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University of Nebraska Press Seeks Graphic Designer Applicants

The University of Nebraska Press seeks a graphic designer who can design 24 books and covers/jackets each year from manuscripts and design 10-12 Bison Book covers per year using InDesign. Minimum qualifications include bachelor's degree in commercial art plus one year of experience in the graphic arts field required; equivalency considered. Experience using InDesign and Photoshop or similar design / graphics software essential. Must have portfolio demonstrating design ability, including solid typography and page layout skills and a good sense of composition and color. Excellent communications skills and the ability to take direction and critique of work in a positive, constructive manner necessary. Must be able to adhere to schedules while juggling multiple projects in a highly timeline driven industry. Three years of experience in the graphic arts field is preferred. Apply online through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln job site by searching for requisition number 080605.

New Series Announcement!

   

New March Books

New this month from the University of Nebraska Press (and 25% off, too!): a new Montana novel by Mary Clearman Blew, a memoir about two bicycle trips across the West taken twenty years apart, the tale of a one-man kayaking adventure from central Idaho to the Pacific Ocean, a paperback edition of the 2008 One Book, One Nebraska selection, Restoring the Burnt Child by William Kloefkorn, plus much more. Learn more about all of our new March books here.

Barnes & Noble Highlights Two UNP Titles in Summer 2008 Discover Great New Writers Selections

We're proud to announce that Barnes & Noble has included two forthcoming UNP titles as Summer 2008 Discover Great New Writers Selections. Featured in promotions from May-July 2008 will be:

The Enders Hotel: A Memoir
By Brandon R. Schrand

“Gorgeously written and generous in its telling, Schrand’s memoir takes us deep into the heart of a boomtown gone bust and a family surviving on little more than stubbornness and a desire to do the next right thing. The Enders Hotel is a heartbroken love song to a time gone by, a place lost, and a people whose longings ring true long after the last page ends.”—Kim Barnes, author of In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country

Click here to read more about The Enders Hotel.

Bicycling beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West
By Daryl Farmer

“Bicycling beyond the Divide did what all great books do: it told me about me. In its tale of a journey made by two different men—both of them Daryl Farmer—this book offers us not only moving vistas and meaningful people, but also hope, that rarest of literary commodities these days. I didn't want this to end.”—Bret Lott, author of Jewel

Click here to read more about Bicycling beyond the Divide.

To read an excerpt from Bicycling beyond the Divide, click on the link below.

Download farmer_excerpt.pdf

Congratulations to Brandon R. Schrand and Daryl Farmer for receiving this honor!

Special Discount on New January Books

Purchase a new January book at 25% off and receive 25% off any other regularly-priced books.* Add JAN8 to the discount code field of your shopping cart and click "apply".

Featured New books:

Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam by Benjamin Franklin Cooling

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays edited and with an introduction by Susan Belasco, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth M. Price

Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability edited by C. Clare Hinrichs and Thomas A. Lyson

Now available in paperback:

Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia by Margaret Holmes Williamson

The Four Hills of Life: Northern Arapaho Knowledge and Life Movement by Jeffrey D. Anderson

Visit http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/pages/NewJan08.aspx for more information on all of our new books.

*cannot be combined with any other offer and does not apply to bargain books, journal subscriptions, or titles published by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements

New job opening

We are currently taking applications for the position of Archive Project Associate. This is an office/service level temporary position, eligible for full UNL benefits. The main responsibilities include coordinating our new electronic archive project and assisting the IT manager and computer support specialist with routine tasks. To see the full description and apply, please see the UNL employment website and search for requisition number 071030.

If you have any questions about this position, please contact Jana Faust by phone at 402-472-0171 or by email.

New December Books

New books this month from the University of Nebraska Press: a vegetarian vs. meat eater cookbook, an updated edition of Nebraska Moments, the story of eight young women driving across the American West in two Model T Fords, plus much more. Browse our new books here.

New November Books

New in November from the University of Nebraska Press: Willis Goth Regier's look at flattery, a new edition of Capital City by Mari Sandoz, a guide to urban sprawl, a history of the Apache warrior, Chevato, plus much more. Browse all of our new books here.

New in October

New in October from the University of Nebraska Press: the most recent winners of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry, a collection of Bill Littlefield's commentaries from the National Public Radio program, Only a Game, 151 recipes adapted for American measurements and markets from the Paris restaurant, Le Pré Verre, plus much more. Browse all of our new October books here.

Live in Omaha: Kooser to speak about Nebraska wonders

Nebraska poet and two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser will speak next Sunday, Oct. 14, at 1:00 p.m. at Sokol South Omaha (21st and U Streets). Kooser won’t be reading poetry, though. He’ll be reading from and discussing his memoir Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (UNP, 2002).

According to Newsday writer Dan Cryer, Local Wonders includes “eloquent meditations on country pleasures, the rhythms of the seasons and the lingering presence of Czech folk culture in rural Nebraska." In the book, Kooser’s first collection of prose, he describes with exquisite detail and humor the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska—an area also known as the Bohemian Alps—that he calls home.

The event is sponsored by and benefits the Omaha Czech Cultural Club. Admission is $4 for adults and free for children 12 and younger.

Local Wonders won the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction in 2003 and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection in 2002. The book also won the Gold Award for Autobiography in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards.

If you want to learn more about Kooser or would like to read a sampling of his poetry, check out his website www.tedkooser.com/. Other books of his published by UNP include The Poetry Home Repair Manual, The Blizzard Voices, and Writing Brave and Free.