Purdue University Press imprint: 164 books
The Closed Hand
Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese...
Your Ideal Cat
Insights into Breed and Gender Differences in Cat Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
For a happy relationship with your cat, go beyond the looks and make your pick based on demonstrated breed behavior. This is the advice of the Harts, two experts in animal communication and behavior, whose new book takes the process of selecting a cat to the next level by offering data-based behavioral...
Native Trees of the Midwest
Identification, Wildlife Value, and Landscaping
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Native Trees of the Midwest is a definitive guide to identifying trees in Indiana and surrounding states, written by three leading forestry experts. Descriptive text explains how to identify every species in any season and color photographs show all important characteristics. Not only does the book...
Marvelous Bodies
Italy's New Migrant Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Historically a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, Italy has rapidly become a preferred destination for immigrants from the global South. Life in the land of la dolce vita has not seemed so sweet recently, as Italy struggles with the cultural challenges caused by this surge in...
Project and Program Management
A Competency-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Choosing the right people to carry out a project is essential to its success. When multiple projects are combined into a complex program, the "human aspect" becomes even more important. This book is the first to truly balance a complete account of the technical aspects of project and program...
by Ann R. Howie
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Todays therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Teaming with ones dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance in what to do. Being a teammate requires attention to our own behavior, not just our dogs. This book...
Mishpachah
The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Dictionary definitions of the term mishpachah are seemingly straightforward: "A Jewish family or social unit including close and distant relatives-sometimes also close friends." As accurate as such definitions are, they fail to capture the diversity and vitality of real, flesh-and-blood...
olam he-zeh v'olam ha-ba
This World and the World to Come in Jewish Belief and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Dining on Leviathan. Discoursing with Socrates. Debating the nature of existence in the afterlife. These are among the topics authors address in this wide-ranging account of how Jews have conceptualized the world to come and structured their lives in this world accordingly. Some authorities portrayed...
Self-Publishing and Collection Development
Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth...
Apple of Discord
The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian...
At Wit’s End
Plain Talk on Alzheimer’s for Families and Clinicians, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
At Wit’s End: Plain Talk on Alzheimer’s for Families and Clinicians, now in its Second Edition, is a straightforward summary of leading advice for understanding and caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease, written without technical jargon and impractical nuance. About one-third of our population...
by Rolando Pérez
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Severo Sarduy never enjoyed the same level of notoriety as did other Latin American writers like García Márquez and Vargas-Llosa, and his compatriot, Cabrera-Infante. On the other hand, he never lacked for excellent critical interpretations of his work from critics like Roberto González Echevarría,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe's notion of Weltliteratur (1827) to propose that, owing to globalization, literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than producing...
by Claudia Yaghoobi
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and ʿAttār (1145-1221) opens up a new space of comparison for reading and understanding medieval Persian and European literatures. The book invites us on an intellectual journey that reveals...