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  • DOLLY PARTON, GENDER, AND COUNTRY MUSIC
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    DOLLY PARTON, GENDER, AND COUNTRY MUSIC
    LEIGH H. EDWARDS
    The Foreword Indies Gold Medal Winner that "analyzes Dolly Parton as a performance art project designed to subvert gender and class expectations" ( Shondaland). Dolly Parton is instantly recognizable for her iconic style and persona, but how did she create her enduring image? Dolly crafted her exaggerated appearance and stage personality by combining two opposing stereotypes—th...

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  • PERFORMING TRAUMA IN CENTRAL AFRICA
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    PERFORMING TRAUMA IN CENTRAL AFRICA
    LAURA EDMONDSON
    "An outstanding addition to the literature on theatre and performance in situations of conflict and post-conflict." — New Theatre Quarterly What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil wa...

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  • OVERTHROWING THE QUEEN
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    OVERTHROWING THE QUEEN
    TOM MOULD
    Examining the popular myths and unseen realities of welfare, this study reveals the political power of folklore and the possibilities of storytelling. In 1976, Ronald Reagan hit the campaign trail with an extraordinary account of a woman committing massive welfare fraud. The story caught fire and a devastating symbol of the misuse government programs was born: the Welfare Queen...

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  • JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC PRISM
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    JOSEPHINE BAKER'S CINEMATIC PRISM
    TERRI SIMONE FRANCIS
    Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping.  Nicknamed the "Black Venus," "Black Pearl," and "Creole Goddess," Baker blended the sensual and the comedic when taking 1920s Europe by storm. Back home in the United States, Baker's film c...

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  • BEYONCÉ
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    BEYONCÉ
    MARTIN IDDON AND MELANIE L. MARSHALL
    Who runs the world? The Beyhive knows. From the Destiny's Child 2001 hit single "Survivor" to her 2019 jam "7/11," Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has confronted dominant issues around the world. Because her image is linked with debates on race, sexuality, and female empowerment, she has become a central figure in pop music and pop culture. Beyoncé: At Work, On Screen, and Online explor...

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  • TANK WARFARE
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    TANK WARFARE
    JEREMY BLACK
    The story of the battlefield in the 20th century was dominated by a handful of developments. Foremost of these was the introduction and refinement of tanks. In Tank Warfare, prominent military historian Jeremy Black offers a comprehensive global account of the history of tanks and armored warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries. First introduced onto the battlefield during the W...

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    "CAN YOU RUN AWAY FROM SORROW?"
    IVANA BAJIC-HAJDUKOVIC
    How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work, Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic reveals the impact that waves of emigration from Serbia had on family relationships and, in particular, on elderly moth...

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  • AN INDIANA CHRISTMAS
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    AN INDIANA CHRISTMAS
    "A grand and thrilling selection of Hoosier writing presented through the fraught lens of Christmas . . . a fascinating and utterly enjoyable read." —Michael Dahlie, award-winning author of The Best of Youth In An Indiana Christmas, editor Bryan Furuness brings together timeless short stories, poems, plays, and letters to help you get into the holiday spirit. Lose yourself in c...

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  • THE SADNESS OF SPIRITS
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    THE SADNESS OF SPIRITS
    AIMEE POGSON
    What power does misery play in daily life? In this sorrowful yet intriguing collection of stories, Aimee Pogson explores journeys of suffering through magical realism. A preschool teacher contends with the stream of salmon that keep appearing on her windowsill, in her closet, tucked in her shoes. An invisible boy swallows nails, buttons, and tree bark in a misguided attempt to ...

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  • CHASING INDIANA'S GAME
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    CHASING INDIANA'S GAME
    CHRIS SMITH / MICHAEL KEATING
    Hoosiers have always loved basketball! Long before Larry Bird carried Indiana State University to the 1979 NCAA National Championship or Bobby Knight walked the sidelines at Indiana University, basketball fostered community identity across the Hoosier state. From Indiana's tiniest towns to its biggest cities, high school basketball is a source of pride, unifying communities wit...

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  • MARY ELLEN BUTE
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    MARY ELLEN BUTE
    KIT SMYTH BASQUIN
    Mary Ellen Bute: Pioneer Animator captures the personal and professional life of Mary Ellen Bute (1906–1983) one of the first American filmmakers to create abstract animated films in 1934, also one of the first Americans to use the electronic image of the oscilloscope in films starting in 1949, and the first filmmaker to interpret James Joyce's literature for the screen, Passag...

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  • CHOROLOGY
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    CHOROLOGY
    JOHN SALLIS
    "The major American philosopher . . . makes us want to re-read the Platonic text with fascination. And that is but its grandest gift." —Daniel Guerriere, professor emeritus of philosophy at California State University, Long Beach In Chorology, John Sallis takes up one of the most enigmatic discourses in the history of philosophy. Plato's discourse on the chora—the chorology—for...

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  • EASTBOUND THROUGH SIBERIA
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    EASTBOUND THROUGH SIBERIA
    GEORG WILHELM STELLER
    In the winter of 1739, Georg Steller received word from Empress Anna of Russia that he was to embark on a secret expedition to the far reaches of Siberia as a member of the Great Northern Expedition. While searching for economic possibilities and strategic advantages, Steller was to send back descriptions of everything he saw. The Empress's instructions were detailed, from requ...

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  • JEWISH FORCED LABOR IN ROMANIA, 1940–1944
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    JEWISH FORCED LABOR IN ROMANIA, 1940–1944
    DALLAS MICHELBACHER
    Between Romania's entry into World War II in 1941 and the ouster of dictator Ion Antonescu three years later, over 105,000 Jews were forced to work in internment and labor camps, labor battalions, government institutions, and private industry. Particularly for those in the labor battalions, this period was characterized by extraordinary physical and psychological suffering, hun...

