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Midwest Maize

How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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Midwest Maize

How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

By: Cynthia Clampitt

Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096878

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9780252096877

Destination Heartland

A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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Destination Heartland

A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past

By: Cynthia Clampitt

The Midwest's place at the crossroads of the nation makes it a rich travel destination for anyone interested in the history and heritage of the United States. Cynthia Clampitt's guide to heartland historical sites invites readers to live the past, whether it's watching a battlefield reenactment or wandering the grounds of an ancient Native American city. From the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to the Chinese American Museum, Clampitt uncovers the fascinating stories behind these quintessentially Midwestern places while offering valuable tips for getting the most out of your visit. She also ventures beyond the typical scope of guidebooks to include historic restaurants, small-town museums, and other overlooked gems perfect for turning that quick day trip into a leisurely itinerary. An informative handbook and introduction to the Midwest's colorful past, Destination Heartland provides travelers with a knowledgeable companion on the highways and backroads of history. States covered in the book: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252053281

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9780252053283

Destination Heartland

A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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A Guide to Discovering the Midwest's Remarkable Past

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Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs

From Wild Boar to Baconfest

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs

From Wild Boar to Baconfest

By: Cynthia Clampitt

Among the first creatures to help humans attain the goal of having enough to eat was the pig, which provided not simply enough, but general abundance. Domesticated early and easily, herds grew at astonishing rates (only rabbits are more prolific). Then, as people spread around the globe, pigs and traditions went with them, with pigs making themselves at home wherever explorers or settlers carried them. Today, pork is the most commonly consumed meat in the world—and no one else in the world produces more pork than the American Midwest. Pigs and pork feature prominently in many cuisines and are restricted by others. In the U.S. during the early1900s, pork began to lose its preeminence to beef, but today, we are witnessing a resurgence of interest in pork, with talented chefs creating delicacies out of every part of the pig. Still, while people enjoy “pigging out,” few know much about hog history, and fewer still know of the creatures’ impact on the world, and specifically the Midwest. From brats in Wisconsin to tenderloin in Iowa, barbecue in Kansas City to porketta in the Iron Range to goetta in Cincinnati, the Midwest is almost defined by pork. Here, tracking the history of pig as pork, Cynthia Clampitt offers a fun, interesting, and tasty look at pigs as culture, calling, and cuisine.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153811075X

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9781538110751

Midwest Maize

How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland

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Women Writers in the United States

A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History

By: Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West

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Women Writers in the United States

A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History

By: Cynthia J. Davis,Kathryn West

Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and social, tangible and intangible--produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the U.S. in a clear and accessible timeline format. They present information on the full spectrum of women's writing--including fiction, poetry, biography, political manifestos, essays, advice columns,and cookbooks, alongside a chronology of developments in social and cultural history that are especially pertinent to women's lives. This extensive chronology illustrates the diversity of women who have lived and written in the U.S. and creates a sense of the full trajectory of individual careers. A valuable and rich source of information on women's studies, literature, and history, Women Writers in the United States will enable readers to locate familiar and unfamiliar women's texts and to place them in the context out which they emerged.

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Oxford University Press

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0195358120

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9780195358124

Next Day

New and Selected Poems

By: Cynthia Zarin

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Next Day

New and Selected Poems

By: Cynthia Zarin

A selection of the dazzling work of one of the finest writers of her generation and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a poet of elegant restraint, emotional depth, and moral vision Beginning with several dozen new poems that have appeared in The New Yorker, among other publications, this volume is a tour through Zarin’s five exquisitely made collections, beginning with The Swordfish Tooth, published in 1989. Zarin, a poet in the line of Elizabeth Bishop, allows the reader to experience human truths through a poem's shape and music, bodied forth through intimate images—the turn in the stair, a snow globe, naked birch branches, a vase of flowers—and a propulsive syntax. From the clarity of childhood memory to the maze of marriage and divorce, from her own consciousness—shaping landscapes of New York, Cape Cod, and Rome, to the shifting tides of history and the troubled conscience of a nation, her subject matter encompasses all of a woman's life, with passion—its risks, satisfactions, and shattering immediacy—her first and truest subject.

