Las Vegas, and Current Vice-President of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley Branch, Michael P. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801856914 456 pages paperback $33 Pub Date: 4/6/1998

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This is an anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing about one of America's premier regions—the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Michael P. Branch is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Daniel J. Philippon is a Ph.D. candidate in the English at the University of Virginia.

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Author location: Reno NV (Michael P. Branch - University of Nevada, Reno)

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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Volume 30 - the Geography of Enlightenment Erwin, Timothy (editor) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801866746 320 pages hardcover $40 Pub Date: 4/30/2001

Author picture: Always interdisciplinary, the field of eighteenth-century studies has recently become genuinely international. To reflect this global emphasis, this volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture gathers four essays under the rubric of The Geography of Enlightenment.

Timothy Erwin is an associate professor of British literature at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and current vice-president of the Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Ourida Mostefai is an associate professor of Romance languages and literatures at Boston College.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (Timothy Erwin - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Erwin, Timothy and Burnham, Michelle (editors) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421413761 300 pages hardcover $45 Pub Date: 3/26/2014 24 figures

Author picture: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture reflects new and highly promising directions of research in the field.

Timothy Erwin is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He also edited volumes 28–30 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Michelle Burnham is a professor of English at Santa Clara University. She is author of Folded Selves: Colonial American Writing in the World System and editor of A Separate Star: Selected Writings of Helen Hunt Jackson.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (Timothy Erwin - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Adventures of a Female Medical Detective: In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS Guinan, Mary (with Anne D. Mather) Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421439815 144 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 8/3/2021 13 halftones, 1 line drawing

Author picture: In Adventures of a Female Medical Detective, Guinan weaves together twelve vivid stories of her life in medicine, describing her individual experiences in controlling outbreaks, researching new diseases, and caring for patients the world over.

Mary Guinan, PhD, MD (INCLINE VILLAGE, NV), is the founding dean emerita of the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She was the first woman to serve as the chief scientific advisor to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anne D. Mather (HOSCHTON, GA) was the managing editor of the CDC newsletter, the MMWR, during the years when smallpox was eradicated and AIDS was discovered.

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Author location: Incline Village NV (Mary Guinan)

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A Fractured Profession: Commercialism and Conflict in Academic Science Johnson, David R. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421423531 192 pages hardcover $49.95 Pub Date: 9/22/2017 1 line drawing

Author picture: Exploring the growing division among academic scientists over a profit motive in research.

David R. Johnson is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Holy Hills of the Ozarks: Religion and Tourism in Branson, Missouri Ketchell, Aaron K. Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801886607 344 pages hardcover $35 Pub Date: 8/15/2007 26 b&w photos

Author picture: In this lively and engaging study, Ketchell explores Branson's unique blend of religion and recreation. He explains how the city became a mecca of conservative Christianity—a place for a spiritual vacation—and how, through conscious effort, its residents and businesses continuously reinforce its inextricable connection with the divine.

Aaron K. Ketchell, who writes on American popular religion, teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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The Practice of Satire in England, 1658-1770 Marshall, Ashley Johns Hopkins University Press . 9781421419855 456 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 4/26/2016

Author picture: An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century.

Ashley Marshall is an associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Swift and History: Politics and the English Past

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Policy and Performance in American Higher Education: An Examination of Cases across State Systems Richardson Jr., Richard and Martinez, Mario Johns Hopkins University Press . 9780801891618 282 pages hardcover $50 Pub Date: 5/5/2009

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Policy and Performance in American Higher Education presents a new approach to understanding how public policy influences institutional performance, with practical insight for those charged with crafting and implementing higher education policy.

Richard Richardson, Jr., is a professor of higher education at New York University and senior author of Designing State Higher Education Systems for a New Century. Mario Martinez is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and author of Postsecondary Participation and State Policy: Meeting the Future Demand.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (Mario Martinez - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Slings & Slingstones: The Forgotton Weapons of Oceania and the Americas York, Robert and York, Gigi Kent State University Press . 9781606351079 224 pages hardcover $55 Pub Date: 1/31/2012

Author picture: A fascinating examination of an overlooked weapon.

Robert York and Gigi York are fellows of the University of Wyoming's Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology in Laramie. They also hold research associate appointments at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City and at the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands Museum of History and Culture in Saipan. Between them, they share some sixty years of professional experience in the fields of archaeology, museum collections, and cultural resources management. They have written and published numerous reports and articles about their work.

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Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast Stiles, Erin E. and Thompson, Katrina Daly (editors) Ohio University Press . 9780821421871 400 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 10-15-2015

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In Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean, anthropologists, historians, linguists, and gender studies scholars examine Islam, sexuality, gender, and marriage on the Swahili coast and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean.

Erin E. Stiles is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she chairs the minor program in religious studies. Her research interests include Islam and law in East Africa. Katrina Daly Thompson is associate professor in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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Author location: Reno NV (Erin E. Stiles)

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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer Bowers, John M. Oxford University Press . 9780198842675 336 pages hardcover $32.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2019 15 Illustrations

Author picture: Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. It reveals how major episodes from the trilogy were inspired by Tolkien's editing and teaching of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

John M. Bowers is an internationally known scholar of medieval English literature with books on Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet. Educated at Duke, Virginia, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he taught at Caltech and Princeton before settling at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. His work has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Great Courses released his lecture series The Discount: Western Literary Canon in Context. 0.45 Distro: OUP Group: Redsides

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada Las Vegas)

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A Twenty-First Century US Water Policy Christian-Smith, Juliet / Gleick, Peter H. / Cooley, Heather / Allen, Lucy / Vanderwarker, Amy / Berry, Kate A. Oxford University Press . 9780190490874 360 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2016

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With fascinating case studies and first-person accounts of what helps and hinders good water management, this is a clear-eyed look at what we need for a 21st century U.S. water policy.

Juliet Christian-Smith is Senior Research Associate of the Water Program at the Pacific Institute. Peter H. Gleick is Co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute. Heather Cooley is Co-director of the Water Program at the Pacific Institute. Lucy Allen is a former Research Associate with the Water Program at the Pacific Institute and current law student at the University of California, Berkeley. Amy Vanderwarker is Co-coordinator of the California Environmental Justice Alliance. Kate A. Berry is Discount: Professor of Geography and Director of the Core Curriculum at the University of 0.25 Nevada, Reno. Distro: OUP Group: Redsides

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Pragmatism and Justice Dieleman, Susan / Rondel, David / Voparil, Christopher Oxford University Press . 9780190459246 352 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 4/21/2017

Author picture: The essays in this volume answer to anxieties that the pragmatist tradition has had little to say about justice.

Susan Dieleman is Assistant Professor (with term) in the department of philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. She specializes in Social and Political Philosophy, Pragmatism, and Feminist Philosophy. She has published essays in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, The Pluralist, Social Philosophy Today, and Social Epistemology. David Rondel is Assistant Professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno. His areas of research specialization include egalitarianism, theories of distributive justice, Marx and Marxism, and American pragmatist political theory. He has published widely in Discount: these areas. His essays have appeared, among other places, in The Journal of 0.25 Philosophical Research, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, The Canadian Distro: Journal of Philosophy, and Contemporary Pragmatism. Christopher Voparil is on the Graduate Faculty of Union Institute & University, where he teaches philosophy and OUP political theory. He is author of Richard Rorty: Politics and Vision (2006) and co- Group: editor of The Rorty Reader (2010). He has been a Fulbright Scholar and is founding Redsides President of the Richard Rorty Society.

Author location: Reno NV (David Rondel - University of Nevada, Reno)

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The Masses are the Ruling Classes: Policy Romanticism, Democratic Populism, and Social Welfare in America Epstein, William Oxford University Press . 9780190467067 280 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 4/7/2017

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The Masses are the Ruling Classes argues that popular sentiments rule social decision making and that elites are essentially obedient to democratic preferences, and not the other way around. The US is deeply committed to a series of values— extreme individualism, emotional sources of truth, and a sense of chosenness—that stunt its social development. These ideas are developed in the context of iconic social welfare programs.

William Epstein, DSW, MSW, is Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Social Work. Dr. Epstein has authored nine books and scores of articles, reviews, and research monographs. He has over 30 years of university teaching and Discount: 15 years of experience in community organization and development, public 0.20 administration, and policy research. Distro: OUP Group: Redsides

Author location: Las Vegas NV

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On trial for reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair Finocchiaro, Maurice A. Oxford University Press . 9780198797920 304 pages hardcover $32.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2019 22 black and white images

Author picture: Maurice Finocchiaro considers the trial of Galileo by the Roman Inquisition in 1633, weighing up the views of both sides and presenting an account that incorporates historical context, science, theology, and philosophy. He also considers the legacy and continuing cultural afterlife of this remarkable episode in the history of science.

Maurice Finocchiaro is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B. S., 1964) and of the University of California-Berkeley (Ph.D., 1969); now Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus), University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation (1976-77 and 1998-2002), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1983-84 and 1992-95), the American Council of Learned Societies (1991-92), the Guggenheim Foundation Discount: (1998-99), and the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2008). His 0.45 books include Galileo and the Art of Reasoning (1980), Defending Copernicus and Distro: Galileo: Critical Reasoning in the Two Affairs (2010), Arguments about Arguments (2005), and Meta-argumentation (2013). OUP Group: Redsides

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada Las Vegas)

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Getting Your Child Back to School: A Parent's Guide to Solving School Attendance Problems - Revised and Updated Edition Kearney, Christopher A. Oxford University Press . 9780197547496 256 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2021

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A collection of accessible and scientifically proven strategies for parents struggling with school attendance problems in children of all ages.

Christopher A. Kearney, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Director of the UNLV Child School Refusal and Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Dr. Kearney's research interests include school attendance problems, selective mutism, posttraumatic stress disorder in maltreated youth, perfectionism, and other anxiety-related conditions in children and adolescents. He has published several books and numerous book chapters and journal articles on these topics. Discount: 0.45 Distro: OUP Group: BRG

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers An Evidence-Based and Practical Guide for Professionals Kearney, Christopher A. Oxford University Press . 9780199985296 168 pages paperback $35 Pub Date: 5/27/2016

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Managing School Absenteeism at Multiple Tiers provides an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing, and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism at multiple levels of severity and complexity.

Christopher A. Kearney, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also the Director of the UNLV Child School Refusal and Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Dr. Kearney's research interests include school refusal behavior, selective mutism, posttraumatic stress disorder in maltreated youth, perfectionism, and other anxiety-related conditions in children and adolescents as well as issues of quality of life in persons with severe handicaps. He Discount: has published several books and numerous book chapters and journal articles on 0.20 these topics. Distro: OUP Group: Redsides

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing, A Graphic History Kirk, Andrew G. Oxford University Press . 9780199375905 384 pages paperback $24.99 Pub Date: 9/30/2016 Illustrated by Kristian Purcell. Graphic History Series

Author picture: The history of atomic testing is usually told as a story about big technology, big science, and complex global politics. Doom Towns: The People and Landscapes of Atomic Testing explains critical technological developments and the policies that drove weapons innovation within the context of the specific environments and communities where testing actually took place.

Andrew G. Kirk is Professor of Environmental and Western History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is a coauthor of American Horizons (OUP, 2010), author of Counterculture Green (2007) and Collecting Nature (2001), and a Principal Investigator on the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project. Kristian Purcell is an artist and illustrator based in Bedford, United Kingdom. Discount: 0.20 Distro: OUP Group: Redsides

Author location: Las Vegas NV (U of Nevada Las Vegas)

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Pal Joey: The History of a Heel Lindberg, Julianne Oxford University Press . 9780190051204 288 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2020

Author picture: Pal Joey: The History of a Heel presents a behind-the-scenes look at the genesis, influence, and significance of this classic musical comedy.

Julianne Lindberg is Assistant Professor of Musicology at The University of Nevada, Reno. Her research interests include musical theater, musical modernism in Europe and the U.S., and children's musical cultures. Dr. Lindberg is also an avid and experienced clarinetist. She performs frequently with the Reno Philharmonic and with local chamber groups.

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Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice Reed-Sandoval, Amy Oxford University Press . 9780190619817 240 pages paperback $35 Pub Date: 1/23/2020 Philosophy of Race.

Author picture: Socially Undocumented offers a new vision of immigration justice that focuses on socially undocumented identity in the United States.

Amy Reed-Sandoval is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on themes in political philosophy, Latin American and Latinx philosophy, feminist philosophy, and bioethics. She is the founding director of the Oaxaca Philosophy for Children Initiative in Oaxaca City, Mexico, and the Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands program in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in National Parks Rothman, Hal K. Oxford University Press . 9780195311167 336 pages hardcover $65 Pub Date: 4/12/2007

Author picture: National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management.

Hal K. Rothman (1958-2007) was professor of history, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a leading historian of the American West.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (U of Nevada Las Vegas)

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Reading American Horizons Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume I Schaller, Michael / Thomas Greenwood, Janette / Kirk, Andrew / Purcell, Sarah / Sheehan-Dean, Aaron / Snyder, Christina Oxford University Press . 9780190698034 128 pages paperback $19.95

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Designed specifically to accompany American Horizons, Third Edition (OUP, 2018). Diverse collection of primary sources. Mixture of both visual and text sources. Each document includes three reading questions

Michael Schaller (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1974) is Regents Professor of History at the University of Arizona where he has taught since 1974. His areas of specialization include U.S. international and East Asian relations and the resurgence of conservatism in late-20th century America. Among his publications are : Altered States: The United States and Japan Since the Occupation (OUP, 1997), The U.S. Discount: and China into the 21st Century (OUP, 2002), Right Turn: American Life in the 0.20 Reagan-Bush Era (OUP, 2007), and Ronald Reagan (OUP, 2011). Janette Thomas Distro: Greenwood is Professor of History at Clark University (Ph. D. at the University of Virginia); specializes in African-American history and history of the U.S. South. OUP Books include: The Gilded Age: A History in Documents (Oxford University Press, Group: 2000) ; Bittersweet Legacy: The Black and White 'Better Classes in Charlotte, 1850 Redsides -1910 (University of North Carolina Press, 1994); First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search For Equality in Worcester, Author location: Las Vegas NV (Andrew Kirk - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Reading American Horizons Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II Schaller, Michael / Thomas Greenwood, Janette / Kirk, Andrew / Purcell, Sarah / Sheehan-Dean, Aaron / Snyder, Christina Oxford University Press . 9780190698041

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Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume II: Since 1865 Schaller, Michael; Thomas Greenwood, Janette; Kirk, Andrew; Purcell, Sarah J.; Sheehan-Dean, Aaron; Snyder, Christina Oxford University Press . 9780197530894 176 pages paperback $19.95

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Designed to accompany American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context, Fourth Edition, this two-volume sourcebook provides a diverse set of documents that situate U.S. History within a global context.

Michael Schaller is Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he has taught since 1974. His areas of specialization include U.S. international and East Asian relations and the resurgence of conservatism in late 20th-century America. Janette Thomas Greenwood is Professor of History at Clark University. She specializes in African American history and history of the U.S. South. Discount: Andrew Kirk is Professor and Chair of History at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 0.20 He specializes in the history of the U.S. West and environmental history. Sarah J. Distro: Purcell is L. F. Parker Professor of History at Grinnell College. She specializes in the early national period, antebellum United States, popular culture, politics, gender, and OUP military history. Aaron Sheehan-Dean is the Fred C. Frey Professor at Louisiana Group: State University. He specializes in the antebellum United States and the U.S. Civil Redsides War. Christina Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at The Pennsylvania State University. She researches colonialism, race, and slavery, with a Author location: Las Vegas NV (Andrew Kirk - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Reading American Horizons: Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume I: To 1877 Schaller, Michael; Thomas Greenwood, Janette; Kirk, Andrew; Purcell, Sarah J.; Sheehan-Dean, Aaron; Snyder, Christina Oxford University Press . 9780197531266 160 pages paperback $19.95

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Michael Schaller is Regents Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he has taught since 1974. Janette Thomas Greenwood is Professor of History at Clark University and specializes in African American history and history of the U.S. South. Andrew Kirk is Professor and Chair of History at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and specializes in the history of the U.S. West and Discount: environmental history. Sarah J. Purcell is L.F. Parker Professor of History at 0.20 Grinnell College. She specializes in the early national period, antebellum United Distro: States, popular culture, politics, gender, and military history. Aaron Sheehan-Dean is Chair and Fred C. Frey Professor r of History at Louisiana State University. He OUP specializes in civil war and reconstruction and history of the New South. Christina Group: Snyder is the McCabe Greer Professor of History at The Pennsylvania State Redsides University. She researches colonialism, race, and slavery, with a focus on Native North America from the pre-contact era through the nineteenth century. Author location: Las Vegas NV (Andrew Kirk - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Teaching Beginning Guitar Class: A Practical Guide Swick, Bill Oxford University Press . 9780190661922 224 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 10/18/2017

Author picture: Caters specifically to the non-guitar playing music instructor. Offers step-by-step guides to each week for the school year. Features questions from actual first-year classroom guitar teachers

Bill Swick currently teaches guitar for the twelve-time Grammy award winning Las Vegas Academy of the Arts and is the guitar task force chair for Clark County School District. Swick has served as faculty of Drake University and University of Nevada- Las Vegas.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (U of Nevada Las Vegas)

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Juvenile Justice in Making Tanenhaus, David S. Oxford University Press . 9780195306507 352 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 12/8/2005

Author picture: In his engaging narrative history of the rise and workings of America's first juvenile court, David S. Tanenhaus explores the fundamental and enduring question of how the law should treat the young.

Co-editor of A Century of Juvenile Justice and Editor of the Law and History Review, David S. Tanenhaus is Associate Professor of History and the James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (U of Nevada Las Vegas)

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Long-Term Ecological Research Changing the Nature of Scientists Willig, Michael R. and Walker, Lawrence R. Oxford University Press . 9780199380213 448 pages hardcover $69.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2016

Author picture: The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is, in a sense, an experiment to transform the nature of science, and represents one of the most effective mechanisms for catalyzing comprehensive site-based research that is collaborative, multidisciplinary, and long-term in nature.

Mike Willig directs the Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering and is a Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He has been an active member of the Luquillo Mountains LTER site since its inception over 25 years ago. Professor Lawrence R. Walker is an ecologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who studies plant succession and the disturbances, both natural and human-caused, that trigger it in many ecosystems Discount: around the world. 0.25 Distro: OUP Group: Redsides

Author location: Las Vegas NV (Professor Lawrence R. Walker)

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Ableist Rhetoric: How We Know, Value, and See Disability Cherney, James L. Penn State University Press . 9780271084695 200 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2020 RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric

Author picture: Examines the rhetorical practices that generate and sustain discrimination against disabled people.

James L. Cherney is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Links RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric

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Democracy Without Decency: Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty Epstein, William M. Penn State University Press . 9780271036342 256 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 6 x 9.

Author picture: In this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy since World War II, William Epstein argues that this defense is not worth mounting—that the claimed successes of American social programs are not sustained by evidence.

William M. Epstein is Professor of Social Work at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His previous books include Psychotherapy as Religion: The Civil Divine In America (2006) and Welfare in America: How Social Science Fails the Poor (1997).

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Arthurian Romances, Tales, and Lyric Poetry: The Complete Works of Hartmann von Aue Tobin, Frank / Vivian, Kim / Lawson, Richard H. Penn State University Press . 9780271021126 344 pages paperback $35.95 Pub Date: 10/28/2001

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This volume presents the English reader for the first time with the complete works of Hartmann in readable, idiomatic English.

Frank Tobin is Professor of German at the University of Nevada, Reno. Kim Vivian is Associate Professor of German at Augustana College. Richard H. Lawson is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Together they have also edited the McGraw-Hill Anthology of German Literature.

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Cultivated Reason: An Essay on Hume and Humeanism Williams, Christopher Penn State University Press . 9780271025025 192 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 6 x 9. illustrations

Author picture: In this book Christopher Williams seeks to wean his fellow philosophers away from an overly rationalistic self-understanding by using resources that are available within the philosophical tradition itself, including some that anticipate strands of Nietzsche’s thought.

Christopher Williams is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Kenneth Burke + the Posthuman Mays, Chris / Rivers, Nathaniel A. / Sharp-Hoskins, Kellie Penn State University Press . 9780271079097 240 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2017 5 b&w illustrations. 6 × 9. RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric

Author picture: Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman focuses on the multiplicity of ideas found both in his work and in the idea of posthumanism.

Chris Mays is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Nathaniel A. Rivers is Associate Professor of English at Saint Louis University and coeditor of Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition and Literature as Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke. Kellie Sharp- Hoskins is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Program Administrator at New Mexico State University.

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Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics: Promise of Enrichment, Threat of Destruction Achtenberg, Deborah SUNY Press . 9780791453728 231 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 7/11/2002 SUNY series in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Author picture: With this new interpretation, Deborah Achtenberg argues that metaphysics is central to ethics for Aristotle and that the ethics can be read on two levels imprecisely, in terms of its own dialectically grounded and imprecise claims, or in terms of the metaphysical terms and concepts that give the ethics greater articulation and depth.

DEBORAH ACHTENBERG is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of Cognition

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Turmoil in the Middle East: Imperialism, War, and Political Instability Berberoglu, Berch SUNY Press . 9780791444122 163 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 11/4/1999

Author picture: Turmoil in the Middle East highlights the impact of imperialism, war, and political turmoil in the Middle East throughout the course of the twentieth-century from the devastation of the First World War through the many crises and conflicts that have led to cycles of war, uprisings, coups, revolts, and revolutions.

Berch Berberoglu is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Sociology, and Director of the Institute for International Studies, at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of several books, including The Legacy of Empire: Economic Decline and Class Polarization in the United States and The Political Economy of Development: Development Theory and the Prospects for Change in the Third World, also published by SUNY Press. Discount: 0.45 Distro: SUNY Group: BRG

Author location: Reno NV (U of Nevada - Reno)

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The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime Brown, Stephen Gilbert SUNY Press . 9780791461136 253 pages hardcover $50 Pub Date: 6/10/2004

Author picture: The Gardens of Desire is at once a model of literary interpretation and a groundbreaking psychocritical reading of a literary masterpiece, Marcel Proust s A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past).

Stephen Gilbert Brown is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He is the author of Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands and the coeditor (with Sidney I. Dobrin) of Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis, both published by SUNY Press.

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Ross for Boss: The Perot Phenomenon and Beyond Jelen, Ted G. SUNY Press . 9780791448533 198 pages hardcover $59.5 Pub Date: 2/1/2001 SUNY series on the Presidency: Contemporary Issues

Author picture: Ross for Boss provides insights into the sources, continuity, and enduring importance of Ross Perot’s presidential candidacies in 1992 and 1996 as a member of the Reform Party, and evaluates the impact of the Perot phenomenon on the future of both public policy and the U.S. party system.

Ted G. Jelen is Professor and Chair of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and coauthor (with Clyde Wilcox) of Public Attitudes Toward Church and State.

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The Transcendental Philosophy of Franklin Merrell-Wolff Leonard, Ron SUNY Press . 9780791442166 389 pages paperback $33.95 Pub Date: 7/29/1999 SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions

Author picture: This book provides a critical exposition of the philosophy of Franklin Merrell-Wolff, a twentieth-century mystic and philosopher an exceedingly rare and fruitful combination.

Ron Leonard teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Socrates' Education to Virtue: Learning the Love of the Noble Lutz, Mark J. SUNY Press . 9780791436547 214 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 2/26/1998

Author picture: Socrates' Education to Virtue argues that Plato's account of Socrates offers the fullest account of virtue and of the place of virtue in political life.

