University of Iowa Press

Reducere. This classic of midwestern natural history is back in print with a new format and new photographs. Originally published in 1979, ``Wildflowers of I...

Robyn Schiff's poems enquire about making, buying, selling and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape and the human soul. Schiff mov...

Reducere. Fretwork hazards a response to its dilemma by turning, skeptically and resiliently, toward the materials of lyric poetry and empathetic action, how...

Reducere. Back in print at last in a third edition, the classic ``Forest and Shade Trees of Iowa ``now has a wealth of full-color photographs and updated, re...

Presents a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. This vibrant and diverse selection includ...

Reducere. In A Potter's Workbook, renowned studio potter and teacher Clary Illian presents a textbook for the hand and the mind. Her aim is to provide a way ...

An anthology of 100 poems, written by physicians, exploring the connections between medicine and poetry.

Reducere. This collection holds a mirror to the self and in its reflection we find the elegiac and the ecological, as in "how much of enjoying a place / is d...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This collection examines the problems and challenges of formulating national theatre histories. The essayists included here provide an internationa...

The first collection to offer a close study of fan generations, which are defined not only by fans' ages, but by their entry point into a canon or ...

Reducere. DescriptionKendra Allen's first collection of essays--at its core--is a bunch of mad stories about things she never learned to let go of. Unifying ...

Reducere. The Ninth Decade is a path-breaking and timely book on aging: the first to focus explicitly and at length on eighty-somethings, the fastest-growing...

Reducere. On the night of December 1, 1900, Iowa farmer John Hossack was attacked and killed while he slept at home beside his wife, Margaret. On April 11, 1...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carrie YoungThis folk narrative by Carrie Young is a collection of essays that remininisce on her mother's North Dakota pio...

What is the appeal of film tourism, and what can its rise tell us about contemporary fandom? Fan Sites explores why and how we experience film and ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This classic of midwestern natural history is back in print with a new format and new photographs. Originally published in 1989, Wildflowers of the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maggie NelsonMaggie Nelson provides the first extended consideration of the roles played by women in and around the New Yor...

Reducere. DescriptionThe characters in Happy Like This are smart girls and professional women--social scientists, linguists, speech therapists, plant physiol...

Reducere. For decades, we've been warned that video killed the radio star, and, more recently, that social media has replaced reading. Nerdfighteria, a first...

Reducere. Safe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an ag...

Reducere. The discipline of fan studies is famously undisciplined. But that doesn't mean it isn't structured. This is the first comprehensive primer for clas...

Examining three mid-twentieth-century texts, this book explores how the concept of autobiography as a referential genre is challenged and transform...

Reducere. DescriptionA House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's...

Reducere. For Robert Pendleton, a professor clinging to tenure and living in the shambles of his once-bright literary career, death seems to be the only rema...

An anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare. It tells the enduring truths of battle, stripping away ...

In this remarkable feat of historical research, Odai Johnson pieces together the surviving fragments of the story of the first professional theatre...

Reducere. When most people think of the celebrated greatness that is Coach Dan Gable, they think of an almost mythic intensity toward wrestling. Gable breath...

DescriptionThe amount of fan-generated content about Jane Austen and her novels has long surpassed the author's original canon. Adaptations like Cl...

Kate Chopin on pot smoking. Pauline Hopkins on alchemy and the undead. Sui Sin Far on cross-dressing. Emma Lazarus and Angelina Weld Grimké on les...

Reducere. Sometimes called "black gold, " Iowa's deep, rich soils are a treasure that formed over thousands of years under the very best of the world's grass...

Reducere. Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in up...

Cracking Up archives and analyzes Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years. Looking closely at the work of Jac...

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat-- more than any other food--has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, A...

DescriptionTim Cassedy's fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identi...

Reducere. What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA titles? In"A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories ...

Reducere. Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of Ame...

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

This Element is an introduction to controversies concerning the structure of knowledge and justification. It explains clearly the main arguments fo...

This book will appeal to academics and non-academics interested in Brazilian and Latin American politics, as it provides the first rigorous yet acc...