books by University Of Iowa Press     books:     University Of Iowa...      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. ...             Teaching Life: Letters from a Life in Literature Dale Salwak University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Wise perceptions of Education I am an elementary school teacher and School Board member for the Claremont School District. I had the privilege of listening to Dr. Salwak give a presentation about this book. The parallels between educating the college student and grammar school student were ...             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 ...             Family Bible (Sightline Books) Melissa J. Delbridge University Of Iowa Press, 2008 The Next County Over Melissa Delbridge wrote this memoir of her childhood and early adult years in the Southern language which is to say that it is filled with those experiences and nuances that her compatriots will recognize with ease. If you are not Southern, or not otherwise sensitized, ...             Revolver (Kuhl House Poets) Robyn Schiff University Of Iowa Press, 2008 As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff?s Revolver ?repeats fire without reloading? as it reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later.       A dirge on the Singer Sewing Machine, an exuberant and ...             When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq University Of Iowa Press, 2008 Donald Anderson, a former U.S. Air Force officer, has compiled a haunting anthology of personal essays and short memoirs that span more than 100 years of warfare.  Alvord White Clements?himself a veteran of the Second World War?introduces his grandfather Isaac N. Clements?s Civil War memoir; the novelist Paul West writes of his father, a British ...             Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book) Jim Heynen University Of Iowa Press, 2007 Creative and Nostalgic I received this book as a Fathers Day gift and once I opened it, I did not put it down until I read it and looked at all the pictures. Since I was born in 1929 in a small Pennsylvania town, I couldn't help remembering seeing and playing with similar people that were ...             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 ...             James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles Abigail Foerstner University Of Iowa Press, 2007 Fascinating account of a pioneer space scientist. Ask young people today who James A. Van Allen was, and they probably don't even know that he was a discoverer of the Van Allen Radiation Belts surrounding our earth, and was the guiding force behind the rocket and saellite instrument packages that have explored Earth's ...             A Bountiful Harvest: The Midwestern Farm Photographs of Pete Wettach, 1925-1965 (Bur Oak Book) Leslie A. Loveless University Of Iowa Press, 2002 Poignant Nostalgia It helps to have been on an Iowa farm, I realize, but I found this book amazingly evocative. The pictures do it--the text is not by a person with an Iowa farm background, and, I am sorry to say, it shows. For instance on page 79 she talks of tying bales by hand. ...             Ledger (Iowa Poetry Prize) Susan Wheeler University Of Iowa Press, 2005 The many meanings of "economy" are the ground for the mediation and lament of Ledger, Susan Wheeler's fourth book. In its Greek origins, economy referred to the stewardship of a household and, as it developed, the word also came to include aspects of government and of religious faith. Ledger places an individual's crisis of spirituality and ...             Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragments (Iowa Poetry Prize) Joshua Marie Wilkinson University Of Iowa Press, 2006 From Dusk to Dawn I think "Lug" must stand for "lugubrious," but Joshua Wilkinson's new book is at any rate some sort of soul-changing experience, particularly for those with a fondness for the works of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. The scary monsters they disclose, the secrets from ...             Permanent Visitors (Iowa Short Fiction Award) Kevin Moffett University Of Iowa Press, 2006 Buzzed Kevin Moffett masterfully constructs this pyschological walk through these unrestricted lives. It has all the charm of a southern draw with the sensitivity and intellectualism that will make you stop, inhale, and process slowly what you just read. It has the rawness ...             Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Home Front since 1941 (Contemp North American Poetry) Philip Metres University Of Iowa Press, 2007 academic poetics This is not an easy read; it is a book that uses phrases like "intertextual passage." In other words, it is book that will help the writer get tenure. That is not to say it is not well written. Philip Metres has some sentences that sing, especially considering the ...             Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona (Iowa Short Fiction Award) Ryan Harty University Of Iowa Press, 2003 Suburban Southwest Wasteland People often romanticize the SouthWest, imagining coyotes and endless desert and cowboys; however modernity has cut off a lot of the romance. Wal*marts, strip malls, endless bars, parking lots, concrete offices, endless cold air chilling the outdoors dot this ...          products you might be interested in search for books guantanamo, literature, midwestern, photographs, reflections, resistance      toavi.com    web we recommend Suburban Southwest Wasteland randomly chosen book: The Mercy Factory: Refugees and the American Asylum System