Julija Šukys is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Department of English at the University of Missouri–Columbia. She is the author of Silence Is Death: The Life and Work of Tahar Djaout (Nebraska, 2007) and Epistolophilia: Writing the Life … Continue reading From the desk of Julija Šukys
Jay Gallentine is a historian and filmmaker who has spent more than ten years researching the history of unmanned spaceflight. He is the author of Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989 (January 2016) and Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations … Continue reading From the desk of Jay Gallentine: The Saga of Mars
Team building can often have negative connotations. How many times have you heard someone complain about trust falls? But businesses engage in team building for obvious reasons: to help teams work together and learn from the experience. If you’re intent … Continue reading Doc Martyn’s Soul: Can Marketers Reach Higher by Climbing Ropes?
Terence Smyre and Joel Puchalla form the dyad that is the editorial wing of the University of Nebraska Press’s journals department. Their offices, and hearts, share a common wall—though not a physical coronary septum, which would be weird. They envision … Continue reading Mssgng w/ Jrnls Ed
We love to hear from our readers. Check out what people are saying on Amazon about some of our most recent titles: Canoeing the Great Plains by Patrick Dobson “I read Patrick Dobson’s first book, Seldom Seen a few years … Continue reading A Word From Our Readers
B.J. Hollars is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author of From the Mouths of Dogs: What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human (Nebraska, November 2015). A quarter … Continue reading From the desk of B.J. Hollars: Counting Down Dog Years
Introducing the dogs of UNP in honor of National Dog Week! Kaanu, Siberian Husky “He likes beer, hotdogs, and has the ability to shuck a peanut.” Watson, Westie “Watson ran away two days after we adopted him and spent four … Continue reading Meet the Dogs of UNP
Grant Hayter-Menzies is the author of From Stray Dog to World War I Hero: The Paris Terrier Who Joined the First Division (Potomac Books, November 2015) and is donating a portion of each book’s sale to Nowzad Dogs, a nonprofit that reunites … Continue reading From the desk of Grant Hayter-Menzies
Books Cora Du Bois by Susan C. Seymour Praise from the Los Angeles Book Review: “Seymour’s book reads like a detective novel in parts, a history in others, as she follows the adventurous life of a ‘distant observer of mankind.’ . . . Susan Seymour makes clear the irony of a woman with principle—a patriotic American who attempted to see beyond the present — being first rewarded by her country and then defamed by its intelligence agencies for doing so. There are important contemporary lessons here. If we don’t know where we have come from, we can’t see where our country … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS
An excerpt from Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball (October 2004) by Ira Berkow. DONALD TRUMP Donald Trump’s office is on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. The widely known real estate developer, he has also … Continue reading Excerpt: Court Vision, an interview with Donald Trump
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