Nebraska Native’s Vietnam memoir chosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska Nebraskans have new required reading material. The 2015 One Book One Nebraska selection is Death Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting (University of Nebraska … Continue reading 2015 One Book One Nebraska
In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day. YOUR UNIVERSITY PRESS IN PICTURES University Press of Florida Fordham University Press Indiana University Press Johns Hopkins University Press Stanford University Press Continue reading UP WEEK: Your University Press in Pictures
Congratulations to all 2014 Nebraska Book Award winners! UNP is proud to have four titles honored in this year’s competition. Fiction Honor Haven’s Wake By Ladette Randolph When a tractor accident fells the patriarch of an eastern Nebraskan family, the … Continue reading Nebraska Book Award Winners
An excerpt from In Food We Trust: The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation by Courtney I. P. Thomas Chapter 2: The Cranberry Crisis Advances in food science and technology that occurred during the twentieth century have made it possible for food systems to be organized, configured, and structured in ways that promote food safety. But if that is the case, why are there so many food safety crises in the United States? The answer is not that an industrialized food system cannot be made safe but that large and powerful corporations have perpetuated the regulatory focus on adulteration … Continue reading Excerpt: In Food We Trust
The University of Nebraska Press is committed to expanding our publishing program deep into American Studies. As part of that effort, we are attending and exhibiting at the 2014 American Studies Association conference this week, announcing new series, and highlighting … Continue reading 2014 American Studies Association annual meeting
Below are some people who have read and loved our books. Feel free to comment if you’ve read any of these titles! Perfectly Awful By Charley Rosen Starred Booklist review: “The literature of sport usually focuses on championship teams and players. But the road to the top is littered with vanquished foes. The ‘72–’73 76ers are the ultimate vanquished foe. Great reading” — Wes Lukowsky Read an excerpt from the book. Fu-go By Ross Coen Unshelved review: “This is the kind of history that I want to know. How had I not heard of this weapon? Was it successful? For me, this ranks … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS
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
Ann Baker is the manager of EDP (Editorial, Design, and Production) and it has taken her more than twenty years of professional copyediting to overcome her own personal fear of the semi-colon. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines the semicolon as “a punctuation mark used chiefly in a coordinating function between major sentence elements (as independent clauses of a compound sentence).” The Copyeditor’s Handbook explains that sometimes a semicolon serves as a “weak period” that joins independent clauses more closely together than a period would, and at other times it functions as a “strong comma” that separates syntactical elements more definitively than … Continue reading The Misunderstood Semicolon: Stop or Pause? Joined or Not?
As fall surrounds us let us reflect on simpler times. The times of paper pilgrim hats, hand-traced turkeys, and lunch line stuffing. The best part of being in school during the holidays was of course, Scholastic Book Fairs©. To bring … Continue reading Reading List: UNP’s own scholastic book fair
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