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  • RUAIRÍ Ó BRÁDAIGH
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    RUAIRÍ Ó BRÁDAIGH
    ROBERT W. WHITE
    "In a very real sense, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. But an understanding of them is not possible without appreciating where they came from and from what tradition t...

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  • LIFE THROUGH THE AGES II
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    LIFE THROUGH THE AGES II
    MARK P. WITTON
    A paleontologist shows what life was like on our planet long before the early humans emerged through words and illustrations. Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments they inhabited, and the challenges they faced living on an ever-changing ...

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  • GOD HAD A BODY
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    GOD HAD A BODY
    JENNIE MALBOEUF
    A debut collection of poetry exploring themes of religion, human behavior, identity, marriage, family, and loss. The mind and the body. The heavens and earth. God and animal. The speaker in God had a body considers how the image of a higher power is presented to her, beginning with a Catholic upbringing in Kentucky. Speckled with stars and peopled with creatures, these poems em...

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  • HOW THE WORLD LOOKS TO A BEE
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    HOW THE WORLD LOOKS TO A BEE
    Get a buzz out of science with a collection of fun facts and explanations of the world around us from the author of How Can You Tell if a Spider Is Dead? What can you learn about your world in just a moment? Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or whether dogs can read our facial expressions? Don Glass and experts in their fields answer these questions and many more. Wri...

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  • COAST TO COAST COOKERY
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    COAST TO COAST COOKERY
    An assortment of recipes from across the United States from Hawaii to Vermont, as well as scrumptious bites of American culinary history. In Coast to Coast Cookery, editor Marian Tracy showcases a diverse collection of regional American recipes. From Indiana Steamed Persimmon Pudding to Hawaiian Curry, Ohio Maple Dumplings, and Pennsylvanian Fishhouse Punch (famously used in to...

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  • THE PIANIST'S DICTIONARY, SECOND EDITION
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    THE PIANIST'S DICTIONARY, SECOND EDITION
    MAURICE HINSON / WESLEY ROBERTS
    The Pianist's Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Prepared by Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts, this revised and expanded edition is a compendium of information gleaned from a combined century of piano teaching. Users will find helpful and clear definitions of musical and pianistic terms...

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  • THE BURDEN OF THE PAST
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    THE BURDEN OF THE PAST
    In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in order to form new national identities supportive of their own agendas. With the collapse of t...

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  • MOTOR CITY MOVIE CULTURE, 1916-1925
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    MOTOR CITY MOVIE CULTURE, 1916-1925
    RICHARD ABEL
    Motor City Movie Culture, 1916–1925 is a broad textured look at Hollywood coming of age in a city with a burgeoning population and complex demographics. Richard Abel investigates the role of local Detroit organizations in producing, distributing, exhibiting, and publicizing films in an effort to make moviegoing part of everyday life. Tapping a wealth of primary source material—...

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  • IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMAIN SILENT
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    IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REMAIN SILENT
    JORGE SEMPRÚN / ELIE WIESEL
    A conversation between Elie Wiesel and Jorge Semprún about what they experienced and observed during their time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE—a French-German state-funded television network—proposed an encounter between two highly regarded figures of our tim...

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  • WEDDING CLOTHES AND THE OSAGE COMMUNITY
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    WEDDING CLOTHES AND THE OSAGE COMMUNITY
    DANIEL C. SWAN / JIM COOLEY
    An exploration of how gift exchange serves as a critical component in the preservation and perpetuation of one Native American tribe. Upon winning the CMA Book Award, Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community was praised as "a book that transcends its subject matter and helps us all see the possibilities of museum anthropology." This study of the Osage Nation's foundational cultu...

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  • BEING AND LOGOS
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    BEING AND LOGOS
    JOHN SALLIS
    An exercise in the careful reading of the dialogues in their originary character. " Being and Logos is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity—all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that t...

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  • THE MAKING OF A REFORM JEWISH CANTOR
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    THE MAKING OF A REFORM JEWISH CANTOR
    JUDAH M. COHEN
    "Of interest not only to cantors and their teachers but also to rabbis, congregations and everyone concerned about the future of the Jewish community." — Florida Jewish Journal The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the twenty-first century. How do aspiring can...

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  • THE ENGINEER OF BEASTS
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    THE ENGINEER OF BEASTS
    SCOTT RUSSELL SANDERS
    "Terrific fantasy . . . Sanders takes readers on a whirlwind tour of a future Earth, where cities are domed for protection against the deadly environment." — Publishers Weekly After decades of abuse transforms the world into a toxic wasteland, people flee into the safety of a global network of domed cities. Within these safe, orderly spaces, the only animals allowed are machine...

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  • THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME IX
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    THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME IX
    SSU-MA CH'IEN
    A remarkable document of ancient Chinese history: "[An] indispensable addition to modern sinology." — China Review International This volume of The Grand Scribe's Records includes the second segment of Han-dynasty memoirs and deals primarily with men who lived and served under Emperor Wu (r. 141–87 B.C.). The lead chapter presents a parallel biography of two ancient physicians,...

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  • THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME XI
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    THE GRAND SCRIBE'S RECORDS, VOLUME XI
    SSU-MA CH'IEN
    Part of the extraordinary multi-volume portrait of ancient China written by a court official of the Han Dynasty. The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discer...

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  • CROSS AND COSMOS
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    CROSS AND COSMOS
    JOHN D. CAPUTO
    John D. Caputo stretches his project as a radical theologian to new limits in this groundbreaking book. Mapping out his summative theological position, he identifies with Martin Luther to take on notions of the hidden god, the theology of the cross, confessional theology, and natural theology. Caputo also confronts the dark side of the cross with its correlation to lynching and...

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