Dear Old Nebraska U: Celebrating 150 Years, Hardcover - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Reducere. DescriptionUnforgettable people. Beloved places. Enduring memories. From its beginning in 1869 as a land-grant institution on the edge of the prair...

Reducere. On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing ...

Reducere. In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of ba...

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...

Reducere. Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light...

Reducere. Sherman Sage (ca. 1844-1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Pla...

Reducere. Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest ma...

Reducere. The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilo...

Reducere. After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set ab...

Reducere. DescriptionHome to the beloved Miller & Paine cinnamon rolls, Lincoln boasts a restaurant history rich with delicious food and unique stories. Tony...

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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In Old Home Town, Rose Wilder Lane has recreated small-town society of pre-World War I America with a precise feeling for decorum, dress, and kitch...

Originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial, this one-volume histo...

Reducere. Riding straight out of the pages of Western history, W. J. L. Sullivan arrives, hat firmly planted on his head, to tell in his own plain way about ...

Reducere. Connie Mack (1862-1956) was the Grand Old Man of baseball and one of the game's first true celebrities. This book, spanning the first fifty-two yea...

Reducere. Frank J. Basloe grew up in Herkimer, New York, where YMCA director Lambert Will developed the game of basketball. Basloe's classic memoir, I Grew U...

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...

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...

Features research in a dynamic area of inquiry and practice. This book considers cross-cultural differences in the idea of the person and in models...

Bold They Rise recounts the golden age of the Space Shuttle-from its first to its twenty-fifth launch, ending with the tragic flight of the Space S...

Reducere. One of only twenty-nine Major Leaguers to play in four different decades, Jerry Reuss pitched for eight teams, including the Pittsburgh Pirates twi...

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...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): David Haward BainIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 470Publication date:...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Encyclopedia of the Great Plains is a cooperative project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the University of Nebraska Pres...

The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately ...

Reducere. Doodle your way around town in this exciting activity book all about Lincoln Design stamps for the post office, make your own laws (ice cream every...

DescriptionMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush...

Reducere. Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of society news, ...

Reducere. In descriptions of athletes, the word "hero" is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings....

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...

Reducere. To celebrate one of the best artists in British history Pook Press has compiled 150 of Arthur Rackham's best illustrations in one beautiful volume....

Published to coincide with the Royal School of Needlework's 150th anniversary, this book covers the remarkable history of the RSN from inception to...

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...

Reducere. For twelve years the women's basketball rivalry between UConn and Tennessee was the most iconic matchup in women's sports. Even now, twenty years s...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adop...

For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity--especially reg...

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...

Reducere. The American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890-2002) made and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century. This authoritative b...

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...

Reducere. 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference categoryThe Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understud...

Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born a...

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...

Reducere. Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and...

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...

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...

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,...

The Wars of the Lord is the major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence, one of the outstanding philosophers of the medieval world. This work ex...

Reducere. Wine insiders called André Tchelistcheff the "winemaker's winemaker, " the "wine doctor, " and simply "maestro." After Prohibition brought Napa Val...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charlyne BerensWhen Nebraskans voted to trade in their bicameral, partisan legislature for a one-house, nonpartisan body in...