Tap into the Great Lakes - A guide to the Brewpubs and Microbreweries of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin.

What a title! What a book! This is an in-depth review of microbrews in the Great Lakes region, and oh what a region it is! Mr. Bice must have had a great time sampling the various brews throughout the five states listed.

Having visited a few of the microbreweries, I can certainly attest to the accuracy and quality of the reviews. It is very well written and clearly understandable. The glossary of brews is certainly a useful tool when search for the perfect Scotch Ale!

James Fadely provides a masterful depiction of personalized politics in a demographically swing state, then as now. Includes insider views of Taggart's critical last minute push for Senator Samuel Ralston's presidential nomination in the horrendous Democratic Convention of 1924. Serves as good contrast to Robert Murrray's "The 103rd Ballot: Democrats and the Disaster in Madison Square Garden".

The honesty of the narrator, Isobel Roundtree, never falters. This is a book read in a day without putting it down. I definitely hear echoes of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, the world from a wise child's point of view and a book not written for children. Recommended.

I wasn't particularly interested in Turkey prior to reading this book. I was, however, interested in the writing of an ethnographic study of the folklife of potters, weavers, and other artisans. By the time that I finished reading Glassie's rich description of the life and work of the people of Turkey, I found out why he was so amazed at the quality of artwork in this exciting land. To begin to understand the work of the potter, the weaver, the calligrapher, and the woodworker in Turkey, Glassie takes the reader on a pilgrimmage into the Islamic nation. The words, narrative, and rich photographs are the physical manifestations that bring the reader into a shared sense of presence with the artists. By the time I finished reading this fine book, I came to feel as if I was actually experiencing the sense of peace and presence that inspires master artists in Turkey. As I closed the book, I found that I not only was more intrigued by Turkey and Islam, I had gained a glimmer of a shared experience of working as an artist in this nation. Glassie inspires the author by showing that printed words and reproduced photographs in a book can provide a sense of the presence that is evoked when one admires woven rugs, woodwork, and ceramic plates. Through ink he provides a glimmer of the light that shines out from the ceramic glaze covering the pot of a master artist -- or usta -- in a Turkish ceramic studio.

Very helpful. Correctly identifying one piece can refund the price of the book 100 times.

This is history at its best. Butler's work discusses the emergent class and ethnic tensions in a industrial midwestern town and situates its history in the larger patterns of change across America. Butler's style and writing has a flare and a richness unique in historical accounts of this sort--I could not put the book down! Butler has style!

Most people outside Russia perceive it as a Slavic, Christian nation. That is a wrong way of looking at it. Russia is a symbiosis of Slavic/Christian and Turkic/Muslim elements. David L. Ransel's fascinating book reflects this dual nature of Russia and gives an insight into its complex inner soul. A wealth of details and astute observations make this book a pleasure to read.

Most recent books about Russia concentrate on its urban aspects or on its general political or economic aspects. Unlike them, Village Mothers presents a picture of its rural life. Russia has been a largely rural, agricultural country for many centuries. Its industrialization started only a few decade ago. That's why it is important to understand the village life in Russia. David Ransel's book helps to do just that.

I have read and used several books on evidence in the last eight years and have found none that are as good as this one. Its the best book to use in and out of the courtroom.

Clear and accessible, this Indiana specialist covers so much information that it is useful for both beginners and old hands. No internet here, but quite a few resources with addresses. (Many are now on the net, so you may be able to avoid some of the agony of putting pen to paper.) Very comprehensive, but in only 217 pages (including notes, bibliography, suggested readings, index, and a few black and whites), some topics are only touched on. You can always supplement with such specialized books as the by the Indiana Historical Society. Chapters include history, the land, natives, boundaries, emigrant trails, who the emigrants were, military, church and cemetery, census, county histories, and more, including basic research principles. There's an excellent gallup through county records, which almost painlessly explains many abstruse goodies such as deed records, antenuptial contracts, ministers' returns, etc. There's also information about what is and is not available or useful, and why.

CITATION FOR WAYNE S. VUCINICH BOOK PRIZE for an outstanding monograph in Russian, Eurasian, or East European studies in any discipline of the humanities co-funded by AAASS and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

This study offers a history of the refugee population from the western borderlands that swamped the administration and inhabitants of central Russia during the Great War. Adducing an impressive array of archival funds and contemporary accounts about and by the refugees themselves, Gatrell traces the story of the people displaced, by German and Russian forces alike, from the ethnically and religiously diverse territories of western Russia. He also considers the perspective of those charged with accommodating them: overburdened bureaucrats, charitable societies, and everyday townspeople and peasants in whose midst the refugees settled. Gatrell draws on theoretical perspectives, ranging from the work of Michel Foucault to recent studies of refugees in the late twentieth century, to examine the various ways in which refugeedom evolved as a set of discourses incorporating gender and nationhood, among other categories. The resulting study lends yet more depth and nuance to our understanding of the autocracy's unraveling, as well as to our understanding of the successor states that emerged from its wreckage. Equally, Gatrell makes a signal contribution to a growing literature on a phenomenon that has became tragically pervasive in the twentieth century, from Russia to India to Rwanda to the Balkans. This highly original account combines exemplary empirical research with the judicious application of diverse methods to explore the far-reaching ramifications of "a whole empire walking."

HONOURABLE MENTION John E. Malmstad, Professor of Slavic Languages, Harvard University and Nikolay Bogomolov, Professor of Russian Literature, University of Moscow for: Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art published by Harvard University Press

This collaborative study is a result of a sustained interest in one of the seminal figures of Russian Modernism, Mikhail Kuzmin, that spans the last twenty-five year period in Russian Studies. The slow progress of research and publications, first of John Malmstad (1977), followed by subsequent collaboration with Nikolai Bogomolov (1996, 1999), reflects the widening possibilities in the research of pre-revolutionary modernism that has become possible since perestroika and the gradual availability of archival materials.

The collaboration of two major scholars of Russian modernism has finally produced an authoritative biography of Mikhail Kuzmin, one of the most versatile artists of the so-called Silver Age, whose homosexuality (for long unmentionable in either Russian or western scholarship) made the story of his life particularly challenging. It also made the story dependent on the writer's personal diaries, unavailable until the eighties. Indeed, the painstakingly gathered new information enables the authors of this magisterial study to fill in many lacunae in the chronology of Kuzmin's life and work, and also to document more precisely his complex relationships to prominent contemporary writers and artists of his time. The book is an invaluable contribution to the greater context of pre-revolutionary modernism and avant-garde in Russsian culture, whose history still remains to be written. And since Kuzmin died in 1936, the biography spans the years following the revolution and the Stalinist era, shedding new light on cultural politics of this turbulent period.

(The award was presented on November 11, 2000 at the AAASS 32nd National Convention in Denver, Colorado).