Böcker utgivna av University of Wisconsin Press

Robert Rand tells the tale of how dancing freed him from the grip of panic disorder. Rand was a serious, shy, and intense scholar who had achieved national recognition in a writing and radio production career. Dancing became a cathartic and liberating endeavor.

Barbara Cellarius provides an ethnographic description of village life and conservation efforts in an ecologically important region of one of the most biologically diverse countries in Europe. She describes the ways in which the lives of residents of a rural community are affected by outside forces.

Cafe Wisconsin returns in a new, updated version that provides a sure-bet guide to Wisconsin's best small town, home-cooking cafes. Featuring 133 cafes, with another 100 Next Best Bets alternatives, Cafe Wisconsin is every hungry traveler's guide.

Set in strife-torn Guatemala City in the early 1980s, this sophisticated, quasi-comedic tale depicts the decline and near-fall of a prominent Guatemalan Jewish family.

In the work, William is sent to study two sisters - one a brilliant recluse, the other possibly murderous - with pasts as murky as Hedda's. Characters are mirrored, parallel plots overlap and several dark sisters - gifted with imaginative intellects but viewed as morbidly deviant - are doomed to destruction

Reactor gives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes through extended meditations of an urban mystical wanderer.

Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live. In the process, Strasser rediscovered what she had suppressed through that long span of time: exceptional strength and a passion for writing.

Late Psalm takes themes from those ancient songs of joy and grief and transposes them into the language of contemporary life.

Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Reclaiming the lost voices of the victims and the personal accounts of the survivors, this is a story of daily camp life with the women's thoughts about food, friendships, fear of sexual abuse, hygiene issues, resistance, and staying alive.

A collection of 43 columns of ""Riepenhoff on Local Lakes"", written by outdoor editor of the ""Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"", this title covers 54 lakes in southern Wisconsin. He describes his fishing experiences and methods and provides information about the fish species in each lake, fish stocking, management, special regulations and public access.

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.

An anthology of cronicas - short texts that are a cross between literary essays and urban reportage - about life in Mexico City today.

Widely regarded as one of the leading environmentalists in American history, Gaylord Nelson is best known as the founder of Earth Day. This political biography tells the rest of the story - how a small town boy from Wisconsin became a national champion of a progressive agenda.

Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture is John G. Cawelti's discussion of American popular culture and violence, from its precursors in Homer and Shakespeare to the Lone Ranger and Superman. Cawelti deciphers the overt sexuality, detached violence, and political intrigue embedded within Batman and.007.

This broad study of how James Joyce's work was received in the Anglophone world, written for both academic and lay readers, shows how the reading of Joyce's work has moved through different critical paradigms, periods, and places, and how Joyce's writing has given generations of readers a way to discuss the major issues of the modern world.

Anthropology is by definition about ""others"", but in this work the phrase refers not to members of observed cultures, but to ""significant others"" - spouses, lovers, and others with whom anthropologists have deep relationships. This work looks at the roles of these spouses of anthropologists.

An architecture equally poetry, fairy tale, autobiography and fiction, ""The Room Where I Was Born"" rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the poems are born out of violence and sexuality, they also affirm tenderness and compassion.

In this intimate first poetry collection, Bruce Snider explores the intricacies of memory, loss and identity. A farmer finds the body of a dead child, a boy watches his mother get ready for a date, an overweight sister shares a cupcake.

A collection of poems which explore the intersections between ecology, the imagination, urban nature, lesbian nature and the nature of the human heart. The collection is the winner of the 2002 Audre Lord Award for Lesbian Poetry.

This extensive analysis of Nazi culture contains selections from newspapers, novellas, plays and diaries as well as the public pronouncements of Nazi leaders, churchmen and professors. It describes national Socialism in practice and explores what it meant for the average German.

The Study Smart Series, designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programs, teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar, and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in great essays.

Part of the ""Study Smart"" series, this text is designed for students from junior high school through lifelong learning programmes. Each book in the series teaches skills for research and note-taking, provides exercises to improve grammar and reveals secrets for putting these skills together in essays.

A concise, sensible grammar handbook explaining lucidly how to remember correct word forms and sentence structures. Useful as a reference tool for high school and beyond, it packs an entire grammar encyclopedia into just over a hundred pages.

In the second half of the 20th century, no one had more influence over social security than Robert Ball who, in 1947, wrote the key statement defining why social insurance, not welfare, should be America's primary income maintenance programme.

Growing up, Mel Miskimen thought that a gun and handcuffs on the kitchen table were as normal as a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread. Her memoir, told in humorous vignettes, tells what it was like growing up with a dad who was a Milwaukee cop for almost 40 years.

Colombian-born Santiago Martinez starts his adult life as a young gay writer living in Spain. Years later, as a university professor in New York City, Santiago is called back to his native Colombia upon the suicide of his sister. There he learns shocking secrets about his childhood and adolescence.

This bilingual edition collects Jaime Manrique's lyrical and sensual poems about his childhood in Colombia, memories of his childhood and his more recent experiences and loves in Manhattan. Musical and romantic, these poems are in the tradition of Pablo Neruda.

Isaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life.

Young Danny Meyer's bubble-like existence in paradisal Madison is broken when his father is stricken with illness. The family is forced to move to Milwaukee where they struggle at the brink of poverty. Here, Danny must accept the responsibilities of manhood while still struggling with adolescence.

Escaping his ghosts, AIDS widower David Masiello accepts a one-year position at a Western medical clinic in Beijing. Lonely but excited, he sets out to explore the city - both its bustling street life and its clandestine gay subculture.