Reducere. It has been home to the Lakota and Pawnee, to Buffalo Bill and the "Great Commoner." From its earliest days, Nebraska has held a strategic place in...
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Reducere. The advance of Union Pacific Railroad tracklayers across Nebraska was part of America's great adventure of the 19th century. It marked the beginnin...
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Reducere. 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference categoryThe Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understud...
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Reducere. 2018 Nebraska Book Award The state of Nebraska has a rich and varied culture, from the eastern metropolitan cities of Omaha and Lincoln to the ranc...
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Reducere. DescriptionUnforgettable people. Beloved places. Enduring memories. From its beginning in 1869 as a land-grant institution on the edge of the prair...
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Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...
Reducere. La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada--immense d...
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Reducere. DescriptionThe Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a cooperative project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Pres...
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Reducere. Since becoming the Nebraska women's volleyball coach in 2000, John Cook has led the team to three national championships, seven NCAA semifinal appe...
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Reducere. Joel Sartore has spent twenty years taking pictures for National Geographic magazine and has been a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning since 20...
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Reducere. In descriptions of athletes, the word "hero" is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings....
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Reducere. "For that period of time, he was the greatest player of my generation."--Keith Hernandez Dave Parker was one of the biggest and most badass basebal...
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Reducere. DescriptionHome to the beloved Miller & Paine cinnamon rolls, Lincoln boasts a restaurant history rich with delicious food and unique stories. Tony...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adop...
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Reducere. When New York Giants owner Charles A. Stoneham came home one night in 1918 and told his teenage son, Horace, "Horrie, I bought you a ballclub, " he...
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Reducere. DescriptionIt happens to us all: we think we've settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our p...
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Reducere. The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just ano...
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Reducere. Human beings have made images continuously for more than thirty thousand years. The oldest known cave paintings are between six and ten times older...
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Reducere. It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love,...
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Reducere. Wine insiders called André Tchelistcheff the "winemaker's winemaker, " the "wine doctor, " and simply "maestro." After Prohibition brought Napa Val...
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Reducere. Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 ...
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Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsTed Kooser sees a writer's workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of exp...
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Reducere. The American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890-2002) made and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century. This authoritative b...
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Reducere. Before there was Joe DiMaggio, there was Tony Lazzeri. A decade before the "Yankee Clipper" began his legendary career in 1936, Lazzeri paved the w...
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Reducere. DescriptionGerald Vizenor's Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral tr...
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Reducere. The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tr...
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Reducere. This work examines in detail most of the controversial issues that had preoccupied the medieval mind: immortality of the human soul, prophecy, huma...
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Reducere. Empire Builder is the previously untold story of a pioneer who almost single-handedly transformed the bankrupt village of San Diego into a thriving...
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Reducere. On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania's Chester County and delivered a brief account o...
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Reducere. 2020 SABR Seymour Medal 2019 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker...
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Reducere. Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese Ame...
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Reducere. Paul Westhead was teaching high school in his native Philadelphia when he was named La Salle University's men's basketball coach in 1970. By 1980 h...
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Reducere. Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and...
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Reducere. The atlases that line the shelves of libraries and bookstores are filled with both evolutionary thought and secular worldviews. This atlas is packe...
Reducere. Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Bill Tilden were the legendary quartet of the ``Golden Age of Sports`` in the 1920s. They transformed the...
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Reducere. Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected--a meditation on t...
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Reducere. Most fans don't know how far the Jewish presence in baseball extends beyond a few famous players such as Greenberg, Rosen, Koufax, Holtzman, Green,...
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Reducere. Shake and Bake is the story of Archie Clark, one of the top playmaking guards in the 1970s pre-merger NBA. While not one of the game's most recogni...
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Reducere. Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden was one of the highest-profile personalities among the Apollo astronauts, renowned for his outspokenness a...
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