Agranoff, Robert. Managing Within Networks: Adding Value to Public Organizations. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007, 274 pp., cloth.
The real work of government is often done by a network of federal and state officials working with local governments and nongovernmental organizations. This book analyzes these public management networks, examining areas such as transportation, economic and rural development, communications systems and data management, water conservation, wastewater management, watershed conservation, and services for persons with developmental disabilities. The author identifies four different types of networks using data compiled about 14 public management networks in Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Ohio.
Agranoff is professor emeritus in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUB.
Audretsch, David B. The Entrepreneurial Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, 236 pp., cloth.
When the Berlin Wall fell, the roots of globalization were sown, says Audretsch in this study of how, over the last two decades, the managed economy model in the West has shifted to an entrepreneurial society. According to Audretsch, the current economic climate supports businesses that are highly adaptable and targeted to specific consumer needs; business innovation is the key. The book provides a "framework for understanding how and why the driving force underlying the economy has fundamentally changed," Audretsch writes, or as he said in an interview: "I wrote this book to tell my generation what happened to the world we knew and loved--and to tell our children why we are so strange."
Audretsch is the Ameritech Chair of Economic Development and director of the Institute for Development Strategies at IU Bloomington, where he teaches in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Bellini, Scott. Building Social Relationships: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Social Interaction Skills to Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Difficulties. Shawnee Mission, Kans.: Autism Asperger Publishing Company, 2006.
As the prevalence of autism has grown in recent decades, more and more parents are familiar with the difficulties children with autism have in building and maintaining social relationships. Using real-world examples, this book provides a five-step model for addressing social needs among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: assess social functioning, distinguish between skill acquisition and performance deficits, select intervention strategies, implement intervention, and evaluate and monitor progress. Bellini discusses ways to help children bridge the gap between ability and action. "Though many of us take things like standing too close or too far away from one another for granted, these skills make all the difference in being able to establish and maintain successful relationships," he says.
Bellini is assistant director of the Indiana Resource Center for Autism at IUB.
Camp, L. Jean. Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes, and Possible Cures. New Y ork: Springer, 2007, 181 pp., cloth.
When it comes to identity, "it's the economy, stupid." Identity theft is the misuse of private information to steal money. Protecting identity requires privacy. Proving identity requires exposing information. Camp's work illustrates that the near-term search for cheap identity management is a formula for long-term fraud resulting in ever-increasing identity theft. "The problem with identity theft is not a lack of technology," Camp says. "It's a lack of coordination between consumers, businesses, banks, and governments." This book includes technical and scholarly analyses of identity management issues along with practical strategies for preventing identity theft.
Camp is associate professor of informatics at IUB.
Campbell, James T., Matthew Guterl, and Robert G. Lee, eds. Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2007, 392 pp., paper.
This collection of essays reminds readers that visions of national and imperial greatness have been a cornerstone of the United States since the nation was founded. In 15 essays, historians examine the role of empire in American race relations, nationalism, and foreign policy from the country's beginning to the 21st century. Topics include the rise of an evangelical Christian mission movement, the dispossession of indigenous peoples, and the continuous struggles over the place of darker-skinned peoples in a society that still imagines itself as white.
Guterl is director of the American studies program and associate professor of African American and African diaspora studies at IUB.
Cohoon, J. McGrath, and William Aspray, eds. Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2008, 520 pp., paper.
The contributors to this volume look at reasons for the gender imbalance in computing and explore some strategies for reversing the trend. The editors present the latest findings of both qualitative and quantitative studies. Each section begins with an overview of the literature on current research in the field, followed by individual studies. The first section investigates the relationship between gender and information technology among preteens and adolescents, with each study considering what could lead girls' interest in computing to diverge from boys'; the second section, on higher education, includes a nationwide study of computing programs and a cross-national comparison of computing education; the final section, on pathways into the IT workforce, considers both traditional and nontraditional paths to computing careers. Choice magazine selected the book as one of its Oustanding Academic Titles in 2008.
Aspray is Rudy Professor of informatics at IUB.
Counts, Will, and John Dilts. The Magnificent 92 Indiana Courthouses. Revised Edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 192 pp., cloth.
