University of Nebraska Books

I absolutely love this book and I am just reading it through for the second time. The grammar and format take a bit to get used to but the descriptions of her time homesteading are just fascinating. I am encouraged by her stories of living in a sod house and raising children there. She perseveres and then finds her "voice" in the politics of the time. Wonderful read!

This book is great if you want to know about the gold rushes of America. She organized it in good ways to keep the different aspects of the rushes interesting.

Along with Paul Schullery, who not long ago penned the insightful and important Searching for Yellowstone, and Richard West Sellars, author of the definitive history of science in the U.S. National Park System titled Preserving Nature in the National Parks, Jim Pritchard has established himself as one of the premier observers on the often perilous collision course between science and politics. While Pritchard's Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Politics and the Perception of Nature is destined to become required reading for university environmental studies programs‹as well it should‹it is a lively and entertaining read for anyone who loves our national parks, but in particular the mother of parks, Yellowstone. He deserves praise for a fine piece of work.

Pan has produced the defining text on german literature and the late renaissance - this is without doubt the only book on the market which has present value.

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.