Wisconsin and the Midwest Published by the University of Wisconsin Press and Other Wisconsin Organizations WISCONSIN in PRINT
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Books and CDs about Wisconsin and the Midwest published by the University of Wisconsin Press and other Wisconsin organizations WISCONSIN in PRINT 2015 Discounts available when ordering from our Web site www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress CONTENTS 20% OFF PRINT BOOKS AND MUSIC Gateway to Wisconsin 3 Dear Customers, Midwest Favorites 4–5 Ordering directly from us supports the mission of the nonprofit University of Wisconsin Press, as well as the museums and small publishers whose Foodways and Travel 6–8 products we distribute along with our own books. Distributed titles in this Music 9 catalog include books from: Folkways 10 Borderland Books Milwaukee County Historical History 11-14 Center for American Places Society Center for the Study of Upper Museum of Wisconsin Art Frank Lloyd Wright 15 MIdwest Cultures NEMO Productions Politics 16 Chazen Museum of Art Oshkosh Public Museum Social Concerns 17 Chippewa Valley Museum Pabst Mansion Ellis Press Renewing the Countryside Madison 18 forMemory, Inc. The Layton Art Collections, Inc. Milwaukee 19 Fine Arts Publishing Tim Southwick Johnson George F. Thompson Publishing Two Tap Records On the Farm 20-21 Ginkgo Press University of Wisconsin The Land Around Us 22-23 Greater Milwaukee Foundation Arboreteum Wisconsin Waters 24-25 Itchy Cat Press Wisconsin Arts Board Jacqueline Dougan Jackson Wisconsin Book Publishing Keepers of the Earth 26 -28 Loon Commons Press Wisconsin Public Radio Flora and Fauna 29-31 Max Kade Institute for German- Wisconsin Veterans Museum American Studies Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Hunting and Fishing 32-33 Milwaukee Art Museum Museum Sports 34 H iking, Climbing, and We also encourage you to support your local booksellers—although they may Cycling 35 not be able to offer discounts, they are vital contributors to local communities. Ethnic Heritage 36-37 How to Order Native Heritage 38-39 The prices listed in the catalog are full price, so apply your 20% discount Mysteries 40-41 after you have added up your order total. Midwest Writers 42-46 1. 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Other retailers’ prices [email protected]. may vary. 2 WISCONSIN IN PRINT 2014–2015 Prices listed are full price; apply discount to your order total. GATEWAY TO WISCONSIN New! AVAILABLE MARCH 2015 Folksongs of Another America Field Recordings from the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 James P. Leary Available here for the first time is the remarkably diverse folk music of America’s Upper Midwest, captured in field recordings by collectors for the Library of Congress from 1937 to 1946. This groundbreaking documentary project—5 CDs of restored rare music, a new documentary film on DVD, and a richly annotated book to go with them—weaves the songs and spirit of the Upper Midwest’s FOLKSONGS OF ANOTHER AMERICA peoples into America’s folksong fabric. FIELD RECORDINGS FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST, 1937 1946 These tunes and songs in more than twenty-five languages JAMES P. LEARY showcase a significant but overlooked part of the nation’s musical heritage, made by immigrant, Native American, rural, and working class performers in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Included in this deluxe box set: • 187 songs and tunes, digitally restored • Songs in more than 25 languages, with full original lyrics and English translations • More than 200 performers, with biographical notes and many photographs Copublished with Dust-to-Digital, in collaboration with the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the Association for Cultural Equity /Alan Lomax Archive. 2015, 5 CDS, 1 DVD, HARDCOVER BOOK, 448 PP., 94 B/W ILLUS. 1. ISBN 978-0-299-30150-7 BOXED SET $60.00 New! Wild Rice Goose and Other Dishes of the Upper Midwest John G. Motoviloff This is your guide to cooking wildfoods that you can hunt, fish, or forage—or buy from a growing number of wildfoods vendors— in the Upper Midwest. You’ll savor treasured recipes like Rabbit Pie, Morel Mushroom Scramble, and Cathy’s Plum Lake Bluegill. You’ll also discover a wealth of dishes reflecting the region’s ethnic riches. Cooks will appreciate the clear, kitchen-tested recipes, and fans of sporting literature will enjoy the lyrical writing. “A must-have addition to the outdoorsman’s home or cabin kitchen bookshelf. Motoviloff knows his stuff - and his stuffing.” —Dan Small, host of Outdoors Radio and coauthor of the Wild Harvest Cookbook 2014, 152 PP., 7 ½ × 9 ¼, 6 B/W ILLUSTRATIONS E-BOOK $14.95 2. ISBN 978-0-299-29904-0 PB $24.95 Order online, by phone, or shop your favorite bookseller. uwpress.wisc.edu 3 MIDWEST FAVORITES | NOVELS BY JERRY APPS 20% OFF PRINT BOOKS AND MUSIC The t Sand Frac New! Grea as The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County Co mes unt of A A Nove y l A Novel Jerry Apps In the sixth novel in Jerry Apps’s “Ames County series,” a proposed frac sand mine in the local community park divides small-town neighbors into factions. “Once again, Jerry Apps has tapped into a highly controversial issue to ex- plore contemporary Midwestern values—historical preservation versus forces of change, environmental protection versus economic opportunity. And once again, Apps succeeds brilliantly. He is an articulate and forceful voice for the Wisconsin ethos.”—Jerry Minnich, author of The Wisconsin Almanac 2014, 268 PP., 6 × 9 JERRY APPS E-BOOK $16.95 3. ISBN 978-0-299-30070-8 HC $26.95 Tamarack River Ghost A Novel Jerry Apps “Apps scores another bull’s-eye with his Ames County fiction series with Tamarack River Ghost. It raises the issues of land stewardship and com- munity development in an interesting story filled with compelling charac- ters.”—Dennis Boyer, author of Listen to the Land Terrace Books 2012, 286 PP., 6 × 9 E-BOOK $14.95 4. ISBN 978-0-299-28880-8 HC $26.95 Finalist for Fiction, Midwest Book Awards Cranberry Red A Novel Jerry Apps The fourth novel in Jerry Apps’s Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings Blue Shadows Farm the story into the present, portraying A Novel the challenges of agriculture and bio- Jerry Apps technology in the twenty-first century. “The trials and tribulations of the Terrace Books fictional Starkweather farm entertain 2010, 324 PP., 6 × 9 E-BOOK $9.99 and educate readers on the battle be- 5. ISBN 978-0-299-24770-6 HC $26.95 tween traditional, sustainable family farming and encroaching agribusiness The Travels of Increase Joseph and real estate development.” A Historical Novel about —Wisconsin Trails Terrace Books a Pioneer Preacher 2009, 390 PP., 6 × 9 Jerry Apps E-BOOK $9.99 The story of a preacher and his fol- 7. ISBN 978-0-299-23250-4 HC $26.95 lowers in early Wisconsin, advocating land stewardship and peddling cure-all In a Pickle tonic. “Jerry Apps is a born storyteller A Family Farm Story and observant historian of rural life.” Jerry Apps —Midwest Book Review “Apps draws from his own rural up- Terrace Books bringing to paint a touching picture 2010, 272 PP., 5 ½ × 8 ½ E-BOOK $9.99 of farm life and pickle-making in 6. ISBN 978-0-299-24754-6 PB $19.95 the sands of Central Wisconsin.” —Wisconsin Natural Resources Terrace Books 2008, 256 PP., 6 × 9 E-BOOK $9.99 8. ISBN 978-0-299-22304-5 PB $16.95 Jerry Apps 4 WISCONSIN IN PRINT 2014–2015 Prices listed are full price; apply discount to your order total. MIDWEST FAVORITES Night Sisters The Waters of Star Lake A Novel A Novel Sara Rath Sara Rath When a chance visit to the eccentric “Sara Rath brings to life the charm of but charming Wocanaga Spiritualist northern Wisconsin. The appreciative Camp brings Nell Grendon of Little reader is soon breathing in balsam and Wolf, Wisconsin, face-to-face with pine, living in a primitive cabin next the elderly medium Grace Waverly, to the lake, listening to loons, find- Nell embarks on an adventure rife with ing unlikely romance, encountering suspense, romance, and dark secrets.