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Presents a collection of articles John Glionna wrote as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times and as a freelance writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. These stories introduce readers to the 'real Nevada', revealing hidden subcultures, offbeat tales, and the diverse spirit and character of the state's rural people and the land they inhabit.

Drawing upon literature, film, websites, journals, public policy documents, and other writing, this innovative study models an interdisciplinary approach to water governance that reinvigorates our imagination to foster a more sustainable and equitable Colorado River water ethic

Explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation.

With fearless and playful language, Katherine Factor's debut collection reveals agony, humour, and the necessary voices of the female oracle through time. The oracle's message is apparent - she is not dead. Her words are cryptic but contemporary, offering caution along with guidance to a society interested only in using prophecy for profit.

Las Vegas has a long and rich history that extends far beyond the cliches of 'sin city', the Mafia, Elvis, or mindless urban sprawl. This book provides a series of maps with accompanying text that goes beyond the usual tales of the city and illustrates the history of the city and surrounding region.

Though his books have been taught in colleges and high schools across the country for over two decades, this collection brings together some of Daniel Olivas' most unforgettable strange tales that will be enjoyed, again, by his fans, and anew for readers who have not, as yet, experienced Olivas's distinct-and very Chicano-fiction.

A book about exile and transformation. It is primarily about Mary Hallock Foote, artist and writer, easterner-turned-westerner, but it is a hybrid work - as well as being about Mary, it is about what it has been like for the author, a twenty-first century American expatriate, to find common ground in the life of a nineteenth century woman.

Public health physician Dr Maya Summer faces a myriad of medical challenges as she comes to grips with her uneasy past. Helped by faculty physician Alex Reddish, who withstands his own identity trials, she uncovers the grave truth behind a series of illnesses as she and Reddish draw close to one another.

With over 25,000 English entries and their Basque equivalents in six major dialects, this volume is the most complete reference to the Basque language to date for English-speaking people. This useful resource is the very first of its kind to become available to both the casual student and the serious scholar of the Basque language.

An intimate true story of a stateless Russian-Jewish mother and daughter.

The rodeo cowboy, that figure of rugged independence and solitary courage, continues to evoke the spirit of a vanished frontier and the hardy pioneers who conquered it. In this study historian Michael Allen examines the image of the rodeo cowboy and the role this image has played in popular culture over the past century.

Nevada's politics are in large measure the result of its turbulent history and harsh environment. Michael Bowers's concise volume explains the dynamics of the political formation process, which is strikingly unique among the fifty states.

Lyman ""Bean"" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism is reassesing his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, sweat-lodge ceremonies, and political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt Rushmore.

Combining the lyrical writing from Paul Bogard with night-sky photography from Beau Rogers, To Know A Starry Night explores the powerful experience of being outside under a natural starry sky.

Part of our socialization is the urge-to-perform. We perform images of ourselves for others. For some, the urge is so great and the talent sufficient, that we become performers. This is a book about performers and performances which are extreme. Most of these stories and their performers and performances are at the edge of dream.

The Devils Hole pupfish is one of the rarest vertebrate animals on the planet; its only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Valley, on the Nevada-California border. As this book explores, what has made the species a survivor is its many surprising connections to the people who have studied, ignored, protested or protected it.

We are where we've been and what we've read, aren't we? Where else do we get the experience we need to evocatively live? In Fragments of a Mortal Mind, Donald Anderson confronts language and employs language to try to make sense, as we all do, of life.

Explores the cultural and diplomatic history of this transborder region. Michael Welsh demonstrates the challenges faced and lessons learned by both the US and Mexico as they struggled against political and environmental vicissitudes in their attempts to realize the creation of a shared frontier.

Sandra Miller demonstrated in The Color of Rock that she is a gifted storyteller. Where Light Comes and Goes deftly combines a gripping mystery set in the accurately depicted routine of a busy medical practice amid the wonders of Yellowstone's magnificent scenery and wildlife. This is entertaining reading at its best.

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.

Extensively illustrated and carefully researched, Heavy Ground provides a compelling an account of how the St. Francis Dam came to be built, the reasons for its collapse, the heartbreak brought by the flood, efforts to restore the homes and landscape, and the political factors influencing investigations of the failure.

Wry, compassionate, and deftly observed, the poems in The Mouth of Earth contemplate how we might live wisely in the midst of a planetary change we barely comprehend. This vivid, compelling book is a powerful contribution to environmental literature of the 21st century.

In interweaving the voices of an entire fictional town that is about to be changed forever by the destruction of a dam, these poems highlight the environment, both human and natural, that sexual trauma is born from, and calls to attention the many ways in which we create intimacy and distance when our trauma is kept secret.

Connects the experiences and responses of Indigenous Americans with those of African Americans and white progressives during the period from the Civil War to World War II. Social and political history combine here to paint vivid pictures of this time.

Tells the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government's crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative and personal, this is a story about mothers and fathers, lawyers and activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle for the identity of a nation.

These stories magnify and make real the hidden dialogue of society. Readers are left to grapple with the implications and ramifications of the policies and attitudes pervasive in the United States today and question what it means for the future.

From critically acclaimed author Frank Bergon comes a new personal narrative about the San Joaquin Valley in California. This intimate companion to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man brings us back to an Old West at odds with New West realities where rapid change is a common trait and memories are of rural beauty.

Investigates the relationship between industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. Weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism, Farm to Form contends that industrial food made nature "modernist", a term used as literary scholars understand it.

One of the area's foremost experts on the outdoors, Mike White, author of 50 of the Best Strolls, Walks, and Hikes Around Reno, returns with a new guidebook dedicated to Carson City and its surrounding areas in northern Nevada.