Bøger udgivet af Nebraska

Bleeding Green is a lifelong fan’s look at the Hartford Whalers, a National Hockey League team that, despite an inglorious past and a future that unexpectedly vanished, have had a lasting impact to this day on not only the NHL but the sports landscape as a whole.

Sacrifice and Regeneration focuses on the extraordinary success of Seventh-day Adventism in the Andean plateau at the beginning of the twentieth century and sheds light on the historical trajectories of Protestantism in Latin America.

A history of women playing American football in the United States, focused on the growth of the game since the passage of Title IX in 1972.

From Near and Far takes a transnational approach to the history of France by considering the many ways in which people and places beyond the conventionally accepted borders of the nation shaped its life.

These poems pry at the complexities of difference—race, religion, gender, nationality—that shape our twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions.

Through the lens of America’s first and most popular girls’ organization, Jennifer Helgren traces the role and changing meaning of American girls’ citizenship across critical intersections of gender, race, class, and disability in the twentieth-century United States.

Ryan Poll argues that the New 52 Aquaman develops the superhero into a figure of ecological justice who charts the environmental apocalypse caused by global capitalism and helps readers connect the violences occurring in the ocean to those occurring on the surface, including sexism and racism.

This edited volume takes stories from the “modern West” of the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them toward the present—explicitly tracing continuity with and unexpected divergence from trajectories established in the 1980s and 1990s.

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 a well-adjusted adult. He’s a Nebraska football fan, and this is his rollicking account of what it’s like to be one of those legendary enthusiasts whose passion for the Cornhuskers is at once irresistible and hilarious.A journey into an obsessed Nebraska fan’s soul, Forever Red immerses readers in the mad, mad world of Husker football fandom—where wearing the scarlet-and-cream Huskers gear has its own peculiar rules; where displaced followers act as the program’s ambassadors, finding Husker subculture beyond the pale; and where the team’s performance can barely keep pace with its followers’ expectations but sometimes exceeds their wildest dreams.Revised, updated, and expanded from the 2005 edition, Smith’s story of thirty-plus years following the team takes readers back to memorable game moments from 1980 up through the roller-coaster ride of recent years. Blending wit and insight, Smith offers a window on the world to the uninitiated and the fellow fanatic alike where fantasy and football meet, where dreams of glory and gritty gridiron realities forever join.

Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c2010.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are located on the Flathead Reservation in western Montana. They have undertaken a large-scale watershed restoration project in an effort to benefit bull trout in the Jocko River drainage. An important component of this project is education and outreach, of which the centerpiece is a multimedia set of educational materials describing the ecology and importance of bull trout and its relationship with the Salish and Pend d'Oreille people. This integrated set includes the storybook Bull Trout's Gift, the Field Journal, and the interactive DVD Explore The River: Bull Trout, Tribal People, and the Jocko River.

The Enlightened Patrolman guides readers through Mexico City’s efforts to envision and carry out modern values as viewed through the lens of early law enforcement, an accelerated process of racialization of urban populations, and burgeoning ideas of modern masculinity.

Chachi D. Hauser combines memoir, cultural criticism, and poetic modes to examine gender identity and her relationship to Walt Disney and the Disney company.

Dale Tafoya brings to life the baseball renaissance that shook up Huntsville, Alabama, in 1985, when the Stars took the Southern League by storm.

A biography of Charles A. Stoneham’s years owning and running the New York Giants in the 1920s.

In Susan Firer’s The Laugh We Make When We Fall, peonies; snow drops, “with all their survivor ecstasies”; “windy caravans of lilacs”; and “Dali Lama-robed “ daylilies act as magnets to attract history—personal and historical—myths, language, facts, love, gratitude, prayers, beauty, and ”all the colors of death and sex.” Family oddities appear in this collection, as well as Catholic rituals, saints, and ghost poets. Always ghost poets: Whitman, Neruda, Thoreau, and Saint Francis. In these poems, “toads/ pull their finished skins off/ delicately as evening gloves,” and in “Birds” you can look into an injured bird’s neck and see “everywhere it had ever flown…” see “insects, & seeds, & amphibians,/ & even a piece or two of snake.” Using list poems, exploded elemental odes, lyrics, and American sonnets, Firer writes her own survivor ecstasies: “I was buried under/deaths: mother’s, father’s, sisters’ deaths wrapped me/ like surgical wrap. And who and where would I be/ when all their gauzy deaths were removed?” In poem after poem in this collection, Firer begins to explore and to answer that question. This collection is "a wild generosity of spirit," creating an effect that is "sacramental."

Nannie T. Alderson's memoir recounts the life of a transplanted, southern woman who, after marrying in 1883, finds herself learning to run a ranch in eastern Montana near the mouth of Lame Deer Creek.

Mark Halfon looks at life in the Major Leagues in the early 1900s, when the game was defined by low scoring and an emphasis on pitching and defense, and when players like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson. For almost two decades, this era produced some of the best players who ever played the game.

The story of the thrilling 1932 baseball season and Babe Ruth’s called shot.

Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to Teresina Bent Scheurich’s death in 1920, exploring how one family negotiated shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests.