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Tim Miller is an internationally acclaimed performance artist and gay rights activist. He is the author of the books Body Blows and 1001 Beds and his performance texts have appeared in the play collections O Solo Homo and Sharing the Delirium. He teaches performance at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater and is cofounder of Performance Space 122 in New York City and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California. Tim Miller has his own web site, hometown.aol.com/millertale/timmiller.html his blog is at timmillerperformer.blogspot.com

An interview with Tim Miller is available on the Lit show web site, visit www.wnur.org/lit/shows.Winter/2006/timmiller.php

Julien Clinton Sprott has his own web site for his book Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics and his famous The Wonder of Physics program http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/wop.htm

Jan Gregoire Coombs has her own web site for her book The Rise and Fall of HMOs
An American Health Care Revolution
.
It is: webpages.charter.net/coombs

 Gaylord Nelson, the former Wisconsin governor and U.S. Senator, died Sunday, July 3rd, 2005. He was an eloquent defender of the natural world, and a man who brought skill and integrity to politics. He will always be known as the founder of Earth Day. Here are some related links that speak to his life and work: Visit www.madison.com and search for Ron Seely's story and John Nichols's column, "Nature nurtured Nelson : His Clear Lake roots inspired a movement," July 5, 2005.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Washington Post

The New York Times

To find out more about Gaylord Nelson and his book Beyond Earth Day, follow this link to www.beyondearthday.com

There is a web site for the Controversies in Science and Technology series, with ta able of contents, excerpts, and other details. Please see www.plantpath.wisc.edu/satis

Controversies in Science and Technology
Volume 1: From Maize to Menopause
Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman
Science and Technology in Society
Daniel Lee Kleinman and Jo Handelsman, Series Editors 


In connection with our Irish studies and Celtic interest titles, see: www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/

David Shields, author of Remote, is the author of three other nonfiction books, Black Planet (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Enough About You, and Baseball Is Just Baseball; two novels, Dead Languages and Heroes; and a collection of connected stories, A Handbook for Drowning. You can find out more about Shields by visiting www.davidshields.com

The Mosse Program in History has many programs honoring Professor George L. Mosse, the late UW—Madison history professor, scholar and mentor. The University of Wisconsin Press has a new series, the George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History, which is supported by a bequest in connection with this program.

Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe is a Fall 2003 title that explores the art and influences of Truman Lowe, a sculptor whose large abstract works in wood and metal are inspired by many elements of the natural world, river eddies, willows, waterfalls, bluffs and dunes, and the architecture of the handmade canoe. An internationally acclaimed artist whose works are displayed in major museums, Lowe grew up on the banks of Wisconsin's Black River, where his parents were skilled craftsmen in their Ho-Chunk tradition. A search of the UW–Madison web universe will yield more information about Truman Lowe.

Devil's Lake is the premiere climbing spot in the Midwest. Our book Climber's Guide to Devil's Lake, Second Edition, by Sven Olof Swartling, is an excellent guidebook and describes more than 1600 climbs. See website about Devil's Lake and its climbing community: climbingdevilslake.com

If you would like to find out more about Theodor Bikel, visit www.bikel.com

To visit the personal website of our author Merrill Joan Gerber, author of Botticelli Blue Skies, click on http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mjgerber/

Chris Kubica, co-editor of Letters to J.D. Salinger, has provided many links to reviews and other information about the book. Click here to reach our Letters to J.D. Salinger webpage. You can also check out his home website jdsalinger.com

Read the Advocate's review of Tim Miller's Body Blows, just follow this link:
www.advocate.com/html/books/862_miller.asp
 To visit Tim Miller's website, follow this link: hometown.aol.com/millertale/timmiller.html

There is an interesting tie-in to our book Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman, His Life and Fictions by Suzanne Jill Levine. Manuel Puig was the Argentinean author of Kiss of the Spider Woman, and you can find out more about that movie at this official site: www.kissofthespiderwoman.com

Science is Fun!: for Bassam Shakhashiri's Chemical Demonstrations

New Directions Books: publisher of UW Press author William Herrick's novels

Wildlife-Habitat Relationships: visit this site for more details about the book, from author Bruce G. Marcot

Virginia Schuett
's book on PKU. Low Protein Cookery for Phenylketonuria, published by the UW Press, is a very helpful book. A search for the The National PKU News website could be helpful as well.

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