Indiana Books

Anyone who feels that literacy has changed their life should read this book. The author tells of her heart-wrenching, lonely existence as an abused child who was shuttled from one foster home to another until she was adopted by a woman who opened her eyes to the world of reading. The author was able to overcome her less than auspicious beginning to become a professor of English at IUPUI. This story could have been told with much melodrama, but the author tells it in an extremely honest manner and lets the drama of the story come through naturally. She does not beg for sympathy for the circumstances of her childhood. She simply tells the readers how literacy brought her out of a miserable existence and makes a connection with her readers that will, at least for this reader, last forever.

great pictures!!! a fun story (ofcourse) & very timely for autumn and halloween. this book gives children and adults a good peek into indiana as the west in the early 1800s. am awaiting the paperback version to buy serveral copies.

This is a wonderful book in that it presents women as strong and
able to do much. If you are tired
of reading books about "evil" people, this is a good choice.
Nancy is a great woman, simple and strong. She becomes
widowed and takes her son with her on a long
trip by wagon out west. Many advertures await them as they reach
their destination. Mr. Albertson is a blessed writer who
keeps the story moving forward. As I read it, he helped me feel like I was right there over 100 years ago, riding on that
wagon pulled by 4 mules. Cheering my new friend Nancy on
to her destination, all the while admiring her commitment. So many books are about men and their adventures, but finally someone, even though the author is a man, wrote about a woman.
The tenderness with which he wrote it makes me feel that he must have known some great women in his life
and wanted to pay homage to them. I loved it and
hope Mr. Albertson will write a sequel.

Awesome book, makes for great reading and modeling the NCSTL.

from publisher:

Addresses the interplay of diverse spiritual, religious, and cultural traditions across the Caribbean.

Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book's three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora.

The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner's voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.

I am a starving college student at UCLA, so of course I don't have the [amount of money] for this book, but Professor Thomas is very articulate and intelligent. I'm in his seminar about Africa in a global context and his classes have been extremely relevant and inspiring. Buy his book!

This is wonderful, well researched book on Native American Place Names in Indiana. Very thorough. I learned not only about place names where I grew up, but for other parts of Indiana as well. Highly recommended!

This book is an amazing compilation of the natural history of Indiana. Well illustrated and very informative. A must have for any hoosier as well as environmentalists living in the Great Lakes Region.

Perhaps the most significant issue in the history of the Navajos is the tribe's success in maintaining its traditional culture while adapting to the massive pressures of Euramerican society. Few tribal groups have had to contend with as many and as diverse cultural and political competitors for as long a period of time as have the Navajos - Spain, Mexico, the United States, Catholic and Protestant missions, uprooted Indian communities striving for territory, all have pushed and pulled the Navajos more or less visibly since the middle of the sixteenth century. Acculturation never ceased and today the tribe's culture shows reminders of it's eventful history. Yet that culture is still unmistakably distinct and individual, as Professor Iverson emphasizes.

The Navajos has two main parts: an essay and an alphabetical list of all works cited. All citations in the essay are keyed by means of bracketed numbers to the more complete information in the bibliography. The book is immensely useful to the beginning student and advanced scholar.
--- from book's back cover

This well-coordinated volume, written by first class scholars in an easily accessible language and brilliant style, presents to the reader nearly all aspects of Husserlian phenomenology, usually linked up to the more overarching philosophical issues. The individual chapters are very much based on the extensive studies of the unpublished and unfamiliar material and thus provide the best to-date presentation of Husserl's mature ideas and lifelong reflections. A must for any scholar interested in consciousness research and excellent brief for analytic philosophers wishing a closer acquaintance with phenomenological thought. The picture of Husserl that emerges from this volume is of an extraordinarily profound thinker who kept revising own theories as his insights progressed, a picture quite remote from the standard analytic caricature of him as "obscure Cartesian idealist".