In Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir, Sonya Huber tells readers of her own personal relationship with health care. Growing up, she viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. However, when in adulthood she worked a string of job with that did not provide health insurance (ironically, several were in the health care industry), she quickly learned how physically — and financially — devastating something as innocuous as a toothache or sinus infection could be. She also became an expert at navigating the world of free and reduced-cost heath care for … Continue reading UNP author discusses health care

What would be a better way to kick off the fall season than with a good read? UNP would like to announce the October book sale! Save 25 percent off new October books like these:   Muscogee Daughter by Susan Supernaw is her account of finding her Native American identity amoung the distractions and difficulties of American life. Throughout a childhood that was surrounded with poverty, alcoholism and abuse, Supernaw finds an escape in academics, dance and eventually the Miss Oklahoma crown in 1971. She did not win the Miss America pageant that year, but she did call attention to … Continue reading UNP October book sale

Football season is well underway and UNP is having a sale on all football books! The Cornhuskers won their first two games and former Husker, Ndamukong Suh, has already sacked a quarterback in the NFL. Go big red! Steve Smith explores the roller coaster experience of being a fan of the Big Red in Forever Red: Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan. Smith takes the reader on a journey into an obsessed Nebraska fan’s soul and into the mad, mad world of Cornhusker football fandom. Even if you aren’t a Husker fan, we have many more books to feed your football appetite. … Continue reading Football Books on Sale!

Football season is almost upon us. Tomorrow Lincoln will be one giant tail gate with fans in red running the city with high excitement for the Huskers to play the season opener. In the spirit of college football season, the University of Nebraska Press is looking into a more scandalous side of the pigskin sport.  Scoreboard, Baby: A story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry is a true story about the University of Washington’s 2000 football season. It puts together interviews, articles and thousands of documentation on the season that brought them a victory … Continue reading Scoreboard, Baby on NPR’s Only A Game sports show

Eric Asimov writes about wine for the New York Times – wine trends, wine regions, individual wines, wine culture, etc.  Wine blog The Daily Sip posted this Q&A with Asimov yesterday, in which Asimov writes about his wine writing philosophy (I especially liked this quote: I don't think it's so important that people know a lot about wine as it is they drink wine if they like it. I don't think anyone is under any obligation to know about wine. I don't think of myself as an educator, but more as an inspirer.) Asimov also discussed some wine writers he … Continue reading Praise for Robert Camuto’s Palmento (and Corkscrewed, too!)

Author Oscar Robertson will be making another trip to the Basketball Hall of Fame, this time to be inducted with his Olympic teammates.  In a recent New York Times article, Robertson writes about the 1960 Olympic gold medal winning basketball team that he co-captained, a team he calls “the original Dream Team.”  He credits coach Pete Newel (subject of A Good Man: The Pete Newell Story by Bruce Jenkins) for helping the team of college athletes beat the establishment, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), and for the first time change how American basketball was represented abroad.  The team will be inducted … Continue reading Author, Teammates to be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame

World War II ended in August 1945, but its impacts are not forgotten 65 years later.  To remember the sacrifices of the soldier and the citizen, the Press is having a World War II sale.  Now through August 31st, you can save 25 percent on books that show the truly global influence of World War II.   To hear directly from one soldier, read In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir by William V. Spanos.  Taken prisoner during the Battle of the Bulge, then marched and transported by freight train to Dresden, Spanos recalls the experience of being a … Continue reading World War II sale

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson may pardon Billy the Kid — not because he disputes the Kid’s outlaw ways, but because another governor had promised to issue a pardon, according to this CNN story. Nearly 130 years after Billy the Kid’s death, the possible pardon is still stirring up controversy, even though no one disputes that Billy the Kid, also known as Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, Kid Antrim, Billy Bonney, was, indeed, an outlaw. But do you know what crimes he committed that led to outlaw status? Didn’t think so. Shortly after Billy the Kid’s death, at the age of … Continue reading A pardon for Billy the Kid?