Happy University Press Week! Help us celebrate university presses Nov. 9-15. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have participated in an annual celebration of University Press Week. Following the example of the first University Press Week, proclaimed by US President … Continue reading University Press Week: Scientific Voices
The following is an excerpt from The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns by Robert M. Zink (October 2018). Zink is a conservation biologist and animal ecologist in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of The Three‑Minute Outdoorsman: … Continue reading Excerpt: The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns
BOOKS Glory Days Melissa Fraterrigo Listed in “The Best Fiction Books of 2017” by the Chicago Review of Books: “[Glory Days is] a quiet Midwestern ghost story with prose as clear and cold as the Nebraska plains in winter.” When Basketball Was … Continue reading News and Reviews
We love to hear what our readers have to say about our books! Check out these comments from readers on Amazon and Goodreads. “Fleda Brown Jackson’s poetry is a delight and full of raw ideas about everyday existence. The … Continue reading A Word from Our Readers
The following is an excerpt from The Prometheus Bomb: The Manhattan Project and Government in the Dark (Potomac Books, December 2016) by Neil J. Sullivan. Sullivan is a professor in the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch … Continue reading Excerpt: The Prometheus Bomb
The following contribution is from Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger, editors of the Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series. We are very excited about our new partnership with the University of Nebraska Press and the opportunity it provides to … Continue reading New Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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
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