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This annually updated publication provides a comprehensive overview of the admission process for the national and international veterinary schools that are members of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). The following need-to-know information is provided for each school: Summary of application procedure; Requirements for application and residency; Prerequisites for admission; Deadlines for each component of the application process; Description of campus and campus life; Cost of tuition and fees.

Additional information includes an overview of the Veterinary Medical College Application Service (VMCAS) and information about the accreditation of veterinary schools and professional licensure as a veterinarian. The book provides the best concise, current, and comparative information for those students interested in preparing for a career in veterinary medicine, as well as their advisors and counselors.

The AAVMC coordinates the national and international affairs of all thirty-three veterinary medical colleges in the United States and Canada, nine departments of veterinary science, nine departments of comparative medicine, three other veterinary medical education institutions, eight international colleges of veterinary medicine, and three affiliate international colleges of veterinary medicine.

veterinary Medical school Admission requirements2011 Edition for 2012 Matriculation

Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)

Paper • $21.95 • 978-1-55753-587-06 × 9 • 232 pp. • April 2011

The AAvMC coordinates the national and international affairs of all thirty-three veterinary medical colleges in the United States and Canada, nine departments of veterinary science, nine departments of comparative medicine, three other veterinary medical education institutions, eight international colleges of veterinary medicine, and three affiliate international colleges of veterinary medicine. The AAVMC fosters the teaching, research, and service activities of its members, both nationally and internationally. The mission of the AAVMC is to improve the quality of life for people and animals by advancing veterinary medical education, improving animal health and welfare, strengthening biomedical research, promoting food safety and food security, and enhancing environmental quality.

veterinary studies


Green Chimneys is a nationally renowned US nonprofit organization that helps improve the lives of at-risk urban children by incorporating animals and environmental activities into their educational experiences. Founded by Dr. Samuel (Rollo) B. Ross, Jr., “Green Chimneys Farm for Little Folk” opened its doors in 1948 with just eleven students. The property has since expanded to cover nearly seven hundred fifty acres in New York, and the school now serves almost two hundred students. Recognized as a world-wide leader in animal-assisted therapy and activities, Green Chimneys pro-vides innovative and caring services for children and their families, as well as the animals with which they spend time. It targets its services at restor-ing emotional well-being and fostering independence. For over sixty years, Ross developed and operated this innovative and experimental year-round school, and he still remains integrally involved. This book recounts his ex-periences, sharing a lifetime of practical learning and insights to benefit and inspire all those who work with troubled children, and who believe in the healing power of the natural world.

The extraordinary spirit of Green ChimneysConnecting Children and Animals to Create Hope

Samuel B. Ross, Jr.

Hardback • $24.95 • 978-1-55753-580-16 × 9 • 268 pp. • March 2011

New Directions in the Human–Animal Bond

samuel B. ross, Jr. is the managing director of The Friends of Green Chimneys, the pioneering educational institution that he founded in 1947.

veterinary studieseducation


Obesity is a national epidemic in the United States. It is estimated that by 2018 the cost of treating weight-related illnesses will double to almost $350 billion a year, while a 2010 report by the US Surgeon General estimates that two-thirds of American adults and almost one in three children are now overweight or obese. This volume originated in a special 2009 sympo-sium funded in part by a grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and spon-sorship from Mars Waltham® on how human-animal interaction may help fight obesity across the lifespan. The authors present scientific evidence about the benefits of dog walking for improving human and animal health, and case studies of programs that are using this powerful expression of the human-animal bond to combat obesity. The volume is especially valuable as a sourcebook of evidence-based studies for public health professionals treating overweight humans and veterinarians treating obese dogs.

The Health Benefits of dog Walking for people & petsEvidence & Case Studies

Rebecca A. Johnson, Alan M. Beck,and Sandra McCune

Hardback • $65.00 • 978-1-55753-582-57 × 10 • 300 pp. • April 2011


rebecca A. Johnson, phd, rn, FAAn, is Millsap Professor for Gerontological Nursing and Public Policy at the University of Missouri. She holds a joint appointment at the College of Veterinary Medicine as the director of the Research Center for Human-Animal Interaction. Author of over forty publications, in 2010 she was elected president of the International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations.

