books by University Of Iowa Press     books:     University Of Iowa...      The Lincoln Highway: Main Street across America Drake Hokanson University Of Iowa Press, 1999 Definitive overview of America's first great automobile road Long before Route 66, there was the Lincoln Highway -- a transcontinental road connecting Times Square to San Francisco, marked and promoted by private interests. The Lincoln Highway and its brethren (the Dixie Highway, Victory Highway, National Old Trails Road, and ...             A Potter's Workbook Clary Illian University Of Iowa Press, 2003 A Must-Read for Potters Clary Illian has given the ceramics community an amazing gift by writing this book. Not only is she thoughtful and clear, she inspires potters (whether beginners or professionals) to make better, more personal pots. Filled with examples -- beautifully photographed by ...             Revolver (Kuhl House Poets) Robyn Schiff University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Guns Blazing Robyn Schiff Revolver If precision is a frightful thing then Robyn Schiff is the 21rst Century Moloch, her poems hum along like scary machinery, punching the keys of our delicate sensibilities, stringing us along with long hypostasis and gunning us down with her ...             Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place (Contemp North American Poetry) University Of Iowa Press, 2008 When Lorine Niedecker died in 1970, the British poet and critic Basil Bunting eulogized her warmly. ?In England,? he wrote, ?she was, in the estimation of many, the most interesting woman poet America has yet produced.?      Aesthetically linked with the New York Objectivist poets, Niedecker remained committed to her community in rural Wisconsin ...             101 Tips to Getting the Residency You Want: A Guide for Medical Students John Canady University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Each year, more than 15,000 U.S. medical students?along with more than 18,000 graduates of foreign medical schools and schools of osteopathic medicine?take part in the National Residency Matching Program, vying for a small number of positions in the United States. In this keenly competitive environment, they seek every advantage they can get. ...             Family Bible (Sightline Books) Melissa J. Delbridge University Of Iowa Press, 2008 A survey of personal history and growing up Southern Southern culture and religion blend in FAMILY BIBLE, a survey of personal history and growing up Southern that examines sex, religion and family connections in 1960s Tuscaloosa. It's especially recommended for general-interest collections strong in either Southern ...             Truth in Nonfiction: Essays University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Even before the controversy that surrounded the publication of A Million Little Pieces , the question of truth has been at the heart of memoir. From Elie Wiesel to Benjamin Wilkomirski to David Sedaris, the veracity of writers? claims has been suspect. In this fascinating and timely collection of essays, leading writers meditate on the subject of ...             Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature Dale Salwak University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Teaching Life: a wonderful source of wisdom This book has an incomparable value to me that is hard to explain with words. It has provided me with very valuable insight that I certainly could not obtain from any other source. As a future teacher, it was very important to me to experience through Dr. Salwak's ...             Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak University Of Iowa Press, 2007 Guantanamo Poems open eyes Poems from Guantanamo should be required reading in high schools. Students need to read the effects of this administrations policy on human lives. When the history books are written, this country will have to apologize for creating a concentration camp with ...             Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book) Jim Heynen University Of Iowa Press, 2007 Nostalgic This is a wonderful book to evoke those bygone memories. The pictures bring back so many memories from my own childhood years. The writing just ties it all together and transports you back in time. It stimulates thoughts and feelings from a simpler and slower paced ...             The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (Bur Oak Book) University Of Iowa Press, 2009 Iowa has been blessed with citizens of strong character who have made invaluable contributions to the state and to the nation. In the 1930s alone, such towering figures as John L. Lewis, Henry A. Wallace, and Herbert Hoover hugely influenced the nation?s affairs. Iowa?s Native Americans, early explorers, inventors, farmers, scholars, baseball ...             Prairie City, Iowa: Three Seasons at Home (Bur Oak Book) Douglas Bauer University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Warmth without sentimentality This is a most accurate account of daily living in a small Iowa town. The subtlety of the author's descriptions can only be fully appreciated by one who has grown up in that environment. Bauer makes no apologies for the foibles of the townspeople, but neither does he ...             Things Kept, Things Left Behind (Iowa Short Fiction Award) Jim Tomlinson University Of Iowa Press, 2006 An engrossing, emotionally-sure debut I loved so much about Jim Tomlinson's short story collection, Things Kept, Things Left Behind. It was one of those reads that I felt compelled to carefully portion out so as to not have it be over too quickly. I wanted to savor it. The working-class Appalachians ...             When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Thoughtful and illuminating Amidst the storm of soundbites and cliches that we call modern living, voices that speak thoughtfully and from personal experience are rare and precious. Read this book if you would like to understand a little about what it means to go to war, if you would like an ...             Seven Wheelchairs: A Life beyond Polio Gary Presley University Of Iowa Press, 2008 "It matters not how we move through the world. It matters only that we are in the world." Gary Presley. Gary Presley took his last physical steps in 1959 when he was only 17-years- old. He contracted Polio from the Salk vaccine. 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