Save 40% off books in honor of Hanukkah as well as a selection of our recently released titles. Enter 6CH21 in the promotion code field of your shopping cart and click “Add Promotion Code.” Offer expires December 10, 2021 and … Continue reading Hanukkah Sale with the Jewish Publication Society
UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. “I’m reading These Children Who Come at You with Knives by Jim … Continue reading October Staff Reading List
Check out the list of books under the Nebraska imprint that are available in paperback for the first time! The Chalmers Race by Rick Huhn “This book goes beyond baseball, also giving readers an understanding of America itself after the … Continue reading New in Paperback this Fall
Join Politics & Prose for a Live! virtual event with Scott D. Seligman as he discusses his newest book, A Second Reckoning (Potomac Books, 2021), on Tuesday, October 26 at 5:00 p.m. CST. Register for the event here! A Second … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Politics & Prose with Scott D. Seligman
The following was published by the History of Anthropology Review on Oct. 18, 2021 by Regna Darnell, a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario. I have known Ira Jacknis since he was a graduate … Continue reading Remembering Ira Jacknis
Books Disruption Starred review in Kirkus Reviews: “An outstanding contribution to the literature of terrorism and counterterrorism.” Black Cowboys of Rodeo Starred review in Publishers Weekly: “This stirring history will have readers rethinking the very definition of Americana.” Moshkeleh the … Continue reading News and Reviews
Join KUAR’s radio program Arts & Letters Radio on Friday, October 22 at 7:00 p.m. for a radio broadcast with UCA creative writing professor Mark Spitzer as he discusses the highly elusive American eel featured in his book Beautifully Grotesque … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Mark Spitzer on Arts & Letters Radio
Alison Lewis is a professor of German in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing and Cold War … Continue reading Excerpt: A State of Secrecy
Join Politics & Prose Bookstore for a virtual panel discussion over Randon Billings Noble’s new anthology, A Harp in the Stars (Nebraska, 2021), on Saturday, October 9 at 3 p.m. EST. Noble, the editor, will be joined by two contributors, … Continue reading Upcoming Event: Politics & Prose Panel Discussion with Randon Billings Noble
Scott Eastman is a professor of history at Creighton University. He is the author of Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759–1823 and A Missionary Nation (Nebraska, 2021), which is now available. Introduction Race and Empire What did race and empire … Continue reading Excerpt: A Missionary Nation
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