the massive steelworks in the new Soviet ...
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Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
Indiana University Press, 1998
Strangely sweet little story
One of the strangest books I have ever read, but also strangely a sweet and sad little story.
Riddley (riddle-ey: he likes to tell riddles) Walker (he likes to do what Australians call walkabout) is a young man in a semi-civilized world 2000 years in the future and ...
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Sound in Motion: A Performer's Guide to Greater Musical Expression
David McGill
Indiana University Press, 2007
If you are a classical musician, you must own this book!!!!
Having studied with David McGill, I can honestly say with first-hand experience that he is a truly remarkable musician and teacher. As I read this book, I felt as I did in every one of my lessons. I know I left his studio each week better than I went in and I feel ...
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Indiana University Press, 1955
Things change...
Maidens become trees. Young hunks turn into flowers. Men become women; women become invincible warriors. And every time you blink, another poor wretch becomes a bird or turns to stone. In Ovid's Metamorphosis, nothing stays the same for long. A rich compendium of ...
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Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson (Midland Book)
Raymond W. Thorp, Robert Bunker
Indiana University Press, 1983
Crow Killer
I have read many books and biographies about trapper and traders and this one although a fictional biography (hearsay and letters to the author) was fantastic; many true items; I'm sure. John Johnson - the main character; inspired the movie Jeremiah Johnson, that ...
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The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories
Indiana University Press, 2007
Weeping in Babylon
It's a rare reader who'll be able to get through The Unknown Black Book without having to walk away from it several times. The tragedies it documents are just too horrible to bear except in small doses. Both text and photographs stun the imagination and freeze the ...
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The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy
Russell F. Weigley
Indiana University Press, 1977
Well-written and surprising
If you were assigned this text as part of a college course, you are in luck - it might be the best thing you read all semester. Weigley has a sharp prose style, and he delves into areas of American military history that others either ignore or neglect. I found his take ...
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Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States
Manuel G. Gonzales
Indiana University Press, 2000
Mexicanos
Finally, a long awaited balanced, and factually well-researched story of mexican-american history, migration and assimilation. It was very impressive to me the thoughtful, scholarly approach to what has recently become mostly an politically biased field. I was ...
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Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity (Studies in Continental Thought)
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, 2008
FASCINATING AND CHALLENGING
This translation of Heidegger's lectures at Freiburg during the summer of 1923 represents an important event in English-speaking Heidegger scholarship. Van Buren has done a masterful job, and rendered us all a real service. This lecture contains some of the most ...
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Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein (The Helen and Martin Schwartz ...
Hilary Putnam
Indiana University Press, 2008
Religion and Experiential Philosophy
The American philosopher Hilary Putnam has had a long and varied philosophical career. Putnam began as an analytic philosopher steeped in mathematical logic. He subsequently became an adherent of a new form of American pragmatism. His debates with the late Richard ...
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Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands (Twentieth-Century Battles)
Michael B. Barrett
Indiana University Press, 2007
Planning, Boldness, Surprise
Where was the most successful amphibious operation of World War I? Was it in Turkey, German East Africa, or maybe Estonia?
In the first amphibious assault of the war (1914), a large British Indian Army attempted a landing at Tanga, German East Africa that ended in ...
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Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century (Religion in North ...
Indiana University Press, 1986
Know the Facts of W omen Pioneers
Everyone (especially a Woman of God) should read this book! These (3) women were wonderously made to do The Lord's work against all odds! Their adventures (although obviously enhanced in grammar)and the history alone is enough. The power just leaps off the pages and ...
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