Authors:Thomas Augst, Wayne A. Wiegand,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: culture, modern, america, history, print, agencies, libraries
Number of Pages: 211
Published: 2003-01-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299183041
ISBN-13: 9780299183042

Libraries-public, school, and academic libraries-are ubiquitous cultural agencies. Yet how much do we know about the multiple ways that they serve and enrich our culture? These essays explore the role of the library in the life of the reader and the library as a place in the life of its users. Contributors are Thomas Augst, Ari Kelman, Elizabeth Jane Aikin, Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, Christine Pawley, Juris Dilevko and Lisa Gottlieb, Jean L. Preer, Jacalyn Eddy, Benjamin Hufbauer, and Emily B. Todd. Print Culture History in Modern America, Wayne A. Wiegand and James P. Dank

Authors:James P. Danky, Wayne A. Wiegand,
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: print, women, culture, history, america, modern, centuries, nineteenth, essays, american, twentieth
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2006-02-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0299217841
ISBN-13: 9780299217846

Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. The essays feature women like Marie Mason Potts, editor of Smoke Signals, a mid-twentieth century periodical of the Federated Indians of California; Lois Waisbrooker, publisher of books and journals on female sexuality and women’s rights in the decades after the Civil War; and Elizabeth Jordan, author of two novels and editor of Harper’s Bazaar from 1900 to 1913.  The volume presents a complex and engaging picture of print c

Author: Wiegand
Publisher: For Dummie
Keywords: history, dummies, politics, biography
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009-06-02
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0470436395
ISBN-13: 9780470436394

Now revised — the easy-to-understand guide to the story of America Want to better understand U.S. History? This friendly book serves as your tour guide through the important events of America’s past and present, introducing you to the people who helped to shape history. From pre-Columbus to the American Revolution, from Watergate to Iraq to Barack Obama, you’ll discover fascinating details that you won’t find in dry history texts! They’re coming to America — explore early civilizations, meet Native Americans, and see how the development of the English colonie

Author: Steve Wiegand
Publisher: For Dummies
Keywords: dummies, history
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 076455249X
ISBN-13: 9780764552496

Lots of people think that learning U.S. history is a punishment. It’s a subject you had to take in school. You memorized a bewildering array of dates, absorbed definitions for terms like Manifest Destiny, and wondered if America really needed two presidents named Harrison. Historical figures were presented to you as if they were characters in a junior high school costume pageant, with their blemishes airbrushed out and personalities drained away in stodgy history textbooks. History textbooks often overlook the fascinating moments of history. They present U.S. history as something

Author: Steve Wiegand
Publisher: For Dummie
Keywords: dummies, finance, personal, business, lessons, depression
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-07-07
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0470487488
ISBN-13: 9780470487488

An in-depth look at the lessons from one of the worst times in America’s financial history Are you worried about the economy? You’re certainly not alone. According to most economists, the turmoil that Americans will face over the next four years will be the roughest financial times since the Great Depression-and many are looking backward to learn how to survive an ongoing and sustained economic downturn. Lessons from the Great Depression For Dummies takes a historic look at the events and circumstances leading up to the 1929 crash and subsequent depression, then the economic afterm

Authors:W. Köhler, S. Wiegand,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, notes, physics, mixtures, fluid, nonequilibrium, phenomena, thermal
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 2002-08-05
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3540432310
ISBN-13: 9783540432319

Focuses more extensively on complex systems such as electrolytes, polymers, colloidal dispersions and magnetic fluids. Useful to experts, nonspecialist researchers and postgraduate students alike.

Author: Karl H Von Wiegand
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: war, misconceptions, current
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $15.75
ISBN-10: 1113262192
ISBN-13: 9781113262196