Alan M. Beck, scd, is the Dorothy N. McAllister Professor of Animal Ecology at Purdue University. Before coming to Purdue, Beck directed the Center for the Integration of Animals and Society at the University of Pennsylvania and was director of animal programs for the New York City Department of Health. Beck has published numerous articles and several books on the nature of our relationship with animals and is a founding board member of the Delta Society.

sandra McCune, phd, vn, is research manager for the Human-Animal Bond Program at the WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition, part of Mars, Inc. The WALTHAM® Centre is the hub of global research activities for Mars’ Pet Care brands, and its research team is responsible for some of the most important breakthroughs in pet care and nutrition.

veterinary studiesHealth & Human sciences

Also of interest

• Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound. Phil Zeltzman and Rebecca A. Johnson, 978-1-55753-581-8


A dog is an ideal workout partner: always supportive, happy to go for a walk, and never judgmental. When people and dogs exercise together, fitness and health happen on both ends of the leash. As the obesity epidemic spreads, 70 percent of Americans and 50 percent of dogs are overweight or obese, resulting in staggering health care costs and suffering. The causes, consequences, and treatment for the overweight and obese are strikingly similar in people and dogs. Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound, written by an expert veterinary surgeon and leading nurse researcher, helps you move from a food-centered relationship with dogs to an exercise-centered relationship. This volume is designed for dog lovers, dog owners, and families. Based on the latest scientific findings, it will also help professionals (including physicians, veterinarians, and physical therapists) fight obesity and promote fitness in both people and pets. Never has there been a more compelling time for innovative approaches to increasing physical activity, reforming sedentary lifestyles, and enhancing fitness. Walk a Hound, Lose a Pound provides specific strategies for people and dogs to exercise together, lose weight together, and have fun in the process.

Walk a Hound,Lose a pound

How You and Your Dog Can Lose Weight, Stay Fit, and Have Fun Together

Phil Zeltzman and Rebecca A. Johnson

Paper • $16.95 • 978-1-55753-581-86 × 9 • 150 pp. • May 2011


phil Zeltzman, dvM, dACvs, is a traveling, board-certified veterinary surgeon near Allentown, Pennsylvania. His professional interests include soft tissue, orthopedic, cancer, and neurosurgery. A prolific international speaker and writer for twenty-five years, he has often written about pet obesity. He writes an award-winning, free, e-mail-based newsletter read by pet lovers in all fifty states and twenty-eight countries (visit www.DrPhilZeltzman.com). He is a contributor to Dog Fancy, The Bark, and Veterinary Practice News. rebecca A. Johnson, phd, rn, FAAn, is Millsap Professor for Gerontological Nursing and Public Policy at the University of Missouri. She holds a joint appointment at the College of Veterinary Medicine as the director of the Research Center for Human-Animal Interaction (visit www.rechai.missouri.edu). Author of over forty publications, she is called upon nationally and internationally to speak about human-animal interaction. In 2010 she was elected president of the International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations.

veterinary studiesHealth & Human sciences

Also of interest

• The Health Benefits of Dog Walking for People and Pets: Evidence and Case Studies. Rebecca A. Johnson, Alan M. Beck, and Sandra McCune, 978-1-55753-582-5


There is a general understanding within religious and academic circles that the incarnate Christ of Christian belief lived and died a faithful Jew. This volume addresses Jesus in the context of Judaism. By emphasizing his Jewishness, the authors challenge today’s Jews to reclaim the Nazarene as a proto-rebel rabbi and invite Christians to discover or rediscover the Church’s Jewish heritage. The essays in this volume cover historical, literary, liturgical, philosophical, religious, theological, and contemporary issues related to the Jewish Jesus. Several of them were originally presented at a three-day symposium on “Jesus in the Context of Judaism and the Challenge to the Church,” hosted by the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University in 2009.

