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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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Posthumus, David C. Posthumus, David.
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(2018)
| 9780803299948 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 294pp
AUD 107.95 (inc. GST), AUD 98.14 (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
AUD 117.95 (inc. GST), AUD 107.23 (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
AUD 68.95 (inc. GST), AUD 62.68 (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
AUD 78.95 (inc. GST), AUD 71.77 (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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Siegman, Joseph.
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(2020)
| 9781496201881 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 354pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 78.95 (inc. GST), AUD 71.77 (ex. GST),
Following the 1972 Olympics one sportswriter referred to Mark Spitz, winner ofseven gold medals, as “the first great Jewish athlete.” Hecouldn’t have been more wrong. As Jewish Sports Legends shows, Jews haveexcelled at athletics for centuries. This engaging volume illuminates the livesand...
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Bernstein, Dan.
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(2020)
| 9781496219794 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 280pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 38.95 (inc. GST), AUD 35.41 (ex. GST),
Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside,California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes intheir own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public,including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning...
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Fine, Kerry. Johnson, Michael K. Lush, Rebecca M. Spurgeon, Sara L.
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(2020)
| 9781496221780 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 462pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 68.95 (inc. GST), AUD 62.68 (ex. GST),
Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid Western genre—an increasinglypopular and visible form that mixes Western themes, iconography, settings, andconventions with elements drawn from other genres, like science fiction, horror,and fantasy. Despite frequent declarations of the Western’s...
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Fine, Kerry. Johnson, Michael K. Lush, Rebecca M. Spurgeon, Sara L.
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(2020)
| 9781496221162 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 462pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 136.95 (inc. GST), AUD 124.50 (ex. GST),
Weird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid Western genre—an increasinglypopular and visible form that mixes Western themes, iconography, settings, andconventions with elements drawn from other genres, like science fiction, horror,and fantasy. Despite frequent declarations of the Western’s...
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O'Banion, Patrick J.
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(2020)
| 9781496216724 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 396pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 136.95 (inc. GST), AUD 124.50 (ex. GST),
Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanishhistoriography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos inSpanish society and culture alongside a dearth of knowledge about individuals orlocal communities. By reassessing key elements in the religious and socialhistory...
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Fausto, Carlos.
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(2020)
| 9781496220448 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 450pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 156.95 (inc. GST), AUD 142.68 (ex. GST),
In Art Effects Carlos Fausto explores the interplay between indigenous materialculture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of artifactsand indigenous presences and addressing major themes in anthropological theoryand art history to study ritual images in the widest sense. Fausto...
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Chang-RodrĂguez, Raquel. RiobĂł, Carlos.
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(2020)
| 9781496220257 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 258pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 117.95 (inc. GST), AUD 107.23 (ex. GST),
The essays included in Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa celebrate MarioVargas Llosa’s visits to the City College of New York, the creation of theCátedra Vargas Llosa in his honor, and the interests of the Peruvian author inreading and books. This volume contains previously unpublished material...
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Thompson, Lauren K.
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(2020)
| 9781496202451 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 228pp | Availability last checked: 2/8/2020
AUD 107.95 (inc. GST), AUD 98.14 (ex. GST),
During the American Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers commonlyfraternized, despite strict prohibitions from the high command. When soldiersfound themselves surrounded by privation, disease, and death, many risked theirstanding in the army and ultimately their lives in exchange for a warm cup...
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Lamb, Chris. Washburn, Patrick S.
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(2020)
| 9781496220233 | University of Nebraska Press | hbk. | book | 282pp | Availability last checked: 1/7/2020
AUD 117.95 (inc. GST), AUD 107.23 (ex. GST),
Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present,and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalismchronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration,racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasterschanged...
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Haveman, Christopher D.
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(2020)
| 9781496219541 | University of Nebraska Press | pbk. | book | 438pp | Availability last checked: 1/7/2020
AUD 68.95 (inc. GST), AUD 62.68 (ex. GST),
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns andvillages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, andFlorida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territorythrough treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who...
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