Author: Beth Boosalis Davi
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Keywords: life, politics, mother, boosalis, helen, mayor
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0803217404
ISBN-13: 9780803217409

As a 1950s housewife and League of Women Voters volunteer who spearheaded the city of Lincoln s switch to a strong mayor form of government, Helen Boosalis never anticipated that she herself would one day be that strong mayor and chief executive of Nebraska s capital city.Helen Boosalis s story, told by her daughter, Beth Boosalis Davis, is the story of a true pioneer of women in politics. The daughter of Greek immigrants, Boosalis achieved national prominence as the first woman president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and as an outspoken advocate for economically distressed cities facing Pr

Author: Hilary Masters
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Keywords: lives, american, essays, memory, rooms
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0803222718
ISBN-13: 9780803222717

This mature, exquisite collection of personal essays by Hilary Masters offers a rare pleasure. Here are meditations and reflections distilled in fine prose from a long and varied life musings that, in the distinguished tradition of essays carried on since the days of Montaigne, articulate the piquant insights of the writer s experience. In this collection, one of the most illustrious contemporary essayists transfigures incidents and observations into something far more a finely crafted window into the workings of experience and memory. Masters makes readers privy to a youthful love affair; an

Author: Douglas R. Parks
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Keywords: indians, vol, north, american, anthropology, studies, narratives, arikara, traditional
Number of Pages: 684
Published: 1991-06
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0803236980
ISBN-13: 9780803236981

Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks’s monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and rec

Author: Yitzhak Arad
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Keywords: holocaust, history, comprehensive, union, soviet
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0803220596
ISBN-13: 9780803220591

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II and the Holocaust (1941 45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews. Arad s examination of the differences between the Holocaust in the Soviet Union compared to other European nations reveals how Nazi ideological

Authors:Merce Rodoreda,  Martha Tennent,
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: novel, spring, death
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2009-05-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1934824119
ISBN-13: 9781934824115

Considered by many to be the grand achievement of her later period, Death in Spring is one of Merc

Author: Ricardas Gavelis
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press
Keywords: poker, vilnius
Number of Pages: 485
Published: 2009-01-14
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1934824054
ISBN-13: 9781934824054

Vytautas Vargalys is stuck in an absurd job, helping to create a digital catalog for a library in Soviet-ruled Vilnius that no one is allowed to access. A survivor of the labor camps, an experience which has left him both physically and mentally damaged, Vargalys is obsessed with finding out "what

Author: Bragi Olafsson
Publisher: Open Letter Books; Univ of Nebraska Press
Keywords: pets
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1934824011
ISBN-13: 9781934824016

From the bassist for The Sugarcubes comes this hilarious novel of cowardice, comeuppance, and assumed identity. Emil is back in Reykjavik from a trip to London. On the plane ride home he met a beautiful girl named Greta. He’s hoping Greta will call--and that she won’t call while he’s on the phone with his girlfriend, Vigdis. The moment he settles down at home, Havard, a drunken, violent lout from Emil’s past, shows up on his doorstep. Spying Havard through a window--and not wanting to have anything to do with him--Emil does the only sensible thing he can think of: he