Unp Nebraska: 513 books

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Dream Like a Champion

Wins, Losses, and Leadership the Nebraska Volleyball Way

by Brandon Vogel, John Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Since becoming the Nebraska women’s volleyball coach in 2000, John Cook has led the team to four national championships, seven NCAA semifinal appearances, and the nation’s top winning percentage in women’s volleyball. In Dream Like a Champion Cook shares the coaching and leadership philosophy...
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by James C. Olson, Ronald C. Naugle, John J. Montag
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015

History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as...
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Nebrasketball

Coach Tim Miles and a Big Ten Team on the Rise

by Scott Winter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

When fall rolls into winter, most sports fans in Nebraska long for spring football. But Coach Tim Miles has given hibernating fans a reason to cheer through winter for the first time in twenty years. Since taking over the men’s basketball program in 2012, Miles has gone from being relatively unknown...
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Big House on the Prairie

75 Years of the University of Nebraska Press

by University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

In 2016 the University of Nebraska Press celebrates its 75th anniversary. Proudly rooted in the Great Plains, the Press has established itself as the largest and most diversified publisher located between Chicago and California. The achievements of a vast network of devoted authors, editors, board members,...
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Forever Red

More Confessions of a Cornhusker Fan

by Steve Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith’s thoughts spinning back to Saturday—last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game day—until reality reminds him: this is not how well-adjusted adults act. Steve Smith is not...
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by William H. Beezley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018

Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new, exacerbating...
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Forever Red

Confessions of a Cornhusker Football Fan

by Steve Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smith’s thoughts spinning back to Saturday—last Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game day—until reality reminds him: this is not how well-adjusted adults act. Steve Smith is not...
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Sandoz Studies, Volume 1

Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019

Mari Sandoz, born on Mirage Flats, south of Hay Springs, Nebraska, on May 11, 1896, was the eldest daughter of Swiss immigrants. She experienced firsthand the difficulties and pleasures of the family’s remote plains existence and early on developed a strong desire to write. Her keen eye for detail...
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Echo of Its Time

The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933

by John R. Wunder, Mark R. Scherer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Throughout its existence the Federal District Court of Nebraska has echoed the dynamics of its time, reflecting the concerns, interests, and passions of the people who have made this state their home. Echo of Its Time explores the court’s development, from its inception in 1867 through 1933,...
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Black Print with a White Carnation

Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989

by Amy Helene Forss
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

Mildred Dee Brown (1905–89) was the cofounder of Nebraska’s Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha’s Near North Side—a historically black part...
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Homesteading the Plains

Toward a New History

by Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, Rebecca S. Wingo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

2018 Nebraska Book Award  2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by Choice  Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public’s...
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by Mildred R. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

The World of Willa Cather describes the people and places in Nebraska that figure prominently in many of Cather’s best novels and short stories. It offers material that can be found nowhere else. Here are Willa Cather of Red Cloud, her family and friends, and the things that formed her sensibilities.
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The Origins of the Final Solution

The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942

by Christopher R. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013

Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem In 1939, the Nazi regime’s plans for redrawing the demographic map of Eastern Europe entailed the expulsion of millions of Jews. By the fall of 1941, these plans had shifted from expulsion to systematic and...
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The Ordinary Spaceman

From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut

by Clayton C. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

What’s it like to travel at more than 850 MPH, riding in a supersonic T-38 twin turbojet engine airplane? What happens when the space station toilet breaks? How do astronauts “take out the trash” on a spacewalk, tightly encapsulated in a space suit with just a few layers of fabric and Kevlar...
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