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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melinda BuckwalterEditor: Laura Stempel MumfordContribution by: Jacqueline RossTransforming Women s Education traces the hi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe years 1907-1913 mark a crucial transitional moment in American cinema. As moving picture shows changed from mere novelty to an incre...

Reducere. This is the first comprehensive, documented history of the soda fountain. For one hundred fifty years, this popular institution was a community soc...

Devil s Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formation...

Reducere. These exquisite love poems, some of them clearly addressed to women, were written by the visionary and passionate genius of Mexican letters, the se...

Reducere. In the brutally cold winter of 1936, as his wife lies dying, Henrik Halvorsen takes their daughter with him on a perilous journey. Captain of the c...

Tells the story of voting in elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin's history. This...

Reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describ...

Addresses the creative and often unexpected trajectory of French cinema, which continues to be one of the most provocative and engaging cinemas in ...

Reducere. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. Loss within Loss is a moving collaboration by some of ...

Facing repression, the Latin American left in the '60s and '70s found connection in transnational exchange, organising with activists in Africa, th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Linda MenikuA companion workbook offers a rich variety of graded practice exercises in grammar and vocabulary. A key to all...

DescriptionIn 1898, in an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent its troops to suppress the Filipino str...

Reducere. A collection of poems which reveal the inner workings of the human psyche and show us that sometimes the best defense against terror is making misc...

DescriptionCovering a period of more than one hundred years of work by renowned folklorists, these enlightening essays explore the timeless tale of...

DescriptionRealizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, ...

Reducere. The Driftless Area is the land the glaciers missed, an ancient landscape of bluffs, ridgetops, and steep valleys that long ago was a seabed. Coveri...

Reducere. DescriptionSince the late 1960s, American film and video makers of all stripes have been fascinated with themes of self and identity. Though the do...

The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poigna...

Reducere. Wallace Byron Grange (1905-87) was an influential conservationist who worked alongside Aldo Leopold. Grange's story vividly describes his mostly id...

Reducere. Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current...

Reducere. Knowing that queer voices have been making themselves heard in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria decades before Stonewall, editors Gary Schmidt and...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

Reducere. As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations, as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in covert operations ...

Reducere. A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection ...

Reducere. The civil rights movement transformed the United States in such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can pose real challenges for in...

Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms wi...

Reducere. More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first t...

Reducere. Dave Cubiak is backAfter tracking a clever killer in Death Stalks Door County, park ranger and former Chicago homicide detective Dave Cubiak is ele...

In this captivating memoir, Emil Draitser explores what it means to be a satirist in a country lacking freedom of expression. His experience provid...

Reducere. Six deaths mar the holiday mood as summer vacationers enjoy Wisconsin s beautiful Door County peninsula. Murders, or bizarre accidents? Newly hired...

Reducere. Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by sla...

Reducere. Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West's basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and re...

DescriptionThe work of black writers, editors, publishers, and librarians is deeply embedded in the history of American print culture, from slave n...

Reducere. On a chilly Monday in late spring, Sheriff Dave Cubiak is at the Green Arbor Lodge for lunch when a scream from a nearby medical conference disrupt...

Reducere. Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the at...

Reducere. DescriptionOn a bracing autumn day in Door County, a prominent philanthropist disappears. Is the elderly Gerald Sneider-known as "Mr. Packer" for h...

Reducere. As the Vietnam War grinds on and the Nixon presidency collapses, Del "Minnow" Finwick's small world in Wisconsin has blown apart. His father, a dep...

Reducere. "It was a huge and powerful ship with a tall, handsome pilothouse and big smoking stacks, no place for a girl, though I loved it, I cannot tell you...

Reducere. Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one o...

All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon ...

Reducere. Most films tell tales, but what does that involve? How do motion pictures tease us into building what we all agree to call stories? In this study, ...

Reducere. American public universities were founded in a civic tradition that differentiated them from their European predecessors--steering away from the pu...

Reducere. From the triumphant "Main Title" in Star Wars to the ominous bass line of Jaws, John Williams has penned some of the most unforgettable film scores...

Reducere. What do we talk about when we talk about money? As the forty-four poets in this brilliant new anthology show, the answer is everything. From the im...

Tarquini offers a rich and stimulating synthesis, the best single-volume work available on this complex and challenging subject. This history revea...

Reducere. Award NameLambda Literary AwardsAward categoryGay FictionDescriptionJust as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throug...

Reducere. During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighboring Laos. Two million tons of bombs were dropped on ...

Reducere. Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops a...

Reducere. At the height of the Cold War, Lucybelle Bledsoe is offered a job seemingly too good to pass up. However, there are risks. Her scientific knowledge...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this lyrical memoir of her Lebanese-American family, Elmaz Abinader offers a vivid account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning ...

DescriptionNongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are ubiquitous in the Global South. Often international in origin, many attempt to assist local eff...

Ice cream has a singular place in American cuisine as both a comfort food and festive treat. Fudge ripple is a consolation for a minor disappointme...

Reducere. DescriptionGrowing up on a secluded smuggling route along the border of Northern Ireland and the Republic, Packy Jim McGrath regularly heard the ne...

Reducere. This groundbreaking history of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) examines, for the first time in any language, how General Francisco Franco and his N...

Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Re...

Reducere. From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370, 000 young men-mostly from impoverished backgrounds-were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto ...

Reducere. Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

Reducere. In this sensitive and personal investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas J. Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in ...

Cy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several di...

Reducere. Senegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the ex...

Publisher: University of Wisconsin PressAuthor(s): Douglass K. DanielIllustration(s): 22 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 248Collection:...

In rural South African clinics, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations,...

In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality. Wrestli...

DescriptionThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan--known as "the U P"--is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Katherine ProfetaDramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement pe...

Reducere. What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religi...

Reducere. How and why do trout think? How do they decide where to eat and which food to eat? Why do they refuse to behave as predicted, stumping anglers by r...

Reducere. A landmark book in dance education is now back in print, its message as valid today as it was more than fifty years agoAbout the Author: Margaret N...

Reducere. His name is inextricably linked with a single work, A Sand County Almanac, a classic of natural history literature and the conservationist's bible....