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Cast Out of Eden
The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness
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ISBN: 9781496227263
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Cast Out of Eden explores John Muir's role in the dispossession of Native Americans from U.S. wild lands and points a way toward reconciliation.
Perfect Eloquence
An Appreciation of Vin Scully
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781496238788
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A tribute to Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully in the words of writers, broadcasters, and others who knew him and celebrate him not just for his sixty-seven years calling games for the Dodgers but for his values, actions, and contributions away from the game.
We Are Not Animals
Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California
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CA$54.95
ISBN: 9781496238757
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
We Are Not Animals traces the history of Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz area through the nineteenth century, examining the influence of Native political, social, and cultural values and these people's varied survival strategies in response to colonial encounters.
Predicting the Winner
The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting
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CA$52.95
ISBN: 9781640125964
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Predicting the Winner is a riveting narrative about election night 1952, when computers were used for the first time to predict winners from early returns and the results were launched live and untested on the newest medium for news: television.
Risking Immeasurable Harm
Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924-1932
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496238863
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Risking Immeasurable Harm elucidates how the prospect of immigration restrictions affect diplomatic relations by analyzing U.S. efforts to place a quota on immigration from Mexico during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
I Make Envy on Your Disco
A Novel
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CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496239013
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
I Make Envy on Your Disco is the story of a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor who, fed up with his life in New York, flies to Berlin for a gallery opening and finds a once-divided city brimming with excitement and possibility, yet facing an identity crisis of its own.
Saying No to Hate
Overcoming Antisemitism in America
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780827615236
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Saying No to Hate grounds readers in the history of antisemitism in America, emphasizing the strategies Jews have used to address threats and thereby preparing us to recognize, understand, and confront hatred today.
The Boy Who Promised Me Horses
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781496238078
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A teacher and mentor to students at St. Labre Indian School, David Joseph Charpentier details the joys, dangers, and complexities of life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in this thoughtful tribute to one of his more memorable students, Maurice Prairie Chief.
Come Fly with Us
NASA's Payload Specialist Program
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496238627
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Focuses on the early selection, training, and spaceflight experiences of a new class of astronaut known as "payload specialists."
Lion of the League
Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781496237651
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Robert Dean Emslie spent fifty-six of his eighty-four years in professional baseball, eight as a player and forty-nine as an umpire. His thirty-five seasons as a National League umpire included the three most contentious decades umpires ever faced, the 1890 to 1920 era, when the game transitioned from amateur to professional sport.
Mike Donlin
A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen
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CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781496238962
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A biography of early twentieth-century baseball player and actor Mike Donlin, one of the best hitters and most colorful players in the history of the game. Haunted by tragedy, he was a showman and an alcoholic, married one of the nation's most famous vaudeville actresses-who turned his life around, and acted on the stage and in approximately one hundred films.
Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman
Black History and Poetics in Performance
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496238894
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, social, and literary criticism, Gale P. Jackson "re-members" and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in song, dance, and poetics in performance.
They Came but Could Not Conquer
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496237576
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
As the environmental justice movement slowly builds momentum, Diane J. Purvis highlights the work of Alaska's Indigenous peoples in small rural villages who have faced incredible odds throughout history yet have built political clout fueled by vigorous common cause in defense of their homes and livelihood.
Bribed with Our Own Money
Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era
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CA$81.95
ISBN: 9781496237750
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Focusing on case studies from six Native nations from across the United States, David R. M. Beck details how the U.S. government coerced American Indian nations to accept termination of their political relationship with the United States by threatening to withhold money that belonged to the tribes.
The Education of Clarence Three Stars
A Lakota American Life
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781496238047
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Philip Burnham's threefold biography of Clarence Three Stars, the Pine Ridge Reservation, and the Oglala Lakota peoples during a half century of forced change and transformation reveals how Three Stars worked to undermine the settler-colonial system into which the Carlisle Indian Industrial School had tried to assimilate him.
Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror
The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights, 1923-1928
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CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496238504
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Through the lens of a singular statewide organization, the Society of Oklahoma Indians, Joshua Clough fills the historiographic gap on formal Native resistance between the dissolution of the Society of American Indians in 1923 and the formation of the National Congress of American Indians in 1944.
Cast Out of Eden
The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781496227263
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Perfect Eloquence
An Appreciation of Vin Scully
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781496238788
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
We Are Not Animals
Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California
CA$54.95
ISBN: 9781496238757
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Predicting the Winner
The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting
CA$52.95
ISBN: 9781640125964
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Risking Immeasurable Harm
Immigration Restriction and U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations, 1924-1932
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496238863
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
I Make Envy on Your Disco
A Novel
CA$29.95
ISBN: 9781496239013
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Saying No to Hate
Overcoming Antisemitism in America
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9780827615236
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
The Boy Who Promised Me Horses
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9781496238078
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Come Fly with Us
NASA's Payload Specialist Program
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496238627
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Lion of the League
Bob Emslie and the Evolution of the Baseball Umpire
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781496237651
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Mike Donlin
A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen
CA$53.95
ISBN: 9781496238962
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman
Black History and Poetics in Performance
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496238894
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
They Came but Could Not Conquer
The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities
CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496237576
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Bribed with Our Own Money
Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9781496237750
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
The Education of Clarence Three Stars
A Lakota American Life
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9781496238047
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror
The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights, 1923-1928
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496238504
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press