In the context of pluralism, in the temper of growing interreligious dialogue, and in the spirit of reconciliation, encountering Jesus as living history for Christians and Jews is both necessary and proper. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of the New Testament and Early Church who are seeking new ways of understanding Jesus in his religious and cultural milieu, as well Jewish and Christian theologians and thinkers who are concerned with contemporary Jewish and Christian relationships.

The Jewish JesusRevelation, Reflection, Reclamation

edited by Zev Garber

Paper • $59.95 • 978-1-55753-579-56 × 9 • 528 pp. • February 2011

Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies

Zev Garber is professor emeritus and chair of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Los Angeles Valley College and has served as visiting professor of Religious Studies at University of California at Riverside, Visiting Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies at Case Western Reserve University, and as president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of two academic series, Studies in Shoah (UPA) and Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies (Purdue University Press), and serves as co-editor of Shofar.

Jewish studies

Also of interest

• Politics and the Intellectual: Conversations with Irving Howe. John Rodden and Ethan Goffman, 978-1-55753-551-1

• The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Creativity in Babylon, 1735–1950. Lev Hakak, 978-1-55753-514-6

• Maven in Blue Jeans: A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber. Steven Leonard Jacobs, ed., 978-1-55753-521-4


Scholar, teacher, playwright, and editor, Sarah Blacher Cohen was one of earliest champions of the study of American Jewish literature, a field of aca-demic study that has been in existence for barely thirty-five years. Over the years until her premature death in 2008, she contributed to the discipline in a profusion of genres, from scholarly to popular, from essay to drama, writ-ing or editing seven books of her own. She also wrote and produced several plays with her longtime collaborator, Joanne B. Koch. This special volume (29) of the annual, Studies in American Jewish Literature (ISSN 0271-9274), the journal edited by Daniel Walden, contains a range of tributes from her many friends and colleagues.

Table of Contents:Introduction (Carole Kessner and Ann Shapiro). Articles: “They Find You, Those Sons of Moses”: Collective Memory and the Disconnected Jew (El-len Schiff); A Kaddish for History: Holocaust Memory in Ehud Havazelet’s Bearing the Body (Victoria Aarons); Through an American Lens: Dreaming Utopia in Early Israeli Cinema (Janet Burstein); Shall Japheth Dwell in the Tents of Shem?: Hellenisms and Hebraisms in Selected American Jewish Literature (Lewis Fried); Kaddish—The Final Frontier (Sara R. Horowitz); The Flight of Lilith: Modern Jewish American Feminist Literature (Ann R. Shapiro); Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay: The Return of the Golem (Alan Berger); Two Views of Jews: Bernard Mal-amud, Maurice Samuel, and the Beilis Case (Carole S. Kessner); The Impact of Trauma on the Encoding and Retrieval of Memory: Conversations with Survivors, Witnesses, and Rescuers (Myra Sklarew); Malamud’s Early Sto-ries: In and Out of Time, 1940-1960, with Humor, History, and Hawthorne (Sanford E. Marovitz); One Clove Away from a Pomander Ball: The Subver-sive Tradition of Female Comedians (Joyce Antler); Alienation and Black Humor in Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost (Elaine B. Safer); Potok’s Asher Lev: Orthodoxy and Art: The Core-to-Core Paradox (Dan Walden). Fiction and Memoir: Heaven is Full of Windows (Steve Stern); Saul Bellow’s Enigmatic Love (Norma Rosen); Diversity is More than Skin Deep: An Academic’s Af-rican Memoir (Evelyn Avery). Plays: The Old System (Sarah Blacher Cohen); A Silver Dish (Joanne Koch). Tributes: Letter to Sarah (Cynthia Ozick); For Sarah (Miriyam Glazer); Breathing, Sarah Rising, Sarah and the Samovar (Myra Sklarew); Hesped for Sarah Blacher Cohen, z”l, Friday, November 14, 2008 (Julie Pelc Adler).