Mark J. Lutz is Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

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Doing Justice: Liberalism, Group Constructs, and Individual Realities Pelton, Leroy H. SUNY Press . 9780791441800 244 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 4/29/1999 SUNY series in Deviance and Social Control

Author picture: Offering a new way of thinking about liberalism and public policies, this book contends that group-based policies, predicated on all manner of group construction, pervade public policy.

Leroy H. Pelton is Professor and former Director of the School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is former Special Assistant to the Director of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, where he previously served as a member if its Bureau of Research, Planning, and Program Development. He is the author of The Psychology of Nonviolence and For Reasons of Poverty: A Critical Analysis of the Public Child Welfare System in the United States and is the editor of The Social Context of Child Abuse and Neglect. Discount: 0.45 Distro: SUNY Group: BRG

Author location: Las Vegas NV (U of Nevada - Las Vegas)

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The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt Ring, Jennifer SUNY Press . 9780791434840 358 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 8/6/1998

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In this book, Jennifer Ring offers a wholly new interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s work, from Eichmann in Jerusalem, with its bitter reception by the Jewish community, to The Life of the Mind.

Jennifer Ring is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, and has taught at Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of South Carolina, and the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Modern Political Theory and Contemporary Feminism: A Dialectical Analysis, also published by SUNY Press.

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Other Selves: Aristotle on Personal and Political Friendship Schollmeier, Paul SUNY Press . 9780791416846 234 pages paperback $31.95 Pub Date: 9/20/1994 SUNY Series in Ethical Theory

Author picture: This book presents a thorough and systematic integration of Aristotle’s analysis of friendship with the main lines of the rest of his work in Politics and Nicomachean Ethics.

Paul Schollmeier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is the Director of the Goodsprings Philosophical Institute.

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Declarations of Dependency: The Civic Republican Tradition in U.S. Poverty Policy Zundel, Alan F. SUNY Press . 9780791447222 178 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 10/12/2000

Author picture: Why has poverty in the United States been so controversial? Why do political discussions of poverty seem to continually rely on the same set of ideas? This book shows that answers to these questions can be found in the political tradition of civic republicanism that made sense in America’s agricultural era but which fail to correspond with the realities of modern economic conditions.

Alan F. Zundel is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Ethics and Policy Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Nevada Las Vegas.'

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Creating a Buddhist Community: A Thai Temple in Silicon Valley Bao, Jiemin Temple University Press . 9781439909553 204 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: Asian American History & Culture

Author picture: In Creating a Buddhist Community, Jiemin Bao shows how the Wat Thai participants practice Buddhism and rework gender relationships in the course of organizing temple space, teaching meditation, schooling children in Thai language and culture, merit making, fundraising, and celebrating festivals.

Jiemin Bao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of Marital Acts: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity among the Chinese Thai Diaspora.

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The National Question: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Self-Determination in the Twentieth Century Berberoglu, Berch Temple University Press . 9781566393430 329 pages paperback $36.95 Pub Date:

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This volume examines the volatile nature and complex dynamics of national movements and ethnic conflict around the world.

Berch Berberoglu is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, and Director of the Institute for International Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has published thirteen books, including The Political Economy of Development: Development Theory and the Prospects for Change in the Third World and Class Structure and Social Transformations.

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Down the Backstretch: Racing and the American Dream Case, Carole Temple University Press . 9780877228462 194 pages hardcover $44.50 Pub Date: Labor & Social Change

Author picture: Horseracing the sport of kings has fed imaginations for centuries. The romance of the striving horse, the dauntless rider, and the ‘pot of gold’ at the finish has rendered the remote possibility of success as inconsequential. Carole Case joined the racetrack world, working as a groom and a walker, in order to understand the culture of horseracing from behind the scenes.

Carole Case is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Research Associate at the Tufts University Center for Animals and Public Policy.

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Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing Gifford, Justin Temple University Press . 9781439908112 216 pages paperback $25.95 Pub Date:

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The first literary and cultural history of African American crime literature, unveiling the untold story of black pulp publishing since the Civil Rights era.

Justin D. Gifford is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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A City within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan Robinson, Todd E. Temple University Press . 9781439909225 248 pages paperback $30.95 Pub Date: 3 tables 12 halftones

Author picture: A view of the civil rights movement in the crucible of the North.

Todd E. Robinson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Indigenous Albuquerque Carpio, Myla Vicenti Texas Tech University Press . 9780896726789 208 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 3/10/2011 Introduction by P. Jane Hafen. Plains Histories.

Author picture: Indigenous Albuquerque examines the dilemmas confronting urban Indians as a result of a colonized past-and present-and the relationship between the City of Albuquerque and its Native residents.

Myla Vicenti Carpio, a citizen of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and also Laguna and Isleta Pueblo, is an assistant professor in the American Indian Studies program at Arizona State University. P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo), professor English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on American Indian literatures.

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Daughter of Silence Fingueret, Manuela Texas Tech University Press . 9780896727311 168 pages Perfect paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2012 Translated by Darrell B. Lockhart.

Author picture: Fingueret's trenchant novel of survival transforms silence into a cry for justice that cannot be stifled.

Argentine author Manuela Fingueret is a storyteller, poet, journalist, essayist, and editor. She lives in Buenos Aires. Darrell B. Lockhart is chair of the departments of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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“Help Indians Help Themselves”: The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) Hafen, P. Jane (editor) Texas Tech University Press . 9781682830451 392 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 11/1/2019

Author picture: PLAINS HISTORIES SERIES. Foreword by Margaret Noodin. 7 x 10. 14 halftones, index

An essential collection of writings and speeches by a preeminent American Indian activist.

P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is a Professor Emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She serves as an advisory editor of Great Plains Quarterly, is a board member of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and is an Associate Fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies. She is a Frances C. Allen Fellow, D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, The Newberry Library, and was a founding Clan Mother of the Native American Literature Discount: Symposium. She edited Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems and The Sun Dance 0.45 Opera by Zitkala-Ša, co-edited The Great Plains Reader, and is author of Reading Distro: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine. Longleaf Group: BRG

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature Lynch, Tom and Slovic, Scott Texas Tech University Press . 9780896726383

hardcover $35 Pub Date: 11/1/2008

Author picture: By revaluing nature and by shifting literary analysis from an anthropocentric focus to an ecocentric one, Xerophilia demonstrates how a bioregional orientation opens new ways of thinking about the relationship between literature and place.

Tom Lynch is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches ecocriticism and place-conscious literature. Currently co-editing a collection of writings about Loren Eiseley and a collection of bioregional literary criticism, he is also engaged in a comparative study of the literature of the American West and the Australian Outback from ecocritical and postcolonial perspectives. Scott Slovic, founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, is professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Discount: Reno, and is author, editor, or co-editor of fifteen books. He lives in Reno, Nevada. 0.45 Distro: Longleaf Group: BRG

Author location: Reno NV (Scott Slovic)

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The Hell-Bound Train: A Cowboy Songbook, Second Edition Ohrlin, Glenn Texas Tech University Press . 9780896729629 288 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: April 2016 Edited by Charlie Seemann. Voice in the American West. 6 x 9. index 20 halftones,

Author picture: 75 music scores.

'Fascinating . . . This kind of personal repertory coming from a working cowman and rodeo rider is extremely important, simply to document how the cowboy tradition was transmuted as the image of the cowboy was sentimentalized. We have known for some time that the cowboy tradition has been carried on by rodeo performers but we’ve never had it documented so fully and interestingly.' —Roger D. Abrahams, author of Everyday Life.

Glenn Ohrlin (1926–2015) was a cowboy singer, working cowboy, rodeo rider, storyteller, and illustrator. In The Hell-Bound Train he has gathered dozens of his favorite songs, which chronicle the range and rodeo life he lived. Ohrlin was known Discount: for singing in an unornamented Western style, accompanying himself on the guitar 0.45 and harmonica. Most of his repertoire comes from the period of 1875 to 1925. The Distro: book includes music and lyrics for songs such as “My Home’s in Montana,” “The Texas Rangers,” and “Bull Riders in the Sky,” along with Ohrlin’s commentary on Longleaf each work’s provenance and meaning. This collection is a must-have for any fan of Group: cowboy and folk music. In 1985 Glenn Ohrlin was named a National Heritage Fellow BRG by the National Endowment for the Arts. Charlie Seemann is executive director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, and the author of Cowboy and Author location: Elko NV (Charlie Seemann)

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Latin American Immigration Ethics Díaz Cepeda, Luis Rubén and Reed-Sandoval, Amy University of Arizona Press . 9780816542727 280 pages paperback $35 Pub Date: 10/26/2021

Author picture: Bringing a Latin American lens to immigration philosophy.

Amy Reed-Sandoval is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (Amy Reed-Sandoval - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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New Plateau Friederici, Peter University of Arizona Press . Center for Sustainable Environments 9780971339163

paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 11/15/2006

Author picture: This book, for the first time, tells the stories of the innovators and culture-bearers who are ensuring that diverse human communities can continue to live in harmony with the Southwest's stunning natural and cultural landscapes.

Peter Friederici is editor of What Has Passed and What Remains: Oral Histories of Northern Arizona’s Changing Landscapes and author of Nature’s Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation, among other books. He is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University. Peter Goin is the author or co-author of more than fifteen books of photography focusing on western American landscapes, including Time and Time Again: History, Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World with Lucy Lippard. He is the Discount: recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and is Foundation 0.40 Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (Peter Goin - University of Nevada, Reno)

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A New Form of Beauty: Glen Canyon Beyond Climate Change Friederici, Peter University of Arizona Press . 9780816531929 184 pages hardcover $40 Pub Date: October 2016 Photographs by Peter Goin. 11 x 10. 60 color photographs and 2 fold-out color

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Photographs and essays. Understanding place in an era of radical change. A photographic/essay look at what becomes to these places when they are ravaged by climate change.

Peter Friederici is editor of What Has Passed and What Remains: Oral Histories of Northern Arizona’s Changing Landscapes and author of Nature’s Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation, among other books. He is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University. Peter Goin is the author or co-author of more than fifteen books of photography focusing on western American landscapes, including Time and Time Again: History, Discount: Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World with Lucy Lippard. He is the 0.45 recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and is Foundation Distro: Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (Peter Goin - University of Nevada, Reno)

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What Has Passed and What Remains: Oral Histories of Northern Arizona's Changing Landscapes Friederici, Peter University of Arizona Press . 9780816528660 192 pages hardcover $24.95 Pub Date: 4/2/2010

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The book is a product of Northern Arizona University's Ecological Oral Histories project, which has been collecting remembrances of long-time area residents who have observed changes to the land from the 1930s to the present day.

Peter Friederici is editor of What Has Passed and What Remains: Oral Histories of Northern Arizona’s Changing Landscapes and author of Nature’s Restoration: People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation, among other books. He is an associate professor in the School of Communication at Northern Arizona University. Peter Goin is the author or co-author of more than fifteen books of photography focusing on western American landscapes, including Time and Time Again: History, Discount: Rephotography, and Preservation in the Chaco World with Lucy Lippard. He is the 0.45 recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and is Foundation Distro: Professor of Art at the University of Nevada, Reno. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: (Flagstaff AZ - Peter Friederici); Reno NV (Peter Goin - University of Nevada, Reno)

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A Tale of Three Villages: Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740–1950 Frink, Liam University of Arizona Press . 9780816531097 208 pages hardcover $55 Pub Date: April 2016

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Tracking the effects of indigenous-colonial interactions in southwestern Alaska.

Liam Frink is a professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he researches Arctic indigenous-colonial history, ethnoecology, identity, and subsistence technology and production. He is the co-editor of Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 Melton-Villanueva, Miriam University of Arizona Press . 9780816533534 256 pages hardcover $55 Pub Date: October 2016 6 x 9. 33 halftones, 3 tables

Author picture: Illuminating the daily life of Nahua society in the nineteenth century.

Miriam Melton-Villanueva is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management in the American West Minckley, W. L. and Deacon, James E. (editors) University of Arizona Press . 9780816537839

paperback $50 Pub Date: 08/15/2017 Foreword by Stewart L. Udall.

Author picture: Nearly a third of the native fish fauna of North America lives in the arid West; this book traces their decline toward extinction as a result of human interference and the threat to their genetic diversity posed by decreases in their populations. What can be done to slow or end this tragedy? As the most comprehensive treatment ever attempted on the subject, Battle Against Extinction shows how conservation efforts have been or can be used to reverse these trends.

Wendell L. Minckley is a professor of zoology at Arizona State University and has worked as a senior fishery biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He is also the author of Fishes of Arizona and of more than one hundred other papers on fishes and aquatic systems in deserts. James E. Deacon is a distinguished Discount: professor and former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the 0.40 University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has published more than seventy papers on Distro: the biology and conservation of desert fishes. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (James E. Deacon - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology Oland, Maxine / Hart, Siobhan M. / Frink, Liam University of Arizona Press . 9780816542574 320 pages paperback $37.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2020

Author picture: Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas Series

Challenging understandings of the distant American past.

Maxine Oland is a visiting lecturer in anthropology at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Siobhan M. Hart is an assistant professor of anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. Liam Frink is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the co-editor of the University of Arizona Press book series The Archaeology of Colonialism in Native North America.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (Liam Frink - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology: Three Millennia of Human Occupation in the North American Southwest Roth, Barbara J. / Gilman, Patricia A. / Anyon, Roger (editors) University of Arizona Press . 9780816538560 272 pages hardcover $65 Pub Date: 11/27/2018

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Synthesizing the last forty years of research in Mimbres archaeology

Barbara J. Roth is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has been conducting archaeological research in the Mimbres region for the last twenty years and is the author or co-editor of several works, including Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest and Late Holocene Research on Foragers and Farmers in the Desert West. Patricia A. Gilman is a professor emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. She has conducted archaeological fieldwork and research in the Mimbres region of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona for more Discount: than forty years. She is the author of several works and most recently has co- 0.40 authored Mimbres Life and Society with Steven A. LeBlanc. Roger Anyon has been Distro: active in Mimbres archaeology for more than four decades, beginning with the Mimbres Foundation in 1975. He is an archaeologist with the Pima County (Arizona) CDC Office of Sustainability and Conservation, where he has worked since 2001. Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (Barbara J. Roth - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Engendering Households in the Prehistoric Southwest Roth, Barbara J. University of Arizona Press . 9780816528165 344 pages hardcover $59.95 Pub Date: 3/2/2010

Author picture: Focusing on gendered activities in household contexts throughout the southwestern United States, this book represents groundbreaking work in this area.

Barbara Roth is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Reopening the American West Rothman, Hal K. (editor) University of Arizona Press . 9780816516254 208 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 2/1/1998

Author picture: Reopening the American West takes a fresh approach to the history of the region, examining the premises of earlier scholars as well as those who have redefined the study of the West over the past two decades. It combines provocative essays with insightful analyses to address issues that are representative of the West in the twentieth century--multiculturalism, water issues, resource exploitation--and to reopen the West for all readers interested in new ways of looking at its wide-open spaces.

Hal K. Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and editor of Environmental History. Among his books are Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West; The Greening of a Nation? Discount: Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945; America's National Monuments: The 0.40 Politics of Preservation; On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Area Since 1880; Distro: and Reopening the American West. He was featured in a four-hour television special, 'Las Vegas,' on the Arts and Entertainment network. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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A Marriage Out West: Theresa and Frank Russell’s Explorations in Arizona, 1900– 1903 Russell, Theresa / Parezo, Nancy J. / Fowler, Don D. University of Arizona Press . 9780816540716 424 pages paperback $35 Pub Date: 10/20/20

Author picture: 66 b&w illustrations, 4 maps, 7 tables.

An intimate biographical account of two fascinating figures of twentieth-century archaeology.

Theresa Russell (1873–1936) was a noted scholar of satire in British Victorian novels and American utopianism, especially well-known for her many analyses of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A professor of English and philosophy at Stanford University from 1906 to 1936, she wrote five well-received books and dozens of articles in addition to teaching and mentoring thousands of students. Nancy J. Parezo is a professor emerita of American Indian studies at the University of Arizona. In addition to teaching at the institution for almost forty years, she was Discount: curator of ethnology at the Arizona State Museum. Don D. Fowler is the Mamie 0.45 Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historic Preservation, Distro: Emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). In 2019 the Don Frazier Don Fowler Endowed Chair in Archaeology was established at UNR in his honor. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (Don D. Fowler - University of Nevada, Reno)

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Getting Over the Color Green Slovic, Scott University of Arizona Press . 9780816516650 377 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2001

Author picture: This anthology of contemporary nature writing from the Greater Southwest brings together a host of writers including peers of Edward Abbey such as Charles Bowden and Ann Zwinger and representatives of a new generation of writers such as Rick Bass and Terry Tempest Williams.

Scott Slovic teaches environmental literature and directs the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and is the author of Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing and coeditor of Being in the World: An Environmental Reader for Writers.

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Author location: Reno NV (Scott Slovic - University of Nevada, Reno)

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A Natural History of the Mojave Desert Walker, Lawrence R. and Landau, Frederick H. University of Arizona Press . 9780816532629 344 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 03/27/2018

Author picture: A Natural History of the Mojave Desert explores how a combination of complex geology, varied geography, and changing climate has given rise to intriguing flora and fauna—including almost 3,000 plant species and about 380 terrestrial vertebrate animal species. Of these, one quarter of the plants and one sixth of the animals are endemic.

Lawrence R. Walker is a professor of plant ecology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the (co)author or (co)editor of nine previous books, including The Biology of Disturbed Habitats. Frederick H. Landau is a research associate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Walker and Landau have twenty-five years of scientific collaboration that includes projects in Nevada, New Zealand, and Puerto Discount: Rico. They both enjoy hiking and back-road adventures throughout the Mojave 0.45 Desert. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001 Berger, Dan and Hobson, Emily K. (editors) University of Georgia Press . 9780820357256 528 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 8/15/2020

Author picture: Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Series.

This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United State from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically viewed as an era of neoliberalism, dominated by conservative retrenchment, the intensified programs of privatization and incarceration, dramatic cuts to social welfare, and the undermining of labor, antiracist, and feminist advances. Yet activists from the period proved tenacious in the face of upheaval, resourceful in creating new tactics, and dedicated to learning from one another.

DAN BERGER is a professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington, Bothell, and the author of the award-winning Captive Nation: Black Discount: Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, among other titles. He writes regularly for 0.40 Black Perspectives, Truthout, and the Washington Post and has published articles in Distro: several scholarly journals. He is a founding coordinator of the digital archive Washington Prison History Project. SEKOU M. FRANKLIN is an associate professor Longleaf of political science at Middle Tennessee State University and the author of After the Group: Rebellion: Black Youth, Social Movement Activism, and the Post-Civil Rights Wilcher Generation. EMILY K. HOBSON is associate professor of history and gender, race, and identity at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the author of Lavender and Red: Author location: Bothell WA (DAN BERGER - University of Washington Bothell); Reno NV (EMILY K. HOBSON - University of Nevada, Reno) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9780820357256.jpg Berger, Dan and Hobson, Emily K. logo u of georgia press.jpg Image: logo: Listing:

Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden Branch, Michael P. (editor) University of Georgia Press . 9780820325484 430 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date: 1/19/2004

Author picture: Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature-a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work.

MICHAEL P. BRANCH, associate professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, is cofounder and past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and book review editor of the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. The author of numerous articles and reviews, he is also editor of John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa and co-editor of The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley, Discount: Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment, and 0.40 The ISLE Reader (Georgia). Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (MICHAEL P. BRANCH - University of Nevada, Reno)

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The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003 Branch, Michael P. and Slovic, Scott (editors) University of Georgia Press . 9780820325170 378 pages paperback $30.95 Pub Date: 7/22/2003

Author picture: The ISLE Reader documents the state of research in ecocriticism and related interdisciplinary fields, provides a survey of the field, and points to new methodologies and possibilities for the future.

Author location: Reno NV (MICHAEL P. BRANCH - University of Nevada, Reno)

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The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place Glotfelty, Cheryll / Armbruster, Karla / Lynch, Tom (editors) University of Georgia Press . 9780820335926 440 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2012

Author picture: This volume shows how literature and literary studies are fundamental tools to such a reimagining.

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Author location: Reno NV (CHERYLL GLOTFELTY - University of Nevada, Reno)

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The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology Glotfelty, Cheryll and Fromm, Harold (editors)

University of Georgia Press . 9780820317816 456 pages paperback $30.95 Pub Date: 5/1/1996

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The Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology.

CHERYLL GLOTFELTY is a professor of literature and the environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the editor of Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State and a coeditor of The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place. She is a founding officer of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. HAROLD FROMM lives in Tucson and is University Associate in English at the University of Arizona as well as a member of the university's Institute of the Environment. He is the author of The Nature of Being Human: From Discount: Environmentalism to Consciousness and Academic Capitalism and Literary Value. 0.45 His writings have appeared in a wide range of journals and he is a regular Distro: contributor to the Hudson Review. Longleaf Group: Wilcher

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The Gaza of Winter: Poems Revell, Donald University of Georgia Press . 9780820309897 80 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 3/1/1988 The Contemporary Poetry Series

Author picture: In Donald Revell’s poems, the present is often little more than an instant caught between the sadness of memory and the need to face the future’s blank expanse.

Born in the Bronx, Donald Revell received his PhD at SUNY Buffalo and is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, translations, and essays. His recent books include The English Boat (2018), Drought-Adapted Vine (2015), Tantivy (2012), and the prose work, Essay: A Critical Memoir (2015). Steeped in the work of Henry David Thoreau and William Carlos Williams, Revell’s poetry is “seriously Christian but not doctrinaire, mystical without setting intellect aside, angry over political matters without ever growing stale or shrill, and more often joyful than any other living poet of his powers,” observes critic Stephanie Burt, noting that in A Thief Discount: of Strings (2007) Revell “may have constructed the only language of ecstasy that 0.20 makes sense for our secular, self-doubting age.” Since his first collection, From Distro: Abandoned Cities (1983), a National Poetry Series winner, Revell’s poetry has moved toward a yearning for transparency and innocence. Although Revell was Longleaf originally a formalist poet, his more recent work tends to be in free verse and aims, Group: in his words, “to make something out of words through which meaning can pass Wilcher without impediment and without significant loss of energy.” As he teaches his students, “Craft is nothing. Sincerity is everything.” Revell has translated two Author location: Las Vegas NV

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Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction Unrue, Darlene Harbour University of Georgia Press . 9780820333540 288 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 12/1/2008

Author picture: In Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction, Darlene Unrue examines the encompassing themes that underlie Porter's shorter fiction and that combined to create the haunting events of her complex metaphorical novel, Ship of Fools.

DARLENE HARBOUR UNRUE is a distinguished professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has written six books on Katherine Anne Porter. Unrue's most recent work, a biography of Porter titled Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, won the 2005 Eudora Welty Prize for Excellence in Modern Letters.

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Lost in Austin: A Nevada Memoir Andersen, Jim University of Nevada Press . 9780874177879 152 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Lost in Austin is fascinating reading for anyone who cherishes nostalgic memories of living in a small town, or who contemplates moving to one.

Jim Andersen has followed a range of occupations in Austin and elsewhere. For several years he wrote newspaper columns about Austin for the Battle Mountain Bugle and the Reese River Reveille. He also served as tribal judge for the Yomba Shoshone Tribe. In 2007 the Nevada Supreme Court appointed him a senior justice of the peace of the Nevada Court System.

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Nevada Printing History: A Bibliography of Imprints and Publications, 1858-1880 Armstrong, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874170634

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Author picture: A detailed look at Nevada's printing history from 1858 through 1880. Includes proclamations, pamphlets, menus, government publications, church programs, and more.

Robert Armstrong was formerly Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has published a number of scholarly articles on Nevada printing and bibliography.

