University of Nebraska Press
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Cannibal
$19.95 Add to cartColliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history, race relations in America, womanhood, otherness, a
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Sinclair, Safiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803290632
- Language: English
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Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West
$29.95 Add to cartAmerican Scientist Recommended Read
Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of the physical stage on which history is carried out. I- Series: Environment and Region in the American West
- Author: Dant, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: June 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496229541
- Language: English
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The World of Yesterday
$26.95 Add to cartBy the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s film, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803226616
- Language: English
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Life in the G: Minor League Basketball and the Relentless Pursuit of the NBA
$34.95 Add to cartWelcome to the G League–the official minor league of the National Basketball Association. Life in the G is about the arduous quest to achieve an improbable goal: making it to the NBA. Zeroing in on t… [more below]
- Author: Squadron, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: 1-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1496235851
- Language: English
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Riders of the Pony Express
$16.95 Add to cartPrior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 0803283059
- Language: English
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
$44.95 Add to cartWinner of Columbia University’s 2024 Bancroft Prize in American History
In Continental Reckoning renowned historian E
2024 Spur Award Winner
Named a Best Civil War Book of 2023 by Civil War Monitor- Series: History of the American West
- Author: West, Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233581
- Language: English
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Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul
$23.95 Add to cartAt times writers–from the unpublished to jaded lifers–need a fire lit under them to pursue the complex work of self-exploration. Acetylene Torch Songs provides that spark for memoirists and essayist
- Author: Silverman, Sue William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: January 01, 2024
- ISBN10: 1496235754
- Language: English
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Nebraska Volleyball: The Origin Story
$27.95 Add to cartWhen Title IX was enacted in 1972, the University of Nebraska volleyball program, like many across the country, received a fraction of the funding and attention given to the school’s mighty football p
- Author: Mabry, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496225864
- Language: English
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Ted Kooser: More Than a Local Wonder
$17.95 Add to cartNamed a Best New Children’s Book of 2023 by NCompass Live
Long before Ted Kooser won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, served as the U.S. Poet Laureate, a
Paterson Prize for Books for Young People Winner- Author: Ketner, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236777
- Language: English
