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A rich history of baseball?s hidden language told through stories and anecdotes about the game?s most recognizable names, revised and expanded through the 2018 season.Author: Paul DicksonPublisher:...

An account of the desegregation of baseball's Pacific Coast League, the first American League of any sport to desegregate all of its teams--Author: Amy EssingtonPublisher: University Of Nebraska...

In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, ?The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all given the birth date...

World War I was a watershed in modern world history. On the battlefield, millions were slaughtered by chemical warfare, machine guns, and trench warfare?and this senseless bloodletting remains the...

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to deepen understanding of the history of Chinese immigrants in Montana by recovering their stories in their own words.Author: Mark T JohnsonPublisher:...

The incredible untold story of legendary pitcher Satchel Paige, who played high-stakes baseball for Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo.Author: Averell Ace SmithPublisher: University of...

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, The Rinehart Frames questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe upon...

Although soccer had long been the world?s game when Michael J. Agovino first encountered it in 1982, here it was just a poor cousin to American football, to be found on obscure UHF channels and in...

Honorable Mention for the 2024 SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Two generals from the northwestern state of Sonora, ?lvaro Obreg?n and Plutarco El?as Calles, dominated Mexico between 1920 and...

Honorable Mention for the 2024 SECOLAS Alfred B. Thomas Book Award Two generals from the northwestern state of Sonora, ?lvaro Obreg?n and Plutarco El?as Calles, dominated Mexico between 1920 and...

Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial...

Paul Westhead's The Speed Game offers a treasure trove of information and stories about how he developed a style of basketball that not only won at the highest levels but went on to influence the...

It's not easy for a middle-aged gay man to find love out in small-town America, so when Mike Breck blows his shot with a local guy just as lonely as he is, he's got to open up to the people around...

Spending time in nature can raise some serious questions. After contemplating your own mortality, you may start to wonder: Why don?t deer noses freeze in the winter? What does mammoth taste like? Do...

The Timucua Language is a comprehensive reference grammar of Timucua, the Native language of much of northern Florida during the Spanish colonial period. Though the Timucua language is no longer...

Clear-sighted, darkly comic, and tender, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter?s struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the...

From the author of The Veteran's Survival Guide, The Veteran's PTSD Handbook addresses the obstacles that veterans face when filing for benefits related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One...

Author: Brad BalukjianPublisher: University Of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2022Number of Pages: 286 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496229827ISBN-13: 9781496229823

The Windflower Home Almanac of Poetry is an anthology of poems originally selected by Ted Kooser in 1980 and published by his Windflower Press, a small, independent publisher that specialized in...

The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown?s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling...

These poems pry at the complexities of difference?race, religion, gender, nationality?that shape our twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions.Author: Tanella BoniPublisher: University of Nebraska...

Author: K. Tsianina LomawaimaPublisher: University Of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 1995Number of Pages: 215 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0803279574ISBN-13: 9780803279575

This collection of serial poems addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea--Author: Josu?...

Officiating a professional boxing match can be a thankless job. When a match goes well, no one focuses on the referee. But when a controversy arises, everyone remembers the man who made the call...

Earnest in its exploration, at ease in its curiosity, and unsatisfied with its speculation, this wonderful book of poems launches free of the banality of much contemporary poetry by subverting...

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017This important book, which students, scholars, and policy makers in the U.S. and Canada should read, is a testament to the quality of the work and the still...

In This Fish Is Fowl," Xu Xi offers a transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary "glocalized" American life, one with many Asian characteristics"--Author: Xu XiPublisher: University Of...

Author: Dinty W. MoorePublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: March 01, 2021Number of Pages: 180 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496224604ISBN-13: 9781496224606

Tony Lazzeri : Yankees Legend and Baseball PioneerAuthor: Lawrence BaldassaroPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...