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Nevada Printing History: A Bibliography of Imprints and Publications, 1881-1890 Armstrong, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874171242

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Author picture: A detailed look at Nevada's printing history from 1881 through 1890. With over 1400 entries describing books, pamphlets, broadsides, state and local documents, fraternal and church publications, and a variety of other printed matter, this intriguing compilation serves as the companion volume to Armstrong's Nevada Printing History, 1858-1880.

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Beyond the Mafia: Italian Americans and the Development of Las Vegas Balboni, Alan University of Nevada Press . 9780874176810 200 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: This new paperback edition includes an afterword by the author that brings the story of Las Vegas's Italian Americans up to the present.

Alan Balboni is professor of history and political science at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas.

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Dummy Up and Deal: Inside the Culture of Casino Dealing Barnes, H. Lee University of Nevada Press . 9780874176223 176 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Author H. Lee Barnes, who spent many years as a dealer in some of Las Vegas's best-known casinos, shows us this world from the point of view of the table-games dealer.

H. Lee Barnes worked in the casino industry for seventeen years as a dealer and game supervisor, and for two years as a private investigator hired to survey casinos for cheating activities. He is the author of Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories, a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award. He is an instructor of English at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas.

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Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories Barnes, H. Lee University of Nevada Press . 9780874173468 176 pages paperback $15 Pub Date:

Author picture: In this rich and varied collection of short stories, former Green Beret Lee Barnes deals with the war itself and with its aftermath, but his stories focus more on the human aspects of men in armed conflict and families at home than on the violent drama or political aspects of that war.

H. Lee Barnes has been a sergeant with the Army Special Forces in Vietnam, a deputy sheriff, a narcotics agent, a private investigator, a construction laborer, and a blackjack dealer. He is now professor of English at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. The many honors he has received for his writing include induction into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Excellence in the Arts Award from the Vietnam Veterans of America in 2013. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Lucky: A Novel Barnes, H. Lee University of Nevada Press . 9780874175394 416 pages paperback $22 Pub Date:

Author picture: The Lucky is a powerful novel about growing up, moving from mob-dominated Las Vegas to Willy's beloved Montana ranch--which hides secrets of its own--to the battlefields of Vietnam.

H. Lee Barnes, a native Westerner born in Idaho and reared in five Western states, resides in Southern Nevada where he teaches English and creative writing to college students. He is the author of 'Dummy Up and Deal: Inside the Culture of Casino Dealing' and 'Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories,' which was a finalist for the Steven Turner Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He is also the recipient of the Willamette Fiction Award and the Arizona Authors Association Fiction Award.

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Cold Deck: (a novel) Barnes, H. Lee University of Nevada Press . 9780874178845 216 pages hardcover $26.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2013

Author picture: Cold Deck is the exciting story of an ordinary man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. Moving from Las Vegas's mean streets to the insider's world of casino workers, this is a story of survival set against the greed, fears, and glitz of Sin City.

Author location: Las Vegas NV (College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas)

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Minimal Damage: Stories of Veterans Barnes, H. Lee University of Nevada Press . 9780874179118 200 pages paperback $19 Pub Date: 3/1/2013

Author picture: Minimal Damage contains seven stories and a novella that depict veterans of several wars in search of dignity and purpose in a civilian life that has no need for men who were soldiers.

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The Gambler’s Apprentice Barnes, H. Lee University of Nevada Press . 9780874179989 304 pages hardcover $27.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2016 West Word Fiction. 6 x 9.

Author picture: A young man wrestles with the lure of a gambling life.

H. Lee Barnes is an award-winning short-story writer and author of three previous novels, three short-story collections, and two nonfiction books. He was inducted into the Nevada Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2009, and in 2013 he received an award for excellence in the arts from the Vietnam Veterans of America for his writings on Vietnam. Barnes teaches English and creative writing at the College of Southern Nevada.

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The Toughest Kid We Knew: The Old New West Bergon, Frank University of Nevada Press . 9781948908641 216 pages hardcover $24.95 Pub Date: 5/13/2020

Author picture: A literary and elegiac exploration of ranch and small-town life in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Frank Bergon is a critically acclaimed novelist, critic, and essayist. His writing mainly focuses on the history and environment of the American West, including his most recent work Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man. Frank was born in Ely, Nevada, and grew up on a ranch in Madera County in California's San Joaquin Valley.

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Two-Buck Chuck and the Marlboro Man: The New Old West: Essays: America's True West Bergon, Frank University of Nevada Press . 9781948908542 264 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 3/6/2019

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A powerful portrayal of the complexities of the American West in the twenty-first century. Frank Bergon’s astonishing personal portrayals of people in California’s San Joaquin Valley reveal a country where the culture of a vanishing West lives on in many twenty-first-century Westerners, despite the radical technological transformations around them.

Frank Bergon is a critically acclaimed novelist, critic, and essayist whose writings focus primarily on the history and environment of the American West. He was born in Ely, Nevada, and grew up on a ranch in Madera County in California’s San Joaquin Valley. He has taught at the University of Washington and for many years at Discount: Vassar College, where he is Professor Emeritus of English. He is a member of the 0.40 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Geographical Identities of Ethnic America: Race, Space, and Place Berry, Kate A. and Henderson, Martha L. University of Nevada Press . 9780874174878

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Author picture: The complex relationships between human identity and place have been studied by scholars from many disciplines. In Geographical Identities of Ethnic America, twenty distinguished geographers examine the ways in which place fashions, recreates, and contextualizes human identity in North America.

Kate A. Berry is associate professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research interests include indigenous peoples, race, and ethnicity, and environmental issues in the western United States. Martha L. Henderson is a professor of environmental studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. She specializes in cultural landscapes, community-based urban agriculture, and the geography of American Indians. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present Berta-Avila, Margarita / Revilla, Anita Tijerina / Figueroa, Julie López (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9780874178418 208 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2011

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Marching Students is a collaborative effort by Chicana/o scholars in several fields to place the 1968 walkouts and Chicana and Chicano Civil Rights Movement in historical context, highlighting the contribution of Chicana/o educators, students, and community activists to minority education.

Margarita Berta-Avila is associate professor of bilingual/multi-cultural education at the California State University, Sacramento. Anita Tijerina-Revilla is assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Julie Lopez Figueroa is associate professor of ethnic studies at the California State University, Sacramento. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Good Medicine: Four Las Vegas Doctors and the Golden Age Of Medicine Blachley, Annie University of Nevada Press . 9780964975972

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Author picture: A readable and entertaining account of four medical pioneers and their once-naive town, full of outlandish characters and just plain folks, during the halcyon years of Las Vegas.

Annie Blachley's cover stories and investigative pieces on the arts, entertainment, and medicine have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, and Comstock's Business. She makes her home with her husband and daughter near the Sierra Nevada foothills of northern Nevada.

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Pestilence, Politics, and Pizazz: The Story of Public Health in Las Vegas Blachley, Annie University of Nevada Press . 9780964975996

hardcover $35 Pub Date: The Golden Age of Medicine Series.

Author picture: This book takes an in-depth look at Las Vegas' controversial lifestyles and how they have threatened public health: fatal alcoholism; unsanitary living conditions where children played in sewage water; flies on meat in the markets; Block Sixteen's notorious prostitution; rampant venereal disease; and infectious diseases and epidemics.

Author location: Northern NV

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The Legacy of Language: A Tribute to Charlton Laird Boardman, Phil (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874171211

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Author picture: This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the ‘Miracle of Language’ symposium held in honor of Charlton Laird.

Phil Boardman is professor and director of Core Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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The Sagebrush State: Nevada’s History, Government, and Politics - Fifth Edition Bowers, Michael W. University of Nevada Press . 9781943859740 212 pages paperback $32.95 Pub Date: 8/1/2018 Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History. 1 map, 5 charts, 20 tables

Author picture: A dynamic study of Nevada government and politics from its inception down to the present day

Michael W. Bowers is professor of political science and public law, and former Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Executive Vice President and Provost, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of The Nevada Constitution: A Reference Guide and numerous academic articles on politics and law.

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Sagebrush: Nevada's History, Government, and Politics - 6th edition Bowers, Michael W. University of Nevada Press . 9781647790264 336 pages paperback $35.95 Pub Date: 7/13/2021 Shepperson Series in Nevada History Series. 18 tables, 7 figs.

Author picture: A dynamic study of Nevada government and politics from its inception down to the present day.

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Alzheimer's and Dementia: A Practical and Legal Guide for Nevada Caregivers Boyer, Kim and Shapiro, Mary University of Nevada Press . 9780874178586 176 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2011

Author picture: This edition, updated in 2011, includes information about recent changes in laws that affect seniors, new research and treatments, and a new guide to resources throughout the state that can provide assistance to people afflicted with these medical conditions.

Kim Boyer, J.D., is a certified elder law attorney and founder of Boyer Law Group where she practices in the areas of elder law, estate planning, guardianship, and probate. She is also a trainer in the University of Nevada School of Medicine's geriatric education program. Currently, she lives and works in Las Vegas. Mary Shapiro, MSG, is a gerontologist and counselor who is cofounder of Senior Direction, LLC. She is also a trainer for staff at Alzheimer's care facilities and in the Discount: University of Nevada School of Medicine's geriatric education program. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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The Essential Eldercare Handbook for Nevada Boyer, Kim and Shapiro, Mary University of Nevada Press . 9780874179415 200 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: March 2014 6 x 9

Author picture: A comprehensive guide for seniors and their families.

Kim Boyer, JD, founder of the Boyer Law Group, is certified as an elder law attorney by the ABA-approved National Elder Law Foundation. She practices in the areas of elder law, estate planning, Medicaid, and veterans planning. Mary Shapiro, MSG, CMC, has several decades’ experience as a gerontologist, counselor, and educator. In 1992 she cofounded Senior Direction, a geriatric care-management company. Boyer and Shapiro are coauthors of Alzheimer’s and Dementia: A Practical and Legal Guide for Nevada Caregivers.

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Chester’s Last Stand Brown, Richard University of Nevada Press . 9780874171389

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Author picture: This uproarious novel, full of slapstick and cunning tricks, breathes new life into American folklore traditions, evoking the voices of Midwestern yarnspinners from fifty years ago.

Richard Brown was professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Fishing for Ghosts: Twelve Short Stories Brown, Richard E. University of Nevada Press . 9780874172294

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Author picture: Warm, gentle, funny, sometimes sad, these twelve stories weave common themes into a variety of patterns, each distinctive and yet related to the rest.

Richard Brown was professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Landing in Las Vegas: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City Bubb, Daniel University of Nevada Press . 9780874178722 176 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2012

Author picture: Landing in Las Vegas is a compelling study of the role of fast, affordable transportation in overcoming the vast distances of the American West and binding western urban centers to the national and international tourism, business, and entertainment industries.

Daniel K. Bubb is Director of Academic Assessment, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the growth of Las Vegas due to the increased ease of air travel.

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License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age Burbank, Jeff University of Nevada Press . 9780874176247 288 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Murder, the Mob, prostitution, drugs, innovative (but illegal) financial dealings, and the brilliant use of technology for ill-gotten gain, all have been involved in the schemes of unscrupulous casino owners, employees, and gamblers throughout the decades of legal gambling.

Jeff Burbank is an award-winning journalist who has covered the casino industry in Las Vegas for national and local publications, radio, and TV. He is currently an instructor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Desert Mementos: Stories of Iraq Nevada Cage, Caleb University of Nevada Press . 9781943859474 208 pages hardcover $22.95 Pub Date: 9/17/2017 5 x 7.

Author picture: War stories of the front line in Iraq and the home front in Nevada.

Caleb S. Cage is a native of Reno, Nevada and a veteran of the United States Army. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, he served as a field artillery officer from 2002 to 2007, including time as a platoon leader in Baqubah, Iraq in 2004, and as an information operations battle captain in Baghdad in 2006. He is co-author of The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq (2008) with Gregory M. Tomlin.

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Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary Carlson, Helen University of Nevada Press . 9780874170948 296 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Nevada's colorful and eventful history is amply reflected in the rich diversity of its place names.

Helen Carlson's interest in the origin of place names began while she was earning her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research took her throughout Nevada, California, and the Southwest.

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Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in California, 1820-1880 Casas, María Raquél University of Nevada Press . 9780874177787 280 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

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The surprising truth about women and intermarriage in 19th-Century California Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men.

María Raquél Casas is an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Minerals of Nevada Castor, Stephen and Fedrock, Gregory University of Nevada Press . 9780874178821 560 pages paperback $45 Pub Date: 3/1/2012

Author picture: This book includes the geologic history of the state, the history of mining in Nevada, descriptions of significant mineral deposits and mining districts, maps, and an album of striking color photographs of rare and important minerals.

Stephen B. Castor is a retired research scientist from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, where he worked for more than twenty years, mostly on studies of mineral deposits. Since retirement, he has consulted on uranium, zinc, rare earth, and lithium deposits. Gregory C. Ferdock is the owner of CGF Geological Resources and a consulting mineralogist and economic geologist.

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Atlas of Nevada Conifers: A Phytogeographic Reference Charlet, David University of Nevada Press . 9780874172652 336 pages paperback $35 Pub Date:

Author picture: Atlas of Nevada Conifers is a major scientific contribution to our understanding of the ecology of Nevada. It documents in great detail the distribution of all native conifer species in the state—critical information because of the primary ecological importance of conifers for all organisms and because of the lack of documentation of these distributions in the scientific literature.

David Charlet received his B.S. and M.S. in Biology and his Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno. He currently is a Professor at the Community College of Southern Nevada in the Las Vegas Valley where he teaches 10 biology and environmental science classes each year. David Charlet’s research is acutely focused on the natural history of the Great Discount: Basin and Mojave Desert. Dr. Charlet has worked in more than 275 of Nevada’s 314 0.40 named mountain ranges, and mapped and wrote a reference book on the conifers of Distro: Nevada. Results of some of his Nevada research were showcased in 2000 at UC Berkeley where he was invited to speak about this at the 50th anniversary of the CDC University and Jepson Herbaria. Dr. Charlet mapped the vegetation of the Carson Group: Range and much of the eastern Sierra Nevada under a National Performance Wilcher Review grant sponsored by Vice President Gore's Committee on Reinventing Government. More recently, he has worked on several projects in Clark County Author location: Las Vegas NV (Community College of Southern Nevada in the Las Vegas Valley)

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Birds of the Lahontan Valley: A Guide to Nevada's Wetland Oasis Chisholm, Graham and Neel, Larry A. University of Nevada Press . 9780874174793 256 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Provides a comprehensive discussion of the geologic history of the area; the intricate relationships between climate, soil, vegetation, and local fauna; and the impact of humankind, from the ancient Paiute people to the farmers and ranchers of today.

Graham Chisholm is executive director for the Nature Conservancy of California. Co-founder of the Great Basin Bird Observatory, he has been active in conserving the wetlands of the Lahontan Valley since 1992. He previously worked in the U. S. Senate on natural resource issues. Larry A. Neel is the nongame biologist for the Western Region of the Nevada Department of Wildlife, stationed in Fallon, Nevada. In this position, he has been involved in a diverse array of avian conservation Discount: projects including serving as chief editor of the Nevada Partners in Flight Bird 0.40 Conservation Plan that outlines an interagency approach to the conservation of Distro: Nevada's bird life through 2010. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: San Francisco CA (Graham Chisholm); Fallon NV (Larry A. Neel)

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Success for All: Programs to Support Students Throughout Their College Experience Choroszy, Melisa N. / Meek, Theodor M. / Naik, Reema K. / Beattie, James University of Nevada Press . 9781948908580 224 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 4/15/2020

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A guide to help students achieve success in higher education in Northern Nevada.

Melisa N. Choroszy is the associate vice president for enrollment services at the University of Nevada, Reno. Theodor M. Meek is the Research Scholar for the Nevada System of Higher Education. Reema K. Naik is the Retention Specialist for the First in the Pack program at the University of Nevada, Reno. James Beattie is the Coordinator for the First in the Pack program.

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Access for All: Expanding Opportunity and Programs to Support Successful Student Outcomes at University of Nevada, Reno Choroszy, Melisa N. and Meek, Theodor M. University of Nevada Press . 9781948908184 224 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 1/23/2019

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An examination of University of Nevada, Reno's programs and strategies to support first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students.

Melisa N. Choroszy, Ph.D., is the associate vice president for enrollment services at the University of Nevada, Reno where she oversees the offices of Admissions and Records, Financial Aid and Scholarships, Office for Prospective Students, Office of International Students and Scholars, the Disability Resource Center, Academic and Opportunity Support Programs, Veteran Services, and athletic eligibility. Theodor M. Meek, M.A., is the director of advising for the university advising center at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he focuses on the transition from recent high Discount: school graduates to incoming college students. 0.40 Distro:

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The Track of the Cat Clark, Walter Van Tilburg University of Nevada Press . 9780874172300

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Author picture: Clark's classic novel is a compelling tale of four men who fear a marauding mountain lion but swear to conquer it. It is also a story of violent human emotions--love and hate, hope and despair--and of the perpetual conflict between good and evil.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of The Ox-box Incident , The City of Trembling Leaves, The Watchful Gods and Other Stories & The Track of the Cat, lived in Virginia City and is considered one of Nevada's most distinguished novelists. Born in 1909, he ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures in the twentieth century, as well as a leading interpreter of the American West. Clark died in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1971.

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The Watchful Gods and Other Stories Clark, Walter Van Tilburg University of Nevada Press . 9780874176018

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Author picture: This edition of Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s collection of short stories—which includes ‘Hook,’ Clark’s most renowned story—makes these pieces available again to a new generation of readers.

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The City of Trembling Leaves Clark, Walter van Tilburg University of Nevada Press . 9780874171808

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Author picture: The City of Trembling Leaves, (1945) is a novel in the semi-autobiographical genre, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

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All In: The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States Cohen, Jonathan D. and Schwartz, David G. (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9781943859603 360 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 3/30/2018 Series: Gambling Studies Series

Author picture: Drawing from a range of academic disciplines, this collection explores five aspects of American gambling history: crime, advertising, politics, religion, and identity.

Jonathan D. Cohen is a PhD Candidate at the Corcoran Department of the History at the University of Virginia. David G. Schwartz is the director of the Center for Gaming Research and an instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written several books on gambling, and is also editor of the University of Nevada Press’s Gambling Series.

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Collaborative Archaeology at Stewart Indian School Cowie, Sarah E. / Teeman, Diane L. / LeBlanc, Christopher C. University of Nevada Press . 9781948908252 280 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 9/11/2019

Author picture: A groundbreaking community-based archaeological case study discussing broader heritage and preservation. Winner of the 2019 Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award from the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Sarah E. Cowie is an author and associate professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research in archaeology has received recognitions from the Society for Historical Archaeology, the National Academy of Sciences, and the United States government. Diane L. Teeman is a member of the Burns Paiute Tribe and Director of the Burns Paiute Tribe's Culture & Heritage Department. She is currently a doctoral candidate at University of Nevada, Reno and has spent the past Discount: thirty years working toward tribal culture and heritage protection and revitalization. 0.40 Christopher C. LeBlanc is a heritage consultant at the University of Nevada, Reno Distro: and has over twenty years of experience in the fields of cultural and heritage resource management. He is currently working as a crew chief and archaeological CDC technician in Reno, Nevada. Group: Wilcher

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No Equal in the World: An Interpretation Of the Academic Presidency Crowley, Joseph N. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173734 320 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 9/6/2016 6 x 9

Author picture: No Equal in the World is a comprehensive study of the literature on the American academic presidency from the middle of the nineteenth century—when the first universities, as distinct from colleges, began to emerge—to the present.

Joseph N. Crowley was the president of the University of Nevada, Reno, from 1978 to 2001. His twenty-three years as president mark the longest single tenure of any of the university’s chief executives. California State University, Fresno, and the University of Iowa have both presented Crowley with distinguished alumni awards and he has also received five honorary degrees. He has continued to live in Reno, Nevada, since his retirement from education.

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The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada Davies, Richard O. (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874173277

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Author picture: This collection of biographical essays by several leading Nevada scholars focuses on fourteen individuals whose careers afford unique perspectives to help us understand and appreciate the growth of postwar Nevada.

Richard O. Davies is Distinguished Professor of History, emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Reno. His most recent book is Rivals! The Ten Greatest American Sports Rivalries of the 20th Century; other works include Sports in American Life: A History and The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada. In 2013 he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

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The Main Event: Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip Davies, Richard O. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179286 312 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date: April 2014 6 x 9. 12 photographs. wilbur s. shepperson series in nevada history

Author picture: How prizefighting flourished in the Silver State.

Richard O. Davies is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Nevada, Reno. His most recent book is Rivals! The Ten Greatest American Sports Rivalries of the 20th Century; other works include Sports in American Life: A History and The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada. In 2013 he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.

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Torn by Light de Longchamps, Joanne University of Nevada Press . 9780874172171

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Author picture: Torn by Light' is a collection of Joanne de Longchamps's poetry and collages to span her entire writing and artistic career.

Poet and artist Joanne de Longchamps (1923-1983) grew up in Los Angeles and studied art and music in France. She came to Reno in 1941 after marrying mining engineer Galen Edward de Longchamps. She pursued her interests in poetry and art at the University of Nevada, Reno, and began publishing artwork and poems in regional and national magazines and literary journals. Her paintings and collages were exhibited at local and regional shows. She received the Reynolds Lyric Award from the Poetry Society of America in 1954 and the Carolina Quarterly Annual Award from the University of North Carolina in 1959. She was appointed the first Discount: Walter Van Tilburg Clark Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNR in 1973 and received 0.40 the Nevada Governor's Art Award for Literature in 1983. Her later work was Distro: influenced by the Second Wave Feminist Movement of the 1970s. CDC Group: Wilcher

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The Last Resort: Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos Dombrink, John and Thompson, William N. University of Nevada Press . 9780874171402

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Author picture: This thoughtful book examines the ten major campaigns to legalize casino gambling in America that were waged between 1976 and 1986 and proposes an explanation for why legalization of casino gaming lags behind legalization of other forms of gambling.

John Dombrink is on faculty at the UC Irvine Department of Criminology, Law and Society. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley. William N. Thompson is the chair of the Public Administration Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees (Political Science) from Michigan State. His Ph.D. is from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Thompson served on the faculties of Southeast Missouri State, Western Michigan Univ., and Troy State Discount: University; he also served as Research Associate with the National Association of 0.40 Attorneys General, and Research Advisor to the Administrator of Pension and Distro: Welfare Benefits Programs in the US Department of Labor. For two years he served as Supervisor of Kalamazoo Township in Michigan. Since coming to Nevada in CDC 1980, he has been actively studying public policy and gambling. He and John Group: Dombrink of the University of California-Irvine were gaming consultants to the Wilcher President's Commission on Organized Crime, resulting in their collaboration on The Last Resort. Thompson's articles on gambling have appeared in numerous Author location: Irvine CA (John Dombrink - UC Irivine); Las Vegas NV (William N. Thompson - University of Nevada, Las Vegas) image filename: author pic filename: logo filename: 9780874171402.jpg logo u of nevada press.jpg Image: logo: Listing:

Australianuak: Basques in the Antipodes Douglass, William A. University of Nevada Press . Center for Basque Studies 9781949805185 810 pages paperback $30 Pub Date: 8/1/2019 The Basque Series.

Author picture: An anthropological memoir by William A. Douglass about the Basque diaspora in Australia.

