Nebraska Books

I think this book is a valuable read for anyone who is studying not only hockey culture, but violence in sports. I highly recommend reading this in conjunction with Robidoux's 'Men at Play' to gain good idea of hockey players' early developmental experiences, the unglamorized aspects of the sport, and other things that don't make it to ESPN.

James Work presents samples of different genre to illustrate the fascination of and with the American West expressed in writing. His collection of personal accounts, fiction, and poetry stretching from early Spanish explorers to the twentieth century goes beyond the formulary, stereotyical Western story, providing the serious inquirer with an in-depth look at the land, its stories, and its inhabitants. The background information Work includes in the introduction to each section is worth "the price of admission" and is, in fact, a major reason I have decided to use it as the main textbook for a course on the topic this Fall.

I am a mother of 2 singletons (a boy and a girl) as well as twin boys - I have a background in Special Education and Early Childhood Dev. I run a day care now from my home and care for multiples as well as raising my own. I have multiples in the Sunday School class I teach as well as have been a board member and officer of our local twins club for 10 years. I found this book very enlightening and confirming that even as twins (multiples) our children are individuals and MUST be treated as such. That we must NOT have expectations of them any differently than we would have our singleton children. It helped me confirm my thoughts that they are NOT ONE but separate persons in ALL ways and must be allowed to develop as a single child would. That we must allow them to define their relationship w/ one another as well as the world around them in their own way with our guidance. That how we (extended family, friends, neighbors, society, schools, etc.) treat them DOES affect them individually as well as in their TWINSHIP for their entire lives. It gave me the knowledge and confidence to help my children navigate into and through their world at THEIR rate and not allow others to tell me (or them) what was best for them when they did not know my children, their twinship relationship and what was needed to allow them to be successful in it. It helped confirm for me that our multiples will not necessarily develop at the same rate (although they may) and we would be incorrect in assuming, or expecting that they will - just as all children they will walk and talk, potty train, and separate from their parents when and only when THEY are ready - they may or may not do so at the same times and that how WE treat them as individuals as well as twins (multiples) WILL affect this developmental rate. I found this book VERY HELPFUL in my new roll in parenting to confirm and show through it's many examples and case studies that our multiples MUST be allowed to define their own places in each others lives and the world around them. That COMPARING them to one another or anyone else IS (can be) detrimental to their healthy development - that we MUST allow them to be whatever or whomever they choose weather or not they are choosing the same or differently from one another. This book shows a vast number of examples from birth to adulthood, at different stages of development in varied environments of how multiples (twins)interact w/ one another and their world. How they develop similarly as well as differently. My twins - now 10 - as well as my older children have read parts of this book and too find it enlightening and confirming for them. There is 10 years difference between my youngest singleton and my twins - the book came in very handy through the teen years w/ my older children as well as for my husband and myself to help us all understand the TWINSHIP relationship or our sons - their younger siblings and how we could be a part of it but that we must too understand that there ARE parts of that TWINSHIP that we will never be a part of and should not expect to be - nor be offended that WE are NOT invited in. EXCELLENT BOOK - well researched and written.

A crisp, clear edition of the famous play about a whoremastering Captain who, because his Shropshire lass stoops to conquer, winds up manning a playhouse.

Along with the many photographs of this much-photographed Sioux leader is a well-delineated explanation of his long career and relationship with the federal government in negotiations for the betterment of his people. He used his public persona to gain understanding and awareness of the plight of the Indians, exiled to reservations and continuously betrayed by the bureaucracies in Washington, D. C. Handsome and proud, he knew the value of persistence and publicity. A reader who has not yet been introduced to the history of the Plains Indians can catch a glimpse of the frustration of the Sioux by machinations of the government, beginning with the Treaty of Fort Laramie and leading to the tragedy of the Battle of Wounded Knee. This is certainly not a complete history, but it is a good beginning.

Goble's drawings bring everything to life. He has a true feeling for our Native American heritage in this country.

This book is an extended, annotated bibliography of the principle religious-controversial, theological and related literature published by Englishmen in the sixteenth century. If I remember correctly (I don't have the book in front of me) it includes works in both English and Latin, and published both at home and abroad. Full title and bibliographic information is provided along with, in most cases, a brief description of the publication in question. Organization is roughly chronological, but within the major sections, Milward groups his material by topical thread (e.g. works pertaining to the Jewel / Harding debate, the Campion episode, Hooker's career, etc.) This is not a complete index, but does seem to contain all the important works of interest in studying the major chapters of 16th-century English religious history, and many of the minor publications.

This book represents a true service to scholarship in the field, and should be very useful to anyone doing historical research, anyone looking to get a handle on the (often baroque) ins and outs of Reformation-era controversial literature, or even students of English literature who want to get better acquainted with what was, after all, the main channel of English learning for most of the century.

Milward also put together a companion volume, "Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age."

(A few reflections after using this book: (1) It's amazing how far back the various themes and dialectical strategies of Reformation theological debate go: you almost get the impression that everything essential was said (at least in essence) before the first generation of reformers passed away. (2) What a shame so much learning, and so much potential for compromise, was wasted on fruitless invective! What a shame that questions of eccesiology were so often wrapped up with questions of politics! (3) It's depressing that all this mass of writing is read today only by a few historians or (maybe) theologians, if them. There have to be some buried treasures here, right?)

American humorist James Thurber (1894 - 1961) brought us Walter Mitty, and now freelance journalist Neil Grauer brings us James Thurber in all his comic and caustic complexity.

A native of Ohio and graduate of Ohio State University, Thurber began as a code clerk in the Department of State. After working as a journalist in Paris, he began a life-long association with New Yorker magazine, whose pages were brightened with Thurber's short stories and classic cartoons in which his misanthropy is often present as animals ape the behavior of humans and vice vera.

Always aware of the frailties and pratfalls of human beings as they faced life's predicaments, Thurber penned among others, "The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze" and "The Thurber Carnival." In 1940 he joined Eliot Nugent to write a drama of college life, "The Male Animal," which, along with other Thurber works, was made into a motion picture.

This funny man's last years were relentlessly bleak. Unable to cope with the loss of his sight, Thurber alienated many of his former colleagues with boring boasts of his past successes.

Grauer does not gloss over the humorist's flaws, instead presents a concise human portrait of one who brought laughter to the lives of many.

- Gail Cooke

I'm pleased to have William Kloefkorn's second volume of his memoir. He writes as he speaks, with humor. His memoir, tied to the four elements, is creative and a novel way to view a life through an illustrative story. I'm never disappointed in reading Kloefkorn.

Thorough and well-written, Willig approaches areas of the subject matter other authors have yet to address. Exceptional research and unbiased presentation of Native Americans and their British counterparts; a must-have for any history classroom and educator.