The following is an excerpt from Assembling Moral Mobilities by Nicholas A. Scott (February 2020). 1: Domestic Mobilities Local Tradition, Urban Place, and Good Roads What makes mobilities domestically good? What makes a bike lane good for creating “home”? What domestic lessons … Continue reading Excerpt: Assembling Moral Mobilities
The following is an excerpt from An Incipient Mutiny by Dwight R. Messimer (January 2020). Chapter 3: Paul Ward Beck, 1911-1912 First Lt. Paul W. Beck was either a far-sighted prophet or a manipulative politician out for personal gain. The … Continue reading Excerpt: An Incipient Mutiny
Alison Rose Jefferson is an independent scholar and heritage conservation consultant. She is also the author of the newly released Living the California Dream, African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era (January 2020). Meet Jefferson at Chevalier’s Books in Los … Continue reading From the Desk of Alison Rose Jefferson: Leisure, An Essential Component of Liberty
Rosemary Sekora is the publicity manager at UNP. Follow her on Twitter for bookish content and photos of her puppy. Last month, I posted a little tweet consisting of seasonal catalog stats from the upcoming 2020 spring/summer season: Inside the @UnivNebPress … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: New Year, New Books
Born in Cuba in 1964, Enrique Martínez Celaya majored in applied physics at Cornell University and pursued a PhD in quantum electronics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was supported by a fellowship from the Brookhaven National Laboratory. … Continue reading Art and the Contemporary World: Enrique Martínez Celaya
The following is an excerpt from National Pastimes: Cinema, Sports, and Nation by Katharina Bonzel. The book is the newest title in the Sports, Media, and Society series, which investigates how and why the many different aspects of sports are … Continue reading Excerpt: National Pastimes
Judy Kem is a professor of French at Wake Forest University. She is editor or author of three books in French studies, including Pathologies of Love: Medicine and the Woman Question in Early Modern France (Nebraska, 2019). Fatal Lovesickness in Early Modern … Continue reading From the Desk of Judy Kem: Fatal Lovesickness in Early Modern France
From Ho-Chunk powwows and Chehalis stories to the saga of Chief Joseph and the making of the Cherokee Nation, the University of Nebraska Press is the proud publisher of one of the most distinguished lists in Native American and Indigenous … Continue reading Native American and Indigenous Studies Sale
Books Abraham Joshua Heschel: Mind, Heart, Soul Edward K. Kaplan Review in the Wall Street Journal: “In this admiring and detailed biography, Mr. Kaplan shows that Heschel’s journey from tradition to modernity began early . . . Mr. Kaplan shows that … Continue reading News and Reviews
Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in tweets, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Birthday to One Size Fits None (Nebraska, 2019) by Stephanie Anderson. About the Book: “Sustainable” has long been the rallying … Continue reading Happy Book Birthday One Size Fits None!
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