studies in American Jewish Literature in Honor of sarah Blacher Cohen

edited by Carole Kessnerand Ann Shapiro

Paper • $35.00 • 978-1-55753-589-46 × 9 • 254 pp. • November 2010

Studies in American Jewish Literature

Carole Kessner is professor emerita of Comparative Studies at SUNY Stony Brook. Her books include The “Other” New York Jewish Intellectuals and Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir.

Ann shapiro is Distinguished Teaching Professor at Farmingdale State College, SUNY. Her books include Unlikely Heroines: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Woman Question and Jewish American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical and Critical Sourcebook, winner of the Association of Jewish Libraries Bibliography Award.

Jewish studies


There has been a long-standing relationship between Jewish Americans and the world of American popular music. The essays in this volume blend surveys of music making as a whole with profiles of single artists. This is volume 8 of the annual publication, The Jewish Role in American Life (ISSN 1934-7529), produced by the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life at the University of Southern California. Contents: Foreword (Gayle Wald); Introduction (Josh Kun); “Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars, and other Tales from the Jewish Sheet-Music Trade” (Jody Rosen); “Dances Partake of the Racial Characteristics of the People Who Dance Them”: Nordicism, Antisemitism, and Henry Ford’s Old Time Music and Dance Revival” (Peter La Chapelle); “Ovoutie Slanguage is Absolutely Kosher: Yiddish in Scat-Singing, Jazz Jargon, and Black Music” (Jonathan Z. S. Pollack); “If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends”: Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and the Space of the Risqué” (Josh Kun); “Here’s a foreign song I learned in Utah”: The Anxiety of Jewish Influence in the Music of Bob Dylan” (David Kaufman); “Jazz Liturgy, Yiddishe Blues, Cantorial Death Metal, and Free Klez: Musical Hybridity in Radical Jewish Culture” (Jeff Janeczco).

The song is not the same

Jews and American Popular Music

edited by Josh Kun

Paper • $25.00 • 978-1-55753-586-36 × 9 • 128 pp. • December 2010The Jewish Role in American Life

Josh Kun is an associate professor at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His research focuses on the arts and politics of cultural connection, with an emphasis on popular music, the cultures of globalization, the US-Mexico border, and Jewish American musical history. Prior to joining the USC Annenberg School, Kun was associate professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He holds a PhD in Ethnic Studies from University of California, Berkeley.

Jewish studies


A dozen Purdue University Jewish faculty members—ten men and two women—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 Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt, a former history professor at Purdue and the author of The Burden of Victory: France, Britain and the Enforcement of the Versailles Peace, 1919-1925 (1995). Some of the refugees were unable to escape and survived through hiding and subterfuge or endured the camps. The interviewees, some speaking out for the first time after more than half a century, often found it difficult to recall painful experiences. They discussed the problems of growing up Jewish, especially after the enactment of anti-Jewish legislation; the importance of religion, God, and traditions in their lives; and adjusting to life in the U.S., where finding employment was just one of many obstacles. The author complements the interviews with commentary for readers unfamiliar with the history of World War II.

Bitter prerequisites

A Faculty for Survival from Nazi Terror

Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt

Paper • $24.95 • 978-1-55753-600-66 × 9 • 494 pp. • February 2011

Wm. Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva, where he attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies. He wrote a number of books, including The Burden of Victory: France, Britain and the Enforcement of the Versailles Peace, 1919–1925 and Europe since 1945: From Conflict to Community. Kleine-Ahlbrandt also was a chevalier in the Order of the Palmes Académiques.