William A Douglass was born in Reno, Nevada, in 1939. He received his BA from the University of Nevada in Spanish Literature in 1961, then earned his MS in 1966, and then Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Anthropology in 1967. He also attended the University of Madrid from 1959-60, the University of Oslo in 1960, and UC Berkeley from 1962-3. In 1967, he joined the Anthropology faculty at UNR and founded the Basque Studies Program, now known as the Center for Basque Studies. He was its first director and served in that capacity for 33 years. Considered one of the foremost experts in Basque Studies, Douglass also has language Discount: competency in Spanish, French, Italian, and Latin. He is a member of the American 0.40 Anthropological Association, Current Anthropology, and Instituto Americano de Distro: Estudios Vascos. He obtained National Institute of Mental Health research scientist career development grants in 1971 and 1976, each of them 5-year grants. In 2002, CDC the Society for the Anthropology of Europe established the William A. Douglass Group: Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, an annual book award. (from Nevada Writers Wilcher Hall of Fame, 2012). Douglass was also inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2012. Author location: Reno NV

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Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World Douglass, William and Bilbao, Jon University of Nevada Press . 9780874176254 536 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: The Basque Series

Author picture: A classic study of the Basque diaspora now available in paperback. When Amerikanuak was first published in 1975, it was hailed as both a pioneering study of one of the American West's most important ethnic minorities and as an engaging, comprehensive survey of Basque migration and settlement in the Americas.

William Douglass helped to initiate the Basque Studies Program (now Center for Basque Studies) and served as its coordinator for over thirty years. Jon Bilbao prepared the massive Eusko-Bibliographia, a bibliography of Basque reference works. He was also an instructor with the Basque Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Fifty Miles from Home: Riding the Long Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch Dufurrena, Linda and Dufurrena, Carolyn University of Nevada Press . 9780874178463 179 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2011

Author picture: Linda and Carolyn Dufurrena's paean to Nevada's ranch culture and to the unexpected wonders of the Great Basin landscape will linger indelibly in the memory of every reader who discovers this superb book.

Carolyn Dufurrena is a writer and educator who has published essays, magazine articles, and poetry, and has coauthored a book on ranch life and regional topics. She received the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award in 2002. Linda Dufurrena is a widely exhibited and published Nevada photographer who specializes in depictions of rural Nevada scenery and traditional ranch life. Fifty Miles from Home won the Donald Kerr Award from the High Desert Museum in Bend, Oregon, in 2005. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression Dunar, Andrew J.and McBride, Dennis University of Nevada Press . 9780874174892 384 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam to create a rich portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation.

Andrew J. Dunar is a professor of history and chair of the department of history at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. Dennis McBride is a long-term researcher, archivist, and writer about Southern Nevada. He founded the research facility at the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum, and is currently curator of history and collections for the Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas.

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Indian Gaming and the Law Eadington, William R. (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780942828429

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Author picture: This book is a compilation of select papers and comments presented during the North American Conference on the Status of Indian Gaming, held in 1989 in Reno, Nevada, shortly after the passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA).

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Gambling: Public Policies and the Social Sciences Eadington, William R. and Cornelius, Judy (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9780942828375

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Author picture: Because of the rapid spread of permitted gambling, social scientists have begun to examine a wide variety of impacts associated with gambling. This volume offers a selection of such analysis of modern gambling and its implications for society.

William R. Eadington (1946-2013) earned his BA from Santa Clara University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate School. He was professor of economics and founding director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. One the most influential scholars in establishing the academic study of the gaming industry, he was the first holder of the Philip G. Satre Chair in Gaming Studies, established in 2004. He was inducted into the American Gaming Association's Hall of Fame in Discount: 2011 for his scholarship on the economic and social impacts of commercial gaming, 0.40 and in 2012 he received the Goldman Lifetime Award for Advocacy from the Distro: National Council on Problem Gambling for his lifetime of work addressing problem gambling. Judy Cornelius has been the Associate Director of the Institute for the CDC Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno since Group: its formation in 1989. She has served as the Conference Coordinator of the Wilcher International Conferences on Gambling and Risk-Taking since 1989; the North American Conference on the Status of Indian Gaming; and as Assistant Conference Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Pat McCarran: Political Boss of Nevada Edwards, Jerome E. University of Nevada Press . 9780874170719

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Author picture: Although Patrick A. McCarran represented one of the least populated states in the country, he gained a national reputation as a U.S. Senator from Nevada.

Jerome Edwards is an Emeritus Professor of the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. He specializes in the history of Nevada, US diplomatic history, and US Constitutional history.

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Senator Alan Bible and the Politics of the New West Elliott, Gary University of Nevada Press . 9780874172409

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Author picture: Alan Bible served Nevada for 20 years in the U.S. Senate, from 1954 to 1974. A protege of Pat McCarran's, Bible believed that 'all politics is local' and that the needs of his constituents superseded all other political or economic considerations.

The late Gary Elliott was professor of history at the University of Nevada.

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Nevada’s Twentieth-Century Mining Boom: Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely Elliott, Russell R. University of Nevada Press . 9780874171334 360 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: Foreword by Jerome E. Edwards.

Author picture: With its wealth of little-known historical data, Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom chronicles the classic pattern of gold and silver rushes and emphasizes the differences between Nevada's two boom periods--the Comstock Lode of the 19th century and the latter-day boom period of the 20th century.

Russell R. Elliott is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Psychotherapy as Religion Epstein, William University of Nevada Press . 9780874176780

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Author picture: In 'Psychotherapy as Religion', William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems.

William Epstein, DSW, MSW, is Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Social Work. Dr. Epstein has authored nine books and scores of articles, reviews, and research monographs. He has over 30 years of university teaching and 15 years of experience in community organization and development, public administration, and policy research.

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area: A History of America’s First National Playground Foster, Jonathan University of Nevada Press . 9781943859153 176 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 8/2/2016

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This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area.

Jonathan Foster received his PhD in history from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research interests include the history of water-based recreation, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the American conceptualization of place. Foster is currently a professor of history at Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada, where he teaches courses on U.S. history, environmental history, modern Nevada, and history of the American West. He also serves as program supervisor for the Bachelor of Arts in Social Science degree. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Elko NV (Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada)

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Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure Frueh, Joanna University of Nevada Press . 9780874176728

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Author picture: When her parents died and her marriage disintegrated within the span of a few months, art historian and performance artist Joanna Frueh entered a painful period of grief and mourning. This book is about how she healed herself and in the process explored the vast range of her potential as a woman, for mind inseparable from the body, for being truly alive.

Joanna Frueh is an art critic and art historian, a writer, an actress, a singer, and a multidisciplinary and performance artist. A professor of art history at the University of Nevada, Reno, her publications include essays, scholarly articles, edited volumes, and two books, Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love and Erotic Faculties. Known for her personal and autobiographical approach to ideas, Frueh is more Discount: revealing than ever in Swooning Beauty. There her trailblazing consciousness 0.40 continues the exploration of love, eros, sex, and human relations that appear in her Distro: previous books. Frueh’s performance texts and her writings on contemporary art and women artists have appeared in numerous books and journals. Recognized as a CDC powerful, provocative, and articulate performer, she has presented her one-woman Group: shows—as well as lectures—at museums, galleries, universities, and conferences in Wilcher the United States, Canada, Australia, and the UK.

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Nevada’s Turbulent ‘50s: Decade of Political and Economic Change Glass, Mary Ellen University of Nevada Press . 9780874170627

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Author picture: The 1950s marked a period of significant changes for Nevada--gambling came under national and local scrutiny, atomic bombs were tested regularly near Las Vegas, and labor disputes made national headlines. Glass examines the events of the decade and their impact on Nevada and on the rest of the country.

Mary Ellen Glass (1927-2007) was a distinguished and beloved Nevada historian. Mary Ellen was a native of Reno, Nevada, born March 31, 1927. She received her master's degree in history and political science in 1962. A life member of Phi Kappa Phi, she started the Oral History Program at the University of Nevada in 1964. She remained as the head of the program until her retirement in 1983.

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Touring Nevada: A Historic and Scenic Guide Glass, Mary Ellen and Glass, Al University of Nevada Press . 9780874170740

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Author picture: A historic and scenic guide to Nevada from the glitz of Las Vegas to the solitude of the desert.

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Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State Glotfelty, Cheryll (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874177596 896 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Literary Nevada is the first comprehensive literary anthology of Nevada. It contains over 200 selections ranging from traditional Native American tales, explorers' and emigrants' accounts, and writing from the Comstock Lode and other mining boomtowns, as well as compelling fiction, poetry, and essays from throughout the state's history.

Cheryll Glotfelty is associate professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno and a CASE-Carnegie Professor of the Year for Nevada. She has published many essays on western writers and Nevada literature and is coeditor of The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology (1996).

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Watch Your Language!: Mother Tongue and Her Wayward Children Gorrell, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874172355

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Author picture: In this lively, playful celebration of the joys and power of language, Gorrell points to all the signs that show English to be alive and well, and, like any other living thing, constantly evolving. Watch Your Language! covers a wide array of topics of interest to all aficionados of English, from political doublespeak to spelling, from etymology to puns and wordgames. Throughout, Gorrell invites readers to share his love for words.

Robert Gorrell is professor of English emeritus at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of more than a dozen books and his weekly newspaper column 'Straight Talk' was published in the Reno Gazette-Journal for thirteen years through 1995. He is the recipient of numerous distinguished service awards from the Discount: University of Nevada, Reno, the Nevada Humanities Committee, and the University 0.40 of Nevada Alumni Association. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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What’s in a Word? Gorrell, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173673 232 pages hardcover $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Modern English is rich in words derived from sources as diverse as classical Latin and Greek, Indonesian and other Asian languages, European mythology and religion, and the popular culture of many times and places.

Robert Gorrell is professor emeritus of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Modern English Handbook and Watch Your Language! Mother Tongue and Her Wayward Children (see page 23). His weekly newspaper column 'Straight Talk' was published in the Reno Gazette-Journal for thirteen years. He is the recipient of numerous distinguished service awards from the University of Nevada, Reno, the Nevada Humanities Committee, and the University of Nevada Alumni Association. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Nevada: A History of the Silver State Green, Michael S. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179736 528 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 3/23/2015 57 b/w photographs, 12 maps

Author picture: Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify the economy.

Michael S. Green is an associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, specializing in nineteenth-century politics and the American West. He is the author of several books on these subjects, including Las Vegas: A Centennial History.

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River Underground Griffin, Shaun T. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173642

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Author picture: Editor Shaun T. Griffin, in this compelling anthology of contemporary fiction from Nevada, makes a very convincing case that the state's wealth runs to far more than glitz and minerals.

Virginia City poet, editor, and translator Shaun T. Griffin operates an education program for homeless children and youth. He has written five books of poetry, including Bathing in the River of Ashes and edited two poetry collections, Desert Wood and Torn by Light, also published by the University of Nevada Press.

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Because the Light Will Not Forgive Me: A Poet's Essays Griffin, Shaun T. University of Nevada Press . 9781948908122 200 pages hardcover $27.95 Pub Date: 6/5/2019

Author picture: A poet ponders the people, spaces, and ideas that influence the American West and beyond.

Shaun Griffin is poet, writer, teacher and activist. He is the co-founder of Community Chest, a non-profit agency which has served children and families in northwestern Nevada since 1991, and has taught a poetry workshop at Northern Nevada Correctional Center for over two decades. Griffin has received numerous awards for his work, including the Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1995, the Mike O’Callaghan Humanitarian Award in 2004, and the Rosemary McMillan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Art from Sierra Arts Foundation in 2006. In 2014, he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He lives in Virginia City, Nevada. Discount: 0.40 Distro:

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Bathing in the River of Ashes: Poems Griffin, Shaun University of Nevada Press . 9780874173314

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Author picture: Shaun Griffin is a poet of impassioned engagement—in the common joys and suffering of the human experience, in the natural world, in the complexity of language and the poet's craft.

Shaun Griffin is the co-founder and director of Community Chest, a non-profit agency serving children and families in northwestern Nevada since 1991, and the former founding director of the state’s homeless education office. Shaun has spent a lifetime trying to build bridges where there were none for all members of the human community. During the mid-80s he worked in Stanford University’s foremost community outreach program, starting several disability initiatives on that campus. He later founded a minority youth outreach program for four universities in the San Discount: Francisco Bay Area. In 2004, he received the Mike O’Callaghan Humanitarian 0.40 Award, named after the former Nevada Governor. His last book of poems was Distro: Bathing in the River of Ashes, published by the University of Nevada Press in 1999. Death to Silence (translations from the Chilean poet, Emma Sepúlveda) was CDC released by Arte Público Press in 1997. In 1995 he received the Governor's Award Group: for Excellence in the Arts. For many years he has taught a poetry workshop at Wilcher Northern Nevada Correctional Center and published an annual journal of their work, Razor Wire. He regularly contributes poetry, essays, and translations to literary Author location: Northwest NV

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Nevada's Changing Wildlife Habitat: An Ecological History Gruell, George E. University of Nevada Press . 9780874177077 192 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 11/15/2013

Author picture: For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence. Nevada's Changing Wildlife Habitat is the first book to explain the transformations in the plants and animals of this region over time and how they came about.

George E. Gruell is a retired wildlife biologist for the U.S. Forest Service. He has published widely on vegetation succession, wildlife habitat, and fire ecology in the West and has pioneered the use of repeat photography for recording ecological changes over time. Sherman Swanson is a range and riparian specialist for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Service and associate professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Discount: Nevada, Reno. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (Sherman Swanson - University of Nevada, Reno)

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Old Heart of Nevada: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County Hall, Shawn University of Nevada Press . 9780874172959 308 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Following a guidebook format, Hall divides the county into five easily accessible regions, then lists the historic sites within each region and provides directions to reach them.

Shawn Hall has devoted his career to exploring and recording historic sites, ghost towns, and abandoned mining camps in each of Nevada's seventeen counties. Hall is director of the Tonopah Historic Mining Park in Nye County, Nevada.

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Preserving the Glory Days: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County Hall, Shawn University of Nevada Press . 9780874173178 320 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: This book offers a lively, informative record of Nevada’s isolated interior. First published in 1981, this edition, expanded in 1999, includes new information uncovered by revisiting all 175 original sites and visiting more than 20 previously unlisted sites.

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Connecting the West: Historic Railroad Stops and Stage Stations in Elko County, Nevada Hall, Shawn University of Nevada Press . 9780874174991 232 pages paperback $22.95 Pub Date:

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Shawn Hall's immensely popular guidebooks to Nevada ghost towns have become essential resources for backcountry explorers and scholars alike.

Shawn Hall has devoted his career to exploring and recording historic sites, ghost towns, and abandoned mining camps in each of Nevada's seventeen counties. He is the author of Romancing Nevada's Past, Old Heart of Nevada, and Preserving the Glory Days. Hall is director of the Tonopah Historic Mining Park in Nye County, Nevada.

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Romancing Nevada’s Past: Ghost Towns and Historic Sites of Eureka, Lander, and White Pine Counties Hall, Shawn University of Nevada Press . 9780874172287 240 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

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Drawing on county records, newspaper microfilm, personal interviews, and on-site investigation, Hall provides the reader with a history of 175 significant sites, rendering a treasury of interesting facts on every page. This book blends history and old photographs with an update on the present condition of each ghost town or landmark. The sites and towns are arranged alphabetically, county by county, for quick reference.

Author location: Nye County NV (Tonopah Historic Mining Park)

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Because I'd Hate to Just Disappear: My Cancer, My Self, Our Story Hardy, Don and Hardy, Heather University of Nevada Press . 9781943859733 280 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 4/16/2018

Author picture: Because I’d Hate to Just Disappear is a portrait of a husband and wife, Don and Heather Hardy, thrown into the physical and emotional machinery of Don being diagnosed with leukemia and going through chemotherapy and treatment over a period of close to two years.

Donald E. Hardy received a Ph.D. in linguistics from Rice University. He taught linguistics at University of North Texas, Northern Illinois University, Colorado State University, and University of Nevada, Reno, where he is now professor emeritus. In his retirement, he writes, reads, and gives mostly unsolicited advice to his younger friends. Heather Kay Hardy received her Ph.D. in linguistics from UCLA. She taught linguistics at a number of universities, served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts Discount: at Colorado State University and University of Nevada, Reno where she also served 0.40 as interim executive vice president and provost. She is happily retired and living in Distro: Reno with her husband, two cats, and dog. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV

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The Genesis of Reno: The History of the Riverside Hotel and the Virginia Street Bridge Harpster, Jack University of Nevada Press . 9781943859238 256 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 9/13/2016

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The Genesis of Reno, traces the history of an inn and the bridge in the Nevada Territory up to the present day. The 111-year-old concrete bridge that was replaced in 2016 by a magnificent new structure was honored for its longevity and unique character with placement on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Jack Harpster graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in journalism. He spent forty-three years working in the newspaper industry in both Southern California and Southern Nevada. Before retiring in 2002 Jack was the Executive Director of Advertising for the Las Vegas Review Journal and the Las Vegas Sun, and Director of New Media for the Stephens Newspaper group. He has published Discount: eight other books, along with dozens of essays and articles on history and biography 0.40 in national and local journals and magazines. He lives in Reno, Nevada. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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History and Humanities: Essays in Honor of Wilbur S. Shepperson Hartigan, Francis X. (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874171488

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Author picture: A celebration of the career of noted historian Wilbur S. Shepperson, this collection covers such diverse topics as medical history, minority history, atomic testing and weapons, gambling, humanism, and the ideal of the university in history.

Francis X. Hartigan is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, and is the former Director of the university's honors program, which he established in the late 1980s. With a Ph.D. in medieval French history from the University of Wisconsin, Hartigan teaches courses in classical and medieval history, Core Humanities, and historiography. He established UNR's long-running London Program, and, with Phil Boardman, took groups of students to England and France to study medieval culture and to Italy and Greece to study classical culture. He was Discount: the Joseph N. Crowley Distinguished Professor of the Humanities for 2003-2005. 0.40 Lake Tahoe provides his venue for sailing in the summer and cross-country skiing in Distro: the winter. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About the West Hausladen, Gary J. (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874176629 360 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: The concept of the American West is an essential part of our national psyche.

Gary Hausladen received his PhD from Syracuse University and is professor of geography at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is also the author of Places for Dead Bodies.

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Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West: Essays on Region, History, and Practice Hildreth, Martha L. and Moran, Bruce T. (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9780874173048

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This collection of eight essays examines the health, disease, and medical care of the American West—an area flanked by the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Mountains.

Martha HIldreth is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received her PhD from the University of California, Riverside. Bruce Moran joined the faculty of the University of Nevada in 1976. His primary areas of study are the history of science and early medicine as well as European cultural and intellectual history. Professor Moran is the author of numerous books, over forty journal articles and over fifty book reviews. He has been a stipendiate of the Alexander von Discount: Humboldt Foundation, Murhardsche Bibliothek, Kassel (Germany), a Guest 0.40 Professor of the Institute of the History of Pharmacy, Marburg University, a visiting Distro: scholar of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. From September 2005 to July 2006 he CDC will be Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anatomy, University College Group: London, and affiliate at the Welcome Trust Centre for one History of Medicine. He Wilcher has also been named a University Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, and has received research grants from the Humboldt Foundation, American Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Elvis, Marilyn, and the Space Aliens: Icons on Screen in Nevada Holabird, Robin University of Nevada Press . 9781943859245 264 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: February 2017 6 x 9. 25 b/w photographs

Author picture: An insider’s account of the incredible film industry in Nevada.

Robin Holabird is former deputy director of the Nevada Film Office and a regular film reviewer on KUNR 88.7 FM, Reno Public Radio. She has traveled the state extensively scouting locations for films. A former board member of the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI), she is former editor of the organization’s magazine Locations.

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Oases of Culture: A History of Public and Academic Libraries in Nevada Hulse, James W. University of Nevada Press . 9780874175448

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Author picture: In Oases of Culture, veteran Nevada historian James W. Hulse recounts the tortuous and often colorful history of Nevada’s libraries and the work of the dedicated librarians, educators, civic leaders, women’s organizations, philanthropists, and politicians who struggled to make the democratic vision of free libraries available to all Nevadans.

A native of Pioche, Nevada, James W. Hulse is professor emeritus of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of eight books.

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A Visitor's Guide to the University of Nevada, Reno Arboretum Hulse, James W. / Glotfelty, Cheryll / Haulenbeek, Rod University of Nevada Press . 9781943859320 125 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 4/2/2018

Author picture: Richly illustrated with both contemporary color and archival photos, this book captures the charm of the campus in all four seasons and shows how the grounds of the university have evolved over the years.

James W. Hulse, alumnus of University of Nevada, Reno, taught for 35 years as a member of the university’s history department faculty. Hulse is the author of several books, including Great Basin Mosaic, Nevada’s Environmental Legacy: Progress or Plunder, The Silver State: Nevada’s Heritage Reinterpreted (now in its 3rd edition), Reinventing the System: Higher Education in Nevada, 1968-2000. Cheryll Glotfelty is an English professor at the University of Nevada, Reno and editor of Literary Nevada: Writings from the Silver State. She became chair of the University of Discount: Nevada, Reno Arboretum Board in 2014, and since then has become obsessed by 0.40 trees and passionate about the arboretum. Rod Haulenbeek, also known as "The Distro: Tree Hunter," spent a 20-year career in the oil industry. Since then he has published two books about trees, is heavily involved in the Nevada Big Tree Program, and has CDC completed tree inventories for the Nevada Division of Forestry of over 15,000 trees Group: with over 200 species. His certifications include Master Gardener, Tree Worker, Wilcher Arborist, and Tree Risk Assessment.

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Reinventing the System Hulse, James W. and Goodal, Leonard E. University of Nevada Press . 9780874175004

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Author picture: In this meticulously researched and engagingly written account of the University and Community College System of Nevada, James W. Hulse reviews the causes of the widespread changes in the System, giving careful attention to the history of each institution and its administrators, and offers comments about the impact of each of these changes on the System overall.

James W. Hulse, professor emeritus of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, has been affillated with the university since 1948 when he entered as a freshman. The author of eight books on European and American history, Hulse is the recipient of the university's Distinguished Faculty Award and an inductee in the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame. Leonard E. Goodall is professor emeritus of public Discount: administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a campus he lead as 0.40 president from 1979-1985. He is the author of two works on higher education and Distro: Nevada history. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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A Great Basin Mosaic: The Cultures of Rural Nevada Hulse, James W. University of Nevada Press . 9781943859252 160 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: March 2017 Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History. 5½ x 8½. 21 b/w illustrations, 5

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Nevada off-the-beaten-path, the undiscovered and under-appreciated landscape.

James W. Hulse was born in Pioche, NV and is truly a native son of Nevada. He was professor of history at University of Nevada, Reno from 1962-97. Author of many books on Nevada, he was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1997.

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Forty Years in the Wilderness: Impressions of Nevada, 1940-1980 Hulse, James W. University of Nevada Press . 9780874170993

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Author picture: This interpretive history of Nevada is partly a social and political statement that draws on technical, historical, and political documents. But more than that, it is a personal testimonial by author James Hulse, whose childhood in Pioche during the Depression and World War II, service as a reporter in Reno during the 1940s and 1950s, and tenure as a history professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, have given him a unique insight into the state.

A native of Pioche, Nevada, James W. Hulse is professor emeritus of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of eight books.

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Nevada’s Environmental Legacy Hulse, James W. University of Nevada Press . 9780874177695 176 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Nevada's Environmental Legacy is an informed and readable survey of environmental policies and problems in the Silver State since the beginning of Euro- American settlement.

A native of Pioche, Nevada, James W. Hulse is professor emeritus of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of eight books.

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The Silver State: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted - Third Edition Hulse, James W. University of Nevada Press . 9780874175929 392 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Nevada has changed dramatically over the past quarter century, and in this third edition of The Silver State, renowned historian James W. Hulse recounts the major events -- historical, political, and social -- that have shaped our state.

A native of Pioche, Nevada, James W. Hulse is professor emeritus of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of eight books.

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Nazi Juggernaut in the Basque Country and Catalonia Irujo, Xabier and Solé, Queralt (editors) University of Nevada Press . Center for Basque Studies 9781949805055 510 pages paperback $15 Pub Date: 8/27/2019 The Basque Series.

