University of Nebraska Press author Elizabeth Dodd has been named this week’s featured poet for the Ad Astra (To the Stars) Poetry Project, a biweekly online column that features a prominent Kansas poet and their work. Dr. Denise Low, Poet Laureate of Kansas, researches and compiles each feature to help make the poet’s work available for educational and personal use across the state. She expresses that this program is meant to share her enthusiasm for historic and contemporary poets who reside or have resided in Kansas for a substantial part of their lives. Read this week’s post on Dr. Low’s … Continue reading Fall UNP Author is Ad Astra Poetry Project Featured Poet

New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is Golden Boy by Paul Hornung as told to William F. Reed. Once football’s “golden boy”, Paul Hornung led a charmed life. He won the Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame and was the number one pick for the NFL draft where he went on to the Green Bay Packers. It was there that he was named Player of the Year in both 1960 and 1961. “Golden Boy is a must –read for football fans, a colorful, candid slice of pigskin history from one of the game’s immortal legends.”    Why is … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: October 21, 2008

Read from "Lyttelton, New Zealand, to Cape Evans, Antarctica"  in The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica by Leslie Carol Roberts:

"I sailed to Antarctica with a group of people who wanted to save the world. The world, in this case, meant Antarctica’s ice-shrouded 5.4-million-square miles, a crystalline fortress separated from the known or temperate world by a ring of howling, fierce ocean. There is nothing more alone in this world than Antarctica. Once the center of a great southern supercontinent, it became a fragment, drifting south to the pole, where the seas and winds conspired to seal it in a horrible cold. Ice took over, offering a jumble of milk-stained cliffs and green glassware. When the sun shines the whole place lights up better than the Emerald City, and it is the most beautiful place on Earth."

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Read from the opening piece, "Toeing the Line" of Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running by Rachel Toor:

"I like to call it "The Oprah Effect."

Oprah said to us: If I can do it, anyone can. She had excellent professional trainers, and she did it surrounded by a coterie of helpers. But even the richest woman in the world couldn’t pay someone to run a marathon for her. Oprah Winfrey had to take every step of the 1995 Marine Corps Marathon on her own. She finished in 4:29. This feat, heroic in its way, spawned a cottage industry of silly tee-shirts that said "I beat Oprah." But Oprah encouraged scores—hundreds, thousands—of middle-aged women, who looked in the mirror and did not see the whippet-thin shape of a distance runner, to hit the roads and start training for a 26.2miler. Oprah inspired a bunch of swaggering men to want to go out and beat her time. Al Gore ran the same race two years later. He finished in 4:58."

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LINCOLN, Neb., October 10, 2008 – Richard Garriott, son of University of Nebraska Press author Owen K. Garriott, will become the sixth private client to head into space. Richard will climb aboard the Russian Soyuz Spacecraft for a ten-day trip and stay on the International Space Station. Richard’s launch will take place on Sunday, October 12th at 3:00 A.M. EDT. He plans on including in his personal effects photographs of the book cover of his father’s forthcoming title, Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story (Nebraska, 2008).  Richard’s father, Owen K. Garriott, is a former NASA astronaut—and one of the first six … Continue reading University of Nebraska Press Title Launches to Space

Tomato Nation is sponsoring its annual donation challenge for DonorsChoose.org, an organization that collects supplies for students and schools who are in need of resources. Donate through Tomato Nation’s project and you have a chance to win various prizes, including a selection of University of Nebraska Press books. The prize collection of University of Nebraska Press books includes The Plain Sense of Things by Pamela Carter Joern, Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off and Other Lessons from the Lewis and Clark Trail by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World’s Largest Ocean by … Continue reading Make a Donation for a Chance to Win Books!