Wisconsin, Hardcover

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Wisconsin and the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one ...

Reducere. State birds, flowers, trees, and animals brought to board book form for the youngest book lovers. Toddlers will delight in these books filled with ...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

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

Reducere. Wisconsin Flora: An Illustrated Guide to the Vascular Plants of Wisconsin is the first modern, comprehensive guide to the vascular flora of Wiscons...

Reducere. Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus"...

Reducere. Wisconsin was the perfect setting for the lumber industry: acres of white pine forests (acquired through treaties with American Indians) and rivers...

Reducere. The first time Ravi Shankar was arrested, he spoke out against racist policing on National Public Radio and successfully sued the city of New York....

For 872 days during World War II, the city of Leningrad endured a crushing blockade at the hands of German forces. Close to one million civilians d...

Reducere. Wisconsin Supper Clubs: Another Round, a sequel to author/photographer Ron Faiola's wildly popular first book on the topic (now in its sixth printi...

Reducere. In the wake of a brutal storm that lashed the Door County peninsula, Sheriff Dave Cubiak assesses the damage: broken windows, downed trees, and pil...

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative...

Reducere. Men I've Never Been recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity--and, ultimately, his sexual orientation--in order to b...

Reducere. With macabre humor, You, Beast explores the roots and limits of human empathy. Nick Lantz examines our strange, absurd, and often brutal relationsh...

Reducere. A collaboration between well-established and rising scholars, Futures of Dance Studies suggests multiple directions for new research in the field. ...

Reducere. Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provi...

Reducere. Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he v...

Reducere. Why do fish jump? Why don't lakes freeze all the way down to the bottom? Which lake plants are invasive? What are those water bugs? Is that lake he...

Reducere. DescriptionWisconsin is famous for the Packers and homebrews, but the state offers so much more. This handy guide by Mary M. Bauer covers hundreds ...

Reducere. Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable s...

Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she me...

Reducere. Researchers often face significant and unique ethical and methodological challenges when conducting qualitative field work among people who have be...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Badger State's thriving upland bird population beckons hunters from across the country. Author Ken M. Blomberg recollects nearly hal...

Reducere. This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood's true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch's company has...

Watertown, Wisconsin, nestled in the southeastern part of the state between the largest city, Milwaukee, and the state capital, Madison, was once c...

Reducere. For nearly a half century, from 1945 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union maneuvered to achieve global hegemony. Each forged political a...

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. 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...

Reducere. The history of the Wisconsin Dells area is as unique as its glacier-sculpted landscape. It has been a gathering place for tribal councils, a vacati...

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

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

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. 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. The Great Lakes fur trade spanned two centuries and thousands of miles, but the story of one particular family, the Cadottes, illuminates the histo...

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

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...

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

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 ...

DescriptionSpain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed,...

DescriptionSenegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Captu...

Reducere. This long-lost novel recounts a passionate triangle of love and loss among three of the most daring women of belle epoque Paris. In this barely dis...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bassam Z. ShakhashiriEditor: Tino BalioThe demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, m...

Reducere. Teaching history well is not just a matter of knowing history--it is a set of skills that can be developed and honed through practice. In this theo...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our liter...

Reducere. The demonstrations capture interest, teach, inform, fascinate, amaze, and perhaps, most importantly, involve students in chemistry. Nowhere else wi...

Reducere. Following his English setters into thickets in search of grouse and woodcock, Mark Parman feels the pull of older ways and lost wisdom. How rare it...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW: Fifty-five (55) Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index, and General Rufus R. Dawes' Battle Record They were fierce They were tou...

DescriptionMeke, a traditional rhythmic dance accompanied by singing, signifies an important piece of identity for Fijians. Despite its complicated...

The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the mid-1990s by Eduard Limonov and Aleksandr Dugin, began as an attempt to combine radically different id...

Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public heal...

Reducere. DescriptionWith experience as both a trial and appellate judge, Charles Benjamin Schudson knows the burdens on judges. With engaging candor, he tak...

DescriptionMore than four million visitors travel each year to the Wisconsin Dells, making it the most economically significant tourist destination...

Reducere. Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating t...

DescriptionThis unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Prot...

Reducere. Amid the instability and violence of turn-of-the-century industrialization and urbanization Russians embraced a revolutionary art form to reflect t...

Reducere. The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary ha...

Reducere. A comprehensive study of jazz great Charlie Parker, including details of record dates, more than 200 musical illustrations, and biographical materi...

DescriptionBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors ...