Author: William R. Drenna
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: wright, taliesin, murders, lloyd, frank, prairie, house, death
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2008-08-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0299222144
ISBN-13: 9780299222147

The 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 fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and a portrait of the artist in his prime, William Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architec

Authors:Robert D. Enright, Joanna North, Archbishop Desmon
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: forgiveness, exploring
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-04-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299157741
ISBN-13: 9780299157746

Robert Enright and Joanna North have produced a truly remarkable book on a subject of enormous relevance to our troubled world. I commend it to anyone who wants to wrestle seriously with one of the toughest issues that faces humankindhow to deal positively with real and deep offenses. Such offenses occur, both in our private lives and in larger society. Here are some penetrating concepts and practical ideas on how to creatively deal with those offenses through forgiveness. Surprising and powerful thoughts confront you as you read these pages on how to achieve true and lasting forgiveness.Milla

Author: Yi-Fu Tua
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: autobiography, studies, wisconsin, mind, emotion, spirit
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2009-03-12
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0299166643
ISBN-13: 9780299166649

Who Am I? is the bittersweet memoir of a Chinese American who came to this country as a twenty-year-old graduate student and stayed to become one of America’s most innovative intellectuals, whose work has explored the aesthetic and moral dimensions of human relations with landscape, nature, and environment. This unusually introspective autobiography mixes Yi-Fu Tuan’s reflections on a life filled with recognition, accolades, and affection with what he deems moral failings, his lack of courageâ??including the courage to be open about his homosexuality. “A stunningly good boo

Author: Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: history, thought, culture, american, environmental, nature, rights, ethics
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1989-11-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299118444
ISBN-13: 9780299118440

Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in effect, been extended to the nonhuman world.

Author: Steven M. Feierma
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: tanzania, history, anthropology, intellectuals, peasant
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1990-11-15
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0299125246
ISBN-13: 9780299125240

Scholars who study peasant society now realize that peasants are not passive, but quite capable of acting in their own interests. Debate has continued, though, on whether coherent political ideas emerge within peasant society, or whether peasants act in a world where political issues are defined by elites. Based on ethnographic research begun in 1966 that includes interviews with hundreds of people from all levels of Tanzanian society, "Peasant Intellectuals" aims to alter the perspective from which anthropologists, historians, and political scientists study both cultural systems and rural pol

Author: Randy Hoffma
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: recognize, communities, natural, wisconsin
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2002-07-14
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0299170845
ISBN-13: 9780299170844

Cattails grow in a marsh, pitcher plants grow in a bog, jewelweed grows in a swamp, right? Do sandhill cranes live among sandy hills? Frogs live near lakes and ponds, but can they live on prairies, too? What is a pine barrens, an oak opening, a calcareous fen? Wisconsin?s Natural Communities is an invitation to discover, explore, and understand Wisconsin?s richly varied natural environment, from your backyard or neighborhood park to stunning public preserves. Part 1 of the book explains thirty-three distinct types of natural communities in Wisconsin?their characteristic trees, beetles, fish, l

Authors:Barnett Singer, John Langdo,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pre
Keywords: colonial, empire, french, defenders, force, makers, cultured
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0299199045
ISBN-13: 9780299199043

"I agree with Singer and Langdon who point out over and over again that the conquerors and the conquered shared in both the benefits and the sacrifices of imperialism. All this makes for a notable work."—William A. Hoisington, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Modern European & French Colonial History, University of Illinois at Chicago Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Rep