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Lambert, Dr. Lori
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(2014)
| 9781934594124 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 256pp
AUD 35.95 (inc. GST), AUD 32.68 (ex. GST),
Dr. Lori Lambert (Mi’kmaq/Abenaki) writes about the problems of adjustingresearch methodologies in the behavioral sciences to Native values and tribalcommunity life. In addition to surveying the literature with an emphasis onnative authors, she has interviewed a sampling of Indigenous people inMontana’s...
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(2018)
| 9780803299948 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 294pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 114.95 (inc. GST), AUD 104.50 (ex. GST),
In All My Relatives David C. Posthumus offers the first revisionist history ofthe Lakotas’ religion and culture in a generation. He applies key insightsfrom what has been called the “ontological turn,” particularly the dualnotions of interiority/soul/spirit and physicality/body and an...
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Alexander, Sara. Gibson, Jane.
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(2019)
| 9781496206732 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 444pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 124.95 (inc. GST), AUD 113.59 (ex. GST),
Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of agrowing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentallyirresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focuson the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial agriculture....
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Akhimie, Patricia. Andrea, Bernadette.
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(2019)
| 9781496202260 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 384pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 72.95 (inc. GST), AUD 66.32 (ex. GST),
Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesasserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious,dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however,early modern women did travel, often quite extensively, with no diminution...
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Kagan, Richard L.
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(2019)
| 9781496207722 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 640pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 83.95 (inc. GST), AUD 76.32 (ex. GST),
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S.fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture ofSpain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of theorigins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic tothe...
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Newest & Forthcoming Releases
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Spatz, Lyle. Steinberg, Steve.
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(2020)
| 9781496219664 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 576pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 58.95 (inc. GST), AUD 53.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
From the team’s inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a flounderinggroup that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. The team waspurchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Til Huston. Three yearslater, when Ruppert hired Miller Huggins as manager, the unlikely...
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Fitts, Robert K.
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(2020)
| 9781496219510 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 258pp | Availability last checked: 27/11/2019
AUD 39.95 (inc. GST), AUD 36.32 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
In the spring of 1964, the Nankai Hawks of Japan’s Pacific League sentnineteen-year-old Masanori Murakami to the Class A Fresno Giants to improve hisskills. To nearly everyone’s surprise, Murakami, known as Mashi, dominatedthe American hitters. With the San Francisco Giants caught in a close...
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Swanson, Ryan A.
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(2020)
| 9781496219534 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 272pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 41.95 (inc. GST), AUD 38.14 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
The story of Jackie Robinson valiantly breaking baseball’s color barrierin 1947 is one most Americans know. But less recognized is the fact that someseventy years earlier, following the Civil War, baseball was tenuously biracialand had the potential for a truly open game. How, then, did the game...
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Gmelch, George.
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(2020)
| 9781496219589 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 288pp | Availability last checked: 27/11/2019
AUD 39.95 (inc. GST), AUD 36.32 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
In 1965 George Gmelch signed a contract to play professional baseball with theDetroit Tigers organization. Gmelch grew up sheltered in an all-white, affluentSan Francisco suburb, and he knew little of the world outside. Over the nextfour seasons, he came of age in baseball’s Minor Leagues throughexperiences...
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Smith, Averell "Ace".
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(2020)
| 9781496219527 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 240pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 41.95 (inc. GST), AUD 38.14 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for thePittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gibson andCool Papa Bell, were lured to the Dominican Republic with the promise of easymoney to play a short baseball tournament in support of the country’sdictator,...
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Balukjian, Brad.
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(2020)
| 9781496218742 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 264pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 58.95 (inc. GST), AUD 53.59 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected—a meditation on the lossof innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and theformer ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players,Balukjian...
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Fitts, Robert K.
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(2020)
| 9781496213488 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 344pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 62.95 (inc. GST), AUD 57.23 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
Baseball has been called America’s true melting pot, a game that unites usas a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese Americanbaseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, andothers—young men who came to the United States to start a new...
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Geoghegan, Will.
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(2020)
| 9781496213990 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 240pp | Availability last checked: 6/12/2019
AUD 62.95 (inc. GST), AUD 57.23 (ex. GST),
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The college baseball season doesn’t end when the school year is finished.Many of the top NCAA Division I, II, and III baseball players continue to playin one of the game’s most unique environments, the summer wood batleagues. They swap aluminum bats for wood and play from June through August...
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Alou, Felipe. Kerasotis, Peter.
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(2020)
| 9781496214041 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 336pp | Availability last checked: 27/11/2019
AUD 41.95 (inc. GST), AUD 38.14 (ex. GST),
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Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamedhe would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage inMajor League Baseball—and also the first to play in the World Series.In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream to become...
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Eastman, Charles A.
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(2020)
| 9781496200594 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 162pp | Availability last checked: 27/11/2019
AUD 39.95 (inc. GST), AUD 36.32 (ex. GST),
Coming in April 2020
The Soul of the Indian is Charles A. Eastman’s exploration anddocumentation of religion as he experienced it during the late nineteenthcentury. A Dakota physician and writer who sought to bring understanding betweenNative and non-Native Americans, Eastman (1858–1939) became one of thebest-known...
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