Wisconsin Books

Only made possible through the efforts of the nonprofit organization Wisconsin Woodland Owners Association (WWOA), One Hundred Years Of Wisconsin Forestry: 1904-2004 is the story of how, after Wisconsin's forests were devastated by indiscriminate clear-cutting in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Badger State forest landscape was able to rebound to cover almost half the state, along with the consequent cultural, economic, and ecological benefits to Wisconsin wildlife and populace. Here recounted is the dedicated struggle by many people over many decades. Their collective efforts to influence governmental policy (both state and federal), along with the educating of private owners of forestry lands, have help to bring Wisconsin forests back to life. Enhanced with a 16-page insert of full-color photography, One Hundred Years Of Wisconsin Forestry is an essential and valued contribution to academic library American Forestry and Environmental Studies reference collections -- and should be made a part of the collections of every Wisconsin high school and community library system in the state.

Flawlessly translated from the original Hebrew, 1111 Days in My Life Plus Four is the true-life memoir of a boy who lived in hiding for nearly three years in Nazi-occupied Zloczow, a small Polish village now in the Ukraine. Hidden with his family and a number of other Jews by a Catholic family, he survived and moved to Israel in 1957. 1111 Days in My Life Plus Four reveals his inner life and the permanent impression his past years of hiding left upon him. A dark revelation of the difficulties of coping with the painful past, 1111 Days in My Life Plus Four is vivid and recommended for Holocaust studies collections.

This easy to use guide has good descriptions and easy to follow maps. Since I was not familiar with many of the back roads, it was very useful. The authors write with an easy style and help you get into the feeling of the areas by providing interesting bits of history.

50 Hikes In Wisconsin: Walks, Hikes, And Backpacks In The Badger State is an excellent and recommended guide for any enthusiastic hiker looking to explore trails found in all four quadrants of Wisconsin. An overview chart offers at-a-glance information of all 50 hikes, while the text proper presents in-depth maps, flora and fauna information, the history behind the trails, and more. Only loop trails have been selected by co-authors and outdoor enthusiasts John Morgan and Ellen Morgan. Black-and-white photographs round out this informative and very useful resource.

This book has been a wonderful guide to our Sunday hikes with our dogs. It breaks down all 60 hikes into handy categories at the front of the book, if you are looking for a dog friendly hike, all of them are listed. Under each entry, there is a ton of useful information such as: level of difficulty, sunny/shaded, and how populated the trail is. We have found the descriptions to be accurate and have found so many lovely areas near our home that we never knew existed!

Based upon the famous Draper Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society, this transcription of original sources was conceived as a sequel to the Society's volume on Lord Dunmore's War of 1774. The documents selected by Thwaites and Kellogg pick up the story in March 1775 and continue through May 1777, essentially the first two years of the American Revolution. The sources, while not forming a continuous narrative, nonetheless shed light on the principal incidents and personalities (Matthew Arbuckle, William McKee, George Morgan, the Delaware chief White Eyes, and the Seneca chief White Mingo) of importance along the broad frontier that extended from the Greenbrier region of Virginia to Kittanning on the Upper Allegheny. The focus of the documents is on the defense of the American border while it was still being undertaken by the militia of the western counties. The volume closes with the transfer of the command of Fort Pitt to General Hand-an officer of the Continental army-signifying a milestone in American military history and in the history of westward expansion. In these pages the reader will learn about daily life on the frontier; massacres and other atrocities; the reactions of Americans in the West to news of the Revolution in the East; daring missions to re-arm the militia; plots and counter-plots hatched by the British, Spanish, Patriots, and the regional Indian tribes (Creeks, Shawnees, Delawares, Ottawas, Senecas); and the crucial Treaty of Pittsburgh of September 1775 agreed to by the colonists and a large Indian delegation. The net effect of the latter was to free up a number of frontiersmen to fight in the eastern campaign of the Revolution and, perhaps more importantly, to open up Kentucky and by extension the western territory to greater settlement by Americans. While not a genealogical volume in the true sense of the term, The Revolution on the Upper Ohio, 1775-1777 allows us to place many individuals-any one of whom is easily found in the detailed index at the end of this intriguing book-on the frontier during the two years under investigation.

A truly outstanding introduction to the politics of the period. Although this is not a recent work, it's interest lies in what it tells us about the general attitudes of the political establishment of the time quite apart from the Appeasement debate.

Comprehensive tome encompassing the proceedings of the 2001 Cryogenic Engineering Conference.

If you've ever wondered about extremely-low-temperature engineering, this is the one book to read. How to keep instrumentation on interplanetary spacecraft and earth-orbit satellites cold? It's here! Highly absorbing.

...Reid Andrews tells it like it is in this well-detailed and articulate account as to what really happened (and is happening) to portenos de color in Buenos Aires.

Not only has Argentina whitened its population through immigration, they have also whitened and whitewashed their history, denying ANY black presence in Argentina even today. Reid Andrews sets the record straight. The story of the Afro-Argentines is told in meticulous detail and a straightforward writing style that gets to the point. From the time the first African slave set foot on Argentine soil; their contributions to Argentine society, especially in writing and the arts, right up until the turn of the century when they first started to "disappear" under the onslaught of massive, relentless European immigration, along with the indigenous population(and if you read the book, you find out that they didn't disappear, they ARE still here), Reid Andrews' account of black Argentine history takes on a poignant note as we move into multiculturalism and global "Brazilination". I am SO glad I was able to find this book; it may become a collector's item once the rest of Argentina's black population vanishes...

As messenger boy in the Travel Agency I learned about cabotage and fifth freedom rights. You could write a book about it. Wait! This guy did!
WWII created modern intercontinental aviation. Initially, this business was greeted with much of the wariness today's WTO engenders. Anglo-American unity broke down over aviation even before the war was over.
The negotiations required to resolve these conflicts, especially the famous Chicago Conference of November 1944, are detailed in some depth by University of Wisconsin lecturer in journalism Henry Ladd Smith in this 1950 book. Indeed his writing has much journalistic color, and he always discusses which Congressman is flakking for which airline.
Aviation was so important to the United States and President Roosevelt--even at this late stage of the war and his life--that he dealt with all aviation matters more or less personally. The concept of "fifth freedoms" was FDR's.
I think it deserves all five stars.