University of Wisconsin Press
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Wolf ACT
$19.95 Read moreAs a child, AJ Romriell strove to obey his Mormon leaders’ every rule. If he was faithful enough, he was taught, God would remove temptations. But at nineteen, returning home early from his mission af… [more below]
- Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog
- Author: Romriell, Aj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0299349942
- Language: English
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Beer, Brats, and Cheese: A Wisconsin Road Trip
$19.95 Add to cartAs the latest season of Top Chef reveals, Wisconsin foodways contain much more than beer, brats, and cheese. Yet these remain at the pinnacle of the state’s fame–and rightly so. If you live in Wiscon… [more below]
- Author: Kerrigan, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0299349845
- Language: English
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I Talk about It All the Time
$18.95 Add to cartIn this biting, lyrical memoir, Camara Lundestad Joof, born in Bod to Norwegian and Gambian parents, shares her experiences as a queer Black Norwegian woman. Joof’s daily encounters belie the myth of… [more below]
- Author: Joof, Camara Lundestad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0299348547
- Language: English
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The Film Music of John Williams: Reviving Hollywood’s Classical Style
$24.95 Add to cartFrom 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-while netting more than fifty Academy Award nominati… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Film Studies
- Author: Audissino, Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0299332349
- Language: English
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The Bones of BASCOM Hall
$21.95 Add to cartCampus police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are baffled by the discovery of human remains in the attic of the administration building. Drawn into the investigation, visiting professor Nora Ba… [more below]
- Series: Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler Mystery
- Author: Draine, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0299349748
- Language: English
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Glenn Ford: A Life
$26.95 Add to cartGlenn Ford–star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders–had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood lif… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Film Studies
- Author: Ford, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 12 2011
- ISBN10: 029928154X
- Language: English
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Grace Engine
$16.95 Read more“Words carry the dead like henchmen,” in Joshua Burton’s extraordinary debut volume, Grace Engine. These spare and powerful poems are like pallbearers, like eulogists, like survivors, like battered so… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Burton, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 029934164X
- Language: English
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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
$29.95 Read moreScandinavia’s most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stole… [more below]
- Author: Munch, Edvard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: July 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0299198146
- Language: English
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Come Clean
$16.95 Read moreJoshua Nguyen’s sharp, songlike, and often experimental collection compartmentalizes past trauma–sexual and generational–through the quotidian. Poems aim to confront the speaker’s past by physically… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Nguyen, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0299336042
- Language: English
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Amphibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin
$74.95 Read moreAmphibians and reptiles represent an essential and interesting component of Wisconsin’s wildlife. Eighteen species of amphibian and thirty-six species of reptile occupy landscapes across the state. Th… [more below]
- Author: Kapfer, Joshua M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1176
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0299335208
- Language: English
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Radium Girl
$16.95 Read moreThe poems in Radium Girl hold dual citizenship in the land of the sick and the kingdom of the well. The point where illusion ends and reality begins is never clear, as Celeste Lipkes evokes saints, ma… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Lipkes, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0299341747
- Language: English
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Girl’s Guide to Leaving
$16.95 Read moreTumbleweeds and wandering cacti litter the page, coyotes croon at the prose. In poems haunted by specters of intimate partner violence, Girl’s Guide to Leaving considers what it means to escape the lo… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Poetry
- Author: Villareal, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0299336840
- Language: English
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Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief
$24.95 Add to cartIn November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching. “When will you be home?” Steve asked. “I have news.”
So began the Hollars family’s year of plenty-a cancer diagno- Author: Hollars, B. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0299347443
- Language: English
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Moments of Happiness: A Wisconsin Band Story
$32.95 Add to cartWhen Mike Leckrone retired as director of bands at the University of Wisconsin in 2019, he had served in that role for an astonishing fifty years. A brilliant showman, he became known for aerial stunt… [more below]
- Author: Leckrone, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0299348806
- Language: English
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Unswerving
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Tave wakes up alone in the hospital, she barely remembers the car wreck. Far from home, dazed, and despondent, she struggles to face the challenges of her new paralysis-all while worrying about h… [more below]
- Author: Ridley, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0299348148
- Language: English
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Ripple Effects: How We’re Loving Our Lakes to Death
$26.95 Add to cartLakes are among the Upper Midwest’s greatest treasures and most valuable natural resources. The Great Lakes define the region, and thousands of smaller lakes offer peace, joy, and recreation to millio… [more below]
- Author: Rulseh, Ted J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0299339602
- Language: English
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A Lakeside Companion
$22.95 Add to cartWhy 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 healthy? Whether you fish, paddle, swim, snowshoe, ski,… [more below]
- Author: Rulseh, Ted J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0299320006
- Language: English
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Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes
$24.95 Add to cartBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds–including the world’s largest known bird effigy–a… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Land and Life (Paperback)
- Author: Birmingham, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: December 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0299232646
- Language: English
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Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
$19.95 Add to cartNational Jewish Book Award Finalist for Memoir
Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world when, after years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, he returned to the Orthodox Jewish c- Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
- Author: Ladin, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0299287343
- Language: English
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Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
$29.95 Add to cartThis biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United
- Author: Meine, Curt D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 676
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0299249042
- Language: English
