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New Book Recounts How Incarcerated Boys and Shelter Dogs Changed One Another

About the Book Second Chances: The Transformative Relationship Between Incarcerated Youth and Shelter Dogs recounts the story of Project POOCH (Positive Opportunities—Obvious Change with Hounds), a program that united incarcerated boys…

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New Book Communicates how the Development of the Bell Telephone System Impacted the Emerging Discipline of Industrial Design

About the Book Histories of design pay scant attention to the corded telephone, which played an immeasurable role in early communication. Although the Bell System, with many Nobel Prizes, is…

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A Panorama of Contemporary Mexican Crime Fiction: A Q & A with author Maria Carpio-Manickam

Purdue University Press spoke with author Maria Carpio-Manickam about her new book, a Spanish-language volume in the Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures series, Del policial clásico al post-neopolicial: La estética del…

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