Author picture: The history of the conflict in the Basque Country and Catalonia around the time of WWII.

Xabier Irujo is the director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is professor of genocide studies. He was the first guest research scholar of the Manuel Irujo Chair at the University of Liverpool and teaches seminars on genocide and cultural genocide at Boise State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds three Bachelor's degrees and three Master's degrees in linguistics, history and philosophy and has two Ph.D.s in history and philosophy. Irujo has lectured in various American and European universities and has mentored several graduate students. Member of the editorial board of four Discount: academic presses, he has authored more than 15 books and a number of articles in 0.40 specialized journals and has received awards and distinctions at the national and Distro: international level. His recent books include Gernika 1937: The Market Day Massacre (Nevada University Press, 2015) and Legal History of the Basque CDC Language (HAEE, Bilbao, 2015). Queralt Solé works at the University of Barcelona, Group: her area of expertise being contemporary history and the Spanish Civil War. Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Gernika, 1937: The Market Day Massacre Irujo, Xabier University of Nevada Press . 9780874179781

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Author picture: Gernika, 1937: The Market Day Massacre is an important contribution to the history of the Spanish Civil War and to our understanding of the military strategies and decisions that shaped this war and would later be employed by the Nazis during World War II.

Xabier Irujo is associate professor and codirector at the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the author of ten books and numerous scholarly articles, mostly focusing on aspects of genocide.

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Temples of Justice: County Court Houses of Nevada James, Ronald M. University of Nevada Press . 9780874172393

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Author picture: Temples of Justice provides an architectural history of the courthouses of Nevada. Nevada has never had a published architectural history, and Temples of Justice helps fill the gap by treating the state's built environment as a series of documents from the past.

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode James, Ronald M. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173208 384 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Ronald James’s brilliant account of the Comstock’s long and eventful history—the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century—examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Nevada’s Historic Buildings: A Cultural Legacy James, Ronald M. and Harvey, Elizabeth Safford (Photographs by Thomas Perkins) University of Nevada Press . 9780874177985 240 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Nevada’s Historic Buildings highlights 90 of these buildings, describing them in the context of the state’s history and the character of the people who created and used them.

Ronald M. James is the author or editor of twelve books; his most recent title, The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh (co-edited with Robert E. Stewart) received the Award of Merit from American Association for State and Local History. He is adjunct faculty in historic preservation at the University of Nevada, Reno and has published numerous articles on history, folklore, and archaeology. He is on the advisory board of the National Park Service, and recently stepped down after serving as Nevada’s State Historic Preservation Officer for three decades. Discount: Elizabeth Safford Harvey teaches history at Merced College. She has worked on 0.40 Nevada listings for the National Register of Historic Places, conducted interviews for Distro: the Comstock Oral History Project, and served as a research consultant for the Nevada Historic Preservation Office. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community James, Ronald M. and Raymond, C. Elizabeth University of Nevada Press . 9780874172973

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Author picture: When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality.

Ronald M. James is the author or editor of twelve books; his most recent title, The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh (co-edited with Robert E. Stewart) received the Award of Merit from American Association for State and Local History. He is adjunct faculty in historic preservation at the University of Nevada, Reno and has published numerous articles on history, folklore, and archaeology. He is on the advisory board of the National Park Service, and recently stepped down after serving as Nevada’s State Historic Preservation Officer for three decades. C. Elizabeth Raymond is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Discount: coeditor of Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh James, Ronald M. and Stewart, Robert E. (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9781943859016 264 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 2/1/2016 6 x 9. 9 b/w photographs, 1 map

Author picture: A lively firsthand account of mining life during the Gold Rush.

Ronald M. James was the executive director of the Comstock Foundation for History and Culture and served as state historic preservation officer for three decades. His publications include The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode and A Short History of Virginia City. Robert E. Stewart is an independent historian who was chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Land Management. He is the author of Aurora: Nevada’s Ghost City of the Dawn.

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The Baneberry Disaster: Generation of Atomic Fallout Johns, Larry C. and Johns, Alan R. University of Nevada Press . 9781943859450 240 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 8/17/2017 6 x 9. 16 b/w photos. Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History

Author picture: A generation of atomic fallout disaster. A compelling recollection of the environmental and human consequences of the underground nuclear test’s failure at Baneberry.

Larry C. Johns holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Arizona. He was admitted into the Nevada Bar Association in 1968. Alan R. Johns holds a Juris Doctor Degree from University of Colorado. He was admitted into the Nevada Bar Association in 1963.

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The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line Kagan, Michael University of Nevada Press . 9781948908504 280 pages hardcover $27.95 Pub Date: 8/11/2020

Author picture: A lawyer on the front lines of the immigration crisis explains the fundamentals of immigration law and describes its often heartbreaking impact on families and individuals.

Michael Kagan is the director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic, which defends children and families fighting deportation in Las Vegas and is Joyce Mack Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was a plaintiff in one of the lawsuits that prevented the Trump Administration from adding a question about citizenship to the 2020 census. He has written for The Washington Post, Salon.com, and The Daily Beast and is a leading national scholar of immigration and refugee law. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas_

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Dolly and Zane Grey: Letters from a Marriage Kant, Candace C. (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874178623

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Author picture: The letters of Zane and Dolly Grey - thousands of them - -reveal the true nature of this complex partnership. As edited by Candace Kant, the letters offer an engrossing portrait of an extremely unorthodox marriage and its times.

Candace C. Kant is professor emerita of history at the College of Southern Nevada.

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Academic Freedom Imperiled: The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada Kille, J. Dee University of Nevada Press . 9780874175936

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Author picture: J. Dee Kille's lively account of the crisis 'on the hill' records a critical period in Nevada's recent history and serves as a powerful case study of the devastating impact of McCarthyism and its atmosphere of suspicion and repression on one American-university campus during this turbulent era in the nation's history.

J. Dee Kille is a graduate teaching assistant in the History Department at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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As Long as the River Shall Run: An Ethnohistory of Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation Knack, Martha C. and Stewart, Omer C. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173345 488 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date:

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Martha Knack’s and Omer Stewart’s brilliant interdisciplinary study of the Pyramid Lake Reservation, first published in 1984, is considered a major landmark in American Indian history—a lucid and insightful examination of the Paiutes, their reservation, and the ongoing controversy over control of their land and the life-giving Truckee River waters that feed Pyramid Lake.

Martha C. Knack is professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an ethnohistorian who has done field research and archival studies with Northern and Southern Paiute people for more than twenty years. Omer C. Stewart began doing anthropological fieldwork among Great Basin native peoples in the Discount: 1930s and continued to do so actively until his death in 1991. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Here Is Our Valley Knudtsen, Molly Flagg University of Nevada Press . 9780790992525

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Author picture: Molly Knudtsen, a long-time resident of central Nevada, brings her years of experience as a rancher and writer together in this personal portrait of Grass Valley in central Nevada.

Molly Flagg Knudtsen (1915-2001) was a New York debutante, Nevada cattle breeder rancher and regent of the University of Nevada system from 1960-1980. She helped shape the university system's growth, including the establishment of the Desert Research Institute, the founding of the Anthropology Department, and the College of Agriculture's Knudtsen Resource Center is named after her. She attended Foxcroft School in Virginia and King's College, University of London. Her life-long love of horses started early, when she learned to ride —side-saddle —in Central Discount: Park as a child. She later learned English- and Western-riding styles and raised and 0.40 trained throughbred horses. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Under the Mountain Knudtsen, Molly Flagg University of Nevada Press . 9780874170726

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Author picture: A collection of vignettes about life in Central Nevada.

Molly Flagg Knudtsen (1915-2001) was a New York debutante, Nevada cattle breeder rancher and regent of the University of Nevada system from 1960-1980. She helped shape the university system's growth, including the establishment of the Desert Research Institute, the founding of the Anthropology Department, and the College of Agriculture's Knudtsen Resource Center is named after her. She attended Foxcroft School in Virginia and King's College, University of London. Her life-long love of horses started early, when she learned to ride —side-saddle —in Central Park as a child. She later learned English- and Western-riding styles and raised and trained throughbred horses. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: NV

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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men Kolvet, Renée Corona and Ford, Victoria University of Nevada Press . 9780874179934

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Author picture: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada is the first comprehensive history of the Nevada CCC, a program designed to help the nation get back on its feet, and of the “boys” who did so much to restore Nevada’s lands and resources.

Renée Corona Kolvet is a federal archaeologist with a special interest in the Depression-era American West. She has written several articles on the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Indian New Deal and recently completed a photo history of Hoover Dam. Victoria Ford is a former communications specialist for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension. She is an oral historian who has published fifteen books on Nevada and its people.

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark: Critiques Laird, Charlton (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874170771

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Author picture: ‘This collection of essays is the best introduction in print to Walter Clark and his work. For those readers who have already been introduced, there is much to ponder.’ —John Milton, Western American Literature.

Charlton Laird (1901-1984) was a scholar, linguist, poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, editor and a teacher. He was born in Nashua, Iowa. While an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, he was a varsity fencer and worked as both an itinerant wheat harvester and summer preacher in the Midwest. He worked as manager of the News Bureau for the Des Moines Register & Tribune in 1926 and also became Head of the Dept. of Journalism for Drake University in Des Moines that year. He was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, an honorary journalistic society, which is now the Society of Discount: Professional Journalists. After further education at Columbia, Stanford and Yale 0.40 Universities, he came to the University of Nevada, Reno in 1943 as head of the Distro: Department of English. His love of language is evident in his numerous books, papers and speeches that turn highly specialized scholarly research into lively CDC reading for the intelligent layman. Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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A Short History of Las Vegas - Second Edition Land, Barbara and Land, Myrick University of Nevada Press . 9780874175646

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Author picture: This best-selling and entertaining history of Las Vegas has been updated to reflect the city's tremendous growth and change in recent years.

Barbara Land earned a B.A. from the University of Miami and a M.A. from Columbia University. She worked as a reporter for the Miami Herald from 1940-1947, then moved to New York City to work as a reporter for Life magazine in 1948. A year later she began working in advertising for Cunningham & Walsh, Inc., before becoming a fashion reporter for the New York Times in 1955. She has written nonfiction books for children and adults. Land was inducted into the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame in 1996 along with her husband and literary collaborator Myrick Land, who died in 1998. She lives in Reno. Myrick Land (1922-1998) served in the Army Air Corps Discount: during World War II, then graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles 0.40 in 1945. He received a master's degree from Columbia University in 1946. During Distro: the 1960s and early '70s, he was senior editor and assistant managing editor of Look magazine in New York. Land came to Reno in 1976 as an assistant journalism CDC professor in the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno Group: retiring in 1993. He was inducted into the Nevada Writer's Hall of Fame in 1996, Wilcher along with his wife and literary collaborator, Barbara Land.

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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A Short History of Reno Land, Barbara and Land, Myrick University of Nevada Press . 9780874172621

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Author picture: This is an entertaining and anecdotal treatment of Reno's history. Wonderfully illustrated with dozens of black & white photographs, the authors uncover some little known facts and enlighten readers about Reno's colorful past and the parade of larger-than-life characters who left their mark on the city.

Barbara and Myrick Land were working journalists before they married in 1949. Both continued to write for newspapers and magazines over the years as they traveled, raised a family, and wrote books under separate and joint by-lines. The Lands moved to Nevada in 1977 when Myrick, a former editor at LOOK magazine, joined the journalism faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno. Myrick Land died in 1998.

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A Lean Year and Other Stories Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874172416

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Author picture: In this collection of sixteen short stories, Robert Laxalt illuminates the Nevada of the 1950s. Written when Laxalt was in his twenties, the stories are as fresh as if they were penned yesterday.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international Discount: critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Basque Hotel Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874172164

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Author picture: This novel is the first volume in Laxalt's highly acclaimed Basque-family trilogy. It tells the story of Pete, the son of a Basque immigrant, and his coming of age in Depression-era Carson City.

Author location: NV

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Child of the Holy Ghost Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173079

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Author picture: The second installment in Laxalt's Basque-family trilogy, this novel takes an adult- aged Pete to the Basque Country to uncover his parents' secret reasons for immigrating to the U.S. Pete finds himself stepping back into a medieval morality, into the rigid and unrelenting code of his ancestors, older and stronger than reason.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen Discount: books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international 0.40 critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Cup of Tea in Pamplona Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874171921 96 pages paperback $13 Pub Date:

Author picture: In this slim tale, Laxalt shows the ugly, desperate, and sometimes violent world of the contrabandiers, Basque smugglers in the Pyrenees.

Robert Laxalt was the author of Sweet Promised Land and numerous other acclaimed novels and nonfiction titles. He founded and was the first director of the University of Nevada Press.

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Dust Devils Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173000 112 pages paperback $16 Pub Date:

Author picture: An action-packed story set during the violent and conflict-ridden days of the early 20th century, Dust Devils takes place in the rugged mountains and deserts of Eastern California and Northern Nevada.

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In a Hundred Graves: A Basque Portrait Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9781943859092 180 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2016 The Basque Series. 5.5 x 8.5

Author picture: An intimate look at life in the Basque Country.

Robert Laxalt graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1947. Laxalt joined the staff of the university in 1954, first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and held the position of Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. He is the author of seventeen books, including the critically acclaimed Sweet Promised Land. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001.

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Man in the Wheatfield Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874175219

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Author picture: Robert Laxalt's first novel, A Man in the Wheatfield, was published to critical acclaim when it was released in 1964.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Nevada, A History Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874171792 176 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: An evocative portrait of the state that 'didn't deserve to be' but became one anyway. First published in 1977, Laxalt adds a new preface that reexamines his predictions for Nevada made almost 20 years ago and reflects on the changes that have occurred in Nevada--the urban plight of Las Vegas and Reno, the renewed appreciation of the land by conservationists and opportunists, and the explosive growth of tourism and gaming.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he Discount: founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the 0.40 first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen Distro: books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. CDC Group: Wilcher

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Private War: An American Code Officer in the Belgian Congo Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173246

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Author picture: When World War II began, Nevada writer Robert Laxalt was an undergraduate in college. Laxalt was eager to serve his country but was disqualified from military service because of a childhood illness that left him with a heart murmur. Frustrated in his attempts to enlist and shunned by his Nevada neighbors as a draft dodger, Laxalt used his family's political connections to get appointed as a code officer at the U.S. legation in the Belgian Congo. This vivid memoir recalls Laxalt's service in a remote jungle outpost where a secret war was being fought for control of the world's future.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the Discount: staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and 0.40 Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he Distro: founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen CDC books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international Group: critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. Wilcher

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Sweet Promised Land, Fiftieth Edition Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874177060 207 pages paperback $18 Pub Date:

Author picture: Dominique Laxalt came to the United States early in this century and settled in Nevada where he worked nearly all his life as a shepherd. He married; Paul Laxalt, the senator, and Robert, a journalist, are his sons. In his old age, and for his first and only visit, he returned to his boyhood home in the Pyrenees. His son, Robert, accompanied him, and this is the story of their trip.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the Discount: first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen 0.40 books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international Distro: critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. CDC Group: Wilcher

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The Governor’s Mansion Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173086

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Author picture: The Governor's Mansion is a candid, revealing novel about a family caught up in alien territory.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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The Land of My Fathers Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173383 184 pages hardcover $21 Pub Date:

Author picture: The Land of My Fathers is a moving record of a people and their homeland. Through Laxalt's perceptive eyes, and his wife Joyce's photographs, we observe the Basques' market days and festivals, join their dove hunts and harvests, share their humor and history, their deep sense of nationalism, their abiding pride in their culture and their homes, and discover the profound sources of the Basques' strength and their endurance as a people.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he Discount: founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the 0.40 first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen Distro: books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. CDC Group: Wilcher

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Time of the Rabies: A Novella Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173505

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Author picture: During the 1920s, a rabies epidemic swept across northern Nevada, decimating wildlife and livestock herds. This historic event is the background for acclaimed writer Robert Laxalt’s brilliant new novella.

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Travels with My Royal: A Memoir of the Writing Life Laxalt, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874174854

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Author picture: Renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt has embraced a wide range of subjects in his nearly half-century career. In this candid memoir, he explores what is perhaps his most difficult subject ever—himself and his life as a writer. The book opens with a series of vignettes about his youth in Carson City as the second son of an immigrant Basque family and his later experiences as a student at the University of Nevada in Reno.

Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he Discount: founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the 0.40 first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen Distro: books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. CDC Group: Wilcher

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Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest Lewis, Corey Lee University of Nevada Press . 9780874176063 256 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: The work of three major California writers in the context of the landscapes they loved.

Corey Lee Lewis is assistant director of the Core Writing Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. He also teaches composition and environmental literature at the University as well as a wilderness survival class at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno.

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A Reporter at Large: Dateline: Pyramid Lake, Nevada Liebling, A. J. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173413

paperback $21.95 Pub Date: Edited and with an update by Elmer R. Rusco.

Author picture: In 1949, renowned journalist A. J. Liebling came to Reno to obtain a divorce, which required that he establish residency in Nevada for a period of six weeks. Liebling stayed at a guest ranch on the shores of Pyramid Lake. While there, his reporter’s curiosity was engaged by a bitter dispute raging between the Paiutes and non-Indian squatters who were claiming the most agriculturally productive lands of the reservation and the waters feeding the lake that was the economic and spiritual heart of the Paiutes’ ancient culture.

A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) was a journalist whose biographer proposed ‘may well have been the greatest reporter of his time.’ He wrote widely on many subjects, including politics, boxing, and World War II, and much of his work remains in print Discount: even many years after his death. Elmer R. Rusco is Professor Emeritus of History at 0.40 the University of Nevada, Reno. In 1998, he was honored by the Reno/Sparks Distro: chapter of the NAACP with a Lifetime Achievement Award for African American History. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (Elmer R. Rusco - University of Nevada, Reno)

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In the Shadow of the Strip Logsdon, Richard / Moffett, Todd / Eliopulos, Tima D. Editors) University of Nevada Press . 9780874175493 160 pages paperback $16 Pub Date:

Author picture: In the Shadow of the Strip is a powerful collection of stories -- honest fiction by remarkably gifted and perceptive writers. They dig deep into the city's core to reveal both its myth and its reality, its glamour and its corrosive powers of greed and despair. And most of all, they explore the passionate human hearts that give the city its unique flavor, its inimitable mixture of brilliance and darkness.

Richard Logsdon, Todd Moffett, and Tina D. Eliopulos are professors of English at the Community College of Southern Nevada and editors of 'Red Rock Review.' About the Contributors H. Lee Barnes's is the author of 'Gunning for Ho: Vietnam Stories,' 'Dummy Up and Deal,' and 'The Lucky.' Felicia Campbell, Ph.D., is professor of English at UNLV, chair of the Asian Studies Program, executive director Discount: of the Far West Popular and American Culture Association, and former book critic 0.40 for KNPR public radio. Robert Dodge grew up in the small town of Cincinnatus, New Distro: York. Since 1970 he has taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is a professor of English. Dayvid Figler is a lawyer for Clark County, Nevada. His CDC practice is limited to defending those accused of murder, including death penalty Group: cases. On the brighter side, he has performed his off-kilter brand of humorous Wilcher poetry/prose around the country since 1994. He is currently a featured commentator on KNPR. Andrew Kiraly is a Las Vegas-based freelance writer and an MFA student Author location: Southern NV (Community College of Southern Nevada)

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Ceremonies of the Damned: Poems Louis, Adrian C. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173024 71 pages paperback $13 Pub Date:

Author picture: The world of acclaimed Native American poet Adrian Louis is harsh and full of pain —the blizzard-blasted plains and dusty towns of the northern Midwest, the hopeless barrenness of the Reservation, and a bleak interior world of loss, illness, and despair.

Adrian C. Louis was born and raised in Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. He teaches at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He has numerous books of poetry and stories and awards to his credit.

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Wild Indians & Other Creatures Louis, Adrian C. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173031 200 pages paperback $18 Pub Date:

Author picture: Wild Indians & Other Creatures is a stunning book that will startle readers who harbor romantic notions of contemporary Native American life.

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Ancient Acid Flashes Back: Poems Louis, Adrian C. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173529 88 pages paperback $12 Pub Date:

Author picture: In this remarkable collection of poems, Adrian Louis, a member of the Paiute tribe, beams us back to the Haight during the Summer of Love and beyond on an inimitable tour of the wild side of youth, freedom, and possibility.

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The Ghost Dancers: A Novel Louis, Adrian C. University of Nevada Press . 9781647790240 264 pages hardcover $28 Pub Date: 9/14/2021

Author picture: Louis's authentic and moving novel is a take-no-prisoners tale of life gone bad on the rez.

Adrian C. Louis (1946-2018) was a half-breed member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. He published over a dozen collections of poetry (including two with the University of Nevada Press), a collection of short stories (Wild Indians and Other Creatures, University of Nevada Press), and another novel, Skins, which was made into a movie. His work has been translated into French, Hungarian, and other languages. Louis is remembered for his aggressive refusal to romanticize life on or off the reservation.

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Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place Makley, Matthew A. and Makley, Michael J. University of Nevada Press . 9780874178272 160 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Over twenty years of bitter disputes and confrontation between the Washoe and the climbers ensued. The Washoe are a small community of fewer than 2,000 members; the climbers were backed by a national advocacy and lobbying group and over a hundred powerful corporations. Cave Rock follows the history of the fight between these two groups and examines the legal challenges and administrative actions that ultimately resulted in a climbing ban.

Matthew A. Makley is assistant professor of history at Metropolitan State College in Denver. Michael J. Makley is author of several studies of Nevada history. He lives in the eastern Sierra Nevada.

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A Short History of Lake Tahoe Makley, Michael University of Nevada Press . 9780874178500

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Author picture: A Short History of Lake Tahoe recounts the long, fascinating history of Lake Tahoe. Author Michael J. Makley examines the geology and natural history of the lake and introduces the people who shaped its history, including the Washoe Indians and such colorful characters as Mark Twain and legendary teamster Hank Monk, and later figures like entert

Michael J. Makley is the author of several studies of Nevada history, including The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West and John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age, and coauthor of Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place, all from the University of Nevada Press. He lives in the eastern Sierra Nevada. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Eastern Sierra Nevada NV (Michael J. Makley)

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John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age Makley, Michael J University of Nevada Press . 9780874179941

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Author picture: From the early 1870s until his death in 1902, John Mackay was among the richest men in the world and was without a doubt the wealthiest man to emerge from Nevada’s fabulous Comstock Lode.

Michael J. Makley is the author of seven books on western history, and his biography William Sharon: The Infamous King of the Comstock won Foreword Magazine’s 2008 Silver Award for Biography. His other publications include Saving Lake Tahoe: An Environmental History of a National Treasure and Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place. Makley divides his time between the eastern Sierra Nevada and Denver, Colorado.

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Saving Lake Tahoe: An Environmental History of a National Treasure Makley, Michael J. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179347 272 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: March 2014 6 x 8.5. 23 b/w photographs. 1 map

Author picture: Understanding the fight to ‘keep Tahoe blue.’

Michael J. Makley is the author of several studies of Nevada history, including most recently Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place (coauthored with Matthew S. Makley) and A Short History of Lake Tahoe. He divides his time between Denver and the eastern Sierra.

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Speaking Through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada Mallea-Olaetxe, J. University of Nevada Press . 9780874177626 256 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Speaking Through the Aspens analyzes the content of thousands of arboglyphs in the mountains of Nevada and California by topic—language, politics, the Basque homeland, the sheepherd’s life, sex, and pictorial themes.

Joxe Mallea is a Basque Researcher at the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. His full curriculum vitae can be found here.

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Jews in Nevada: A History Marschall, John P. University of Nevada Press . 9780874178456 456 pages paperback $26.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2011

Author picture: The book is the first comprehensive documented study of Jews in Nevada from 1850 to the present.

