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May 6th, 2022
To celebrate Purdue’s 153rd anniversary and the graduation of the class of 2022, Purdue University Press will be having a 50% off sale on all Purdue related books from May 6-May 20. All you need to do to is enter code 21PURDUE50 when ordering from our website to redeem the discount. You can find the full list of eligible books below.
The most recent additions to our collection of books on Purdue include the two most comprehensive histories of the university to date. In Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University author John Norberg deftly covers 150 years of Purdue history, a task he equates to trying to fill a thimble with water pouring out of a fire hydrant. The book is filled with stories of the faculty, alumni, and leaders that make up Purdue’s distinguished history. In Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Student Life authors and archivists David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris pored over decades of student papers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, letters, newspapers, historical photographs and memorabilia to create a stunning pictorial history of Purdue.
The list also includes selections on Purdue’s history in space & flight, many from our series Purdue Studies in Aeronautics & Astronautics. You can find biographies on some of Purdue’s most distinguished alumnus flyers like John Casper, Jerry Ross, and Gus Grissom, as well as two collections of letters to Neil Armstrong curated by his official biographer James R. Hansen, sourced from a collection of Neil Armstrong’s papers housed in the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections.
The rest of the books in the sale cover a wide swath of all things Purdue, from five legendary women deans with a secret bond to the popcorn king himself. Whether you are a current student, alumni, or even a Boilermaker enthusiast this sale will have the perfect choice for you. All books on this list make a wonderful gift for the Purdue Class of 2022 as well. Hail Purdue and read up!
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
DEAR NEIL ARMSTRONG: LETTERS TO THE FIRST MAN FROM ALL MANKIND EDITED BY JAMES R. HANSEN
A RELUCTANT ICON: LETTERS TO NEIL ARMSTRONG EDITED BY JAMES R. HANSEN
WINGS OF THEIR DREAMS: PURDUE IN FLIGHT, SECOND EDITION BY JOHN NORBERG
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 ROSS AND JOHN NORBERG
BECOMING A SPACEWALKER: MY JOURNEY TO THE STARS BY JERRY L. ROSS AND SUSAN G. GUNDERSON
THE DEANS’ BIBLE: FIVE PURDUE WOMEN AND THEIR QUEST FOR EQUALITY BY ANGIE KLINK
DIVIDED PATHS, COMMON GROUND: THE STORY OF MARY MATTHEWS AND LELLA GADDIS, PIONEERING PURDUE WOMEN WHO INTRODUCED SCIENCE INTO THE HOME BY ANGIE KLINK
SLOW BALL CARTOONIST: THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF INDIANA NATIVE AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNER JOHN T. MCCUTCHEON OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE BY TONY GAREL-FRANTZEN
FOR THE GOOD OF THE FARMER: A BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HARRISON SKINNER, DEAN OF PURDUE AGRICULTURE BY FREDERICK WHITFORD
JUST CALL ME ORVILLE: THE STORY OF ORVILLE REDENBACHER BY ROBERT W. TOPPING
ROSS-ADE: THEIR PURDUE STORIES, STADIUM, AND LEGACIES BY ROBERT C. KRIEBEL
UNCLE: MY JOURNEY WITH JOHN PURDUE BY IRENA MCCAMMON SCOTT
THE QUEEN OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE: A BIOGRAPHY OF VIRGINIA CLAYPOOL MEREDITH BY FREDERICK WHITFORD, ANDREW G. MARTIN, AND PHYLLIS MATTHEIS
THE GRAND OLD MAN OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY AND INDIANA AGRICULTURE: THE BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CARROLL LATTA BY FREDERICK WHITFORD AND ANDREW G. MARTIN
MIDAS OF THE WABASH: A BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN PURDUE BY ROBERT C. KRIEBEL
LETTERS OF GEORGE ADE EDITED BY TERENCE TOBIN
EDWARD CHARLES ELLIOTT, EDUCATOR BY FRANK K. BURRIN
THE HOVDE YEARS: A BIOGRAPHY OF FREDERICK L. HOVDE BY ROBERT W. TOPPING
RICHARD OWEN: SCOTLAND 1810, INDIANA 1890 BY VICTOR LINCOLN ALBJERG
MY AMIABLE UNCLE: RECOLLECTIONS OF BOOTH TARKINGTON BY SUSANAH MAYBERRY
THE DEAN: A BIOGRAPHY OF A. A. POTTER BY ROBERT B. ECKLES
