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'The long now conditions permit confronts the persistent brutalities of our world through poetry ...

In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, vision...

The Lake Tahoe Basin is both a natural treasure and a complex case study in environmental managem...

Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity brings together n...

On a San Francisco street corner in 1953, aspiring painter and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti shook h...

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on...

Few estates born from the discovery of the Comstock Lode still survive. Among the grandest, Bower...

In the late 1970s the golden valley between Utah's Wasatch Mountains was home to some of the best...

A grieving mother ghost-hunts in Virginia City. A college student's field trip to the Moonlite Bu...

Amarisa's Cooking Pot: Tales of Life in All Its Wonders is a riveting collection whose worlds col...

Dr. Norah Waters is approaching sixty-five and eager to retire, but complications keep disrupting...

Like Friends, Like Foes offers a comprehensive analysis of how Nevada residents responded and rea...

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he describe...

Celebrating 25 Years of Gunning for Ho

The Stars That Fell infuses poetry with a new meaning for modern Nevada and the American West. Us...

Look. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as t...

The first biography of an eighteenth-century Basque immigrant who became a silver miner, a cattle...

In 1868, the discovery of an exceptionally rich silver ore on Treasure Hill in eastern Nevada led...

Atlas of Nevada Conifers is a major scientific contribution to our understanding of the ecology o...

Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s pa...

Wallace Stegner is one of the finest American writers, teachers and environmentalists of the 20th...

The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has receiv...

More than forty million visitors per year travel to Sin City to visit the gambling mecca of the w...

Sonoma is one of Northern California’s most desirable places to live and a popular tourist destin...

David Strohmaier's long career as a firefighter has given him intimate knowledge of wildfire and ...

For thousands of Italian Americans, Las Vegas has amply fulfilled the American dream. In this fas...

Addresses our ambivalence about fire and the realities of loss to it. This book examines the proc...

In this lively, playful celebration of the joys and power of language, Gorrell points to all the ...

Ann Ronald found a career and a home when she moved to Reno to teach at the University of Nevada....

In 1950, Velma Johnston, a shy Nevada ranch wife, came upon a horse trailer leaking blood. When s...

From the girl in Red Cloud, who oversaw the construction of a miniature town in her backyard, to ...

This edited collection showcases an international mix of activist scholars who maintain that a ve...

Lyman 'Bean' Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota...

In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque vill...

Master storyteller Don Waters returns to the desert in his third book set in the American Southwe...

'The Weight of Gold tells the story of the rise of Canadian gold mining and its environmental con...

In eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American West, examining ...

In a fascinating text, the author examines the history of a tradition that is truly unique and co...

The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes th...

This book provides a challenging look at current feminist criticism as well as ecocriticism and t...

During the 1920s, a rabies epidemic swept across northern Nevada, decimating wildlife and livesto...

The first comprehensive source of information about one of the Great Basin's most vital plant fam...

First published in 1985, Cattle in the Cold Desert has deservedly become a classic in the environ...

The senior years can be daunting, for spouses, children, other caregivers, and seniors themselves...

Greening the Lyre covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. David W. G...

This work examines the rapid economic growth of Spain's Bilbao region during its massive exportat...

Demonstrates how Basque nationalism was shaped by the many forms and historical phases of the Spa...