University of Nebraska Press Forlag
Visning: Type : Alle | Sprog : Alle | Format : Alle
-
Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing As an Art (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents a collection of essays and letters first published in 1949. This work concludes, "Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological".
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
-
The January Children (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In her dedication Safia Elhillo writes, “The January Children are the generation born in Sudan under British occupation, where children were assigned birth years by height, all... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Hard Damage (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This collection of poems works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Meander Belt: Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working-Class South (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis, Tennessee, came to fall in love with language, reading, writing, and... Læs mere
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to overcome the struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple, and living in the rural American West.
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada and the United States (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the “Indian problem” in both the United States and Canada. This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools.
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies.
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000–1868 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Argues that the Eastern Shoshone tribe, now located on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, underwent a process of ethnogenesis through cultural attachment to its physical environment that proved integral to its survival and existence.
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage) -
In Defense of Farmers: The Future of Agriculture in the Shadow of Corporate Power (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Illuminates anew the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and... Læs mere
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage -
Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30 would become known by many... Læs mere
Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
