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Law & Conditions of Freedom by University of Wisconsin Press 9780299013639
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299013639Author University of Wisconsin PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint University of... -
IMAGES of WOMEN in PEACE & WAR by University of Wisconsin Press 9780299117641
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299117641Author University of Wisconsin PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint University of... -
Robert M.La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit by University of Wisconsin Press 9780299106447
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299106447Author University of Wisconsin PressFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of... -
Constitutional History of the American Revolution V. 2; Authority to Tax by University of Wisconsin Press 9780299112943
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.11John 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... -
Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H.H.Bennett's Wisconsin Dells by Steven D. Hoelscher
Booksplease Price: $40.95Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of... -
Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family by Joel Derfner
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $40.13When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly, however, and before long the two were on what they expected to be a... -
Coming Out Swiss: In Search of Heidi, Chocolate, and My Other Life by Anne Herrmann
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Anne Herrmann, a dual citizen born in New York to Swiss parents, offers in Coming Out Swiss a witty, profound, and ultimately universal exploration of identity and community. "Swissness"-even on its... -
The Phantom of Thomas Hardy by Floyd Skloot
Booksplease Price: $42.28On a street in Dorchester, England, there is a gateway between real and imagined lives. A plaque on a Barclays Bank identifies the building as "lived in by the Mayor of Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's... -
Stars in My Eyes by Don Bachardy
Booksplease Price: $34.13Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In the 1970s and 1980s, internationally known artist... -
Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Wisconsin Progressive by David R. Obey
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.89David Obey has in his nearly forty years in the U.S. House of Representatives worked to bring economic and social justice to America's working families. In 2007 he assumed the chair of the... -
It's All a Kind of Magic by Rick Dodgson
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $40.77Counterculture icon and best-selling author of the anti-authoritarian novels One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey said he was ""too young to be a beatnik... -
Field Guide to Wisconsin Grasses by Emmet J. Judziewicz
Booksplease Price: $51.32Grasses are the foremost plant family of prairies, savannas, barrens, many agricultural landscapes, lawns, and successional habitats throughout Wisconsin, yet they are notoriously difficult to... -
Farm Girl: A Wisconsin Memoir by Buena Carlson
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.57When Bunny Coburn was growing up, neighbors came together in times of hardship. No matter the trouble, they faced it with determination, camaraderie, and resourcefulness. In the midst of the Great... -
As the Twig Is Bent, Volume 1: A Memoir by Wallace B Grange
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $45.44Wallace Byron Grange (1905-87) was an influential conservationist who worked alongside Aldo Leopold. Grange's story vividly describes his mostly idyllic childhood watching bird life in the once grand... -
Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days by Jack Zipes
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82These deliberate transformations of traditional German fairy tales and fables into utopian narratives and social commentary, were written by political activists for use by progressive youth groups... -
Warmed by Windchill: A Tiny Colt's Fight for Life by Jeffrey L. Tucker
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53One bitterly cold winter afternoon, a nine-month-old colt-extremely weak, starving, left to die-was frozen to the rock-hard white landscape of a northern Wisconsin pasture. His whinny for help barely... -
Sex with Strangers by Michael Lowenthal
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.80A fiercely honest exploration of the risks and rewards of contemporary relationships-and hookups-Sex with Strangers embraces the dizzying power of attraction across the spectrum of passion and... -
To Offer Compassion: A History of the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion by Doris Andrea Dirks
Booksplease Price: $44.19In 1967, when abortion was either illegal or highly restricted in every U.S. state, a group of ministers and rabbis formed to counsel women with unwanted pregnancies-including referral to licensed... -
Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861-1881 by Lynn Ellen Patyk
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07Written in Blood offers a fundamentally new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb... -
Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery by Sheramy D. Bundrick
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $152.47A lucrative trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century B.C.E., finding an eager market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the... -
Place Names of Wisconsin by Edward Callary
Booksplease Price: $35.45The colorful history and culture of Wisconsin are reflected in its place names, from those created by Native Americans, French explorers, and diverse European settlers to more recent appellations... -
Half by Sharon Harrigan
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Growing up, identical twins Paula and Artis speak in one voice-until they can't. After years apart, with lives, partners, and children of their own, they are reunited on the occasion of their... -
Practical Audacity: Black Women and International Human Rights by Stanlie M James
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299333744Author Stanlie M JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Wisconsin... -
World Elsewhere: Place of Style in American Literature by Richard Poirier
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $35.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299099343Author Richard PoirierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Wisconsin... -
Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $36.15The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year... -
With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman among the Sami, 1907–1908 by Emilie Demant Hatt
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing... -
Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS by Edmund White 9780299170745
Booksplease Price: $31.16When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging,... -
Wingbeats and Heartbeats: Essays on Game Birds, Gun Dogs, and Days Afield by Dave Books 9780299294700
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $32.21Wingbeats and Heartbeats is a wingshooter's odyssey to the wild places where, at the end of the day, the companionship of faithful gun dogs and good friends matters more than a bulging game bag.In... -
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement by Hasan Kwame Jeffries 9780299321901
Booksplease Price: $57.76The civil rights movement transformed the United States in such fundamental ways that exploring it in the classroom can pose real challenges for instructors and students alike. Speaking to the... -
And Her Soul Out of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis 9780299157142
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82This is the first book by this author, a first-generation Ukrainian-American, resident in Alaska. The collection was the winner of the 1997 Brittingham Prize in Poetry.AwardsWinner of Brittingham... -
My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kick-Ass by Julie Tarney 9780299310608
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.34When Julie Tarney's only child Harry was two years old, he told her, "Inside my head I'm a girl." It was 1992. The Internet was no help, because there was no Internet. And bookstores had no... -
Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William R. Drennan 9780299222147
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by... -
Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, the Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga by David Maxwell 9780299337506
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16Under the leadership of William F. P. Burton and James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) grew from a simple faith movement founded in 1915 into one of the most successful classical... -
The Lost Archive by Lynn C. Miller 9780299342241
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53The characters—young and old, queer and straight, contemporary and historical—who inhabit Lynn C. Miller’s stories often find themselves in defining moments and crisis situations. As they search... -
Global Russian Cultures by Kevin M.F. Platt 9780299319748
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48Is there an essential Russian identity? What happens when "Russian" literature is written in English, by such authors as Gary Shteyngart or Lara Vapnyar? What is the geographic "home" of Russian... -
A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases by John H. Oakley 9780299327248
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.84Painted vases are the richest and most complex images that remain from ancient Greece. Over the past decades, a great deal has been written on ancient art that portrays myths and rituals. Less has... -
Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy by Emma Christopher 9780299316242
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summer of 1813, in what is now Liberia, a compound of... -
Legacy on Ice: Blake Geoffrion and the Fastest Game on Earth by Sam Jefferies 9780299344900
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $36.76In 2010, Blake Geoffrion was named the best player in college hockey, the first player from the University of Wisconsin hockey team to receive the Hobey Baker Award. Blake was a rising scion of... -
Cravings by Garnett Kilberg Cohen 9780299345242
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53Opening with “Hors d’oeuvres” and closing with a “Feast,” the stories in Cravings pulse with longing, missed opportunities, recriminations, and joy. Garnett Kilberg Cohen leads readers through... -
The Magic Mirror: Moviemaking in Russia, 1908-18 by Denise J. Youngblood 9780299162344
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44This work is a study of ten years of native Russian film production through the Revolution of 1917, based almost exclusively on Russian-language primary sources. Showing how these films portrayed and...