The University of Nebraska Press is committed to expanding our publishing program deep into American Studies. As part of that effort, we are attending and exhibiting at the 2014 American Studies Association conference this week, announcing new series, and highlighting … Continue reading 2014 American Studies Association annual meeting
Below are some people who have read and loved our books. Feel free to comment if you’ve read any of these titles! Perfectly Awful By Charley Rosen Starred Booklist review: “The literature of sport usually focuses on championship teams and players. But the road to the top is littered with vanquished foes. The ‘72–’73 76ers are the ultimate vanquished foe. Great reading” — Wes Lukowsky Read an excerpt from the book. Fu-go By Ross Coen Unshelved review: “This is the kind of history that I want to know. How had I not heard of this weapon? Was it successful? For me, this ranks … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS
We’re excited to be officially launching the Global Latin/o Studies series this week at the American Studies Association conference in Los Angeles. Stop by the UNP booth (number 111) to learn more and talk with one of our editors. For more … Continue reading Exploring the Global Impact of Latinos
Yaakov Lappin is a journalist for the Jerusalem Post. His groundbreaking and exclusive coverage of jihadi activity on the Internet has appeared in the London Times, Jerusalem Post, and Ynetnews, among other media outlets. A number of the author’s reports for the London Times focused on an online declaration of war issued by notorious Islamist leaders in Britain six months before the July 7, 2005, London Underground bombings. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. His book, Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet, was published in 2011. Follow him on Twitter: @YaakovLappin. The dramatic and rapid takeover of large swaths of Iraq … Continue reading From the desk of Yaakov Lappin: A Caliphate State of Mind
Ann Baker is the manager of EDP (Editorial, Design, and Production) and it has taken her more than twenty years of professional copyediting to overcome her own personal fear of the semi-colon. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines the semicolon as “a punctuation mark used chiefly in a coordinating function between major sentence elements (as independent clauses of a compound sentence).” The Copyeditor’s Handbook explains that sometimes a semicolon serves as a “weak period” that joins independent clauses more closely together than a period would, and at other times it functions as a “strong comma” that separates syntactical elements more definitively than … Continue reading The Misunderstood Semicolon: Stop or Pause? Joined or Not?
As fall surrounds us let us reflect on simpler times. The times of paper pilgrim hats, hand-traced turkeys, and lunch line stuffing. The best part of being in school during the holidays was of course, Scholastic Book Fairs©. To bring … Continue reading Reading List: UNP’s own scholastic book fair
An excerpt from A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln, New Edition. THE FACE IN THE WINDOW Perhaps no other incident in the unusual history of Lincoln, Nebraska, affected as many people as did the apparition at a Near North … Continue reading Excerpt: A Guide to the Ghosts of Lincoln
Emily Giller is the exhibits coordinator and media planner in the marketing department. In book publishing there is never a dull moment; there are always things to do and projects to finish. However, there is one month in particular, October, that is the busiest of them all for me because it marks the beginning of exhibits season. This year UNP exhibited at three conferences in October. Here’s an inside look at our experiences at these conferences. American Society for Ethnohistory (ASE) October 8-12, 2014 (Indianapolis, IN) UNP conference attendee: Matt Bokovoy, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Native American and Indigenous Studies … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: October Exhibit Round Up
The October 13 issue of Publishers Weekly included an article on the perils and possibilities of publishing sports books. Bob Minzesheimer’s article focused on the apparent disconnect between the popularity of sport in this country and the relatively small number of sports titles published and the even smaller number of those books that achieve great sales. What Minzesheimer had to say certainly caught my attention; the University of Nebraska Press has long published a relatively large number of titles in this genre. In spite of the cautious tale spun in that article, our sports titles are regularly some of the … Continue reading Doc Martyn’s Soul: An Athletic Book?
LLyn De Danaan in collaboration with Justine E. James Jr. At a recent Pacific Northwest history conference in Vancouver, Washington, I was given a small display table in the sales room so that I might attract and talk with attendees … Continue reading From the desk of LLyn De Danaan: A Picture is Worth…
