University Of Iowa Press: 221 books
Campaign Inc.
How Leadership and Organization Propelled Barack Obama to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
It takes more than an excellent candidate to win elections; it takes an outstanding campaign organization, too. Campaign Inc. is the story of how leadership and organization propelled Barack Obama to the White House. As the chief operating officer of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Henry F....
Booming from the Mists of Nowhere
The Story of the Greater Prairie-Chicken
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
For ten months of the year, the prairie-chicken’s drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other for the attention of females, males gather before dawn in an...
China Lake
A Journey into the Contradicted Heart of a Global Climate Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Barret Baumgart’s literary debut presents a haunting and deeply personal portrait of civilization poised at the precipice, a picture of humanity caught between its deepest past and darkest future. In the fall of 2013, during the height of California’s historic drought, Baumgart toured the remote...
Skull in the Ashes
Murder, a Gold Rush Manhunt, and the Birth of Circumstantial Evidence in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
On a February night in 1897, the general store in Walford, Iowa, burned down. The next morning, townspeople discovered a charred corpse in the ashes. Everyone knew that the store’s owner, Frank Novak, had been sleeping in the store as a safeguard against burglars. Now all that remained were a few...
Finding Bix
The Life and Afterlife of a Jazz Legend
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Bix Beiderbecke was one of the first great legends of jazz. Among the most innovative cornet soloists of the 1920s and the first important white player, he invented the jazz ballad and pointed the way to “cool” jazz. But his recording career lasted just six years; he drank himself to death in...
Dakota in Exile
The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Robert Hopkins was a man caught between two worlds. As a member of the Dakota Nation, he was unfairly imprisoned, accused of taking up arms against U.S. soldiers when war broke out with the Dakota in 1862. However, as a Christian convert who was also a preacher, Hopkins’s allegiance was often questioned...
Rows of Memory
Journeys of a Migrant Sugar-Beet Worker
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Every year from April to October, the Sánchez family traveled—crowded in the back of trucks, camping in converted barns, tending and harvesting crops across the breadth of the United States. Although hoeing sugar beets with a short hoe was their specialty, they also picked oranges in California,...
Making Local Food Work
The Challenges and Opportunities of Today's Small Farmers
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
When it comes to local food, it takes more than “knowing your farmer.” Brandi Janssen takes on some of the myths about how the local food system works and what it needs to thrive. Advocates claim that small biodiverse farms will fundamentally change farming, rural communities, and the American...
by Lawrence L. Rettig
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Gardening in Iowa’s Amana Colonies is the culmination of techniques that stretch back several centuries to central Europe, when adherents to a new faith called the Community of True Inspiration formed their own self-reliant communities. As a child of parents who were part of the communal life of...
by James Sandrock, Jean C. Prior
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The translation and explanation of genus and species names yield markers to help us identify birds in the field as well as remember distinctive traits. Having a basic understanding of the scientific and common names of birds reveals insights into their color, behavior, habitat, or geography. Knowing...
After the Program Era
The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl’s The Program Era provoked a sea change in the study of postwar literature. Even though almost every English department in the United States housed some version of a creative writing program by the time of its publication, literary scholars had not previously...
by Howard R. Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) expresses a fundamental morality in the way a company behaves toward society. It follows ethical behavior toward stakeholders and recognizes the spirit of the legal and regulatory environment. The idea of CSR gained momentum in the late 1950s and 1960s with the...
The Penelope Project
An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Of the 15,000 nursing homes in the United States, how many are places you’d want to visit, much less live in? Now that people are living longer and more of the population are elderly, this question is more important than ever, particularly for people with disabilities. We must transform long-term...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster...