Nina Mukerjee Furstenau Reading & Presentation

Nina Mukerjee Furstenau, author of Biting through the Skin, will read and present from her new book next weekend at the Chicago Foodways Roundtable! For more information, visit our Facebook event. We hope you can make it!

Date: Saturday, April 26
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Kendall College, 900 N North Branch Street, Chicago, IL

Praise for Biting through the Skin
"It should be noted that the recipe for the keema… had me combing the country for cardamom pods."—New York Times Book Review

"Lush and lyrical, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau's memoir, Biting through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland, blends foods and childhood, cuisine and family into a story that resonates and lingers like the spices she lovingly describes."—Kansas City Star

"A beautiful and sensitive memoir—with recipes!—about life in Kansas for a Bengali family."—Star Tribune

Biting through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland, by Nina Mukerjee Furstenau

Lawrence L. Rettig: reading

Don't miss this chance to hear Lawrence L. Rettig, author of Gardening the Amana Way, read and present from his new book!

Reading
Date: Thursday, November 14
Time: 1:30 P.M.
Location: Vinton Public Library, 510 2nd Ave., Vinton, IA

We hope you can all make it! If you're planning on attending, feel free to join our Facebook event.

Gardening the Amana Way, by Lawrence L. Rettig

NECESSARY COURAGE presentation for Educator's Week

We are pleased to announce that the UI Press's managing editor, Charlotte Wright, and acquisitions editor, Catherine Cocks, will be presenting stories and ideas for lesson plans from Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle against Slavery, by Lowell J. Soike, as part of Educator Appreciation Days.

They will be presenting Sunday, October 13, from 5:00-6:00 P.M. at the Cedar Rapids Barnes & Noble. Please stop by if you are able! In the meantime, join our Facebook event. We can't wait to see you there!

Praise for Necessary Courage
"For far too long, Underground Railroad histories have ignored the important role that Iowa played in the fight to end slavery. In a nice overview, Soike tells the stories of those individuals—enslaved and free, black and white, male and female—who had the 'necessary courage' to prevail against the tragedy of slavery."—Deanda Johnson, Midwest regional manager, National Park Service's Network to Freedom

Necessary Courage: Iowa's Underground Railroad in the Struggle against Slavery, by Lowell J. Soike

Chris Helzer presentation

This evening Chris Helzer, author of The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States, will be giving a lecture titled "The Complexity and Resilience of Nebraska Prairies" as part of the 2013 Joseph and Dorothy Young Memorial Lectures in Horticulture. An expert naturalist and program director for the Nature Conservancy, Helzer will begin his presentation at 7:00 PM at the Hardin Hall Auditorium, located on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Doors will open at 6:00 PM, with tickets priced at $10 for Nebraska Statewide Arboretum members, $14 for the general public, and free for UNL students. Advance tickets are available online. For more information on Chris Helzer's presentation, please click here.

Praise for The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States
"Chris Helzer's book is the first I've seen that plainly defines the contents of prairies and then tells you how to care for them. Smart, well researched, practical, and to the point, this book is one-stop shopping for anyone who cares about grasslands, now or in the future."—Joel Sartore, contributing photographer, National Geographic Magazine, and author, Rare: America's Endangered Species

The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States, by Chris Helzer