More than 20 years ago, Dilts and the late Will Counts documented a distinctive Indiana landmark: county courthouses. Now reissued under IU Press's Quarry Books imprint, their work features text by Dilts and photographs by Counts, who died in 2001. Along with the buildings' photographs, the book also depicts the life that takes place in and around them, with portraits of courthouse workers and visitors and scenes of festivals and small-town commerce. Highlights include the Second Empire-style Bartholomew County Courthouse in Columbus, featured on the book's jacket, and the famous tree growing from the Decatur County Courthouse tower in Greensburg.
Dilts is professor of journalism at IUB.
Dibie, Robert, ed. Nongovernmental Organizations and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books, 2008.
This book examines the relationship between NGOs, the supporting agencies, and the African people. It is intended to provide guidance for civil society organizations and their client groups who struggle to find viable means to collaborate with NGOs, the private sector, and public sector. This books argues that increased knowledge and cooperation is essential to the achievement of sustainable development, and that for African nations to succeed they must find alternatives to centralized powers of national government. In addition, this book examines the transformation of several sub-Saharan African nations in the 21st century. NGOs and civil societies could play a vital role in this transformation and, therefore, the future of Africa.
Dibie is professor of public affairs and campus dean of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUK.
El-Shamy, Hasan M. A Motif Index of The Thousand and One Nights. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 679 pp., cloth.
Since 1704, when a translation of The Thousand and One Nights was first introduced to the Western world, numerous editions of the work have included texts selected by European editors from other collections of folktales and legends. Eventually, the original work became known as The Arabian Nights, a title unknown among the masses in Arab lands. Now, three centuries later, publication of the original of The Thousand and One Nights is accompanied by El-Shamy's index of the motifs in the work, providing scholars with accurate information on the content of this Arab classic.
El-Shamy is professor of folklore, Near Eastern languages and cultures, and African studies at IU Bloomington.
Ganguly, Sumit, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner, eds. The State of India's Democracy. Baltimore, M.D: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, paper.
As India marks its 60th year of independence, it has become an important object of study for scholars of comparative democracy. In recent decades, India has proven itself capable not only of preserving democracy, but of deepening and broadening it. These essays focus on India’s economy, society, and politics, providing insights into the past accomplishments—and continuing challenges—of Indian democracy. The book also has been widely distributed in India.
Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian cultures and civilizations and director of the India Studies Institute at IUB.
Gealt, Adelheid M., Diane M. Pelrine, Adriana Calinescu, Judith A. Stubbs, and Jennifer A. McComas. Linda Baden, ed.; Photographs by Michael Cavanaugh and Kevin Montague. Masterworks from the Indiana University Art Museum. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, 384 pp.
Illustrated with more than 160 full-color plates, this volume presents a selection of the finest works from Indiana University's art museum. Included are examples from the range of world cultures collected by the museum: Africa, the Ancient Western World, Asia, Ancient America, the South Pacific, and Western Art before and after 1800. The entry accompanying each piece, by the curator of that collection, sketches the cultural context within which the object was created and used and describes the unique qualities that make it a "masterwork."
Gealt is director of the IU Art Museum. At the museum, Pelrine is associate director for curatorial services and curator, arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; Calinescu is Thomas T. Solley Curator of ancient art; Stubbs is Pamela Buell Curator of Asian art; and McComas is curator of Western art.
Geyh, Charles. When Courts and Congress Collide: The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2006, 344 pp., cloth.
What's the real balance between judicial independence and Congress's desire to limit judicial reach? This study takes on that question, concluding that the relationship between Congress and our federal courts is governed by a "dynamic equilibrium" -- a constant give-and-take between Congress's desire to control the judiciary and its respect for historical norms of judicial independence. It is this dynamic equilibrium, Geyh says, rather than what the Supreme Court or the Constitution says about the separation of powers, that defines the limits of the judiciary's independence.
Geyh is professor of law and Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow at IU Bloomington. For more, see www.research.iu.edu/news/stories/0029_geyh.html
Gubar, Susan. Rooms of Our Own. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007, 256 pp., paper.
A meditation on the teaching of literature and on the state of the humanities, Gubar's work also provides a feminist intellectual history of the past several decades: the influence of post-structuralism and of critical race, postcolonial, and cultural studies scholarship; the stakes of queer theory and the institutionalization of women’s studies; and the effects of globalism and bioengineering on conversations about gender, sex, and sexuality. A Choice recommended book, Gubar's Rooms was also selected for an honorable mention by the Gustav Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
Gubar is Distinguished Professor of English at IUB.
