Filmguide to 2001: a space odyssey (Indiana University Press filmguide series)
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
New in paperback, “American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State” (328 pages, $21.95, Indiana University Press) by Stephen Aron, director of the Institute for the Study of the American West.
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction Edited by Raminder Kaur and William Mazzarella Indiana University Press There is no use in burying the head of an ostrich in censorship and imagining the enemy knows nothing of what we are doing. — S.C. Lind Censorship in South Asia dissects the history and socio-political dynamics of [...]
Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Eastern European Jewry up to the great migration, with Professor Natan M. Meir, will be discussed at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State, on Monday, November 9. Doors open at 7pm and the program begins at 7.30pm at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island. The JCC offers Wi-Fi, so bring your laptops. The JGSW library will also be available for attendees. Although many American...
Tracing the Tribe (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Portland's Jewish Genealogical Society will host Assistant Professor Natan Meir (Portland State University) in "Not your Grandfather's Synagogue," on Tuesday, October 20. The meeting begins at 7pm at Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Meir's program focuses on religious and secular Eastern European Jews in the late 1800s and early 1900s, to increase understanding of our ancestors' way of life. He will...
One Poet's Notes (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
All in the Valparaiso area are invited to attend a presentation by Michael Martone, fiction writer and essayist, September 28 at 7 p.m. in Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art. Martone’s appearance represents the English department’s opening event in this year’s Wordfest series of readings by prominent writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or critical commentary....
Jewish Book Council Blog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
Posted by Libi Adler Just came across a catalog we received from Indiana University Press featuring the Journals they publish in various categories. The amount of Jewish journals was impressive and thought that they should be highlighted here. Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism Edited by Gad Freudenthal “Aleph is devoted to the exploration of the interface [...]
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
From the Laudator: Donald Culross Peattie, Flowering Earth (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1939; rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 144: For every man there is some spot on earth, I think, which he has pledged himself to return to, some day, because he was so happy there once. Even to long for it is [...] Post from: WDTPRS “For every man there is some spot on earth…”...
Laudator Temporis Acti (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
Donald Culross Peattie, Flowering Earth (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939; rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 144: For every man there is some spot on earth, I think, which he has pledged himself to return to, some day, because he was so happy there once. Even to long for it is holiday of a sort. These visits of revery may be all that he can pay it, for years, perhaps until his...
Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 28/08/2009
http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/blkhist_2009/index.cfm When W.E.B. Du Bois founded The Crisis magazine in 1910 there was little discussion of visuals – but the monthly publication from the fledgling National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was rich with drawings, political cartoons, photographs and prints. These extraordinary images illustrate the central role art played...
Laudator Temporis Acti (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Donald Culross Peattie, Flowering Earth (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939; rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 22: What we love, when on a summer day we step into the coolness of a wood, is that its boughs close up behind us. We are escaped, into another room of life. The wood does not live as we live, restless and running, panting after flesh, and even in sleep tossing with fears....
Laudator Temporis Acti (Free subscription) | 15/08/2009
Donald Culross Peattie, Flowering Earth (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1939; rpt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), p. 6: There are always some of us, not a few, in every generation, who go over wholly to the green flag. It is such a passionless fealty, so reticent a love, that neither do trumpets sound for it nor quarrels arise from it. Only, you will find that those who have pledged allegiance...
Flares into Darkness (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Ellesmere Island , which lies within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, appears to have once been the home of alligators, according to the fossil records of the Eocene epoch ( see After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals, 2006 . By Donald R Prothero . Bloomington (Indiana): Indiana University Press ) . Alligators cannot tolerate freezing temperatures for long. Such tidbits are of interest to any folks...
TravelinEdMan (Free subscription) | 21/07/2009
Lots happening since the book came out a week ago. I barely have time to eat, sleep, run, walk, or chew gum, let alone post to my blog. But I will try to post something worthwhile. I will focus on 3 main things below: 1. a press release, 2. a talk, and 3. a book review. All are related to my new book. 1. IU Press Release: There were 2 press releases today on my new book, The World Is Open : How Web...
constellations: recent responses (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Popular culture celebrates each new machine or commodity as a revolutionary wonder. But it is easy for the macro-apparatus of supply (the Bestand) to keep supplying new tools/toys out of the resources on hand to it. What is harder to alter, and what continues to give contemporary lives and inventions their particular stamp, is the macro-apparatus itself and the logics of resourcing and supply that...
Yet Another Comics Blog (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Here are the new comics that we added to the library's collection in June: Allred, Mike (Mike Dalton) Madman atomic comics vol. 1 / Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2008- Angst : the best of norwegian comics vol. 2 / Oslo, Norway : Jippi Comics : No Comprendo Press, 2007- Bailey, Neal. Michelle Obama . / [Vancouver, Wash.] : Bluewater Comics, [2009] Baker, Kyle. Special forces bk. 1. Hot to death / Berkeley,...
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