Insiders' Guide® to Madison, WI

Insiders' Guide® to Madison, WI
Author: Kevin Revolinski
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0762766506

A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Madison is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to this thriving Wisconsin city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Madison and its surrounding environs.

Weird Wisconsin

Weird Wisconsin
Author: Linda S. Godfrey
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Ghosts
ISBN: 0760759448

Spirits of Earth

Spirits of Earth
Author: Robert A. Birmingham
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2009-12-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0299232638

Between A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in North America, with an estimated 1,300 mounds—including the world’s largest known bird effigy—at the center of effigy-building culture in and around Madison, Wisconsin. These huge earthworks, sculpted in the shape of birds, mammals, and other figures, have aroused curiosity for generations and together comprise a vast effigy mound ceremonial landscape. Farming and industrialization destroyed most of these mounds, leaving the mysteries of who built them and why they were made. The remaining mounds are protected today and many can be visited. explores the cultural, historical, and ceremonial meanings of the mounds in an informative, abundantly illustrated book and guide. Finalist, Social Science, Midwest Book Awards

Searching for Excellence and Diversity

Searching for Excellence and Diversity
Author: Eve Fine
Publisher: Wiseli
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2012-12
Genre: College teachers
ISBN: 9780615711782

Recruiting, hiring, and retaining an excellent and diverse faculty is a top priority for colleges and universities nationwide. Yet faculty serving on search committees (or hiring committees) receive little or no education about the search process. Relying on both research and experience presenting hiring workshops to search committee members, the authors of this guidebook provide advice and recommendations for conducting an effective faculty search. The book includes practical suggestions for managing all stages of a faculty search as well as recommendations for ensuring that search committee members recruit women and members of underrepresented groups into their applicant pools and consciously avoid the influence of bias and assumptions in their evaluation of job candidates.