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Unholy Heart is a collection of Grace Bauer's best selected poems, marking her twenty-five years as an award-winning poet.Author: Grace BauerPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date:...

The stories in Vanished involve women and girls dealing with something or someone who has vanished--a person close to them, a friendship, a relationship--as they seek to make sense of the world...

Since Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia's future has been rampant in the West. A portrait of Putin has emerged...

History of the women's suffrage movement in Nebraska from 1855 to 1920.Author: David L. BristowPublisher: University Of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2019Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage:...

This timely, well-organized, and practical guide for the war fighter offers the collaborative contributions of dedicated military and civilian experts. Each chapter examines specific demands of...

In the twenty-first century, as many candidates actively campaign against the very government they seek to serve in, and as many people appear to believe their government irreparably broken, T. M...

Author: Ellen CassedyPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication Date: March 01, 2012Number of Pages: 273 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0803230125ISBN-13: 9780803230125

We Are Not Animals : Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century CaliforniaAuthor: Martin Rizzo-MartinezPublisher: University of Nebraska PressPublication...

Using original archival analysis, Westerns: A Women's History provides a revisionist account of the western genre, proving women writers of popular westerns were instrumental in the formation of the...

The musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains...

The stories in this collection explore the burden, the power, and the nature of love between people who often feel misplaced and estranged from their deepest selves and the world, where they cannot...

Humans have always connected deeply to the idea of home. In Bryn Chancellor?s nine stories, home means, in part, the physical spaces: the buildings, cities and towns, the fragile, imperious...

In the decade after the Civil War, baseball became segregated because its leaders wanted to grow its presence and appeal to Southerners and to professionalize the sport. As a result, black players...

When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz?s life, each heightened by its connection to historical, political, and social issues. These essays look both...

The first comprehensive account of the most unique Major League Baseball game ever played, as well as the tragic events that led up to it and the therapeutic effect it had on a troubled city.Author:...

Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as ôone of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,ö Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home...

The essay 'When We Were Ghouls' was originally published in the Gettysburg Review 29, no. 1 (Spring 2016).Author: Amy E. WallenPublisher: University Of Nebraska PressPublication Date: Mar 01,...

From Kirkus Reviews: A friendly yet not uncritical biography of the secretary of state in the Lincoln and Andrew Johnson Cabinets. Taylor--who chronicled his father's life in General Maxwell Taylor...

In Winning in Both Leagues J. Frank Cashen looks back over his twenty-five-year career in baseball. Best known as the general manager of the New York Mets during their remaking and rise to glory in...

Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty, while she reflects on her own life, grappling with questions of creativity, womanhood, and...

Your Body Is War contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. Bold and raw,...

Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the language of memory functions as a space of mourning,...