Tag: books
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Join us for a Book Tasting!
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The Teaching Press interns invite you to a Book Tasting, hosted in our new press room! What’s a “Book Tasting”? It’s your chance to sample our books and the work we do. View live demonstrations of the printing process, press your own book, and savor the perfect pairings of titles and treats. The event will…
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New Book Alert! Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts
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Our Spring and Summer Teaching Press interns have been hard at work on our newest project, Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, by Dr. Ann Gentry Recine and Louis Recine. In Home Again and Again: Recollections, Stories, Guideposts, Dr. Ann Recine invites readers into her chaotic life-well-lived to explore the concept of “home” and…
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Now on Sale: The Golden Age of Brown County Enterprise, by Phil Hauck
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Did you know northeast Wisconsin was once one of the preeminent business communities in the United States? It’s true. In the 1980s and 90s, companies like Krueger International, Fort Howard Paper Company, Schneider National and Schreiber Foods were leaders in innovation, creative solutions and cutting-edge technology, unlike anyone else in the U.S. In this re-issue of The…
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Now on Sale! A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, by Sandra Shackelford
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This unique collection of oral histories and photographs captures the storytellers, storytelling, folktales, and personal journeys of the earliest Hmong residents in Northeastern Wisconsin. Click here to order. Description “A shadow in the dark corner of the room moved. Slowly a woman walked toward us. Tears streamed down her face. She pointed toward me and…
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On Sale: Lower Fox River PCB Cleanup Timeline: An Electronic Reference Library
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You are invited to explore the world of unintended consequences of producing carbonless paper and its underlying chemistry of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) on the health of the Fox River and Lower Green Bay. Using an interactive timeline, this book by author Greg Neuschafer offers an overview of 70-years of PCBs impacting the river, from…
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I Believe in Voice: An Interview with Sandra Shackelford
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A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, by Sandra Shackelford, with translations by May Lee Lor and transcriptions by Ma Le Lor, is now on sale. Click this link for purchase and pick up information. Interviewer’s note: Sandra’s written responses have been edited to include further details and quotes that she…
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Meet the Project Manager and Chief Copyeditor of A Portrait of Grief and Courage
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The Teaching Press had 21 students working as interns and staff in Fall 2023. We’re featuring their work in small batches—the same way we print books at the Press! Olivia Meyer became the Project Manager on A Portrait of Grief and Courage: Hmong Oral Histories and Folktales, in early 2023, when the manuscript was still…
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Meet the Press Director
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Who gets to work with all of these amazing interns? Meet the Press Director! Dr. Rebecca Meacham founded The Teaching Press in 2018 and, with the Press’s first interns, launched the first book, The Village and The Vagabond by Tim Weyenberg, in 2019. Since then, she’s worked with over 100 interns on a wide range…
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Inside the Press: The “Foldie-Outtie” Experience
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How does our Press hand-craft an ambitious book of fold-out —or foldie-outtie—pages? Learn more from Production Team insider Brady Hurst! There is nothing that our team fears more than failing to deliver. So, once our Lower Fox River PCB Clean Up Timeline book hit our production line, we all knew that we would have our work…