Böcker utgivna av University of Nebraska Press

This book-length poem in six sections takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeast United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape.

This edited collection charts the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative might be posed for contemporary cultural geography.

The Forgotten Botanist tells the story of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a little-known and underappreciated woman of both science and art who did much of the botanical work attributed to her husband, John Gill Lemmon.

Red Letters is the story of Liverpool FC's first title-winning season in thirty years, game by game, in real time, with hopes and expectations tested and altered as the season progresses-through insights from two avid Liverpool supporters.

The Sisterhood is the story of the first and second generations of national team players, known as the 99ers, who were the driving force behind the rise of U.S. women's soccer and who built the foundation for the team's enduring success.

In The Burglar’s Christmas, William, caught mid-burglary, must come to terms with the choices that led him to that moment. Willa Cather provides a heartwarming short story of redemption and love at Christmas, a timely reminder that kindness is in everyone, just waiting to be uncovered.

Brian G. Shellum tells the story of Company L, which served in Skagway, Alaska, and was one of the two companies added to the all-Black Twenty-Fourth U.S. Infantry Regiment after war was declared on Spain in April 1898.

Coauthored with spaceflight historian Francis French, The Light of Earth is Al Worden's wide-ranging look at the greatest-ever scientific undertaking, in which he was privileged to be a leading participant.

Boarding School Voices is an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian School and a study of that writing.

Stories from Saddle Mountain follows personal memories and family stories that connected the Tongkeamhas, a Kiowa family, to the Saddle Mountain community for more than a century.

Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of one hundred years' worth of firsthand cowboy stories, set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country.

This edited collection charts the political, conceptual, and ethical consequences of how the underexplored problem of the negative might be posed for contemporary cultural geography.

The Power of Scenery tells the story of how the world’s national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted’s insights and energy serving to link three American jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park.

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 find a home.

The Aimless Life is a historical memoir that tells the story of Leonard Worcester Jr. and provides a clear example of the capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

More in Time is a celebration and tribute to two-time United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.

A teenage girl goes missing. When Hal, an intellectually disabled farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of.

Constitutes one of baseball's and the civil rights movement's great untold stories.

Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, Marjorie Saiser's collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world.

The St. Louis Commune of 1877 tells for the first time the entire and exciting story of the St. Louis Commune of 1877, when U.S. workers assumed political control of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, during the Great Railroad Strike.

Narrative Truthiness presents a new model for understanding truth and shows how a specific vein of postmodern writing engages with the overall goal of enhancing our interpretations of the complexities of the human experience.

This fifteenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's more than ten thousand letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, and engage timely political and economic issues.

Taking place in the span of twenty-four hours, The Front follows a man and his nine-year-old niece as they try to escape the apocalyptic circumstances that have come to their home.

Through ancient temples and the lush greenery of Thailand, to the confines of a stranger's bed and a devouring couch, This Jade World chronicles a year of mishap, exploration and experimentation, self-discovery, and eventually healing. It questions the very nature of love and heartbreak, uncovering the vulnerability of being human.

A collection of historical and contemporary research and essays, Antisemitism on the Rise looks at antisemitism in the interwar period and today and provides examples for how to effectively teach about antisemitism.

Robert V. Camuto sets out across modern Southern Italy in search of the "South-ness" that defined his youthful experience and views the world through wine, food, and families.

Simon M Evans analyzes the German-speaking Anabaptist community, focusing on their history of expansion, their patterns of population growth, the additions they make to the cultural landscape of the northern plains, and their contributions to the agricultural and light manufacturing economies of their home states and provinces.