Indiana Books

Barbara Owen succeeds in condensing more than 200 years of registration practice in a working volume. The book is organized by time period and nationality, allowing the reader to assimilate the trends of each of the organ "schools." Each chapter is prefaced by a list of the relevant composers, as well as stop lists of representative organs. Perhaps Owen's signal accomplishment is a combination of historical awareness with the practical needs of the performance. For instance, after giving the background on the Italian voce umana stop, she suggests that one can replicate the sound on a mechanical action organ by coupling two 8' principals, with one detuned (half drawn). Overall, a practical reference for the performance of 16th, 17th, and 18th-century organ music.

Now in a new updated and expanded edition, Reid Duffy's Guide to Indiana's Favorite Restaurants with a Recipe Sampler is primarily a guide for Indiana residents, travelers, or vacationers to selecting the most sumptuous eateries to enjoy, but the sample recipes are sure to delight anyone interested in the joys of Indiana cuisine. Each restaurant entry lists its address, telephone number, and business hours, along with a lengthy, in-depth paragraph describing what makes a given eatery special, from prize dishes to beer or wine selections to the presence of live entertainment. The presented Indiana culinary trade recipes include "Little Zagreb's Eggplant Provolone", "Beef House Broccoli Soup", "Cindy's Salad", "Toll House Pie" and much more. A mouth-watering Midwest treat!

Abigail Bailey keeps a diary of her thoughts and feelings relating to her abusive marriage. Abigail's perspective is historic, as she lived in New England in the early foundations of America, but also contemporary, as she writes of the pains, hopes, and struggles of living with an abusive husband. Abigail Bailey's faith played an integral part of her decision-making process, and anyone who wants to understand how Christianity and spirituality contributes to the plight of the abused wife is urged to read this book. It gives a birds-eye view of the inner dynamics of the abusive relationship and Christianity's relationship to those dynamics. While the memoirs stand on their own, the editor does a thourough job of explaining the social, political, and historical contexts of Abigail's life. The only downfall is that it is "heavy" reading, as the language Abigail used is old-English, and one may need to labor more than usual in reading and interpeting it. It is well worth it, though!

This surprisingly interesting look at Outdoor Public Sculpture in Indiana has informed and entertained us immensely. 300 pages, 200 photos, slick. Pleasantly pleased with the fanciful portion; we are on our way to see the 18 foot Santa as well as the poignant stonecarver Louis Baker monument in Bedford, just as if he were still carving. And taking the book with us as we discover these facinating public rememberances. Finally, a helpful, well done and informative book !

_Reshaping Reason_ is an excellent and original work of philosophy. In this book, John McCumber rigorously--and clearly--unites major trajectories from within both continental and analytic philosophy to produce a contemporary philosophical standpoint, a new philosophy that is argumentatively rigorous, historically contextualized, and open to the future. Indeed, the book precisely articulates the concepts and methods necessary to maintain these three dimensions of argumentative rigor, historical contextualization and futural openness. McCumber studies the significance (mostly, in the end, detrimental) of Aristotle's concept of "ousia" for our traditional ways of understanding the world, and McCumber offers an alternative approach that stresses the possibility rather than the actuality that characterizes our world. McCumber specially emphasizes the primacy of human experience for setting the terms of meaning of our world, and generating adequate terms and concepts for addressing human relationships is one of the central projects--and accomplishments--of this work. McCumber stresses his notion of "poetic interaction" when studying human relations: in our relations we create the very terms and structures of those relationships, rather than answering to pregiven patterns. McCumber's establishing of four "elemental" forms of relationship (with both healthy and oppressive forms) is particularly insightful. The book ends with a study of the historically unique nature of the government of the United States, and looks at how this structure does and does not address the essential needs of human life. This would be an excellent book for any serious student of philosophy to read, and would also be an excellent choice for classroom use.

this book is a must have if you study any form of feminist fiction. judith fetterly breaks down how women portrayed in well known works in the western canon are seen as sexless shrews, hysterics, man-hating, and oversexed lunatics to name a few --but are tolerated or fetishized for their subservient placement in the system of male power. As long as they do nothing to challenge the power construct, and actually support it, they are portayed in a half cruel light and simulataneously worshipped as well. They don't buck the power and if they do they pay for it and are blamed any breakdowns in the natural systems of order as well. it will make you burn, burn, burn and that defiant, healthy way. and in that bad, bad, bad,way.

A wonderful collection of philosophical essays written within the Continental tradition, with an emphasis on phenomenology. Much of the work being done in Environmental Ethics today is often bogged down in either useless theorizing about anthropocentric v.s. ecocentric viewpoints or an overemphasis on specific issues such as animal rights, which often overshadows the most pressing challenges facing environmental thinkers. By refocusing the discussion on the essence of nature, or rather, the Being of Nature, the writers in this book are attempting to remind us of the true importance and value of nature, unveiling nature as something wonderful, something beautiful, and most importantly, something sacred. These essays offer some of the most exciting work being done in environmental philosophy today and also reveal the crucial role phenomenology is bound to play in any holistic philosophy of nature.

Nancy Fraser and Sandra Lee Bartky take French feminism--as it was introduced to the Anglo-American world by the work of Elaine Marks' and Isabelle de Courtivron's New French Feminism (1980)--and reconsider it today, in the context of developing postmodern thought/feminisms. Inaugurating third wave feminisms, the writings of Hélène Cixous, Catherine Clément, Christine Delphy, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Monique Wittig bear both a deconstructive-psychoanalytical strand of thought--holding an upper hand today in the English-speaking academia, as expressed in the Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva triad--and a materialist subversive, countercultural instance. Focusing on issues of "identity, difference and femininity" (5), Fraser and Bartky rejoin French feminisms with Anglo-American feminists of a difference understood as a battle field between essentialist and non-substantialist significations. The presence of the American positive "gynocentric feminism" (Iris Young, Nancy Chodorow, and Carol Gilligan) vs. the universally emancipated subject is renegotiated today. Identity and difference are again problematized into "identities" and "differences" (6) within Derridean meaning indeterminacy and dislocated subjectivities. The question then returns to a full circle: do feminist postmodern identities of difference reaffirm an essentialist project? This is a useful collection of articles on challenging Franco-American representations of the feminine in Western philosophy, psychoanalysis, and French theories of discourse.

20 years out, it's STILL the best damn reverse index of Manchu on the market!

Many thanks for such a candid assessment of the techniques involved! I applied this to Ziguenerweisen by Sarasate and my performance had more ease and smoothness to it! Fingers reaching back and also reaching forward with the hand as a general rule, instead of occasionally, was a big help for having small hands. Mari Haig