Guha-Khasnobis, Basudeb, Ravi Kanbur, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. Linking the Formal and Informal Economy: Concepts and Policies. Oxford University Press, 2006, 320 pp., cloth.
This multidisciplinary volume brings together studies on formality and informality in developing countries from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, and other analysts in development studies.
Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IUB.
Gunderman, Richard. Achieving Excellence in Medical Education. New York: Springer, 2006, 180 pp., cloth.
Among the topics explored in this volume are: education's position as a priority of medical schools; educational insights from nonmedical educators; best practices of educators and learners; promises and pitfalls of new educational technologies; key resources for promoting excellence in medical education; medical education's role in preparing future leaders; and leadership roles for medical schools in universities and society.
Gunderman is associate professor of radiology, pediatrics, and medical education at the IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
Hess, Charlotte, and Elinor Ostrom, eds. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons. 2006, 320 pp., cloth.
The Internet offers unprecedented access to knowledge in digital form but at the same time, that information is subject to ever-greater restrictions through intellectual property legislation, overpatenting, licensing, overpricing, and lack of preservation. Looking at knowledge as a commons--as a shared resource--allows us to understand both its possibilities and its threats. In this volume, experts discuss the knowledge commons in the digital era--how to conceptualize it, protect it, and build it. Contributors consider, among other topics, the role of research libraries, the advantages of making scholarly material available outside the academy, the problem of disappearing Web pages, the role of intellectual property, the open access movement (including possible funding models for scholarly publications), and the application of a free/open source framework to scientific knowledge.
Hess is director of the Digital Library of the Commons at Indiana University. Elinor Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of political science at IUB, co-director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IU, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change at IU.
Hites, Ronald, ed. Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Great Lakes. New York: Springer, 2006, 441 pp., cloth.
Toxic pollution from agricultural runoff, urban waste, industrial discharge, and more is a serious problem in the Great Lakes region. This book brings together researchers to review the major classes of Great Lakes pollutants and current knowledge about the extent of contamination.
Hites is Distinguished Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Bloomington.
Hutchinson, George. In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006, 624pp., cloth.
A winner of the 2007 Christian Gauss Award for literary scholarship or criticism and a Choice magazine Outstanding Title, this biography recounts the life of Nella Larsen (1891-1964), born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook. Although Larsen wrote about her life and was briefly celebrated, she was later lost to generations--only to be rediscovered and hailed by many as the best black novelist of her time. In his search for the "mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance," Hutchinson produces a definitive account of a life long obscured by misinterpretations and half-truths.
Hutchinson is Booth Tarkington Chair of literary studies at IUB.
Irmscher, Christopher. Longellow Redux. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008, 376 pp., paper.
Irmscher examines the modern approach to popular poet Longfellow as a purveyor of "literary comfort food." Based on unpublished papers and letters written by Longfellow's fans, the book explores Longellow's idea of authorship, his travels, and his translations. Irmscher demonstrates that Longfellow saw literature as a civic duty, distributing cultural goods democratically to others.
Irmscher is a professor of English at IUB.
Janssen, Erick, ed. The Psychophysiology of Sex. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 527 pp., cloth.
The outcome of a first-of-its-kind conference, this volume brings together researchers who discuss developing findings in the areas of neurophysiology of sexual response, the relationship between subjective and physiological response, the relationship between sexual motivation and arousal, the relationship between motivation/arousal and behavior, and possible gender and individual differences in any of these relationships.
Janssen is associate scientist and director of education and graduate training at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction in Bloomington.
Johnson, Janet Elise, and Jean C. Robinson. Living Gender after Communism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 272 pp., cloth.
In this international and interdisciplinary volume of essays, the contributors, mostly from postcommunist states, examine the construction of gender after communism's collapse. Four sections look at varying gender strategies, the denial of genderedness, the traditional essentialist view of female gender, and the intersections of gender with social forces such as nationalism. "As gender options are multiplied," write the co-editors, "the relationships among and between men and women, private and public, and freedom and control are constantly renegotiated. Living gender after communism means living simultaneously with opportunity and constraint."
Robinson is professor of political science and interim dean of the Hutton Honors College at IU Bloomington.
