Southern Illinois University Press

  • Intersections

    These 17 essays from the seventh annual J. Lloyd Eaton Conference examine the relationship between fantasy and science fiction. They propose that fantasy and science fiction are not isolated commercial literary…

    $35.00
  • Invention as a Social Act

    The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry, to creativity, to poetic and aesthetic invention.Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other dis­ciplines, Karen…

    $33.00
  • Inventive Intercourse

    Applying interactionist discourse theory to show how we create novel beliefs Inventive Intercourse: From Rhetorical Conflict to the Ethical Creation of Novel Truth offers a theory of discursive interaction, illustrating…

    $50.00
  • John A. Logan

    James Pickett Jones is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Florida State University. “A splendid witness in ‘Reds’ looked out at her audience and said, ‘If men really wanted…

    $22.95
  • John Dewey’s Essays in Experimental Logic

    Offering a new edition of Dewey’s 1916 collection of essaysThis critical edition of John Dewey’s 1916 collection of writings on logic, Essays in Experimental Logic—in which Dewey presents his concept…

    $55.00
  • John Dewey’s Liberalism

    John Dewey’s classical pragmatism, Daniel M. Savage asserts, can be used to provide a self-development-based justification of liberal democracy that shows the current debate between liberal individualism and republican communitarianism…

    $28.00
  • John Grierson

    More than any other person, Jack C. Ellis notes, John Grierson, a Scot, was responsible for the documentary film as it has developed in English-speaking countries.While in the United States…

    $38.00
  • John Henry Newman

    John Henry Newman (1801–1890) was very much a man of his time—an eminent Victorian philosopher and theologian who formed part of an influential Romantic movement in literature, art, and architecture….

    $40.00
  • Judging Lincoln

    Judging Lincoln collects nine of the most insightful essays on the topic of the sixteenth president written by Frank J. Williams, chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and…

    $17.95
  • Judging Lincoln

    Judging Lincoln collects nine of the most insightful essays on the topic of the sixteenth president as written over the past twenty years by Frank J. Williams, chief justice of…

    $38.95
  • Justus Lipsius: Principles of Letter-Writing

    As part of the sixteenth century’s intellectual “triumvirate,” which included Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon, Justus Lipsius formulated a humanist scholarship aimed ultimately at practical application in both public and…

    $42.00
  • Kaskaskia Under the French Regime

    “The Illinois Habitant,” writes Natalia Maree Belting, “was a gay soul; he seemed shockingly carefree to later, self-righteous puritans from the American colonies. He danced on Sunday after mass, was…

    $19.50