Southern Illinois University Press

  • Muse

    Muse, the first full-length collection from poet Susan Aizenberg, brings together poems of personal history, elegy, and the complex lives of artists, writers, and “ordinary” people, in an exploration of…

    $15.95
  • Mysterium and Mystery

    A reprint of the first book on the topic of the cleric as a crime-solver in fiction. Mysterium and Mystery by William David Spencer is a primary reference of meticulous…

    $24.00
  • New Zionism and the Foreign Policy System of Israel

    The invasion of Lebanon was the culmination of an extraordinary change New Zionism created in Israel’s foreign policy system. Seliktar examines how New Zionism came to dominate Israeli politics and pur­sues…

    $40.00
  • Nickel’s Worth of Skim Milk

    Told from the point of view of a young boy, this account shows how a family “faced the 1930s head on and lived to tell the story.” It is the…

    $15.95
  • Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America

    Johnson argues that nineteenth-century rhetoric was primarily synthetic, derived from the combination of classical elements and eighteenth-century belletristic and epistemological approaches to theory and practice. She reveals that nineteenth-century rhetoric…

    $35.00
  • Northern Arcadia

    Northern Arcadia is a comparative study of the accounts of foreign visitors to the Nordic lands during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Before the late eighteenth century, few foreigners…

    $45.00
  • Notes from a Sealed Room

    In this compelling and often startling account, Robert Werman chronicles his experiences as an Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem during the Gulf War. On January 19, 1991, he began writing…

    $29.00
  • Notes on the Heart

    It has long been recognized that affect (that is, the noncognitive aspect of mental activity) plays a large role in writing and in learning to write. According to Susan H….

    $35.00
  • Odd Man Out

    In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee rudely interrupted the successful career and life of Edward Dmytryk, citing him with contempt of Congress. As a result, Dmytryk was fired by…

    $22.50
  • On Broadway

    At a critical, transitional moment in the history of Broadway—and, by extension, of American theatre itself—former Broadway stage manager Steven Adlerenlists insider perspectives from sixty-six practitioners and artists to chronicle…

    $35.00
  • On Manly Courage

    Walter T. Schmid offers the first original interpretation of the Laches since Hermann Bonitz in the nineteenth century in the only full-length commentary on the Laches available in English.Schmid divides…

    $40.00
  • On the Penitentiary System in the United States

    On the Penitentiary System in the United States is a “graceful and thoughtful study of importance to the history of correctional theory and practice, and its republican by Southern Illinois…

    $28.50