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  • Native Plants of the Midwest: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best 500 Species for the Garden

    • ASIN: 1604695935
    • ISBN: 1604695935
    • Brand: Timber Press
    • Manufacturer: Timber Press

    Native Plants of the Midwest, by regional plant expert Alan Branhagan, features the best native plants in the heartland and offers clear and concise guidance on how to use them in the garden. Plant profiles for more than 500 species of trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, ground covers, bulbs, and annuals contain the common and botanical names, growin... [Read More]

  • Perennials for Midwestern Gardens: Proven Plants for the Heartland

    • ASIN: 0881928933
    • ISBN: 0881928933
    • Brand: Brand: Timber Press
    • Manufacturer: Timber Press

    Gardeners everywhere want to grow perennials. But with its hot, humid summers and often bitterly cold winters, the Midwest presents a formidably challenging climate. This book provides concise, experience-tested information about popular perennials-including herbs, ornamental grasses, and bulbs-that can be grown successfully throughout a wide range... [Read More]

  • Confronting History: A Memoir (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History)

    • ASIN: 0299165809
    • ISBN: 0299165809
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of this century’s great historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Writing about the events of his life through a historian’s lens, Mosse g... [Read More]

  • Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa (Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture)

    • ASIN: 0299219542
    • ISBN: 0299219542
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that “a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African.” Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice these positions were lynchpins of co... [Read More]

  • Rads: The 1970 Bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin and Its Aftermath

    • ASIN: 0060924284
    • ISBN: 0060924284
    • Manufacturer: Perennial

    An account of the 1970 bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin sheds light on the event while also chronicling the anti-war movement. 50,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.

  • Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)

    • ASIN: 0299124347
    • ISBN: 0299124347
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    In a world of multinational commerce, satellite broadcasting, migration, terrorism, and global arms dealing, what is said and how it is said in one society can no longer be isolated from what is said and how it is said in another. Debating Muslims focuses on Iranian culture, Shi’ite Islam, and Iranians in the United States, offering an experiment... [Read More]

  • Sister

    • ASIN: 0380729768
    • ISBN: 0380729768
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    "When my brother disappeared in 1984, I began to see myself in the third person as if my life were a story being told to someone else."Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural Catholic commuinity in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother, Sam, vanishes at the age of seventeen, fleeing their father's rig... [Read More]

  • The Prairie Garden: Seventy Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country

    • ASIN: 0299083047
    • ISBN: 0299083047
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    Prairie plants are among the toughest of all ornamentals. While they fascinate gardeners with their beauty and versatility, they require little maintenance. They are highly resistant to insect and disease damage, and they need not be replanted every year.    In recent years, the idea of growing prairie plants has gained increasing appeal among g... [Read More]

  • Population: 485- Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time (P.S.)

    • UPC: 884574237624
    • ASIN: 0061363502
    • ISBN: 0061363502
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. A... [Read More]

  • Read This and Tell Me What It Says: Stories

    • ASIN: 0380730774
    • ISBN: 0380730774
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    In her first full-length story collection, author A. Manette Ansay explores the rural Midwest landscape and the people who inhabit it: ordinary folk with extraordinary inner lives, struggling to make sense of the isolated, sometimes painful, and often intensely religious worlds in which they live. Her are 15 haunting and exquisitely written tales t... [Read More]

  • Peasants of Costa Rica and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism

    • ASIN: 0299077608
    • ISBN: 0299077608
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    This book, which traces the evolution of the Costa Rican peasantry from colonial times to the present, focuses on the impact of agrarian capitalism, a key factor in the social and political change of the Costa Rican peasant society. Scholars and students in political science, sociology, economics, agricultural history, the history of politics of Ce... [Read More]

  • Constitutional History of the American Revolution: The Authority to Tax

    • ASIN: 029911290X
    • ISBN: 029911290X
    • Manufacturer: The University of Wisconsin Press

    John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.... [Read More]

  • Outsidepride Midwest Wildflower Seed Mix - 1 LB

    • UPC: 678482957411
    • ASIN: B00408HAS8
    • Brand: Outsidepride
    • Size: B) 1 LB
    • Manufacturer: Outsidepride

    The Midwest wild flower mix has species that are chosen for their long bloom season, their display of color, and their hardiness to withstand climate extremes. This mix is 50% annuals and 50% perennials, and with normal conditions, the flowers can reach 24 - 30 inches in height. This mix is ideal for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, eastern Kansas, Kentuck... [Read More]

  • Urban Workers and Labor Unions in Chile 1902-1927

    • ASIN: 0299092208
    • ISBN: 0299092208
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    During the first quarter of the twentieth century, there originated in Chile a labor movement which was to prove both important and unique. Peter Deshazo sets out here to furnish a detailed case study of that movement. By challenging previously held and often politically motivated conceptions of the Chilean unions, and by examining such hitherto un... [Read More]

  • The Primitive Methodist Connexion: Its Background and Early History

    • ASIN: 0299099105
    • ISBN: 0299099105
    • Manufacturer: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

  • Transgression and Conformity: Cuban Writers and Artists after

    • ASIN: 0299197301
    • ISBN: 0299197301
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    Defining the political and aesthetic tensions that have shaped Cuban culture for over forty years, Linda Howe explores the historical and political constraints imposed upon Cuban artists and intellectuals during and after the Revolution. Focusing on the work of Afro-Cuban writers Nancy Morejón and prominent novelist Miguel Barnet, Howe exposes the... [Read More]

  • People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

    • ASIN: 0299150100
    • ISBN: 0299150100
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    A Mark Twain scholar. An African American philosopher. A lesbian feminist literary critic. A Cuban-American anthropologist. A German immigrant to the United States. A professor of English at a Jesuit university. All share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas in People of the Book, the first book in which Jewish-Americ... [Read More]

  • Truck: A Love Story: A Love Story (P.S.)

    • ASIN: 0060571187
    • ISBN: 0060571187
    • Brand: Perry, Michael
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. "All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . ." Tru... [Read More]

  • The Jesus Cow: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0062289985
    • ISBN: 0062289985
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    New York Times bestselling humorist Michael Perry makes his fiction debut with this hilarious and big-hearted tale, a comic yet sincere exploration of faith and the foibles of modern life that blends the barbed charm of Garrison Keillor, the irreverent humor of Christopher Moore, and the audacious insight of Chuck Klosterman.Life is suddenly full o... [Read More]

  • Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals (Writing: History, Poetics, Cultural Crit)

    • ASIN: 0299147746
    • ISBN: 0299147746
    • Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press

    As the incidence of violent crime rises in the United States, so does the public demand for a solution. But what will work?    Mark S. Fleisher has spent years among inmates in jails and prisons and on the streets with thieves, gang members, addicts, and life-long criminals in Seattle and other cities across the country. In Beggars and Thieves, ... [Read More]

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