 | Ecopreneuring: Putting Purpose and the Planet Before Profits by John Ivanko
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $9.88 Wisconsinites John Ivanko and Lisa Kivirist are doing amazing work. In addition to operating the Inn Serendipity Bed & Breakfast, they literally wrote the book on other 'ecopreneuring' projects around the country.
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 | Rural Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life by John Ivanko
Buy new: $17.21 / Used from: $10.91 |
 | Renewing the Countryside-Wisconsin: Stories of Sustainable Living, Working and Playing
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $7.58 Written by a professor of Business and Economics at UW-Superior, this book catalogues dozens of Wisconsin stories of green business, sustainable agriculture and many other efforts giving hope to rural communities.
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 | From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce by Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition
Buy used from: $35.05 The community supported agriculture movement is a wonderful trend toward ecological and human health. Wisconsin has many participants in this movement.
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 | Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $7.58 This book, and the upcoming DVD, features a member of Wisconsin's River Alliance.
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 | Progressive
Buy new: $14.97 This legendary magazine of progressive thought is based in Madison.
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 | You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression by Matthew Rothschild
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $2.07 Rothschild is the editor of the Progressive Magazine.
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 | Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer by Unger, Nancy C.
Buy new: $28.19 / Used from: $4.60 La Follette was born in Primrose. He advanced many progressive causes during his political career, including being an opponent of railroad trusts and World War I. See 'FightingBob.com' and the 'FightingBobFest' to learn how his legacy lives on.
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 | The Kaiser's Senator: Robert M. Lafollette's Alleged Disloyalty During World War I by Arthur J. Amchan
Buy used from: $7.50 This book shows how the tactics of defamation hurled against anti-imperialists haven't changed much.
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 | The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas by Robert McChesney
Buy new: $12.73 / Used from: $7.97 Media critic McChesney spent ten years on the faculty of UW-Madison. See his organization FreePress.net to learn of some of the most pressing media issues we face.
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 | Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Buy used from: $11.10 McChesney is featured in this documentary on the corporate establishment media.
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 | Fireweed: A Political Autobiography by Gerda Lerner
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $8.88 Lerner is considered the founder of women's history. She is professor emerita at UW-Madison.
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 | The Creation of Patriarchy (Women & History) by Gerda Lerner
Buy new: $12.87 / Used from: $1.73 |
 | Black Women in White America: A Documentary History
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $2.09 |
 | Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival by Daniel Jaffee
Buy new: $19.62 / Used from: $11.44 Dan Jaffee, a friend of Madison's 'Just Coffee Coop,' wrote this book based on his UW-Madison dissertation. It won the 2007 C. Wright Mills Book Award.
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 | Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $0.20 John Stauber grew up in Marshfield. His Center for Media and Democracy is based in Madison.
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 | The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Mess in Iraq by Sheldon Rampton
Buy new: $6.61 / Used from: $0.01 Rampton works with John Stauber at the Madison based Center for Media and Democracy, and works on their project PRWatch.org
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 | Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Mad Cow U.S.A. by Sheldon Rampton
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $0.28 |
 | Feingold: A New Democratic Party by Sanford D. Horwitt
Buy new: $21.58 / Used from: $0.43 Feingold was the only Senator to vote against the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001. He has consistently high ratings from liberal groups.
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 | Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive by David Obey
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $8.95 Wisconsin Representative David Obey is one of the most liberal people in the House. He sees himself as following in the tradition of Robert La Follette.
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 | John Muir: Nature's Visionary by Gretel Ehrlich
Buy used from: $9.57 After Muir's family emigrated from Scotland, they started a farm near Portage; which is now owned by his descendents and is called Fountain Lake Farm.
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 | John Muir: America's Naturalist by Thomas Locker
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $8.60 |
 | Every Root an Anchor: Wisconsin's Famous and Historic Trees by R. Bruce Allison
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $12.25 Many Wisonsinites involved in groups like the Sierra Club are working to preserve their state's natural beauty.
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 | 100 Years Of Wisconsin Forestry, 1904-2004 by Wisconsin Woodland Owner's Association
Buy used from: $18.97 The story of how Wisconsin's forests recovered from decades of clear-cutting.
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 | The Vegetation of Wisconsin: An Ordination of Plant Communities by John T. Curtis
Buy new: $40.42 / Used from: $31.20 |
 | Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Patty Loew
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $10.00 Our society's progress will involve remembering the societies that were here first, and applying their wisdom to halt the madness of industrial eco-cide.
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 | Carl Rogers: The Quiet Revolutionary an Oral History by Carl R. Rogers
Buy used from: $88.99 Rogers taught at UW. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to resolve conflict in South Africa and Northern Ireland.
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 | Workers And Unions In Wisconsin: A Labor History Anthology by DARRYL HOLTER
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $11.95 |
 | Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 by Joe William Trotter Jr.
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $19.80 Madison isn't the only city where radical activities have taken place in Wisconsin.
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 | The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966-1977 (Studies in African American History and Culture) by Andrew Witt
Buy new: $110.00 / Used from: $114.31 |
 | Operation Last Patrol
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.48 Vietnam veteran and war protestor Ron Kovic was born in Ladysmith.
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 | Born on the Fourth of July (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $3.29 Tom Cruise delivered an outstanding performance in this film about Wisconsinite Ron Kovic.
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 | War, Inc.
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $0.82 John's sister, Joan, who is in this movie, attended UW-Madison.
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 | The Empire Strikes First by Bad Religion
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $2.50 Vocalist and founder of Bad Religion, Greg Graffin, was born in Racine.
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 | Suffer by Bad Religion
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $9.27 |
 | A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (American Empire Project) by Alfred McCoy
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.29 Alfred McCoy is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
I just heard him interviewed on the 'History Counts' radio show.
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 | Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.32 Vocalist of the Violent Femmes, Gordon Gano, is from Milwaukee.
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 | Victor Berger and the Promise of Constructive Socialism, 1910-1920: (Contributions in American History) by Sally M. Miller
Buy new: $115.00 / Used from: $17.86 In 1910, Berger won the House seat in Wisconsin's 5th District, becoming the first Socialist to serve in the U.S. Congress.
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![Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YTbpktt1L._SL75_.jpg) | Mystery Science Theater 3000: 20th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition]
Buy used from: $70.99 Joel Hodgson, creator of the subtlely subversive and hilarious MST3K, was born in Stevens Point.
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