SPRING 2011 TITLES

Orders can be taken over the Web, with our shopping cart system, or through our distribution center by phone or fax.


Spring 2011 list
Titles are listed in catalog order.

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
A verse translation by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes

Tough as Nails
The Life and Films of Richard Brooks
Douglass K. Daniel

Glenn Ford
A Life
Peter Ford
Foreword by Patrick McGilligan

Remembrance of Things I Forgot
A Novel
Bob Smith

The Last Deployment
How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq
Bronson Lemer

Ambientes
New Queer Latino Writing
Edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano

Celluloid Activist
The Life and Times of Vito Russo
Michael Schiavi

Graphic Subjects
Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels
Edited by Michael A. Chaney

 

A Muslim American Slave
The Life of Omar Ibn Said
Omar Ibn Said
Translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes

 

Remaking Rwanda
State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence
Edited by Scott Straus and Lars Waldorf

 

Defeat Is the Only Bad News
Rwanda under Musinga, 1896–1931
Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges
Foreword by Roger V. Des Forges
Edited by David Newbury

 

Foreplay
Hannah Arendt, the Two Adornos, and Walter Benjamin
A play by Carl Djerassi

 

Taken Somehow by Surprise
David Clewell

Last Seen
Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Wait
Alison Stine

Eat Smart in Norway
How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure
Joan Peterson
Distributed for Ginkgo Press

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin
Illustrated by Vintage Postcards
Randolph C. Henning
Foreword by Kathryn A. Smith

Robert Koehler’s The Strike
The Improbable Story of an Iconic 1886 Painting of Labor Protest
James M. Dennis

Back to the Land
The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency in Modern America
Dona Brown

When Horses Pulled the Plow
Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929
Olaf F. Larson
Foreword by Jerry Apps

Environmental Politics and the Creation of a Dream
Establishing the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Harold C. Jordahl Jr., with Annie L. Booth

Madison
Third Edition
Photography by Brent Nicastro

Minnesota’s Best Breweries and Brewpubs
Searching for the Perfect Pint
Robin Shepard

Our Spring 2011 catalog also has a list of the top titles from our 75 years of publishing. Click here for list of UW Press titles celebrating 75 years

The Burma Delta
Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941
Michael Adas
With a new preface
First paperback edition

Revolution Interrupted
Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand
Tyrell Haberkorn
Foreword by Thongchai Winichakul

Kallimachos
The Alexandrian Library and the Origins of Bibliography
Rudolf Blum
Translated by Hans H. Wellisch
First paperback edition

Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Great Soul Robbery
Norman Austin

Forest Products Laboratory, 1910–2010
Celebrating a Century of Accomplishments
Compiled and edited by John W. Koning Jr.

Pulse
A Farmer’s Take on the Universe
Justin Isherwood
Distributed for Home Brew Press

Smoke Damage
Voices from the Front Lines of America’s Tobacco Wars
Michael Schwalbe
Distributed for Borderland Books

Once Upon an Island
Photographs of Manhattan 1969–1970
Richard Quinney
Distributed for Borderland Books

In the Moment
The Life and Art of Schomer Lichtner
Susan J. Montgomery
Distributed for the Museum of Wisconsin Art

In Celebration
The Life and Art of Ruth Grotenrath
Susan J. Montgomery
Distributed for the Museum of Wisconsin Art

White Coat Wisdom
Extraordinary Doctors Talk about What They Do, How They Got There and Why Medicine Is So Much More Than a Job
Second Edition
Stephen J. Busalacchi
Distributed for Apollo's Voice

The People and the King
The Comunero Revolution in Colombia, 1781
John Leddy Phelan
First paperback edition

Discovering Albanian 1 Textbook
Linda Mëniku and Héctor Campos

Discovering Albanian 1 Workbook
Linda Mëniku and Héctor Campos

The Political Animal
Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 117, 37:3 (2008)
Edited by Chris Danta and Dimitris Vardoulakis

Cultural Theory after 9/11: Terror, Religion, Media
Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 115, 37:1 (2008)
Edited by Robert Doran

Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution 100 Years Later
Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 114, 36:3 (2007)
Edited by Michael Kolkman and Michael Vaughan

Waste and Abundance: The Measure of Consumption

Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 116, 37:2 (2008)
Edited by Susan Cahill, Emma Hegarty, and Emilie Moran

[Click to return to the top of this list of Spring 2011 titles.]

 

Home | Books | Journals | Events | Textbooks | Authors | Related | Search | Contact | Order

If you have trouble accessing any page in this web site, contact our Web manager.
E-mail: webmaster@uwpress.wisc.edu

Updated December 21, 2011

© 2011, The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System