University of Nebraska Press
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Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence
$35.00 Add to cartThe concept and idea of survivance has revolutionized our understanding of the lives, creative impulses, literary practices, and histories of the Native peoples of North America. Engendered and articu
- Author: Vizenor, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803210833
- Language: English
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Saint Woody: The History and Fanaticism of Ohio State Football
$24.95 Add to cartThe Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees to their credit. With such a successful history, it’s no wonder th… [more below]
- Author: Hunter, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233093
- Language: English
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The Masters: A Hole-By-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic, Third Edition
$32.95 Add to cart“An entertaining read that enthusiasts will enjoy.”—Library Journal
Revered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands international attention, even among nongolfers. The first a
- Author: Sowell, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496212835
- Language: English
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Schoolboy: The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero
$34.95 Add to cartWaite “Schoolboy” Hoyt’s improbable baseball journey began when the 1915 New York Giants signed him as a high school junior, for no pay and a five-dollar bonus. After nearly having both his hands ampu… [more below]
- Author: Hoyt, Waite
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236793
- Language: English
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Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy
$19.95 Add to cartColin Gray presents an inventive treatise on the nature of strategy, war, and peace, organized around forty maxims. This collection of mini essays will forearm politicians, soldiers, and the attentive… [more below]
- Author: Gray, Colin S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1597973076
- Language: English
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The Presidents and the Pastime: The History of Baseball and the White House
$39.95 Add to cartThe Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith’s extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the “most American”… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Curt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: June 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0803288093
- Language: English
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Bleeding Green: A History of the Hartford Whalers
$36.95 Add to cartThe Hartford Whalers were a beloved hockey team from their founding in 1972 as the New England Whalers. Playing in the National Hockey League’s smallest market and arena after the World Hockey Associa… [more below]
- Author: Price, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496222008
- Language: English
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War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat
$39.95 Add to cartWar by Numbers assesses the nature of conventional warfare through the analysis of historical combat. Christopher A. Lawrence establishes what we know about conventional combat and why we know it. By
- Author: Lawrence, Christopher A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1612348866
- Language: English
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The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Nebraska Book Award
What’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 a- Author: Anderson, Clayton C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234731
- Language: English
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Antillia
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
The title poem of this collection refers to the phantom island of Antillia, included on maps in the fifteenth century but later found not to
- Series: The Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention
- Author: Goodman, Henrietta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236084
- Language: English
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The Masters: A Hole-By-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic
$21.95 Add to cartRevered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands international attention, even among nongolfers. The first and second editions of The Masters: A Hole-by-Hole History of America
- Author: Sowell, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496224973
- Language: English
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Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War
$29.95 Add to cartDocumenting the transformation of the U.S. military from Vietnam to the Gulf War, a history of a generation of officers examines changing ideas about war, ending the draft, reducing racial tensions,
- Series: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionize
- Author: Kitfield, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 157488123X
- Language: English
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The Salish People and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Revised Edition
$34.95 Add to cartOn September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing horses, preparing for the fall bison hunt, and harves… [more below]
- Author: Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0803243111
- Language: English
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Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties
$19.95 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
How do we reckon with our losses? In Animal Bodies Suzanne Roberts explores
Foreword INDIES Bronze Winner in Essays- Author: Roberts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231023
- Language: English
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Invisible Men: Life in Baseball’s Negro Leagues
$19.95 Add to cartThis fascinating book is a milestone in baseball scholarship.–Ken Burns
Jackie Robinson was a Negro Leaguer before he became a Major Leaguer. So too were Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Roy C
- Author: Rogosin, Donn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149622339X
- Language: English
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Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel
$21.95 Add to cart2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner
2021 National Indie Excellent Awards Finalist
2020 Bronze Award for Travel Book or Guide from the North American Travel Journalists Associat… [more below]- Author: Roberts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496222849
- Language: English
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The Truth Book: A Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartAdopted as a baby and raised by a devout Jehovah’s Witness family, Joy Castro is constantly reminded to tell the truth no matter what the consequences. Nevertheless, Castro finds this tenet to be the
- Author: Castro, Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803240627
- Language: English
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Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball
$34.95 Add to cartNamed a Best Baseball Book of 2023 by Sports Collectors Digest
Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets an- Author: Donnelly, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496221427
- Language: English
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Origins of the Syma Species
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Tares Oburumu’s collection is a brief history of where he came from: Syma, a neg
- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Oburumu, Tares
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496237021
- Language: English
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Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
$18.00 Add to cartOklahoma Choctaw scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah offers a frank and absorbing look at the complex, evolving identities of American Indigenous women today, their ongoing struggles against a centuries-old… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Indigenous Issues
- Author: Mihesuah, Devon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282869
- Language: English