Jewish studies

Also of interest

• Of Exile and Music: A Twentieth Century Life. Eva Mayer Schay, 978-1-55753-541-2


The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation called Hofmannsthal a “spiritual-moral authority” of a kind German culture had only rarely produced. This volume provides translations of essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive position of German-speaking Austrians between German nationalism and peoples to the East, whether in the Habsburg Monarchy or beyond it, as well as essays that locate Hofmannsthal’s thinking about Austria in relation to the broader situation of German and European culture.

“It is the true accomplishment of this translation that Hofmannsthal’s language, recreated in a clear and elegant English, regains its melody of an earlier time. If there ever was a captivating documentation of the European potential of Austria beyond the stereotypes of ‘Vienna at 1900,’ it has been brought together in this volume of essays that responded to the tragic challenges of World War I in a constructive way.”—Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania

Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian idea

Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906–1927

translated and edited by David S. Luft

Paper • $24.95 • 978-1-55753-590-06 × 9 • 216 pp. • April 2011Central European Studies

david s. Luft received his BA in comparative literature from Wesleyan University in 1966 and his PhD in modern European history from Harvard in 1972. He taught for thirty-six years at the University of California, San Diego. He joined the Department of History at Oregon State University in the fall of 2008 as Thomas Hart and Mary Jones Horning Professor in the Humanities.

History

Also of interest

• The Peace of Passarowitz, 1718. Charles Ingrao, Nikola Samardžić, and Jovan Pešalj, eds., 978-1-55753-594-8

• Of Mind and Matter: The Duality of National Identity in the German–Danish Bor-derlands. Peter Thaler, 978-1-55753-524-5

• Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars’ Initiative. Charles Ingrao and Thomas A. Emmert, eds., 978-1-55753-533-7


In the late spring of 1718 near the village of Požarevac (German Passarowitz) in northern Serbia, freshly conquered by Habsburg forces, three delegations representing the Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman Sultan, and the Republic of Venice gathered to end the conflict that had begun three and a half years earlier. The fighting had spread throughout southeastern Europe, from Hungary to the southernmost tip of the Peloponnese. The peace redrew the map of the Balkans, extending the reach of Habsburg power, all but expelling Venice from the Greek mainland, and laying the foundations for Ottoman revitalization during the Tulip period. In this volume, twenty specialists analyze the military background to and political context of the peace congress and treaty. They assess the immediate significance of the Peace of Passarowitz and its longer term influence on the society, demography, culture, and economy of central Europe.

The peace of passarowitz, 1718

edited by Charles Ingrao,Nikola Samardžić, and Jovan Pešalj

Paper • $39.95 • 978-1-55753-594-86 × 9 • 300 pp. • June 2011Central European Studies

Charles ingrao is professor of history at Purdue University.

nikola samardžić is professor and chair in modern history at Belgrade University.

Jovan pešalj is a teaching fellow at the Department of History, University of Belgrade.

History

Also of interest

• Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays and Addresses, 1906–1927. David S. Luft, 978-1-55753-590-0

• Of Mind and Matter: The Duality of National Identity in the German–Danish Bor-derlands. Peter Thaler, 978-1-55753-524-5

• Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars’ Initiative. Charles Ingrao and Thomas A. Emmert, eds., 978-1-55753-533-7


In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Ital-ian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multistoried buildings, fountains, labyrinths, and geometrical hills. It even included an open-air theater.

Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, Zou analyzes the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context. He shows how an especially important element of their approach was the application of a linear perspective—the “line-method”—to create the jing, the Chinese concept of the bounded bright view of a garden scene.

Hui Zou’s book demonstrates how Jesuit metaphysics fused with Chinese cosmology and broadens our understanding of cultural and religious en-counters in early Chinese modernity. It presents an intriguing reflection on the interaction between Western metaphysics and the poetical tradition of Chinese culture. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students in a variety of fields, including literature, philosophy, architecture, landscape and urban studies, and East-West comparative cultural studies.