John P. Marschall is professor emeritus of history at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has published widely on the history of religion in the United States.

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Healing Las Vegas: The Las Vegas Community Healing Garden in Response to the 1 October Tragedy McAleer, Donna A. and Evans, Stefanie University of Nevada Press . 9781948908474 128 pages hardcover $19.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2019

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The Las Vegas community’s response to the tragedy on October 1, 2017.

Stefani Evans, of Las Vegas, Nevada, is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of the North American West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She is project manager for the Building Las Vegas oral history project at the Oral History Research Center at UNLV University Libraries, 2016-present, and is the Nevada delegate on the board of the Southwest Oral History Association. A former elementary school teacher, she holds a bachelor's degree in English and master's degrees in Educational Administration and U.S. History. Donna McAleer's career in publications started more than 40 years ago as an editorial assistant at the RAND Corporation. Discount: She soon developed expertise in corporate public relations and later specialized in 0.40 publications management at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she wrote Distro: and edited university publications for more than 30 years. She also managed UNLV's printing and design operations. McAleer earned her bachelor and master's CDC degrees in English at Loyola Marymount University. She received a Master of Arts Group: degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature from the University of Southern Wilcher California and has taught English at Loyola Marymount, USC, UNLV, and the College of Southern Nevada. Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Las Vegas: The Great American Playground, Expanded Edition McCracken, Robert University of Nevada Press . 9780874173017

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Author picture: This expanded edition is the perfect book for the southern Nevada-bound traveler or the armchair adventurer.

Robert McCracken received his PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado and has taught at Colorado Women’s College, CSU Long Beach, and UCLA. McCracken lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Played Out on the Strip: The Rise and Fall of Las Vegas Casino Bands McKay, Janis L. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179996 272 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 4/1/2016 6 x 9. 8 b/w photographs

Author picture: An in-depth and personal account of the lives of Las Vegas hotel musicians.

Janis L. McKay is an associate professor of bassoon at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Principal Bassoon for the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra. She also performs as Principal Bassoon for the Classical Music Festival in Austria, and as Contrabassoon for the Reno Philharmonic. McKay has performed with many noteworthy musicians, including Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrea Bocelli, and many others.

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American Commander in Spain: Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Merriman, Marion and Lerude, Warren University of Nevada Press . 9781948908740 255 pages paperback $30 Pub Date: 9/22/2020

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American Commander in Spain is the inspirational and agonizing story of Robert Hale Merriman commanding idealists fighting for democracy against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and his wife who so adored him she joined with him in the war.

Marion Stone Merriman Wachtel was born in Santa Barbara, California in l909 and died in Palo Alto, California in l991. Marion married Robert Hale Merriman on their graduation day in l932 from the University of Nevada, Reno, and served with him in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion as he commanded American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Following Bob’s presumed death, (reported lost in battle in l938), Marion, in l939, married Emil Wachtel, a San Francisco attorney who shared her life- Discount: long dedication as an advocate for freedom. They are survived by three sons, 0.40 Joseph, Jeffrey and William Wachtel. She remained active in the Abraham Lincoln Distro: Brigade whose members had served in Spain and was employed as an administrative assistant at Stanford University near their home in Palo Alto, CDC California. Warren Lerude is a 1961 journalism graduate of the University of Nevada Group: in Reno. In l977, he won a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism for editorial writing as editor Wilcher of the Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal. He also served as publisher. He is emeritus professor art the Reynolds School of Journalism and Author location: Reno NV

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas: A History Moehring, Eugene P. University of Nevada Press . 9780874177091

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Author picture: The complete history of UNLV in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

Eugene P. Moehring, a native of Brooklyn, is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930–2000 and Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890 and coauthor of Las Vegas: A Centennial History, among other works.

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Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 Moehring, Eugene P. University of Nevada Press . 9780874175653

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Author picture: An analysis of urbanism in the development of the American West during the frontier era.

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Las Vegas: A Centennial History Moehring, Eugene P. and Green, Michael S. University of Nevada Press . 9780874176155 296 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Las Vegas: A Centennial History celebrates the city's unparalleled growth in the brief century of its existence, examining both the development of its gaming industry and the creation of an urban complex that over a million people proudly call home.

Eugene P. Moehring is professor of history at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. He is the author of Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000 and Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890. Michael S. Green is professor of history at the Community College of Southern Nevada. He is the author of Nevada: A Journey of Discovery, and he serves as editor in chief of the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly.

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Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000, Second Edition Moehring, Eugene P. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173567 400 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: In a new and expanded epilogue to Resort City in the Sunbelt, Moehring looks at the major events of the last three decades and their underpinnings.

Eugene Moehring is professor history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Wild Nevada: Testimonies on Behalf of the Desert Moore, Roberta and Slovic, Scott (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9780874176131

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Author picture: In Wild Nevada, editors Roberta Moore and Scott Slovic have assembled twenty- nine writers who know and love the Nevada wilderness to testify on its behalf.

Roberta Moore is an interpretive park ranger at Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. She sits on the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Board of Trustees, which is working to restore damaged areas of the eastern Nevada landscape to their natural state. Scott Slovic is professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has published widely on nature writing and ecocriticism and served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.

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A Short History of Carson City Moreno, Richard University of Nevada Press . 9780874178364

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Author picture: A Short History of Carson City is an engaging, comprehensive account of the city's colorful, often turbulent past.

Richard Moreno is former publisher of Nevada Magazine and current director of student publications at Western Illinois University. His publications include Roadside History of Nevada and Nevada Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities and Other Offbeat Stuff.

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Nevada Trivia Book - Third Edition Moreno, Richard University of Nevada Press . 9781889786216

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Author picture: Take an informative romp through Nevada's past and present in this entertaining Q & A trivia book.

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The Historical Nevada Magazine Moreno, Richard University of Nevada Press . 9781890136062

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Author picture: A compilation of outstanding historical features from the past six decades of Nevada Magazine, this collection includes stories on Nevada's first woman sheriff, the great train robbery, and a cattle rustler who covered his tracks by wearing shoes made from cattle hooves. Includes many historical photographs. Distributed for Nevada Magazine.

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A Short History of Reno - Second Edition Moreno, Richard University of Nevada Press . 9780874179842 184 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 10/1/2015 55 b/w photographs, 1 map

Author picture: This completely revised and updated edition of A Short History of Reno provides an entertaining and informative account of Reno’s remarkably colorful history.

Richard Moreno is director of student publications and an adjunct professor in the Broadcasting and Journalism Department at Western Illinois State University. He is the former publisher of Nevada Magazine and the author of twelve books, including A Short History of Carson City. He was awarded the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award in 2007.

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Shrubs of the Great Basin: A Natural History Mozingo, Dr. Hugh University of Nevada Press . 9780874171129 364 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: Drawings by Christine Stetter.

Author picture: Mozingo presents the life histories of more than sixty species of both common and unusual shrubs, and discusses how shrubs grow, reproduce, and adapt to the extreme weather conditions that are part of daily life in the Great Basin.

Dr. Hugh Mozingo is Professor Emeritus of Botany and former curator of the herbarium at the University of Nevada. The author of the book Threatened and Endangered Plants of Nevada and dozens of journal articles, Mozingo holds graduate degrees from Columbia University and has researched the botany of the Great Basin for over twenty-five years.

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Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846 -47 Mullen Jr., Frank University of Nevada Press . 9781890591014

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Author Frank Mullen Jr. gives us a day by day account of the Donner Party’s struggle for survival as they journey across the trail west.

Frank Mullen is a writer and journalist based in Reno, Nevada.

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Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry Nolan, Sarah University of Nevada Press . 9781943859276 256 pages hardcover $44.95 Pub Date: April 2017 Foreword by Scott Slovic. 6 x 9

Author picture: A cutting-edge literary assessment posing a radical new direction for ecopoetics.

Sarah Nolan is a lecturer at University of Nevada, Reno, where she works on American poetry and contemporary literature. She has contributed articles to many key journals and collections, including Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Studies in American Culture, and New International Voices in Ecocriticism.

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The Circle of Mountains: A Basque Shepherding Community Ott, Sandra University of Nevada Press . 9780874172249

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Author picture: Sandra Ott provides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community.

Sandra Ott is an associate professor in the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She received a B.A. in English from Pomona College, and an M.Litt. and a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford (Wolfson College). Professor Ott lived in Europe for thirty years before returning to the United States in 2002. Her current research focuses on Basque-German relations (1914-1945) and Basques in the Great War. She teaches undergraduate courses on Basque culture and 20th century wars in France and Spain. Sandra Ott was born in a small, rural town in northwestern Pennsylvania. Her first contact with Discount: the Basque people occurred in 1956 when she and her family spent a month on an 0.40 Arizona dude ranch owned by a Basque family. Her second experience with the Distro: Basques took place in 1973, during her senior year at Pomona College when Sandra and a group of friends had lunch in a Basque restaurant, El Centro Vasco, in CDC Chino, CA. She remembers seeing a room full of men at the back of the restaurant; Group: they were playing Basque poker (as she later discovered) and speaking the Basque Wilcher language. Sandra did not give any further thought to the Basques until 1975, when her husband suggested that she might consider the Basques as the focus of her Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945 Ott, Sandra University of Nevada Press . 9780874170085 280 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 11/22/2016 6 x 9. 9 b/w photos, 3 maps. The Basque Series

Author picture: During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, and foreign occupation. With the liberation of France in 1944, many Xiberoans faced new conflicts arising from legal and civic judgments made during Vichy and German occupation. War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands traces the roots of their divided memories of the era to local and official interpretations of judgment, behavior, and justice during those troubled times.

Sandra Ott is an associate professor in the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has an MLitt and a DPhil in social anthropology from Oxford University and lived in Europe for thirty years before returning to the Discount: United States in 2002. She is the author of a widely acclaimed monograph, The 0.40 Circle of Mountains: A Basque Shepherding Community, and numerous articles Distro: about Basque culture and, most recently, Franco-Basque-German relations during the Occupation. In 2007, she received a national award in French history, the CDC Millstone Prize. Group: Wilcher

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The House on Breakaheart Road Pahmeier, Gailmarie University of Nevada Press . 9780874173130 72 pages paperback $12 Pub Date:

Author picture: This breathtaking collection of poems by award-winning Nevada poet Gailmarie Pahmeier explores the many facets of a woman's experience.

Gailmarie Pahmeier teaches creative writing and literature in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 2007, she was honored with a Governor's Arts Award by the Nevada Arts Council for “Excellence in the Arts.” Pahmeier is recognized for her art and poetry. Her works include With Respect for Distance and What Emma Loves published by Black Rock Press and The House on Breakaheart Road published by the University of Nevada Press. Pahmeier has also received the Chamber Memorial Award, the Paumonok Poetry Award, a Witter Bynner Foundation Poetry Fellowship, two Nevada Arts Council Artist Fellowships Discount: and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Pahmeier has 0.40 received the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the University Distinguished Distro: Teacher Award. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Nevada's Great Recession: Looking Back, Moving Forward Parker, Elliott (with Kate Marshall)

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Great Basin Rock Art Quinlan, Angus R. (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9781943859559 168 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: A refreshing look at a variety of directions being taken in Great Basin rock art studies.

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Gabling, Space, and Time: Shifting Boundaries and Cultures Raento, Paulina and Schwartz, David (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9780874178531 224 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 9/1/2011

Author picture: The eight essays in Gambling, Space, and Time use a global and interdisciplinary approach to examine two significant areas of gambling studies that have not been widely explored--the ever-changing boundaries that divide and organize gambling spaces, and the cultures, perceptions, and emotions related to gambling.

Pauliina Raento is research director at the Finnish Foundation for Gaming Research, professor of human geography at the University of Helsinki, and associate editor of Political Geography. David G. Schwartz is director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is also the author of Cutting the Wire: Gambling Prohibition and the Internet (University of Nevada Press) and several other books about gambling and history. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (David G. Schwartz - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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George Wingfield: Owner and Operator Of Nevada Raymond, C. Elizabeth University of Nevada Press . 9780874179293 368 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 9/15/2013 Shepperson Series in History Humanities.

Author picture: Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield (1876-1959) was one of the most significant figures in Nevada's history. He was the prime force behind the start-up of its tourism and gambling industries. Raymond's biography details every step of his remarkable climb to power, his staggering fall into bankruptcy, and a phoenix-like rise with a second fortune in gold mining.

Elizabeth Raymond is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, and co-editor of Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community.

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Searchlight: The Camp That Didn't Fail Reid, Harry University of Nevada Press . 9780874177534 288 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Deep in the desolate Mojave Desert in Nevada's extreme southern tip lies a small mining town called Searchlight. This meticulously researched book by Searchlight's most distinguished native son recounts the colorful history of the town and the lives of the hardy people who built it and sustained a community in one of the least hospitable environments in the United States.

Senator Harry Reid is the senior senator for Nevada and was formerly the Senate Majority Leader.

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Uncovering Nevada’s Past: A Primary Source History of the Silver State Reid, John B. and James, Ronald M. (editors) University of Nevada Press . 9780874175677 248 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: In Uncovering Nevada's Past, historians John B. Reid and Ronald M. James have collected more than fifty major documents and visual images -- some never before published -- that define Nevada's colorful and complex development.

John B. Reid has taught history at the college level for ten years and is currently a professor at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. Ronald M. James is Nevada's state historic preservation officer and author or editor of five books including The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode and Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community. Both editors are natives of Reno, Nevada.

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River and the Railroad: An Archaeological History of Reno Ringhoff, Mary and Stoner Edward J. University of Nevada Press . 9780874178432 248 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 3/1/2011

Author picture: The River and the Railroad traces the people and events that shaped the city, incorporating archaeological findings to add a more tangible physical dimension to the known history.

Mary Ringhoff is an archaeologist and historian with Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc., in Sparks, Nevada. She worked as a staff archaeologist/field supervisor on the ReTRAC construction project. Edward J. Stoner is an archaeologist and senior project manager/laboratory director of Western Cultural Resource Management, Inc., which supervised cultural resource issues on the ReTRAC project.

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Passion for Gold; An Autobiography Roberts, Ralph J. University of Nevada Press . 9780874175028 256 pages hardcover $29.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Ralph Roberts is not a household name in Nevada, but it should be-it was he who discovered the Carlin Belt gold deposits that created a major mining boom in the state in the last four decades of the twentieth century.

After forty-four years with the U.S. Geological Survey, Ralph J. Roberts retired in 1981 and formed a partnership providing consultation for the exploration of gold deposits. He is the recipient of numerous professional awards including the Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior; the Man of the Year Award from the Nevada Mining Association; and the Medal of Merit from the American Mining Hall of Fame.

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Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice Robertson, Christina and Westerman, Jennifer University of Nevada Press . 9780874179637 296 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 2/25/2015

Author picture: This collection of essays examines the relationship between environmental injustice and the exploitation of working-class people. Academic.

Christina Robertson earned her PhD in literature and the environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. She teaches environmental literature, ethnic studies, and composition. Jennifer Westerman is assistant professor of sustainable development at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She specializes in environmental literature, working-class studies, and environmental justice.

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Just Past Labor Day: Selected and New Poems, 1969-1995 Robertson, Kirk University of Nevada Press . 9780874172843

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Author picture: Kirk Robertson is one of Nevada's best-known poets, and rightly so, because his lean verses powerfully express the realities of life in the modern West - its irony, disconnection, sadness, and relentless quest for meaning and a sense of place.

Kirk Robertson is program director for the Churchill Arts Council. He was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1994 and is the author of over eighteen poetry books. He is the editor of neon: Artcetera from the Nevada State Council on the Arts and lives in Fallon, Nevada.

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The New West of Edward Abbey - Second Edition Ronald, Ann University of Nevada Press . 9780874173574

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Author picture: The New West of Edward Abbey is the first book-length study assessing the literary career of this major contemporary American author.

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Earthtones: A Nevada Album Ronald, Ann and Trimble, Stephen University of Nevada Press . 9780874175264

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Author picture: Stephen Trimble, the photographer, and Ann Ronald, the storyteller, have collaborated on this spectacular volume to share their visions of an astonishing place that suffers from mistaken stereotypes; colorful photos and colorful essays guide readers through the challenging but magnificent Nevada landscape.

Ann Ronald is a hiker, wilderness advocate, creative writer, and literary critic who has been writing about the West for more than thirty years. Inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 2006, Ronald was named Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and has written extensively about the American West and western American literature. Stephen Trimble was born in Denver, his family's base for roaming the West with his geologist father. After a liberal arts Discount: education at Colorado College, he worked as a park ranger in Colorado and Utah, 0.40 earned a master's degree in ecology at the University of Arizona, served as director Distro: of the Museum of Northern Arizona Press, and for five years lived near Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has been a full-time free-lance writer and photographer since 1981. CDC Trimble has received significant awards for his photography, his non-fiction, and his Group: fiction—including The Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for photography and Wilcher conservation; The High Desert Museum's Chiles Award for promoting ‘thoughtful management of the natural resources of the Intermountain West;’ and a Frank Author location: Reno NV ( University of Nevada, Reno)

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Friendly Fallout 1953 Ronald, Ann University of Nevada Press . 9780874178609 248 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 9/1/2011

Author picture: Friendly Fallout 1953 is a hybrid work of literature that combines the actual history of aboveground atomic testing in the Nevada desert in 1953 with fictional vignettes that explore the impact of the tests on the people who participated in them and on civilian 'downwinders.'

Ann Ronald is Foundation Professor of English Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of numerous books and essays, including Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature (University of Nevada Press).

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Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature Ronald, Ann University of Nevada Press . 9780874175240

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Literary scholar Ann Ronald gathers her most notable published essays about Nevada, environmental writing, and Western American literature in one volume.

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Death Valley National Park: A History Rothman, Hal K. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179255 216 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 9/3/2013

Author picture: The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert.

Hal K. Rothman was Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His many previous works include Blazing Heritage: A History of Fire in the National Parks. Char Miller is W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College. He is the author and editor of many previous books, including Cities and Nature in the American West.

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The Making of Modern Nevada Rothman, Hal K. University of Nevada Press . 9780874178265 192 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: In The Making of Modern Nevada, author Hal Rothman focuses on the factors that shaped the state s original maverick, colonial status and those that later allowed it to emerge as the new standard of American consumerism and postmodern liberalism.

The late Hal K. Rothman (1958 2007) was Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act Rusco, Elmer R. University of Nevada Press . 9780874173451

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Although the impact of the IRA has been widely studied and debated, no scholar until now has looked closely at the forces that shaped its creation and passage.

Elmer R. Rusco is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. In 1998, he was honored by the Reno/Sparks chapter of the NAACP with a Lifetime Achievement Award for African American History.

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The Big Silence: A Jack Ross Mystery Schopen, Bernard University of Nevada Press . 9780874172546

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Author picture: This novel follows native Nevadan Jack Ross, a private investigator who has about had it with murder and betrayal and is teetering on the edge of emotional collapse. But when called upon by a friend to help a young prostitute locate her grandfather, missing these forty years, he hits the cold trail…again.

Bernard Schopen is the author of three Jack Ross novels, as well as a study of the novels of Ross Macdonald. Born in Deadwood, South Dakota, he attended Black Hills State College, the University of Washington, and the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a lecturer of humanities in the Core Humanities Program at the University of Nevada.

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The Desert Look: A Jack Ross Mystery Schopen, Bernard University of Nevada Press . 9780874172591

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Author picture: Reno private investigator Jack Ross has been in the desert for six months when his respite is interrupted by television reporter Miranda Santee. She need's Jack help to solve a story.

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The Iris Deception: A Jack Ross Mystery Schopen, Bernard University of Nevada Press . 9780874172867

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Author picture: In this third Jack Ross mystery, the Reno private eye is hired by iris-eyed Patsy McLeod to resume a case abandoned as hopeless eighteen years earlier—the search for her missing teenage daughter Heather.

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Cutting the Wire: Gaming Prohibition and the Internet Schwartz, David G. University of Nevada Press . 9780874176209 296 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: David Schwartz's historical unraveling of the Wire Act exposes the illogic of an outdated law intended to stifle organized crime being used to set national policy on Internet gaming. Cutting the Wire carefully dissects two centuries of American attempts to balance public interest with the technology of gambling.

David G. Schwartz, the Director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is a writer, speaker, and consultant whose areas of specialty include the history of gambling, gaming statistics, casino surveillance and security, and related issues. An Atlantic City native with a Ph.D. in U.S. History from UCLA and hands-on experience in the gaming industry, Schwartz has been at UNLV since 2001.He is also the Gaming and Hospitality for Vegas Seven, writing a regular Discount: column and features for the magazine. He's continually exploring both the history 0.40 and current state of gambling and casinos, and enjoys sharing what he learns with Distro: readers. Schwartz lives in Las Vegas. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (David G. Schwartz - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Frontiers in Chance: Gaming Research Across the Disciplines Schwartz, David G. (editor) University of Nevada Press . UNLV Gaming 9781939546036 354 pages paperback $15 Pub Date: 6/14/2013 Gambling Studies Series

Author picture: Pulls together 17 papers originally published in the series, making them available in one book for the first time.

David G. Schwartz, the Director of the Center for Gaming Research and instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, studies gambling and casinos, Las Vegas, tourism, and games. Schwartz has written several books, including Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas, Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling, and Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City. He has been extensively quoted in the media and featured in television programs. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Schwartz earned his bachelor’s degree (a double major in anthropology and history) as well as his master’s degree from the University of Discount: Pennsylvania before receiving his doctorate in US History from UCLA. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Tales from the Pit: Casino Table Games Managers in Their Own Words Schwartz, David G. University of Nevada Press . UNLV Gaming 9781939546098 300 pages paperback $23 Pub Date: 5/25/2016 Gambling Studies Series

Author picture: Provides an overview of how the interviewees felt about a variety of topics, ranging from their experiences breaking in as new dealers to their transitions to management and the changes the industry has seen over their careers.

David G. Schwartz, the Director of the Center for Gaming Research and instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, studies gambling and casinos, Las Vegas, tourism, and games. Schwartz has written several books, including Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas, Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling, and Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City. He has been extensively quoted in the media and featured in television programs. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Schwartz earned his bachelor’s degree (a double Discount: major in anthropology and history) as well as his master’s degree from the University 0.40 of Pennsylvania before receiving his doctorate in US History from UCLA. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (David G. Schwartz - University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Tales from the Slot Floor: Casino Slot Managers in Their Own Words Schwartz, David G. University of Nevada Press . UNLV Gaming 9781939546111 244 pages paperback $23 Pub Date: 6/22/2018 Gambling Studies Series

Author picture: Slot machines are the backbone of most casinos. They earn the most money and determine the physical layout of the casino floor.

David G. Schwartz, the Director of the Center for Gaming Research and instructor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, studies gambling and casinos, Las Vegas, tourism, and games. Schwartz has written several books, including Grandissimo: The First Emperor of Las Vegas, Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling, and Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City. He has been extensively quoted in the media and featured in television programs. Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Schwartz earned his bachelor’s degree (a double major in anthropology and history) as well as his master’s degree from the University Discount: of Pennsylvania before receiving his doctorate in US History from UCLA. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas Sheehan, Jack (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874173062 240 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Las Vegas was largely shaped by a handful of colorful and astute casino operators who turned a dusty desert town into the gaudy, booming holiday mecca that it is today. The essays in this book introduce us to these players.

Jack Sheehan, a 30-year Las Vegas resident and avid writer, has nine books to his credit, as well as contributed chapters and screenplays. Sheehan received the Nevada Film Commission Award for Outstanding Screenplay for Buddies; The Western States Outstanding Journalist Award for Feature Writing; and the Lowell Thomas Award for Best Travel Article in the U.S. for his essay, 'The Loneliest Road in America.' He lives in Las Vegas with his wife Carol and two young children.

