University Press of Kansas
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American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
America’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serenget
- Author: Flores, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: January 16, 2017
- ISBN10: 070062466X
- Language: English
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The Boundless Game: Soccer Stories from Across the Street to Around the World
$24.99 Add to cartA lifelong soccer player and award-winning author shows us how the sport transcends races, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences and brings us all closer together.
Tim Bascom spent half his childhood
- Author: Bascom, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0700641025
- Language: English
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Stories from the Phog: Forty Years of Kansas Basketball
$24.99 Read moreCome along on a 40-year journey of Kansas basketball through the eyes of a hoops fanatic.
It can be hard to describe the pull of Kansas basketball to those not in the know. Basketball is an important p
- Author: David, Chelan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0700640266
- Language: English
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Rise to Command: Black Military Officers’ Stories of Survival and Leadership from World War II Through the Cold War
$32.99 Add to cartAn intimate view of the triumphs and challenges experienced by Black officers in the twentieth century.
Rise to Command is a social history told in the words of seventeen Black military officers who gr
- Author: Hampton, Isaac W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638822
- Language: English
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A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
$29.99 Add to cartWith evocative storytelling and incisive research, Katie Rose Guest Pryal brings a new eye to the mental health crisis that higher education has faced for decades. Written from the perspective of a bi
- Series: Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia
- Author: Pryal, Katie Rose Guest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0700636331
- Language: English
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A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education
$29.99 Add to cartWith evocative storytelling and incisive research, Katie Rose Guest Pryal brings a new eye to the mental health crisis that higher education has faced for decades. Written from the perspective of a bi
- Series: Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia
- Author: Pryal, Katie Rose Guest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0700636331
- Language: English
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Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
$27.99 Add to cartThe wild plants in this book tell stories of land, people, and food. As renowned botanist Kelly Kindscher guides us through over one hundred edible plants in this beautiful field guide, we find that f
- Author: Kindscher, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: November 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0700637028
- Language: English
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1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times
$32.99 Add to cartFrom pro wrestling and Pok?mon to Insane Clown Posse and Jerry Springer, this look at the low culture of the late ’90s reveals its profound impact and how it continues to affect our culture and societ
- Series: Politics and Popular Culture
- Author: Benes, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638571
- Language: English
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Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth about Alger Hiss
$34.99 Add to cartA revelatory political history that uncovers the innocence of alleged Communist spy Alger Hiss and points a finger at who was really behind one of the most sensational and divisive accusations of the
- Author: Kisseloff, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638334
- Language: English
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Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City
$32.99 Add to cartFormer Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local go
- Author: Miner, Stephanie A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0700638288
- Language: English
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
$27.99 Add to cartThe Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.
White settlers did learn a few pl
- Author: Kindscher, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 1992
- ISBN10: 0700605274
- Language: English
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Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail
$24.99 Add to cartBrian Daldorph first entered the Douglas County Jail classroom in Lawrence, Kansas, to teach a writing class on Christmas Eve 2001. His last class at the jail for the foreseeable future was mid-March … [more below]
- Author: Daldorph, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0700632166
- Language: English
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Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America’s War in Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartIn 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and search and rescue teams from all services and Air Americ… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Whitcomb, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0700630066
- Language: English
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Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain Between Indian and American
$49.48 Add to cartIn the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and another champion Hopi runner, Philip Zeyouma, were soundl… [more below]
- Series: Culture America (Hardcover)
- Author: Sakiestewa Gilbert, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0700626980
- Language: English
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Last Wild Places of Kansas: Journeys Into Hidden Landscapes
$24.99 Add to cartSince the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, f
- Author: Frazier, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0700624821
- Language: English
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Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military Experience
$27.99 Add to cart“It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,” Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars. In Doughboys on the Great War the voices of thousands of s… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Guti?rrez, Edward A
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0700624449
- Language: English
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The Confederacy’s Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville
$32.99 Add to cartFollowing the fall of Atlanta, rebel commander John Bell Hood rallied his demoralized troops and marched them off the Tennessee, desperately hoping to draw Sherman after him and forestall the Confeder… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Sword, Wiley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 18 1993
- ISBN10: 0700606505
- Language: English
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My Flint Hills: Observations and Reminiscences from America’s Last Tallgrass Prairie
$37.99 Add to cartBetween the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie that once ranged from Canada to Texas, and on those … [more below]
- Author: Hoy, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629939
- Language: English
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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why
$27.99 Add to cartThe Warren Commission’s major conclusion was that Lee Harvey Oswald was the “lone assassin” of President John F. Kennedy. Gerald McKnight rebuts that view in a meticulous and devastating dissection of… [more below]
- Author: McKnight, Gerald D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: October 04 2005
- ISBN10: 0700619399
- Language: English
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Hell, No, We Didn’t Go!: Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance
$29.99 Add to cartAs long as there have been wars, there has been conscription. And conscription has never been popular.
When asked in a Gallup poll taken in August 1965 whether the US decision to send troops to Vietnam
- Author: Greenbaum, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0700636307
- Language: English
