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2021 Winter Gift Sale

November 30th, 2021

Purdue University Press is offering a 50% discount on ALL TITLES published in 2021 and our ENTIRE BACKLIST through January 10, 2022. All you need to do is enter code 21GIFT50 when ordering directly from our website.

From gorgeous coffee-table books on Purdue & Indiana to stirring biographies on some of the most important figures in the space race; books for green thumbs and naturalists to stories of survival in times of war, persecution, or health crises; Purdue University Press has plenty of books that would make wonderful gifts for your loved ones or yourself!

Here’s a guide to just a few of our favorite gifts:

New in 2021

• In Their Own Word: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation by Fred Erisman
• Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues: How Microbes, War, and Public Health Shaped Animal Health by Norman F. Cheville
• Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science by Jonathan E. Martin
• Arteletra: The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed by Jason A. Bartles
• Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel by John F. Sears
• The Canine-Campus Connection: Roles for Dogs in the Lives of College Students edited by Mary Renck Jalongo
• Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction by Li Guo
• Balkan Legacies: The Long Shadow of Conflict and the Ideological Experiment in Southeastern Europe edited by Balázs Apor and John Paul Newman
• Design and Culture: A Transdisciplinary History by Maurice Barnwell
• Cantidades hechizadas y silogísticas del sobresalto: La secreta ciencia de José Lezama Lima by Ómar Vargas
• Assessing Handlers for Competence in Animal-Assisted Interventions by Ann R. Howie
• Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks: The Legacy of America’s Epic Structural Failure by Richard A. Serrano
• My Seven Lives: Jana Juráňová in Conversation with Agneša Kalinová by Jana Juráňová and Agneša Kalinová; translated by Julia Sherwood and Peter Sherwood
• Jews and Gender edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon
• Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II by Pawel Markiewicz
• Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Daniela D’Eugenio
• The Impact of the Presidency of Donald Trump on American Jewry and Israel edited by Steven F. Windmueller
• Democracy and the Media: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 7 edited by Robert X. Browning
• Dogs and Cats in South Korea: Itinerant Commodities by Julien Dugnoille

Space & Flight

• Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind and A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong edited by James R. Hansen
• John Houbolt: The Unsung Hero of the Apollo Moon Landings by William F. Causey
• Through Astronaut Eyes: Photographing Early Human Spaceflight by Jennifer K. Levasseur
• Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom by George Leopold
• Spacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA’s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer by Jerry L. Ross with John Norberg

Indiana & the Midwest

• A Round Indiana: Round Barns in the Hoosier State, Second Edition by John T. Hanou
• Memories of Life on the Farm: Through the Lens of Pioneer Photographer J. C. Allen by Frederick Whitford and Neal Harmeyer
• Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indiana’s Early County Extension Agents by Frederick Whitford, Neal Harmeyer, and David M. Hovde
• Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge: The Words and Works of Indiana’s Pioneer County Extension Agents by Frederick Whitford
• A Place Called Turkey Run: A Celebration of Indiana’s Second State Park in Photographs and Words by Daniel P. Shepardson

Purdue University

• Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University by John Norberg
• Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Student Life by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris
• Heartbeat of the University: 125 Years of Purdue Bands by John Norberg
• Ross-Ade: Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies by Robert Kriebel
• The Deans’ Bible: Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality by Angie Klink

Gardening & the Outdoors

• A History of Zinnias: Flower for the Ages by Eric Grissell
• Native Trees of the Midwest: Identification, Wildlife Values, and Landscaping Use by Sally S. Weeks, Harmon P. Weeks, Jr., and George R. Parker
• Shrubs and Woody Vines of Indiana and the Midwest : Identification, Wildlife Values, and Landscaping Use by Sally S. Weeks and Harmon P. Weeks, Jr
• Possum in the Pawpaw Tree: A Seasonal Guide to Midwestern Gardening by B. Rosie Lerner and Beverly S. Netzhammer
• The Complete Plant Selection Guide for Landscape Design by Marc Stoecklein

Memoirs of Hope and Survival

• Escaping Extermination: Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist by Agi Jambor, edited by Frances Pinter
• Eva and Otto: Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler by Tom Pfister, Kathy Pfister, and Peter Pfister
• Finding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight by Edith Mayer Cord
• Rebuilt from Broken Glass: A German Jewish Life Remade in America by Fred Behrend with Larry Hanover
• Of Exile and Music: A Twentieth Century Life by Eva Mayer Schay

Health & Aging

• The Complete Guide for People With Parkinson’s Disease and Their Loved Ones by Lianna Marie
• Everything You Need to Know About Caregiving for Parkinson’s Disease by Lianna Marie
• Creating Moments of Joy Along the Alzheimer’s Journey: A Guide for Families and Caregivers, Fifth Edition, Revised and Expanded by Jolene Brackey
• Shelved: A Memoir of Aging in America by Sue Petrovski
• Changing Seasons: A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging by Denise Calhoun