wyszukanych pozycji: 19
Timber!: A Northwoods Story of Lumberjacks, Logging, and the Land
ISBN: 9781976600357 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
87,15 zł |
Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories
ISBN: 9780870208300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Preparing food from scratch was just the way things were done, and people knew what was in their food and where it came from. Delicious meals were at the center of every family and social affair, whether it be a threshing-day dinner with all the neighbors, the end-of-school-year picnic, or just a hearty supper after chores were done. As Jerry writes, "For me food will always be associated with times of good eating, storytelling, laughter, and...
When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Prepari...
|
|
cena:
126,15 zł |
Cranberry Red
ISBN: 9780299247706 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The fourth novel in Jerry Apps s Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agriculture in the twenty-first century. The fourth novel in Jerry Apps s Ames County series, Cranberry Red brings the story into the present, portraying the challenges of agricultu... |
|
cena:
131,52 zł |
Cheese: The Making of a Wisconsin Tradition
ISBN: 9780299329242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
152,61 zł |
Tamarack River Ghost
ISBN: 9780299288808 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper's national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the biggest story of his young career--just as the paper's finances may lead to its closure. Josh's big story is that a corporation that plans to establish an enormous hog farm has bought a lot of land along the Tamarack River in bucolic Ames County. Some of the local residents and officials are excited about the jobs and tax revenues that the big farm will bring, while others worry about truck traffic, porcine aromas, and manure runoff polluting...
"When journalist Josh Wittmore moves from the Illinois bureau of Farm Country News to the newspaper's national office in Wisconsin, he encounters the ...
|
|
cena:
147,15 zł |
The Wild Oak
ISBN: 9781595988089 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
73,86 zł |
Planting an Idea: A Guidebook to Critical and Creative Thinking about Environmental Problems
ISBN: 9781682753422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is designed to help you figure out what your position is on a particular environmental problem, and ultimately not only know what your position is but helps provide evidence to back up your position. And not just any evidence, but accurate, verifiable evidence from a reputable, reliable source. So, in a way, this is a guidebook for examining and thinking critically and creatively about the important environmental problems that face our planet today.
This book is designed to help you figure out what your position is on a particular environmental problem, and ultimately not only know what your posit...
|
|
cena:
86,93 zł |
Settlers Valley
ISBN: 9780299332143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
86,93 zł |
Great Sand Fracas of Ames County
ISBN: 9780299300708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the Alstage Mining Company proposes a frac sand mine in the small Ames County village of Link Lake, events quickly escalate to a crisis. Business leader Marilyn Jones of the Link Lake Economic Development Council heads the pro-mine forces, citing needed jobs and income for the county. Octogenarian Emily Higgins and other Link Lake Historical Society members are aghast at the proposed mine location in the community park, where a huge and ancient bur oakthe historic Trail Marker Oakhas stood since it pointed the way along an old Menominee trail. Reluctantly caught in the middle of the fray...
When the Alstage Mining Company proposes a frac sand mine in the small Ames County village of Link Lake, events quickly escalate to a crisis. Business...
|
|
cena:
117,43 zł |
Blue Shadows Farm
ISBN: 9780299232504 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fans of Jerry Apps will delight in his latest novel, Blue Shadows Farm, which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wisconsin farm.
Silas Starkweather, a Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 acres in Ames County, where he is known as the mysterious farmer forever digging holes. After years of hardship and toil, however, Silas develops a commitment to farming his land and respect for his new community. When Silas s son Abe inherits Blue Shadows Farm he chooses to keep the land out of reluctant necessity, distilling and distributing... Fans of Jerry Apps will delight in his latest novel, Blue Shadows Farm, which follows the intriguing family story of three generations on a Wis...
|
|
cena:
147,15 zł |
On Farms and Rural Communities: An Agricultural Ethic for the Future
ISBN: 9781682754641 / Miękka / 2024 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
73,86 zł |
In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story
ISBN: 9780299223045 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The H H Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in the small town of Link Lake, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlow way or lose their biggest customer - and, possibly, their land.
The H H Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in the small town of Link Lake, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlo...
|
|
cena:
82,72 zł |
Telling Your Story
ISBN: 9781938486234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2014 Regional Emmy Award for "A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps"Jerry Apps, renowned author and veteran storyteller, believes that storytelling is the key to maintaining our humanity, fostering connection, and preserving our common history. In "Telling Your Story," he offers tips for people who are interested in telling their own stories. Readers will learn how to choose stories from their memories and how to journal, and will find tips for writing and oral storytelling as well as his tried-and-true advice on how to speak to a live radio or TV audience."Telling Your Story" reveals...
Winner of the 2014 Regional Emmy Award for "A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps"Jerry Apps, renowned author and veteran storyteller, believes that storytell...
|
|
cena:
73,86 zł |
Travels of Increase Joseph: A Historical Novel about a Pioneer Preacher
ISBN: 9780299247546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Plum Falls, New York, 1840s: Dismissed from Harvard Divinity School for his liberal views, Increase Joseph Link arrives home with a heavy heart. He gives up his dream of becoming a minister to settle for life on the farm, until the day he is struck by lightning and hears a voice telling him to rise and speak. Heeding that voice, Increase becomes a preacher, advocating for environmental protection and the end of slavery and war. His growing band of followers calls itself the Standalone Fellowship, and they accompany him on his move west to Wisconsin, to a place of better land and opportunity. ...
Plum Falls, New York, 1840s: Dismissed from Harvard Divinity School for his liberal views, Increase Joseph Link arrives home with a heavy heart. He gi...
|
|
cena:
108,93 zł |
When the White Pine Was King: A History of Lumberjacks, Log Drives, and Sawdust Cities in Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780870209345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
100,00 zł |
In a Pickle : A Family Farm Story
ISBN: 9780299223007 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The year is 1955. Andy Meyer, a young farmer, manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is meandering, and the feeling is distinctly Midwestern. Workers sort, weigh, and dump cucumbers into huge vats where the pickles cure, providing a livelihood to local farmers. But the H. H. Harlow Pickle Company has appeared in town, using heavy-handed tactics to force family farmers to either farm the Harlow way or lose their biggest customer--and, possibly, their land. Andy, himself the owner of a half-acre pickle patch, works part-time for the...
The year is 1955. Andy Meyer, a young farmer, manages the pickle factory in Link Lake, a rural town where the farms are small, the conversation is mea...
|
|
cena:
136,23 zł |
A Summer of Peas and Pickles
ISBN: 9781595989000 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
73,86 zł |
When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910a 1929
ISBN: 9780299282042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time--an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern inventions--tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes--that would change farming and rural life forever. When Horses Pulled the Plow is Larson's account of that rural life in the early twentieth century. He weaves invaluable historical details--including descriptions of farm...
In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property...
|
|
cena:
108,93 zł |
Breweries of Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780299206543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The story of the Dairy State's other major industry--beer From the immigrants who started brewing here during territorial days to the modern industrial giants, this is the history, the folklore, the architecture, the advertising, and the characters that made Wisconsin the nation's brewing leader. Updated with the latest trends on the Wisconsin brewing scene. "Apps adeptly combines diligent scholarship with fascinating anecdotes, vividly portraying brewmasters, beer barons, saloonkeepers, and corporate raiders. All this plus color reproductions of popular beer labels and a... The story of the Dairy State's other major industry--beer From the immigrants who started brewing here during territorial days to the modern indus... |
|
cena:
152,61 zł |