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For most of our titles you will need to choose one of two e-book licensing options: Perpetual ownership at list price or 120-day ownership for $10.

Why buy an e-book from the University of Iowa Press?

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E-books currently available from the University of Iowa Press

Anderson, Donald, ed. When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq.

Barr, Marleen S. Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies.

Bunge, Nancy. Master Class: Lessons from Leading Writers.

Canady, John. 101 Tips to Getting the Residency You Want.

Davidson, Osha Gray. Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto.

Delbridge, Melissa J. Family Bible.

Duncan, Patti. Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech.

Herzog, Tobey C. Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler.

Hudson, David, Marvin Bergman, and Loren Horton, eds. The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa.

Julien, Catherine. Reading Inca History.

Lyftogt, Kenneth L. Iowa's Forgotten General: Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War.

Ma, Kathryn. All That Work and Still No Boys.

Marra, Kim. Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865–1914.

McEwan, Gordon F., ed.  Pikillacta: The Wari Empire in Cuzco.

Pichaske, David. Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place.

Rozik, Eli. The Roots of Theatre: Rethinking Ritual and Other Theories of Origin.

Ryden, Kent C. Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England.

Silverman, Helaine. Cahuachi in the Ancient Nasca World.

Sunday, William A. The Sawdust Trail: Billy Sunday in His Own Words.

Tulloch, John. Shakespeare and Chekhov in Production and Reception: Theatrical Events and Their Audience.

Wear, Delese, and Janet Bickel, eds. Educating for Professionalism: Creating a Culture of Humanism in Medical Education.