Stories indexed under: Books

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• History professor documents GI conduct in WWII France June 5, 2013 On June 6, 1944, a massive military force arrived on the beaches of Normandy in a surprise invasion intended to overthrow Nazi Germany. The story of brave Allied forces splashing ashore under heavy fire has been immortalized in novels, memoirs, documentary films, and blockbuster movies - with American GIs cast as the unequivocal heroes of the day.
• Retiring Berg looks forward to a future of mystery May 14, 2013 If Joanne Berg’s career history were to be summed up in a mystery book title, it might be called “The Case of the Woman Who Wore Many Hats.”
• New book examines young people’s overlooked views on politics May 7, 2013 They’re too young to vote but not too young to care. That’s part of the message in “Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young,” a new book by Constance Flanagan.
• Author Galeano coming to UW for Havens Center honor May 1, 2013 Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano will receive the University of Wisconsin-Madison A. E. Havens Center's Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship on May 9 during a rare trip to the United States.
• After death, novelist’s longtime dream comes true April 11, 2013 Bridget Zinn always wanted to be a published novelist. Her dream is finally coming true — nearly two years after the UW-Madison alum died of colon cancer.
• Friends of the Libraries Book Sale starts April 3 March 29, 2013 The Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries Spring Book Sale, which organizers say is one of the largest used book sales in Wisconsin with more than 15,000 books to choose from, will be held Wednesday, April 3 through Saturday, April 6.
• Indian author Arundhati Roy to visit March 5, 2013 Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus March 20-21, 2013 to speak to Wisconsin high school students. Roy will offer the keynote presentation for the Great World Texts Student Conference, sponsored by the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, and will spend the day interacting with students who have read her Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things."
• ‘Madison Reads Leopold’ to be held March 2 at Arboretum Feb. 21, 2013 As part of the Madison area's celebration of Aldo Leopold Weekend, there will be a free public reading from "A Sand County Almanac" and other Leopold works on Saturday, March 2, at the UW Arboretum Visitor Center. Leopold was the first research director at the Arboretum and was closely involved in its design.
• DARE publishes companion volume to landmark dictionary Dec. 17, 2012 The dictionary known as DARE, a landmark project housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, now has a companion volume that gives readers a chance to dig deep into the definitive source on American speech from the first colonists to our neighbors today.
• Award helps turn first manuscripts into first-rate books Nov. 30, 2012 A scholar of "medieval media studies" and a historian of modern Europe have each won a 2012-13 First Book Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Humanities.
• New book combines love of fiction and history Nov. 6, 2012 As an undergraduate at Harvard University, Florencia Mallon wanted to write fiction. But fact came first.
• History professor Sweet wins Frederick Douglass Book Prize Nov. 6, 2012 James Sweet, Vilas-Jartz Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book "Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World."
• UW prof’s award-winning ‘Slow Violence’ gives voice to global struggle Oct. 18, 2012 The cover of Rob Nixon's new book features black smoke, drifting across a dreary cityscape.
• Recent sightings: Book Club Oct. 21, 2011
• Wisconsin Book Festival author is world traveler, UW–Madison dad Oct. 19, 2011 Acclaimed author André Aciman, who will present a Wisconsin Book Festival talk on Thursday, is eagerly awaiting his visit to UW–Madison, where he has strong family ties.
• Graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang to deliver Zolotow Lecture Oct. 5 Oct. 4, 2011
• Go Big Read launches third year of common-reading program Sept. 13, 2011 "Enrique's Journey" is the selection for this year's Go Big Read, and discussions and events related to the book will be held all year.
• ‘Enrique’s Journey’ chosen for Go Big Read program June 8, 2011 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has selected "Enrique's Journey" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario as the book for the third year of Go Big Read, the university's common reading program.
• Book series explores chemistry’s panache April 14, 2011 When chemistry’s preeminent impresario Bassam Shakhashiri mounts the dais, you know the show is about to begin.
• Recent sightings: Go Big Read Oct. 26, 2010