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Top 25 Books from Public University Presses
for the Week of December 8, 2009

#1 (last week #2)
Travelin' Man / On the Road and Behind the Scenes With Bob Seger
Weschler, Tom/ Graff, Gary/ Mellencamp, John (FRW)/ Kid Rock (AFT)
Wayne State Univ Pr

Photographs & stories of of Seger’s hard-gigging, heavy-traveling, reputation-making early days.

#2 (#4)
Black Elk Speaks / Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, the Premier Edition
Neihardt, John G.
State Univ of New York Pr

The famous life story of the Lakota healer and visionary, Nicholas Black Elk.

#3 (#3)
One Fantastic Ride / The Inside Story of Carolina Basketball's 2009 Championship Season
Lucas, Adam/ Kirschner, Steve/ Bowers, Matt/ Williams, Roy (FRW)/ Camarati, Jeffrey A. (PHT)
Univ of North Carolina Pr

A behind-the-scenes portrait of the unforgettable journey to UNC's 2009 basketball national championship.

#4 (#1)
Elephant Reflections
Ammann, Karl (PHT)/ Peterson, Dale
Univ of California Pr

A book to change the way the world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of control over their fate.

#5 (#7)
Lights on a Ground of Darkness / An Evocation of a Place and Time
Kooser, Ted
Univ of Nebraska Pr

An attempt to keep the beloved people alive against the relentless erosion of time.

#6 (#6)
Death in a Prairie House / Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders
Drennan, William R.
Univ of Wisconsin Pr

The brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin.

#7 (--)
2010 Ernest J. Gaines Center Calendar
Univ. of La. at Lafayette

This 12-month 2010 calendar is a fundraiser for the newly established Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette....

#8 (#9)
Nadirs / (Niederungen
Muller, Herta/ Lug, Sieglinde (TRN)/ Lug, Sieglinde
Univ of Nebraska Pr

From the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, a collection of largely autobiographical stories.

#9 (#8)
Pittsburgh / A New Portrait
Toker, Franklin
Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

A former rustbelt city is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America's cities.

#10 (#5)
Pathologies of Power / Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Farmer, Paul/ Sen, Martha (FRW)
Univ of California Pr

Harrowing stories of life— and death— in extreme situations interrogates our understanding of human rights.

#11 (#10)
To the Gates of Stalingrad / Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942
Glantz, David M./ House, Jonathan M.
Univ Pr of Kansas

The battle between the Germans and Soviets was a turning point in WWII and a symbol of that war's power and devastation.

#12 (#11)
Pedaling Revolution / How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities
Mapes, Jeff
Univ of Arizona Pr

The growing bike culture that is changing the look and feel of cities, suburbs, and small towns across North America.

#13 (#12)
Warrior's Rage / The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting
MacGregor, Douglas A.
Naval Inst Pr

An assault against Iraq's Republican Guard becomes the U.S. Army's largest tank battle since World War II.

#14 (#13)
Remarkable Trees of Virginia
Hugo, Nancy Ross
Univ of Virginia Pr

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#15 (#15)
Fearless Confessions / A Writer's Guide to Memoir
Silverman, Sue William
Univ of Georgia Pr

How to craft compelling art out of personal experience.

#16 (#14)
Creating Moments of Joy for the Person with Alzheimer's or Dementia
Brackey, Jolene
Purdue Univ Pr

Focusing beyond the challenges of Alzheimer's disease to create moments of joy.

#17 (#16)
Crow Killer / The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Thorp, Raymond W./ Bunker, Robert
Indiana Univ Pr

One of the most gripping feuds-- one man against a whole tribe-- in American history.

#18 (#18)
Saving Ben / A Father's Story of Autism
Burns, Dan E.
Texas A & M Univ Pr

The story of one family coping with autism.

#19 (#20)
Outside the Limelight / Basketball in the Ivy League
Orton, Kathy/ Feinstein, John (FRW)
Rutgers Univ Pr

The first book to look inside Ivy League basketball and at the boundless enthusiasm that defines it.

#20 (#21)
Barney Frank / The Story of America's Only Left-handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman
Weisberg, Stuart
Univ of Massachusetts Pr

One of the nation's most distinctive and effective legislators.

#21 (#22)
George Gershwin / An Intimate Portrait
Rimler, Walter
Univ of Illinois Pr

The dramatic story of a legendary American composer.

#22 (#24)
Galapagos / A Natural History
Jackson, Michael H.
Michigan State Univ Pr

The natural history of the plants and animals found in the Galapagos Islands.

#23 (#23)
Isadore's Secret / Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town
Link, Mardi
Univ of Michigan Pr

A young nun disappears and turns up buried in the basement of the church.

#24 (--)
Northern Money, Southern Land / The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin
Cuthbert, Robert B. (EDT)/ Hoffius, Stephen G. (EDT)
Univ of South Carolina Pr

The history of vexing tensions between development and conservation that remain a defining aspect of lowcountry life.

#25 (--)
"This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me" / The Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines
Reggie Scott Young, Marcia Gaudet, Wiley Cash
University of Lousiana at Lafayette Press

A coffee table book that examines author Ernest J. Gaines unique connection to the state of Louisiana.