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Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julian Guthrie
An unforgettable story of four women – Magdalena Yesil, Mary Jane Elmore, Theresia Gouw, and Sonja Perkins. Through grit and ingenuity, they became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build...
$28.00
American Axe: The Tool That Shaped a Continent by Brett Mcleod
From hand-forged axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader’s felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. American Axe pays tribute to this iconic instrument of settlement and industry, with rich history,...
$24.95
Balancing: Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience in the Upper Midwest, 1830-1930 by Kathleen Ernst
The poems in Balancing were inspired by the experiences of women, who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, sought new homes in the Upper Midwest. The first waves of pioneers, predominantly Yankees from Northeastern states, were soon followed by...
$15.95
For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness
A journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate? Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it...
$22.95
Four Major Plays, Volume I By Henrik Ibsen
Four Major Plays: Volume I A Doll House • The Wild Duck • Hedda Gabler • The Master Builder Among the greatest and best known of Ibsen’s works, these four plays brilliantly exemplify his landmark contributions to the theater: his...
$6.95
Friluftsliv: Connect with Nature the Norwegian Way by Oliver Luke Delorie
Embrace the great outdoors and see how spending time in nature can improve your mental, physical, and spiritual health with this beautifully illustrated guide to the Norwegian concept of friluftlsiv, outdoor living. Hardcover.
$12.95
History of Lovespoons: The Art and Traditions of a Romantic Craft by David Western
For centuries, hand-carved wooden lovespoons have been used to demonstrate the deepest levels of love and affection. The history of this craft is steeped in rich tradition and symbolism. Inside History of Lovespoons, readers will learn how this beautiful and...
$14.95
Innovative Entrepreneurs of North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota 150 Years of Impact
By Hiram Drache and Bruce Gjovig. This book profiles the innovators and entrepreneurs who founded 65 successful businesses in North Dakota and Northwest Minnesota over the past 150 years. From the early Bonanza farms to retail, agriculture, financial, electronics, and...
$24.99
Mead: The Libations, Legends, and Lore of History's Oldest Drink by Fred Minnick
Beloved by figures as diverse as Queen Elizabeth and Thor, the Vikings and the Greek gods, mead is one of history's most storied beverages. But this mixture of fermented honey isn't just a relic of bygone eras – it's experiencing a...
$25.00
Norway In America
Catalog of four exhibitions from Vesterheim that were invited for showing in Hamar, Lillehammer, Gjøvik, 1989. Softcover.
$7.00
Norwegian Emigration: Between Rocks and Hard Places by Ann Urness Gesme
Gesme shares her research detailing customs and conditions in the lives of rural Norwegians as they began to consider emigration in the 1800s. With this information, readers can gain logical and credible insight into the daily lives of Norwegian ancestors. This...
$22.95
Norwegian Rose Painting in America by Nils Ellingsgard
Among the hundreds of thousands of Norwegians who immigrated to the United States during the 19th century, many brought objects from a rich rural tradition. This book is a survey of the most typical and interesting objects, with emphasis on...
$39.00
Olive Jensen Nordby: A Retrospective of Her Art, Edited By Ingrid M. and Jay L. Jensen
This large-format, hardcover, all-color art book records many of the life-long artistic accomplishments of Olive Jensen Nordby. The 37 woodcut prints and 10 paintings reproduced in the volume demonstrate Nordby's love of nature, light, color, and form. The 120-page volume...
$80.00
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Celebrating seventy-five years of Pippi Longstocking—a beloved story of a strong, spunky girl and her hilarious adventures. Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably delightful girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. When she's...
$8.99
Steel Girders & Steeplechases: The Life & Art of Bernard H. Berntsen by Clifford Miller
Read the facinating story of Bernhard Berntsen. Born in 1900 in Ostre Aker, Norway, Berntsen came to America when he was 19, settling in New York. Soon he was building skyscrapers, threading across open I-beams hundreds of feet in the...
$19.95
The Curve of Her Life: Folk Artist Laura Hjelle Hoeg by Carol Hoeg Oliver
Laura Hjelle Hoeg was a major contributor to the 1950s revival of rosemaling in America and famous for her version of the painted Norwegian nisse. Carol Hoeg Oliver's biography is a thoroughly researched, conversationally written story of her mother's search...
$16.00
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