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University of Nebraska Press has been a publisher of exemplary scholarly and popular books for more than sixty years, and is a member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln community. They primarily publish non-fiction books and scholarly journals, along with a few titles per season in contemporary and regional prose and poetry. Through the presses' paperback imprint, Bison Books, they publish reprints of classic books of myriad genres. A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. ... A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily) has several related meanings: a daily record of events or business; a private journal is usually referred to as a diary. ... The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000, or a group of 10 000 people, etc. ...


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Prairie Schooner is a national literary magazine published quarterly by the University of Nebraska Press. ...

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  • University of Nebraska Press Webpage


 
 

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