UNP is excited to announce these forthcoming projects from our team of acquiring editors. All titles listed here are working titles only and are subject to change before publication. The acquiring editor is in parentheses. We look forward to editing, … Continue reading July Book Deals
Books Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair Listed in Publisher’s Weekly Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2016: Olympic Collision by Kyle Keiderling Review from The Guy Who Reviews Sports Books: “Any reader who wants to learn more about these outstanding athletes or … Continue reading News and Reviews
The 2016 Olympic Games begin tomorrow! While the athletes head to Rio, we’re reading up on Olympic history. American Hoops: U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing by Carson Cunningham A fascinating history of Olympic basketball on the world stage and behind the scenes. Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball (November 2016) by Scott Morrow Johnson The story of Forrest “Phog” Allen, the coach who helped create the NCAA tournament and brought basketball to the Olympics. The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism edited by Susan Brownell This interdisciplinary collection of essays assesses the ideas about race, imperialism, … Continue reading Reading List: Olympics
Sonya Huber is the author of five books, most recently The Evolution of Hillary Rodham Clinton from Squint Books. Her forthcoming project, Pain Women Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, will be published by UNP in 2017. She … Continue reading From the Desk of Sonya Huber: Essaying Hillary
JULY STAFF READING LIST UNP staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the books where our noses have been buried. One Plus One by … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Anna Weir is a publicist who begrudgingly admits to having hipster tendencies. At some point or another, we’ve all heard someone say it, or maybe we’ve even uttered it ourselves: “The book was better than the movie.” Depending on the book … Continue reading Books vs Movies: The Endless Debate
The following is an excerpt from Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film (Nebraska, 2016), edited and with an introduction by Jeremy Withers and Daniel P. Shea. Chapter 10 “I’ll Get You, My Pretty!”: Bicycle Horror and the Abject Cyclicity of History … Continue reading Excerpt: Culture on Two Wheels
The following is a post from Brian Fogarty, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Saint Catherine University and author of Fascism: Why Not Here? (Potomac Books, 2009). You can follow his blog Politics, Culture, and Everything at befogarty.wordpress.com. A Specter is Haunting Europe: Do we know fascism when we see it? Reflecting recently on the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union, former Prime Minister Tony Blair lamented the breakdown of center-left/center-right governments throughout Europe. Extremists from both right and left have, he said, “demonized” centrists as “out-of-touch elites” while “making the word ‘expert’ virtually a term of abuse.” At the same time, immigrants have been portrayed … Continue reading From the Desk of Brian Fogarty: Do We Know Fascism When We See It?
In the following post, author Andrew M. Homan tells how his love of sports history led him to write Iron Mac: The Legend of Roughouse Cyclist Reggie McNamara (Nebraska, 2016). Not long after opening my first pack of baseball cards … Continue reading From the Desk of Andrew M. Homan
Books Stories from Afield by Bruce Smith Praise from Kirkus reviews: “Reflective thoughts and vibrant specifics bring a nature biologist’s love of the outdoors to readers.” Culture on Two Wheels Edited by Jeremy Withers and Daniel P. Shea Review … Continue reading News and Reviews
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