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Enemies Among Us : The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans During the Second World WarAuthor: John E. SchmitzPublisher: University of Nebraska...

While at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile...

In this visionary sequel to Castro's Curveball, former Minor League catcher Billy Bryan finds himself back in Havana in 2016 with a small film role. He soon realizes that this place and his past...

Exodus explores themes of memory, transition, and the intersections between the imagined and the historic--Author: ?Gbenga AdeobaPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: March 01,...

This collection of short stories is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.Author: Liz BreazealePublisher: University Of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2019Number of...

Colin 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...

Steve N. Pisanos's The Flying Greek is both the classic tale of an immigrant's bond with America and an aerial adventure. When young Pisanos arrived in the U.S. in 1938, he worked, studied English,...

On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith's thoughts spinning back to Saturday--last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of...

Winner of the Roosevelt Prize for naval history.This is the first book to analyze the critical partnership among the Navy, industry, & science forged by World War II & responsible for producing...

In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in...

From Rails to Trails is the fascinating tale of the political rebirth of bicycle advocacy and of what happened to the railroad companies' thousands of abandoned corridors--Author: Peter...

In 1967 the National Hockey League decided to double its size from six teams to twelve. This expansion was the first of its kind, and Minnesota, with its rich hockey history, was a natural choice for...

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Ethiopian American Mahtem Shiferraw?s Fuchsia examines conceptions of the displaced, disassembled, and nomadic self. Embedded in her poems...

Arranged in six sections, Gabriel Okara: Collected Poems includes the poet's earliest lyric verse along with poems written in response to Nigeria's war years; literary tributes and elegies to fellow...

On August 4, 2004, Jason Crigler was onstage in a New York City nightclub when a blood vessel burst in his brain. The thirty-four-year-old guitarist, a fixture in the downtown music scene who had...

Part memoir, part travelogue, Get Thee to a Bakery explores both humorous and harrowing aspects of growing older and making sense of social, technological, and environmental change.Author: Rick...

What influences have shaped air power since human flight became a reality more than a hundred years ago? Global Air Power provides insight into the evolution of air power theory and practice by...

The novel "Glory Days" combines gritty realism with magical elements as Melissa Fraterrigo masterfully interweaves a slate of arresting characters from a small, former farming town in Nebraska who...

2024 Midwest Book Award Winner in Fiction 2023 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner in Thriller & Suspense Long List for 2024 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth,...

Great Plains Ethnohistory offers a collection of state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of...

Great Plains Ethnohistory offers a collection of state-of-the-field work in Great Plains ethnohistory, both contemporary and historical, covering the traditional anthropological subfields of...

In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Hard Damage charts the intergenerational damage caused by war, environmental loss, and the collective grief of exile.Author: Aria...

Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre. This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex...

Hell-Bent for Leather: Sex and Sexuality in the Weird Western builds on the Locus Award finalist Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre. This new collection takes a deep dive into the myriad ways sex...

Adolf Hitler, the first head of state to have his own personal pilot and airplane, utilized aviation technology for both practical and propaganda purposes. Illustrated with numerous rare photos,...

Victor's book is the first to show that implementing the Final Solution was actually the root of Hitler's most disastrous military decisions.Author: George VictorPublisher: University of Nebraska...

In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals...

Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity...

In How to Change History Robin Hemley grapples with the individual's navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories. In an attempt to restore, resurrect, and reclaim...

How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences explores the author's fear of death, as well as her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, vivid realism, as well as fantastical...