A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and early Modern Chinese Culture

Hui Zou

Paper • $39.95 • 978-1-55753-583-26 × 9 • 220 pp. • February 2011Comparative Cultural Studies

Hui Zou teaches architectural history, theory, and design at the University of Florida. His areas of research include comparative studies in architecture and garden histories, architectural philosophy, and Chinese architecture and garden histories. His publications have appeared in journals of architectural history, garden history, philosophy, and Sinology, including Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture 6, the Journal of Environmental Philosophy (2010), the Journal of Chinese Philosophy (2008), and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes (2002).

Languages & Literaturesphilosophy

Also of interest

• Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe. Agata Anna Lisiak, 978-1-55753-573-3

• Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror. Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello, eds., 978-1-55753-568-9

• From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature. Yi Zheng, 978-1-55753-576-4


The studies presented in this volume are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about central and east European culture with special attention to Hungarian culture, literature, cinema, new media, and other areas of cultural expression. The volume’s articles are grouped into five sections: part one, “History Theory and Methodology of Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies,” includes studies on the prehistory of multicultural and multilingual central Europe. Part two, “Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and Literature and Culture,” focuses on the reevaluation of canonical works, as well as Jewish studies, which has been explored inadequately in central European scholarship. Part three, “Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and Other Arts,” includes articles on race, jazz, operetta, art, fin-de-siècle architecture, communist-era female fashion, and cinema. In part four, “Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and Gender,” articles are about aspects of gender and sex(uality) with examples from fin-de-siècle transvestism, current media depictions of heterodox sexualities, and gendered language in the workplace. The volume’s last section, part five, “Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies of Contemporary Hungary,” includes articles about post-1989 issues of race and ethnic relations, citizenship and public life, and new media.

Comparative Hungarian Cultural studies

edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnekand Louise O. Vasvári

Paper • $59.95 • 978-1-55753-593-16 × 9 • 400 pp. • June 2011

Comparative Cultural Studies

steven tötösy de Zepetnek’s areas of scholarship include (comparative) literature and cultural studies, comparative media and communication studies, postcolonial studies, and migration and ethnic minority studies. He is the editor of the journal CLCWeb and series editor of the Comparative Cultural Studies.

Louise O. vasvári is professor emerita at Stony Brook University. Since 2000 she has taught in the Department of Linguistics at New York University, at the University of Szeged, and at Central European University. Vasvári works in medieval studies, historical and socio-linguistics, translation theory, Holocaust studies, and Hungarian cultural studies, all informed by gender theory within a broader framework of comparative cultural studies.

Languages & Literatures

Also of interest

• Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe. Agata Anna Lisiak, 978-1-55753-573-3

• Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror. Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello, eds., 978-1-55753-568-9

• From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature. Yi Zheng, 978-1-55753-576-4


In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana’s first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organize Purdue’s new Home Economics Extension Service. According to those who knew them, Lella was a “sparkler” who traveled the state instructing rural women about nutrition, hygiene, safe water, childcare, and more. “Reserved” Mary established Purdue’s School of Home Economics, created Indiana’s first nursery school, and authored a popular textbook. Both women used their natural talents and connections to achieve their goals in spite of a male-dominated society. As a land grant institution, Purdue University has always been very connected to the American countryside. Based on extensive oral history and archival research, this book sheds new light on the important role female staff and faculty played in improving the quality of life for rural women during the first half of the twentieth century. It is also a fascinating story, engagingly told, of two very different personalities united in a common goal.

divided paths, Common Ground

The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home

Angie Klink

Paper • $16.95 • 978-1-55753-591-76 × 9 • 150 pp. • March 2011

The Founders Series

Angie Klink has a BA in communication from Purdue University. She writes advertising copy, personal essays, and profiles. She has won thirty-three American Advertising Federation ADDY Awards, including a 2005 ADDY Award for Purdue Pete Finds His Hammer. Klink’s columns have appeared in many newspapers and magazines. She lives in Lafayette, Indiana with her husband and two sons. Learn more atwww.angieklink.com.