A PURDUE ICON: CREATION, LIFE, AND LEGACY EDITED BY JAMES L. MULLINS
A UNIVERSITY OF TRADITION: THE SPIRIT OF PURDUE, SECOND EDITION BY PURDUE REAMER CLUB
FORCE FOR CHANGE: THE CLASS OF 1950 BY JOHN NORBERG
HEARTBEAT OF THE UNIVERSITY: 125 YEARS OF PURDUE BANDS BY JOHN NORBERG
THE SKY ABOVE: AN ASTRONAUT’S MEMOIR OF ADVENTURE, PERSISTENCE, AND FAITH BY COL. JOHN CASPER, USAF (Retired)
Filed under: PurduePressNovember 18th, 2019
Purdue University Press is offering a 40% discount on over 20 selected titles as part of our Winter Gift Catalog so you can celebrate your favorite holiday by gifting a book to a friend, loved one, or yourself. The books in the catalog are arranged in six different areas of interest:
To receive the 40% discount, use code GIFT40 at checkout when ordering directly from our website. The sale will continue through the end of 2019. Further details are available in the full catalog.
Happy Holidays from the Purdue University Press staff!
Selections from the Winter Gift Catalog:
Filed under: generalNovember 1st, 2019
Purdue University Press is offering 50% off all books in our Central European Studies series through the end of the year. Recent and forthcoming titles in the series includes A History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic, Making Peace in an Age of War: Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657) by Mark Hengerer, and Jan Hus: The Life and Death of a Preacher by Pavel Soukup.
A History of Yugoslavia provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia—from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Recently appeared in Choice Reviews (Nov. 2019): “Highly recommended. General readers through faculty.”
Making Peace in an Age of War provides answers to the question: Why did it take the emperor more than ten years to end a devastating war, the traumatizing effects of which on central Europe lasted into the twentieth century, particularly since there was no hope of victory against his foreign adversaries from the very moment he came into power?
Jan Hus is the biography of was a late medieval Czech university master and popular preacher who was condemned at the Council of Constance and burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Thanks to his contemporary influence and his posthumous fame in the Hussite movement and beyond, Hus has become one of the best known figures of the Czech past and one of the most prominent reformers of medieval Europe as a whole.
For more than four decades the Purdue University Press Central European Studies series has enriched knowledge of the region by producing scholarly monographs, advanced surveys, and select collections of the highest quality. Since its founding, this has been the only English-language series devoted primarily to the lands and peoples of the Habsburg Empire, its successor states, and those areas lying along its immediate periphery.
To get the discount, use code CES50 when ordering on the Purdue University Press website. This code is valid until the end of the year on all print books.
October 16th, 2019
Purdue University Press is offering 50% off all books in our Studies in Jewish Civilization series, including the most recent addition, Next Year in Jerusalem: Exile and Return in Jewish History edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon.
Next Year in Jerusalem recognizes that Jews have often experienced or imaged periods of exile and return in their long tradition, examining this phenomenon from different approaches, genres, and media.
The volumes in our Studies in Jewish Civilization series, edited by Leonard J. Greenspoon, are based on presentations made at the annual symposium of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, sponsored by Creighton University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and University of Nebraska at Omaha. Each collection explores a different topic in Jewish history and culture worldwide that continues to be of interest today. Jargon-free, unbiased, and inherently interdisciplinary, every chapter is accessible, authoritative, and meant for scholars and laypeople alike.
Get 50% the books when you order off of our website and use the discount code SJC50. The sale will continue until the end of the year.
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