Keaton, Tricia Danielle. Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics, and Social Exclusion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, 240 pp., paper
Drawing from a multiyear study, this book examines the lives of Muslim girls of African origins, and of youths of color in general, who live in the outer cities of France but are rarely perceived as French. "Muslim girls have been fashioned as the quintessential other vis-a-vis French culture," Keaton writes. In this ethnography and analysis, she hopes to "put a very real human face on the pressing problems affecting the life chances of youths from the French outer cities."
Keaton is assistant professor of African American and African Diaspora studies at IU Bloomington.
Kunzman, Robert. Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006, 168 pp., paper.
Weaving together history, philosophy, and curriculum, this book explores how public schools can and should help students discuss moral disagreements, even when religion is involved. Kunzman describes an approach for the K?12 setting, explores central philosophical principles, and shares his ongoing experiences in helping students to "grapple with the good."
Kunzman is an assistant professor of education at IUB.
Levesque, Roger. Adolescents, Media, and the Law: What Developmental Science Reveals and Free Speech Requires. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
The rapidly changing media environment is having positive and negative effects on the development of American adolescents, according to Levesque. In this book, Levesque integrates research on what the law considers "speech" in adolescent development with research on policies regulating adolescents' rights and place in society. He concentrates on four categories of media content generally considered problematic: violence, sexuality, smoking, and body image. Instead of using adult experience as the benchmark from which to determine adolescents' rights, Levesque examines constitutional principles that govern the right of free speech. "This book seeks to guide the development of laws that will respond to adolescents' informational and expressive needs and provide adolescents, and everyone else, with increased opportunities to flourish in our democratic society," he says.
Levesque is a professor of criminal justice at IU Bloomington.
Lynch, Michael. The Origins of Genome Architecture. Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates, 2007, 510 pp., cloth.
With official genomic blueprints now available for hundreds of species, adaptive arguments for the evolution of gene and genomic features have proliferated. Lynch argues alternative explanations such as the conceptive processes of mutation, recombination, and drift. According to a review in Science, "the book's first 12 chapters are a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of genomes. The Origins represents a serious, valiant,and highly scholarly attempt to make sense of the new data provided by the genomic revolution. ... Lynch deploys the full array of conceptual tools that make up the modern synthesis paradigm in evolutionary biology."
Lynch is Distinguished Professor of biology at IUB.
Madison, James. Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 248 pp., cloth.
Elizabeth Richardson was a hostess for the American Red Cross Clubmobile during World War II, traveling through England and France to bring free doughnuts, coffee, cigarettes, and gum to American soldiers. She was also a keen observer and writer. Based on Richardson's letters and diary entries, this book offers an unusual perspective on the American war effort abroad, with commentary and historical context provided by Madison. Richardson died in a plane crash in 1945.
Madison is Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of history at IU Bloomington.
Martin, Michael T., and Marilyn Yaquinto, eds. Redress for Historical Injustices in the United States: On Reparations for Slavery, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007, 728 pap., cloth.
This comprehensive collection brings together activists and scholars to reflect on how to "repair" historical wrongs against African Americans. "Monetary compensation is but one strategy in a multipronged approach for redress and reconciliation with the past," the co-authors write. "It is the combined moral, political and material investment in the lives of the descendents of slaves -- along with other African peoples in the diaspora -- that is the desired outcome of the prevailing reparations movement." Essays in the reader examine the historical and legal bases of claims for redress; the history, strengths, and limitations of the reparations movement; and the movement's relation to human rights and social justice movements in the United States and abroad. Other essays evaluate the movement’s primary strategies of legislation, litigation, and mobilization. The volume also offers primary and secondary documents related to the reparations debate, some published for the first time, including federal, state, and municipal acts and resolutions; declarations and statements from organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the NAACP; legal briefs and opinions; and findings and directives related to the provision of redress, from the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 to the mandate for the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Martin is professor of African American and African diaspora studies and director of the IU Black Film Center and Archive at IUB.
McCluskey, Audrey T., ed. Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image, 1994-2004. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 904 pp., cloth.
A reference and resource for scholars and film devotees, this book documents the contributions of Africans and African Americans in all aspects of the cinematic arts. Spanning the decade from 1994 to 2004, the volume includes narrative descriptions and plot summaries, listings of black cast members, directors, executive producers, film composers, performers, producers, screenwriters, and Academy Award winners and nominees. The introduction provides a scholarly assessment of the growth, impact, and challenges in black world cinema.