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Knopf

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0593536150

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9780593536155

Metaphor & Memory

By: Cynthia Ozick

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Metaphor & Memory

By: Cynthia Ozick

From the author of The Messiah of Stockholm and Art and Ardor comes a new collection of supple, provocative, and intellectually dazzling essays. In Metaphor & Memory, Cynthia Ozick writes about Saul Bellow and Henry James, William Gaddis and Primo Levi. She observes the tug-of-war between written and spoken language and the complex relation between art's contrivances and its moral truths. She has given us an exceptional book that demonstrates the possibilities of literature even as it explores them.

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Vintage

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0593313224

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9780593313220

CliffsNotes Getting Out of Debt

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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CliffsNotes Getting Out of Debt

By: Cynthia Clampitt

CliffsNotes: Getting Out of Debt is the fast and easy way to learn about getting out of debt and getting personal finances on track. This book discusses ways to identify debt, how to manage income to reduce debt, how to avoid additional debt and more. Features expert advice on money management that's easy to follow. CliffsNotes: Getting Out of Debt brings sanity back to personal finance. From school loans to car loans, credit card debt to mortgage payments, discover the best ways to manage finances and keep the checkbook in the black. * Filled with information and expert tips on managing personal debt and finding solutions to reduce it. * Gain the know-how to get of debt quickly and easily. * Features advice on planning, anticipating problems, credit card management and more! * About 70 percent of Americans own at least one credit card and 34 percent of them do not know the interest rate of the credit card they use most often. (American Demographics, May 1997)

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764585134

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9780764585135

A Cynthia Ozick Reader

By: Cynthia Ozick

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A Cynthia Ozick Reader

By: Cynthia Ozick

[Ozick's] range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from Art & Ardor (1983) and Metaphor and Memory (1989) that Kauvar has so sensitively chosen."" --Booklist ""[This collection reflects] the imaginative, inventive, and insightful Ozick. Some of the best of Ozick as poet, essayist, and fiction writer is represented in A Cynthia Ozick Reader."" --Library Journal ""Gathered here are some bristling, incandescent tales and thorny essays that show Ozick at her finest."" --The Seattle Times Cynthia Ozick is among the ten most important writers in North America today. This Reader brings her manifold talents together in a sampler of the many genres she explores. The poems, stories, and essays in this collection burst with all the energy of her capacious imagination. For those who have always lauded her, the Reader offers a representative selection; those new to Cynthia Ozick's work will revel in the discovery of a major writer.

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Indiana University Press

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0253210534

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9780253210531

Pigs, Pork, and Heartland Hogs

From Wild Boar to Baconfest

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From Wild Boar to Baconfest

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Rowman & Littlefield

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Social Studies 2006 Leveled Reader Grade 5 Unit 6b

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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Social Studies 2006 Leveled Reader Grade 5 Unit 6b

By: Cynthia Clampitt

As the United States expanded its territory, people flooded into the areas that they thought held the promise of a new life. In this book you will read about the people who crossed the sea or the prairies, what they were looking for, and what they found as the United States continued to grow.

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Pearson Scott Foresman

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0328148989

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Social Studies 2006 Leveled Reader Grade 5 Unit 6c

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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Social Studies 2006 Leveled Reader Grade 5 Unit 6c

By: Cynthia Clampitt

Adventure, dreams, land, and gold attracted people to the United States and across its plains. By the mid-1800s the country extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. In this book you will read about the people, trails, conflicts, and discoveries that fueled this time of expansion and change.

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0328148997

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9780328148998

CliffsNotes Getting Out of Debt

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Social Studies 2006 Leveled Reader Grade 5 Unit 6a

By: Cynthia Clampitt

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Social Studies 2006 Leveled Reader Grade 5 Unit 6a

By: Cynthia Clampitt

Read about the dreams and adventures of people who settle the new territories. It was a time of covered wagons, dangerous journeys, and high hopes.

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0328148970

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Getting Out of Debt for Canadians

By: Sara Curtis,Cynthia Clampitt

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Getting Out of Debt for Canadians

By: Sara Curtis,Cynthia Clampitt

Your shortcut to success for over 40 years. Master the essentials. Gain confidence. Meet new challenges Fast. That's the reason for CliffNotes. And that's just what you'll get from this step-by-step guide that will help you build a realistic debt-reduction plan.

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John Wiley & Sons Incorporated

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1894413148

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9781894413145

Foreign Bodies

By: Cynthia Ozick

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Foreign Bodies

By: Cynthia Ozick

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale's life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape lassitude by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother's family. The story of Bea's travails on the continent is a fierce and heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded and abused; earned and cherished; or even lost altogether.

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1407488821

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