Indiana Books

Transcribed in this book are the following lectures:

Agents of Empire in Colonial America
George M. Waller

The Impact of the European Presence on Indian Culture
James A. Brown

Spanish Indian Policy and the Struggle for Empire
John J. Tepaske

The "Rising French Empire" in the Ohio Valley and Old Northwest: The "Dreaded Juncture of the French Settlements in Canada with those of Louisiana"
George A. Rawlyk

Britain and the Ohio Valley, 1760-1775: The Search for Alternatives in a Revolutionary Era
jack M. Sosin

The Advance of the Anglo-American Frontier, 1700-1783
Thomas D. Clark

This book is an excellent collection of essays from a wide variety of philosophers. This is certainly not a self-help book or an inspirational collection - it a thoughtful exploration of how the acts of cooking, eating, and thinkning have implications in feminist, post-modern, and Zen philosophy. Some of my favorite essays looked at how cooking is goverened by social power relationships, how one's diet is a political act, and how eating is an integral part of a person's understanding of Self and Other. I really dug this book. Finally, the title is a great play on Martin Heidegger's "Building, Dwelling, Thinking". Check them both out!

This is a great book that reflects the excitment of this cooking school in the middle of Main Street Indiana. I purchased two! Marie has focused on easy yet elegant time-tested recipes that will soon be a staple in your home.

Irvington, 1939. A secure, tree-shaded world of businessmen, aging artists and writers in a suburb of east Indianapolis. Shop owners, stay-at-home mothers, their teenaged sons and daughters enjoying the rivalry of football in opposing schools - all did not know they stood on the edge of cataclysm.

This autobiographical novel pictures in poignant, vivid detail the coming of World War II to the small town on the East Side. It portrays the shattering of the comfortable world of the small town's boyhood friends as they scatter to England, to Normandy, to the Asia of Chennault. Most of all, A Corner of Time shows the intense, bitter rivalry of two Irvington brothers, whose animosity extends even beyond the war to a surprising final conclusion.
--- from books dustjacket

This book is invaluable to be used for preparation for the ASQ CQA test. It is divided into relevant chapters and each chapter has a test with questions - and answers! The book is in a 3 ring format so that the test questions can be removed before the exam.

Crawfordsville, Athens of Indiana

Karen Zach, Montgomery County Indiana Historian has put together a
worthy book for her first foray into "real" publication. Karen is not
new to the people who research history in Montgomery County.

Karen, who is a teacher, and an enormous asset to the Community, is
well known among Historians, and Genealogists. Karen has been
coordinating the USGenWeb Project web page for the County for
some time, she is also a past President of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, Dorothy Q Chapter, and maintains that website
as well. Karen is Ambassador of much of the history and genealogy
in the County, and her close support of Crawfordsville's District
Library, and its extensive resources, is highly commendable.

Karen is to be commended for her efforts to get copious amounts of
data out to the public. In that spirit she took on the project of
composing a Crawfordsville history for the "Making of America"
series.

The Making of America series is a nationwide project of local
histories, and using vintage photos, and excerpts from many local
sources, Karen has done an excellent job for the community of
Crawfordsville.

For more than 150 years Crawfordsville has been a central place for
the cutting edge of culture in western Indiana.
From being the place where many generals of the Civil War began the
recruiting for that conflict, and the literary endeavors of General Lew
Wallace and others, to the influence and confluence of the railroads
and the General Land Office on the people of the entire region, she
touches all of these. The developments of Basketball as a sport, and
the archetectural impact of Crawfordsville, are also key points.

Karen leads us from the earliest days of the County, to the
modern-post September 11, 2001- era.
One part of the history leads us right into the next in a continuous
tapestry of what makes this City uniquely Hoosier. Wabash College,
an early institute of higher education, was a drawing point for the
great minds, and the environment of Crawfordsville must have been
ripe, rich, and sweet, because many inventions sprang from it, great
works of literature and art abound, and it seems that everyone has
something to add to the general progress of the region and
especially Montgomery County.

Taken as a place of history, and as an undeniable place IN history,
Crawfordsville is and was the "Athens of Indiana". Perhaps it is the
Athens of the whole USA.

Crawfordsville, Athens of Indiana,
Copyright © 2003, Karen Bazzani Zach
Arcadia Publishing,
Tempus Publishing, 2 Cumberland Street, Charleston, South Carolina,
USA. 29401

Library of Congress Catalog Card #2002116806

ISBN: 0738524174

Any scholar of Nigeria or anyone interested in post-independence history of Nigeria should have this on their bookshelf. It's detailed, succinct, well-organized and well-researched. I refer to it all the time.

War of the Worlds is one of the most important science fiction novels, but its importance can be difficult to see without some knowledge of the time in which it was written. Using essays (some by Wells himself) and copious footnotes, this critical edition does a fine job of placing War of the Worlds into its proper context

how have i missed p. m. carlson? this book is intelligent, great characters, and intricate and logical plot. not sure how i've missed this author, but i am going back for more.

In this collection of essays, Wiredu makes and unpacks four interrelated claims. Along the way, he supplies numerous examples and proofs from Akan thought and in some of the middle chapters provides clear expositions of large elements of it. First, he asserts that there exist universally true ideas and concepts including in morality whose validity can be determined objectively. Second, he argues that the conflation of morality with custom makes morality appear to be culturally relative and demonstrates this conflation by Christian evangelicals in Africa. Third, he suggests that part of the legacy of this conflation is an often unwitting "colonial mentality" of African intellectuals who ponder, articulate and write about their cultures in foreign languages (i.e. English and French) and who use Western concepts to articulate African thought. Fourth, he suggests that Africans need to return to African traditional thought, which still informs the lives of ordinary Africans, to help resolve many of Africa's social and political lives. This is not an exclusive "return to the source," since modern developments may dictate modification of those traditions. In this vein, he is particuarly interested in Africans "domesticating" the natural and life sciences. He also includes an afterword that addresses some criticisms of the work.

There are many places where I disagree with Wiredu's argument or the manner of the argument. Though he pays lip service to the diversity of Christianity, he uses descriptions of it that flatten that diversity. I am also skeptical about his portrayal of the role of religion (by which he seems usually to mean Christianity) in the West. I am unsure about his stance on language. In some cases, he treats it as little more than an accidental collection of sounds and in others attaches great importance to the culturally-derived meanings of those sounds. Finally, he has a tendency to base his claims on definitions of concepts that could be rather controversial. For example, he claims Africans are not religious based largely on his definitions of religion and the supernatural. With a different, but reasonable, set of definitions much of his argument would not hold. Ultimately, this book engaged me about ideas and methods, which is precisely what a good work of philosophy should do.

Wiredu does a good job of outlining and unpacking his ideas and approaches. The work also hangs together remarkably well for a set of separately published essays. The book can be read without any background in philosophy or African thought. However, it is probably more engaging if you do have some background in those fields. I certainly found myself wishing I had read more on Akan thought.