McCluskey is associate professor of African American and African diaspora studies and interim director of the Neal-marshall Black Culture Center at IUB. She is also editor and curator of the recent Imaging Blackness: Race and Racial Representation in Film Poster Art (IUP, 2006).
Morris, R. Winston, and Daniel Perantoni, eds. Guide to the Tuba Repertoire: The New Tuba Source Book. Indiana Repertoire Guides. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 984 pp., cloth.
This guide offers a comprehensive investigation of the literature and discography of the tuba, defining the instrument's current status and documenting its growth since its inception in 1835.
Perantoni is professor of tuba at IUB.
Middleton, William D., George M. Smerk, and Roberta L. Diehl, eds. Encyclopedia of North American Railroads. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 1312 pp., cloth.
This reference work includes more than 500 entries on companies, suppliers, manufacturers, and individuals involved in rail travel and transport throughout North America. The volume's overarching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact of its progress on the North American continent .Appendices provide data on weight, fu el, statistical trends, and a list of 130 railroad books.
Smerk was a professor of transportation at the Kelley School of Business at IU Bloomington for more than 40 years. Diehl is a former editor at IU Press.
Oster, Clinton V., and John S. Strong. Managing the Skies: Public Policy, Organization, and Financing of Air Navigation. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.
The co-authors of this study argue that the United States lags behind other developed countries in the structure and financing of its air traffic control system. And its failure to adopt reforms may have serious consequences as air travel grows a projected 5 perent a year, reaching nearly 1 billion passengers in the United States alone by 2015. The book is written to demystify air traffic management for policymakers and others. It includes sections on the mature aviation markets of Australia nad New Zeland, Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe as well as the emerging markets of Russia, China, India, Africa, and South America. There is a section on air traffic management in the United States and a concluding section on labor issues and future challenges.
Oster is professor and associate dean for public affairs in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUB.
Ostrom, Vincent. The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration. 3rd ed. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, 2008, 264 pp., paper.
A classic in the field of public administration, this book examines various constitutional crises the nation has experienced since Watergate. This revised and expanded 3rd edition extends Ostrom’s analysis to account for the most recent developments in American politics including the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of political science and founding director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IUB.
Ostrom, Vincent. The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the Amiercan Experiment. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD, 2008, 316 pp., ppaer
This text examines the foundation of American constitutional design expressed in The Federalist. Through textual analysis, the logical principles of federalism—the extended and compound republic envisioned by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton—are revealed as 13 propositions broadly applicable to any effort to design the institutions of a self-governing polity. The final chapters, expanded and revised by Vincent Ostrom and Barbara Allen, turn to the American experiment in constitutional choice at the threshold of the twenty-first century. In this revised edition, Ostrom and Allen consider the continuing story of federal institutional development by focusing on two current concerns: the “imperial presidency” and the ideal of universal human rights.
Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of political science and founding director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at IUB.
Priest, Douglas M., and Edward P. St. John, eds. Privatization and Public Universities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, 280 pp, cloth.
Today's public institutions of higher education face difficult financial times. Public universities are pushed toward private sector methods of revenue generation and cost reduction. In this volume, contributors examine issues of adaptation and change in the public sector of American higher education, in relation to the public interest. The volume focuses on four topics: privatization and public policy, alternative revenue sources (such as patents and royalties), modernization (e.g. the impact of information technologies), and implications for the public interest.
Priest is associate professor of education at IUB. Other IU faculty experts contributing to the volume include Rachel Dykstra Boon, William P. Gorr, Don Hossler, Bruce Jacobs, and Eugene Tempel.
Rabinowitch, Alexander. The Bolsheviks in Power: The First Year of Soviet Rule in Petrograd. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 424 pp., cloth.
As Rabinowitch neared completion of his manuscript on the first year of Bolshevik rule in Russia, he was surprised by an opportunity to review previously secret Russian government and Communist party archives from the revolutionary period. Drawing on those archives, Rabinowitch was able to look deeply at the factions, organizations, and events that gave birth to the Soviet political system. Rabinowitch argues that authoritarian rule in Russia in 197-18 evolved ad hoc from reactions to events and circumstances, rather than a hardening of ideology. The book has been published simultaneously in the United States and in Russia.
Rabinowtich is professor emeritus of history at IUB.
Robertson, Nancy Marie. Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the YWCA, 1906-46. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007, cloth.