purdue and indiana

Also of interest

• Ross–Ade: Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies. Robert C. Kriebel, 978-1-55753-522-1

• The Queen of American Agriculture: A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith. Fred Whitford, Andrew G. Martin, and Phyllis Mattheis, 978-1-55753-518-4

• Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture: The Biography of William Carroll Latta. Fred Whitford and Andrew G. Martin, 978-1-55753-395-1


Purdue University has played a leading role in providing the engineers who designed, built, tested, and flew the many aircraft and spacecraft that so changed human progress during the 20th century. Purdue’s highly ranked program is one of the world’s leading producers of unergraduate and graduate degrees in aerospace engineering. The University’s alumni have led significant advances in the development of aerospace technology, have headed major aerospace corporations and government agencies, and have established an amazing record for exploration of space. More than one third of all US manned space flights have had at least one crew member who was a Purdue graduate (including the first and last men to step foot on the moon).

The School of Aeronautics & Astronautics was founded as a separate school within the College of Engineering at Purdue University in 1945. The first edition of this book was published in 1995, at the time of the School’s 50th anniversary. This corrected and expanded second edition brings the School’s illustrious history up-to-date, and looks to Purdue’s future in the sky and in space.

One small step

The History of Aerospace Engineering at Purdue University (Second Edition)

A. F. Grandt, Jr., W. A. Gustafson, andL. T. Cargnino

Published by School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University

Distributed by Purdue University Press

Hardback • $75.00 • 978-1-55753-599-37.25 × 10 • 500 pp. • November 2010

Collectively, the authors have served more than 100 years on the Purdue University faculty, spanning from the formation of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a separate academic unit in 1945 to the present time. Professor L. T. Cargnino joined the original faculty in 1945 and taught until his retirement in 1984. Professor W. A. Gustafson was named to the faculty in 1960 and was associate department head from 1980 until retiring in 1998. He also served as acting head during the 1984-85 academic year and the spring 1993 semester. Both Professors Cargnino and Gustafson were also the main undergraduate counselors during their tenure, and advised most of the thousands of BS degree recipients listed in the Appendices to this book. A. F. Grandt Jr. joined the school in 1979 and served as head from 1985 to 1993. He is currently the department’s Raisbeck Engineering Distinguished Professor for Engineering and Technology Integration.

purdue and indiana


This is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for choosing plant material for landscape designs, now available in an expanded paperback edition. The book includes comprehensive lists for each of the major plant groups, including trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennials, vines, grasses, and ferns. Each list features hundreds of specific species, varieties, and cultivars that are readily available. Having selected a plant group, the reader can then find specific plants with features that will match their site. Suppose you need a tree that will function as an accent, near the corner of a building. It must grow no larger than eighteen feet high by fifteen feet wide at maturity to fit into the area, and the soil in the location remains somewhat damp, as the area is also lightly shaded. By selecting the appropriate evergreen and deciduous categories, then filtering these by ultimate height/width, light requirements, and soil preferences, you can find a tree (or trees) that will thrive at that site. The book is technical enough for the professional (including landscape architects, designers, and contractors), yet simple enough to be used by the layperson.

“The beauty of this book is that anyone can use it. You don’t need a PhD to figure out what plants will work for you in a specific area. Have a wet area? Look up the list of trees, shrubs, etc., that thrive there. Need a tree that can take full sun or one that can tolerate urban conditions? Look it up. If you are an avid gardener, you should add this to your library. It should be required reference material in any landscape architecture or design course.”—Susan Banks, Gardens Editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Complete plant selection Guide for Landscape design

Second Edition

Marc C. Stoecklein

Paper • $55.00 • 978-1-55753-546-78½ × 11 • 760 pp. • March 2011

Marc C. stoecklein has a degree in horticulture and nursery management, as well as over thirty-five years of practical working knowledge in the nursery/landscape industry. He has owned a landscape design company and nursery for twenty years, and he is an avid propagator and horticultural consultant.

Agriculture

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