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SPRING 2020 TITLES

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Setsuko's Secret
Heart Mountain and the Legacy of the Japanese American Incarceration
Shirley Ann Higuchi
Spring 2020

  

A red-headed woodpecker sits on top of a branch. A maroon barn peeks out from behind its wings and tall green and gold grass.
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Farm Girl
A Wisconsin Memoir
Beuna Coburn Carlson
Spring 2020

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The Change
My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour
Lori Soderlind
Spring 2020

  

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Half
Sharon Harrigan
Spring 2020

Two anatomical figures with organs from throat to intestines exposed.
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Fruit
Bruce Snider
Spring 2020

  

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No Day at the Beach
John Brehm
Spring 2020

Illustrated gray rabbit dressed in lush dress and bonnet in shades of blue.
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Queen in Blue
Ambalila Hemsell
Spring 2020

  

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Death Rides the Ferry
Patricia Skalka
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Across the Great Lake
Lee Zacharias
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Fraying baseball coming across at the red seams.
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Home of the Braves
The Battle for Baseball in Milwaukee
Patrick W. Steele
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Farmer in beekeeping hat and blue jeans rests left hand on their head as wheat blusters in the foreground and background around an open beehive box.
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Wildly Successful Farming
Sustainability and the New Agricultural Land Ethic
Brian DeVore
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Black and white photo of George Fell on background photograph of forest with pine and other trees.
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Force of Nature
George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement
Arthur Melville Pearson
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Mastering the Inland Seas
How Lighthouses, Navigational Aids, and Harbors Transformed the Great Lakes and America
Theodore J. Karamanski
Spring 2020

  

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A History of the University of Wisconsin System
Patricia A. Brady
Spring 2020

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Transforming History
A Guide to Effective, Inclusive, and Evidence-Based Teaching
Mary Jo Festle
Spring 2020

  

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Unlearning Eugenics
Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe
Dagmar Herzog
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Harvey Goldberg series title featuring black-and-white photograph of the entry gates of Auschwitz reading ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (German: ‘work sets you free’).
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Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Edited by Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt
Spring 2020

  

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In Search of the True Russia
The Provinces in Contemporary Nationalist Discourse
Lyudmila Parts
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The Unlikely Futurist
Pushkin and the Invention of Originality in Russian Modernism
James Rann
Spring 2020

  

Five runners on a track move from right to left. A woman with brown hair and a white dress looks on from the bottom right.
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Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!
Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture
Tim Harte
Spring 2020

An Athenian vase shows a farmer and his ox plowing a field.
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A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases
John H. Oakley
Spring 2020

  

Sculpture of a seated man (left) and woman (right). The man has both arms outstretched to the woman, as if to comfort her. The woman has her legs crossed and right hand on her chin.
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The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World
Edited by Jeffrey Beneker and Georgia Tsouvala
Spring 2020

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Insults in Classical Athens
Deborah Kamen
Spring 2020

  

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Songs of the Finnish Migration
A Bilingual Anthology
Simo Westerholm
Edited by Thomas A. DuBois and B. Marcus Cederström
Spring 2020

Illustration of the left half of a man’s torso. He wears a black vest and bowtie and holds a fiddle up in front of him with both hands .
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Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook
Folk Music and Community on the Frontier
Amy M. Shaw
Spring 2020

  

A bright fire lights up a tent from the inside, casting a warm glow that contrasts with the Northern Lights in the sky above.
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Inari Sámi Folklore
Stories from Aanaar
August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen, revised by Lea Laitinen
Edited and Translated by Tim Frandy
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A Thai nurse with a light blue surgical mask writes on some paperwork. A row of patients in pink sheets and other caregivers in light blue is next to, and behind and to the right of her.
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Eliciting Care
Health and Power in Northern Thailand
Bo Kyeong Seo
Spring 2020

  

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Bread, Justice, and Liberty
Grassroots Activism and Human Rights in Pinochet’s Chile
Alison J. Bruey
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Critical Human Rights series title featuring painting showing the anticommunist massacres in Indonesia.
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Buried History
The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia
John Roosa
Spring 2020

  

Critical Human Rights series title featuring photograph of a woman with brown curly hair, pink top, and white skirt looking out at a sea of black-and-white portraits of people.
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Civil Obedience
Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet
Michael J. Lazzara
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Critical Human Rights series title featuring a color photograph of protestors at a pro-LGBT rights march in Uganda. Two smiling women speak into the microphone with the flag of Uganda draped over their shoulders.
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Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa
Human Rights, Society, and the State
Edited by Lydia Boyd and Emily Burrill
Spring 2020

  

Four healers dressed in white stand in a circle with right arms outstretched to the sky on an abstract white spiral design and light teal background.
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African Science
Witchcraft, Vodun, and Healing in Southern Benin
Douglas J. Falen
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Senegal Abroad
Linguistic Borders, Racial Formations, and Diasporic Imaginaries
Maya Angela Smith
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