University of Nebraska Press
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Black Cowboys of Rodeo: Unsung Heroes from Harlem to Hollywood and the American West
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Best Book Awards Winner in Nonfiction sponsored by American Book Fest
They ride horses, rope calves, buck broncos, ride and fight bulls, and even wrestle steers. They are Black cowboys, and the- Author: Cartwright, Keith Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496226100
- Language: English
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Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World
$19.95 Add to cartSky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has pass… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Sinor, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222644
- Language: English
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Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
$29.95 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Best Seller
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected–a m
A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year- Author: Balukjian, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496218744
- Language: English
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The Sound of Undoing: A Memoir in Essays
$21.95 Add to cartA memoir in essays, The Sound of Undoing deconstructs the way sound has overwhelmingly shaped Paige Towers’s life. Each essay focuses on a different sound, some perceptible–like the sound of a loon c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Towers, Paige
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232879
- Language: English
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The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900
$19.95 Add to cartAn indispensable introduction to the rich variety of Native leadership in the modern era, The New Warriors profiles Native men and women who have played a significant role in the affairs of their comm… [more below]
- Author: Edmunds, R. David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803267517
- Language: English
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The Least Cricket of Evening
$18.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of the meditative essay, the writing of Robert Vivian begins with a mundane moment and, through the delicate workings of curiosity, contemplation, and inspiration, reveals unsuspected… [more below]
- Author: Vivian, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803234317
- Language: English
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Beyond Blue Skies: The Rocket Plane Programs That Led to the Space Age
$36.95 Add to cartChris Petty has written a book that covers much of the unheralded research into high-speed flight that helped set the stage for human spaceflight. I recommend this book to anyone who has an interest i
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Petty, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496218760
- Language: English
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Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
$39.95 Add to cartFollowing the 1972 Olympics one sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner of seven gold medals, as “the first great Jewish athlete.” He couldn’t have been more wrong. As Jewish Sports Legends shows,
- Author: Siegman, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496201884
- Language: English
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Reliquaria
$17.95 Add to cartIn his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; myth
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Villanueva, R. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 080329638X
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- Language: English
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Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992
$39.95 Read moreThe inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Houston, Rick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803269374
- Language: English
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No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier
$19.95 Add to cartAs a young adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler underwent a Native ceremony in which he was given the new name Na-zhin-thia, Slow to Rise. It was a name that no white person asked to know during Hollis’s… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Stabler, Hollis D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803220839
- Language: English
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The Rebounders: A Division I Basketball Journey
$21.95 Add to cartUnlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway’s story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders foll… [more below]
- Author: Ottaway, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233115
- Language: English
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Woman Pissing
$19.95 Add to cartWhen we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunc… [more below]
- Author: Cooperman, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231449
- Language: English
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On Ancient Wings: The Sandhill Cranes of North America
$49.95 Read moreRising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the… [more below]
- Series: Natural History
- Author: Forsberg, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0975496409
- Language: English
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Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting
$29.95 Add to cartChosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska
In 1961, equipped with a master’s degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-y
- Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military
- Author: Keever, Beverly Deepe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803222610
- Language: English
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The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA
$24.95 Add to cart2020 Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Books Selection
Today the salary cap is an NBA institution, something fans take for granted as part of the fabric of the league or an obstacle to their favorite- Author: Mendelsohn, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233107
- Language: English
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Red Barber: The Life and Legacy of a Broadcasting Legend
$36.95 Add to cart2023 SABR Baseball Research Award
Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even
A Booklist Top 10 Sports & Recreation Book
Finalist for the 2023 Seymour Medal
Finalist for the 2022 CASEY Award- Author: Hiltner, Judith R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496222857
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa’s Visionary Leader George M. Low
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the “ultimate engineer” du
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Jurek, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 149622941X
- Language: English
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Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta–And How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Bell Award for the Best Book on Georgia History
In July 1975 the editors of the Atlanta Constitution ra
A Sports Collectors Digest Best Baseball Book of 2022
A Public Books Public Pick of 2022- Author: Trutor, Clayton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149622504X
- Language: English
