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
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?
Jason C. Anthony is the author of Hoosh: Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine, an exploration of Antarctic history and contemporary Antarctic life through the medium of food. In 2012, his book received the Special Commendation André Simon Food and Drink … Continue reading From the desk of Jason C. Anthony: Antarctic cuisine
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The 22 Weeks rolls on as the panel of pigskin prognostication unite to discuss the recent FCC decision regarding the Blackout rule in the NFL. What will be the effects of the new rule? What… Continue reading JERRY IZENBERG AUTHOR OF ROZELLE JOINS THE SHOW 22 Weeks: Season 3 Episode 5.
French novelist Patrick Modiano is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, adding to the University of Nebraska Press backlist of Nobel Prize winners. Modiano is the author of Out of the Dark, which was translated by University of … Continue reading UNP backlist shines with Third Nobel Prize winner in Literature
Wise Latinas Writers on Higher Education Edited and with an introduction by Jennifer De Leon Yadires Nova-Salcedo interviewed Wise Latinas editor, Jennifer De Leon, on Friday, February 28, 2014. During the discussion, De Leon reveals her hopes for how Wise … Continue reading Authors on camera
Billy “the Hill” and the Jump Hook The Autobiography of a Forgotten Basketball Legend By Billy McGill and Eric Brach Reviewed in City Weekly “Now, almost 50 years since fading from the cultural consciousness, McGill recounts his fame-to-rags-to-(spoiler alert)-eventual-middle-class-life in … Continue reading Review roundup
Wheels Stop The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011 By Rick Houston with a foreword by Jerry Ross “On each page you are transported further and further into the book and even though at first the book … Continue reading Reviews and in the news roundup
The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser By Mary K. Stillwell Reviewed in Ploughshares “It’s an intimate portrait rich with details of how family history and life on the Plains influenced Kooser’s early world vision, and then how Kooser juggled … Continue reading Review roundup
