University of Nebraska Press
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Apollo Pilot: The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
$29.95 Add to cartIn October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after… [more below]
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People’s History of Spaceflight
- Author: Eisele, Donn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803262833
- Language: English
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The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Osman, Ladan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803266863
- Language: English
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Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal
$19.95 Add to cartAnyone with an interest in national parks or the history of the state of Virginia or travelers to Shenandoah or Skyline Drive will appreciate this book. –Rachel Owens, Library Journal
For fifteen yea
- Author: Eisenfeld, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803238304
- Language: English
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Might Kindred
$17.95 Add to cartEric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist
The poems of Might Kindred wonder aloud: can we belong to one another, and “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of wate- Series: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Gomery, Mónica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496232399
- Language: English
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The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229827
- Language: English
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Tales from the Deadball Era: Ty Cobb, Home Run Baker, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Wildest Times in Baseball History
$19.95 Add to cart2014 Baseball Caucus Readers’ Choice Award winner from the Special Libraries Association
The Deadball Era (1901-1920) is a baseball fan’s dream. Hope and despair, innocence and cynicism, and levity a
- Author: Halfon, Mark S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235193
- Language: English
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After the Ceremonies: New and Selected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartAma Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intima… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Aidoo, Ama Ata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803296940
- Language: English
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One House: The Unicameral’s Progressive Vision for Nebraska
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Nebraskans voted to trade in their bicameral, partisan legislature for a one-house, nonpartisan body in 1934, it was a revolutionary decision. George Norris, a U.S. senator from Nebraska, argued
- Author: Berens, Charlyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0803235194
- Language: English
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Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cart2023 Vulgar Genius Nonfiction Award
Growing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and nineties, poverty, machismo, and drug addiction
2022 Writer’s League of Texas Nonfiction Book Award- Series: American Lives
- Author: Morín, Tomás Q.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496226496
- Language: English
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Sacrament of Bodies
$17.95 Add to cart2021 Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Sacrament of Bodies, Romeo Oriogun fearlessly interrogates how a queer man in Nigeria can heal in a society where ever- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oriogun, Romeo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496219643
- Language: English
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Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry Between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers
$29.95 Add to cartHell with the Lid Off looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL supremacy during the turbulent seventies. The roots of their rivalry dated back to the 1972 playoff g… [more below]
- Author: Gruver, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496214676
- Language: English
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The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
$36.95 Add to cartWhat’s it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts “take out the trash” on a… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Clayton C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803262825
- Language: English
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The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the Undoing of a Sure Thing
$34.95 Add to cartIn an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes–and transcended his sport on a r… [more below]
- Author: Gilden, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496230507
- Language: English
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Oscar Charleston: The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
$21.95 Add to cart- Winner of the SABR Seymour Medal
- Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year by Spitball Magazine
- Winner of SABR’s Larry Ritter and Robert Peterson Awards
Buck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb… [more below]
- Author: Beer, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496224965
- Language: English
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Jazz Age Giant: Charles A. Stoneham and New York City Baseball in the Roaring Twenties
$29.95 Add to cartNamed a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest
In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees’ first dynasty was taking shape, they were outplayed by their local rival, the New York Gi- Author: Garratt, Robert F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496223713
- Language: English
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The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians (Abridged Edition)
$36.95 Add to cartThe Great Father was widely praised when it appeared in two volumes in 1984 and was awarded the Ray Allen Billington Prize by the Organization of American Historians. This abridged one-volume edition … [more below]
- Author: Prucha, Francis Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: April 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0803287127
- Language: English
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The Walleye War: The Struggle for Ojibwe Spearfishing and Treaty Rights
$25.00 Add to cartFor generations, the Ojibwe bands of northern Wisconsin have spearfished spawning walleyed pike in the springtime. The bands reserved hunting, fishing, and gathering rights on the lands that would bec… [more below]
- Author: Nesper, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803283806
- Language: English
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Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartJoyce Sutphen’s evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and traveling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from … [more below]
- Series: Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
- Author: Sutphen, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496216369
- Language: English
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Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio D?z, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the moderni… [more below]
- Author: Beezley, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496206908
- Language: English
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Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartGabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The first Modernist poet of anglophone Africa, he is bes… [more below]
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Okara, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803286872
- Language: English
