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Founded in 1910, the Forest Products Laboratory was created as an interdisciplinary research facility to solve difficult problems important to sustainable forest management and to a diverse wood products industry. This book illustrates what can be accomplished when the American public supports a federal laboratory that works in cooperation with universities, industries, and associations.

Presents the story of Thurine Oleson, born in Wisconsin in 1866 to parents who had emigrated from Telemarken, Norway. This much-loved book was first published in 1950. In it she not only vividly recalls the pioneer life of her childhood in a Norwegian American settlement, but also tells her parents' stories of their life in Norway and their reasons for emigration.

Part fairy tale, part gothic ballad, Wait chronicles in poems the year before a young girl's marriage.

F.O. Matthiessen remains one of America's leading twentieth-century critics in part because the problems he and his contemporaries struggled with remain ours today. William Cain studies Matthiessen's career with careful attention to biographical, institutional, literary, and political contexts.

Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing African American children, this provocative and heartrending collection of poems evokes the experience of what it means to be among the missing in contemporary America.

From sensual pieces to comical romances, from inner city dramas to portraits of gay domesticity, the stories in this collection reflect a vibrant and creative community and redefine received notions of "gay" and "lesbian."

Explores the full story behind the effort to preserve the natural beauty of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore for posterity. It describes in detail the political and bureaucratic complexities of the national lakeshore campaign, augmented by personal recollections of the author and those of such prominent figures as Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson and President John F. Kennedy.

An art "biography" that traces the tumultuous international history of Robert Koehler's painting "The Strike", which has become a symbol of class struggle and the cause of workers' rights and the iconic painting of the industrial labor movement.

"A Handbook of Scandinavian Names" includes a dictionary of more than fifteen hundred given names from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, plus some from Iceland and Finland. Each entry provides a guide to pronunciation and the origin and meaning of the name. Many entries also include variations and usage in the Scandinavian countries and famous bearers of the name.Adding engaging context to the dictionary section is an extensive comparative guide to naming practices. The authors discuss immigration to North America from Scandinavia and the ways given names and surnames were adapted in the New World. Also included in the book is a history of Scandinavian names, information on "Name Days," and discussion of significant names from mythology and history, including naming traditions in royal families.

From Roberto Rossellini's Open City in 1946 to Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris in 1973, Tino Balio tracks the critical reception in the press of such filmmakers as Francois Truffaut, Jean- Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tony Richardson, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bunuel, Satyajit Ray, and Milos Forman.

This offers a thoroughly researched, amply illustrated study of the Codrus Painter that comments on the mythology, religion, arts, athletics, and daily life of Greece depicted on his vases. It evaluates his style and the defining characteristics of his own hand and of the minor painters associated with him. This analysis not only encompasses the cultural milieu of the Athenian metropolis, but also offers an original and intriguing perspective on the adoption, meaning, and use of imported Attic vases among the Etruscans.

Inspired by actual events that took place in upstate New York and Wisconsin in the mid-nineteenth century, The Travels of Increase Joseph is the first in Jerry Apps's series set in fictional Ames County, Wisconsin. The four novels in the series all take place around Link Lake at different points in history. They convey Apps's deep knowledge of rural life and his own concern for land stewardship.

Challenging traditional conceptions behind Joseph Brodsky's status as a leading emigre poet and major descendant of Russian and Euro-American modernism, the author relocates the analysis of his travel texts in the diverse context of contemporary travel an

Traces how Russian nationalist writers refashioned key historical myths--the legend of the nation's spiritual birth, the tale of the founding of Russia, stories of Cossack independence--to portray the Russian people as the ruling nationality, whose characte

Explores the transformative power of tragic and miraculous experiences, through these poems that illuminate near misses of tragedy and transcendence. Nick Lantz's gaze is both roving and microscopic - the Challenger explosion, Bigfoot, a love letter written from inside a missile silo, a mother naming and renaming a family's short-lived pets, and a plea for post-9/11 redemption.

Shows how the debate on female genital excision has evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, and human rights. The author discerns a gradual evoluti

Introduces hardworking, resourceful men and women who represent an artisanal craft that has roots in Europe but has been a Wisconsin tradition since the 1850s. This book offers profiles of 43 Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin, as well as a glossary of cheesemaking terms, suggestions of operations that welcome visitors for tours, and tasting notes.

The St Croix River is a federally protected National Scenic Riverway. This is a biography of the river over the course of more than 300 years. It tracks the river's social and environmental transformation as newcomers changed the river basin and, in turn, were changed by it. It offers lessons about the future management of beautiful wild waters.

Explores the wave of justice-seeking for the Holocaust: what it has been, why it emerged when it did, how it fits with earlier reparation to the Jewish people, its significance for the historical representation of the Holocaust, and its implications for justice-seeking in our time.

Best known for his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond in Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau is often considered a recluse who emerged from solitude only occasionally to take a stand on the issues of his day. This book explores Thoreau's nature writings to offer a way of understanding the unique politics of the so-called hermit of Walden Pond.

Identifying and documenting the conditions of Russian serfs has proven difficult because the Russian state discouraged literacy among the serfs and censored public expressions of dissent. This title offers a collection of autobiographies by serfs.

Advances an approach that shows how a cultural process - the naming of Europeans - can provide a point of entry into economic and social histories. Drawing on archival documents and oral interviews, this book encounters and analyzes a welter of coded fragments.

Presents an examination of the images and concepts of speed that permeated Russian modernist poetry, visual arts, and cinema. This title illustrates how a wide variety of experimental artistic tendencies of the day relied on notions of speed or dynamism to create at least part of their effects.

Printmaker Warrington Colescott has trained his brilliant artistic eye on the fashions and foibles of human behavior. This illustrated catalogue documents Colescott's extensive and varied graphic career.

A record of the heritage of Dane County, Wisconsin's capital region, from its earliest days through the 1940s. It describes the origins and evolution of local names that reveal a colorful history: Whiskey Creek, Brag Hollow, Marxville, Pancake Valley, Halunkenburg, Skunk Hollow, and Tipple School.

Intends to capture many of the influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced American empire, championed environmental causes, opposed war, and waged peace.

In 2004 director Oliver Stone's epic film ""Alexander"" generated a renewed interest in Alexander the Great. The critical response to the film offers a fascinating lesson in the contentious dialogue between historiography and modern entertainment. This book scrutinizes Stone's project from its inception and design to its production and reception.

Examines how and why life as a literary and philosophical category catalyzed the development of post-Stalinist Russian women's prose, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union. This work traces the development, and intriguing ruptures, of Russian women's prose. It is suitable for those interested in Russian literature and gender studies.