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Intensive Bulgarian, Vol. 1: A Textbook & Reference Grammar Best Price: $35.00 Unfortunately, it seems that materials for learning Bulgarian are far and few between. I have...	Indian Mounds of Wisconsin Best Price: $10.00 As empires rose and fell in the Old World--the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, Anglo-Saxon...	Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America Best Price: $19.37 It's easy to forget the importance of alternative media figures like de Antonio, but he was...	Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) Best Price: $36.49 Pat Getz-Gentle draws upon thirty-five years of meticulous scholarship and research in Personal...	In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women Best Price: $39.35 Modern African Women offers powerful and unforgettable tales from Senegal to South Africa, from...

So Ole Says to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest Best Price: $8.00 In the land of beer, cheese, and muskies?where the polka is danced and winter is unending and...	Keepers of the Wolves: The Early Years of Wolf Recovery in Wisconsin Best Price: $12.84 I grew up in Wisconsin and can relate to Richard P Thiel's accurate and colorful...	A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War Best Price: $11.00 Ever since reading Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August 10 years ago, the Franco-Prussian...	Horizon Note (The Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Ronald Wallace, General Editor) Best Price: $23.96 The opening poem of Horizon Note introduces a spider who reappears at intervals throughout this...	Wisconsin Then and Now: The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project This lavish visual celebration of Wisconsin pairs one hundred historic photographs with one...

Hugo Wolf: Letters to Melanie Köchert Best Price: $21.39 This is a love story. It tells of an extraordinary epistolary relationship between Hugo Wolf,...	Poles, Jews, and the Politics of Nationality: The Bund and the Polish Best Price: $19.94 The Jewish experience on Polish lands is often viewed backwards through the lens of the...	Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life Best Price: $4.97 In 1986, Judith Strasser ended an abusive seventeen-year-marriage. The end came, she tells us in...	Reactor (Univ of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series) Best Price: $176.53 Reactor gives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes through extended meditations of...	Madison: A History of the Formative Years Best Price: $36.31 We are just beginning to understand the power of local history to enhance our understanding of...

Sea of Faith (Brittingham Prize for Poetry) Best Price: $56.90 "Fun, wisdom, tasty language. Sea of Faith has real subways in it as well as real rivers,...	A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (THE AMERICAS) Best Price: $69.97 The extraordinary Muna Lee was a brilliant writer, lyric poet, translator, diplomat, feminist...	Paracritical Hinge: Essays, Talks, Notes, Interviews (Contemporary North American Poetry) Best Price: $10.00 First off, if you're a scholar of literature, you won't be surprised to know that you...	San Juan: Ciudad Sonada (Americas) (Spanish Edition) Best Price: $30.25 This is a nostalgic look at the San Juan of the 1950-70's through the eyes of the great...	Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side Best Price: $19.08 Davidson is a renowned photographer who had a solo show of his work at the MOMA in 1963. In...

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