Purdue University Press imprint: 164 books
Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea
Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906-1927
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation...
Edith Bruck in the Mirror
Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Author of more than thirteen books and several volumes of poetry, screenwriter, and director, Edith Bruck is one of the leading literary voices in Italy, attracting increasing attention in the English-speaking world not least for her powerful Holocaust testimony, which is often compared with the work...
Fashioning Jews
Clothing, Culture, and Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This volume presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, held at Creighton University in October 2011. The contributors look at all aspects of the intimate relationship between Jews and clothing, through case studies from ancient, medieval, recent, and contemporary history....
The Jewish Jesus
Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as...
by Li Guo
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from,...
Animal-Assisted Psychotherapy
Theory, Issues, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
The integration of animals into the therapy setting by psychotherapists has been a growing trend. Psychological problems treated include emotional and behavioral problems, attachment issues, trauma, and developmental disorders. An influential 1970s survey suggests that over 20 percent of therapists...
Where Do We Go From Here?
Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Over one hundred presentations from the 35th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 4–7, 2015) are included in this annual proceedings volume. Major themes of the meeting included streaming video, analysis and assessment, demand-driven acquisition, the future of university presses,...
Found in Translation
Essays on Jewish Biblical Translation in Honor of Leonard J. Greenspoon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Found in Translation is at once a themed volume on the translation of ancient Jewish texts and a Festschrift for Leonard J. Greenspoon, the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish Civilization and professor of classical and near Eastern studies and of theology at Creighton University in...
Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies
A Scholars' Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process that necessitates a willingness to work together openly and objectively in...
Academic E-Books
Publishers, Librarians, and Users
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
E-Books in Academic Libraries: Stepping Up to the Challenge provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians...
by Paula Leverage
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Theory of Mind is what enables us to "put ourselves in another's shoes." It is mindreading, empathy, creative imagination of another's perspective: in short, it is simultaneously a highly sophisticated ability and a very basic necessity for human communication. Theory of Mind is central...
The Memory Factory
The Forgotten Women Artists of Vienna 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually...
Become the CEO of You, Inc.
A Pioneering Executive Shares Her Secrets for Career Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
How do you turn your dreams into reality? How do you make things happen for you, rather than let things happen to you? Don't be humble about who you are and what you are capable of. Stand tall and stand out. Be known. Be recognized as a leader, and most of all, know you are a leader," is Susan...