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View book details for Incident at the Otterville Station
A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
While elated Northerners were celebrating victory at Gettysburg and toasting Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, Missourian Charles W. Walker was rousing his thirteen slaves in the dark of night. In defiance of a standing Union order prohibiting the transfer …
Little, Brown and Company
As Russian tanks roll through the cobblestone streets of Budapest and shots ring out, young Robert and Attila Beck, inseparable brothers, peer from the boot of a toppled statue of Stalin at the first grisly signs of revolution. The year …
View book details for Sexual Intimacy for Women
A Guide for Same-Sex Couples
Da Capo Press
Sexual Intimacy for Women helps female couples examine the emotional, physical, and psychological aspects of their relationships, with the goal of creating more intimacy. Exercises and client-based anecdotes from Dr. Corwins years of experience with same-sex couples help women overcome …
View book details for Global Diversity
Winning Customers and Engaging Employees within World Markets
Quercus
A guide to achieving the inclusive global organization from the world's most experienced team Mastering global business requires that leaders and managers fully understand the differences that exist within countries as well as between them. To succeed in China, knowledge …
View book details for I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You
The Real Meaning of the 16 Personality Types
Quercus
No one is right or wrong - just different!Tracing the growth of the study of personality type from its roots in the work of Carl Jung to today's subtly nuanced type theory, I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just Not You shows …
View book details for Communication Highwire
Leveraging the Power of Diverse Communication Styles
Quercus
Step right up to the exciting three-ring circus of Communication Styles ... No matter where we live of what we do, we deal with people using a wide variety of communication styles every day. At work, in the marketplace and …
Open Road Distribution
When Grace married the handsome and worldly Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia during the middle of the Second World War, she never doubted that she had married a hero and he would come back to her unscathed. But Leo never …
Open Road Distribution
William Bligh is best known as the cause of the mutiny on the Bounty. He was also the victim of two other mutinies. Yet when he died he was a vice-admiral of the British navy. How was that possible? If …
UNP - Bison Original
We must include Knopp among those whom Barry Lopez calls our local geniuses of the American landscape, Fran Shaw remarks in the journal Parabola. And, indeed, in this new book, Lisa Knopps singular genius burrows deep into that landscape in …
View book details for The Growth of Reform Judaism
American and European Sources
The Jewish Publication Society
This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plauts classic second volume on the history of the Jewish Reform Movement is a sourcebook of the original writings that shaped the second century of organized liberal Judaism. The Growth of Reform Judaism …
View book details for Range Wars
The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range
UNP - Nebraska
Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American …
View book details for Catholic Borderlands
Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935
UNP - Nebraska
In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Societys duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, …
UNP - Nebraska
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (16261707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her …
View book details for Remembering America
How We Have Told Our Past
UNP - Nebraska
American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food to travel to architecture and design. It is also emotionally charged, frequently crossing paths with political and legal issues. In Remembering America, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the place that American history has …
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Land of New Beginnings
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous and phenomenal. All the historical facts are here: the missions and the Indians, the struggles between the Mexicans and the …
View book details for Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have …
View book details for The Inevitable Bandstand
The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound
UNP - Nebraska
In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Musica del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights …
View book details for The Pat Boone Fan Club
My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
UNP - Nebraska
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of usor should. Pat Boone is our first stop. …
UNP - Bison Books
"In the figure of the old-time gamblin man and cold killer, John Myers has found a subject perfectly suited to his talents and his methods. . . . The result is a solid though lively biography. . . . As …
View book details for Forever Red
More Confessions of a Cornhusker Fan
UNP - Nebraska
On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smiths thoughts spinning back to Saturdaylast Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game dayuntil reality reminds him: this is not how …
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How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
UNP - Nebraska
One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and Americas pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sportfairness, competition, and mythologycame under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped …
UNP - Nebraska
Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrods …
UNP - Bison Books
In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear. Hundreds …
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Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America
UNP - Nebraska
Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings …
UNP - Nebraska
James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at …
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