Wisconsin Books

College boxing as a national experiment lasted only a few decades. Its most popular and most successful team was coach John Walsh's University of Wisconsin Badgers, and this book is their story. They demonstrated all of boxing's fascinating contradictions, and exemplified the reasons for the college sport's boisterous birth and sudden death. While boxers were the most lionized athletes on campus, Walsh discouraged his students from thinking in terms of pro careers. Despite the fact that boxers enjoyed great camaraderie,even with their opponents, nothing in sport really parallels the personal physical attack of a hard punch to the face. And while boxing, with a blow heard round the college world, brought death to Wisconsin's Charlie Mohr in the ring in 1960, it brought a richer and fuller life to almost every other one of its participants. For some, it turned pretty dismal prospects into an open highway to success and fulfillment, and to all it offered a family of brothers that survived the decisions to pull the plug on boxing after the Mohr tragedy in 1960, and exists to the present day. Doug Moe's dogged resarch has yielded up a tale that paints the sunrise and the sunset of this most intimate of athletic competitions at the college level and, along the way, lays to rest what the Smithsonian Magazine was recently calling the "controversial" dispute concerning whether Mohr's death was really caused by a blow in the ring. All of the men whose memories went into this book are old now, and while they are going down swinging, they are leaving us. Anyone who has ever been captivated by the dizzying mysteries of the sweet science owes Doug Moe a debt for realizing that this story had to be told now if it were going to be told at all, and for telling so well that readers can shut their eyes and feel the excitement of 15,000 fans packing the old Fieldhouse as the house lights go down and two spotlit figures enter the ring.

No poet on Earth explores, reveals and revels in the big and small wonders of being human quite so compellingly as David Clewell. Not only is he a master poet, he is a profoundly humane human being, a man not afraid to feel deeply, to fall head-over-heels in love with real life in all its pop-cultural, kitschy glory, and to publicly share that love in language so infectious, personal and just plain F-U-N that your heart has little choice but to dance exuberantly along...

Yes, David's poems reference flying saucers, L.S.D, conspiracy theories and H.G. Wells... But that's not why you should read him. Read these poems because you care about language as art. Read these poems because you care about Humanity, about exploring and celebrating good, old fashioned earthy humanness, in all its strange-familiar guises. Read these poems to be reminded where life's pleasure most purely resides - in the fine details of every moment, in the hands and faces and quirky behavior of the people closest to us, in the syncopated rhythm of two hearts pressed together in the spooning embrace of sleep.

As Robin Williams phrased it in the film "Dead Poets Society":

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering; these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, love... These are what we stay alive for..."

David Clewell "gets it." This is real poetry for real people. So, buy the book already, okay?

This book has more great stories about Caddie Woodlawn. If you enjoyed the first book then you will love this one.

Making The Modern Medical School: The Wisconsin Stories by Robert Oliver (Fellow in the Center for the Study of Cultures, Rice University) is a collection of true stories about the evolution of medical instructional facilities in Wisconsin. From faculty disputes to advances in medical science, the anecdotal stories and slices of "insider" history in Making The Modern Medical School is simply fascinating reading, and highly recommended for anyone who wants to know the real story behind what happens in Wisconsin's medical school environment in order to teach young men and women how to save lives.

The book is an awesome product. The colored photos is what makes this such a great field guide.

In the past scholars often depicted the rise of the factory system as a decisive step in the development of modern economic life, in many cases as a synonym for the industrial revolution. This emphasis, while understandable in terms of the contrast between the handicraft shop and the early factory, now seems less appropriate. If nothing else, the contrast between the large plant of the present day and its nineteenth-century predecessor suggests the need for a revised view. The following essays, accordingly, focus on a subsequent period, when the factory and, above all, "the associating principle" changed significantly. The dominant themes of this process, the substitution of formal, centralized controls and the increasing influence of management over the factory and its labor force, were the bases of the "new factory system," which in turn became the foundation of the modern industrial administration.
--- from book's preface.

I have the earlier edition of this book. It's one of the first comprehensive books about snow. What it is and how it affects life. Even a lot about skiing, and avalanches, and clearing snow from roads, etc. Great to see that it's available again. There's sure a lot more to snow than one would think!

I used this manual during my surgical clerckship last year and found it to be extremely useful. This text deals with perioperative patient care in a concise, easily memorized and very clearly laid down manner. It is also very useful in reviewing important subjects that are usually ignored during surgical rounds such as cardiac arrhythmias and others. It is very deductive and easy to read . I recommend it to every medical student taking a surgical clerckship so that he/she may better comprehend the crucial role of good pre- and postoperative care of the patient and inhance their knowledge in different subjects of great importance in surgical theraputics.

One hundred and fourteen years ago, in 1893, Swain and Tate, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, published a 547 page history of Company E and the Twelfth Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War. Hosea W. Rood, late of Company E of said regiment, gathered memories from the participants of several unit reunions and produced this wonderful source of recollections about the Marching Twelfth. This regiment traveled 3,159 miles by steamboat, 2,506 miles by rail and 3,838 miles on foot. They lost 329 men killed, died of wounds, disease and accident during their almost four years of service.

Fine editing of this long out of print book by Editor Peggy M. Singer resulted in the publication of her book, "The Marching Twelfth, The Story of the Twelfth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment as Told by the Men Who Served in It."

Whitcomb and his regiment saw service in Kansas, at Vicksburg, Jackson, Natchez, and the Meridian Campaign in Mississippi, Kennesaw Mountain, Nickajack Creek, the battle of Atlanta in Georgia. Jonesboro, the pursuit of Hood, the March to the Sea and the Carolina Campaign with a final appearance at the Grand Review in Washington, D. C. in May of 1865.

Superior editing by Ms. Singer has produced a readable, affordable and accurate story of the Twelfth Wisconsin. The inclusion of the regimental roster and an index is always a joy to the genealogist.

Richard N. Larsen
Reviewer

Michael Hachey has written a winner on his first try. While the plot could be a bit tighter, Hachey gives us characters who ring true and are a delight to follow. The relationship between the main characters is wonderful and believable. Dexter Loomis is a somewhat unwilling and completely inexperienced police chief, and Ann Summer is a very experienced and well-connected state crime bureau detective. While the reader expects them to become lovers, it doesn't happen, and the result has a ring of truth as well as relief. Ann's partner while not an original character, is funny and tough, and Dexter's paramedic friend is a good and original sounding board for the new chief. The other characters in the book, however, are the people who can be found in small towns anywhere in the country, and that's what really makes this book a fun read. From bankers to plumbers, from waitresses to the town bad-boy, Hachey has them all wired. The result is a fun read about a man trying to do his best for his neighbors and not really trusting himself as he tries to solve a crime that would rock any small town to its foundations. Publisher's Weekly says a sequel will not be anticipated, but they're wrong and completely out of touch with those readers who enjoy leaving the big cities for the heartland of America. Plenty of readers will want to know what happens when Dexter and Ann meet again.