Authors:Ladette Randolph, Nina Shevchuk-Murray,
Publisher: Bison Book
Keywords: writers, nonfiction, nebraska, contemporary, empty
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 080329011X
ISBN-13: 9780803290112

A vast, barren landscape or a place of subtle natural beauty; the middle of nowhere or the gateway to the cultural and historical riches of the West; many things to many people and a cipher to many more—the great state of Nebraska is by force of circumstances a place of possibilities. What these possibilities are and what they promise are precisely what the writers of The Big Empty tell us. Exploring the state from its rural reaches to its urban engines, from its marvelous ecosystems to its myriad historical and cultural offerings, these narratives evoke Nebraska in all its facets. Write

Authors:Donald R. Hickey, Susan A Wunder, Prof. John R. Wund
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: new, moments, nebraska
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2007-12-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0803260393
ISBN-13: 9780803260399

Nebraska author Mari Sandoz remarked that most people see Nebraska as “that long flat state that sets between me and any place I want to go.” If so, they’re missing plenty, as this entertaining volume makes abundantly clear. Susan A. Wunder and John R. Wunder’s new, expanded, and updated edition of Donald R. Hickey’s classic account of defining Nebraska moments showcases triumph, tragedy, comedy, and accomplishments that could have happened nowhere else and that reveal the rich culture and history under the state’s deceptively quiet surface. There are moments that shine—surviving

Author: Denis Boyles
Publisher: Doubleday
Keywords: america, heartland, values, sense, nebraska, common, superior
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-02-12
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0385516746
ISBN-13: 9780385516747

Since the days of “Bleeding Kansas,” people from someplace else have been telling midwesterners how to live, how to vote, and what to believe. In Superior Nebraska, Denis Boyles explodes the myth that hapless Midwesterners have been duped into voting against their own economic interests in order to support right-wing crusades mounted by wily conservatives. Every election cycle, the angry people who live on America’s blue coasts smugly ridicule those who live in the mystifying heartland of their own country, an exotic, faraway place many of them have seen only from the window of an aircra

Author: Patricia C. Crews--Crews is first authorRonald C.
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: quiltmakers, quilts, nebraska
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0803263465
ISBN-13: 9780803263468

Valued as practical household items, admired as works of painstaking artistic creation, cherished as family heirlooms, our quilts also tell much about who we are, how we live, and what we believe. The 103 quilts featured here (all drawn from the Nebraska Quilt Project survey) exemplify more than a century and a quarter of quiltmaking, from the territorial period to the 1980s. The descriptions of the patterns, materials, and quiltmaking techniques are rounded out with biographical sketches of the quiltmakers—women, children, and men whose stories are as varied as the quilts they made. Quiltmak

Authors:Virginia Murphy-Berman, John J. Berman,
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: cultural, differences, perspectives, cross, volume, symposium, motivation, nebraska
Number of Pages: 341
Published: 2003-12-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0803213336
ISBN-13: 9780803213333

Cross-Cultural Difference in Perspectives on the Self features the latest research in a dynamic area of inquiry and practice. Considered in these pages are cross-cultural differences in the idea of the person and in models of balancing obligations to the self, family, and community. Revisiting and questioning the concepts of self and self-worth, the authors investigate the extent to which factors traditionally associated with psychological effectiveness (intrinsic motivation; assuming personal responsibility for one’s actions; and feeling in control, unique, hopeful, and optimistic) are cul

Author: Ann Heinrichs
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Keywords: land, nebraska
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2003-08
List price: $28.65
ISBN-10: 0756503566
ISBN-13: 9780756503567

Describes the history, geography, government, economics, and people of Nebraska.

Author: Merrill J. Mattes
Publisher: National Park Service
Keywords: scotts, bluff, historical, handbook, monument, national, nebraska
Number of Pages: 68
Published: 1985-04-18
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0912627573
ISBN-13: 9780912627571

Describes the early exploration of Scotts Bluff by fur traders and the events that led to the establishment of the Scotts Bluff National Monument in Nebraska.  Also includes a guide to the area and suggested readings.