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!

New this month from the University of Nebraska Press is The Man with the Strange Head and Other Early Science Fiction Stories by Miles J. Breuer. Gathered together for the first time is the premiere publication of Miles J. Breuer, along with  essays, short stories, and his own letters from the discussion column of Amazing Stories.  This week Tuesday Trivia will take a very literal take on the words ‘strange head’ and share a few quirky facts on human brain. Care to join me readers? I can guarantee you’ll be a true brainiac when we’re done. 1.    Your brain … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: October 7, 2008

Read from the first chapter, "Going, Going, Gone" of The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life by Floyd Skloot:

"I was standing in the bedroom of our Brooklyn apartment with my ear pressed to the radio. It was dark outside, a spring evening in the mid-1950s, and through the open window I could hear people talking in the courtyard four stories below. I was eight or nine years old, and my brother Philip, a teenager, was sitting at his desk bent over homework. That explains why the radio’s volume was turned so low. Philip couldn’t hear it over the courtyard chatter or else he’d have told me to turn it down.

I’d succeeded in losing myself to the world of baseball, and could hardly stand still as I leaned farther into the radio. If you could see me shuffling in place, cheek-to-cheek with a console the same size that I am, arms gripping its sides, you might think we were dancing."

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Well readers, this has been another fascinating week. The economic crisis we are facing is coming to a head. One proposal has been shot down, and another one is being decided today. Regardless of what happens, we are in the throes of history folks! To keep you from biting your fingernails, This Week in History has a dating service, famous photographers and O.J. Simpson to keep you occupied. Lets not waste another minute! September  29, 1650: Henry Robinson opens his office of Addresses and Encounters- the first documented dating service in Threadneedle Street, London Everybody knows the secret to a … Continue reading This Week in History: September 29-October 3: 2008

New this month from the University of Nebraska Press, is The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica by Leslie Carol Roberts. Ms. Roberts first arrived in Antarctica with Greenpeace, and was hoping to save the world. Now she wants to save Antarctica, a feat that some might say is just as great. What this book does is chronicle not only her work, but the efforts of scientists, explorers throughout the nineteenth century. This week Linking in Lincoln is going to add our small contribution to the cause, and share some links about this great continent. 1.    Did you … Continue reading Linking in Lincoln: October 1, 2008

The University of Nebraska Press offers a wide variety of new books this month, including Rachel Toor’s unique and humorous perspective on running, a trip back to the Lewis and Clark Trail with Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, a new paperback edition of Tuskegee Airman Samuel L. Broadnax’s history of African American Aviators, plus much more. Read about all of our new books here. Continue reading New October Books from the University of Nebraska Press

“For over fifty years, Wally Yonamine has been an important bridge between Japanese and American baseball.”- Hideki Matsui, NY Yankees New this month from the University of Nebraska Press, is Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japanese Baseball by Robert K. Fitts. After World War II, Wally Yonamine was the first Japanese American to play for NFL franchise as well as a professional baseball team. Playing at a pivotal time during American history when mistrust of the Japanese was high, Yonamine endured insults, riots, and threats from the yakuza (Japanese mafia).Yet he withstood and went on to become one of … Continue reading Tuesday Trivia: September 30, 2001