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East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada Shepperson, Wilbur S. (editor) University of Nevada Press . 9780874171501

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Author picture: East of Eden, West of Zion is a collection of essays in which a dozen historians and novelists present their impressions and concerns about ‘end of the century’ Nevada.

Wilbur S. Shepperson (1919-1991) was a beloved teacher, author, and administrator at the University of Nevada for some forty years. In addition to the numerous books, honors, fellowships, and awards to his credit, he also served as chairman of the history department for twenty years and held the Grace A. Griffen Chair in History from 1987-1991. He founded and edited the University of Nevada Press's Nevada Series in History and Poltical Science from 1960-1991. The series was renamed in his honor upon his passing. He served as trustee and/or board member to the Nevada Humanities Committee, the Nevada Historical Society, and the University of Discount: Nevada Press. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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10 Moons and 13 Horses Short, Gary University of Nevada Press . 9780874175837 62 pages paperback $14 Pub Date:

Author picture: Gary Short's new collection is the work of a mature poet at the peak of his powers, confident of his ability to speak of human betrayal and the fragility of life without bitterness or cheap sentiment, to find poignancy in loss and exaltation in the outwardly mundane.

Gary Short is the author of 10 Moons and 13 Horses and Flying Over Sonny Liston, the latter winning the Western States Book Award for Poetry in 1996. He has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Short has taught at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and at Old Dominion University in Virginia. He currently divides his time between Virginia City, Nevada, and Panajachel, Guatemala. Discount: 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Virginia City NV

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Flying Over Sonny Liston: Poems Short, Gary University of Nevada Press . 9780874172850 80 pages paperback $14 Pub Date:

Author picture: Winner of the Western States Book Award for poetry, Flying Over Sonny Liston explores with courage, compassion, and bone-deep wisdom the complicated and some times heartbreaking task of being human in the modern world, in the modern West.

Author location: Virginia City NV

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The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces Simich, Jerry L. and Wright, Thomas University of Nevada Press . 9780874176162

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Author picture: In The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces, seventeen scholars from several disciplines—most of them members of the groups they write about—profile thirteen of the ethnic groups that make up Las Vegas’s population.

Jerry L. Simich received his PhD from UCSB and is emeritus associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Thomas Wright received his B.A. from Pomona College (1963). He took his junior year in Peru, which began his life-long interest in Latin America. He went to the University of California, Berkeley for the M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1971). He is a distinguished professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Wright teaches a variety of courses on Latin America, including a two semester lower division survey of Latin American Discount: history. Upper division courses include History of Mexico, History of the Andean 0.40 Region, Revolution and Reaction in Contemporary Latin America, and The Mexican Distro: Revolution. At the graduate level, he offers the colloquium and research seminar on Modern Latin America. He also teaches occasional seminars for the Honors College. CDC Wright’s research interests focus on twentieth century Latin American political Group: history. His books include Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution (rev. Wilcher ed., 2001); Flight from Chile: Voices of Exile (co-author Rody Oñate, 1998); Food, Politics, and Society in Latin America (co-editor John C. Super, 1985); and Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility Slovic, Scott University of Nevada Press . 9780874177565 264 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: These essays reveal the complex inner life of one of this generation’s most important environmental critics and literary activists.

Scott Slovic is a professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. The author, editor, or coeditor of many books, his research specialties include American environmental literature, the relation between narrative discourse and environmental values, autobiography and environmental experience, and environmental rhetoric. He offers courses in American literature, comparative literature, literary nonfiction, and composition. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University (1983) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University (1986, 1990). He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn (Germany) in 1986-87 and at the Discount: University of Tokyo, Sophia University, and Rikkyo University (Japan) in 1993-94. 0.40 He has been a faculty member at UNR since 1995, with stints as a visiting professor Distro: at Rice University and the University of Queensland (Australia). He was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and has CDC edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment since 1995. Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV (University of Nevada, Reno)

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Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West's Public Lands Smith, John L. University of Nevada Press . 9781948908900 288 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 3/2/2021

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Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens tells the fascinating history of the battle over Nevada's lucrative public lands through the lens of the April 2014 armed standoff between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and armed militia allies against federal officers attempting to provide security for a court-ordered cattle impoundment.

Nevada native, John L. Smith is a freelance writer, journalist, and author of more than a dozen books, including The Westside Slugger: Joe Neal’s Lifelong Fight for Social Justice. He writes an award-winning weekly column for The Nevada Independent, and is a contributor to Nevada Public Radio’s “State of Nevada” and a wide range of publications. An award-winning columnist, in 2016 he was inducted Discount: into the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame. In the same year, Smith and his 0.40 colleagues were honored with the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Distro: Journalism, the Ancil Payne Award from the University of Oregon, and the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Ethics. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vevas NV

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The Westside Slugger: Joe Neal's Lifelong Fight for Social Justice Smith, John L. University of Nevada Press . 9781948908030 272 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 1/7/2019

Author picture: A life and times biography of civil rights and political icon, Senator Joe Neal.

Nevada native John L. Smith is a longtime journalist and the author of more than a dozen books on some of the greatest characters in Las Vegas history. In three decades as a daily columnist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, he garnered many state and national awards for his work. In 2016, Smith was named to the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame and was part of a group of reporters to receive the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics from the University of Oregon, the Society of Professional Journalists award for Ethics, and the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University. He writes an award-winning weekly column for The Nevada Independent news website, offers commentary on National Discount: Public Radio station KNPR, and freelances to many other publications. The father of 0.40 an adult daughter, Amelia, he is married to the writer Sally Denton and makes his Distro: home in Las Vegas and outside Santa Fe, NM. CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vevas NV

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From the Still Empty Grave Stevens, Wilber University of Nevada Press . 9780874172720

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Author picture: Poetry, to Wilber Stevens, is a way of seeing things, of focusing our attention on the awesome dimensions of being alive. In this masterful collection of recent and older poems, Stevens explores the connections between place and experience, life and death, and the quotidian worlds of work, pain, and loss.

Wilber Stevens (1921-1996) is considered one of Nevada's finest and most influential poets. His poetry goes to places even the most unfamiliar reader understands: the late-night desperation seen in city faces and long laments on the slowly disappearing western landscape. He was respected as a poet, editor, scholar and professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He served as Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in 1972. Discount: He was the founding editor of Interim, a poetry and fiction journal, and a long-time 0.40 drama critic for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vevas NV

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Casino Customer Service: The WIN WIN Game Thompson, William N. and Comeau, Michele University of Nevada Press . 9780874178944

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Author picture: A guide to customer service in the casino industry in which the authors argue that investments in customer service are 'activities in a positive-sum game, or what can be called a win-win game. The customer wins better enjoyment of products offered, and the casino wins with renewed and repeated patronage.' Distributed for Gaming and Wagering Business.

William N. Thompson is the chair of the Public Administration Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees (Political Science) from Michigan State. His Ph.D. is from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Thompson served on the faculties of Southeast Missouri State, Western Michigan Univ., and Troy State University; he also served as Research Associate with the Discount: National Association of Attorneys General, and Research Advisor to the 0.40 Administrator of Pension and Welfare Benefits Programs in the US Department of Distro: Labor. For two years he served as Supervisor of Kalamazoo Township in Michigan. Since coming to Nevada in 1980, he has been actively studying public policy and CDC gambling. He and John Dombrink of the University of California-Irvine were gaming Group: consultants to the President's Commission on Organized Crime, resulting in their Wilcher collaboration on The Last Resort. Thompson's articles on gambling have appeared in numerous publications, he has lectured extensively on the topic of international Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Bombs in the Backyard: Atomic Testing and American Politics - Second Edition Titus, A. Costandina University of Nevada Press . 9780874173703 232 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: In the second edition of Bombs in the Backyard, Titus deftly covers the post-Cold War transformation of American atomic policy as well as our overarching cultural interest in all matters atomic, making this a must-read for anyone interested in atomic policy and politics.

A. Costandina Titus first became interested in the effects of atmospheric atomic testing as a researcher for former U.S. Senator Howard Cannon. Titus currently is professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, serves as a Nevada state senator, and sits on the board of directors for the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation.

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Latinos in Nevada: A Political, Economic, and Social Profile Tuman, John / Howard, Tiffany / Kopalyan, Nerses / Damore, David F. University of Nevada Press . 9781948908986 196 pages paperback $34.95 Pub Date: 6/1/2021 Series: Migration, Demography, & Environmental Change: Global Challenges. 40

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An extensive demographic profile of contemporary Latinos in Nevada.

John P. Tuman is an author and specialist on the political economy of Latin America. He is associate dean for faculty, College of Liberal Arts, and a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Tiffiany Howard is an author and associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. David F. Damore is an author and professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he serves as Department Chair. He is a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Study Program and a Senior Analyst with Latino Decisions. Dr. Nerses Kopalyan is an author and assistant Discount: professor-in-residence of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 0.40 His fields of specialization include international relations, geopolitics, and polarity. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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A History of Occupational Health and Safety: From 1905 to the Present Turk, Michelle Follette University of Nevada Press . 9781943859702 416 pages hardcover $44.95 Pub Date: 5/15/2018 Shepperson Series in Nevada History. 25 b/w photographs

Author picture: A History of Occupational Health and Safety examines the work, hazards, and health and safety programs from the early building of the railroad through the construction of the Hoover Dam, chemical manufacturing during World War II, nuclear testing, and dense megaresort construction on the Las Vegas Strip.

Michelle Follette Turk is a historian of occupational health and Nevada. She has authored scholarly articles on medicine and labor at Hoover Dam and is a lecturer on using Hoover Dam to teach history and Las Vegas medical history. She currently teaches history at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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Gambling With Lives: A History of Occupational Health in Greater Las Vegas Turk, Michelle Follette University of Nevada Press . 9781948908924 416 pages paperback $35 Pub Date: 12/15/2020

Author picture: A critical, long-term study on some of Southern Nevada's most catastrophic workplace disasters. Updated through 2020, this second edition includes new and expanded discussions on: Union activity, sexual harassment and misconduct, and race and employment.

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Solitude: Art and Symbolism in the National Basque Monument Urza, Carmelo and de Aguirre, José Antonio (additional text by Robert Laxalt) University of Nevada Press . 9780874172058

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Author picture: Urza discusses the genesis of the National Basque Monument to the Basque Sheepherder that is located in Reno, Nevada.

Carmelo Urza received his PhD in Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Iowa. He has served as Director of the University Studies Abroad Consortium (formerly Studies Abroad in the Basque Country) since 1982. José Antonio de Aguirre (1904-1960) was the first president (lendakari) of the Basque Republic during its brief and tragic history as an ally of the Spanish Republic. He was forced into exile in France when the Nationalists overran his fledgling country. After escaping the Nazis, he spent the rest of his life in exile, fighting for the reestablishment of the Republic and against the Franco regime. He died in Paris in Discount: 1960. Robert Laxalt grew up in Carson City, Nevada. He attended Santa Clara 0.40 University in California and later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. He Distro: joined the staff of the University of Nevada in 1954, serving first as director of News and Publications and later as director of the University of Nevada Press, which he CDC founded. He was named a Reynolds Distinguished Visiting Professor and was the Group: first occupant of the Distinguished Nevada Author Chair. The author of seventeen Wilcher books and many national magazine articles, his work has received international critical acclaim. He lived in Washoe Valley until his death in 2001. Author location: Washoe Valley NV

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Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again Vucanovich, Barbara F. and Cafferata, Patricia D. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179439 328 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: April 2014 6 x 9. 30 b/w photographs.

Author picture: Barbara Vucanovich was sixty-two when she ran in her first election, becoming the first woman ever elected to a federal office from Nevada. In this engaging memoir, written with her daughter, she reflects on the road that led her to Washington—her years as mother, businesswoman, and volunteer.

Barbara Vucanovich (1921–2013) retired in 1996 after serving seven terms in the US House of Representatives. Patricia D. Cafferata served as Nevada state treasurer and district attorney of Lincoln, Lander, and Esmeralda Counties. She lives in Reno, Nevada.

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Off Paradise Wegner, Hart University of Nevada Press . 9780874174861

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Author picture: Martin, the central character of Hart Wegner's powerful new short-story cycle, is a middle-aged German emigre who has found a home, of sorts, in the flashy, often surreal setting of contemporary Las Vegas.

Hart Wegner is professor of German, comparative literature, and film studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and founder and chair of the department of film. His fiction has been published in distinguished literary magazines and has received, among others, a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in Best American Short Stories. He was elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1990. Off Paradise is Wegner's second collection of short stories.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

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Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes Wheat, Margaret M. University of Nevada Press . 9780874170481 140 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate.

Margaret Marean Wheat was born September 9, 1908 in Fallon, Nevada. She received her education in Fallon and at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she studied geology. Recognized as a geologist and an anthropologist, her field experiences ranged from association with the U.S. Geological Survey to cave sitter at Winnemucca Lake, protecting the site from vandals. She worked as an archaeological field worker for the Nevada State Museum and also on water resources projects for the Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno. A special interest in the Ichthyosaur area in central Nevada involved her in the Nevada Discount: State Park System, and she served on the Nevada State Park Commission and on 0.40 the Nevada Ichthyosaur Park Board between 1953 and 1960. A major portion of Distro: Mrs. Wheat's research time was devoted to the Northern Paiute Indians. Recording and photographing these people, their arts, and life ways resulted in the book, CDC Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes, published in 1967 by the University of Nevada Group: Press. A grant from the Fleischmann Foundation to the Foresta Institute enabled Wilcher Wheat to continue her work among the Paiutes; from 1968-1971 and 1972-1974 she made approximately 150 audio recordings of her elderly Paiute friends discussing Author location: Fallon NV

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Tahoe Heritage: The Bliss Family of Glenbrook, Nevada Wheeler, Sessions S. and Bliss, William University of Nevada Press . 9780874172997 176 pages paperback $17.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Tahoe Heritage is a lively chronicle of four generations of the pioneering Bliss family, beginning with Duane L. Bliss, a visionary who built an impressive lumbering business and later the renowned Glenbrook Inn.

Sessions ‘Buck’ Wheeler (1911-1998) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno. He served as the first Director of the Nevada State Fish and Game Commission from 1947-50. As a writer, teacher and biologist, he received many awards and spent his life recording what he knew about his beloved Nevada. A descendant of the pioneer family that first developed the community of Glenbrook at Lake Tahoe, Bill Bliss was the fourth-generation innkeeper at the Glenbrook Inn until it closed in 1976. He has become known in the last 15 years for Discount: his highly sought-after watercolors of Northern Nevada's rapidly vanishing historic 0.40 buildings. Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV

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Aurrera!: A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 1 (includes a free downloadable mp3 audio guide) White, Linda University of Nevada Press . 9780874177268 456 pages hardcover $65 Pub Date:

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Linda White is emerita professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Center for Basque Studies, where she taught Basque for many years. She is the coauthor of the Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary and the English-Basque Dictionary, both published by the University of Nevada Press, and has translated numerous works from Basque and Spanish.

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Aurrera!: A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volume 2 (includes a free downloadable mp3 audio guide White, Linda University of Nevada Press . 9780874177848 416 pages hardcover $60 Pub Date:

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Aurrera! is a comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning Basque (the Batua form approved by the Academy of the Basque Language) in a classroom setting or on their own.

Linda White is professor emerita of Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Aurrera!: A Textbook for Studying Basque, Volumes 1 and 2 (includes a free downloadable mp3 audio guide) White, Linda University of Nevada Press . 9780874177992

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Aurrera! is a comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning Basque (the Batua form approved by the Academy of the Basque Language) in a classroom setting or on their own.

Linda White is an emerita professor of Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she taught the Basque language for many years. She is the author of several books and the translator of many more from Basque and Spanish.

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50 Classic Hikes in Nevada White, Mike University of Nevada Press . 9780874176292

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Author picture: Nevada offers some of the most diverse and beautiful hiking areas in North America - landscapes of verdant wetlands, snow-covered peaks, mysterious petroglyphs, historic ruins, austere deserts, colorful rock formations, and much, much more.

Mike White is the author of eleven previous outdoors guides to California and Nevada, as well as numerous outdoors articles in popular magazines. He also teaches hiking, backpacking, and snowshoeing classes at Truckee Meadows Community College. He lives in Reno, Nevada.

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50 of the Best Snowshoe Trails around Lake Tahoe White, Mike University of Nevada Press . 9781943859795 225 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 10/15/2018 55 maps, 45 photos

Author picture: An accessible and scenic guide to Lake Tahoe’s unparalleled winter treks, summits, and views.

Mike White is a full-time writer and former community college instructor, and is a featured speaker for outdoor and conservation organizations. He has authored numerous outdoor hiking guides, including 50 of the Best Strolls, Walks, and Hikes around Reno, 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada, and Best Backpacking Trips in California and Nevada.

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Best Backpacking Trips in California and Nevada White, Mike and Lorain, Douglas University of Nevada Press . 9780874179712 416 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 4/27/2015 33 b/w photographs, 50 maps, 16 elevation profiles

Author picture: For serious backpackers - your backpacking trip from start to finish.

Mike White is a writer and former community college instructor. He is the author of many outdoor hiking guides, including 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada. He lives in Reno, Nevada. Douglas Lorain is an author and photographer. He has received the National Outdoor Book Award. His publications include Backpacking Wyoming, Backpacking Oregon, and Backpacking Washington. He lives in Hamilton, Montana.

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Author location: Hamilton MT (Douglas Lorain); Reno NV (Michael White)

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Best Backpacking Trips in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico White, Mike And Lorain, Douglas University of Nevada Press . 9780874179965 400 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2016 6 x 9. 28 b/w photographs, 34 maps

Author picture: Backpacking adventures of a lifetime.

Mike White is a full-time writer and a former community college instructor. He is a featured speaker for outdoor and conservation organizations. White is the author of numerous outdoor hiking guides, including 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada, and Best Backpacking Trips in California and Nevada. Douglas Lorain has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1969, extensively exploring the trails of this region. Lorain is a photographer and has received the National Outdoor Book Award. He is the author of Backpacking Wyoming, Backpacking Oregon, and Backpacking Washington.

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50 of the Best Strolls, Walks, and Hikes Around Carson City White, Mike and Vollmer, Mark University of Nevada Press . 9781948908665 224 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: 6/17/2020

Author picture: The first hiking guide to Carson City and surrounding areas for both families and hard-core trekkers.

Mike White is an award-winning author whose books include 50 of the Best Strolls, Walks, and Hikes around Reno, 50 of the Best Snowshoe Trails around Lake Tahoe, 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada, Best Backpacking Trips in California and Nevada, and Best Backpacking Trips in Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Mark Vollmer is an award-winning outdoor photographer, instructor and freelance writer based in Reno, Nevada. His illustrated feature articles have appeared in Nevada Magazine, and his images have been widely published in regional books, calendars, and brochures.

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50 of the Best Strolls, Walks, and Hikes around Reno White, Mike University of Nevada Press . 9781943859306 232 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: February 2017 Photographs by Mark Vollmer. 5¼ x 8¼. 35 b/w photographs, 52 maps

Author picture: A family-oriented and accessible guidebook to walks around Reno.

Mike White is a full-time writer and former community college instructor. He is a featured speaker for outdoor and conservation organizations. He is the author of numerous outdoor hiking guides, including 50 Classic Hikes in Nevada, and Best Backpacking Trips in California and Nevada.

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Water Politics in Northern Nevada Wilds. Leah University of Nevada Press . 9780874178302 136 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: This book traces the long course of negotiation between competing users that resulted in the signing of the Truckee River Operating Agreement in 2008. It illustrates the challenges of sharing a scarce resource to meet diverse needs and of preserving the resource and the environment for future generations.

Leah Wilds is associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Life Among the Piutes Winnemucca Hopkins, Sarah University of Nevada Press . 9780874172522 268 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: This autobiographical work was written by one of the country's most well-known Native American women, Sarah Winnemucca.

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1841-1891) was notable for being the first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language. She was also known by her married name, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, under which she was published. Her book, Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, is an autobiographical account of her people during their first forty years of contact with explorers and settlers. Sarah was a person of two worlds. At the time of her birth her people had only very limited contact with Euro-Americans; however she spent much of her adult life in white society. Like many people of two worlds, Discount: she may be judged harshly in both contexts. Many Paiutes view her as a 0.40 collaborator who helped the U.S. Army kill her people. Modern historians view her Distro: book as an important primary source, but one that is deliberately misleading in many instances. Despite this, Sarah has recently received much positive attention for her CDC activism. She was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1993, and in Group: 2005 a statue of her by sculptor Benjamin Victor was added to the National Statuary Wilcher Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol.

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Cheatgrass: Fire and Forage on the Range Young, James A. and Clements, Charlie D. University of Nevada Press . 9780874177657 368 pages hardcover $44.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Authors Young and Clements have researched the biology and impact of cheatgrass for four decades.

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Cattle in the Cold Desert - Expanded Edition Young, James A. and Sparks, B. Abbot University of Nevada Press . 9780874175035 336 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: Cattle in the Cold Desert brilliantly combines a lively account of the development of the Great Basin grazing industry with a detailed scientific discussion of the ecology of its sagebrush/grassland plant communities.

James A. Young has spent more than thirty years in Nevada devising methods to maintain and preserve the soils and plant communities that constitute the rangelands in the Great Basin. He is senior research scientist for the USDA Agriculture Research Service, exotic and invasive weeds research unit, and coauthor of the forthcoming book Purshia: The Wild and Bitter Roses. B. Abbot Sparks is the great-nephew of John Sparks, whose life is chronicled in Cattle in the Cold Desert. B. Abbott Sparks is a retired publishing executive, who continues to devote Discount: time to numerous and wide-ranging literary projects. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

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Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began Zanjani, Sally University of Nevada Press . 9780874177244 240 pages paperback $18.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: In Devils Will Reign, acclaimed historian Sally Zanjani recounts the momentous early history of the territory that is now known as Nevada, weaving the colorful saga of this rowdy frontier into the larger story of national political crises and economic ambitions, rapid development in California, and religious antipathy toward the polygamous Mormons.

Sally Zanjani's latest book is Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began (May 2006). She is a faculty member of the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is a former president of the Mining History Association and the author of eight books on the history of Nevada and the West, including The Glory Days of Goldfield, Nevada (University of Nevada Press) and a biography of Sarah Discount: Winnemucca. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 0.40 Distro: CDC Group: Wilcher

Author location: Reno NV ( University of Nevada, Reno)

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Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada Zanjani, Sally University of Nevada Press . 9780874175202

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Author picture: In this book, Zanjani tells the colorful history of the town of Goldfield, Nevada, enhancing her story with the personal accounts of many of its residents.

An inductee in the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, Sally Zanjani is the author of eight books including A Mine of Her Own, Sarah Winnemucca, and The Ignoble Conspiracy: Radicalism on Trial in Nevada, which led to the posthumous pardons of union radicals Morrie Preston and Joseph Smith. She is adjunct professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno where she has taught since 1975.

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Christmas in Nevada Cafferata, Patricia D. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179491 224 pages hardcover $26.95 Pub Date: October 2014 7 x 9. 57 b/w photographs. 1 map

Author picture: In her latest book, Patty Cafferata reminds us of the unique Christmas and holiday traditions of the Nevada family. Her interviews with Nevadans from all corners of the Silver State have provided a glimpse into the shared history we are examining during Nevada’s Sesquicentennial Year.

Patricia D. Cafferata has served in the Nevada Assembly, as Nevada state treasurer, and as district attorney of Lincoln, Lander, and Esmeralda Counties. She is coauthor with her mother of Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again. A lifelong resident of Reno, her columns on local history have been collected in three volumes of Tales of the Biggest Little City in the World.

