Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing

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Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing is a free, high-quality, open-access publishing service for IU. We publish texts created by the IU community that are not publishable by scholarly or commercial presses but that are nonetheless worthy of the affordances of a publisher. This service is overseen by Adam Mazel, Digital Publishing Librarian.

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    Afterthought: A Family Story
    (Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing, 2025) Akou, Heather
    Afterthought: A Family Story focuses on the life of my grandmother, Lila Slaback, who grew up in a dysfunctional, working-class family in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the 1930s. In her short adult life, she gave birth to seven children with at least four different men and died in 1958 at age thirty-six. She was a real person, but her family was not proud of her story. This book is my best attempt to recover it. This work of historical fiction can be read like a memoir. With extensive notes and resources, it can also be read as inspiration for researching and writing historical fiction, especially in the United States. As an educational text, it would be appropriate for courses on fashion history, American history, gender roles, family, poverty, healthcare, and generational trauma.
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    Through the Looking Glass: I. Why Cross-Fertilize?
    (IU Libraries Publishing: Grey Literature, 2024) Lively, Curtis M.; Dinges, Zoe
    The following pages represent the first volume of a book. The main goal is to introduce the evolutionary problem of sexual reproduction with a focus on competition between sexual and asexual females. But I also incorporate some ideas on genetic polymorphism and phenotypic plasticity with the goal of exploring variation strategies more generally. Finally, I try to weave in some history of the field along with some philosophy of science.