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In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 19.95Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically . . . nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary... more...
Proof of Guilt
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 29.95Barbara Graham might have been a diabolical dame in a hard-boiled detective story?beautiful, sexy, and deadly. Charged alongside two male friends in the murder of an elderly widow during a botched robbery attempt, ?Bloody Babs? became the third woman executed in California?after a 1953 trial that played out before standing-room-only crowds captured... more...
The Blind Man and the Loon
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 50.00The story of the Blind Man and the Loon is a living Native folktale about a blind man who is betrayed by his mother or wife but whose vision is magically restored by a kind loon. Variations of this tale are told by Native storytellers all across Alaska, arctic Canada, Greenland, the Northwest Coast, and even into the Great Basin and the Great Plains.... more...
Becoming Melungeon
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 35.00Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedly unknown origins of these Melungeons are part of what drove this legend and generated myriad exotic origin... more...
American Hoops
UNP - Nebraska 2010; US$ 40.00Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the ?Dream Team? in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men?s Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played... more...
For Home and Country
UNP - Nebraska 2010; US$ 45.00World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear about the ?Hun,? who was often depicted threatening American families in their homes, while additional campaigns encouraged Americans and their allies to support the war effort. With most men actively involved... more...
Colonial Metropolis
UNP - Nebraska 2010; US$ 45.00World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes, both metropolitan and overseas. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded. Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France?s colonial empire... more...
Coyote Anthropology
UNP - Nebraska 2010; US$ 40.00Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropology?s vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaning?in terms of what anthropology perceives, how it goes about representing... more...
The Brothertown Nation of Indians
UNP - Nebraska 2010; US$ 45.00A group of educated Christian Natives from a variety of New England tribes came together in central New York in 1785 to form a community of their own, Brothertown, a proprietary ?Body Politick? modeled after a New England town with an elected leadership. In an effort to retain their land rights and remain self-sufficient, the Natives of Brothertown... more...
Footprints in the Dust
UNP - Nebraska 2010; US$ 34.95Arriving on the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11, as NASA prepares to return astronauts to the moon, Footprints in the Dust offers a thorough, engrossing, and multifaceted account of the Apollo missions. The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the greatest achievements in human history. This book... more...