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Changing the Game: Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940–1990 Goodwin, Joanne L. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179606 240 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: September 2014 Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History. 6 x 9. 18 b/w photographs

Author picture: Joanne L. Goodwin’s study captures the shifting boundaries of women’s employment in the postwar decades with narratives drawn from the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project.

Joanne L. Goodwin is professor of history and director of the Women’s Research Institute of Nevada at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she was instrumental in developing the Nevada Women’s Archive at Lied Library and the Las Vegas Women Oral History Project.

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Reno, Las Vegas, and the Strip: A Tale of Three Cities Moehring, Eugene P. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179552 296 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: September 2014 Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History. 6 x 9. 9 photographs. 5 maps

Author picture: Eugene P. Moehring analyzes the development of Reno and Las Vegas since 1945 with special emphasis on the years after 1970.

Eugene P. Moehring, a native of Brooklyn, is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930– 2000 and Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840–1890 and coauthor of Las Vegas: A Centennial History, among other works.

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Water Politics in Northern Nevada: A Century of Struggle - second edition Wilds, Leah J. University of Nevada Press . 9780874179514 160 pages paperback $21.95 Pub Date: November 2014 Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History. 5.25 x 8. 5 b/w photographs. 1 map

Author picture: The challenges of sharing a scarce resource.

Leah J. Wilds is associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity Curcio-Nagy, Linda A. University of New Mexico Press . 9780826331670 232 pages paperback $27.95 Pub Date: 2004 Diálogos. 6 x 9

Author picture: This innovative work of cultural history examines the function of public rituals in colonial Mexico City.

Linda A. Curcio-Nagy, a leading scholar in the new cultural history of Latin America, is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe Goin, Peter and Raymond, C. Elizabeth University of New Mexico Press . 9780826312853 144 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 1992 10.5 x 11

Author picture: Starting with a variety of nineteenth-century photographs, the authors have provided over fifty comparative photographs representing a visual document of the evolving landscape within the Tahoe basin.

Peter Goin teaches photography and video at the University of Nevada, Reno. His other books include Tracing the Line: A Photographic Survey of the Mexican- American Border and Nuclear Landscapes.

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Savage Sunsets Louis, Adrian C. University of New Mexico Press . West End Press 9780982696873 86 pages paperback $14.95 Pub Date: 2012 6 x 9

Author picture: In his twelfth poetry collection, Adrian Louis slays Indian Country's centuries-old demons and confronts his own grief upon losing his wife to Alzheimers, revealing a writer at his peak and a poet unafraid to take chances.

Adrian C. Louis is from northern Nevada and is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Tribe. Louis, who holds an MFA from Brown University, has taught at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. A former newspaper man and founding member of the Native American Journalists Association, Louis has authored short stories in Wild Indians and Other Creatures, an award-winning novel, Skins, and ten books of poetry, including Among the Dog Eaters and Fire Water World by West End Press. His poetry collection Logorrhea Discount: was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. 0.45 Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher

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Childhood: Origins, Evolution, and Implications Meehan, Courtney L. and Crittenden, Alyssa N. (editors) University of New Mexico Press . 9780826357007 360 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: 5/1/2016 School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. 6 halftones, 6 charts, 10

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This collection is the first to specifically address our current understanding of the evolution of human childhood, which in turn significantly affects our interpretations of the evolution of family formation, social organization, cultural transmission, cognition, ontogeny, and the physical and socioemotional needs of children.

Courtney L. Meehan is an associate professor of anthropology at Washington State University. She is a contributor to Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory and Different Faces of Attachment: Cultural Variations of a Universal Human Need. Alyssa N. Crittenden is a Lincy Foundation assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a Discount: contributor to Attachment Reconsidered: Cultural Perspectives on a Western Theory 0.45 and the forthcoming The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher

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Like a Bride and Like a Mother Nissán, Rosa University of New Mexico Press . 9780826323644 592 pages paperback $29.95 Pub Date: 2002 Translated by Dick Gerdes. Jewish Latin America series. 5.5 x 7.5

Author picture: These two autobiographical novels lay bare the life journey of a Mexican Jewish woman reconciling herself with a Sephardic background, her parent's dictates, and her husband's and family's expectations.

Rosa Nissán lives in Mexico City and is a photographer and filmmaker. Professor Dick Gerdes teaches Spanish at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

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Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion, 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory Rollings, Willard Hughes University of New Mexico Press . 9780826335586 255 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 2004

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Willard Hughes Rollings claims Osage nonviolent resistance was a successful strategy for cultural preservation.

Willard Hughes Rollings (1948-2008) was associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Rollings, of Cherokee descent, was raised in New Mexico and was a recognized scholar in American Indian history. He wrote four books, including The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie- Plains.

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Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West Rothman, Hal and Bramwell, Lincoln University of New Mexico Press . 9780826321121 282 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 2007 6 x 9

Author picture: 'This collection of Hal Rothman's wide-ranging, brash, and brilliant essays on Las Vegas offers up a treasury of insights on the follies and possibilities of the New West. Confident, passionate, learned and, yes, wise, Rothman is simply one of the most important voices writing on the region today. He is also a hell of a lot of fun to read.'--Virginia Scharff, professor of history and Director, Center for the Southwest, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Hal K. Rothman (1958-2007) was professor of history, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a leading historian of the American West.

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The Book of Memories Shua, Ana María University of New Mexico Press . 9780826319494 192 pages paperback $30 Pub Date: 1998 Jewish Latin America. 5.5 x 8.25. Translated by Dick Gerdes.

Author picture: The Book of Memories , originally published in Spanish in 1994, is a humorous yet moving exploration of a Jewish family's history, as seen through the eyes of three generations of women.

Ana Maria Shua lives and writes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Professor Dick Gerdes teaches Spanish at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

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The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City White, Carolyn L. University of New Mexico Press . 9780826361332 288 pages hardcover $75 Pub Date: 4/15/2020 6 × 9. 75 figs., 6 tables. Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas Series.

Author picture: The Archaeology of Burning Man examines the process of building, occupation, and destruction of Burning Man.

Carolyn L. White is a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she holds the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation and is the director of the Anthropology Research Museum. She is also the editor of The Materiality of Individuality: Archaeological Studies of Individual Lives.

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Isaac C. Parker: Federal Justice on the Frontier Brodhead, Michael J. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806135274 240 pages hardcover $34.95 Pub Date: 4/21/2003 5.5 x 8.5. The Oklahoma Western Biographies - 20. 6 b&w illus., 4 maps

Author picture: Michael J. Brodhead tells the life story of this man obscured by the sensationalism of his criminal court cases. Brodhead has based much of his account on Parker's published opinions and jury instructions, thereby allowing the judge's own words and rulings to testify on his behalf. Furthermore, this is the first book to consider Parker's civil cases in any detail.

Michael J. Brodhead, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nevada, Reno, is a Historian in the Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of David J. Brewer: The Life of a Supreme Court Justice, 1837-1910 and coeditor and annotator of A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-1850, also published by the Discount: University of Oklahoma Press. 0.45 Distro: Longleaf Group: Wilcher

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Stigma Cities: The Reputation and History of Birmingham, San Francisco, and Las Vegas Foster, Jonathan University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806160719 288 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 9/27/2018

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The first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Foster’s innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why.

Jonathan Foster is Professor of History at Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada, and author of Lake Mead National Recreation Area: A History of America’s First National Playground.

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All the Water the Law Allows: Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics Harrison, Christian S. University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806169323 268 pages hardcover $39.95 Pub Date: 8/12/2021 The Environment in Modern North America. 15 b&w illus., 4 maps

Author picture: In this political and legal history of the Las Vegas water supply, Harrison focuses on the creation and actions of the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) to tell a story with profound implications and important lessons for water politics and natural resource policy in the twenty-first century.

Christian S. Harrison teaches government at Coronado High School in Henderson, Nevada, and is a board member of the nonprofit Preserve Nevada, where he works to engage public school teachers in historic preservation efforts throughout the state.

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Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations Ronald, Ann University of Oklahoma Press . 9780806137995 288 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/30/2006 5.5 x 8.5. Literature of the American West Series - 16.

Author picture: Ann Ronald's Oh, Give Me a Home muses on the words of the beloved ballad, exploring what it means to be a westerner today and speculating on how our present actions are shaping the West for future generations.

Ann Ronald is Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her books include Earthtones: A Nevada Album, The New West of Edward Abbey, Reader of the Purple Sage, and GhostWest: Reflections Past and Present.

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Saw, Pocket Instruments, and Two Ounces of Whiskey: Frontier Military Medicine in the Great Basin Sohn, Anton P. University of Oklahoma Press . The Arthur H. Clark Company 9780870622724 244 pages hardcover $32.50 Pub Date: 1/20/1998

Author picture: Frontier Military Series. 6 x 9. Series volume 20. 35 b&w illus.

The history of the military surgeons in the Great Basin provides a unique look at the frontier experience and the interplay of military and civilian life in an arid and harsh landscape. Sohn illuminates western history with his study of medical science and military medicine on the 19th-century frontier.

Dr. Anton P. Sohn is Chairman of pathology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He is the founder of the history of medicine program at the School of Medicine and its Greasewood Press. He is also the author of Healers of 19th- Century Nevada (Reno, 1997).

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Architectural Ragtime: The Houses of Geo. F. Barber and Co. Alcorn, Michael D. and DiMattei, Christopher R. University of Tennessee Press . 9781621900900 300 pages hardcover $$49.95 Pub Date: August 2015 Vernacular Architecture Material culture

Author picture: The work of prominent and prolific architect George F. Barber (1854–1915) can be found across North America.

Michael D. Alcorn was associate professor of architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and vice president of operations at Tate Snyder Kimsey Architects in Henderson, Nevada. Christopher R. Dimattei is an enterprise systems and network manager for Steffian Bradley Architects in Boston, Massachusetts. He maintains a national inventory of Barber house examples and hosts a blog devoted to Barber at www.myoldhouseonline.com.

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DeFord Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music Morton, David C. (with Charles K. Wolfe) University of Tennessee Press . 9780870497926 224 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date:

Author picture: A moving parable of integrity and survival, this book recounts Bailey's childhood at the heart of ‘black hillbilly’ music culture, his painful firing from the Opry in 1941, and his recollections of Nashville during six decades. The resulting narrative calls into question traditional accounts of the origins of southern music.

David C. Morton holds a B.A. in history from Auburn University and completed the coursework required for a Ph.D. in history at Vanderbilt University. He is executive director of the Reno (Nevada) Housing Authority. Charles K. Wolfe is professor of English and folklore at Middle Tennessee State University.

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Cultural Resoure Management in the Great Basin 1986-2016 Balrica, Alice M. / DeBunch, Patricia A. / Fowler, Don D. University of Utah Press . 9781607816805 152 pages paperback $45 Pub Date: 22 illustrations, 3 line drawings, 1 table, 10 maps. The Anthropological Papers

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An evaluation of CRM in the Great Basin, where it's been, where it's going

Patricia A. DeBunch has worked as a private archaeologist for Idaho and Nevada from 1978 to 1991 and as an archaeologist for the Nevada Department of Transportation until her retirement in 2010. She co-founded of Eetza Research Associates. Don D. Fowler is Mamie Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology Emeritus, University of Nevada, Reno, and a past president of the Society for American Archaeology.

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Nevada Mountains: Landforms, Trees, and Vegetation Charlet, David Alan University of Utah Press . 9781607817277 432 pages hardcover $75 Pub Date: 11/15/2019 8.5 x 11. 79 illustrations, 8 tables, and 21 maps

Author picture: The only complete atlas of Nevada’s mountains and the vegetation they support.

David Charlet is professor of biological sciences at the College of Southern Nevada. He continues to work with federal and state agencies to produce vegetation maps for Nevada.

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The Archaeology of Place and Space in the West Dale, Emily and White, Carolyn L. (editors) University of Utah Press . 9781647690472 224 pages hardcover $60 Pub Date: November 2021 32 illustrations, 14 maps. 7 x 10.

Author picture: Explores place and placemaking in the American West through the archaeological study of the landscapes’ physical and cultural features

Emily Dale is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University. She was guest editor of a thematic issue of Kiva entitled “New Perspectives on the American Southwest: Historical Archaeology of the 1800s and 1900s” Carolyn L. White holds the Mamie Kleberg Chair in Historic Preservation and is the director of the Anthropology Research Museum at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her most recent book is The Archaeology of Burning Man: The Rise and Fall of Black Rock City.

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Dutton's Dirty Diggers: Bertha P. Dutton and the Senior Girl Scout Archaeological Camps in the American Southwest, 1947-1957 Fowler, Catherine S. University of Utah Press . 9781607817819 344 pages paperback $39.95 Pub Date: June 2020

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Traces the life and legacy of anthropologist Bertha Dutton and her work leading the Girl Scouts' Archaeological Mobile Camps

Catherine S. Fowler is Foundation Professor of Anthropology Emerita at the University of Nevada, Reno, and research associate at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Her recent publications include Isabel T. Kelly’s Southern Paiute Ethnographic Field Notes, 1932-1934, co-authored with Darla Garey-Sage.

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Essays on American Indians and Mormon History Hafen, P. Jane and Rensink, Brenden W. (editors) University of Utah Press . 9781607816904 440 pages hardcover $45 Pub Date: 6/1/2019 6 illustrations. 6 x 9

Author picture: Places American Indian perspectives at the center of American Indian and Mormon history.

P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of Reading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine, and editor of Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera. Brenden W. Rensink is assistant director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.

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Massacres: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Approaches Anderson, Cheryl P. and Martin, Debra L. University Press of Florida . 9781683400691 272 pages hardcover $95 Pub Date: 12/4/2018

Author picture: This volume integrates data from researchers in bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology to explain when and why group-targeted violence occurs.

Cheryl P. Anderson lives in Boise, ID, is lecturer of biological anthropology at Boise State University, and is coeditor of Bioarchaeological and Forensic Perspectives on Violence: How Violent Death Is Interpreted from Skeletal Remains. Debra L. Martin lives in Las Vegas, NV, is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and is coeditor of The Bioarchaeology of Violence.

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An Introduction to the Gawain Poet Bowers, John M. University Press of Florida . 9780813049588 224 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: January 2014 A volume in the series New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and

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In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet , John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works.

John M. Bowers is professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author of five books, including Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition.

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Maya E Groups: Calendars, Astronomy, and Urbanism in the Early Lowlands Freidel, David A. / Chase, Arlen F. / Dowd, Anne S. / Murdock, Jerry (editors) University Press of Florida . 9780813064390 656 pages paperback $45.00 Pub Date: 1/7/2020

Author picture: This volume presents new archaeological data to reveal that E Groups were constructed earlier than previously thought. In fact, they are the earliest identifiable architectural plan at many Maya settlements.

David A. Freidel lives in St. Louis, MO and is professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Arlen F. Chase lives in Las Vegas, NV, and is professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Anne S. Dowd lives in Vail, CO, is principal archaeologist at ArchæoLOGIC USA, LLC, and is coeditor of Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica. Jerry Murdock lives in NY, NY and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Santa Fe Institute and the Aspen Institute. Discount: 0.40 Distro: UPF Group: BRG

Author location: Las Vegas NV (Arlen F. Chase) \ Vail CO (Anne S. Dowd)

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Mesoamerican Figurines: Small-Scale Indices of Large-Scale Social Phenomena Halperin, Christina T. / Faust, Katherine A. / Taube, Rhonda / Giguet, Aurore (editors) University Press of Florida . 9780813033303 448 pages hardcover $75 Pub Date: 6/21/2009

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Mesoamerican Figurines brings together many seasoned and respected scholars of art history, archaeology, ethnohistory, anthropology, and social theory to analyze these objects by their stylistic attributes, archaeological content, function, and meaning.

Christina T. Halperin is a visiting assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Katherine A. Faust is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Rhonda Taube is a doctoral candidate in visual arts at the University of California, San Diego. Aurore Giguet is division director of the Marjorie Barrick Museum at the University of Discount: Nevada, Las Vegas. 0.40 Distro: UPF Group: BRG

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Modernists at Odds: Reconsidering Joyce and Lawrence Kochis, Matthew J. and Lusty, Heather L. (editors) University Press of Florida . 9780813068282 272 pages paperback $26 Pub Date: 5/26/2020 6 x 9. 3 b/w illus., notes, works cited, index. The Florida James Joyce Series

Author picture: A long overdue extended comparison of two of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century.

Matthew J. Kochis is an independent scholar and former Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Digital Humanities at Dickinson College. Heather L. Lusty is Assistant Professor- in-Residence in English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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The Bioarchaeology of Violence Martin, Debra L. / Harrod, Ryan P. / Pérez, Ventura R. (editors) University Press of Florida . 9780813049502 304 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: December 2013 A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local,

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The interesting and nuanced insights offered in this volume explore both the costs and the benefits of violence throughout human prehistory.

Debra L. Martin is professor of anthropology at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas and a coeditor of Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past. Ryan P. Harrod is a doctoral candidate in biological anthropology at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas. Ventura R. Pérez is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts– Amherst and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed, open access online journal Landscapes of Violence. Discount: 0.40 Distro: UPF Group: BRG

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Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity Thompson, Jennifer L. and Alfonso-Durruty, Marta P. University Press of Florida . 9780813049830 288 pages hardcover $85 Pub Date: 5/25/2014 6.125 x 9.25. 14 b/w photos, 18 line drawings. Bioarchaeological Interpretations of

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Comparing and contrasting field research from a variety of sites across Europe and the Americas, the contributors to this volume demonstrate that children not only have unique experiences but also share, cross-culturally, in daily struggles.

Jennifer L. Thompson is associate professor of biological anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the coeditor of Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo. Marta P. Alfonso-Durruty is assistant professor of biological anthropology at Kansas State University. John J. Crandall is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular National Park Huntley, Jen A. University Press of Kansas . 9780700619672 232 pages paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 11/11/2011

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Leader of the first tourist expedition into Yosemite in 1855, James Mason Hutchings became a tireless promoter of the valley--and of himself. Seeking to create an alternative to California's Gold Rush social chaos, Hutchings whetted the public enthusiasm for this unspoiled land by mass producing a lithograph of Yosemite Falls, while his Hutchings' California Magazine beat the drum for tourism.

Jen A. Huntley is an environmental historian of the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Rim. She taught humanities and history courses for ten years at the University of Nevada, Reno, designed the interdisciplinary University of Nevada Academy for the Environment, and was UNAE Associate Director for Education and Outreach until Discount: 2010. 0.40 Distro: UPK Group: Wilcher

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Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library Kirk, Andrew G. University Press of Kansas . 9780700611232

hardcover $35 Pub Date: 11/1/2001

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Denver's Conservation Library was established in 1960 as a repository for environmental and conservation documents. In chronicling its history, Andrew Kirk also traces the cultural history of American environmentalism as viewed through the lens of this unique institution.

Andrew Glenn Kirk is assistant professor of history and public history program coordinator at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is coeditor, with John Herron, of Human/Nature: Biology, Culture, and Environmental History and is the author of a number of articles on the history of the appropriate technology movement. Discount: 0.40 Distro: UPK Group: Wilcher

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Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism Kirk, Andrew G. University Press of Kansas . 9780700618217 303 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/4/2011 Culture America

Author picture: In recovering the history of the Catalog's unique brand of environmentalism, Andrew Kirk recounts how San Francisco's Stewart Brand and his counterculture cohorts in the Point Foundation promoted a philosophy of pragmatic environmentalism that celebrated technological achievement, human ingenuity, and sustainable living.

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'I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again': Recollections of the First Forest Rangers of the Inland Northwest Rothman, Hal K. (editor) University Press of Kansas . 9780700606771 288 pages paperback $15.95 Pub Date: 10/1/1994

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In this engaging collection, Hal Rothman has selected and provided context for the best and most informative letters written by early foresters. Highly literate and perceptive, the writers illuminate how they were forced to balance the agency's regulatory impulses with the needs of rural communities that depended upon forests for their livelihood.

Hal K. Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and editor of Environmental History. Among his books are Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West; The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945; America's National Monuments: The Discount: Politics of Preservation; On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Area Since 1880; 0.40 and Reopening the American West. He was featured in a four-hour television Distro: special, 'Las Vegas,' on the Arts and Entertainment network. UPK Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV

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Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West Rothman, Hal K. University Press of Kansas . 9780700610563

paperback $24.95 Pub Date: 10/20/2000

Author picture: Hal Rothman examines the effect of twentieth-century tourism on the West and exposes that industry's darker side.

Hal K. Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and editor of Environmental History. Among his books are Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West; The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945; America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation; On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Area Since 1880; and Reopening the American West. He was featured in a four-hour television special, 'Las Vegas,' on the Arts and Entertainment network.

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America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation Rothman, Hal University Press of Kansas . 9780700606726

paperback $15.95 Pub Date: 4/1/1994

Author picture: Set in the context of the regulatory century, this book offers important new insights about how the American past has been preserved and packaged for the public.

Hal K. Rothman is a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and editor of Environmental History. Among his books are Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West, 'I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again': Recollections of the First Forest Rangers of the Inland Northwest; The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945; On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Area Since 1880; and Reopening the American West. He was featured in a four-hour television special, 'Las Vegas,' on the Arts and Entertainment network. Discount: 0.40 Distro: UPK Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV

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The Constitutional Rights of Children: in re Gault and Juvenile Justice - 50th Anniversary edition Tannenhaus, David S. University Press of Kansas . 9780700625048 180 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date:

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This new edition upon the 50th anniversary of In re Gault includes expanded coverage of the Roberts Court's juvenile justice decisions including Miller v. Alabama; explains how disregard for children's constitutional rights led to the "Kids for Cash" scandal in Pennsylvania; new legal developments in the Gault case; and, updates the bibliography and chronology.

David S. Tanenhaus is professor of history and James E. Rogers Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is author of Juvenile Justice in the Making.

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Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West Wrobel, David and Long, Patrick (editors) University Press of Kansas . 9780700610839 328 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 5/20/2001

Author picture: Seeing and Being Seen explores the history of tourism in the American West and examines its effects on both the tourists and the places and people they visit.

David M. Wrobel is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and coeditor of Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity, also from Kansas. Patrick T. Long is professor of tourism management at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of Win, Lose or Draw? Gambling with America's Small Towns.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV and Boulder CO

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Many Wests: Place, Culture, & Regional Identity Wrobel, David M. and Steiner, Michael C. University Press of Kansas . 9780700608621 320 pages paperback $19.95 Pub Date: 10/1/1997

Author picture: This book examines the development of regional identity in the American West, demonstrating that it is a regionally diverse entity made up of many different wests-- Great Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, and more--in which American regionalism finds its fullest expression.

David M. Wrobel is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal, and coeditor of Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West, both from Kansas. Michael Steiner is professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and coauthor of Region and Regionalism in the United States and Mapping American Culture. Contributors: Discount: Paula Gunn Allen, Peter Boag, Richard Maxwell Brown, Arnoldo De Leon, William 0.40 Deverell, John M. Findlay, Anne F. Hyde, Glenna Matthews, Mary Murphy, Elizabeth Distro: Raymond, James R. Shortridge, Michael C. Steiner, Bret Wallach, John S. Whitehead, David M. Wrobel UPK Group: Wilcher

Author location: Las Vegas NV (David M. Wrobel - University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Fullerton CA

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Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West Wrobel, David M. University Press of Kansas . 9780700618231 342 pages paperback $25 Pub Date: 9/1/2011

Author picture: Promised Lands shows us that the West may well move into the twenty-first century, but our images of it are forever rooted in the nineteenth.

David M. Wrobel is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He is the author of The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal and coeditor of Many Wests: Place, Culture, and Regional Identity and Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West, all published by the University Press of Kansas.

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Author location: Las Vegas NV (David M. Wrobel - University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Fullerton CA

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