Robertson explores how the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), the nation’s first major biracial women’s organization, provided a unique venue for women to respond to American race relations during the first half of the 20th century and laid the groundwork for the subsequent civil rights movement. Although the YWCA was segregated at the local level during the time period, Robertson says, African American women were able to challenge white women over the YWCA’s racial policies and practices at the national level.
Robertson is a professor of history and an associate professor of philanthropic studies and director of the Women’s Studies Program at IUPUI.
Robinson, Jennifer Meta, and J.A. Hartenfeld. The Farmers' Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community. Photographs by Dan Schlapbach and Jennifer Roebuck. Quarry Books. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 271 pp., paper.
When Robinson and Hartenfeld write that their book is based on fieldwork, they mean it in the most fundamental way--the work of small farmers plowing their fields so that they may bring produce, flowers, and other wares to sell at farmers' markets. Robinson and Hartenfeld, growers themselves, offer a social history of farmers' markets and their role in building communities, a look at the perspectives of both vendors and customers, and an exploration of "the future promise and dilemmas of markets and local food." Based on the activities and people of the Bloomington (Ind.) Community Farmers" Market, the stories of this book "sketch the borders of a field," write the co-authors, "one in which we are all much alike for all our differences, much different for all our common ground."
Robinson directs Campus Instructional Consulting and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program at IUB. Hartenfeld, a former photography and graphic design instructor at the IU School of Journalism, has been a vendor at the Bloomington Farmers' Market for 29 years.
Selka, Stephen. Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2007, 192 pp., cloth.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Brazil between 2000 and 2002, Selka's book focuses on the Reconcavo region of northeastern Brazil, examining how evangelical Protestantism, Candomble (traditional Afro-Brazilian religion), and Catholicism--especially progressive Catholicism--are deployed in struggles concerning racism and identity.
Selka is assistant professor of American studies and of African American and African diaspora studies at IUB.
Thorelli, Hans B. INTOPIA B2B. http://www.intopiainc.com.
Based on the International Operations Simulation (Tichenor, 2006), this simulation is Internet-oriented, providing an experience of running multinational corporations in the chip and PC industries and markets in the EU, Brazil, and the United States. The simulation is useful for business policy/strategy, international business's, logistics, and entrepreneurship classes. The FORMIN input/output module is free to download at intopiainc.com.
Thorelli is a distinguished professor of business administration at IU Bloomington.
Veidlinger, Jeffrey. The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage. Jewish Literature and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 376 pp., paper.
Now available in paperback, this award-winning work of cultural and political history uses the story of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater to demonstrate how Jewish writers and artists were able to promote Jewish culture within the confines of Soviet culture and national policies. In 2001, Veidlinger's work won the National Jewish Book Award (Yiddish language and culture), the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research, and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book.
Veidlinger is associate professor of history and Jewish studies and associate director of the Borns Jewish Studies Program at IUB.
Walker, Pamela, and Patricia Rogan, eds. Make the Day Matter! Promoting Typical Lifestyles for Adults with Significant Disabilities. Baltimore: Brookes Publishing, 2007, 192 pp., paper.
This guide gives service providers ideas, guidelines, and examples for promoting active and meaningful daytime lifestyles among adults with disabilities. Contributors focus on areas such as making a smooth transition from school to adult life, participating in postsecondary education, and transitioning to older adulthood and retirement.
Rogan is professor and chair of secondary education and area coordinator of special education at the IU School of Education in Bloomington.
Wingfield, Nancy M., and Maria Bucur, eds. Gender & War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006, 264 pp., paper.
What does it mean to 'gender the front'? Contributors to this essay collection explore that question, using gender as a category of analysis to expand our understanding of war in 20th-century Eastern Europe. Among the collection's major themes are how wartime experiences challenge traditional gender roles; postwar restoration of gender order, collaboration and resistance; the body; and memory and commemoration.
Bucur is associate professor of history and John V. Hill Chair in East European history at IU Bloomington.
Winold, Allen. Bach's Cello Suites: Analyses & Explorations. Vols. I and II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007, 280 pp. ea., paper.
This full-length music analytical study includes every note of all movements from Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, with both basic and specialized analyses of the movements. The texts are intended for cellists and other performing musicians as well as music teachers and general readers interested in music listening.
Winold is professor emeritus of music at IU's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington.
