title: Facing the Text: Content and Structure in Book Indexing
author:  Do Mi Stauber 
description: Do Mi Stauber is the 2007 winner of the Wilson Award for Excellence in Indexing. She has presented her popular workshops for indexers since 1997. She has indexed in the social sciences and humanities since 1986.
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  Contents
  
  
  [About the Book](index_split_001.html#filepos940)
  
  
  [About the Author](index_split_002.html#filepos2287)
  
  
  [Also by Michel Houellebecq](index_split_003.html#filepos2862)
  
  
  [Title Page](index_split_004.html#filepos3782)
  
  
  [Part I](index_split_005.html#filepos3886)
  
  
  [Part II](index_split_011.html#filepos51000)
  
  
  [Part III](index_split_023.html#filepos151803)
  
  
  [Part IV](index_split_028.html#filepos215801)
  
  
  [Part V](index_split_037.html#filepos276921)
  
  
  [Acknowledgements](index_split_047.html#filepos379360)
  
  
  [Copyright](index_split_048.html#filepos379798)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### **ABOUT THE BOOK**
  
  
  In a near-future France, François, a middle-aged academic, is watching his
  life slowly dwindle to nothing. His sex drive is diminished, his parents are
  dead, and his lifelong obsession – the ideas and works of the nineteenth-
  century novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans – has led him nowhere. In a late-
  capitalist society where consumerism has become the new religion, François is
  s