"If you care about college sports and how they intersect with real life, this book is worth adding to your summer reading list," writes Jonathan Beecher Field of THE IMPERIAL GRIDIRON for @ExtraPointsMB.

"Shragai deserves high praise for producing an accessible and smart ethnography of US American identity formation in Cold War-era Costa Rica."—Carmen Coury, H-LatAm. Save 50% on this book and more:

UNP authors Pamela Smith Hill (TOO GOOD TO BE ALTOGETHER LOST) and Jacob K. Friefeld (THE FIRST MIGRANTS, @BisonBooksUNP) will be at LauraPalooza from July 8-11!

RT @MiddleWestRev: Professor Rick Galusha of Bellevue University in Nebraska reads his new issue of Middle West Review! @BellUeSports @Univ….

RT @ChinuaEzenwa: The Naming of @AfricanPoetryBF to be published by @UnivNebPress is recognised by @PublishersWkly as one of the anticipate….

Inspired by the relative chaos found in the origin of things, @OburumuTares' poems in ORIGINS OF THE SYMA SPECIES explore how the beauty of chaos binds us to our ancestral roots. Get books 50% off during our Summer Sale:

"[Zumwalt] produced a generational biography that constitutes a vital source for subsequent scholarship, both on Franz Boas and for understanding the complexities of Boasian influences on historic and contemporary societies," writes Brian Gobbett for @BCstudies.

The essays in ALL I FEEL IS RIVERS by Robert Vivian showcase the surprising connectivity between the sacred and profane, uncovered by associative drifting. Save 50% during our Summer Reading Sale:

In JAMES COWLES PRICHARD OF THE RED LODGE Margaret M. Crump offers the first in-depth biography of the early Victorian British scientist James Cowles Prichard (1786–1848). Save 40% when you order now:

RT @GavinWoltjer: I truly marvel at what @BonomoJoe created with this book. It’s not so much a #biography of Roger Angell as it is a biogra….

Need a book rec? Here's a list of titles our staff read in June!

If you're attending #SABR53, don't forget to stop by UNP's table in the Exhibitior's Room!

"I Was Surprised by the Good Nature of the Students.". Free article on student anti-war protests, available now from the latest issue of the Middle West Review:

Through gallows humor, vivid realism, and fantastical speculation, HOW TO SURVIVE DEATH AND OTHER INCONVENIENCES by @SueSilverman explores this fear of death and the author’s desire to survive it. Save 50% during our Summer Reading Sale:

"[TRUTH AND POWER IN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY] provides an eye-opening overview of methodological and ethical issues in American archaeology in the last 30 years," writes the American Archaeology Magazine (@tac_org). Order a copy:

Excerpt: TONGUES OF SETTLEMENT by Blake Allmendinger. TONGUES OF SETTLEMENT traces the evolution of Basque American literature from its origins in medieval oral culture through the twenty-first century in the American West.

Those attending @sabr: Today, Larry R. Gerlach, author of LION OF THE LEAGUE, will be signing books at UNP's table in the Exhibitor's Hall from 11am-noon!

RT @MiddleWestRev: Call-for-Proposals: "THE MODERN MIDWEST, 1989-2025" @UnivNebPress @WhaHistory @MwHWG @AHAhistori….

BLOOD WILL TELL reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Save 50% during our Summer Reading Sale:

"This reviewer found this book to be not only a fascinating study of the evolution of EVAs, but also revealing how the men and women were chosen to perform spacewalks and how they trained for their tasks," writes Susan Raizer for @nss.