An increasing number of researchers and educators in the field of engineering wish to integrate considerations of social justice into their... Læs mere
Charts Brazil’s evolving and often conflicted relationship with the idea of Latin America through a detailed comparative investigation of four crucial... Læs mere
Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this book sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty... Læs mere
Examines the remarkable and unknown role that the medieval legend (and Wagner opera) Tannhäuser played in Jewish cultural... Læs mere
A dozen people, who were forced to flee their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary during the Holocaust, tell their stories in a series of interviews conducted by Kleine-Ahlbrandt.
The School of Aeronautics & Astronautics was founded as a separate school within the College of Engineering at Purdue... Læs mere
What is “humour”? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humour “Jewish”? These are among the many queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are... Læs mere
Celebrating 125 years of Purdue Bands, this beautifully-illustrated book (which includes a musical CD) traces the history of Purdue University’s... Læs mere
"This book developed from the proceedings of the First International Academic Conference "The Peace of Passarowitz 1718" held on 14-15 November 2008, on the occasion of the 290th Anniversary, in Pozarevac, Serbia"--Pref.
The studies presented in the collected volume are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles... Læs mere